EPICENTER XL: loss against paiN Gaming
A bitter loss
The next series of 
NAVI.GG.BET was against 
paiN Gaming. The series was taken by the opponents with the score of 0:2.
Game 1 - Natus Vincere [0:1] paiN Gaming
NAVI.GG.BET
GeneRaL
LeBron
Dendi
Crystallize
Lil
paiN Gaming
KINGRD
Duster
hFn
tavo
w33
The first game started off with a First Blood going the way of Dendi even before the horn sounded. There were lots of laning rotations, and the situation was favoring us in general. Lots of early armor negation was coming into play, and the crowd control allowed us to really be able to take a lot of early kills. By 12 minutes, the bottom tower on the side of paiN taken, and NAVI were 6 kills up and 1k net worth.
16 minutes in NAVI decided to go for a risky Roshan despite the T1 standing in mid. The fight was not the best one for us, yet we still took the first Roshan of the game. The fight shifted the advantage briefly the way of paiN, but a few pickoffs allowed NAVI to get the advantage back.
There were a lot of smaller engagements, but 29 minutes in paiN Gaming managed to take 2 lanes and almost all the T4's down thanks to Luna. We had to use up a few buybacks to defend, but the losses were still quite bad. Another siege, later on, resulted in the Ancient falling down completely, as we drop the game 1.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [0:2] paiN Gaming
paiN Gaming
KINGRD-
hFn
-
Duster
tavo-
w33
NAVI.GG.BET
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GeneRaL
LeBron
Dendi
Crystallize
Lil
The second game started off with 3 Bounty runes going the way of paiN Gaming. Lots of trades were happening around the map, but they were mostly favoring the opponents, as NAVI did not manage to get a lot done early on. By 10 minutes we've lost T1 tower and were a few kills and 2k gold behind.
We had a very hard time farming the items for Medusa, as the opponents have taken over NAVI jungle very fast. A teamfight next to the ancient camp on top saw 5 heroes dying. We had a lot of trouble doing anything aggressive, as by 20 minutes NAVI were 10 kills and 10k net worth behind. paiN Gaming took the first Roshan of the game. A couple of minutes later the Radiant attempted the high ground push, and it was too overwhelming, as even the buybacks did not save us - we lose the series.
