PARIVISION qualified for the playoffs of ESL Pro League Season 24 at the expense of Natus Vincere, winning their series 2-1, HLTV reported. NAVI took the opening map, Inferno, 13-8, before PARIVISION answered with a 13-10 win on Cache and a 13-11 win on Mirage.
The event was PARIVISION's first since Abay "HObbit" Khassenov joined the roster permanently, and HLTV noted that the result was the first time the team's current core had beaten NAVI.
For NAVI, the loss closed off a route that would all but have guaranteed qualification for the Singapore Major, according to HLTV. Its Major simulations still gave the team an 89% chance of qualifying on the strength of its earlier results at the event.
NAVI won an early force-buy exchange on their CT side of Inferno and controlled the map from there. PARIVISION kept their economy healthy enough for repeated full buys, but multi-kills from Mihai "iM" Ivan cut those rounds short.
On Cache, PARIVISION built an early lead on the CT side, with Evgenii "FL1T" Lebedev productive in the middle of the map and Vladislav "xiELO" Lysov carrying the A site. NAVI won a force buy after the switch and appeared to be turning the map around, but dropped rounds against under-equipped PARIVISION buys, and PARIVISION converted the opening.
PARIVISION's fast-paced attack put NAVI 0-5 down early on Mirage, and a further lost round against a weak buy helped PARIVISION to an 8-4 half-time lead. NAVI won the second pistol round and drew level before the teams traded rounds; a four-kill round from Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov was answered by a successful PARIVISION stack on A, and a last-second defuse by Dzhami "Jame" Ali decided the series.
