Natus Vincere defeat Gambit to set up IEM New York CIS semi-final bout against Virtus.pro
Natus Vincere and Gambit faced off in the first IEM New York CIS quarter-final match after the former’s rocky group stage performances landed them in third place of Group A following losses to Virtus.pro and forZe. Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev and company didn’t fret in their first playoff match, however, defeating the recently promoted Gambit squad, Group B's second seed, in a two-map series on Train (16-12) and Overpass (16-11). This quarter-final victory sets Natus Vincere up against a red-hot Virtus.pro, a team they lost to in the group stage and