NAVI eliminate Tundra Esports from PGL Wallachia Season 5

NAVI seem determined to leave a good last impression before the roster is dropped by the organisation.

PGL Wallachia Season 5 is the last tournament for the “old” NAVI. The roster was announced to be replaced with the Junior team after falling short in the Esports World Cup and The International 2025 qualifiers, both legs played in the Eastern Europe region. In both qualifiers, NAVI’s dreams and hopes were cut short by Alexey "Solo" Berezin’s stack Cyber Goose.

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However, when pitted against non-EEU teams, NAVI look different. They made it to the PGL Wallachia Season 5 playoffs by taking down the likes of Team Liquid, Nigma Galaxy and BetBoom Team. Still, they lost 1-2 the upper bracket opener against Xtreme Gaming and are now fighting for their tournament lives through lower bracket rounds.

Tundra Esports have also been beaten 1-2 in the first upper bracket match, and are now out of the title contention to everyone’s surprise.

A perfect 10 from NAVI Yuragi

NAVI and Tundra Esports opened the second day in the playoffs with their battle for survival at PGL Wallachia S5. The first game of the series brought a fast paced, pushing oriented draft from the Ukrainian organisation. They were playing against a lot of signature heroes coming out from Tundra, but a Gyrocopter-Warlock safe lane duo ensured a strong laning stage for Artem "Yuragi" Golubiev, who was able to dominate Neta "33" Shapira on Doom and go for a rushed Aghanim's Scepter first item. He set the tone of the game, and along with Matthew "Ari" Walker’s Shadow Shaman, they kept the pressure up, constantly pushing and taking objectives.

Yuragi finished the first game of the best-of-three series with a picture perfect 10/0/10 KDA and continued to make the difference in Game 2 as well. However, he was slightly outshined by Philipp "Copy" Bühler on Storm Spirit. The two have forced Tundra to play into constant aggression once more. Yuragi was an item ahead of Tundra’s Ursa and showed up in fights from the early stages. The catch potential between his Morphling and Copy’s Storm Spirit made the disengage impossible for Tundra, who found themselves constantly hunted down and with no time to recover in farm.

NAVI’s victory over Tundra in the lower bracket brings the first 2-0 clean score for the soon to be free agents roster. It also comes after a couple of games lost by NAVI in the group stage after securing the mega creeps. The good news is that NAVI seems to have learned their lessons, and with not much to lose now, they have already secured themselves a top 6 finish at the $1,000,000 tournament. Stay tuned to rdy.gg to see how far NAVI will go at PGL Wallachia Season 5 and who will lift the trophy at the end of it all.