Vitality send Astralis to lower semi-finals after close series

25-11-2021 23:18

A comeback on Inferno confirmed a French victory.

Vitality secured their spot in the upper bracket final at BLAST Premier Fall Final after defeating Astralis 2-1. Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire's boys claimed a very competitive Nuke 22-18 to start the series before the Danes answered on Dust2 16-14. Vitality were able to seal the deal on Inferno 16-11 following an incredible performance from Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut across the series.

The French squad earned a top-four finish at the event and is set to challenge Natus Vincere in an attempt to secure a spot in the grand finals. Astralis meanwhile move down to the lower semis and will face the winner of BIG vs FaZe on Friday at 19:30 .

ZywOo ended the series with a 1.41 rating

Vitality showed us a solid defensive display on Nuke, going toe-to-toe with Astralis in a half that saw apEX roll back the years to support ZywOo in their efforts to contain the Danish advance. The French successfully strung together five rounds in a row before switching sides ahead 9-6.

The second half started with a little chaos. Vitality won the pistol and set themselves for a push on the A bombsite before a Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer Deagle ace put an end to that, starting a force buy back-and-forth between the two teams. The awkward round exchange ended with Astralis going on a brief winning streak to retake the lead but it wasn't to last. Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's team conceded map point and had to win another force buy just before clinching overtime. The first cycle of extra time was not enough to find a winner and the two squads moved into a second set. After a flawless CT side, the French squad was able to convert a post plant on B to close overtime and steal Astralis' pick 22-18.

The new Astralis burst into their Dust2 debut with incredible force as a red-hot Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke tormented the French with both the rifle and AWP to power his team to a ten-round winning streak. apEX and co. managed to salvage the half at the very end with five in a row before switching sides at 5-10.

The French brought over their momentum from the end of the first half, slowly reducing the deficit before taking the lead at 12-11 after stopping a late A push by Astralis. Despite ZywOo's best efforts on the CT side, the Danes stayed focused and eventually clinched the map 16-14 after a short winning streak.

An early Danish streak on Inferno saw Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald and k0nfig barricade the A bombsite as the 18-year old temporarily shined in his new role with the rifle. A 0-6 disadvantage was not enough to break the Vitality spirit as they were able to make a half out of it with sporadic round wins before locking a 6-9 T side. It was Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon's time to pull a vintage performance on the CT side, winning a crucial 1v2 clutch on round 25, opening the doors for his team to close the decider 16-11 add the series 2-1.

BLAST Premier Fall Final 2021Best of 3

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25th November 2021

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Inferno

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	84 - 53	+31	92.6	75.3%	1.41
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	63 - 70	-7	80.6	72.2%	1.07
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	60 - 68	-8	68.6	61.9%	0.91
Jayson 'Kyojin' Nguyen Van Kyojin	60 - 69	-9	63.7	62.9%	0.86
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier misutaaa	48 - 70	-22	48.7	63.9%	0.75

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer blameF	64 - 56	+8	87.5	71.1%	1.20
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	81 - 73	+8	88.3	68.0%	1.12
Philip 'Lucky' Ewald Lucky	71 - 59	+12	67.9	71.1%	1.09
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	61 - 60	+1	63.7	74.2%	0.98
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	53 - 69	-16	63.6	62.9%	0.91

ZywOo > s0mple

2021-11-25 23:14

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Original comment was "Xd"

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2021-11-25 23:15

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Nice name

2021-11-26 10:46

Germans hunting for first comment as always

2021-11-25 23:16

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its 1 nolifer with 5 alts

2021-11-25 23:25

The only they can reach

2021-11-25 23:37

0/8

2021-11-25 23:20

2021-11-25 23:56

How many titles in 2021? xdddd

2021-11-26 00:07

Stop with the bait.

2021-11-26 00:08

You're actually a mad lad

2021-11-26 02:34

Really?

2021-11-26 04:51

Ok so how many majors?

2021-11-26 07:08

s1mple>sh1ro>Zyw00

2021-11-26 13:14

2nd

Bruh

blameF sick but still topfragging

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k0nfig was topfragging

And still baiting

2021-11-26 07:51

Did you watch the two Astralis games? BlameF isn't BaitF anymore haha

lmao vitality finally perform when the team is dead

they actually performed ok since summer break, I mean they won two or more series (like here) but tournaments had more teams

2021-11-25 23:17

Perform well against one week team

2021-11-25 23:33

Same team that beat NIP like one day ago. :|

2021-11-25 23:41

2021-11-25 23:47

Fluke

2021-11-26 00:55

should have actually been 2-0 for Astralis instead but BlameF lost a lot of rounds on Nuke with his ineffective lurking and baiting. The team is looking good so far , more time and practice and they will be good to go. Sucks to see whats being done to Lucky here , guy isnt even being given the second awp yet he is making his mark in the game with the rifles. Not cool, Astralis

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Fr i feel bad for him(

2021-11-25 23:23

k0nfig said Lucky preferred Rifling over Awping and thats why gla1ve is doing it

2021-11-25 23:28

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if you have actually followed Astralis and their players for as long as i have, you know their statements cant ever be taken for real. They have always lied about the things that concern the squad , they got pretty good PR training. Bubzkji over the last year has literally been there as prime example of how deeply corrupted the org is

2021-11-25 23:30

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Corrupted ? It's called business.Get over it.He is not playing awp because he is gonna get replaced soon.Other way it makes no sense.

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lmao just because i am showing their true self doesnt mean i am actually loosing my shit over it. I know damn well its just business and it has always worked in their favor , and also pretty aware of the situation around their new awper with the rumors of them getting Farlig flying around even before they got Lucky. It is obvious why isnt he getting to play with it but its pathetic from their side to not even let him second awp. He deserves better

2021-11-25 23:39

Yes, but you don t know that for sure.Maybe the guy knows he can do more with the rifler and tries to prove himself a little before getting benched.

2021-11-25 23:40

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i wouldnt ever be convinced that he himself wants to rifle this badly until the guy himself claims so. Though he is actually doing a good job at it but Glaive is missing a lot of key shots.

2021-11-25 23:42

By the looks of his first match vs nip, it didn't look happy to rifling. Honestly, he shows decent rifling, good game sense for a young player. It is PR bull***. Glaive is even worse than him awping. But I wont argue that he is not ready for t1. The Lucky transition is like "Astralis is ready for the major" or "Liquid is S-rank team at the major. Both knew they will underperform, but they sell the opposite. It is business, not good one thought.

2021-11-26 00:02

Well i said that a few times here already, he is probably getting replaced.I don t see any other reason for him not to awp and yes he does look kinda sad.With blame and k0nfig coming into the team there is no reason for them to bet on players anymore.Just threw the money and buy a good one.

2021-11-26 10:44

But farlig is not that good. I watched a lot of fpx/godsent. He whifed a lot and has average gamesense. He is better than lucky, but I feel lucky you will be better at 22. And he started his career with astralis in horrible conditions. He has to replace device, the team was dead before the major. I feel he is a top player of academy league. It doesnt mean that he is a t1 player, but still. If g2 get monesy and og flamez, stop rely on old geezer like xypex and try to train young players.

2021-11-26 15:01

But in that case you would keep him awping. That way when you replace him its a straight swap in roles

2021-11-26 08:42

his pistols are crazy though. His rifle on inferno ct was sick actually. I think he has the potention to become a good rifler:)

2021-11-26 11:16

he has managed pretty well without the awp so far , yes

2021-11-26 12:19

lucky next victim of Snakestralis stategy to give young players spots just to cut them and sell them

2021-11-26 03:17

expected smart reply from Tabsen`s countryman

2021-11-26 10:54

yes and Tabsen would never do that (because no one in the world takes washed german players like nex, keev, spidi, denis except lower tier german teams)

2021-11-26 11:50

the baggage that zywoo needs to carry. lmao

gg wp

it was a nice game Lets go Vita V for Victory

zywoo csgoat

2021-11-25 23:19

did this get deleted for like two minutes?

2021-11-25 23:21

yep , it went missing for a minute or two edit : the old link of the article is still 404ed

-mitsuta -kyojin

This version of Astralis is looking very interesting and exciting

Zywootality

Flukes

G______G

2021-11-25 23:22

Astralis had 11 days of praccing leading up to this event, and they perform like this, damn. Interesting team for sure, possible top 3 contender? Excited for Vitality rebuild in 2022 aswell, but can ZywoO even speak proper English, cause if dupreeh, magisk and z0nic joins, he'd be forced to learn English lmao

2021-11-25 23:26

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Zywoo is pretty decent.Enough to give calls and shit but it s gonna take some time settle things ofc.It s gonna be hard for the Astralis trio as well, they spoke danish most of their careers so...And yeah they are good but they are not going anywhere without a at least decent awper.

Dawg, ZywOo has 3.4k Faceit matches, he knows enough English for in-game use at least.

2021-11-25 23:43

they even said themselves, that it would be troubling for zywoo to speak english lol

2021-11-28 23:17

Where? In a recent interview for Fragbite, ZywOo said his English is good enough for in-game communication, it's only IRL conversations he struggles with.

2021-11-29 12:40

It astonishes me how few pros actually speak decent English.

2021-11-26 00:15

no one know how they play ,even them .. so teams can t prepare for them yet but they have good potential

2021-11-26 00:32

Save zywoo pls

Are you not aware of the news?

Wtf how do zombie vitality take down god k0nfig on awp???

Zywoo carrying vita S1mple carrying NaVi Same as all ways and Saturday we will see then clash ones again

XI WU PRIDE OF THE EAST !!!

2021-11-25 23:55

+10 social credit

intelligent puh bear, gets all the honey

2021-11-26 03:19

Happy to se Lucky improving

I like this new astralis. They should've won first map :| Vitality is new NAVI :)

2021-11-26 00:03

Congrats Zywoo, you won

2021-11-26 00:26

See lucky is doing well

2021-11-26 00:34

baitF higher rating than k0nfig because he baits and has high KAST, so fucking stupid. 17 kills less and higher rating lul

2021-11-26 00:45

That Zywoo's numbers. Wow

Ez for Zywoo+4

2021-11-26 01:19

ZywOo hard carry dead team, nothing new here

Imagine being a player on Vitality and having a teammate, or a trashmate that should have your back, drinking water hands off keyboard, in the middle of a live round leaving you to die and for himself to be killed... Sometimes I think that org have no Owner nor a proper management... Absolutely disgusting, actually like the trash doing this!

2021-11-26 01:41

Are you stupid? The play was to hide to surprise them. Him drinking water was either for the camera or because he knew he had enough time which he indeed did have. He wasn't supposed to help misutaaa there

2021-11-26 10:19

You seem to know a lot about stupidity... Actually, the analysis on the play, leaves no doubt that you are surely an expert on that field.

2021-11-26 10:45

Imagine ZywOo wasn't on vitality. They'd be fucked.

2021-11-26 03:18

blameF 64 kills 1.20 rating k0nfig 81 kills 1.12 rating

2021-11-26 04:15

I am happy that it was a good game of Counter-Strike.

2021-11-26 04:52

GGs, NIce game to watch

2021-11-26 05:45

Hltv rating at its finest. Konfig almost 20 frags more, higher adr while being main entry most of times, still lower than Blamefs easy roles. Joke.

2021-11-26 08:59

Zywoo's k/d bigger than k/d for the whole australis team. LOL.

2021-11-26 14:00

Dead team still making it to the upper bracket final, that tells you something about the form in which teams are atm. Astralis should've won that everyday of the week, but I still believe they will make the comeback in lower bracket. Let's go Astralis!

2021-11-26 16:14