On March 19, Natus Vincere suffered their second consecutive defeat in the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 11. The meeting with the BIG team ended with a score of 0-2. Most NAVI players showed not too good statistics: only team captain Alexander «s1mple» Kostylev achieved a positive ratio of kills to deaths. His +45 was the best score of the match. In second place – is BIG player Johannes «tabseN» Wodarz, whose KD is only +11. Despite the 54 frags that Kostylev managed to make on the Dust2map, BIG won by a small margin (20:22). On the second map NAVI showed themselves even less convincing.
s1mple himself commented on the failure, calling it the main reason for the poor performance of the whole team, including himself. From his tweet, we can infer that one of the problems was the inability to play while having the whole team in one place. There were no problems with ping, unlike the game against Notrh. However, the players made several mistakes that led to the defeat.
The next game for NAVI will be a match against forZe, which will be held on March 21. Now Natus Vincere occupy the last place in the group, but they still have a chance to turn the situation around and qualify for the next stage.
