ESL One Cologne 2018: NAVI.GG.BET to playoffs!

NAVI.GG.BET will return to Lanxess Arena!

NAVI.GG.BET beat  ENCE and proceed to the playoffs of ESL One Cologne, which are set to be played at Lanxess Arena in front of a live crowd. Our quarter-final opponents are yet to be defined.

The groups were a rocky stretch for us, as we fell to the lower bracket after losing to G2 Esports in the opening round (14-16 on Inferno). We then entered a CIS derby versus Gambit on that same day, which was a dominating 2-0 performance from us (16-6 on Overpass; 16-5 on Train).

Day 2 saw us go up against Cloud9, who breezed past NiP in the opener (16-3 on Inferno) and lost to Astralis in the second round (0-2). As expected, the game against them turned out to be very intense, with our boys winning 2-0  (16-14 on Inferno; 16-12 on Overpass).

The decider pitted NAVI against ENCE. The Finnish five began their run with a surprising performance, as they sent home NiP (2-0) and  mousesports (2-0). The concluding game brought another close series, but our boys came out on top this time – 2-1 (15-16 on Dust 2; 16-14 on Mirage; 16-7 on Nuke).

It's worth noting that NAVI's MVP was Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev who finished the group stage with second best rating (1,47) and opening frag statistics (36). Besides, he topped the leaderboards in terms of frags (205). 

Congratulations to Born to Win on their decent group stage performance! The playoffs will take place on July 6-8. We are sure the boys will do their best while preparing and try to put their best foot forward in the quarter-finals! #gonavi