Natus Vincere Junior bounced back from dropping their first map of the day, running the table from there to take first place at the YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025 event on Sunday.
NAVI Junior rallied to defeat Dynamo Eclot 2-1 in the semifinals, then swept ENCE 2-0 in the grand final to capture the $75,000 top prize.
Dynamo Eclot opened their semifinal tilt with a 13-7 victory on Inferno, but NAVI Junior blew them out 13-3 on Ancient and then pulled out a 16-13 overtime win on Mirage. Drin “makazze” Shaqiri of Kosovo led NAVI Junior with 58 kills on a plus-13 kills-to-deaths differential.
Meanwhile, ENCE also came from behind in the semifinal round, beating BetBoom Team 2-1. BetBoom earned a 19-17 overtime win on Nuke, and ENCE answered 13-4 on Mirage. The final map was Anubis, which went to three overtimes before ENCE finished the job 22-20.
Kacper “xKacpersky” Gabara of Poland paced ENCE with 92 kills (plus-21 K-D) in the marathon match.
The first map of the grand final was also Anubis, and it too went to overtime before NAVI Junior prevailed 19-16. They finished it off with a 13-5 win on Ancient. Again, the star for NAVI Junior was makazze, who had 51 kills and a plus-18 K-D.
The YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025 was a 12-team event with a $150,0000 prize pool. All teams competed in two round-robin format groups, comprised of six teams apiece, who played each other once (for five matches total) with all matches being best-of-one.
The winners of each group advanced to the semifinals, with the group stage runners-up moving to the quarterfinals as the high seeds. The third-place teams in each group reached the quarterfinals as the lower seeds.
Playoffs are a single-elimination bracket, with all matches being best-of-three.
YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025 prize pool:
1. $75,000 — Natus Vincere Junior
2. $21,000 — ENCE
3-4. $10,500 — Dynamo Eclot, BetBoom Team
5-6. $7,500 — Nexus Gaming, 9Pandas
7-8. $3,000 — Nemiga Gaming, Team Spirit Academy
9-10. $3,000 — Partizan Esports, GTZ.ESPORTS
11-12. $3,000 — GUN5 Esports, Metizport
–Field Level Media
