IEM Atlanta 2026: vs Vitality

Today, NAVI’s CS2 team will begin their playoff run at the IEM Atlanta 2026 LAN tournament, which features a $ 300 000 prize pool.

After losing to Legacy (11 : 13 Inferno, 13 : 8 Ancient, 6 : 13 Dust 2) in the final match of Group B, the Born to Win now find themselves in a difficult position.

First, our team will start the playoffs from the quarterfinal stage. Second, their opponent at this stage will be the current best team in the world — Vitality.

Vitality were the clear favorites in Group A, but after defeating BC.Game (2 : 0), they suffered a surprising loss to BB (1 : 2) and dropped to the lower bracket. There, they faced no serious resistance and eliminated FaZe Clan (2 : 0) and B8 (2 : 0) from the tournament one after another.

The teams last faced each other in May at another American tournament — BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 1. Back then, Vitality claimed a confident 3 : 0 victory in the final, although NAVI had every chance to turn the match in their favor on two of the maps.

We are looking forward to today’s match, which starts at 22:30 CEST and will be played in a best-of-3 format. We believe that this time NAVI will be able to make Vitality play their game.