ESL One Katowice 2018: the end of the run
The battle for survival was lost.
The elimination series for 
NAVI.GG.BET against 
Newbee was a heated Bo3, and in the end, Natus Vincere lost the series 0:2 and leave the tournament.
Game 1 - natus vincere [0:1] newbee
NAVI.GG.BET
Lil
GeneRaL
LeBron
Crystallize
Dendi
Newbee
kpii
Moogy
Faith
Kaka
Sccc
The first game started off with quite a bit of action right away, as First Blood was taken by NAVI despite losing bounty runes. GeneRaL had a hard time in the offlane, but so was the situation for enemy Omniknight. As we got our key levels, NAVI focused on the bottom lane and ganked enemy core, trading 1 for 2. Overall, the laning stage was a fairly uncertain one, as we were trying to play an aggressive game, while Newbee did not try to do much other than occasional kills and push.
Lil was going for courier snipes at all times, killing the enemy courier twice at 11 minutes. That stalled the aggression from the opponent a little bit, allowing us to gank Omniknight in the bottom lane and take the first T1 tower. 18 minutes in Dendi managed to push in the bottom lane, as 2 supports of enemy team had to go in there, but most of our team was already backing Queen of Pain up, resulting in a very good fight. The situation continued several times, as we were catching the opponent doing crucial mistakes like BKBs.
A fight in the middle lane on our high ground 22 minutes saw a majority of our team dead, resulting in 2 lanes - top and mid, taken down. A disastrous Roshan fight after that had a couple of heroes on the Dire side dead; while Roshan was being attacked by the opponents, Crystallize engaged, but did not manage to turn the game around - the first game is taken by Newbee.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [0:2] Newbee
NAVI.GG.BET
-
Lil
GeneRaL
LeBronDota
Dendi
Crystallize
Newbee
Kaka-
Faith
Moogy-
Sccc
kpii
The second game started with a kill on our Death Prophet, which slightly boosted the Chinese team. Lil was roaming around the map, trying to get kills, but that was not that easy. There were a few kills on the map, and GeneRaL's lane was a hard one yet again. Both teams traded offlane towers, and soon Newbee were left with no T1s. The economy was still very equal, but the kill score favored the opponent.
A fight broke our next to our shrine and extended for quite a bit - NAVI came close to killing several heroes, but a little bit of damage was still not enough. A few losses on both sides did blow some punches, but the game was still hard for us. 17 minutes in Newbee picked up the first Roshan of the game, but the Aegis was used up very soon, as Gyrocopter made a mistake which cost him 1 life.
T2 safelanes were traded 23 minutes in, as Newbee kept dodging fights. We still were unable to find a lot of kills, with just a couple of kills our way. Newbee were sitting at a very good advantage, almost 10k, as we lost two T3s - in mid and bot. Having lost the lanes, NAVI decided to go for Roshan; Newbee were quick to respond, and a big fight broke out, with several buybacks expended. The last fight happened near the Roshpit again, and we got baited by enemy Sand King - the second game was lost as well. GG WP!
