Group Yandex gained the primary event of the 2026-2027 season of their first outing with new offlaner ATF.
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Team Yandex have gained the primary event of the 2026-2027 aggressive season at PGL Wallachia Season 9, marking a profitable debut with their new offlaner 
Ammar “ATF” Assaf. Yandex capped off a dominant run all through all the event, the place they dropped solely two video games, with a 3-0 sweep over 
Natus Vincere (NAVI) within the grand finals on Monday (27 September).
With their victory, Yandex claimed the grand prize of US$300,000 out of the event’s US$1 million prize pool. This additionally marks the staff’s second championship in PGL’s Wallachia sequence after PGL Wallachia Season 7 again in March.
In the meantime, NAVI accept second place and US$175,000 in comfort. Whereas that is nonetheless a commendable end result for the younger squad, a victory in a event marked Tier 2 or larger continues to elude the organisation.
Yandex dominate PGL Wallachia Season 9 in ATF’s debut
PGL Wallachia Season 9 was solely thought of a Tier 2 event because of the absence of lots of the scene’s high groups, with Yandex one of many few in attendance. Yandex have been far and away the largest favourites to win, as they have been coming off a Top 3 finish at The International (TI) 2026 and acquired an enormous improve within the offlane place after they snagged ATF following 
Team Falcons‘ exit from the competitive Dota 2 scene.
Yandex hit the bottom working within the Swiss-format Group Stage, successful all three of their matches there to rapidly qualify for the Playoffs. Yandex dropped the primary of their two sport losses of all the event of their opening match in opposition to 
MOUZ, however swept their subsequent two sequence in opposition to 
Team Nemesis and NAVI.
NAVI completed because the third seed of the Group Stage with a 3-1 report. They swept 
Hokori and 
Aurora Gaming within the first two rounds then bounced again from their loss to Yandex in spherical three by defeating 
1W Team in three video games in spherical 4.
Within the Playoffs, Yandex continued rolling by sweeping 1W within the higher bracket quarterfinals and pulling off a 2-1 reverse sweep over Aurora within the higher bracket semifinals. That sport one loss to Aurora could be the final time that Yandex dropped a sport on this event, as they swept 
LGD Gaming within the higher bracket finals and have become the primary staff to advance to the grand finals.
In the meantime, NAVI needed to survive a grueling run via the decrease bracket to earn a rematch with Yandex within the championship spherical.
NAVI have been dropped to the decrease bracket after a 2-1 loss to LGD within the higher bracket quarterfinals. Regardless of being below the specter of elimination, NAVI made it to the ultimate day of the event by scoring three straight victories over Nemesis, Aurora, and 
Xtreme Gaming. Within the decrease bracket finals, NAVI exacted their revenge over LGD in a three-game slugfest to advance to the grand finals in opposition to Yandex.
Yandex sweep NAVI to say PGL Wallachia Season 9 championship
Yandex got here out swinging to start out the grand finals, stomping NAVI in 25 minutes to the tune of a 27-9 kill lead. 
Alimzhan “Watson” Islambekov led the best way with 10 kills and 4 assists whereas ATF flexed on his signature offlane Razor decide with six kills and 11 assists, with each gamers notably having only one loss of life apiece.
Recreation two then noticed NAVI get right into a successful place with construct up a internet price lead of over 10,000 gold on the 20-minute mark. Nevertheless, Yandex have been capable of methodically chip away at their opponents’ lead, ultimately securing a comeback win in slightly below 44 minutes to take a commanding 2-0 sequence lead.
Watson and ATF have been as soon as once more the important thing gamers in Yandex’s win, with Watson on Io notching 12 kills and 13 assists on 4 deaths whereas ATF on Centaur Warrunner put up 10 kills and 20 assists on only one loss of life.
NAVI letting the sport two win slip away from their fingers appeared to have deflated them, as they barely put up any resistance whereas Yandex routed them in 27 minutes to safe the 3-0 grand finals sweep. Watson on Sven paced his staff’s 25-7 kill lead with eight kills and two assists in opposition to only one loss of life, 
Ilya “CHIRA_JUNIOR” Chirtsov on Invoker added seven kills and 10 assists on one loss of life, whereas ATF on Huskar pitched in with a clear 5 kills and three assists.
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