Justinas "jL" Lekavicius said in an interview that the team is preparing hard for IEM Cologne. According to jL, after winning the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, they are going to stop there.
After a bright victory in Riyadh where NAVI managed to defeat FURIA, FaZe, MOUZ and G2, the focus is back on their strategy. After their cool result in Copenhagen, they failed at the end of the season where they finished 9-12th at ESL Pro League Season 19 and Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2024.
But after that they managed to rehabilitate a bit and finished second in the last tournament of the season BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024, losing to Spirit 1-3 in the final. After the season ended, many had doubts about the roster and many thought the roster would have changes, but they didn't.
Then in the first major tournament of the new season at Esports World Cup 2024, NAVI put on an incredible performance and managed to become champions. The second tournament for them was BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024, where they had already gotten a willful victory on BIG, giving up 10 rounds over two cards.
But as HLTV learned after the match, in an interview with HLTV, this tournament is not one of the highlights of the season:
Because Cologne - sorry, BLAST - is a more important tournament that actually has a trophy. Just working on our stuff, building our interactions and game plansaid jL
Preparations for IEM Cologne 2024 are in full swing and after Riyadh they had ten hour days of training. And now the main goal of NAVI now is to win at Cologne. He commented on the preparation as follows:
It's just a lot of work. We know how f*cked it was to play after the Major. Now we know what can happen after winning a trophy so we're trying to avoid it, putting in as much effort and as much enthusiasm into our game as we can, and having new goals to achieve.
NAVI are now competing at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they will play against Liquid's new roster today. The main prize of the tournament is a spot in BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024.
Play-In stage of IEM Cologne 2024 will start on August 7, but NAVI will not participate in it, and will start from the main stage, which starts on August 10. NAVI are in Group A, along with Astralis, G2 and Spirit. It will be interesting to watch NAVI and see if they can win their third trophy this year, which is a pretty good result.
This is an indicator of the great work of the whole squad and B1ad3 individually, which proves that no matter if you have superstars in the squad or not, you can achieve results in any case.
SOURCE - HLTV
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