Navi team became the winner of Blast Premier Global Final in CS:GO

Counter-Strike: Global Offensivegiven a magical start to 2021 when Natus Vincere, better known as Navi, played at the Blast Premier Global Final this past weekend. , scored an incredible comeback victory, along with the most watched match in the history of online Counter-Strike tournaments.

In the grand final, NaVi defeated the Danes Astralis with a score of 2:0. For the first place, the team received 600 thousand dollars in prize money.

The path to victory turned out to be very thorny — at the very beginning of the tournament, the Ukrainian team lost to Team Liquid with a score of 0 : 2. Once in the lower bracket, they first beat Complexity (2 : 1), and then went through G2 Esports (2 : 0) without any problems.

In the small final of the lower bracket, NaVi managed to take revenge on the "liquid" with a score of 2 : 0, and in the match for reaching the grand final she met with Vitality (2 : 1). This match, which lasted almost four hours, became the most viewed in the history of online CS:GO and the third most popular during the existence of the discipline (excluding Major) — at its peak, more than 650,000 viewers watched it at the same time.

As a result, NaVi won (19 : 17 — Nuke, 12 : 16 — Overpass, 16 : 10 — Dust2). After an hour's rest, NAVI beat Astralis (2:0) in the decisive match, thus breaking the series of unsuccessful performances in the finals.

The title of the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the BLAST Premier: Global Final CS:GO tournament went to NaVi leader Alexander "s1mple"; Kostylev.