Natus vincere hots5/17/2023 The amount of prize money in 2010– $215,573 (as of November 7, 2010) holds the record for the entire history of professional Counter-Strike. They defeated Polish team Frag eXecutors in the finals: 16:12 (Train) and 16:10 (Dust II). On March 5, 2011, FamousFive defended their position in Hannover as the champions of the Intel Extreme Masters and earned $35,000. The previous record belonged to Swedish team fnatic, who earned $189,000 in 2009 (before that, the record was held by Swedish team SK Gaming with earnings of $183,000 in 2003). starix received the tournament's MVP award.Īfter winning DreamHack Winter, the team established a new record: winning $220,000 in one year. During the four play-off matches the Ukrainians lost only one time to fnatic on the new map – Mirage. After finishing the group stage Na`Vi consistently outplayed teams puta, fnatic, Frag eXecutors and then mTw.dk in the finals, winning the tournament. To go to this tournament, Natus Vincere had to skip a major Russian tournament, ASUS Autumn 2010, since it was coinciding with DreamHack's dates. Victory at DreamHack Winter 2010įrom the 25th to the 27th of November 2010 in the Swedish city of Jönköping, the largest LAN party in the world took place – DreamHack Winter 2010. Among eight participants of the tournament, Na`Vi took 4th place as well as $7,500. In early November 2010, Natus Vincere took part in WEM 2010, which annually gathers the best teams from all over the world in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. At the end of October 2010, ESL TV commentator Bakr "KinGSaicx" Fadl proclaimed that SK Gaming was going to invite the Ukrainian team to take place of its Swedish squad, but the manager of Natus Vincere declined this information. This victory made Na`Vi the first team in the world which had managed to hold the three most prestigious championship titles at once (IEM, ESWC, WCG). On October 4, 2010, Natus Vincere became the World Cyber Games world champions by defeating Danish team mTw.dk in the finals. In the semi-finals, Na`Vi lost to Kazakh team k23 and as a result, took the 3rd place. This tournament became first in the ASUS Open series, which was held at Kyiv gaming centre "Kyiv CyberSport Arena". The next tournament for Na`Vi was ASUS Summer 2010, to which the team received a direct invitation. On August 15, Na`Vi won the Ukrainian qualifications for the World Cyber Games and got a paid voucher to the finals in Los Angeles from September 30 to October 3, 2010. Na`Vi took 3rd place in GameGune 2010 and Intel Extreme Masters Shanghai. After receiving $25,000, Na`Vi took the first place in quantity of prize money earned by European teams that year. On July 18, 2010, Na`Vi won Arbalet Cup Dallas beating Mousesports in the final match: 19:15 (Dust II), 16:12 (Inferno). Īfter being victorious in the world championship, Natus Vincere announced their participation in 2 more tournaments – Arbalet Cup Dallas and GameGune 2010 ( Bilbao). During the tournament Na`Vi passed through the group stage thanks to fortune but outplayed Fnatic and mTw.dk in the playoffs. On July 4, 2010, Natus Vincere achieved the highest accolade in the history of Ukrainian e-Sports, winning the ESWC (which previously hadn't been done by any CIS team), defeating SK Gaming in the finals: 16:5 (Train) and 16:4 (Inferno). In the final part of the ESWC, the team received the highest seeding, along with SK Gaming, Fnatic and mTw.dk. Na`Vi finally gained victory at ESWC Ukraine. In the middle of May 2010, Na`Vi took 2nd place in the prestigious Arbalet Cup Europe 2010 in Stockholm, losing to Fnatic in the finals and earning $10,000 in prize money. After a poor performance at the Arbalet Cup CIS 2010 (4th place), markeloff, the best player on the team, decided to skip the next big tournament, ASUS Winter 2010, so they could prepare for the Arbalet Cup and Ukrainian qualifications for the ESWC.
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