We’re not yet at the point where Vitality are entirely boring to see win an event, but we’re definitely getting there.

They’re far and away the best team in the world right now, and even taking a map off of them is an impressive feat. So what does it say about a team who takes two maps off of them?

Vitality’s win was impressive and all that, yadda yadda, best team in the world, ropz wins again, you know the drill; but the real story here is MOUZ.

We were a little bit in denial about how good they were, we have to admit. You don’t get to get rid of your young prodigy IGL (again) and all of a sudden go from top 5 to top 2. That’s not fair. It’s not real. Especially with Brollan taking over IGL duties.

We were struggling to think of a more obvious bad idea than that at the time. We were workshopping jokes like “this was as bad an idea as buying a Tesla in California” or “trying out League of Legends to help you calm down”.

You can see we never finished them - because MOUZ showed us. They showed us all.

They’re genuinely just the second best team in the world. They might have got goobed on map one 0-13, but they then took the next two maps against the best team in the world to set up what would have been a real marquee win.

They didn’t complete it – and actually, Vitality showed some serious ‘couilles’ (thanks, Collins) on map five with the game on the line - but this was an undeniable performance. We can no longer deny that Brollan as IGL is better than siuhy.

And, well, Spinx is better than Brollan, but we kinda knew that anyway. He was a tour de force on map two and ended the series with 74 kills, bested by only ZywOo (obviously). He’s really good, and it’s a large part as to why this move works.

MOUZ are really, really good. It just happens that Vitality are so good, that even when they win we write sonnets about the team who lost to them.

Who beats Vitality? It’s hard to imagine anyone other than MOUZ, or a 100-kill performance from donk, beating them right now.

Final standings:

1st 🇪🇺 Vitality – $150.000
2nd 🇪🇺 MOUZ – $60.000
3-4th 🇷🇺 Spirit – $40.000
3-4th 🇹🇷 Eternal Fire – $40.000
5-6th 🇪🇺 Natus Vincere – $20.000
5-6th 🇪🇺 G2 – $20.000
7-8th 🇲🇳 The MongolZ – $10.000
7-8th 🇷🇺 Virtus.pro – $10.000

“Another trophy, what the f–ck is going on […] Happy for this young talented man and his first triangle.” Source: apEX