The Natus Vincere team defeated G2 in the final match of PGL Major Stockholm, thus winning first place and a prize of $1 million. In addition, NAVI managed to do something that no major winner had ever done before: reach the final without losing a single map. Alexander "s1mple" Kostylev received a well-deserved MVP title (the seventeenth of his career, but the first at a major), finishing with an impressive rating of 1.47.
The first map of the match was Ancient, chosen by G2, and on it the confrontation was almost equal: first one or the other team got ahead by one or two points, and only at the end NAVI were able to achieve a stable advantage, leaving the map behind with a score of 16 – 11. Now it was enough for them to win on Nuke, which they chose themselves, but playing this card caused fans of both teams to spend a lot of nerves. At one point, G2 were leading by 7 – 14, but Natus Vincere were able to win back such a significant gap, equalize the score and send the game into overtime. As a result, despite all the efforts of G2, NAVI were able to win this map with a margin of three points (22 – 19).
The Grand Final of the Major became the largest eSports event of the year in the world of professional CS:GO. According to the organizers, at the time of its highest online audience it was watched by about 2.75 million viewers. For competitions of previous years, record values did not exceed one and a half million.
