Natus Vincere, who made it to almost every Grand Final lately and won a few of them, didn’t make it far this time here at BLAST World Final 2024, and now they’re out of the tournament after losing two matches in a row from the start. Let’s take a look deeper into it.
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Natus Vincere vs. Astralis (Opening Match)
Natus Vincere lost their opening match against Astralis with a score of 0-2, and it did not look like the team we know from recent tournaments. They seemed lost in the game. What’s most important and rare to see is that ‘jL’, who usually leads the scoreboards even against the best teams out there, was this time at the bottom of the scoreboard together with their second star player, ‘wonderful’.
Natus Vincere vs. FaZe (Elimination Match)
Right after losing against Astralis, Natus Vincere had to face off against FaZe, who also lost their opening match against MOUZ. Even though after seeing Natus Vincere in their opening match, they were still the favorites to win against FaZe. The first map went in Natus Vincere’s favor with a confident score of 13-6, and it was FaZe map pick, which was a good sign that Natus Vincere is back with their game from here. Right after that, on a second map, the choice of Natus Vincere, they started it with a good half of a 7-5 score in their favor, and it was looking great for Natus Vincere, but it didn’t last for long since they were able to win only 1 round in the second half and FaZe ended up the second half with 8-1 score on T Side and overall FaZe won with a 13-8 score. On a third map, Natus Vincere couldn’t find themselves from the start and lost the first half with a 3-9 score, and then FaZe didn’t fail to finish the map with a total score of 13-6, eliminating Natus Vincere from the BLAST World Final 2024. By the stats, now it’s ‘iM’ who was good at every single one of their recent tournaments and was at the bottom of the scoreboards, but ‘jL’ and ‘w0nderful’ are also not far from ‘iM’ by the stats.
Was It The Natus Vincere Plan Or Something Else?
It wouldn’t be a question if it wasn’t for Natus Vincere’s coach ‘B1ad3’ interview right before the BLAST World Final 2024.
I can say the best bootcamp we had for sure was before Copenhagen Major. It was perfect, it was full, how it should be. Since then, we only had one before Riyadh for five days, not the length we really wanted. Even now before the RMR, if we were in Group B, it would be amazing, it would be perfect. But we are not, so we will have maybe seven days of bootcamp, it’s not bad. We still will try to optimize everything and squeeze as much as possible. I think it will be enough to reset, but I don’t know what would be better. To lose this tournament and be hungrier before bootcamp, or maybe it’s better to win and be more confident, but I think if we win this one, it can be too much confidence for us.
Andrey ‘B1ad3’ Gorodenskiy
That’s the words that got everyone’s attention before this tournament and it might be a reason for Natus Vincere’s results at this tournament. Especially, he was talking about Perfect World RMR tournament that is coming soon. But we will have to see if it was them just being in a bad shape or if it was a mastermind plan from ‘B1ad3’ and they’re going to shine once again on one of the most important tournaments that is coming soon.
Natus Vincere will be playing their first match at Perfect World European RMR in a few weeks from now on, November 17 at 05:00 CET.
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