Team Vitality were big favourites going into the match, and the Frenchmen showed exactly why. They cruised through Spirit on their map pick of Inferno with a confident 16-11 win. And even though the Russian team showed a bit more on Nuke, Vitality and especially ZywOo proved out to be too strong. ZywOo were unstoppable on both maps presenting huge numbers in a 53-26 k/d, 95.8, 1.62 rating.
Vitality advance to the upper semi-finals on Sunday, playing against the winner in the FaZe-OG matchup.
The first series of #IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 goes the way of @TeamVitality! They manage to sweep @Team__Spirit 2-0!
16-11 Inferno
16-13 Nuke?: https://t.co/fTBRGvbUbv pic.twitter.com/vmqyWmHQi2
— Intel® Extreme Masters (@IEM) November 6, 2020