In the EPIC League CIS playoff match, the Natus Vincere team, which is currently ranked second in the world, suffered an unexpected defeat from the Ukrainian Akuma, who had previously been considered an outsider of the tournament. In the world ranking it is only in 47th place.
The result of the match can be called devastating for NAVI: on the first map of Mirage they lost with a score of 2 – 16, and then failed to win on Dust2, losing 10 - 16. A significant contribution to Akuma’s result was made by Dmitry “SENSEi” Shvorak, who showed a rating of 1.49 on these two maps. Playing on Mirage became “s1mple” for Alexander. Kostylev with the worst result in his entire career – his rating on this map was only 0.20. Commenting on the result of the match, one of the Akuma players noted that they “didn’t really prepare” for the match. to play against a serious opponent. He also mentioned that on Mirage, NAVI members made many mistakes, for example, they lost duels, having every chance of winning them.
However, Natus Vincere is not leaving the competition yet, and they still have a chance to restore their reputation. The team falls into the lower bracket of the tournament, and on Wednesday evening it will have a match with forZe – the winner of this confrontation will be able to continue fighting for the main prize.
