NAVI’s first best-of-three match within the ESL Professional League Season 16 playoffs has been plagued with technical points all through their final map. Regardless of all of the drama, NAVI pulled off the win towards their Danish opponents, Heroic.
Heroic held on tight all through the primary two maps of the best-of-three, however all of the tech pauses appeared to take the wind out of their sails as NAVI pushed on to dominate the Danes on the final map.
The primary map, Mirage 16-14, went the way in which of NAVI, regardless of Casper “cadiaN” Møller’s heroics. The Danish IGL carried his workforce on his again, taking the match to a nail-biting end, however he in the end couldn’t push the Heroic squad over the road.
Inferno 14-16, was the following map, with Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev waking up and dropping 28 kills, with an particularly sturdy exhibiting on the CT facet. Nonetheless, the Danish Heroic squad pushed on to show the tides in the previous few rounds of the map to take the win.
The final map of the sequence was Overpass 16-7. This match was full of a sequence of technical points that stirred a variety of controversy.
Despite the fact that the tech points primarily occurred to NAVI, Heroic’s momentum seemingly disappeared, inflicting the CIS squad to take management of the map, ending off with ease. The final knife kill by s1mple was indicative of the destruction they’d simply triggered.
NAVI’s subsequent goal is the revitalized G2 squad, as s1mple and the workforce progress into the quarterfinals to go toe-to-toe with Nikola “NiKo” Kovač and the remainder of the worldwide roster.
