In Eastern Europe, the first week of competitions within the first division continues. NaVi and Team Spirit were honored to open the second gaming day of the competition.
The yellow-blacks have already managed to play within the top division. As expected, their match ended with an extravaganza and three cards.
NaVi, despite constant reshuffling in an attempt to find the best option for a stable game, play the same way. Unclear, not disciplined.
Team Spirit will make their debut in the league in the match against the “born to win”. They will play their first DPC match, but not the season as a whole.
Let's figure out if NaVi will be able to spoil the debut for the “dragons” and take the first victory from them.
Team Spirit Uniform
Let's start the review of the duel with an analysis of the form of Team Spirit. They are in this match in the status of a favorite, who would have thought.
The bookies are confident in Spirit's victory. The coefficient for such an outcome is around 1.1.
Of course, Spirit will be in the status of a favorite. It's not even about NaVi, who flooded the series after a confident start, but about Team Spirit themselves, who went through the transfer window well and have already managed to gain gaming experience in the new year.
Team Spirit roster
By "well past the transfer window" refers to permutations in the composition. More precisely, the result of these permutations, which was already noticeable.
Team Spirit Players
- Yatoro
- Larl
- collapse
- Mira
- Miposhka
Team Spirit's newcomer is Larl, who previously played for BetBoom. According to the management of the “dragons”, Larl immediately approached the team and, in fact, no one was considered except for his candidacy.
The player managed to pass the baptism of fire. He played for Team Spirit at the BB Xmas Show, showing a good performance there.
Team Spirit Performance
Team Spirit played within the first division of Eastern Europe. There they outperformed all their counterparts at regular intervals.
In the first round of the DPC 2021/2022 EEU - Division 1 Team Spirit took first place, to then take second place at the DPC EEU 2021/2022 Tour 2: Division 1: Playoff. In between draws, Spirit took 4th place at GAMERS GALAXY: Invitational Dubai 2022.
In the middle of the year, Spirit visited the first major of the season - ESL One Stockholm 2022. There, Team Spirit took 9-12th place, which did not quite synergize with regional tournaments.
In the third season of the DPC EEU 2021/2022 Tour 3: Division 1. The decline has already begun, but Spirit quickly returned to service: 2nd place at the Riyadh Masters 2022 and a victory at PGL Arlington Major 2022 made Spirit one of the main favorites of the upcoming The International 2022.
The tournament itself turned out to be a total disappointment for the Dragons. Last year's champions flew to the TOP-16.
Before the start of DPC 2023, Team Spirit played BB Xmas Show. At the BB Xmas Show, Team Spirit reached the grand final almost without any problems, but lost in the decisive confrontation. Lost in the fight, with a score of 2-3.
Heroes Team Spirit
The most frequent guest of Team Spirit picks are Rubick, Pangolier and Tiny. Characters appeared in 8 games, while winning 62% of the time.
Centaur is also extremely successful (7 games, 100% win rate), Enchantress appeared in 6 matches and won 5 of them, Clockwerk was picked 6 times with a win rate of 66%.
Form NAVI
We continue the analysis by looking at NaVi's form. They will appear in the role of catching up in this match.
The bookmakers are categorical in relation to Natus Vincere in this match. For the victory of the Ukrainian club, they give a coefficient in the region of 5.
This figure indicates a significant gap in the game plan. There is one, and it is due to both the reshuffles in the transfer window and NaVi's game itself.
NAVI roster
This season, NAVI decided to move away from the methodology of building a roster around a conditional authority and give way to the “young”. A noble decision, but whether it will work in the long run is still a question.
NAVI players
- V tune
- Nicky'Cool
- laise
- sweden strong
- Malady
Nicky`Cool and Malady became newcomers to Natus Vincere. The Kazakh duo will try to refresh the ossified division of the yellow-blacks in Dota 2.
In the first series, in general, the newcomers looked good, but V-Tune came into play. On two lost maps, NaVi's carry made dubious moves, which led to the defeat. An important role was to be played by the absence of an experienced captain.
NaVi results
Since NaVi managed to keep the backbone, let's remember for what merits V-Tune, laise and Swedenstrong remained in the top Eastern European club.
NaVi played in the first division of Eastern Europe last season, where they showed “mixed” results. In the first season, the team finished in 5th place, after which they took 6th place in the regional finals.
Then there was a more successful performance in the second round of the DPC, followed by the TOP-2, and this was followed by the PGL Arlington Major 2022. At the only major tournament for the “yellow-blacks”, the TOP-14 also ended at the group stage.
Before the DPC, the team played in the qualifiers for The International, where they took TOP-3 and went to the Last Chance Qualifier. Already at the last chance tournament, the team took TOP-8.
Within the DPC itself, Darksiders became NaVi's first principal rival. The meeting with former players SoNNeiKo, RodjER, Ramzes was not crowned with success for the “yellow-blacks”. NaVi lost in heavy b3.
Heroes NaVi
In patch 7.32, NaVi picked Clockwerk (7 matches, 57% win rate), Drow Ranger (6 matches, 83% win rate), Primal Beast (6 games, 66% win rate), Ember Spirit (6 matches, 66% win rate) most often.
History of personal confrontations
Although the teams played earlier in the last season, the last reshuffle made too global changes in the team building. In the new lineups, the duel between Spirit and NaVi will be the debut.
Match outcome
Spirit in this duel should win, and easily. The team hasn't changed the roster, having only slightly refreshed it, has already won this season and has a stable team structure.
Spirit has a clear understanding of who is the captain, who takes the call on the game, who picks and so on. There are no complaints about the game as part of the BB Xmas Show.
The first series of Spirit will be closed with a score of 2-0.
Outcome: Spirit's victory with a score of 2-0.
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