At the end of two days of play, the status of the best player of IEM Cologne 2024 is held by the reigning MVP of PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, Justinas "jL" Lekavičius. NAVI have already guaranteed themselves a place in the playoffs of IEM Cologne 2024 and will play at LANXESS Arena.

Statistics for the tournament

With two matches played, Justinas "jL" Lekavičius has a rating of 7.4 and an average damage of 96.73 for 71 rounds played. His best card for the tournament is Ancient vs Astralis, which he finished with a rating of 7.7.

For the 63 kills he made, his 44.4% hit percentage was in the head, which is 56 in the rankings, among all players. But despite that, he is still the best player.

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The team's games at the tournament

NAVI are competing in Group A, along with paiN, Astralis, Team 9z, SAW, G2, The MongolZ and Team Spirit. They soundly defeated paiN 2-0 in the first round, giving up 8 rounds in two maps.

They faced Astralis in the semifinals of the top set, where they beat them also 2-0. The matchup included Mirage, on which NAVI, after winning have 11 straight wins, giving up an average of 6.3 rounds per map.

Mirage is NAVI's best card where jL has a rating of 7.3 for this tournament and 6.6 for the last 6 months, among which 20 cards played is the most number of cards in six months.

Statistics for past tournaments

Since the start of the new season, NAVI has managed to play in two tournaments Esports World Cup 2024 and BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024. At Esports World Cup 2024, NAVI managed to become the champion, where jL he finished the tournament with a rating of 6.3 for 10 cards.

At BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, their results got a little worse, but they still qualified for BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, jL himself finished the tournament with a 6.3 rating for 12 cards.

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Next Match

The next match at IEM Cologne 2024 for NAVI will be against SAW, where both teams have already qualified for the tournament playoffs and will only play each other for seeding. The winner of the match will advance to the semifinals, while the loser will advance to the quarterfinals.

jL has the opportunity to become another top player in the tournament if he performs well.