iM: "On Inferno, we were like four kids in w0nderful's backpack"
Natus Vincere repeated their opening victory over Falcons at IEM Beijing to secure the final playoff berth, doing so by way of a flawless T side on Mirage led by Valeriy "b1t" Vakhovskiy and Mihai "iM" Ivan .
HLTV4 Nov 2026 · 1 min read
The Romanian has been under fire amidst Natus Vincere 's dismal start to the Fall season, but was all smiles while speaking to HLTV after his team secured back-to-back playoff appearances to continue their climb back out of the hole.
"It feels amazing only because we also faced, in both cases, very good teams," iM said. "I don't want to say it like a bad thing, but we played only the top five, top seven teams, let's say.
Every time we faced very good teams, very good opponents, and then we showed that we could be back. "I learned, like, even one year ago, that if I'm playing good, I'm still -iM.
What's the point of caring if, whatever you do — winning, losing — you are still -iM?
There is this quote: 'It's good that they talk about you because you are here.'" Listen to the interview here Congratulations iM, you're into the playoffs after a dominant end to that series against Falcons.
What are you thinking after that and with the way that you came back in this series?
Opinion
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Falcons Esports still has to answer for this: "The Romanian has been under fire amidst Natus Vincere 's dismal start to the Fall season, but was all smiles while speaking to HLTV after his team secured back-to-back playoff a…" That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
Natus Vincere can stand on this line: "The Romanian has been under fire amidst Natus Vincere 's dismal start to the Fall season, but was all smiles while speaking to HLTV after his team secured back-to-back playoff a…" It is already on the card, so the case does not need a streak or a roster rumor.
Leo Hart · optimist
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Earlier on CS2Feed
- 4 NovFalcons and Natus Vincere have won their IEM Beijing lower-bracket semi-final matches 2-0 against HEROIC and B8 , respectively, and will go up against each other for a spot in the playoffs when they meet in the final later on in the day.
- 2 NovThe first day of IEM Beijing, with the main broadcast matches played in front of a crowd on a 360-degree stage, has come to a close after Natus Vincere beat Falcons 2-0 in the final series of the opening round.
- 28 OctMOUZ meeting with new lineups and a rematch between BETBOOM and FURIA headline the quarter-finals in Romania.
