Vitality have claimed the ESL Professional League Season 22 title after sweeping Falcons 3-0 within the grand ultimate — lastly ending their long-awaited trophy drought!
The ESL Professional League Season 22, held in Stockholm, Switzerland, concluded with a large grand ultimate conflict between the Arab powerhouse Falcons and the French giants Vitality. After the addition of kyousuke, Falcons discovered their type and reached the ultimate in pursuit of their second title. Standing of their manner was Vitality — who had gone 4 months and not using a trophy since their final triumph on the BLAST.television Austin Main 2025.
Within the grand ultimate, Vitality delivered a flawless 3-0 efficiency, fully dismantling m0NESY’s Falcons.
flamEZ’TALITY! 🔥
The person of the second was undoubtedly flameZ. The Israeli rifler was on hearth, posting a 1.42 score on Practice and a 1.71 on Inferno, dominating each maps single-handedly. On the ultimate map, Mud II, he shone as soon as once more with a 1.65 score, simply behind mezii, and was rightfully named the MVP of the Grand Ultimate.
Regardless of his unbelievable exhibiting within the ultimate, flameZ didn’t win the event MVP award — which as an alternative went to his opponent, m0NESY.
And fact be instructed, m0NESY completely earned it: throughout 15 maps, he achieved a 1.38 score, together with his closest competitor being FaZe’s new signing Twistzz at 1.33. Curiously, flameZ didn’t even make the general high 10.
TeamPlayerK – D+/-ADRRating 3.0FalconsIlya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov51 – 42+978.11.29Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač46 – 46093.51.19Maxim ‘kyosuke’ Lukin34 – 48-1457.30.88René ‘TeSeS’ Madsen29 – 47-1848.80.70Damjan ‘kyxsan’ Stoilkovski22 – 46-2444.50.68VitalityShahar ‘flameZ’ Shushan62 – 41+21102.61.60William ‘mezii’ Merriman41 – 38+370.41.15Robin ‘ropz’ Kool44 – 35+980.91.12Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut42 – 27+1564.91.05Dan ‘apEX’ Madesclaire40 – 41-170.30.96
Vitality Strike 2: Their eighth Trophy of 2025! 🏆
Indisputably, Vitality have dominated 2025. They received seven titles within the first half of the 12 months, entered the second half and not using a trophy, and at last broke their streak with this ESL Professional League victory — ending their semifinal misfortune in model.
We need to equal the legendary Astralis’ 2018 file by profitable 10 trophies this 12 months.
apEX, 2025
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