NAVI Junior roster unveiled

21/12/2021 - 12:57

The Ukrainian organization has found four players to join headtr1ck in the new academy team lineup.

Natus Vincere announced in early December that a new cycle was coming for its academy team, NAVI Junior, as the organization put three of its players on the transfer list, Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov, Eugene "⁠Aunkere⁠" Karyat and Rodion "⁠fear⁠" Smyk, while keeping only Daniil "⁠headtr1ck⁠" Valitov on the active roster.

Amiran "⁠aMi⁠" Rehviashvili tested players in a selection process following the announcement to form a new NAVI Junior squad with players from the youngest development phase in the organization, NAVI Youth.

aMi made his selection for the new academy squad

The final selection was comprised of two Russian players, Vlad "⁠latt1kk⁠" Vydrin and Dmitriy "fen2k" Gladskikh, as well as two Ukrainians, Mark "UNBR0KEN" Varakuta and Andrii "nipl" Kukharskyi.

Despite NAVI settling on a new roster for its academy team, recruitment endeavors are ongoing through ROAD TO NAVI, where 13 to 16-year-old players with over 3000 elo on FACEIT are encouraged to apply to try and make the Kyiv-based organization's youth squad.

"I believe that each new generation of players is stronger than the previous one," coach aMi says. "Therefore we have to give the youngsters a chance to present themselves. NAVI Junior has started a new cycle with the newly formed roster.

"Each player who passed the selection gave his best. The guys were fighting for their goal and made numerous efforts. They are talented, hungry for victories and want to prove themselves. But there is a long way of learning and getting to know the world that is new to them — the world of professional esports. We will try to help them become professionals in all aspects."

The new NAVI Junior lineup is:

Daniil "⁠headtr1ck⁠" Valitov
Vlad "⁠latt1kk⁠" Vydrin
Andrii "nipl" Kukharskyi
Mark "UNBR0KEN" Varakuta
Dmitriy "fen2k" Gladskikh

Amiran "⁠aMi⁠" Rehviashvili (coach)

Very cool

2021-12-21 12:57

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glad they finally upgraded

2021-12-21 13:11

Moses coaching Navi junior letsgo

2021-12-21 13:38

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pog

2021-12-21 13:40

wow he does look like moses huh

2021-12-21 21:45

Where bcko?

2021-12-21 12:58

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G2 announcement tomorrow

2021-12-21 13:07

Let's hope that at least one of them will be a strong player in the future

headtr1ck for sure will, latt1k too

2021-12-21 13:00

SO EZ FOR NIPPLE

Let’s see if they can become t2 team. Or at least t3

Tier 10 max

2021-12-21 13:06

Probably. No monesy, so they would be tier million. Still interesting to see

It took 2 years for 1st batch of Navi Junior to become Tier 3 - Tier 2 relevant (with the exception of b1t ofc). so it will be a long road ahead for these new kids in the block.

2021-12-21 18:47

It's not about going t2, main goal is to get players used to something higher than 4000 elo faceit prem

2021-12-22 10:58

better than s0mple's squad

2021-12-21 13:02

2021-12-21 14:41

bad b8 m8 i r8 0/8

2021-12-22 01:17

Bad bait mate I rate 0/8

2021-12-22 14:46

yes

2021-12-22 17:10

damn imagine how competitive shit is over there. Kudos to NAVI for taking this initiative

gl guys

What happened to the "Who is this kid?" that got into navi academy is he one of these in the team coz I dont remember the name. "Who is this kid" that was in natosaphix's stream.

2021-12-21 13:05

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froz1k but he's not in this roster

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yeah him Alright... but was he really good enough?

2021-12-21 13:14

default prem player

2021-12-21 13:15

Alright

2021-12-21 13:16

froz1k is only 13 years old, he is in NAVI academy where they don't play in teams but just learn theory about the game and practice individually. hltv.org/player/21198/froz1k#tab-newsBox

2021-12-21 13:29

I know that But I thought he might be added to their junior roster now... bcoz why not

2021-12-21 14:32

good roster?

fen2k wtf why so expensive

is there any well-known players in the roster? at least some fpl-c stars or something?

2021-12-21 13:10

Nice!

2021-12-21 13:12

noic nicknames xd

2021-12-21 13:17

future g2 players

2021-12-21 13:25

Wonderful better

+1 imagine sold a player for 600k and replace him with someone similiar for free

2021-12-21 14:03

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Isn't he in hellraisers? And if navi asks for a player, the team will make the price 100 times as large as the original price lol

2021-12-21 14:14

he was free agent for like a month before he and his team signed for hellraisers

2021-12-21 14:24

Oh ok yeah makes sense

2021-12-21 14:53

Ami thicc Moses

where's flamie the wonderkid tho?

2021-12-21 13:44

At home watching Forza streams

2021-12-21 13:52

He's sub in NaVi nursery atm

2021-12-21 13:53

Navi Children

2021-12-21 18:16

where is flamie?

2021-12-21 13:47

just tell him to change nickname untill its too late

2021-12-21 13:51

10 lvl faceit mix

2021-12-21 13:54

latt1kk ahaha , racist guy anti china

2021-12-21 13:55

fr?

2021-12-21 14:01

Anti-China? Based

2021-12-21 18:52

who cars

2021-12-22 05:19

gl to boys

i thought junior joined navi and nearly had heartattack

2021-12-21 14:11

Tier10

2021-12-21 14:12

This ami guy seems good in scouting and developing players so let's see. Navi got good structure at least in csgo

2021-12-21 14:15

is 3000 elo in faceit hard to achieve? does that mean lvl 10? I really dont know btw, I havent played cs for 4 years

2000 elo is lv10

2021-12-21 14:52

3000 elo is the threshold for average grinder. it’s impressive for a 13yo kid but translates to tier5 semipro cs. i remember in 2016 if you had 3k it was scary to play against you. now it’s all inflated and seems like every other guy is 3k+

2021-12-21 16:24

understood. thx

2021-12-21 16:56

not hard with high amount of hours and a high quality cheat Esportal or ESEA is different

2021-12-21 16:40

how is ESEA different?

If u reach it while being 13 y o, kinda says u have a future

2021-12-22 11:00

raising kids to sell them to eu orgs, ez money

2021-12-21 14:54

no academy team beats MOUZ NXT tho :D

2021-12-21 14:57

well, MOUZ NXT current players are getting promoted most likely, so they wont be that invincible anymore, unless theyll get more crazy talents

2021-12-21 23:53

LET'S GO BOYS #NAVINATION #NAVIDAVI #BORNTOWIN

2021-12-21 15:14

gl boys

2021-12-21 15:17

From a business perspective, NaVi way is smarter than anyone's. Not impressed that their main lineup is #1.

2021-12-21 15:19

why aunkere is benched?, he might be the new b1t, played for so long in navi junior i think he deserves a chance.

2021-12-21 16:43

Electronic is too good now to be replaced anytime soon

2021-12-21 18:56

but why they benched aunkere?

2021-12-21 18:57

They Didn’t really bench him, they let go of the 4 best players in navi junior and kept the worst, I guess they are selling the players to other teams in some way

2021-12-22 09:01