makazze: "If you think about [the Major], you cannot focus on the tournament, because you will have a lot of pressure"
Natus Vincere enter the final stretch of the qualifying campaign for the Singapore Major with almost no room for error. Currently ranked 24th in the Europe VRS, they have only two tournaments left to rack up enough points to qualify for the season-ending LAN.
HLTV2 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
NAVI find themselves in this situation following a string of disappointing results. Since the start of the season, they've placed 9th-16th at EWC, 9th-12th at BLAST Open Porto, and 7th-8th at StarLadder Series Fall, winning just three of their eight matches.
"If you think about it, you cannot focus on the tournament, because you will have a lot of pressure," Drin "makazze" Shaqiri said told HLTV about the Major on the media day of ESL Pro League 24.
"So we are not looking into it, we are just playing for every tournament, trying our best. And if you're going to show our best CS, we will make it to the Major.
And if we don't show our best CS, we don't deserve to go. So we are focusing only on this, so no pressure about that.
The Kosovar star also discussed what the team has worked on since StarSeries and his recent individual struggles, which he says are behind him. "Right now I would say that I'm in better form than last tournaments, for sure," he said.
"I was also enjoying more life, so I could freshen my mind, and I'm good now.
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Natus Vincere can stand on this line: "NAVI find themselves in this situation following a string of disappointing results. Since the start of the season, they've placed 9th-16th at EWC, 9th-12th at BLAST Open Porto, …" It is already on the card, so the case does not need a streak or a roster rumor.
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