Vitality officially won tickets to the playoffs round at Iem Melbourne after a 2-0 victory over Liquid
CS222-04 19:07

Vitality continues to extend the unbeaten series to 18, marking a strong step in the journey to conquer the title at Iem Melbourne. With a 2-0 victory over Liquid in the semi-finals of the B-Group B branch, the French team will participate in the winner of the victory branch to determine the seed ranking in the Playoffs round. Meanwhile, Russel "⁠twistzz⁠" Van Dulken and his teammates were forced to continue the battle of survival of the losing branch.

At Map Mirage, the French captain Dan "⁠apex⁠" Madesclaire opened the explosive screen with an excellent performance on the CT side, scored 15 points to defeat and only lay down 6 times, helping Vitality lead 10-2 after the first half.
Not only APEX, Shahar "⁠Flamez⁠" Shushan also shines when repeatedly repelling Liquid's efforts. The map was closed with the eye-catching 2vs5 flip from the "⁠Ropz⁠" Kool "⁠zza⁠" ⁠zywoo⁠ "herbaut, bringing the map and the 13-5 victory for Vitality.

The script continues to repeat at Nuke map. Although Liquid has several impressive counterattacks, including Guy's 2vs4 flip situation "⁠Nertz⁠" Iluz and Twistzz, but when the two sides entered the full set of equipment, Vitality quickly regained the game.

Flamez and Ropz continued to keep their forms high, each had life moments - Flamez Clutch 1VS3 with 4 defeated networks, and Ropz showed the mischief in the 1vs2 phase to bring the team to Match Point.

Liquid tried to hold on to hope with a mental counterattack, including a 2vs5 flip, but that only helped them extend the game a little more before Vitality officially closed the match with the victory, while raising the series of winning successes from January to 18.

With this achievement, Vitality overcame the series of 17 legendary victories of Astralis in the period of 2018-2019 and was on the journey to closely follow Liquid's 23-match record in 2019. However, the goal further-60 consecutive victories of Ninjas In Pyjamas from the early days of CS: Go debuted (2012-2013)-still a long-term challenge.