OG defeat Vitality to secure semi-final spot at BLAST World Final

The event's lowest-ranked team secures the top seed in Group B and progresses straight to the semi-final.

OG defeated Vitality with a 2-0 scoreline and got revenge for the loss at the IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage. This time, Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković and company came back from an 8-13 deficit on Inferno before closing out the series on Mirage with a 16-9 victory. Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan was the top performer on the server with a 1.28 rating, while Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire struggled individually on the other side, putting up just 14 kills in 55 rounds of play.

OG are now set to face the winner of the match between Liquid and Natus Vincere on Saturday at 12:30 , where they will hope to continue their unexpected run at the tournament. For Vitality, this isn't the end of the road, with Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut and company set to face off against G2 in Friday's quarter-final at 16:00 .

flameZ was a star all through the series

Inferno began with the teams engaging in force-buy wars, as OG's quick B attack nullified Vitality's earlier pistol-round win. ZywOo and company held on despite that, eventually taking a 4-1 lead. Once OG got to a gun round, they started exploiting Vitality's shortcomings on the CT side, particularly on the B site. They attacked the site for several rounds in a row, with Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi and especially apEX, who got just one kill in the first half, unable to deter their attacks. OG soon found themselves 7-5 up, before a late resurgence by Vitality reduced the deficit to just one at the interval.

Vitality looked like a completely different team a the start of their offense, as Spinx clutched out a 1vs3 in the pistol round. That propelled his team to a scorching start, winning six rounds in a row to find themselves 13-8 up. Just as the game looked lost for OG, Maciej "⁠F1KU⁠" Miklas leaped through smoke to kill three attackers on the B site, getting his team on the scoreboard for the first time in the half. That moment transformed the CT side in every aspect, as they started to claw back the deficit round after round. OG limited their opponents to just one more round, eventually reaching map point with a few dominant holds. Adam "⁠NEOFRAG⁠" Zouhar put the cherry on top of the map as he got an ace in the final round, OG going into Mirage with a 1-0 lead.

Next up was Mirage, a map where OG sported a 14% win rate in the last three months of play. That didn't look to be the case, however, as the European combine got off to a lightning start, with a brilliant performance by flameZ and Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov providing them early success. Vitality were slow to start but got into the game in due course, reducing the disadvantage to three rounds and looking in control of proceedings. In the closing stages of the half, it was none other than F1KU who once again stepped up when needed, winning a 1vs2 clutch to stabilize OG's economy and give them a 10-5 lead.

Vitality gave themselves a chance with a pistol-round win and kept the game close throughout the beginning of the second half but ultimately fell short. NEOFRAG won a crucial 1vs1 to get the scoreline to 13-9, and when Vitality's Palace aggression in the next round failed to work out, OG looked set to book their place in the semi-final. A 1vs1 clutch by F1KU closed out the game, securing OG's second upset in a row.

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 OG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
45 - 34 +11 84.9 74.5% 1.28
43 - 28 +15 72.0 80.0% 1.26
34 - 29 +5 73.0 78.2% 1.16
37 - 39 -2 78.6 72.7% 1.15
29 - 30 -1 62.9 74.5% 0.99
 Vitality K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating2.0
44 - 34 +10 84.6 65.5% 1.21
39 - 38 +1 72.5 70.9% 1.04
33 - 39 -6 75.3 69.1% 0.92
29 - 37 -8 56.4 67.3% 0.82
14 - 41 -27 41.4 52.7% 0.53
Poland Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas
Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
668
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.67
Czech Republic Adam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar
Adam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
734
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.67
Israel Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
505
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.65
Serbia Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković
Nemanja 'nexa' Isaković
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1306
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.63
France Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.27
Maps played:
1087
KPR:
0.84
DPR:
0.61
Israel Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
447
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.67
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Russia Abdul 'degster' Gasanov
Abdul 'degster' Gasanov
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.18
Maps played:
742
KPR:
0.78
DPR:
0.60
France Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
2066
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.70
pogs
2022-12-15 19:47
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REMINDER hltv.org/matches/2358344/og-vs-wings-up-.. WINGS UP > VITALITY
2022-12-15 19:49
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5 replies
k
2022-12-15 19:50
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#17
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roeJ | 
Romania ryad_0192
jamyoung on lan sadge
2022-12-15 19:52
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3 replies
he will play ESL conference in 2 months
2022-12-15 19:54
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2 replies
#21
Faceit level 10  | 
roeJ | 
Romania ryad_0192
and play worse than he did in esl challenger league ASIA-PACIFIC no way he will play better against better teams
2022-12-15 19:55
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? This is his first negative rated event in over a year, and only 4th negative rated event of all events he attended
2022-12-15 19:56
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fluke
2022-12-15 19:47
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#9
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NiKo | 
North America maskeddamien
When your igl gets 14 kills in 54 rounds thatll happen
2022-12-15 19:49
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even worse, 14 kills in 55 rounds
2022-12-16 00:56
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ez
2022-12-15 19:48
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vitality trash
2022-12-15 19:48
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-Apex +Alex
2022-12-15 19:49
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#7
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Czech Republic joz1ma
"og don't deserve to be there"
2022-12-15 19:50
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Not wrong tho, plenty other teams performed better than og overall this year, but yeah they definitely have the level to be there, I'm not particularly surprised they're winning
2022-12-15 22:24
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#43
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Czech Republic joz1ma
how can they not deserve to be there but at the same time win the group and have the level to be there? they legitimately qualified for the tournament through the points system, beat the future major winners in RMR, and almost eliminated Vitality later from the challengers stage while closely not getting into legends, they've shown on previous blast tournaments that they can beat the top-tier competition, what the hell else do you want? they are still a very young team in development that still needs time to reach its peak, sure, but that doesn't mean that they don't deserve to be there or that other teams deserve it more... I knew they were gonna wreck through this group the moment the article came out, hltv seems to have a need to set up drama
2022-12-16 07:29
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apex (a+b)^3
2022-12-15 19:49
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#11
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bladee | 
Latvia Namesnipe
BlastOG lmao
2022-12-15 19:50
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Deserved win. Love that Nexa gave a shout out to Striker lmao
2022-12-15 19:50
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WTF apex
2022-12-15 19:51
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Flamez beating up his future team
2022-12-15 19:51
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F1ku is so good recently, what is big surprise for me
2022-12-15 19:51
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apex 🤡
2022-12-15 19:52
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Striker crying rn
2022-12-15 19:53
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Spinx is cringe rly, one game he looks like best riffler, in a day he looks like Hooxi
2022-12-15 19:56
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zamn OG showing some quality
2022-12-15 20:12
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#25
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France ZeroIQ
This gets more interesting
2022-12-15 20:16
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botpex lul
2022-12-15 20:16
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apEx needs to get kicked spinx = bad recruitment , said it since day 1, good for a while but not battleproven enough and was already on a downward trend his last 3 monthes with ENCE
2022-12-15 20:18
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Lol
2022-12-15 20:42
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#29
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Andorra mopGOD420
Wow
2022-12-15 20:57
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NEOFRAG is coming for his 1st big trophy
2022-12-15 21:18
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#31
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Canada JC_123
unexpected actually
2022-12-15 21:19
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apex wat doink
2022-12-15 22:29
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#34
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France Nanynoodle
Pls -apex He's getting old. He dies for nothing everytime, he's flashed in the middle of nowhere and doesn't even try to hide nor random spam, he's so passive and has like 200ms reaction time. It won't work anymore against hungry young talents that are insanely fast (at least compared to him) Maybe his IGL is decent or even good but he dies everytime for nothing. He's pretty good, he's a legend etc, but not at t1 level anymore Same could be said about dupreeh but at least he reacts and manages to step up when apex steps down and down map by map...
2022-12-15 22:39
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#35
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Spain kroosw0w
kick_apEX_ffs
2022-12-15 23:02
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#36
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Romania FaZe_NBK
OG's World Final qualification exposes major flaws in BLAST's Leaderboard.
2022-12-15 23:33
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#37
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Argentina nymeros
Just saying: Aleksib would destroy everyone with his system in vitality. Matter of time i guess
2022-12-16 00:46
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#39
Faceit level 8  | 
DZ | 
Algeria SilverQuick
Save Zywoo brudda.
2022-12-16 01:33
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#40
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United States Gonginator
Wtf is with OG lol. They can win at an event that doesn't really matter?
2022-12-16 01:40
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It’s the most important blast event of the year and better prize pool than Katowice cologne etc. so with your logic only major matters or what
2022-12-17 06:35
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-xyp9x -kristou (or whoever is the 5th guy) +magix +dupreeh astralis back to the top... stop wasting your time with chockers and a fatass pretending to be superstar when in real he was a chockers
2022-12-16 02:12
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#42
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Brazil EstiveMagal
abu dhabi ????
2022-12-16 04:44
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Amazing performance from apex to give OG the W. Truly world class igl.
2022-12-16 07:35
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#45
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United Arab Emirates Vince_
Why are you crying when OG performs well?
2022-12-16 08:11
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Rip fantasy :(
2022-12-16 09:15
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OG looking good
2022-12-16 11:27
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