May 11 legendary squad Natus vincere times Counter-Strike 1.6 will meet again, albeit only for one match. Old men will be able to nostalgia and “roll two stoparks for Marik,” and young people will be able to get acquainted with those whose configs and scope settings were requested ten years ago. Cybersport.ru recalls the main facts about the three-time world champions of 2010.
Thanks to this composition, the organization Natus Vincere. With the Counter-Strike roster, not even the history of NAVI in the discipline began, but the history of NAVI as a whole. Initially, the team was called Arbalet.UA, then, under the impression of the movie “Avatar”, the Kharkov duet Zeus and Edward invented the NAVI tag, and then organized a contest for the most original decoding of the abbreviation – a Portuguese fan suggested a Latin phrase – Natus Vincere.
Founded the team starix. Although, rather, you need to thank him rather than Murat Arbalet Zhumashevich, a Kazakhstani philanthropist and CS fan who suggested starix to collect a Ukrainian roster:
“[После одного из чемпионатов] I was approached by a man who was engaged in its organization, gave the phone and said that the boss wants to talk to me. I picked up the phone and heard the Crossbow’s voice: “Hello starix, I want to offer you to create a Ukrainian team with Ukrainian players.” I was a little lost in space and did not really understand what was happening. He told me something for a long time, but I did not hear anything. “
Ceh9 might not be in the gold line-up. Trinozhenko, who then played under the nickname esenin, was not originally a candidate for the team: they wanted to take Valentina valentiNich Kravchenko, but he refused and missed, perhaps the main opportunity in his life.
The team has made incredible strides. The most important achievement of that roster was winning three majors in 2010, including the prestigious World Cyber Games. At the end of the year, four team members entered the top 20 of the HLTV.org rating, and markeloff, brilliantly performing all year, became the best player in the world.
In the first year, the team earned more than $ 200 thousand in prize money – crazy for those times money for e-sports. The largest prize for first place at that time was $ 50 thousand – their NAVI received for winning Intel Extreme Masters IV, where in the final they dealt with Fnaticadvocated at the time f0rest and GeT_RiGhT.
The composition played without replacements until 2013. Everything ended when the CIS wanted to create a new supercomposition – under the wing of the organization Astana Dragons. She immediately lured the players of the two strongest teams of the region at that time – NAVI and Virtus.pro. The star team completely failed – Edward, for example, left it after four months. Here’s how he spoke about that time ANGE1:
“It’s my fault that Astana Dragons failed because we played in the style we are used to in Virtus.pro. We did not grow. Our style did not work against teams that developed rapidly. We put too much emphasis on individual craftsmanship, and I worked many times less than now. Perhaps this was my biggest mistake in my career. The problem was that we had great expectations. The results were mixed – not bad, but not enough for such a roster. It was a star cast, we had to win on the move. I should have approached the game differently. Now I understand that perfectly. I think it comes with experience. “
After the story with Astana Dragons, markeloff’s career declined. The world’s once best sniper subsequently played Hellraisers and DaT Teambut did not achieve much success with them. At sunset, Markeloff’s career was “dusting” in FlipSid3 Tacticswhere I was no longer a sniper. He stopped speaking in 2018: since then they wrote about him in the gaming press only in connection with the scandal with unpaid salaries.
Of all the participants in the gold roster, only starix continues to play. It seems that 32-year-old Ischuk gained a second youth. In 2013, he was the first to leave the NAVI roster to become a team coach. And he did great, but in 2016, Valve forbade mentors to communicate with the team during the rounds: largely because of this, Seeker eventually had to leave the club. Now starix stands for 1WIN, but the team so far looks weak even against the background of tier-3 teams.
Zeus stayed the longest in the organization: he gave the club nearly ten years. With different NAVI rosters, Teslenko reached the majors finals twice, but became a champion not with his native team, but with Gambit esports.
NAVI 2010 roster members have not performed together for almost seven years. The last official match held together, they lost: the team lost to the mix Nostalgie (with kennyS and Taz) at the Prague Challenge.
A streamer team will play in the show match against NAVI 2010. The match will be held until three victories, the start is scheduled for 16:00 CEST (15:00 Moscow time). Stream will pass here.
