Natus Vincere made it to the group stage of the ELEAGUE Boston 2018 Major after dismantling Liquid on Inferno (16-5)
Denis "electroNic" Sharipov and Egor "flamie" Vasilyev shut down a pretty simple A attack from Liquid in the pistol round on Inferno, setting the tone for the game right from the start. The Ukrainian side went 3-0 up before losing the first buy, only to break Liquid's bank in the next one. The star of his team, Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev, was bullying Liquid with the AWP, picking up a total of 19 kills in the first nine rounds (8-1).
Liquid wasn't able to even put down the bomb in the rounds they lost, finally breaking into the B bombsite in round 14, with Nick "nitr0" Cannella, Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken and Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski all picking up kills. However, all of the members of the North American side simply weren't gettign kills in the first half, which ended 13-2 in favor of Natus Vincere.
Wilton "zews" Prado stepped up with two USP-S entires on the CT pistol, locking down the A site with Twistzz, and with some scary anti-ecos closed out, Liquid added a couple of rounds to the board. It semed like Liquid would finally establish themselves on the map when Natus Vincere stole a round with just a couple of Deagles, with s1mple's double-entry once again instigating the action.
The 20-year-old finished the game with 30 kills, picking up the last one as the game was closed out 16-6.
ELEAGUE Major 2018 Challengers StageBest of 1 
Natus Vincere
Matchpage 16 5 16th January 2018 
Liquid 16Inferno 5
| Natus Vincere | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostylievs1mple | 31 - 10 | +21 | 129.3 | 2.18 |
| Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus | 21 - 8 | +13 | 101.1 | 1.68 |
 Denis 'electroNic' SharipovelectroNic | 15 - 8 | +7 | 94.0 | 1.50 |
| Egor 'flamie' Vasilyevflamie | 16 - 9 | +7 | 85.4 | 1.44 |
| Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward | 7 - 11 | -4 | 38.7 | 0.76 |
| Liquid | K - D | +/- | ADR | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Russel 'Twistzz' Van DulkenTwistzz | 13 - 19 | -6 | 75.2 | 0.81 |
| Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEliGE | 9 - 18 | -9 | 67.0 | 0.64 |
| Nick 'nitr0' Cannellanitr0 | 6 - 16 | -10 | 42.8 | 0.59 |
| Josh 'jdm64' Marzanojdm64 | 8 - 20 | -12 | 50.4 | 0.53 |
 Wilton 'zews' Pradozews | 9 - 18 | -9 | 52.4 | 0.51 |
| 3-0 (qualified) | |
 G2 | Cloud9 |
| 3-1 (qualified) | |
| Vega Squadron |  FaZe |
 Space Soldiers | |
| 3-2 (qualified) | 2-3 |
| MOUZ |  RenegadesRenegades |
| Quantum Bellator Fire |  AVANGAR |
| Natus Vincere | Liquid |
| 1-3 (eliminated) | 0-3 (eliminated) |
| Misfits |  Flash |
 Sprout | FlipSid3 |
| Envy | |
AVANGAR #37 Timur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDmitry 'dimasick' Matvienko 
Quantum Bellator Fire #60 Gregory 'balblna' OleinickSavelii 'jmqa' Bragin
Aurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysNikita 'waterfaLLZ' MatveyevKirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 
Age: 20 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 702 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.70 
Flash #61 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng
Andrew 'kaze' KhongWeiJia 'INNOPY' GuoZhe 'Ayeon' Yang 
Misfits #13 Sean 'seang@res' GaresShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanHunter 'SicK' MimsFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayDavid 'devoduvek' Dobrosavljevic 
Renegades #20 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardKeith 'NAF' MarkovicKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis 
FaZe #2 
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard 
Vega Squadron #24 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmitriy 'jR' ChervakSergey 'keshandr' NikishinNikolay 'mir' BityukovPavel 'hutji' Lashkov Nick 'nitr0' Cannella 
Age: 22 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 728 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.68 Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev 
Age: 20 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 860 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.68 
Space Soldiers #23 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor Liquid #17 Lucas 'steel' LopesNick 'nitr0' CannellaJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Natus Vincere #14 Denis 'electroNic' SharipovEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievIoann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' Teslenko 
G2 #7 Richard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro Wilton 'zews' Prado 
Age: 30 Team: LiquidC 
MOUZ #8 
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong
Miikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' Styk
Robin 'ropz' Kool 
FlipSid3 Yegor 'markeloff' MarkelovAndrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyDenis 'seized' KostinGeorgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' Rahkonen Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov 
Age: 19 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 432 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.69 
Sprout #29 Jesse 'zehN' Linjala
Paweł 'innocent' MocekKevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendTimo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' Howell Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken 
Age: 18 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 454 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.64 
Envy #15 Christophe 'SIXER' XiaCédric 'RpK' Guipouy
Adil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerAlexandre 'xms' Forté Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 
Age: 20 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.20 Maps played: 693 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.69 
Cloud9 #5 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip (责任编辑：cs cases free)
