DreamLeague Season 11 Closed Qualifiers: The first defeat
The hard opening series
NAVI.GG.BET fought in a Bo3 against 
Gambit at DreamLeague Season 11 Closed Qualifiers. The opening series proved to be tough, as we lose it 0:2.
Game 1 - Natus Vincere [0:1] Gambit
NAVI.GG.BET
Crystallize
MagicaL
Blizzy
Chuvash
SoNNeikO
Gambit Esports
Daxak
Afoninje
AfterLife
Immersion
fng
The first game started off rather quietly - neither side was getting any kills for a while, so the heroes resorted to farming for a while. First Blood was spilled quite late, as 5 minutes into the game, SoNNeikO managed to claim 2 kills. The game was pretty much dead even all the way to 20 minutes - despite some kills going both ways, neither Gambit nor NAVI had any significant lead.
23 minutes in, the first Roshan of the game was killed — 
Blizzy claimed the Aegis, but lost it straight away in the fight. The game slowed down for a while, until Gambit engaged NAVI in the top lane — we lost 3 heroes and the T2 tower for that. In a little while, though, NAVI retaliated, killing Medusa first, and then 2 more heroes secured us the first T3 of the game. Gambit were reluctant to move around the map much, and we used it to the most, getting all the farm and the Shrines.
That wasn't enough to secure the second Roshan, though - a rather unfortunate fight saw 3 Dire heroes dead, and Radiant were swift to take down the Roshan, claiming the second Aegis for Medusa. Gambit carried over that momentum to the next few minutes, as they took down NAVI T3 tower in the midlane. That swung the advantage the way of the Radiant for the first time in a while. The next few minutes were disastrous for NAVI — Slark was caught out in the top lane, and soon had to buyback, but got killed once again. That was the call to action for Gambit - they demolished the top lane and the T4. Whatever we had was not enough to stop them — we drop the game 1.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [0:2] Gambit
NAVI.GG.BET
Crystallize-
MagicaL
Blizzy-
Chuvash
SoNNeikO
Gambit Esports
Daxak-
Afoninje
AfterLife
Immersion-
fng
The second game was off to a much more active start — NAVI attempted to contest the bottom lane rune, but were unable to claim it, instead, trading kills. The action continued there — Crystallize was still getting his farm, though, which was very good for us. For a little while, Gambit seized the advantage, with & kills to NAVI's 2. It was bound to change very soon, though, as we found pickoffs through the entire map — even though we didn't quite secure the advantage yet, we weren't in a very bad position anymore.
The farming trend continued. Teams were quite reluctant to fight, and even when they did, not many casualties followed. However, 20 minutes in Gambit managed to get a good fight, opening up Roshan. Chu was able to deliver the killing blow to Roshan, so that was a consolation prize for NAVI. The Aegis was used up very fast, and they didn't get much done for it, only forcing 1 buyback. Unfortunately, we weren't getting any closer to the Dire - by 25 minutes Gambit had 10k net worth lead. Anti-Mage was on par with enemy Medusa and Meepo in terms of farm, but other heroes lagged behind.
31 minutes in, NAVI got teamwiped - Will-O-Wisp and Stone Gaze made a short work of 5 heroes. With that, Gambit went straight towards the base, destroyed the T3 in mid and went for the jugular. T4's didn't last long, and we had to use the buybacks available, but they didn't help — Radiant Ancient was destroyed in a matter of second. We drop the series 0:2.
