Team Vitality rallied by winning the final two maps to defeat MOUZ 3-2 on Sunday in the grand final of the BLAST Open Spring in Lisbon, Portugal.
Vitality earned the $150,000 prize by capturing the best-of-five match, while MOUZ collected $60,000.
After dominating MOUZ 13-0 on Interno, Vitality fell behind with 13-11 losses on both Mirage and Dust II. However, Vitality responded with back-to-back 13-7 decisions on Nuke and Train.
Mathieu “Zyw0o” Herbaut of France led Vitality with the top performance of the day, a plus-28 kill-death differential (83-55). Teammate Robin “ropz” Kool of Estonia contributed a plus-14 (67 kills) and Shara “flameZ” Shushan of Isreal also had a positive rating of plus-5 (66-61 K-D).
MOUZ was led by Lotan “Spinx” Giladi of Israel with a plus-12 (74 kills), and teammate Jimi “Jimpphat” Salo of Finland also was in the positive number with a plus-7 (62 kills).
The clash on Sunday was a rematch of the Group A upper-bracket final, won by Vitality 2-0 in a best-of-three in the tournament’s opening stage on March 24.
The $400,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event began with the 16 teams divided into two groups for double-elimination play. All group-stage matches were best-of-three.
In the single-elimination playoffs, all matches are best-of-three until the grand final, which will be best-of-five.
BLAST Open Spring prize pool
1. $150,000 — Team Vitality
2. $60,000 — MOUZ
3-4. $40,000 — Team Spirit, Eternal Fire
5-6. $20,000 — Natus Vincere, G2 Esports
7-8. $10,000 — Virtus.pro, The MongolZ
9-12. $7,500 — Team Falcons, FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, M80
13-16. $5,000 — The Huns Esports, Astralis, Imperial Esports, FURIA
–Field Level Media
