NAVI CS:GO Takes Esports Awards 2021 by Storm - S1mple, B1t, B1ad3 Nominated

The Esports Awards 2021 announced a bunch of nominations earlier today on 1^st October across a variety of categories, with multiple members of NAVI's CS:GO team being shortlisted across the board. The Ukrainian esports organization has been doing extremely well when it comes to competitive CS:GO, currently standing as the number one ranked team in the world.

One of the best CS:GO players in the world Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev, the newest member of the team Valerii "b1t" Vakhovskyi, and the team's head coach Andrii "B1ad3" Gorodenskyi, are the three NAVI members from their CS:GO lineup that have been nominated for 'Esports PC Player of the Year', 'Esports PC Rookie of the Year', and 'Esports Coach of the Year' respectively.

Additionally, NAVI in itself has collectively been nominated under the category of 'Esports Team of the Year', alongside other esports organizations like PSG LGD, Sentinels, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Gambit Esports, NRG, and more.

Three members of the NAVI CS:GO team are nominated for different categories at Esports Awards 2021

NAVI has stormed into the list of finalists across various categories for the Esports Awards 2021. The best part is that all of them belong to the Ukranian organization's CS:GO team, which has had a great competitive season so far.

The reason behind s1mple, b1t, and B1ad3 being nominated in their respective categories is due to a multitude of reasons that has allowed NAVI to establish its own era in Counter-Strike.

• The CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) lineup under the NAVI banner has become the third CS:GO team in the world to be crowned as the champions of Intel Grand Slam, by winning the third season of the competition.

• They have also managed to win consecutive LAN tournaments which were more than a year apart by achieving victory at IEM Katowice 2020 and IEM Cologne 2021.

• By winning IEM Cologne 2021, ESL Pro League Season 14, and Intel Grand Slam Season 3, NAVI has become the hot favorite to win the upcoming PGL Major Stockholm 2021.

• Additionally, NAVI is also the first CS:GO team in the world to have booked themselves a slot at the Major, without even having to worry about competing in the last RMR event - IEM Fall 2021: CIS.

• Their star player s1mple has already bagged five MVP (Most Valuable Player) medals since the start of the year, a difference of two medals seprating him from equalising the record alongside Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz.

Listed below are the members from NAVI's CS:GO team in the various categories along with the other nominees.

Esports Team of the Year - Esports Awards 2021

• Shanghai Dragons (Overwatch)

• NAVI (CS:GO)

• PSG.LGD (Dota 2)

• Sentinels (Valorant)

• The General NRG (Rocket League)

• Gambit Esports (Valorant)

• Mad Lions (LOL)

• Ninjas in Pyjamas (Rainbow 6)

• DWG Kia (LOL)

• Atlanta FaZe (CDL)

Esports PC Player of the Year - Esports Awards 2021

• Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov (CS:GO)

• Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev (CS:GO)

• Tyson "TenZ" Ngo (Valorant)

• Jae-won "LIP" Lee (Overwatch)

• Luccas "Paluh" Vinicius Molina (Rainbow 6)

• Wang "Ame" Chunyu (Dota 2)

• Heo "ShowMaker" Su (LOL)

• Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang (LOL)

• Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin (Valorant)

Esports PC Rookie of the Year - Esports Awards 2021

• Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin (Valorant)

• Robin "Robinsongz" Sung (Teamfight Tactics)

• Tyson "TenZ" Ngo (Valorant)

• Adam "Adam" Maanane (LOL)

• Kyle "Danny" Sakamaki (LOL)

• Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov (CS:GO)

• Javier "Elyoya" Prades Batalla (LOL)

• Se-hyun "Pelican" Oh (Overwatch)

• Valerii "b1t" Vakhovskyi (CS:GO)

Esports Coach of the Year - Esports Awards 2021

• Arthur "TchubZ" Martins (LOL)

• Dyjair "Mity" Soares (Rainbow 6)

• Byung-chul "Moon" Moon (Overwatch)

• Andrey "Engh" Sholokhov (Overwatch)

• James "Mac" MacCormack (LOL)

• Emiliano "Sizz" Benny (Rocket League)

• Mark "MarkyB" Bryceland (CDL)

• Andrii "B1ad3" Gorodenskyi (CS:GO)

• Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu (LOL)

• Kim "kkOma" Jeong-gyun (LOL)

• James "Crowder" Crowder (CDL)

It will be interesting to see how many categories will NAVI br able to nab from the above mentioned categories, on 20th November at the Esports Stadium, Arlington in Texas, USA.