Team Natus Vincere repeated its success achieved at the IEM competition Katowice, and won a convincing victory over Astralis. The match between these two teams became the most watched in the history of the ESL Pro League tournament: the peak number of viewers exceeded 489 thousand. Most people watched the first game of the match, when NAVI lost on the map Inferno. At the next two games, the number of spectators decreased, but still exceeded 400 thousand. Natus Vincere won on maps Dust2 and Train and thus won the match with a final score of 2:1. Sniper Astralis Nikolay «device» Reedts noted after the game that today was simply “not their day,” but Emil “Magisk" Reif considered weak defensive play to be one of the reasons for the defeat.
Egor "Flamie" Vasiliev noted that the victory was an excellent birthday present for him, which coincided with the day of the match. Leader of the winning team Alexander «s1mple» Kostylev added that flamie has not lost matches that fall on his birthday for the fourth year in a row.
The result of the next game with the participation of the “born to win” will become known on April 6. They will compete against the European team OG. Astralis will also play on this day: the Danes will test their strength in a match against the team Fnatic.
