What a comeback for Team Vitality with that score. Falcons didn't managed to protect their lead when it happened. And as for Zywoo, congratulations to him. He's got a 1.39 rating and I have no idea what the others rating are and I don't see any incentive for being the MVP on the IEM Melbourne. Is there a prize money for him? because in dota 2, there are prize money for the ones who makes these MVP awards and other awardees.

I didn't know this but that's more than what the typical MVP prize so, it's a team effort and with the team's management too probably are getting a share with that money.

That's a tiring game, that strategy is hard to beat but Team Liquid managed to counter that. Most of the games that were just ratting in an exhausting game was tiring and just typically give up in a base race to mega creeps.

One million is a huge prize to receive and basically a bonus since it was ontop of what they have won for that tournament. But understandable since it was the final tournament of the grand slam season.
Vitality does deserve it and still goes to show Falcons that buying up all the best talent doesn't necessarily mean instant trophies through out the year.

Blast Rivals does sound new and possibly a rebranding from a tournament since reitired.
But glad they will be kicking it off soon.

Blast Rivals tournament has started today with Team Spirit vs FlyQuest.
Haven't not seen FQ play too often I can't say too much on how I expect them to perform in this contest.
But with Spirit am hoping that Donk can outperform their rivals so to move through the competition quickly.

Next matches scheduled for today are as follows:
MOUZ vs paIN
Team Vitality vs Wildcard
FaZe vs Team Falcons

So no shortage of talented teams competing in this one.

Their series delivered, and Team Falcons managed to secure the other semifinal spot. With how the brackets look, i'm starting to think this would be another Vitality vs. Falcons final unless Mouz or Team Spirit steps up.

I checked the matchups, and Group A seems deadly, even the weakest team in that group has a decent chance of pulling an upset or two.

Yesterday's playoff matches was like a speedrun as both favorites quickly wrapped the series in less than 40 rounds.

Today's semi finals should be more competitive now that the only teams remaining in the tournament are the top tier teams.

Interestingly, both favorites are sitting at 1.50-1.60, and maybe their dominating wins convinced the bookies.

Mouz curse with "Auraless" team continues and let's be honest ...they really lack aura on that team and also don't have a superstar who could lift them up a bit because no matter how great their players are ...they simply cannot catch to CS2 public and that is enough to not be a great team.

Now , we must congratulate Vitality for having 24 consecutive winnings and if they win tomorrow they will officially chase for Astralis 28 one but I have a feeling they won't top that just because that team of 2018 Astralis was something from another world and no matter how hard Vitality tries ...they are not Astralis and most likely they will fall at 27.

Blast Rivals 2025 Season 1 Grand Finals are just about to start with Team Vitality vs Team Falcons.

The favorites are of course Vitality because as mentioned by boltz and ralle14 they are nearing the record of 28 consecutive wins in professional CounterStrike.

Not too sure who to back since Falcons with M0nesy in their lineup are starting to click and it showed yesterday.

That was a great grand final!
Watched the first map where Falcons were looking sharp but then they lost the next two 6-13.
Started watching the third map where Falcons were up 12-3 but Vitality ended up making a match of it bringing it into OT. But ended up losing it because m0nesy's last two kills. He was the star of the match along with Zywoo.

After being tied 2-2 the final map was hammered at 11-8 after Falcons got confused of where they went with the bomb and ended up fumbling it all up.
That put the nail in their coffin and Team Vitality won it.

They have been outstanding all year long so far in these clutch matches.

It did look doable after they secured the remaining rounds at the end of the first half from down 1-7 to 5-7, but Vitality didn't slow down and continued racking up rounds after winning the pistol round in the second half.

At least we'll see a new team winning the upcoming PGL Astana tournament since they probably withdrew again, just like the other top teams.