Forever in history. Key facts about NAVI’s victory at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024

Ukrainian organization Natus Vincere became the tournament champion P.G.L. Major Copenhagen 2024 By Counter-Strike 2, defeating FaZe Clan in a spectacular final. Sport Arena has collected the main facts about NAVI’s victory at the tournament in the capital of Denmark.

NAVI will forever go down in history as first winners of a CS2 major. Let us remind you that the release of the new version of the game took place in September 2023. Before this, professional tournaments were played in CS:GO.

If we consider the entire history of Counter-Strike, then NAVI is only the third organization that won a major more than once:

• Astralis – four victories (ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017, FACEIT Major: London 2018, Intel Extreme Masters XIII – Katowice Major 2019, StarLadder Berlin Major 2019);
• Fnatic – three victories (DreamHack Winter 2013, ESL One: Katowice 2015, ESL One: Cologne 2015);
• NAVI – two victories (PGL Major Stockholm 2021, PGL Major Copenhagen 2024).

Justinas “jL” Lekavicius, Mihai “iM” Ivan and Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen became the first representatives of Lithuania, Romania and Finland respectively, who won the Counter-Strike major. In total, players from 17 countries became champions of majors. The Danes won most often – 23 times.

The first Romanian to win a Major 🇷🇴👏

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— HLTV.org (@HLTVorg) March 31, 2024

jL received for the first time in his career tournament MVP award from HLTV. The Lithuanian finished the tournament with a rating of 1.22.

Igor “w0nderful” Zhdanov became fourth Ukrainian in history to win a major, after Valery “b1t” Vakhovsky, Alexander “s1mple” Kostylev and Daniil “Zeus” Teslenko. Zhdanov won the tournament at the age of 19. Let us remember that he joined “Born to Win” in October 2023, becoming a replacement for s1mple.

b1t – the most titled Ukrainian player in the majors. Success in Copenhagen was the second in his career for 21-year-old Vakhovsky. In 2021, also as a member of NAVI, he triumphed at the PGL Major Stockholm.

Also, for the second time, the NAVI coach became the winner of the major Andrey “B1ad3” Gorodensky.

Done it with two different rosters 🐐🇺🇦

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— HLTV.org (@HLTVorg) March 31, 2024

NAVI is the first organization in CS to win over $10 million in prize money. “Born to Win” received $500 thousand for winning the PGL Major Copenhagen.

This was the 20th major for Born to Win. NAVI is the only organization that played in every major in history. NAVI also played in the finals for a record sixth time.

Major in Denmark became record for Ukrainian-language broadcast, which was held by Maincast on its Twitch and YouTube channels. At its peak, the FaZe Clan – NAVI match was watched by more than 137 thousand viewers. The previous record was set at the match between Natus Vincere and Monte at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 – 58,500 spectators.

Peak of watchers on the Ukrainian broadcast #PGLMajor— 137 thousand (YouTube + Twitch)

— @maincast_ua stockpiles of the past record of gazers— Ukrainian language has become different due to its popularity among official broadcasts of the tournament

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— ESCharts about EEU eSports and streaming (@EsportsEEU) March 31, 2024

PGL Major Copenhagen became third most popular CS tournament in history. At its peak, the broadcast was watched by 1,844,747 viewers. There were more only at PGL Major Stockholm 2021 (2,748,434 spectators) and PGL Major Antwerp 2022 (2,113,610).

• NAVI CS2 roster:

Igor “w0nderful” Zhdanov
Valery “b1t” Vakhovsky
Alexi “Aleksib» Virolainen
Justinas “jL” Lecavicius
Mihai “iM” Ivan
Andrey “B1ad3” Gorodensky (coach)