Team building history The team was founded in December 2009. After the collapse of the Ukrainian project KerchNET, support former players the team was provided by a well-known philanthropist and organizer of eSports tournaments Murat Zhumashevich (Crossbow). New team was named "Arbalet.UA". It included Kharkiv residents Daniil "Zeus" Teslenko and Ivan "Edward" Sukharev, Kiev citizen Sergey "starix" Ischuk, Arseniy "Esenin" Trynozhenko from Lviv and Yegor "markeloff" Markelov from Dnepropetrovsk. The team manager was Oleksandr "ZeroGravity" Kokhanovsky from Kyiv.

On January 31, 2010, Arbalet.UA wins the Arbalet Cup Asia 2010 tournament, defeating the Chinese from TyLoo twice and defeating ForZe 16:5 (inferno) in the final.

In February, a competition was announced for best title commands. By that time, this line-up performed under the Arbalet.UA clantags, as well as Na`Vi. Voting took place on the website hltv.org, where more than 2,000 comments were left. The winner was Portuguese Bruno "hArt1k" Estevens, who proposed the name "Team Vincit", from which the final title " Natus Vincere"(lat. Born to win), which allowed the tag to remain unchanged -" Na`Vi ".

Victory at Intel Extreme Masters 4:

On March 6, 2010, Natus Vincere becomes the world champion and earns $50,000 by defeating the Swedish team Fnatic in the grand final of the fourth season of the Intel Extreme Masters: 16:13 (train), 16:14 (inferno). Interestingly, the first qualifying matches began back in September 2009, and the team played under a different name (KerchNET) and with other players, of which only starix was among the world champions. a show tournament was held in Kyiv with the participation of Na`Vi, Fnatic, SK Gaming and UNITED teams. Each of the teams played each on five maps. The tournament was held for three game days, and the victory and a prize of $12,000 went to the Ukrainians from NaVi.

Victory at ESWC 2010:

After an unsuccessful performance at Arbalet Cup CIS 2010 (4th place), the team decides to skip the next major tournament ASUS Winter 2010 in order to prepare for the Arbalet Cup and Ukrainian ESWC qualifiers. Nevertheless, in the middle of May 2010, Na`Vi managed to take second place in the prestigious Arbalet Cup Europe 2010 tournament (Stockholm), losing in the final to Fnatic and earning $10,000 in prize money. In the end, Na`Vi win ESWC Ukraine.

In the ESWC finals, the team was placed in the top seed along with SK Gaming, Fnatic and mTw.dk. On July 4, 2010, Natus Vincere achieved the best achievement in the history of Ukrainian esports, becoming the winner of the ESWC World Championship (which no other CIS team has ever done), defeating Schroet Kommando in the final: 16:5 (train) and 16:4 (inferno ). In the course of the tournament, the team advanced from the group only due to luck, but managed to beat Fnatic and mTw.dk in the playoffs.

After winning the World Championship, Natus Vincere announced participation in two Arbalet Cup Dallas (Dallas) and GameGune 2010 (Bilbao) tournaments. July 18, 2010 Na`Vi win the Arbalet Cup Dallas tournament, beating Mousesports in the final match: 19:15 (dust2), 16:12 (inferno). After receiving the $25,000 due to the winner, the team takes first place in terms of the number of prize money earned by European teams in a year. In the following tournaments, the team takes two third places: GameGune 2010 and Extreme Masters Shanghai.

Victory at the World Cyber ​​Games 2010:

On August 15, Na`Vi win the Ukrainian qualifiers for the World Cyber ​​Games and receive a paid ticket to final part taking place in Los Angeles from September 30 to October 3, 2010. The next tournament for Natus Vincere is ASUS Summer 2010, to which the team received a direct invitation. The tournament was the first of the ASUS Open series to be held outside of Russia, at the Kiev Cybersport Arena, a gaming center in Kyiv. In the semi-finals, Na`Vi lost to the Kazakh team k23, and eventually took third place.

On October 4, 2010, Natus Vincere became world champions according to the World Cyber ​​Games, defeating the Danish team mTw.dk in a tense final. This victory makes Na`Vi the first team in the world to win three of the most prestigious championship titles (IEM, ESWC, WCG) in one year. At the end of October 2010, ESL TV commentator Bakr "KinGSaicx" Fadl said that SK Gaming were going to invite a Ukrainian team to replace their Swedish roster, but the manager of Natus Vincere denied the information about the transition.

At the beginning of November 2010 Natus Vincere take part in World Tournament e-Sports Masters (WEM 2010), an annual gathering best teams from all over the world in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Among the eight participants of the tournament, Na`Vi take the fourth place, having won $7,500.

Victory at DreamHack Winter 2010:

From 25 to 27 November 2010 in the Swedish city of Jönköping one of the largest European LAN party DreamHack Winter 2010 was held. To participate in the Counter-Strike tournament Natus Vincere had to miss the largest Russian tournament ASUS Autumn 2010. After advancing to the playoffs, Na`Vi beat puta, fnatic and Frag eXecutors in succession, and in the final they left the Danes from mTw.dk no chance, becoming the winners of the tournament. In four playoff matches, the Ukrainians lost only one "half" - to the fnatic team on the de_mirage map, which appeared for the first time. Sergey Ischuk ("Starix") was recognized best player tournament.

After winning this tournament, the team set another record, earning $220,000 in a year (according to other sources, just over $215,000). The previous achievement belonged to the Swedish team fnatic, who earned $189,000 in 2009 (before them, the Swedes from SK Gaming were also the best - $183,000 in 2003).

Victory at Intel Extreme Masters 5

On March 5, 2011 in Hannover, Natus Vincere defends the Intel Extreme Masters world champion title and earns $35,000 by defeating the Polish team Frag eXecutors in the grand final: 16:12 (train), 16:10 (dust2). $4,550 (13% of the total) was deducted from the team's winnings as a penalty for violating the rules.

Current line-up:
Daniil "Zeus" Teslenko (Kharkiv)
Sergey "starix" Ischuk (Kyiv)
Arseniy "Esenin" Trynozhenko (Lviv)
Egor "markeloff" Markelov (Dnepropetrovsk)
Ivan "Edward" Sukharev (Kharkiv)

Manager:
Alexander "ZeroGravity" Kokhanovsky (Kyiv)

The active composition of the Navi CS GO team

Country	Player	Age	K/D rating	Headshots	Cards played

Players who previously played under the Na "Vi tag

Na "Vi player configs

config (config) is a configuration file or configuration file, used to store settings computer programs including operating systems. In the Counter-Strike game, this is also a settings file that contains:

Control parameters in the game (key meaning).

Mouse settings (sensitivity and so on).

Graphics settings in the game.

Sound settings in the game.

Player configs:

Configs of all professional players can be found here - Configs

Parameters for launching navi cs go players:

• Alexander "s1mple" Kostylev: -novid -freq 144 -refresh 144 -tickrate 128
• Sergey "starix" Ischuk: -novid -freq 120;
• John "Edward" Sukharev: -novid -freq 120 +fps_max 0 +cl_interp 0 +cl_interp_ratio 1;
• Denis "seized" Kostin: -freq 144 -tickrate 128 -processheap -novid -threads 8 -m_rawinput 0;
• Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs: -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd -noforcemparms -freq 120 -tickrate 100;

Main achievements of the Natus Vincere team

Recently, the team has not been going smoothly and at the last tournaments they have a problem of "2 places", but the team is working on itself and diligently preparing for the most prestigious tournaments. Below are some of the latest achievements of the Na "Vi CS: GO roster

• 1st - ESL One: New York 2016 World Championship - $125,000
• 2nd - StarLadder i-League Invitational - $20,000
• 2 place- DreamHack Masters Malmo 2016 - $50,000
• 2nd place - MLG Major Championship: Columbus - $150,000
• 1st place - Counter Pit League Season 2 - Finals - $40,000
• 1st place - DreamHack Leipzig 2016 - $50,000
• 2nd place - ESL ESEA Pro League Season II - Finals - $60,000
• 1st place - Intel Extreme Masters X - San Jose - 56,000$
• 2nd place - DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 - $50,000
• 1st place - Electronic Sports World Cup 2015 - $30,000
• 1st place - Intel Extreme Masters V - $35,000
• 1st place - Intel Extreme Masters IV - $50,000
• 1st place - WCG 2010 - $25,000

The history of the creation of the organization Natus Vincere

Team Natus Vincere was founded on December 18, 2009. After the collapse of the Ukrainian team KerchNET, the players of the forming squad acquired the support of the well-known philanthropist Murat "Arbalet" Tulemangabetov. The new name of the team became "Arbalet UA". It consisted of the following five: Daniil "Zeus" Teslenko - Kharkiv, John "Edward" Sukharev - Kharkiv, Sergey "Starix" Ishchuk - Kyiv, Arseniy "ceh9" Trynozhenko - Lviv, Egor "markeloff" Markelov - Dnepropetrovsk.

August 15, 2010 Na "Vi win regional qualifiers for the WCG (World Cyber ​​​​Games) and get a paid ticket to the world finals in Los Angeles, where they later get the championship title by defeating the mTw team in the final and received prestigious, at that time, prize money in the amount of $25,000.

At that time, the Ukrainian five performed under the clan tags "Na" Vi" and "Arbalet UA" In February 2010, a vote was held for the best team name. It took place on the website hltv.org, where more than 2000 comments were left. The winner was hArt1k, who proposed the name Natus Vincere (which is translated from Latin as "Born to win"). This allowed the clan tag to remain unchanged. A photo of Navi's champion roster from WCG is shown below:

Natus Vincere players

John "Edward" Sukharev

One of the most experienced players in Counter-Strike. The Kharkiv duet, together with "Zeus", joined the Natus Vincere team at the time of its formation. Since ancient times, Counter-Strike 1.6 has been recognized by many in the community as the "Pistol King", thanks to its excellent play with this type of weapon. In the game, he often plays the role of "open-fragger", which makes him one of the most effective players on the team.

Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs

One of the brightest examples of a versatile player in CS:GO. In Na "Vi, he has been playing the role of a team sniper since joining. He joined the team after Yegor "markeloff" Markelov left the roster. He has been playing Counter-Strike for more than 10 years. During his time, he managed to play for a sufficient number of CS 1.6 and CS lineups: Source He joined CS:GO in the middle of 2012, where he was expected to succeed almost immediately.

Denis "seized" Kostin

As a player, he is versatile, he can take an AWP at any second and play the role of a second sniper, which he often does. In all the teams where he previously played, he always played the commanding role, and therefore he has more than enough experience in this. That is why for a certain period of time he performed the duties of a captain in the team, replacing Daniil "Zeus" Teslenok in this position.

Egor "flamie" Vasiliev

Egor is the youngest representative of the Natus Vincere team. It was he who came to replace Sergei "starix" Ishchuk, who this moment is a coach and team manager. Immediately after arriving for a test period, the team began to show nice results, as a result of which it was decided to immediately make Yegor a full-fledged member of the team. Strengthens the combat power of the team due to his individual skill, shooting in particular, which he fully managed to realize.

Alexander "s1mple" Kostylev

s1mple's strengths are his incredible shooting and playing aggression, which allows him to easily and very quickly deal with his rivals. Alexander is charged only to win and does not pay attention to the names, status or past achievements of his rivals. It is noteworthy that in the community s1mple is known not only as a very strong and competent player, but also as a popular streamer, which is watched by thousands of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fans every day.

LogoNatus Vincere .

1. About the team.

Natus Vincere (Na'Vi) - Ukrainian team, the strongest in the CIS and the fifth in the world ranking of teams. Consists of 2 Russian players, 2 Ukrainian players and a player from Slovakia. Formed in 2009, then the team consisted of such players as Daniil " Zeus» Teslenko, John « Edward» Sukharev, Arseniy « Ceh9» Trynozhenko, Sergey « starix» Ishchuk and Egor « markeloff» Markelov. This roster set the Counter-Strike world record by winning the 3 biggest championships out of 3 in 2010. From this composition in our time there were only two:Daniel Zeus" Teslenko (who is still the team captain) and John " Edward» Sukharev. Traditionally players Natus Vincere dressed in black and yellow with the team logo.

Team form.

2. History of the name.

Why is the team named Na'Vi? The idea came spontaneously: the players of the team, without having come up with a name, decided to take a break and visit the cinema, where they watched the movie "Avatar". According to the plot of the film, Navi is a language on the planet Pandora. The guys liked this name, so they deciphered it and it turned out Natus Vincere(from lat. " Born to win" ).

3. Players Natus Vincere:

Egor Vasiliev, nickname " flamie» (shooter)

flame, he is Yegor Vasiliev - Russian professional player NAVI CS:GO teams. The youngest in the team is 18 years old, but despite this, Egor's accuracy is incredible. Some players believed that flamie uses cheats, but these are rumors. Plays as a shooter. Previously played for such teams as HellRaisers, dAt Team and USSR. Number of hours in CS:GO ~3.100 hours.

Daniil Teslenko, nickname " Zeus» (Captain)

Zeus , aka Daniil Teslenko - Ukrainian professional team player Natus Vincere by CS:GO. Plays as a captain since the founding of the team to this day. Thanks to the great work done and diligence, he achieved success with his team both in CS 1.6 (winning 3 world championships out of 3) and in CS:GO. His tactics are slow and unpredictable game, catching even world champions by surprise. Daniil always has a large number of options for playing rounds, so his actions are difficult to read.

John Sukharev, nickname " Edward» (shooter)

Edward, also known as Ioann Sukharev, is a Ukrainian professional player of the NAVI CS:GO team. Together with Zeus are the oldest players in the team - they have been playing in it since its inception to this day. For my cool game on pistols, John received the nickname "Pistol King". Plays as a shooter. A stable and very experienced player, he knows how to act correctly in the most intense game situations.

Denis Kostin, nickname " seized» (shooter)

Seized, aka Denis Kostin - Russian professional team player Natus Vincere by CS:GO. Play in Na'Vi since 2013 and has already managed to gain great experience. Stable and accurate shooter. Masterfully controls automatic burst: from one burst he is able to kill three opponents. Denis also tried himself as a team captain, but later again transferred the powers of the board Zeus‘y, concentrating on his own game.

4. Former players.

Ladislav Kovacs, nickname " Guardian» (sniper)

Guardian , aka Ladislav Kovacs - Slovak professional player of the NAVI teamby CS:GO. An unsurpassed sniper who rarely misses. According to many ratings, Ladislav takes 1st place among all snipers in CS:GO. Cold-blooded and accurate, has all the qualities inherent in a real sniper.