NAVI beat BIG by the exact same score as two days ago

The match was part of the BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2024 lower grid finals, where NAVI fell after losing a tight game against Liquid.

Interesting Facts

After the match ended, spectators picked up on the fact that the match ended with an identical score as the last match, right down to the number of rounds won on the cards. The only difference is that in the first NAVI match on Mirage, in the first half they took 9 rounds for offense, while this time it was done for defense.

This happens once in a few million, there was no such moment in the history of CS, which has become legendary. It's clear that no one intentionally wanted to do that, but it's pretty cool to get.

Match Details

The first map of the match was the same Dust 2, a BIG choice that ended 13-7 in favor of NAVI. Which saw an incredible moment from Justinas "jL" Lekavičius, where he made 4 kills with a revolver.

The second map was Mirage, which unlike the first match went with a small difference, NAVI managed to finish the half 9-3 for defense, while in the first match it was done for attack. On Mirage all NAVI players showed a good game, but the best performance came from Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov and Mihai "iM" Ivan, who finished the map with ratings of 8.6 and 8.3 respectively.

All NAVI players had a great game and the average team rating for the match was 6.9, which is good enough. In turn for BIG , the average team rating was 5.1.

Conclusion

Thanks to the win, NAVI advanced to the Group D finals, where they will play Liquid again. Who lost in the final of the top net to them in a tight battle with the score 1-2. This will be the second meeting for the team and it will be a great occasion to take revenge for them. BIG in turn took 9-12th place and earned $8,500.