ZywOo carry Vitality to the Grand Final
Astralis could not handle the young French superstar!
Vitality and Astralis butted heads earlier this week, resulting in a 2-1 victory for Vitality. Now it was Astralis' turn to show that the first match was just a fluke.
Unsurprisingly Astralis picked Nuke, which so far has looked like their go-to map. The clear weak spot of Astralis have been their T-sides, which is why it was very important that they won the opening pistol round and converted the following two. Vitality led by “ZywOo” and “misutaaa” were able to answer back which gave us an incredibly close first half, with Vitality just edging out Astralis and going to halftime with an 8-7 lead.
Vitality extended their lead even further going up 12-7, but that’s when the exceptional Astralis CT-side came into play. Spearheaded by the clutch minister “Xyp9x”, Astralis took every round from that point and won their map pick 16-12.
Vitality were also predictable with their map pick, which was Inferno. When they clashed earlier this week it was Vitality that took a convincing win at 16-11. A good start was heavily needed for Vitality, as the Danes on the other side statistically have been the best CT-side team of the tournament winning almost 70% of their CT-rounds.
The French team did get the best start with a quad kill in the pistol by “Kyojin”. Both teams were great at stringing rounds together, which made the half somewhat streaky with Astralis coming out on top 8-7, carried by a monster performance from “k0nfig”.
"k0nfig" continued his brilliant showing after the break, but the support from his team was a bit lacking. This allowed "ZywOo" to go berserk, and Vitality to retake the lead on the map. Astralis never really managed to pressure the defense of the French squad, and the map concluded at 16-11 in favor of Vitality.
The decider map left over was the eternal Mirage. The French side started the map out on the CT-side with the Danes attacking.
Vitality started hot and heavy with beautiful individual rounds from the French side, but Astralis was not deterred. The T-side looked better for Astralis than it had done early this week and they were able to get to the half at an acceptable 9-6 in favor of the Frenchmen.
It was again the French squad that got the best start in the second half getting up to 13-6, making the rematch of the Upper Final look very possible. Astralis did manage to take one round win on their CT-side, but that was it. Vitality take the map 16-7 and thereby the series 2-1.
The Frenchmen will now have to face the #1 team in the world, in the Grand Final later tonight!
Highlight of the BO3-series:
Vitality – Astralis (2-1) | BLAST Fall Final 2021 (Consolidation Final)
12-16 (Nuke) |
16-11 (Inferno) |
16-7 (Mirage) |
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