Tournament organizer ESL published a humorous video featuring CS:GO sniper Alexander s1mple Kostylev, team coach Andrey B1ad3 Gorodensky, and former roster member Viktor sdy Orudzhev from Natus Vincere. The video was published on the company's official YouTube channel.

In the clip, Orudzhev goes to confess in a church. There, sdy gives a speech in which he shares amusing stories related to s1mple, as well as plays off various memes and rumors related to the NAVI team.

sdy's Achievements in NAVI

sdy represented the "born to win" team as a stand-in from June to December 2022. With him in the roster, the team became champions of the BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2022, reached the final of the IEM Cologne 2022, and broke into the top-8 at the IEM Rio Major 2022.

Career Continuation

After leaving NAVI, Orudzhev moved to another Ukrainian club - Monte. Over the past six months of performances, he not only managed to fit into the team but also as the main IGL, led the team to the quarterfinals of BLAST.tv ParisMajor 2023 and victories at a number of tier-2 competitions.

When does Monte play?

At the time of publication, Monte is participating in the group stage of IEM Cologne 2023. In the first round of Group A, sdy's team beat GamerLagion, but lost to Heroic in the second. In the lower bracket of the group, the Ukrainian team will face off against Cloud9. The pre-match statistics can be studied at this link.

IEM Cologne 2023 is taking place from July 26 to August 6 in Germany. Teams are competing for a prize pool of one million dollars and a slot for IEM Katowice 2024. You can follow the schedule and results of the championship here.