MegaFon Winter Clash qualifiers: victory over NiP
A series of comebacks secures the games!
The second series of the day saw 
NAVI.GG.BET fight with 
NiP. The games were not easy at all, but NAVI managed to pull off some incredible comebacks to win the series 2:0!
Game 1 - Natus Vincere [1:0] Ninjas in Pyjamas
NAVI.GG.BET
Crystallize
MagicaL
Blizzy
Chuvash
SoNNeikO
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Ace
FATA-
33
Saksa
ppd
The first started off quite bad for NAVI, especially for Morphling. Despite a few early kill trades, NAVI were still behind, especially in the safe lane; eventually, Crystallize rotated top, and got killed immediately. He got some stat items to survive better, and started to climb back online. NiP slowed down after 10 minutes - they had a good early draft, but NAVI tried their best to let Morphling farm up. Kunkka, Rubick and Undying were roaming around the map, looking to take some kills.
The first tower of the game was destroyed by Morphling relatively late - the clock hit almost 15 minutes. An unsuccessful gank on enemy Necrophos in the bottom lane had MagicaL die, which slowed us down a little bit, but we were intent on pushing our advantage further. Fortunately, a couple of overextensions from NiP resulted in their deaths, and Morphling's participation in those kills boosted him up quite nicely.
25 minutes in NAVI went for the high ground with the Aegis on Morphling - even though Lich stalled us quite a bit, we still managed to take the tower down, forcing 2 buybacks. All the while enemy Anti-Mage was split-pushing our own top lane, and succeeded in taking the T3 tower - a tower trade. A little later, a few fights broke out all over the map - Templar Assassin and AM were trying to get the building trades again, but they were no match for our push - mid and bottom barracks down.
There was only top lane remaining, and we had our eyes set on the prize. As NAVI denied the opponents the chance to split-push, locking them in their own base, we started the final push. Chain Frost stolen by Rubick was a rather unpleasant surprise for NiP and the buybacks they used earlier came back to bite them, as there was practically nothing they had left to stop or even stall us. A tough game, but a well-deserved victory on the first map for NAVI.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [2:0] Ninjas in Pyjamas
NAVI.GG.BET
Crystallize
MagicaL-
Blizzy
Chuvash-
SoNNeikO
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Ace
FATA-
33
Saksa
ppd
The second game was off to a decent start for NAVI - MagicaL got First Blood, giving him a decent lane advantage. The bottom lane from NiP was a very strong one, so NAVI had to rotate Medusa top, in a more favorable matchup. Lina meanwhile was having the time of her life in the midlane, while enemy Invoker had to sit back. A rotation from Shadow Demon not only saved Lina from dying but also secured himself a double kill. By 10 minutes, we secured quite a few kills, but the net worth gap remained rather low.
Around 12 minutes in, NAVI lost all outer top towers, not managing to take any of their own. As NiP took down our mid T2, they went into the Roshpit — all while NAVI were trying to split push. With the Aegis on Luna, the opponents went for the high ground push with no outer towers for NAVI remaining. The Blink reveal for Centaur was a massive one - Luna lost the Aegis and her life, with 2 more heroes being a cherry on top. This hold bought NAVI quite a lot of time to get some items and levels — we didn't waste a single second of it.
The subsequent fights showed that we became stronger, as NAVI were able to take favorable fights and following them up with some objectives. With some more key levels and items, especially on Medusa, NAVI took a fight in the top lane, killing 3 opponents and taking the top lane tower straight away, and dealing quite a bit of damage onto the barracks. There was a slim chance for NiP to bounce back into the game, but it got thinner with every second. NAVI decided to go straight into the fights even without trying to kill Roshan. There was no saving grace for NiP — 4 heroes dead, as NAVI take the second game right when the clock strikes 30:00
