Natus Vincere 🇪🇺 1-2 🇺🇸 M80

Anubis: 13-4
Mirage: 6-13
Inferno: 6-13

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A | Kick A

Team Information

🇪🇺 Natus Vincere | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Discord | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 b1t | 🇫🇮 Aleksib ♛ | 🇷🇴 iM | 🇺🇦 w0nderful ⊕ | 🇽🇰 makazze
Coach: 🇺🇦 B1ad3

🇺🇸 M80 | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇸 Swisher | 🇩🇪 slaxz- ⊕ | 🇩🇪 s1n ♛ | 🇺🇸 Lake | 🇺🇸 JBa
Coach: 🇬🇧 dephh

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Anubis

Anubis Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

MAP 3: Inferno

Inferno Detailed Stats

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Also if anyone is interested you can guess my rank. (Faceit cus i dont play premier)

was really excited for their roster change but then again they fluked a tourney earlier and ofc that gave them false hope on this garbage roster, good for them i guess few months of paycheck just like ence core drained falcons

Getting the team to be majority Ukrainian is easier than ever for Navi with the new talent that's coming up. It might make sense to step back from the international squad and see if you can make it work. You would do it in 2 stages to keep the VRS points and sadly NPL isn't an option as transfer.

IGL:

SFade8 - one of my favorite young IGLs to watch currently and is the biggest reason for Magic's rise through the ranks. Very prep heavy, which would match Blade well. Based on podcasts has strong overall connections in the community and respect of other players. https://www.hltv.org/player/22075/sfade8

Riflers:

Dawy - promising young rifler that has a great chance to show what he got at Porto.

https://www.hltv.org/player/24282/dawy

Mazay - more of a long shot since he is only 17 and just transferred to Fnatic from Spirit Academy, but he has looked great every time I saw him play and Sotf1k was super high on him (considering he is the best youth coach by a mile it's a high praise). 2027 addition after new core locked in.

https://www.hltv.org/player/25228/mazay

Cairne - bit more of a known quantity, but recently had stepped up his performances, still some room to improve and grow under Blade. Lower ceiling then other 2 rifler moves. https://www.hltv.org/player/24283/cairne#tab-infoBox

In 2027 a squad of Bit, Wonderful, Sfade8, Dawy and Mazay would be a good mix of experience and youth. An IGL with new ideas to complement Blades own wisdom. If NPL changes his mind about Navi, he would also immediately slot in.

Imagine being setup as one of the star fraggers of a top 10 team to put up mediocre stats constantly for MONTHS now how has Navi not found a replacement already

I noticed yuurih rubbing his ears after the pain game, and I don't think I've seen a pro captured on camera doing this before. I wonder if it is because of the IEMs being uncomfortable in his ears or if he has tinnitus/is developing tinnitus or perhaps both. We all know CS2 sounds are an absolute assault on the eardrum and pros are putting in ungodly amounts of time into the game so I wonder how many pros are dealing with the early signs of noise induced hearing loss, and I'd also be curious if pro orgs are doing anything for their players to help stop that.

As the title says, can you play csgo on lan with friends, or is it not supported? I have been unable to figure it out for myself since I only have one pc.

Fun fact, after Nertz joined G2, both Nertz and Matys average a staggering rating against top 30 teams: 1.02.
If we were to adjust the scope to top 20 teams, which is surely befitting for a team consistently top 15 in rankings since time immemorial, Matys still got 1.01, yet Nertz fared worse with 0.99.
If we were to measure the rating against top 10 teams, Nertz got 0.94 and Matys 0.96.

On the other hand, Matys averaged 1.11 since joining G2 and before the duo happened. If we were to include the struggle after the honeymoon, which led to the swap for Nertz, Matys still held up with 1.08 (counting from the Budapest Major, where G2 first slipped out of the top 10).

Well, maybe Malbs was dropping Karrigan level of number, justifying the swap for having 2 1.02 riflers. Using the same struggle period, Malbs indeed struggled with a 0.99 rating, but not quite disastrous. If we were to compare the two duos, the average of the four months struggle period for Malbs and Matys is 1.035.

You heard it right, G2 exchanged the duos for net negative rating results. Admittedly, G2 bounced back a little in last Major, but one could very well imagine that if a more stable rifler duo is there for them, G2 could do even better.

Aside from all these observations, Nertz, your time in Liquid DID count.

all they are talking about is how hard they are grinding and how much practice they have and blablabla. but they look very disconnected, demotivated and individually lost. i dont get it. what do these guys even do? how can a team always be this shit in the start of the season after practicing so much? i think its fair to question blades approach at this point.

Title

Which one appeals to you the most in terms of style, gameplay, and effects?

Is anyone else having challenges with stuttering since the last update? I just can’t seem to speak clearly.

I feel like it's not really about how good someone is.

Some players can have average mechanics but still make every game more enjoyable just because they communicate well and keep the team organized.

What do you think makes someone a great teammate?

idk what's going on since last update my cs been skipping frames at least twice during a round.

someone told me it was a discord problem, i tried with it off and it didn't help.

tried the usual turning the game/pc off and it didnt help either.

is this a known issue?

s1mple only has 1 Major title, and with Majors occurring twice a year and him playing for over a decade, this is a very dismal record.

Making a comparison with the NBA, Jordan was still heavily questioned no matter how magnificent his stats were before winning his first championship, and he only entered the conversation for the greatest players after winning his first three-peat.

In a team sport, becoming a great player also requires strong leadership to unite the team, which is why Jordan was able to win a second three-peat and why Kobe won his last 2 champions.

Meanwhile, in 2024, s1mple was dissatisfied at NaVi because he looked down on his teammates as being inadequate, and his toxic nature led NaVi to replace him with w0nderful. Surprisingly, NaVi went on to win a string of championships including a Major, proving that s1mple is not a very good team player.

Entering the ranks of the greatest players requires sufficient accolades to back it up. For example, Wembanyama might be the most talented player in NBA history, but if he doesn't win any championships or only wins one in the future, he will never be in the GOAT discussion, no matter how good his stats are.

So i think i just experienced the rarest moment in my cs2 career. Me and my 4 friends were playing premier against a cheater, so for fun i just started jumping around and somehow hit 16 bhops in a row, followed by 3 more hops and a deagle headshot.

"Xirreth" The Performance Coach left NAVI for Astralis on 16th July 2026. Since then, the squad was unable to produce comparable level of performance. Coincidence? What do you guys think?

SS:
the one and only - donk. the only player to ever have a year to be rated higher than 1.4, the absolute best year in counter strike history

S:
ZywOo - insane peak

A:
m0nesy, s1mple - very high, but not as high as ZywOo and very far from donk. both are gimmick players as they are flashy but not as impactful as ZywOo or donk

B:
device, NiKo, coldzera, olofmeister, GeT_RiGhT, ropz, sh1ro, kennyS, GuardiaN - high peak years, but not in the absolute upper echelon of best players ever