Vitality advance to cs

After a confident Mirage (16-9) and nail-biter Overpass (28-26) Vitality secured a 2-0 victory over OG, moving on to the upper-bracket final of cs_summit 6 Europe.

In a match between Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt and his former team, it was the fully-French lineup that came out on top after two wildly different maps. On Mirage, OG didn't look dangerous aside from few rounds at the start, but they caused a lot of trouble to Vitality on Overpass, where 54 rounds were needed to decide the victor.

OG was off to a 5-3 start on Mirage, their map pick, following the pistol round win, before Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy and Kévin "⁠misutaaa⁠" Rabier, the two anchors for Vitality, started stepping up. With their help, the French team managed to turn things around, taking a 9-6 lead before the second pistol round, where Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså stuck a smoke defuse to win it for OG.

After their CT pistol success, however, the European squad was overrun on the B defense by a second-round force, which spelled disaster. After finding themselves in a 12-7 deficit, NBK- and co. held off back-to-back B-split attempts, but that success was short-lived as Vitality dismantled the defense on A and ran away with the map, 16-9.

apEX's team secured at least a third-place finish in cs_summit 6 Europe

Another close pistol round win for OG was followed by a T-side force buy win by Vitality on Overpass, this time Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut doing the heavy lifting by securing 1v3 ace. After the Frenchmen went up 5-2, Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen's men stabilized thanks to multikills from Mateusz "⁠mantuu⁠" Wilczewski and Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad, reaching a 7-5 lead.

OG weren't able to finish the half on a high, however, ultimately earning just eight rounds on the CT side, with their pistol round victory after the switch being canceled out by Vitality's force for the third time in a row. Vitality went on to reach a 13-10 advantage following RpK's 3K on B before valde and Aleksib combined to add one more to OG's tally as the Europeans managed a comeback. ISSAA was a key factor in them making it into overtime, where Vitality was on the ropes multiple times, but managed to keep fighting back and after four sets of overtime, close out their map pick 28-26.

cs_summit 6 EuropeBest of 3 OGMatchpage 0 2 1st July 2020 Vitality 9Mirage 16 26Overpass 28

OG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Issa 'ISSAA' MuradISSAA	65 - 54	+11	89.6	1.21
Aleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenAleksib	51 - 51	0	73.5	1.02
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	43 - 61	-18	73.5	0.95
Mateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewskimantuu	54 - 54	0	67.7	0.93
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde	46 - 59	-13	57.8	0.80

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Cédric 'RpK' GuipouyRpK	59 - 48	+11	83.7	1.24
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	59 - 51	+8	83.9	1.18
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabiermisutaaa	63 - 50	+13	78.7	1.18
Mathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautZywOo	55 - 54	+1	76.6	1.18
Richard 'shox' Papillonshox	43 - 56	-13	65.3	0.82

Vitality will play the winner of fnatic - BIG in the upper-bracket final on Friday, while OG take on another international squad in GODSENT, playing for their tournament lives in the lower bracket on Thursday.

BIG #7 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschFlorian 'syrsoN' RischeIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşNils 'k1to' Gruhne fnatic #5 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonMaikil 'Golden' SelimLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier Age: 17 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 119 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.67 Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Age: 26 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 1763 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.67 Issa 'ISSAA' Murad Age: 23 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 635 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.66 Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy Age: 30 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 1358 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.68 Vitality #2 Richard 'shox' PapillonCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautKévin 'misutaaa' Rabier Mateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski Age: 22 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 395 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.65 Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Age: 19 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.29 Maps played: 660 KPR: 0.86 DPR: 0.62 Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Age: 25 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 943 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66 GODSENT #28 Jesse 'zehN' LinjalaMartin 'STYKO' StykKevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendPavle 'Maden' BoškovićAsger 'Farlig' Jensen Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Age: 23 Team: OG Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 699 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.66 OG #21 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenIssa 'ISSAA' MuradMateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski