NAVI CS:GO coach explains why team opted for a junior player over sdy for 2023

Natus Vincere had to make a roster decision after using both stand-in Viktor “sdy” Orudzhev and NAVI Junior’s player Andrii “npl” Kukharskyi at BLAST Premier World Final, the last tournament of 2022. Instead of signing the experienced sdy on a full-time basis, the Ukrainian organization decided to move on with the 17-year-old npl for 2023.

While many fans have pointed out that the reasoning behind the move was sdy’s lackluster performances throughout his stint with NAVI—the Ukrainian averaged a 1.00 rating while playing next to s1mple, according to HLTV— it wasn’t exactly because of this and it had more to do with NAVI’s philosophy when it comes to signing players, according to the team’s coach Andrey “B1ad3” Gorodenskiy.

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