Aleksib's team will have the chance to win their fourth trophy of 2024 this Sunday.

NAVI advanced to the finals at the Forum

Natus Vincere came back from losing a map to defeat FaZe with a score of 2-1, winning a ticket to the championship match of the BLAST Premier Fall Final, continuing their streak of appearing in the finals from the tournament. Spring Final in London.

The first two maps of the series are not for the faint of heart, and it could very well have ended 2-0 for either team. FaZe took the lead after claiming a close win on the Inferno map, taking advantage of their opponents' indecision and spirit. NAVI then won a close 13-11 victory on the Ancient map before destroying FaZe on the Anubis map.

In the final, Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen's team will face G2 – a rematch of the upper bracket final of Group A, where NAVI won 2-0.

"We're very confident," Aleksib told James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks in the post-match interview. "We won the EPL, and came here trying to fix the mistakes we made in the EPL and improve. Now we're in the final again. The whole team wants to play and win tomorrow. Then , we will have a few days off."

The series began on the Inferno map, where Natus Vincere largely dominated the first half. FaZe won the pistol round and won three more rounds after that, but they struggled to find a rhythm for the rest of the half, as Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy led NAVI to an 8-4 score with five shots. multi-kill, 11 headshots and ADR 109.

NAVI continued to increase its advantage by winning the clean pistol and quickly reaching double digits. It seemed like the game was out of reach for FaZe, but they took advantage of NAVI's hesitation in zone B to take the first round of the second half.

FaZe players grew more confident with each round victory, while NAVI seemed scared to act, even in favorable situations. Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard's 1v2 clutch and the waste of the 4v3 advantage due to a wrong decision - causing coach Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy to just shake his head in frustration - showed that NAVI had fallen into a deadlock how. FaZe completed the victory with a series of 9 consecutive rounds, with Helvijs "⁠broky⁠" Saukants ending the match with a beautiful quad kill.

"We kind of laughed about it," Aleksib said after the game. "We lost four favorable situations. We fought back and forth, there was a communication error, we thought no one was in A, but broky was in boiler. 1on2 situation with rain, then 2on2 in zone B area.

"Many rounds we could have won and put the opponent in a financial crisis. But sometimes CS is like that. The good thing is we have our map pick next, and we are confident we can turn it around." situation, and also has the Anubis map as the third map."

FaZe carried their winning momentum into the Ancient map, opening with a score of 5-1 on the CT side. They then made a mistake in the anti-eco round, giving NAVI a chance to get back into the match, but quickly regained their spirit and ended the first half with a score of 8-4.

Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's team maintained the pressure and increased the gap to 10-4, but the flow of the match changed when Natus Vincere had enough money to buy guns. They attacked strongly and went through a dominant period, eventually winning the final round with a stunning clutch from Ihor "⁠w0nderful⁠" Zhdanov, just when extra time seemed inevitable.

After two intense maps, the Anubis map did not meet expectations as it was completely one-sided. Led by Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius, NAVI easily took a 10-2 lead after a stellar offensive performance, and quickly took three rounds on the CT side to close out the match.