On July 15th, during a press conference with broadcasting partners for the IEM Cologne 2021 tournament, Na`Vi’s representative s1mple along with coach B1ad3 sent greetings to Vietnamese fans. In fact, this was a small request from the casters from 500Bros Media (the broadcasting unit for the tournament in Vietnam), but the way the “idols” from Na`Vi happily obliged made fans incredibly happy.
Besides Na`Vi, other teams in the top 6 of IEM Cologne 2021 such as Astralis, G2 Esports, Gambit, Virtus.Pro, and FaZe Clan also held similar press conferences before the playoffs. In this online press conference, all players and coaches from the teams were free to take questions from media and studios worldwide and respond in detail. The Vietnamese representatives attending the press conference were the casters from 500Bros Media. After the press conference concluded, 500Bros also released a video of the Q&A session between the casters and the pro players present.
The press conference helped the audience get answers to many interesting questions surrounding the tournament and the internal dynamics of the teams. For example, members of Astralis are now enjoying playing without a main AWPer, or G2 Esports feeling completely fine with Amanek taking over the AWP in place of the legendary kennyS…
The direct exchanges between the studios and pro players during the press conference allowed the audience to have many long-standing questions about their idols answered.
The playoffs of IEM Cologne 2021 will take place over three days, on July 16, 17, and 18, 2021, starting at 21:00 each day. Viewers can follow the tournament with live commentary in Vietnamese on the channel nimo.tv/500bros.