FURIA Beat Vitality to Reach Rivals Semifinals

FURIA advanced directly to the semifinals by defeating Vitality in their Group A victory match at BLAST Rivals Hong Kong. The series started with a 5-13 loss on Inferno. FURIA then won 13-10 on Dust2, and on Mirage they crushed Vitality 13-0.

For Vitality, this was the first match in Counter-Strike 2 in which they failed to win a single round on a map. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut's noticeable ineffectiveness throughout the series was a major factor in the team's drop in performance. Vitality's resistance in the early rounds on Dust2 stood out, but after they won the first rifle round, FURIA's economy was broken. Even so, Vitality could not go beyond three rounds at the halftime score.

Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo said in his post-match statement that the team is on a busy event schedule and has a short window to fix its mistakes. FURIA will return directly to the practice server after the match.

Vitality remains in the playoffs but will start from the quarterfinals with lowered morale.