NAVI are champions of Esports World Cup 2024

NAVI became the champions of Esports World Cup 2024 by defeating G2 in the final. The victory happened largely thanks to the great play of Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov and Valerij “b1t” Vakhovsjkyj, who at this tournament showed one of their best performances, not only for NAVI, but also for their careers in general.

This was the 6th meeting for these tags in the last 6 months, where NAVI managed to win all 6 times. AleksiB has also only lost to them 3 times, and the meetings have been 25. As a member of NAVI, he has won 7 out of 7 all-time meetings.

Before the finals started, w0nderful and b1t had ratings of 7.3 and 7.0 respectively. On the way to the finals NAVI managed to defeat FURIA, FaZe and MOUZ. Against the latter, w0nderful performed best, where he gave the best game for NAVI. Finishing the game with a rating of 7,9.

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The first map of the finals was Ancient, G2's choice, where they started off strong with a pistol round, taking 6 rounds in a row. NAVI then rallied and managed to turn the game around, taking it to extra rounds, but unfortunately lost with a score of 16-14. Map 1 saw strong play from NiKo and malbsMd, who finished the map with a score of 25-19 over K-D.

The second map was Nuke, NAVI's choice, where the first half was close for both teams and ended 6-6, but the second half turned things around completely. On this map NAVI showed a great game, taking 7 rounds in a row, where AleksiB should be mentioned, who played his position well and made important kills.

The last map was Inferno, where NAVI had no official matches for 4 months, and the last time was played in the final of PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 against FaZe. But despite such a long break from official matches NAVI managed to make a streak of 7 winning rounds. Finishing the half 9-3 in their favor NAVI brought the game to the end and won with a score of 13-6.

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The best player of the tournament was Valerij “b1t” Vakhovsjkyj with a rating of 7.0, also interesting fact that NAVI for 2024 earned 1.000.000$, after winning. So far this is the second best NAVI in terms of earnings, the first was 2021 along with s1mple, electroNic, Perfecto, Boombl4 and b1t.

With the win, NAVI earned $400,000 and 1,000 club points that affect the prize pool for the organization. Because of the tournament win, NAVI moved up to the 3rd position out of 39 organizations. The next tournament for NAVI will be BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, which will be held from July 29 to August 4 in Copenhagen.