Team Vitality wins BLAST Rivals, takes fifth CS2 event in a row
Image Credit: BLAST French esports organisation Team Vitality continued its dominance in the Counter-Strike 2 scene by winning the latest BLAST Rivals tournament. The team defeated Saudi Arabian organisation Team Falcons in the Grand Final once again, one week after the squad defeated the same team at the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Melbourne. Team Vitality’s … Continued The post Team Vitality wins BLAST Rivals, takes fifth CS2 event in a row appeared first on Esports Insider.
French esports organisation Team Vitality continued its dominance in the Counter-Strike 2 scene by winning the latest BLAST Rivals tournament.
The team defeated Saudi Arabian organisation Team Falcons in the Grand Final once again, one week after the squad defeated the same team at the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Melbourne.
Team Vitality’s victory makes it the fifth tournament the organisation has won in a row, following IEM Katowice, ESL Pro League Season 21, BLAST Open Rivals and IEM Melbourne.
With the latest BLAST trophy, Team Vitality is also on an incredible 25-match win streak, the second-longest streak in CS2 history, only falling behind Ninjas in Pyjamas’ 60-0 streak.
Team Vitality also took home $125,000 (~£94,516) in prize money and two Tokens from the Frequent Flyers Program (FFP), the revenue share program created by BLAST, which features an extra combined $2m (~£1,506,704) prize pool split between the teams. Vitality now leads the standings with six points, followed by Team Spirit at four.
BLAST Rivals Final Rundown
The series started off with a major surprise as Team Falcons were able to stop the opponent’s 16 win streak on Inferno, taking the first map with a 13-9 score. Vitality, however, quickly regained control by winning both Dust2 and Train with a 13-6 score line.
Team Vitality almost made an incredible comeback on Mirage, after Team Falcons found an incredible 12-3 lead. Despite forcing an overtime, the French team lost the map after a clutch 1v2 play by Falcons’ m0NESY.
In the final and decisive series, it was the duo of Robin ‘ropz’ Kool and Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut that took the spotlight, scoring a total of 44 kills on Nuke and closing out the series with a 13-8 score. The latter was named MVP of the tournament, making it his 25th award as he extends the lead on second place Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Olehovych Kostyliev.
The Grand Final match saw over 1m viewers tune in, according to data company Esports Charts, making it the second most-watched BLAST event behind the BLAST Paris Major (1,528,724).
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