NAVI\u2019s s1mple to miss start of BLAST Premier Fall Groups Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoThe Ukrainian organization has announced that Oleksandr\u2019s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev will miss the start of NAVI\u2019s campaign in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups due to personal reasons. NAVI will be playing the first stage of the tournament with academy member Daniil \u2018headtr1ck\u2019 Valitov, who traveled to the team\u2019s bootcamp location ahead of the event after s1mple\u2019s availability had become uncertain. On August 13, NAVI\u2019s fans went into panic mode after s1mple posted an Instagram story that contained the following message: \u201cBig announcement soon\u201d. That raised fears that s1mple could take a break from the game \u2013 something he had hinted at prior to the off-season. In that same interview, however, s1mple noted that \u201cthe most important\u201d thing was to stop FaZe from winning the Intel Grand Slam. NAVI have seemingly allayed such fears by stating that s1mple could return in time for the knockout stages, which begin on August 25. The Ukrainian organization will continue monitoring the player\u2019s situation and will provide an update in due course. Who is headtr1ck? headtr1ck is perhaps the most exciting prospect in NAVI\u2019s youth set-up at the moment. The Ukrainian player, 18, has been with NAVI Junior since August 2021 after being promoted from the youth lineup. In April, he played three matches for NAVI\u2019s main team at ESL Pro League Season 15 after Kirill \u2018Boombl4\u2019 Mikhailov returned a positive test ahead of the event. He averaged a 0.97 HLTV rating as NAVI beat AGO, Evil Geniuses and Complexity in the group stage of the tournament. NAVI will play their first match in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups on August 20 against Complexity in the first round of Group B, which also includes G2 and Team Liquid. None of the 12 teams in attendance will be eliminated in the first stage, with their group results determining their position in one of the three single-elimination gauntlet brackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NAVI\u2019s s1mple to miss start of BLAST Premier Fall Groups Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoThe Ukrainian organization has announced that Oleksandr\u2019s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev will miss the start of NAVI\u2019s campaign in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups due to personal reasons. NAVI will be playing the first stage of the tournament with academy member Daniil \u2018headtr1ck\u2019 Valitov, who traveled to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}