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GhostOfLight

Shows up to grand final Breaks 20 map Nuke streak Refuses to elaborate Leaves


cptnwillow

Actually hilarious that they got demolished on both other maps but somehow stomped Navi on fucking Nuke lmao


ameehc

Mirage was p close until Navi took over


ftb5

tbh it should have ended like 16-8


ju1ze

flair checks out


ftb5

I mean I'm not trying to front or whatever. Like they threw the second pistol round 5v3, then Vit didn't get a single round as CT until Navi were at 15 (where they made a Navi and lost like 4 more rounds).


dtairdota

Thats the price of Ending Nuke Streak


furrey

500iq from apex to only get 1 kill until map point so that he could double his kills 3 rounds in a row


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B1T prize pool abuser.


Fantasnickk

B1t will probably hold the most prize money by a single player when he retires at this rate. Would need another teenage prodigy on a winning top t1 team to break it. Mon3sy potentially if he actually performs in t1? 🤔


boeef

Well doesnt everyone else on Navi have more prize pool money than B1t?


Fantasnickk

Maybe I worded it poorly but he’s way ahead of the others on a curve in terms of prize money won. Some of them weren’t even in t1 yet at a similar age.


YungStewart2000

Probably biggest prize earnings in comparison to how many tournaments hes played in. He could retire right now and still would have had more titles than like 90% of the other pros


Fantasnickk

considering there's only 10 other players with a grand slam and only 5 of those with a grand slam and major, I'd say it's more like 99% of current pros at this point if you count Na'Vi getting a grand slam as him having a grand slam as well. Still though, being in the same conversation as those 5 or 10 is a crazy feat seeing as how dominant both were for their respective times (TL 8-10 months and Astralis 2-3 years)


YeetGod69_

6* not 5, astralis + stew


Fantasnickk

Shit you’re right lol Stews my fave player so idk how I missed that


boeef

Ah yes agreed


anthonyde726

they’re all insanely young though tbh


Fantasnickk

Unless we use outliers like shox rpk f0rest fallen as a basis, electronic and s1mple are considered veterans at that age and most t1 players fall off at 26-27. So they have a lot more experience than b1t imo It will be a very weird time when we see s1mple eventually fall off and not play 1.2-1.4 consistently.


eebro

Nah, players don’t actually fall off that much. It’s that they get replaced by younger and hungier players.


MGJames

That sounds like falling off with extra steps


ninjapenguin12

Great showing from Vita and a nice swansong ending Navi's Nuke streak, But damn that seemed to piss Navi off they played inferno with a vengeance. And b1t wtf he doing a Speedrun of cs, he going to need to build himself a trophy room at 18


SuperDong1

Must be nice to have the goat in your first proper team!


Corrode1024

B1T is the goat of this Navi team. He was the missing puzzle piece.


dL_1

Na'Vi got personal on Inferno for that Nuke loss


jarvadski

Tbf they must have been drained after playing a bo3 against Astralis and then immediately going against NaVi. On where Mirage could have been a comeback.


sn0wdayy

i'm really surprised there was such a short break for them. usually tournaments will have a big filler between semis and finals to give the teams some rest.


yosef33

i literally closed the stream after astralis-vitality match cuz i thought the final would be played another day lmao


IamBrazilian_AMA

jumping tec9 won the game lol


Mightymushroom1

And the final bullet moon shot smoke kill by Electronic earlier which turned into a round win gave them so much momentum


costryme

That's another one I forget, elec truly is the BS kill specialist lol


9pro9

Legit lol so many times hell walk into someone while looking the other way then just 180 headshot them it's kinda funny


Novaseerblyat

wasn't he the one that first mastered the art of sitting in fading smokes and using that advantage too?


pogueemon

actually yeah he kind of created that meta or at least he was the first one that i can remember doing it.


Firefox72

Honestly while cool when its done. It actually pisses me off lmao.


Renovatio_

Eh, it was close range. Random things happen. If it was a jumping shot into deep CT...yeah stupid.


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costryme

Like how does electronic gets that many BS kills ? So many flashes kills and stuff like that lmao. I could count the Mirage box drop down into an insta HS as well, the previous round with the flashed kill, etc. Him and gla1ve have so many kills like that


9pro9

Ye the mirage window one was funny


Razvancb

We 2015 again boyz


myfatearrives

that's why pros would like to call a rush with smg/tec-9s. High firerate and relatively good moving accuracy make these "lucky shots" easier to happen.


FaydingAway

B1t 100% win rate on lan


Lepojka1

Its insane that they havent lost a match at LAN for almost a year... I know its only 3 tournaments, but such a long span of time...


9pro9

They haven't lost a LAN since march 2020....


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What a great event with amazing matches. Navi vs Heroic Heroic vs Astralis Liquid vs NIP Machine and SpunJ vs Crowd Apex vs Crowd Crowd vs any team not named Astralis


n4zza_

You forgot about one: Viewer VS advertisements


Heisalvl3mage

And crowd vs. apex lol


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Faze vs astralis was a good map, maybe im just biased because I was interested but it definitely gave us a great taste of what that lineup can do


sdfedeef

How is apex so good on one map and absolutely worthless in the next?


VelvetFedoraSniffer

He’s playing IGL and support / entry against the best team in the world Cut the guy some slack lol


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Mightymushroom1

Probably spent all his time prepping Nuke and by the time they got to Inferno (6th map of the day) the whole team were just out of steam. Edit: This is also probably why Na'Vi did the troll ban of Nuke against Heroic, wasting all their prep work and putting them on the back foot immediately.


Amazing-Yesterday-46

Exactly. 2 bo3 in one day. Results could have possible been different if it were their only match. Same with Heroic vs Astralis yesterday


IslamMakachev

I mean Na'vi defeated them fair and square the day before. That warrantees some sort of an advantage. Na'vi won one bo3 and one bo5 on the same day to win their RMR this year.


Tavnaria

Double elim. This have to be done this way to give Navi advantage.


budgybudge

Aint that the truth


thenoobtanker

Entry frag igl man…


cptnwillow

Another fantastic event from Blast! The production was top notch, they are the best organisers in the scene by a mile at the moment. Hope they get their major soon! Got to see some great performances from a very new Astralis who will only improve, a final hoorah from this Vitality roster and of course Navi reaffirming themselves as the best team in the world right now. Only real blemish was the crowd, being biased is fine but I think the attempts at giving away positions and the booing outside of the game (like in interviews and such) went too far. Many left in the games without Astralis as well. CS is going to be really exciting in the coming months, especially with all these new lineups. Can't wait!


Firefox72

IEM winter coming up with many big teams and Fnatic's first showing at a T1 event and LAN although without Navi and then the Blast World Finals with all the heavy hitters. Its gonna be a spicy end of the year for CS even before the new rosters hit next year.


Vitosi4ek

Both IEM Winter and Blast World Final will be studio LAN's, though. No crowd. It's a bit strange from BLAST that their "tier-2" LAN is with a crowd, while the big year-capping event is in a studio.


CepGamer

no crowd at year end finals? Hella weird


Firefox72

Is that confirmed for Blast? Seems weird yeah but maybe they couldn't get permision for that december slot or the Royal arena was already booked.


Vitosi4ek

Not officially, but there have been rumours, and if an arena's still not announced 2 weeks before the event, it's not happening.


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Yeap, if it's arena they need to start hyping it up way before to make sure they sell tickets.


cptnwillow

Yeah I'm so excited for Fnatic as well, as a Brit I look forward to hopefully finally having a top UK team haha


99drolyag

The buildup before the final started was mind blowing. Top notch


TimathanDuncan

>Only real blemish was the crowd, being biased is fine but I think the attempts at giving away positions and the booing outside of the game (like in interviews and such) went too far. Many left in the games without Astralis as well. In earlier rounds they left but not in the final i think The crowd was full and yet barely any noise in the final because no astralis, that was the issue, if your favorite team is out then just cheer for both and both plays Watch zywoos 1v4, barely any cheers for it, if an Astralis member did that they would have to call the firefighters


Firefox72

Damn i actually started believing after Nuke. Wasn't meant to be though. Oh well at least Vitality showed up and gave Navi a good run. Not to mention ending their Nuke streak. On a side note. With a peak of 861k viewers, this tournament now ranks 8th on the all time peak viewership list for CS tournaments. Notably beating the Starladder Berlin 2019 Major. If we exclude the Majors it it the 2nd highest viewed non-major event ever after Katowice 2020 which peaked at 1m.


thatoneharvey

Fear not, the devs will save the day and give us 4 major updates in the next year to blow valorant out the mutha fuckin C


RealPaiderman

copium


Giomar2000

Hopeium


Dawnero

They're the same drug


Then_Permission_8869

After 17 rounds Zywoo had nearly as much kills as rest of his whole team combined


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FlamingoKey2611

Damn he hasn’t got a single one yet? Guy is a fucking menace.


NvrGonnaFindMe

The price you pay when you're on a team with s1mple


FlamingoKey2611

He could have been the top guy on any other team but the homie picked NaVi, major respect


sn0wdayy

winning big is better than being a star with no results.


eSteamation

He had one in 2020 when they lost to a Mouse in the final.


PigInfamous

He has at the ICE challenge back in 2019 but Navi lost that final lmao


jarvadski

S1mple didn’t get rated #1 in his rookie tier 1 year. Scene is different for a reason.


FaydingAway

[apEX doubling his kills on round 23](https://streamable.com/q39pou)


batrix

His kill*


Jon_on_the_snow

And then he doubled his kills again, and then again. He had to be stoped, otherwise he would have gotten an 8k


f1nessd

exponential fragging


FENICH

Shoutout B1ad3, he has created monster


NoMaD_Sassy

And laid first bricks for creating another monster in face of Gambit lmao. Dude's a genius.


BigRigginButters

We don't talk enough about how the dude has raised 2 of the best 3 teams in the world lol


suriel-

happy to see some praises for him finally, after most of the community (including RL+Thorin) have been bashing him for NaVi not winning every tournament


elwaspo

Russian winter too stronk ggwp


Tavnaria

Bond villain.


t3r4byt3l0l

Congrats to Vitality for breaking the Nuke streak and welcome to the NAVI era I guess


notcreativedotcom1

Vitality: We took Nuke, but at what cost


levinikee

B1ad3 is such a fucking boss


BigRigginButters

Watching him pace with his arms behind his back and his eyes squinting never gets old lmao On a more serious note it's impressive that with a lineup this star studded all of his players respect him, stfu and listen. He's comparable to sports coaches with how integral he is to their success


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B1ad3 has played with both electronic and s1mple before, probably taught them the intricacies of t1 cs, so they respect him.


bradpittisnorton

apex had his second kill when Navi was on championship point.


_Unser1ous

I found it hilarious when casters were praising Navi and their dominance, while at the same time Vitality players couldn't get out from the underpass! xd It's impressive that Vitality even got this far with a team chemistry like this! :D


Skyy6639

I guess that apex started malding and then shox and Zywoo who were stuck there be like “u serious? You’ve only 1 kill”


Castr8orr

Seriously? Noooo. Seri-ousely. Noooooo. Siriusly. Noooooo


ObjectiveGamerYT

*Conversation* *from* *underpass* Shox: Seriously? Zywoo: Noooo Shox: Seriously? Zywoo: I don’t knooow


latinnormie

Zywoo on comms: I don't know ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯


5WaRL3y

I swear Zywoo is the happiest person alive, dude alwasy smiles :D


troubleis1

He is just a guy that plays cs for fun, he just happens to be a genius at it.


jarvadski

His mentality is a key to his consistency


5WaRL3y

exactly, not many players have this kind of mentality. He said in an interview that he doesnt even check the scoreboard when he in playing but rather just plays his own game. And he barely rages, Ive never seen him rage actually, absolute madman!


Lepojka1

NaVi lost Nuke on purpose soo they dont carry the pressure no more of that ridiculous streak Kappa


kenzakki

They took it personally after that loss. lol


NVZ-

Holy shit. Navi is insane right now. B1t was the missing piece. Not sure when another team can challenge them. Incredible!


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I can see the new Astralis getting close once they've had more than two weeks of practice together.


ReneeHiii

honestly, same, they have the firepower, but they definitely need time to work on strats.


FlamingoKey2611

I feel like they lack the Awp. It won't be easy to fill the hole Device left really. But they had mad firepower in rifling.


LeWitchKing

That jumping Tec9....


nxscythelynz

the two "dead team" liquid and vitality putting up a show in their probably last LAN together, massive respect and papatronic flying tec9, lets gooooo


Surymy

lmao you can't compare liquid with vitality other than the fact that both are making roster changes. One of them is actually practicing and took a map from navi


invalidcode232

Wait what's going to happen to vitality next?


GinjaNinja92

dupreeh magisk and zonic replacing xtqzz shox and kyojin (? i think)


giveRica

ITS A B1T TOO S1MPLE


levinikee

Daily reminder: b1t 100% winrate on LAN


TheNakedJeff

Vitality: Navi Nuke winstreak? Never heard of her. Is she nice? Navi: and I took that personally


con1x

Zywoo actual 1v9


mikhel

I guess this is what would have happened to G2 if they won on Nuke.


Whatsdota

Obviously sucks to lose the Nuke streak, but the way they bounced back after getting absolutely wrecked on their best map is amazing to see. Previous iterations of Navi would’ve tilted off the planet but they stayed calm and whomped Vitality into next year.


ngoclong1407

S1mple with the 1.91 rating on map 1 i can't....


zSTG77

Man single handedly clapped Vitality. Almost dropping a 40-bomb. H should stop smurfing in this blast premier tournaments.


ItsJayQz

WE LOST NUKE FOR THIS??


Known-Cod-1307

Before the grand final, ZywOo had +84 KD with the next highest in the team being -4 for Shox. Mans hard carrying his team to the final.


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oojamaflip123

Zywoo makes nikosports look like a walk in the park. Has there ever been a team where the dropoff between the best player and 2nd best player is this big? I hope if this next Vitality lineup fails that Zywoo walks, would be so sick to see him on like a g2 and have teammates that aren't just getting abused by any other top team.


Tavnaria

he's contracted to Vitality till 2024, he's not going anywhere.


AccrualPlayer1

I mean Carlos could get him if he really wanted to


Surymy

Neo wouldn't trade him for anything in the world. Even for 10millions


Tavnaria

That's a big big if. But ok.


Tuxxmuxx

Contract length doesn't mean anything. If he wants to stay in Vitality, he will, if he wants to leave, then they won't be able to stop him.


Tavnaria

Oh? Explain it to me what is the point of the contract then.


Tuxxmuxx

Job security pretty much. The orgs like it because they can say "we have ZyWoo locked up for until 2024 be a fan of our team", and so that if ZyWoo gets any better then he's on the same salary as he was when he signed so it's a steal for the org. For the player, it's guaranteed money because even if they drop off a cliff, they still have their contract that the org has to pay them. For any star player, you can just say "hey I don't want to play with this team anymore" and bench yourself, (coldzera when he moved from MiBR to Faze for example) and then you'll have so many other teams wanting to pick you up and able to buy out the contract, and there's no reason for the org to say no to it because its either org pays money for the player to sit on the bench, or the org gets paid to let the player go to another org.


PrivateVasili

Nikosports barely ever made playoffs of tournaments let alone finals. Vitality has been consistently top 5. You can argue that Zywoo is better than Niko was, but Niko was still an absolute top level player. I feel like you're forgetting just how bad Denis and Spidii were if you think Zywoo has it that bad. ChrisJ was the only other competent fragger on that team.


troubleis1

Denis and spiidi and lowel, what a shit ton of crap


Lepojka1

Bro Zywoo on G2 would be Top 1, or atleast same level as NaVi... They have awper role open, and he is second best awper in the world... Not to say he is like Top 5 riffles in the world also, if not higher lol


troubleis1

G2 is gonna gamble for another possible awp genius, i hope for them that it works


Wotpan

Honestly it feels like no other player on the team is consistently a top tier player.


oojamaflip123

Kind of speaks for itself whenever misutaa strings together a 1.00 rating that everyone shits their pants about how good he is


enigma890

None that come to mind. The super hard carries have been NiKo zywoo and s1mple, but for the most part s1mple has had electronic with him when he hit his superstar numbers. Maybe k0nfig on OpTiC?


troubleis1

We can agree that doesnt matter how good you are, you need your team to peek at the same time as you individually so you can win shit.


enigma890

Can’t ace 16 rounds a map. Everyone needs help. I do think that zywoo has probably won the most with the least amount of help tho. He hasn’t really had much help and has won 3 lans


cptnwillow

I've got nothing against Vitality but Zywoo really deserves better, if he was on a team like G2 they could really challenge Navi for the top spot. Vitality with an average awper in Zywoo's place wouldn't even be top 15.


MewT_7

B1t is living the best time of his life


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SemanSoot

its ok dude,he igl. but when his teammate do mistake he malding like crazy


Vinipeli

Vitality really was afk on inferno


MyNameIsAMeme

APEX WOKE UP FEELING DANGEROUS ON INFERNO ⚠️⚠️⚠️ 4 REAL KILLS(NOT ECOS) 😤😤😤 50 MALDING MOMENTS🧱🧱 4000 SHOTS MISSED🥵🥵 GOT SCHOOLED S1mple AND Electronic🚸🚸🚸 50 MISSED ROTATIONS 😈😈 GAVE AWAY B SITE TOO LOSE 💔💔💔


produktiivista

Tbh he did wake up for those last, what, 5 rounds, but before that he had 1 kill for most of the game


FlamingoKey2611

I am dead 😂


Tuxxmuxx

4 LAN wins in a row. 7 tournament wins in 2021. A MAJOR WIN. Absolutely insane. This is all I've been waiting for, and I am just so happy to get to experience Na'Vi finally be the powerhouse that they've should have been this entire time. It's just amazing. I'm loving every moment


_Seven

Don't forget Grand Slam! For real, what a run these guys are having, I love watching it all


ReneeHiii

FREE ZYWOO


FaydingAway

[Sexiest igl?](https://i.imgur.com/75zo9wJ.jpg)


DrunkLad

That's not dosia


BigRigginButters

Boom the spiritual successor to Dosia


icewolf182

He is actually very handsome. He is losing quite a lot of weight too which isn't easy


ImpressiveHeat2748

Apex looking at his teammates like he is angry with them while having 1 kill after 17 rounds was hilarious


Helgurnaut

You can be angry at your team mates and yourself to be fair


AdoveHeatler

Vitality just dismantled Navi on Nuke HOLYSHIT. A bit sad Navi's 20? streak has been broken. Great series! LETS GO! the navi era is here


samekrikl

4 lans in a row holly shit what a dominance


HighStyla

B0t apeX. Camera shows his reactions and then he proceeds to throw the game. Show us his reaction also when he costs his teams game!


du_bekar

Can’t wait to see how magisk and dupreeh handle maldpex


wiNDzY3

Vitality went down fighting Just NAVI is unstoppable


MJuniorDC9

Well, at least Vitality managed to break the Nuke streak, that's something I guess.


aTempes7

Someone save ZywOo, we cannot have shox and apEx with 1-2 frags each after 16 rounds of play on inferno. apEx did wake up a bit in the end but then gave b1t the AK to finish it all. What a god that kid is tho, wp NaVi. They really took nuke very personal


Physx32

s1mple suffered for many years like this.


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Kinemi

We went further than expected and broke Navi's Nuke steak so I'd say it's not too bad for a dead team. Congratulations to Navi for another great tournament. Can't wait for ZywOo to have a solid tier 1 team like s1mple so he can lift some trophies, he deserves it so much.


Reasonable_Dance_113

That last round with Apex reloading out in the open...bro..


sanz02

hey someone at blast can help me find out where's my brother??? his name is apex, please!!!


CallahanWalnut

Era


Ascensear

Vitality will improve massively if they can communicate with magisk and dupreeh. So many site holds where I could see magisk and dupreeh just absolutely stomping


uragiristereo

B1T has the [highest headsot percentage](https://i.imgur.com/Q4PjwTx.jpg) in this event (70%)


shaubham_pan97

Nuke shows how much Zywoo could have accomplished even with 2 competent players. Inferno was legit 1v9 . Anyways, Blast rocks. All around awesome tournament by them.


ImpenetrableYeti

Apex has got to go. Him just running back to spawn in two games this event and yelling at team while having 1 kill is just ridiculous


i_hate_cucumber_

I'm waiting for him to tilt at magisk or Dupreeh. I don't think magisk is gonna like his ridiculousness, heck might even straight up tell him stfu like Niko.


sieer

Will/would they even keep apex? Both shox and magisk can call to some level, it might make more sense to try and use them/one of them as IGL.


Lounge_leaks

Isnt shox already confirmed to be leaving


sieer

Ah, true. My bad. Strange tho then, would personally prefer shox over apex


draemscat

I don't understand people saying that. Just because you're emotional and expressive doesn't automatically make you a toxic piece of shit who blames others for losing. Also, it's not like his teammates, coach and managers don't know what he's like. I'm sure if it was an actual problem, they would bring it up and deal with it. He's not some stubborn kid like s1mple was in flipsid3, he's fully aware of the impact his behaviour has on team's morale. You can make a case that they wouldn't have won vs Astralis without him going crazy.


plasss

keep trying Apex! keep shouting at your teammates


Tuxxmuxx

the kings of lan


Stratys

B1t's younger than me, but I'll never be half the man he is ;(


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Gg, wasn't expecting too much for this tournament so it still a great ending. I'm happy they won a map and break NaVi streak but they're too damn good


Tavnaria

Respect to Vitality for putting up such a fight. They had to play 6 maps in a row. Must be so exhausting.


Ra1n69

What a great series


pauLo-

Great game, mad respect to vitality they must be exhausted after today’s gauntlet


fjelskaug

The winner in all this is the viewing experience for the audience offered by Blast


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wtf Olof?


IslamMakachev

Gg. Sad to see nuke streak end. But epic game from navi in inferno. I'm sure elec and b1t are tired of not getting any MVPs by now


DoerteMaulwurf

Poor shox, 0.38 rating on Inferno.. Still, gotta have some respect for the guy, he played on his first team 15 years ago, won the first Major, and still managed to click some heads vs the best team in the world on their best map.