GESC: Thailand qualifiers. The end of the run.
NAVI.GG.BET leave the competition
Dropping to the lower bracket, 
NAVI.GG.BET faced 
Vega Squadron yet again. The result of the series was 0:2 for us, as we leave the qualifiers.
Game 1 - Natus Vincere [0:1] Vega Squadron
NAVI.GG.BET
LeBron
Dendi
Lil
GeneRaL
Crystallize
Vega Squadron
CeMaTheSlayeR
Blizzy
Zayac
Palantimos
Undershock
The first game of the series started off without much action on the map, with the first blood spilled rather late. However, it was more than compensated for in the next few minutes, with multiple ganks coming in for both teams. By 12 minutes, NAVI managed to break ahead by 1k gold and a couple of kills. A few successful pickoffs from Vega Squadron, though, completely turned the tide of the game in their favor.
As Vega Squadron committed a few mistakes, NAVI found themselves able to enter the Roshpit and take the first Aegis of the game. The opponents disengaged, not willing to fight into the double life, instead preferring to farm up and gank isolated targets. 25 minutes in the teams were pretty much dead even, with almost equal amount of kills and 1k net worth ahead.
The second Roshan spawned, and the lost fight from NAVI allowed Vega to take the beast down easily. The tempo of the game increased - Terrorblade was getting a lot of farm, becoming increasingly tough to kill. After a few kills, Vega Squadron managed to take the bottom T3 and the barracks. After a skirmish in the top lane, we lost Morphling and Spirit Breaker, which enabled Vega Squadron to go for the third Roshan.
With the Aegis in hand, Vega Squadron went up the high ground again, and we had very little to contest the push - several buybacks were used by NAVI, but we still couldn't defend, with only top T3 remaining on a sliver of health. Vega disengaged briefly, waiting for all heroes to respawn - as everyone got back, the Dire struck back and killed off almost everyone, taking the game 1.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [0:2] Vega Squadron
Vega Squadron
-
Slayer
Palantimos-
Undershock
Blizzy
Zayac
NAVI.GG.BET
Lil-
LeBron
GeneRaL
Dendi
Crystallize
The second game kicked off with a plenty of kills for both teams, but the tempo was still dictated by Vega Squadron thanks to early-game presence and Night Stalker being there. 10 minutes in NAVI lost the first T1 tower. We've fallen behind for a while, unable to counter the opponent. Our option was to farm up our items, which we successfully did.
The first Roshan was taken relatively early. Despite, Vega still had a good map position, and a few kills their way allowed them to get the advantage. Ultimately, 25 minutes in Vega went up the high ground and took down the first T3 of the game, with the barracks following the suit. To boost our position on the map, we decided to go for the Roshan, successfully securing it. With that in our hands, NAVI felt that much more comfortable. Teams continued to move around the map, taking the towers and trading heroes.
As the Aegis expired, NAVI made lots of effort to secure the third Roshan with the Refresher Shard. After a couple of important kills on enemy supports who would've been able to upset our plans, NAVI finally entered the pit, slaying the beast. For a little while, the game transformed into a farm-oriented one, with there being rather few kills and action - all the way till the next Roshan., which happened to be killed off at 51 minutes.
54 minutes in Vega Squadron went for the top lane, and took it rather fast - not even Ursa buying back helped. We've lost 2 sides at this point and were pretty much locked in our base. NAVI had to wait for a mistake to happen, but Vega did not allow us that - another Roshan for the opponent allowed them to go for the last side. A couple of fights broke out, but to no avail - Mega-Creeps for the opponent. The overwhelming damage on the side of Vega left us no chances, as even the buybacks did little to stop them - 0:2.
