NAVI sweeps SK Gaming

Natus Vincere swept SK Gaming 3-0 on April 12 in the Brawl Stars Championship 2026 April EMEA Monthly Finals and moved into the regional semifinals. (liquipedia.net) The match was a quarterfinal in an eight-team, single-elimination bracket run by Supercell and BLAST for Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Middle East, and Africa. The one-day event carries a $42,000 prize pool, with $12,000 and 60 points for first place and $2,500 and 10 points for teams eliminated in the quarterfinals. (liquipedia.net) The official Brawl Stars Championship site listed NAVI fourth in the EMEA leaderboard on April 10 with 146 points, while SK Gaming was sixth with 134 points before Sunday’s matches. That put both teams in range of a standings swing in a format where monthly finals points feed the season race. (event.supercell.com) Brawl Stars Championship is Supercell’s yearlong circuit for the mobile game Brawl Stars, with monthly qualifiers feeding monthly finals in each region. The official site also says players can earn more chances through Challenger circuits, whose winners advance to in-person Challengers Finals in Istanbul, Türkiye, on September 5 and 6. (event.supercell.com) Sunday’s EMEA show was streamed live on the Brawl Stars Esports YouTube channel, where the April Monthly Finals broadcast had just gone live as the regional bracket began. The event page also tied the broadcast to live predictions, cheering, quizzes, and in-game rewards for viewers. (youtube.com) (event.supercell.com) Liquipedia’s bracket showed NAVI advancing to face Big Talents in the semifinal after Big Talents beat HMBLE 3-0 in the other completed quarterfinal. The remaining side of the bracket included FUT Esports against FUT Esports Academy and Team Heretics against Madrid. (liquipedia.net) NAVI had framed SK Gaming as a dangerous opener before the event, writing on April 12 that SK had missed last month’s open qualifiers but had “recently” shown strong form again. That note matched the stakes of a quarterfinal between two established EMEA organizations chasing points early in the 2026 season. (navi.gg) SK Gaming’s public reaction after the loss focused on its own play rather than the bracket. In a post linked from the match coverage, the team said it needed to fix mistakes ahead of the World Finals race, closing the day with a blunt self-assessment after a 3-0 exit. (x.com)