Vitality dismantle Astralis to secure upper semis at BLAST

15-12-2021 19:29

The Frenchmen were unfazed by a very uninspiring Danish performance.

Vitality have claimed their first win at BLAST Premier World Finals after taking down Astralis 2-0. Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire's boys opened up the series with a statement win on Nuke 16-4 before closing the series on Mirage 16-6.

The winners will face G2 and an on-fire Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač in the next round of play to secure a spot in the upper bracket final. Meanwhile, Astralis will fight Ninjas in Pyjamas in the lower bracket for tournament survival on Thursday.

misutaaa dominated Astralis on the CT side of Nuke

Vitality executed a near-flawless CT side on Nuke as the combination of Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut outside and Kévin "⁠misutaaa⁠" Rabier on ramp completely shut down Astralis. misutaaa accumulated 20 frags in the first half of play, denying the Danes any chance to gain traction on the offense while powering his team to a 12-3 lead at halftime.

The struggles were not over for Astralis as a failure to claim the second pistol only made things worse for them. Vitality comfortably closed the second half 16-4, only conceding one round to a great A site hold from Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald.

The Frenchmen were not any kinder to Astralis on Mirage. Vitality claimed the opening pistol and began to cruise through the half, only conceding rounds to heroic plays from Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer and Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke.

This time, it was Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon's time to shine alongside ZywOo as the pair helped Vitality comfortably claim the first half 10-5. It was more of the same in the second half as a demoralized Astralis failed to make a dent in the French defense, claiming just one round on the T side before conceding the map 6-16 and the series 0-2.

BLAST Premier World Final 2021Best of 3

Vitality

Matchpage

15th December 2021

Astralis

Nuke

Mirage

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	52 - 13	+39	124.0	90.5%	2.08
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier misutaaa	35 - 22	+13	91.1	83.3%	1.43
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	33 - 24	+9	78.5	78.6%	1.28
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	28 - 22	+6	79.0	73.8%	1.15
Jayson 'Kyojin' Nguyen Van Kyojin	28 - 21	+7	67.3	78.6%	1.12

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer blameF	26 - 33	-7	78.6	57.1%	0.90
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	25 - 35	-10	66.4	50.0%	0.82
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	19 - 36	-17	67.4	54.8%	0.68
Philip 'Lucky' Ewald Lucky	21 - 35	-14	48.1	50.0%	0.63
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	11 - 37	-26	32.1	40.5%	0.31

Godwoo

2021-12-15 19:29

13 replies

top1 player in the world zywoo dominating as always

2021-12-15 19:44

12 replies

2021-12-15 21:57

10 replies

have some shame and delete ur acc

2021-12-15 22:32

9 replies

Have some respect hater

2021-12-16 06:47

flair

2021-12-16 14:11

7 replies

NAME

2021-12-16 14:16

6 replies

Still Pronax has more majors lol

2021-12-16 15:38

5 replies

even bit has more earnings than ''pronax'' pipe down

2021-12-16 15:59

4 replies

lol with this sentence you've confirmed that you're a newbie

2021-12-16 17:28

3 replies

ok oldfag

2 replies

2021-06-3 signed up omegaLUL

2021-12-16 22:18

1 reply

you know the reason why..

2021-12-16 22:25

How #1, it's one game brother, not the whole year. If you mean #1 from last year sure.

2021-12-16 13:10

too easy

ez zywootality

2021-12-15 19:30

glaive god

OMEGALUL!

2021-12-15 22:28

Kick this crap glaive

2021-12-15 19:31

Absolutely stomped

So ez for ZywOo or to phrase it differently: "this guy is on an other level!"

Team vitality ripping the team instead of replace kyojini with amanek or jackz is one of the biggest mistakes ever in cs This happen and a lol CEO come to cs, just divas who want random rosters

2021-12-15 19:32

very very mad astralis fan

2021-12-15 19:35

Wtf i talking about how sign ex astralis core is a shit idea

2021-12-15 20:01

fair enough

2021-12-15 21:17

2021-12-16 01:50

Very true but what do you expect from a low iq CEO ?

2021-12-15 19:47

He is trying his best to get everyone he can for free.

2021-12-15 19:50

Vitality is aiming to defeat navi, anyone can beat this astralis

2021-12-15 19:48

New vitality will fucking sucks

2021-12-15 20:00

Or even bring back rpk who honestly wasnt even playing bad when he got replaced and was a perfect fit in T-side support / CT anchor role

2021-12-16 00:05

EZ for XI WU

52-13 lmao, good night Astralis.

I am afraid Astralis is a dead team

zywoo 13 death i didn t even notice when watching the game

Too many red bulls boys

zywho to good

2021-12-15 19:36

5 min win

2021-12-15 19:37

52:13, wow

2021-12-15 19:38

Shakespeare was right about Denkmar

ahaha

2021-12-15 19:39

Astralis need awper lul ez 4 Zywoo

dEaD tEaM kekw

GOATwoo

2021-12-15 19:40

52-13 good night Danes

2021-12-15 19:41

IN HIS CURRENT FORM ZYWOO IS THE BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD

2021-12-15 19:43

2.08 in a bo3, its pretty rare for sure I guess only simple already did it

2021-12-15 19:45

I have never seen +39 in fucking 2 maps

2021-12-15 20:48

True that!!! this is absolute dominance

2021-12-16 09:14

Jesus he really did them dirty

2021-12-16 00:07

Flamie vs qbf did it

2021-12-16 03:13

Yes thank you! hltv.org/matches/2318626/natus-vincere-v.. Was wondering if it already happened, nice find dude 👍👍👍 Was it this map with the best half ever witnessed by flamie on mirage ?

2021-12-16 08:14

It seems yes, just like you said, pretty rare to do 2.0+ rating

2021-12-16 09:00

I checked the mirage 32 - 6 by flamie on a single half For god sake! 😂

2021-12-16 10:19

Against Astralis? S1mple has no 2+ rating against them.

2021-12-16 06:49

2018 Astralis > 2021 Astralis

2021-12-16 08:52

Can Astralis management or gla1ve explain why is he primarly awp instead of Lucky,whom they pick for this position? Why you get rid of Magisk and dupreeh and keep gla1ve xyp9x why not to try new players from academy?I agree with free agents like blameF and k0nfig both young and very good star players,but srsly i don`t understand what gla1ve is doing as main awp Lucky as rifler? How you are supposed to win tournaments and keep being tier1 team with your igl being awper and good awper has 0 chance to show off,or have a chance to do it,instead he must adapt to be a riffler ?

Because Astralis management has been a fucking joke for years and a PR bullshit machine who constantly feeds lies to the public to keep their shareholders happy since it's a public trading company. Lets look at some examples: 'lucky is gonna be our long time awper' 'Gla1ve didnt took the AWP It was an agreed matter by everyone specially by Lucky' 'Bubzki, snappi, es3tag and Jugi are gonna be a part of our 10 men roster and defenitively not cheap replacements for our burnt out players who are pretty much on strike' 'We dont favour Blast tournaments because there's defenitively not a conflict of interest of Astralis management and Blast's being the same'... And so on

2021-12-16 00:14

cool,thanks for info

2021-12-16 08:39

VItality beast form right now. Lovely

52-13 lmao what kind of rape is that haha

Astralis ain't gonna beat Liquid at this state

2021-12-15 19:52

#stomp

2021-12-15 19:54

zywoo readed nexa s interview and decided to show hes wrong

zywoo 13 deaths gla1ve 11 kills

2021-12-15 19:58

MADWOO

Astralis kinda dead with xyp0x and gla1ve on awp Obviously they need some awp and get rid of xyp0x

2021-12-15 19:59

52-13. WOW

w t f

Why would they create a new roster when its going so great. Will be hard for the new one to top this 😅

2021-12-15 20:03

Because they aim higher and have bigger expectations than you have for them. Because in the next tournament had they been beaten up by Navi or G2, you'd post "disband" or something of the sort. Edit. JK, I get that you are joking.

2021-12-15 20:17

52 - 13 :X intense

2021-12-15 20:07

52-13 omagad

124 ADR is insane

2021-12-15 20:09

That actually hurt to watch - keep grinding <3

2021-12-15 20:18

Apex got a plus score. The world is about to end.

52-13 good night danes LMAO

2021-12-15 20:19

When even kyojin is posting a 1.1+ rating, you know something's gone terribly wrong with the other team

2021-12-15 20:20

LOL, true that. Can't believe Vitality want to change this team, granted they played against a fairly new Astralis roster. Oh well, one last ride with this Vitality roster will be good :)

2021-12-15 22:30

0.31

2021-12-15 20:49

ZyGOD

2021-12-15 20:57

13 deaths WTF

2021-12-15 21:24

Kick Lucky and BaitF pls

2021-12-15 21:34

Jesus Christ, Zywoo had quite a warmup game

2021-12-15 21:42

Astralis 21 rounds in 4maps after they cudnt use crowd cheat, free konfig pls

2021-12-15 21:52

this Astralis lineup is already done guys, it was dumb to resign Xyp for so long and with glaive fragging under 10 it is already half the firepower of any other t1 team, maybe they improve if they get a real awper after christmas break but its not working like that.

2021-12-15 22:25

Dysmantle is a good game on steam, get it!

2021-12-15 23:46

Not bad performance from zywoo but still far from his record 52 kills in 1 map

2021-12-16 00:30

Zywoo smurfing.

2021-12-16 01:01

zywooooooooooooooo

2021-12-16 01:04

Complexity k0nfig - blamef > astralis k0nfig - blamef… I think xyp and gla1ve peeked with the old roster. This Looks great on paper though

2021-12-16 01:45

zywoo playing without pressure = disgusting

2021-12-16 02:06

Makes you think what if they did -Lucky +Bubzkji? If Gla1ve is gonna be AWPing anyways might as well get a second entry fragger rather than another baiter.

2021-12-16 02:12