NAVI crush The MongolZ's Cologne hopes
Natus Vincere's (NAVI) newest signing, makazze had a big performance on the stage at the LANXESS Arena as NAVI sent The MongolZ packing from IEM Cologne 2025. The quarter-final encounter kicked off with a barnburner before NAVI bullied The MongolZ out of Cologne.
Despite locking in the pistol and conversions, a stellar CT half from The MongolZ saw them go 8-4 up as they looked like they would run away with their opponent's map pick, especially after winning the second pistol. Aleksib's Five-Seven saw NAVI pick up a crucial force buy and makazze woke up after a slow start with b1t and w0nderful pushing it to overtime. A back and forth affair finally came to an end in third overtime as NAVI stole a 22-18 win.
The MongolZ went missing to get their pick of Ancient underway as NAVI raced away to a 9-1 start and after an 11-1 half, it was a comfortable close at 13-6 with young makazze topping the scoreboard on Ancient with 23 kills.
The MongolZNatus Vincere| The MongolZ |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren |
46 - 45 | +1 | 87.7 | 64.4% | 1.16 |
| Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold |
42 - 40 | +2 | 78.8 | 67.8% | 1.13 |
| Usukhbayar '910' Banzragch |
40 - 40 | +0 | 63.9 | 69.5% | 0.95 |
| Azbayar 'Senzu' Munkhbold |
30 - 43 | -13 | 61.9 | 69.5% | 0.84 |
| Ayush 'mzinho' Batbold |
23 - 45 | -22 | 52.2 | 61.0% | 0.68 |
| Natus Vincere |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy |
49 - 36 | +13 | 97.4 | 71.2% | 1.32 |
 Drin 'makazze' Shaqiri |
51 - 39 | +12 | 98.3 | 74.6% | 1.32 |
| Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov |
51 - 34 | +17 | 75.2 | 84.7% | 1.27 |
 Mihai 'iM' Ivan |
37 - 38 | -1 | 73.9 | 72.9% | 1.04 |
 Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen |
25 - 35 | -10 | 44.6 | 66.1% | 0.69 |
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