Heroic has stunned everyone, beating Vitality in the most dominant fashion that will see them book a place in the Semi-Finals at the cost of one of the best teams in the world. This marks their best performance since the release of CS2 while Vitality will have one more match between them and a Semi-Finals spot.
Veto
- HEROIC removed Inferno
- Vitality removed Ancient
- HEROIC picked Mirage
- Vitality picked Anubis
- HEROIC removed Vertigo
- Vitality removed Dust2
- Nuke was left over
Map 1: Mirage; Pick: Heroic; Winner: Heroic
Vitality came into the tournament looking to revive their form from earlier this year and it was quite evident given the 10-2 half. It looked like they were running away with the series but the second half had something completely unexpected in store for them.
Heroic in their defense put up a show that would see them post the best half of their CS2 era. Not only did they manage to come back, they did it in a very dominant fashion against one of the very best teams in the world.
sjuush and TeSeS inspired the highly ambitious comeback to win the map with a 13-11 scoreline.
Map 2: Anubis; Pick: Vitality; Winner: Heroic
Heroic converted a force buy after losing the pistol round, which they used to build an insurmountable lead of 8-4. Heroic on the offense ran all over Vitality which no one saw coming as they put themselves in prime position to progress further in the tournament.
Once again a pistol round victory from Vitality met with a force buy conversion in the following round which saw Heroic use to put a streak to win the map with a one-sided 13-5 scoreline.
With 21 kills to his name, TeSeS showed the world his true self once again in CS2 after falling out of favor with the top teams.
With this loss, Vitality will have to play in the quarter-finals of IEM Rio to reach the semi-finals. This match holds the potential to be one of the biggest upsets of 2024 which might change the dynamics of the CS2 landscape walking into the major.
