NAVI crush Falcons with a 12-0 T side and reach the IEM Beijing quarter-finals

NAVI are in the IEM Beijing playoffs, and they got there in style. In the Group A lower bracket final, the team beat Falcons 2-1 with a masterclass on the decider: they went 12-0 on the Terrorist side on Mirage.

From a scare to a masterclass

The match started uphill. Falcons took Ancient 13-11, with kyousuke averaging over 130 damage per round in the first half.

From there, only one team was on the server. NAVI won Inferno 13-4 and on Mirage, the decider, started on offence and strung together twelve straight rounds before closing the map 13-3.

b1t and w0nderful, unstoppable

Valerii "b1t" Vakhovskyi was the best player of the series, with a 1.78 rating and 54 kills to 22 deaths. After the match he put it like this: "We gained so much speed as a team, we were in flow state, everything worked for us."

Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov continues to have a huge event. He finished on a 1.58 rating, 59 kills to 28 deaths, and went 25-4 on Inferno alone.

On the other side, karrigan closed the series on a 0.64, the lowest rating of the match, and Falcons leave Beijing having previously knocked out FaZe and HEROIC.

PARIVISION in the quarter-finals

NAVI, who had lost to FURIA in the upper semi-final and then recovered against B8, now face PARIVISION in the quarter-finals. The match is played early on the morning of Friday 6 November, European time, and the winner meets The MongolZ in the semi-finals.

Source: HLTV, RG.org.