Team Natus Vincere won their second major title of 2021, defeating Gambit in the grand finals of the DreamHack Masters Spring Championship. The final match was held in the format «best of 5», and NAVI did not leave their opponents any chance, winning three cards in a row. Interestingly, this is the first match since the beginning of the year when Natus Vincere managed to defeat Gambit: before that, they were defeated by them three times, including in the group stage of DreamHack Masters Spring.
This victory marks several important milestones for NAVI. In addition to the fact that this is the second title that the team has won since the beginning of the year, after winning the BLAST Premier Global Final in January, Dream Hack Masters Spring was the first tournament that the team held in a new lineup: Valery «B1T» Vakhovsky played on all the cards instead of Egor «flamie» Vasiliev, who was sent to the reserve.
In the match with Gambit NAVI managed to take control of the situation literally from the first rounds. On the Overpass map, they methodically took one round after another, bringing the score to 8 – 0. Although Gambit were able to win back a few matches later on, the map stayed with Natus Vincere with a score of 16 – 7. On the next two maps Gambit fought back more actively, but failed to find an effective strategy: on both Dust2 and Train Natus Vincere won with the score 16 – 12.