Tomorrow at 19:30 CEST, NAVI‘s CS2 workforce will start their ESL Professional League Season 24 Group Stage marketing campaign in Katowice. The LAN match encompasses a $1,000,000 prize pool.
In keeping with the seeding, G2 will probably be Born to Win’s opponents within the opening spherical. The match will probably be performed in a greatest of three format.
NAVI and G2 final confronted one another in late August at BLAST Open Porto 2026. G2 claimed a 2 : 0 victory on that event (6 : 13 Historical, 10 : 13 Inferno).
Two different matches, at IEM Cologne Main 2026 and ESL Professional League Season 23 Stage 2, additionally went G2‘s manner (1 : 2 and 1 : 2 respectively). Nevertheless, NAVI secured a 2 : 0 victory at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 earlier this yr. On the time, Ukrainian sniper r1nkle was not but a part of the G2 roster.
Additionally it is price noting that NAVI are the reigning ESL Professional League champions: within the Season 23 Grand Ultimate in March, we defeated Aurora 3 : 1.
We hope NAVI can begin the match with a victory and deal with the followers to some nice Counter-Strike.