NAVI advance to StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 playoffs

NAVI CS2 team has qualified for the playoffs of the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025, the final major tournament of 2025 with a $1,250,000 prize pool.

Born to Win finished Stage 3 with 3 victories and 2 defeats. Having started their run with a crushing loss to FURIA (2 : 13 Nuke), our team managed to stage a stunning comeback in their next two matches — 13 : 6 Ancient vs. PV and 13 : 8 Dust 2 vs. paiN — to progress to a 2–1 record.

Unfortunately, NAVI failed to advance to the playoffs on the first attempt. Despite a solid performance on Inferno, our match vs. Vitality ended 0 : 2 in favor of the opponents (11 : 13 Inferno, 11 : 13 Train).

In the decisive bout for the playoff spot, NAVI battled B8. The teams had previously met in the tournament, with our players winning 2 : 0. And even facing the Ukrainian team's best efforts, Born to Win once again prevailed (2 : 0) and earned a place in the final stage of StarLadder Budapest Major 2025.

We congratulate our пгні on successfully completing the group stage and wish them the best of luck in the playoffs, which will be held from December 11th to 14th.