Sniper of Natus Vincere, Oleksandr s1mple Kostyliev, talked about what the team needs to work on to improve their results. The Ukrainian esports player shared his opinion after the team's elimination from IEM Katowice 2023.
NAVI lost to Heroic in the semi-finals of IEM Katowice 2023 with a score of 0:2. Denis electroNic Sharipov's team took 3-4th place and earned $80,000. You can find more information about the tournament results at the link.
We need to focus more on communication and [help] understand the game for young players because they [are] still doing so many mistakes in [the] playoffs. Our communication was on [the] lowest level in this game against Heroic.
s1mple stated that "born to win" did not have enough time to train six maps well, which is why the team often chose Inferno. The professional CS:GO player believes that this map was also convenient for many opponents at the tournament.
We just need to make better our map pool, because as you see, we only had a chance to pick Inferno all the time. We had like two to three weeks of preparation. We had boot camp as well. We just couldn’t practice all six maps.
The next competition for Natus Vincere will be ESL Pro League Season 17. The team was assigned to the group D, where they will start their performance with a match against forZe. The tournament will take place from February 22 to March 26 in Malta. The teams will compete for a prize pool of $850,000.
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