If there was any doubt about it before this weekend, Vitality are now surely the greatest team of all time.

The first team to win two ESL Grand Slams, just like their Major wins, they managed them back-to-back, with this season’s race culminating in a 3-0 win over Spirit that wasn’t as one-sided as the scoreline suggests.

The two finalists began their playoff runs in dominant fashion, with both Spirit and Vitality brutalising the hapless MOUZ and NAVI. tN1R shone for Spirit in the first of the two games; the Belarusian was the biggest benefactor as the downtrodden MOUZ places struggled to even get kills on the board while Spirit surged to big leads.

As for Vitality vs NAVI, unsurprisingly, it was the ZywOo show, but his 30-7 display on Mirage was incredible even by his standards.

Despite falling to Falcons in the group stage, Spirit then made light work of Falcons in the semi-finals. You have to feel bad for kyxsan, though, if it is to be his final game in a Falcons shirt, he had to suffer yet another disastrous playoffs performance from kyousuke, who continues to do his best stavn impression any time a light shines on him.

We finally got a close game as Vitality then took on FURIA, but despite the Brazilian crowd definitely not cheating, FURIA still couldn’t roll back the clock a few months to even take off a map off the world’s number one.

Heading into the final - after Falcons had already claimed third place with successive 13-11’s over FURIA - it did actually feel like it could be anyone’s game. Spirit had been playing much better CS throughout the tournament, and they weren’t even relying on donk in order to win games.

If any team was going to beat Vitality, it felt like this team would be the one.

But facts don’t care about your feelings, and the fact is, this team might actually be unbeatable.

Spirit pushed hard, and two 6-6 halves saw Mirage head to overtime. A map in which neither donk nor ZywOo grabbed the headlines, it was instead ropz who decided the outcome. His 29 kills and clever decision to purchase a second AWP in OT saw Vitality snatch the game away and go 1-0.

Nuke was similarly close, with Spirit managing to limit Vitality to just four T-side rounds despite some very close calls. However, with apEX and ropz both chiming in for 13 kills as Spirit experienced very little joy on repeated failed ramp hits, Vitality made the series 2-0 at 13-10.

If you’re familiar with Vitality’s record on Dust2, you can already guess at how map three went. Despite it once being a map no team was truly dominant on, and it actually being Spirit’s pick, Vitality were dominant, with Spirit being lucky to even take four rounds into halftime as donk somehow managed to clutch up the 1v2.

9-4 up as a result of winning a pistol-fake that worked a bit too well, the remainder of the third map was little more than a formality. ZywOo hit shots through the doors, flameZ got some entries, and ropz and mezii picked off rotators when it was required of them. It all came to an end at 13-5, and for the second time in the space of a year (and ropz’ third time overall, another record) Vitality were handed gold bars after yet another tournament win.

As we said at the start of this piece: if it wasn’t obvious before, it should be by now. Vitality are the greatest team of all time, and we’re beginning to think there might be nothing anyone can ever do about it.