On May 11, the original NAVI lineup played a showmatch against streamers. The event attracted a lot of attention – even before the match started, more than 150,000 people gathered to watch the game online. The maximum number of spectators simultaneously watching the game exceeded 190 thousand, and the average online per match was about 130 thousand.
The game was attended by cyber athletes who were part of Natus Vincere in 2010, and their opponents were famous Russian-speaking streamers. The organizer of the show-match was the FASTCUP platform.
NAVI won with a score of 3:1. They lost to streamers on the Cache map, but then rebounded on Tuscan, Dust2 and Inferno. The last two maps were played in Counter-Strike 1.6.
The match gave the participants and spectators a lot of bright emotions. With the victory, the players of the iconic NAVI squad sang the song «We are the champions»in teamspike . Egor «markeloff» Markeloff thanked all NAVI fans who gathered to watch the stream. He noted that he was very pleased to be able to see so many people.
Once upon a time, it was with this lineup that the history of NAVI began. In 2010, the players scored some big wins, including a successful appearance at the World Cyber Games and the Intel Extreme Masters IV. This squad existed until 2013, and although the players then left for other teams, it is remembered by many as one of the most successful teams in Russian eSports.
