ESL One Los Angeles 2020: defeat vs Alliance

0 : 2 — defeat

The next rival of Natus Vincere at the ESL One Los Angeles 2020 is Alliance. The format of the match — best of 3.

The Swedish team looks somewhat shaky so far: all its matches ended with a score of 2: 1 and only twice in favor of Alliance.

That is totally understandable, though, because, before the start of the competition, the team had significant changes: 33 and FATA left the team. Instead, they now have the Alliance legend — s4, and a player leased from  OG Seed— Xibbe.

The upcoming match is very important for each team, as the losing team will be thrown into the lower half of the tournament table. Nobody wants that, so the upcoming series will be intense, and we hope Natus Vincere players will clutch out the victory! #navination

ESL One Los Angeles 2020 - Online (best of 3)

April 13, 17:00

0 : 2

Natus Vincere

• 
  Crystallize
• 
  MagicaL
• 
  9pasha
• 
  CemaTheSlayeR
• 
  illias

Alliance

• 
  Nikobaby
• 
  Limmp
• 
  s4
• 
  Handsken
• 
  Xibbe

Game 1 — Natus Vincere [0 : 1] Alliance

Picks and Bans

Teams

Picks

Bans

 

Natus Vincere

• 
  Crystallize
• 
  MagicaL
• 
  9pasha
• 
  CemaTheSlayeR
• 
  illias

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

 

Alliance

• 
  Nikobaby
• 
  Limmp
• 
  s4
• 
  Handsken
• 
  Xibbe

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

After 20 minutes of the game,  Alliance players took a small advantage — 5k gold. The opponent was very active, trying not to let the  Natus Vincere heroes to farm.

By 30 minutes, our guys lost the bottom lane.  Alliance then tried to destroy the mid lane but decided to step back halfway. The advantage of the opponent at that moment grew to 17k gold.

On 45 minutes, the opponent made got mega creeps, as well as almost destroyed the Ancient of our team. Very difficult situation for  NAVI: the team was behind  Alliance by 25k gold.

After a couple of minutes, the game approached its conclusion. Our team made a final attempt at the last push, but the opponent was simply stronger and won the fight. 0 : 1 — ahead of  Alliance.

Game 2 — Natus Vincere [0 : 2] Alliance

Picks and Bans

Teams

Picks

Bans

 

Natus Vincere

• 
  Crystallize
• 
  MagicaL
• 
  9pasha
• 
  CemaTheSlayeR
• 
  illias

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

 

Alliance

• 
  Nikobaby
• 
  Limmp
• 
  s4
• 
  Handsken
• 
  Xibbe

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Very difficult start of the game for our team. The opponent acted very well and practically gave no chance for good fights to  NAVI players. By 20 minutes, the advantage of  Alliance was 7k gold.

Unfortunately, our guys could not turn the game around. At 26 minutes, the participants of  Natus Vincere acknowledged their defeat — 0 : 2.