NAVI — ESL Pro League Season 14 Champions

The fifth title for NAVI in 2021!

The first tournament after the summer break, , came to an end. NAVI CS:GO team won the championship, defeating Team Vitality 3 : 2 in the final match! 

The Born to Win started their way to the title from the group stage. Our first opponent was Fnatic, who was defeated 2 : 0. In the second match, the guys faced mousesports and won on two maps (16 : 9). Then lost to the BIG squad (0 : 2) - the only loss at the tournament. The fourth match featured the game against Evil Geniuses (2: 0). For the first place in the group, our boys had to face FaZe Clan. The duel ended with a score of 2 : 0 in favor of NAVI this allowed the team to go straight into the quarterfinals. 

Group stage

Group C
Place	Teams	Wins / Losses	Rounds
1	Natus Vincere	4–1	+31
2	mousesports	3–2	+6
3	Fnatic	3–2	+3
4	FaZe Clan	3–2	+2
5	BIG	2–3	+13
6	Evil Geniuses	0–5	-55

The playoffs started with a solid victory over ENCE (16 : 2 - Ancient, 16 : 5 - Nuke). In the semi-finals, a hard-fought battle on three maps against Heroic ended in our favor. In the grand final of the ESL Pro League Season 14, NAVI faced   Team Vitality and won with 3 : 2 score!

Playoff bracket

• Round 1
• Quarterfinal
• Semifinal
• final
• champion

NAVI

W

forZe

0

ENCE

2

Heroic

W

Team Liquid

2

Fnatic

0

OG

W

mousesports

1

NIP

2

Gambit

W

Complexity

1

Team Vitality

2

NAVI

2

ENCE

0

Heroic

2

Team Liquid

1

OG

2

NIP

1

Gambit

0

Team Vitality

2

NAVI

2

Heroic

1

OG

0

Team Vitality

2

NAVI

0

Team Vitality

0

TBD

Congratulations to NAVI on their fifth trophy of the year! The Born to Win earned a total of $ 195,000 ($20,000 for four group stage wins) and a slot in the BLAST Premier World Final 2021, held December 14-19 ($ 1,000,000 prize pool). Our guys also won the Intel Grand Slam, which brought them an extra $ 1,000,000! 

The next stop for the team will be the BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2021.  NAVI will face OG, FaZe Clan, and Complexity Gaming in a group stage. Matches will take place from September 24th to 26th. The first opponent for the Born to Win will be OG. #ObsessedWe

ESL Pro League Season 14 results

1st place: Natus Vincere — $ 195 000
2nd place: Team Vitality — $ 80 000
3rd–4th places: Heroic, OG — $ 55 000 each
5–8th places:   Team Liquid, Gambit — по $ 33 750, NiP, ENCE — $ 28 750 each
9–12th places: forZe — $ 30 000, mousesports, Complexity, Fnatic,  — $ 25 000 each
13–16th places: FaZe Clan — $ 22 000,  Astralis, Virtus.pro, Entropiq — $ 17 000 each
17–20th places: BIG, FURIA — по $ 15 000, Team Spirit,   Sinners  — $ 10 000 each
21–24th places: Evil Geniuses, Bad News Bears, G2 Esports, Team One — $ 3 000 each