Vitality champion Blast Rivals after winning against Falcons, winning the fifth consecutive title
CS205/05 10:43

The ESL Grand Slam champion continues to be unbeaten another tournament.


Vitality defeated Falcons in the Blast Rivals 2025 Season 1 final with a score of 3-2 (Inferno 9-13, Dust2 13-6, Train 13-6, Mirage 14-16, Nuke 13-8), thereby extending the dominant series since the addition of Robin "⁠Ropz⁠" Kool to the squad.

"Another map lasting, I think I'm going to die," Dan "⁠apex⁠" Madesclaire shared after the match in the live interview. “We play very well, and play very badly. 


"As the CT on that mirage, I don't know what the hell happened. The plan was, but no one obeyed, and then we lost one circuit. Inferno fell asleep, but the other three map was extremely good."


The winning chains are the focus of the discussion before the match. Vitality entered the final with an unbeaten chain starting in February and the opportunity to win the 5th consecutive title - what they have completed.


They now have a series of 25 consecutive matches, just behind the legendary series of 60 matches of Ninjas in Pyjamas, and just added a trophy to the collection that had both ESL Grand Slam and IEM Melbourne last week.


However, Falcons ended a series of 16 consecutive victories of Vitality on the Inferno map, opening the Bo5 series with an unexpected victory.
Despite losing 2-13 in the final of IEM Melbourne, this time Falcons played better thanks to Ilya "⁠m0nesy⁠" Osipov burden, keeping 6-6 half and excellent competition on T side to win 13-9.

Dust2 is the map picks of Falcons, where they started well, but a phase losing Half-Buy at 3-2 ratios caused the turn to turn. Vitality takes full advantage of, led 9-3 half and won 13-6 final.

Sang Train, Vitality continues to control the game. Shahar "⁠Flamez⁠" Shushan has 5/7 successful entry phase on the side and continues to shine when defending. Falcons only won Pistol Round, completely inferior and let Vitality take a lead 2-1.

Mirage is the place where Falcons turn the situation thanks to René "⁠teses⁠" Madsen Clutch 1vs2 with Deagle. They overwhelmed the first half with a score of 9-3, then led 12-3 after winning Pistol for the second half. However, Vitality almost came back and pulled the match into Overtime, but M0nesy ended their hope with Clutch 1VS2, helping Falcons win 16-14 in the fourth map.

Nuke is the last catwalk, where Vitality returns to destruction. Zywoo and Ropz constantly have Multi-Kill on the side to help the team lead 7-5. They won Pistol on the CT and ended the match with a 13-8 victory, affirming the position of the strongest team in the world today.