Is it time for NAVI to change a coach? Richard Lewis answers

Richard Lewis released a YouTube video with his thoughts on what NAVI can do to improve its results. According to Lewis, "Born to Win" coach Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy is "stuck in 2014" and is the main problem of why NAVI cannot improve their results.

In addition, he once again said that Alexander 's1mple' Kostylev is the main playmaker of Natus Vincere and the main unchanged backbone of the team:

"If you are a NAVI player, then s1mple's possible departure is your nightmare. You will start to plummet in the HLTV.org rankings and will never return to greatness. You are the team with the best player in the world. Vitality, with the second best player in the world, did not leave the group. - she has problems. The roster of Astralis is getting old - the Danes have families and children. They were the best in the sense of the game, but this cannot last forever. And even in this whole situation, NAVI will not rise to the top. Everything must start with tactics. Go and find a real competent coach - someone who doesn't play Counter Strike from 2014 with those stupid slow late exits. "

According to Richard, Andrei Gorodensky "accepts defeats very nobly, but never takes responsibility for them":

"B1ad3 is a bad coach, today I will emphasize this again because they were eliminated from the tournament. They were one step away from not leaving the group when they played overtime against Cloud9. And it was one of the easiest groups in the tournament, if not the simplest. All of this happens at a time when NAVI are ranked first in the HLTV.org rankings. The number one team in the world should probably be in the final of the tournament, and not in 11-12 place. B1ad3 said that they were not good enough in this tournament, he accepts defeat very nobly. I have never seen him take responsibility for the result. I think he is a little used to being a “sacred cow” in his region. In the CIS, he is one of those people whom you cannot criticize. Zeus was the same person before him. "

In addition, Lewis believes that electronic should play his role, and not try to be the team captain:

"I'll just say that NAVI didn't take the tournament seriously enough. First of all, I mean using electronic as a captain on several maps. Mirage has always been a strong map for NAVI and they really fought on it. Think about yours. there is already a captain. He directs the actions of the team in the game and has been doing this for a long time. Then only on one map you decide to entrust this role to another member of the squad - it was absolutely terrible. I see no benefit from this if you do not plan in the long term make electronic the captain You are making the in-game leader one of the best players in the world, which makes him ineffective because it always happens when you force someone who was not the captain to fill that role. It's insane, totally insane ".

The Briton could not help but turn his attention to the frequency of appearance of Valery 'B1t' Vakhovsky in place of Yegor 'flamie' Vasiliev. He questioned the need for an esportsman who played the largest number of maps for NAVI:

“NAVI started to use B1t more often, he played on Mirage and Overpass. He played instead of flamie more often than expected. I think that perhaps NAVI realized that flamie could no longer perform at a high level. I think he needed Kick a long time ago. This is a player who needs to be removed to make room in the team. You can even leave Boombl4 if he is not the captain. Mikhailov is good enough to stay on the roster, so you can find a new captain. But they are not going to do this. I don’t know what flamie is doing to maintain a place in the top team. Every time I watch a NAVI match with flamie in the squad, it is very frustrating. "

3 days ago Natus Vincere finished their performance in ESL Pro League Season 13, losing 0-2 in the fight against Complexity Gaming. The team took 9th-12th place in the standings and received a reward of $ 25,000.