Natus Vincere Junior, BetBoom Team enjoy hot starts at YaLLa Compass Qatar

Field Level Media|published: Thu 17th April, 20:57 2025

After a day of play at the YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025, Natus Vincere Junior and BetBoom Team emerged Thursday at the top of their respective groups with matching 3-0 records.

NAVI Junior leads Group A by a half-game over Dynamo Eclot, also undefeated at 2-0. BetBoom has a full game advantage in Group B, with Nexus Gaming in second place at 2-1.

The YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025 is a 12-team event with a $150,0000 prize pool ($75,000 for first place). All teams compete in two round-robin format groups, comprised of six teams apiece, who play each other once (for five matches total) with all matches being best-of-one.

The winners of each group advance to the semifinals, with the group stage runners-up moving to the quarterfinals as the high seeds. The third-place teams in each group go to the quarterfinals as the lower seeds.

Playoffs are a single-elimination bracket, with all matches being best-of-three.

NAVI enjoyed wins over 9Pandas (13-8 on Mirage), GUN5 (13-2 on Ancient) and Nemiga (13-9 on Mirage) to stake their early lead in Group A. Eclot took down Partizan 13-10 on Ancient and edged Nemiga 16-14 on Ancient.

In other Group A action, GUN5 defeated Nemiga 13-7 on Dust II and 9Pandas beat Partizan 13-11 on Dust II.

BetBoom got to 3-0 by downing Nexus (13-10 on Nuke), MZP (13-10 on Nuke) and Spirit.A (13-10 on Inferno). Nexus rebounded from that loss to beat Spirit.A (13-11 on Nuke) and ENCE (13-7 on Anubis).

Other Group B results included GTZ defeating MZP 16-14 on Anubis and ENCE hammering GTZ 13-5 on Anubis.

Matches continue Friday with a full slate.

Friday schedule:

Group A

9Pandas vs. Eclot

Partizan vs. GUN5

NAVI Jr. vs. Eclot

Nemiga vs. Partizan

9Pandas vs. GUN5

Partizan vs. NAVI Jr.

Eclot vs. GUN5

Nemiga vs. 9Pandas