NAVI win Intel Grand Slam Season 3

12/9/2021 - 22:31

The CIS squad has become the third team to win an Intel Grand Slam.

Natus Vincere have closed out another season of the Intel Grand Slam, securing the $1 million cheque after defeating Vitality in the ESL Pro League Season 14 grand final.

Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and company have thus become the third team to be awarded Intel’s gold bars following Astralis and Liquid, the winners of the first two seasons.

The feat has taken Natus Vincere nearly a year-and-a-half since they got the first of four victories at IEM Katowice 2020, the last pre-pandemic LAN event, and was won half online and half on LAN. The other LAN event victory came at IEM Cologne 2021, while the two online events won were DreamHack Masters DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 and ESL Pro League ESL Pro League Season 14.

Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev, who was a part of the NAVI squad that won IEM Katowice 2020, will also get his part of the prize money for the part he played as a member of the team that won that event, with Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy claiming his percentage in the remaining three victories.

The Intel Grand Slam championship run started at IEM Katowice 2020

The third Intel Grand Slam season itself was the longest one to date, lasting 756 days since it began at IEM Chicago 2019. Previously, the title had been conquered in 523 days the first time around, by Astralis, and in an incredibly fast 144 days when Liquid won it, closing out the time between their first and last wins in a staggeringly quick 63 days.

But despite taking the longest, Natus Vincere needed fewer events than Astralis, as the third season lasted 13 events as opposed to the 15 of the first season. Had Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy's men not won at ESL Pro league Season 14, NAVI would have had two more shots at the title.

Part of the reason for this last Intel Grand Slam taking so long could be attributed to the fact that during the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic several events were cancelled and the Intel Grand Slam didn’t resume immediately when Counter-Strike moved online, leaving a large gap between the first six events of the season, the last of which was IEM Katowice 2020, Natus Vincere’s first victory, and its resumption at the IEM Global Challenge in December 2020.

Natus Vincere’s closest contender for the Intel Grand Slam Season 3 title was Gambit, as the Russian squad had two victories and five remaining attempts to chase the award, but Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov and company will have to start along with everyone else when season four kicks off.

The events and winners of Intel Grand Slam Season 3 are:

IEM Chicago 2019 - Liquid
ESL One New York 2019 - Evil Geniuses
DreamHack Masters Malmö 2019 - fnatic
IEM Beijing 2019 - Astralis
ESL Pro League Season 10 - MOUZ
IEM Katowice 2020 - Natus Vincere
IEM Global Challenge 2020 - Astralis
IEM Katowice 2021 - Gambit
ESL Pro League Season 13 - Heroic
DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 - Natus Vincere
IEM Summer 2021 - Gambit
IEM Cologne 2021 - Natus Vincere
ESL Pro League Season 14 Natus Vincere

GG this was great to watch as a neutral. My match MVP is electronic and my tournament MVP is Zywoo.

2021-09-12 22:31

69 replies

how can tournament mvp be zywoo when s1mple even had better stats and won the tournament?

2021-09-12 22:32

44 replies

ZywOo 24 maps played s1mple only 20 thats why he had a bit more stats

2021-09-12 22:38

43 replies

That's not a factor. And it's not s1mple's fault if Navi wins most of their games 2-0, unlike so many 2-1's for Vitality. Also, apply your logic for whole of 2021. It's pretty clear anyway. A bait should be more thought out and believable to make people mad. This was a bad bait xD

2021-09-12 22:43

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yes it is when was the same amont of maps ZywOo was in the lead but he had to play extra maps, lol what bait it just a fact ZywOo leaded the wole tournament when he had the same amount of maps

2021-09-12 22:45

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Yeah, and that's ZywOo's/Vitality's fault, not s1mple's. s1mple didn't ask Vitality to go 2nd in groups and play a whole extra match. Regardless, s1mple is higher rated than ZywOo in literally every single category in this event, and won the event on top of it. So, there's no question here.

2021-09-12 22:48

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2021-09-13 21:38

use "." and "," ffs, it's unreadable...

2021-09-18 17:06

He even wrote that zywoo is HIS MVP. Is having an opinion a bait nowadays?

2021-09-12 22:46

8 replies

Opinion is fine to have, but the reasoning given here, is totally flawed. And therefore, if he tries to justify it using THAT reasoning, it is a bait :)

2021-09-12 22:50

7 replies

but it's true, usually more maps = worse rating. I wouldn't say it's a fact like he said but it's surely no where unrealistic and flawed.

2021-09-12 22:56

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#126

2021-09-12 23:05

Usually true but not necessarily works like that for players like zywoo and s1mple, for them more maps means more chances to improve rating as they extremely rarely end series with less than 1.2

2021-09-13 02:30

What can u expect from s1mple haters?? They are not even zywoo fans. They just bandwagon on anyone who rivals simple.

2021-09-12 23:07

+1 but s1mple said he needs new haters, so it's fine :)

2021-09-13 10:20

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Lol

2021-09-13 19:51

+1 makes sense

2021-09-12 23:58

Amen. The guy above want simple to be punished for Navi`s better results. LOL what kind of logic is that? Simple actually deserves even more the MPV as his performance helped achieve many if not all games that ended 2-0 in favour of NaVi.

2021-09-12 23:16

+1 Name & flag checks out.

2021-09-13 05:04

good baits are unknown

2021-09-13 10:59

closing series faster because of his performance means s1mple's stats should be ignored for having 4 less maps played? kekw

Because of is performance ?? ZywOo leaded the wole tournament stats and with more mapas played S1mple only passed zywoo in the game against heroic

2021-09-12 22:47

Again so you are saying s1mple PULLED AHEAD?

2021-09-12 22:52

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because Vitality won an EAZY 2-0 against OG and ZywOo did not have to carry everyone was rushing and stealling ZywOo frags wille he was just resting a bit of carrying bots

2021-09-12 22:55

this comment does not make sense brother, just face it s1mple played better this tournament.

2021-09-12 23:06

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Did you even read ... ??? I sayd ZywOo leaded the Wole tournament in stats ... S1mple had to play because heroic game was close... ZywOo did not and is hard to rush for ez frags when the game is done with the awp than rifle xp Apex and the others were so happy faming stats in a done game

2021-09-12 23:11

this argument is crazy in my opinion brother. just because you win ez does not mean you don't have to play good... s1mple had many games winning ez games this tournament but he still performed

2021-09-12 23:12

lmao didnt zywoo had the highest rating against OG. 😂

2021-09-13 03:48

lmao 0IQ logic

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kkkkk ZywOo leaded the wole tournament even with more maps played s1mple only passed him on the game against heroic .... because Vitality won an EAZY 2-0 against OG and ZywOo did not have to carry... and more maps more chance of having worst stats and more stretched are your stats its just math

2021-09-12 22:53

enjoy low iq kid hltv.org/news/32368/s1mple-claims-third-..

2021-09-12 22:57

fake flag an portuguese cant be that stupid

2021-09-12 22:58

+1 646 474 4379 Viber I can meet you right now at Lisbon, MEM MARTINS and spit in your face little pus**

2021-09-12 23:01

nt fake flag trying to make portugueses stupid on internacional forums..... not today... go change the flag

2021-09-12 23:03

expected from tuga puss* rekt

2021-09-12 23:04

see fake flag exposed tugas are poor but not stupid

little kid is afraid , EXPECTED

> and more maps more chance of having worst stats and more stretched are your stats its just math that doesn't make any sense, especially not when it's about s1mple or zywoo getting MORE MAPs to be able to IMPROVE their rating by farming kills lmao s1mple's 20 maps with higher rating is >>> zywoo's 24 maps with lower rating lmao

2021-09-13 10:23

Well maybe if you give s1mple 4 more maps he would have even better stats, so your argument is a bit flawed. If it would be any other player he would probably have worse stats but s1mple is different.

IF you saw the OG VS VITALITY GAME them you have your answer ... It was an EZ GAME Vitality destroyed them so ZywOo did have to do anything ... he just rest wile the rest of the team was rushing to still is frags... if Vitality had a decent oponent ZywOo had keep is lead in stats with more maps played.... s1mple only passed zywoo on that game becaus vitality game was ez and heroic game was more closed

2021-09-12 23:08

"didnt have to do anything" why did he even play then? they could have played with coach and let zywoo rest for the finals? s1mple had better stats regarding basically all stats this tournament not just rating 2.0.

2021-09-12 23:10

So when you win 2-1 instead of 2-0 it is better. Hahaha what is that logic?

2021-09-12 23:27

stupid logic

2021-09-13 05:09

'neutral'

NeUTrAl

2021-09-13 00:00

I respect your opinion but that's straight up not objective

reported

Did you even watch the event?

You seem to live for hatred lol Get a life.

2021-09-12 22:33

Jerman hating on s1mple, nothing new kkkkkk

Why jermans always first at everything?

hahaha neutral report

2021-09-12 22:35

lmao, cry is free 😂

2021-09-12 22:36

S1mple better stats and won. So shut up. Electronic might be the mvp of the final match but debatable

2021-09-12 22:39

very neutral

zywoo MVP? xaxaxaxa

2021-09-12 23:28

I knew u definetely would be on this thread

2021-09-13 04:21

seems like a not-so-neutral take...

2021-09-12 23:33

u don't know nothing about cs, just move to lineage. How u call zywoo MVP or electronic. For me was b1t

2021-09-13 00:57

Reasonable

2021-09-13 01:41

-1/8

2021-09-13 02:03

Bait was bad and cringe unfortunately, as all your other insecure baits

2021-09-13 04:05

Zywoo tournament MVP, what? it's 1.35 for s1mple vs 1.31 for Zywoo and s1mple even played 4 less maps than Zywoo, while Zywoo was stat-padding with those 4 maps

2021-09-13 10:18

i haven't watched it, because my boyz are out :-()

2021-09-13 12:00

jermans

2021-09-16 10:27

I randomly clicked on the home screen and was sent here on mobile

2021-09-25 11:43

me to brother me too

2021-09-25 15:54

s1mple too stronk

I was here #GOATS1mple

🔥🔥🔥👌damn true

2021-09-13 07:36

EZ FOR GOAT S1MPLE AND NAVI

+1 but NAVI AND GOAT SIMPLE rolls off the tongue better imo

2021-09-12 22:41

Is NaVi era around the corner?

If they can win major then i would say it an era

They won blast finals, dreamhack, cologne and now EPL. If not for gambit this year would have been Navi era, but winning the Major would absolutely solidify it

2021-09-12 22:42

But we have to admit and as Maniac said that Gambit is probably the best thing happened to NaVi as it has pushed NaVi to much greater heights. Old NaVi of flamie would have lost in the Semis

+1 true

2021-09-25 15:55

they also won one of the CIS RMRs and Blast Spring Groups

2021-09-13 10:29

Let's hope they can do it. Liquid couldn't "solidify" their own era at Berlin major, which was pretty dramatic, got cancelled by Astralis in the quarter-finals. But I have more faith in NaVi.

2021-09-13 12:27

Will flamie get his piece of cake bcs he took part in Kato 2020 ?

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yeah he gets 50k b1t gets 150k

aight, thx

2021-09-12 22:34

Please no, that bot already scammed Navi by being in the squad for years

14 replies

pay some respect to guy who beat astralis on nuke

Lmao shut up, flamie is a paycheck stealer

2021-09-12 22:40

Delusional, booo

2021-09-13 00:01

Who? You? Yeah sure

2021-09-13 00:02

He is indian , he doesn't know about respect

2021-09-13 00:18

2021-09-13 03:42

he is right

2021-09-13 04:27

+1 flamie deserves respect. he did well for a long time and i'm sure he's still very appreciated by the whole team for his efforts and is genuinely a very nice guy

2021-09-13 10:30

Flamie carried s1mple in majors

2021-09-12 22:37

Where 😂

hltv.org/matches/2318626/natus-vincere-v..

Navi would have won that even without bot flamie

holy shit wtf flamie almost 40-8 in regulation 2.99 rating omg ??? didn't follow cs back then, gotta rewatch that glory

2021-09-13 10:37

so how many they have won?

2021-09-13 00:31

niice

ez pgl

True

2021-09-13 00:16

Deserved for Na'Vi team <3 s1mple - GOAT Now go get that Major

+1 <3

2021-09-12 23:09

+111 <3

2021-09-13 13:55

NAVI ERA IS HERE POGGERS

I arent think that

EZ MONEY FOR MY BOY BIT LESGOOOOO

ezzz

GG very deserved

EZ4OG

GG! Well deserved by NaVi. Now lets see them grab that Major trophy!

great match !

GG NAVI AND VITALITY!

Well deserved 4 navi and especially s1mple

SO EZ

Ez loot congratz

when season 4?

After a team wins 4 ESL/IEM/dreamhack tournaments, like NA'VI now, the season ends and the new one starts with the next ESL tournament: Intel Extreme Masters XVI - Fall

2021-09-12 23:15

kk thx gambit now win winter, kato, dhm and epl and get season 4 also, iem fall doesn't count as grand slam because it's not international

2021-09-12 23:24

>Gambot >winning on LANs KEKW

2021-09-13 11:54

thiis is the strongest rendition of NaVI we`ve ever seen , they arent reliant on Simple putting monstrous numbers to carry them. Deserved , they keep this form and they are gonna be a contender for Major too

pog

fucking pog

best team and best player

Not a fan of the way this grand slam went, but Navi definitely deserved it. Legendary Org with a legendary achievement! GGWP

Rip zywoo wiff on Mirage :(

online grand slam LMAO undeserved... should never happen. what a shame

navi gets 1 mil you get anger issues

Lmao +1 rekt

2021-09-13 02:32

+1 kekw

2021-09-13 05:12

+1 LULW

2021-09-13 10:51

+1 brutal

2021-09-13 13:56

+1 plastic ring

2021-09-12 23:13

it was 2 big events on LAN and if the others were on LAN, they would have gotten them as well, because NaVi is #1 LAN team stupid hater

2021-09-13 10:39

2021-09-13 14:35

Sadly, that win wasn't on LAN with crowd cheering and golden bricks presenting. Probably this win is even harder, considering online factor, but still without that special atmosphere.

DESERVED EZ S1MPLE GOD

Congrats to MVP s1mple

Wp wp navi it was really close for vita

Yeah thanks to Apex for being a bot xD

Yea a lot of mistakes...

wdym close, not a single OT

2021-09-13 00:32

AS a neutral, final mvp is s1mple, tournament mvp is s1mple EVP are: electronic b1t perfecto shox refresh

french forgot zywoo as evp i found a fakeflagger

2021-09-13 00:33

you are not neutral, you acknowledge facts

2021-09-13 04:28

deserved

good job, now only major left.....

EZ 4 GOAT S1MPLE Finals MVP: electronic Tournament MVP: s1mple Tournament EVPs: ZywOo KSCERATO sh1ro refrezh hades

sh1ro Dog hades wutface

2021-09-13 02:31

hades had a 1.21 rating with 1.17 impact across the event while being a quarter-finalist

2021-09-13 02:37

s1mple top1 is definitely confirmed. Not his best final, but his consistency, status & hes winning ALOT this year just settles it tbh. Deserved.

It was confirmed long time ago

yeah not even a debate .. Vitality finally make a playoff appearance after like 8 months, would be surprised if Zywoo even comes close to #3

2021-09-13 10:41

#NAVINATION WE ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice s1mple Vincere

Amazing #NAVINATION

Good game for Vitality and thank u for great grand final vs navi I hope vitality can back more stronger keep it up boys Congrats for my boys NaVi for the IGS title u guys already make history.. Next target is major cmon this is your time s1mple and co #NAVINATION 🔥🔥

Also simple is the first player in cis , who won a million dollars

NAVI DAVI!

EZ FOR NAVI

Gambit robbed

Cry

can't be robbed if you don't even contend for the title

Now go win major

Now they should go and win the major

#204

2021-09-13 06:27

when will s4 start?

I think Zywoo was the match MVP but S1mple tournament MVP.

You cannot be the match MVP if your team lost, considering close statistics. And considering the very last kill of the game. It says it all who is the MVP.

2021-09-15 16:47

GGWP NaVi and s1mple. Well deserved. Now, only noteworthy thing left for them to win, is the ever-so-elusive major title. If anything, s1mple deserves it more than anyone else. What an absolute beast.

CIS are too good for the world to be able handle! Billions of people had watched the match live all over the planet and the expected team won it with no surprise. Expected from the best, congratz!

No, Navi is. VP is trash, Gambit is trash, Spirit is trash

Child, pls study the facts before posting nonsense, cis teams have been at the top most of the time gambit/spirit//vp/forze etc were and some of them are are top 20 teams with some of them constantly being in top 10, so cmmon my little child, calm down, and no need to be upset, cis could beat anyone on a given day where as your liquid cant win a 5v1, actually id be upset as well if i was a fallen fan :) but u ll be fine one day, no stress, stay positive, life is good, wooooohoooooo gg bb :D

2021-09-13 13:43

All these teams were only at the top because of Online, with the exception of Navi, and you come calling me a kid?

2021-09-13 17:34

If you were serious, you wouldn't even mention Virtus.pro, Spirit, Gambit, Forze, all the failed online teams. And Navi won't beat the major.

2021-09-13 17:36

NAVI!!!!!!!!

We all know Zywoo is a better player than S1mple but S1mple has a better team even he doesn’t frag he has B1t perfecto and electronic,Zywoo is playing with an IGL who has angry issues and can’t control his emotions,an inconsistent players like Kyojin and Shox only Missutaaa is doing a little bit better. So Vitality should kick apex and shox to take IGL role and bring in Nivera as a second Awp

Deserved, gz

flamie gets nice $50k at least, s1mple helping out old friend.

Flamie should pay compensations for NaVi for all stolen paychecks

he is nearly out of the team completely, that will do..

Are you serious?

pay some respect to Flamie man, he carried the team in the past and is surely still a loved member of the team / NaVi family. It's basically all family he has

2021-09-13 10:47

gg NAVI Insane last map, hope you win the major this year

k1ng$

Congrats for NaVi. Really intense last map but you did that!! Next goal is winning major!!!!

What a great grand finale! Congrats to NAVI and kudos to Vitality for making it such a close affair down to the 5th map. Entertaining CS all around.

if NaVi has a place for the Blast final part, then maybe they will be removed from BLAST Fall Groups?

2021-09-12 22:51

GOATED

I WAS HERE

goat debate finally over.. god s1mple have my babies

13-12 lose to force , last round 3v5 and gg. ZywOo deserve better teammates.

Everyone was tired af. Navi lose bo5s in past as well because of that.

2021-09-13 05:00

Undeserved that’s all I have to say

2021-09-12 22:59

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How are you a liquid fan and says undeserved for a rather well played navi team?? Unless of course you're baiting!! Expect much better from my countrymen.

online CS /closed

2021-09-13 10:56

2021-09-13 19:50

Liquid flair so insecure someone else got the only thing you can be proud of? maybe one day you will grow up and respect the best team and the GOAT.

2021-09-12 23:21

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2021-09-13 06:20

online cs /closed

2021-09-13 10:57

Not even gonna argue with you since you are either crying or baiting. navi got 1 million and the only thing you got going for you is hatred. enjoy your life!

2021-09-13 11:03

navi has 0 respect from anyone

2021-09-13 11:14

0 IQ that's all I have to say to you

#233

wanna know who won the last two big LANs back to back? hint: it was not Shitquid

2021-09-13 11:07

last two big LANs includes a LAN that happened literally 2.5 years ago, but okay

2021-09-13 11:13

and who exactly gives a shit? it only means that the GOAT team is still consistently good and won and Shitquid sucked ass

2021-09-13 11:17

if "shitquid" is all you can come up with then it's clear that i won the argument and you are just salty that NAVI was never ever better than Liquid in the history of CS and there's no argument supporting s1mple being the GOAT (no major, less top 1 than zywoo, etc.)

2021-09-13 11:53

lmao NaVi was always and still is miles ahead of lulquid lmao

2021-09-14 00:07

Doubtful, Navi no major either

2021-09-14 01:55

NaVi gods

nope

Hes right I confirm.

2021-09-13 05:01

So fking happy. Navi did it. S1mple IGS winner finally. Now just need a major. Go get it GOAT

2021-09-12 23:14

S1mple is sick player. NaVi won the IGS. Foook Yeah.

2021-09-12 23:17

SO EZ HOUSE FOR BIT

2021-09-12 23:19

major next? PauseChamp

2021-09-12 23:23

Congratz for navi so happy for them))) they won kato/cologne/epl/dhm/blast world finals and now the FUCKING GRAND SLAM!! nothing but a major left and hopefully they got that in oct))) gg vitality insane match and zywoo so fucking scary man, last map 16-14 win says it all. ))

congratulations!

electronic was 20-6 with a 2.09 rating on the CT side of de_mirage

2021-09-12 23:29

congratz Na'Vi -) b1t333 was worth signing

2021-09-12 23:54

Cya on pgl finals Navi

gg best team and best player

2021-09-13 00:25

2021-09-13 21:44

s1mple and electronic deserved this so much

NAVI playing the best CS atm they deserve more maybe even the upcoming major why not if they continue like this

2021-09-13 00:40

Tbh they played pretty badly

2021-09-13 00:51

It was tight and you couldn't expect from them to win easily against such team as Vitality both teams throwed rounds they were under the pressure and fear you could tell man

2021-09-13 01:04

Yeah but they still beat every other team they met other than Big

2021-09-13 03:39

flair

2021-09-13 21:45

navi were the better team, zywoo the best player in this match alone, simple best performer throughout the tournament... apex always malding

2021-09-13 01:07

respect to zywoo still being the best player while having to deal with apex malding all the time

2021-09-15 10:44

Congratz!

2021-09-13 02:27

DreamHack Masters DreamHack Masters Spring DreamHack Masters DreamHack Masters Spring 2021

2021-09-13 03:27

GG! Nice to see shox a.k.a. "The butterfly" in an amazing form ...

2021-09-13 04:20

I hope they dont lose motivation lol. Is it possible to win 2 grand slams in a row?

2021-09-13 05:15

2021-09-13 06:21

Not even the best team in cs go Astralis history could do that, why would Navi do it?

2021-09-13 06:22

To change history and become the new best team in Cs go history?

2021-09-13 10:13

because NaVi has a higher ceiling than Astralis .. look where Astralis are now lmao

2021-09-13 10:50

cause astralis was lucky, even ecolai said it

2021-09-29 20:12

When was the only one of my friends and acquaintances who believed in Natus Vincere

2021-09-13 05:37

Deserved, congratz

2021-09-13 06:06

I'll leave it marked here, to state: Navi won't win the major.

2021-09-13 06:24

When Intel Grand Slam was announced every other thought that this is impossible for any team and now we have three teams winning it NAVI has truly cemented their dominance they need to win the major to solidify their era

2021-09-13 06:31

What a comeback for grand slam. We are the best team in the world! #NAVINATION #NAVIDAVI #BORNTOWIN

2021-09-13 07:42

Happy that smple will be able to afford another porsche

2021-09-13 07:50

onliners

2021-09-13 10:03