Na’vi’s B1ad3 wins Coach of the Year at the 2022 Esports Awards

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Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi wins Esports Coach of the Year at the 2022 Esports Awards. The Na’vi head coach helped the team overcome the unimaginable difficulties of dealing with a war on home soil while delivering world-class results in the Counter-Strike server.

Since B1ad3 was brought over from Gambit in the winter of 2019 to coach Na’vi, the Ukrainian-based organization has had its longest stretch of success dating back to the CS 1.6 days. Starting in 2021, Na’vi has an impressive 18 first-place finishes in S-tier events. Their success culminated in earning the greatest CS player ever to grace the server, Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, hisfirst CS Major trophyin his career.

B1ad3 Takes Coach of the Year at the Esports Awards

On top of the dominant in-game results underB1ad3, the 36-year-old, Ukrainian-born coach, unfortunately, had to deal with impossible circumstances throughout the majority of 2022 withRussia’s invasion of Ukraine. Na’vi faced insurmountable odds. Many questioned the viability of competing and improving with the threat of violence at their doorstep,

Despite the horror happening in their country, Na’vi and B1ad3 persisted. In a year where Na’vi faced improved competition from the dreamFaZe roster, they managed to be consistently a top-three team. B1ad3 also dealt with roster complications and fitting in new names to a proven system. The arrival ofValerii “b1t” VakhovskyiandViktor “sdy” Orudzhevwas a shift, but B1ad3 incorporated them efficiently and kept Na’vi competitive.

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Furthermore, with no shortage of coaching talent to choose from, the voters opted for one of the most established names in the esports industry. Add on another momentous career achievement for B1ad3 and one earned off the back of overcoming incredible odds. He joins previous winnersByung-Chul “MOON” Moon, Lee ‘Heen’ Seung Gon, and  CSGO legend Danny “zonic” Sørensen

TheEsports Awards is streamedlive from the Resorts World Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event is back to an in-person show after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic. With seats available for the general public, media, and guests, 2022 is one of the biggest years yet for the young Awards Show.

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