Vitality win fifth consecutive event with 3-2 victory over Falcons

It's grand final day at BLAST Rivals and who would've guessed it - Vitality were victorious.

Their fifth event win in a row, the French organisation added their second BLAST trophy of the year in Copenhagen, after previously winning BLAST Open Lisbon against MOUZ.

The second five-map thriller between Vitality and Falcons, let's go over the action.

Falcons break Vitality's Inferno streak

The series opened in an unexpected way, Falcons broke Vitality's impressive win-streak on inferno.

We knew we were in for a banger from the very first round, Magisk made Vitality look silly as he picked up two through a smoke and another as the retake got underway.

At least ZywOo had the smoke blown open first...

The stars of both teams were firing on all cylinders, m0NESY locked down Banana to keep the scores even at 6-6 going into halftime.

11-8 down, Vitality looked like they might close the gap further in a 4v2, but TeSeS was having none of it as he picked up all four to secure Falcons map point.

The map came to a close just two rounds later at 13-9, m0NESY topped the scoreboard with a 23-14 statline.

Vitality bounce back on Dust2

Vitality proved why they're the best team in the world on map two, they came into Dust2 swinging and drew the series level with a 13-6 scoreline.

ZywOo was frying in the first half, he gunned down Falcons from Car as they tried to gain Long control.

9-3 at the half, Falcons were threatening to make the game close, but a clutch knife kill from apEX prevented kyxsan from defusing with 0.00 seconds left.

Yeah. That's how close it was. The game doesn't even display the thousandths of a second in which apEX saved the day.

That round would take the wind out of Falcons' sails, Vitality soon closed out the game with ZywOo at the top of the scoreboard thanks to his 17 kills.

Vitality comfortable on Train

Going into Train, Falcons were clearly a little scared. Not of Vitality, though. No, NiKo was just scaring Magisk.

7-5 at the half, Vitality went into the break with an advantage from their T side. ropz came up big in round 12, his four kills secured the seventh.

Vitality's CT side was even stronger, allowing Falcons just a single round as flameZ's 20 kills took us to map four at 13-6.

Falcons hold on to win in OT despite Vitality comeback

Mirage looked like it would be close in its early stages, ropz and flameZ came up big on Vitality's second round force buy to tie the score at 1-1.

However, Falcons would run away with the first half, shots like these from TeSeS would see them secure a 9-3 lead by halftime.

It was going so badly for Vitality in that first half, Falcons were even picking up rounds without armour.

Falcons opened the second half with three more rounds, looking like they would pick up a dominant win as they had nine map points.

However, Vitality kept pushing to make it close, their solid post-plants saw them slowly close the gap on their opponents.

And in the end, OT was confirmed, who else to send us there but ZywOo?

Unlike in Melbourne, Falcons wouldn't see the game slip away from them in OT, NiKo put in a huge play from Connector to secure a 15th round for his team.

Not to be outdone, m0NESY then secure the map in style.

Vitality win BLAST Rivals on Nuke

Nuke began as Mirage ended, with the biggest stars in the server picking up big kills.

And the trend didn't stop, ZywOo kept his cool to secure a sixth round for Vitality in the 1v2.

7-5 at the half, you could tell just how good the final had been by the fact that apEX had forgotten to charge his mouse between maps.

Falcons would try to fight back in the second half, but the duo of ropz and ZywOo would prove to just be too strong. The duo combined for 44 kills in map five, winning the event for Vitality as Nuke came to a close at 13-8.