IEM Sydney 2023: vs. Apeks

The CS2 era will begin for NAVI tomorrow morning. The opening match against Apeks will start at 03:30 and will be played in a best-of-1 format.

The last tournament in CS:GO for Born to Win was the ESL Pro League S18. There our team showed a high level of preparation, getting to the playoffs from first place, and then knocking out Eternal Fire (2 : 0) and Monte (2 : 0) one by one but losing to MOUZ in the final (0 : 3).

Apeks also participated in the ESL Pro League. The team didn't make it to the playoffs, losing to 9z in the last chance bracket (0 : 2). Earlier in Group C, the European squad met NAVI but had no chance on both maps (0 : 2).

Recall that at IEM Sydney 2023 NAVI Counter-Strike team will play with roster changes: the place of Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev will be taken by coach Andrii "B1ad3" Gorodenskyi. Justinas "jL" Lekavicius will take the role of sniper.