Na`Vi win ELEAGUE Group E

The fifth week of televised finals at Turner's $1.4 million ELEAGUE tournament was a CIS showdown between Natus Vincere and FlipSid3, with the latter team surprisingly bringing down second seed MOUZ in the Thursday semifinals.

It was Na`Vi who took the CT pistolround on their map pick, Train, and used this momentum to move forward to 4-0 following successful defending on their anti-ecos and the first gunround.

The fifth round saw FlipSid3 captain Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy pick up two kills in an afterplant two-versus-two to finally net the Ukrainian-Russian-Finn team their first round on the T-side. With solid AWPing from Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin leading the way, FlipSid3 powered forward to a 5-4 lead before a quad kill from Na`Vi captain Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko equalised the score.

The Na`Vi defenders managed to completely close out the following two rounds without dropping a man and, despite FlipSid3 picking up one more T-side round, it was Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin & co. who finished the first half with a 9-6 lead.

The second pistolround saw Jan "⁠wayLander⁠" Rahkonen and B1ad3 split two and three frags apiece to shut down a Na`Vi execute. On the first gunround however, it was seized and Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev who teamed up to pick up two AK47 kills each and move Na`Vi to a 10-9 lead.

From this point onwards on Train, Na`Vi always held the lead, and despite strong efforts from WorldEdit and his team to defend against the elite level team's takes, it was Na`Vi who closed out the map 16-13.

Fans of good Counter-Strike who were expecting a strong effort from FlipSid3 on the T-side of their map pick of Mirage were disappointed on the following map as the first half right away saw Na`Vi jump out the gate with a domineering CT side. With Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev and flamie leading the assault for their team, Na`Vi went up to a 13-0 lead on their CT side.

The final two rounds of the first half did see a wayLander led effort help FlipSid3 pocket two rounds to end the half 13-2 for Na`Vi. The second pistolround saw Edward get a triple kill to power his team to a seemingly insurmountable 14-2 lead and in the end Na`Vi were able to close out the second map 16-2.

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Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie	46 - 29	+17	104.8	1.45
Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward	40 - 26	+14	84.6	1.35
Denis 'seized' Kostinseized	34 - 26	+8	88.8	1.27
Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus	31 - 22	+9	68.7	1.16
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsGuardiaN	31 - 24	+7	74.0	1.11

FlipSid3	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinWorldEdit	36 - 33	+3	73.9	1.05
Jan 'wayLander' RahkonenwayLander	31 - 38	-7	82.6	0.96
Oleksandr 'Shara' HordieyevShara	20 - 37	-17	50.6	0.64
Andrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyB1ad3	20 - 38	-18	56.4	0.63
Yegor 'markeloff' Markelovmarkeloff	20 - 36	-16	45.5	0.60

Next week we will see the final group stage week of ELEAGUE, Group F, in which Virtus.pro, Envy, Gambit, and Complexity will be competing.

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