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We continue to follow the events of BLAST Open Lisbon 2025. The tournament is approaching its final stage, with 4 teams left in the race for the championship.
Among the contenders for the BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 title are Spirit and Vitality. The teams will compete for a ticket to the grand final.
Let's try to figure out who will be stronger and advance to the grand final, where they will play against the winner of MOUZ/Eternal Fire.
Let's go.
Vitality Form
We open the analysis of the match Vitality - Spirit with an analysis of the game form of Vitality. In this match they play as favorites with a coefficient of victory in the region of 1.6.
After the triumphant Paris Major, Vitality said goodbye to Dupreeh, and flameZ came to take his place. The “newcomer” of Vitality has already managed to go through the adaptation period and looks good: the young Israeli has a KDA of 1.09, and this is the third result of the team.
- Vitality composition: apEX, ZywOo, mezii, ropz, flameZ.
In their debut match at IEM Cologne 2023, Vitality only confirmed their status as one of the main favorites of Group B. OG tried, but were defeated with a score of 16-6 on Mirage and 16-13 on Anubis.
Having dealt with OG, Vitality took on MOUZ, who the “bees” dealt with even more defeat: 16-4 and 16-5.
In the playoff seeding match, Vitality met another TOP club – G2 Esports. A nerve-wracking game, where Vitality snatched a 19-17 victory on Inferno in the overtime, but then lost 10-16 on Vertigo and 8-16 on Mirage.
Having started the playoffs from the first round, they came across Cloud9. “Cloud” tried to put up a fight, and on the second map they almost succeeded, but ZywOo and company were unshakable: 16-11 Mirage and 19-17 Inferno. However, this was the end of Vitality’s stay in the tournament: in the semi-finals they met ENCE and, having lost with a score of 1-2, they were eliminated from the championship.
The top 4 at IEM Cologne did not embarrass Vitality at all, on the contrary, it spurred them on. By the end of the year, they had pocketed 3 more victories at title tournaments: they took revenge on ENCE in the grand final of Gamers8 and twice outscored FaZe in BLAST series tournaments (Fall Final 2023 and World Final 2023).
Before playing at PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR B played BLAST Premier: Spring Groups, where they passed the group stage without any problems, and at IEM Katowice 2024, where they unexpectedly failed, finishing in the TOP-12.
At the PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR B Vitality trampled GamerLegion and Heroic without any problems, giving up a total of 5 rounds over two maps. But then it was worse - a loss to C9, but a victory over ENCE allowed Vitality to advance to the Major.
Vitality attended the first Major tournament of the season – PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where they managed to reach the TOP-4, but lost to FaZe Clan. Later they played at ESL Pro League Season 19, where they again started very vigorously and quite easily made it to the grand final, but were swept away by MOUZ.
At IEM Dallas 2024, they started with a very difficult victory over Monte, and then shut out G2 Esports. But in the match for seeding in the playoffs, they quite unexpectedly lost to 9z Team with a score of 0-2. The IEM Dallas 2024 playoffs themselves began much more confidently, shutting out Heroic with class with a score of 2-0. Then a confident victory over Spirit, but a loss to G2 Esports in the grand final.
Before their performance at the Esports World Cup 2024, Vitality attended the Blast Premier: Spring Final, where they reached the Top 4. At EWC 2024, Vitaltiy started with a confident victory over M80, which allowed them to advance straight to the playoffs.
Vitality finished in the TOP-8 at the Riyadh Major, which can hardly be called a good result. They rehabilitated themselves quite quickly, winning Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024. At the end of the season, they attended PW Shanghai Major 2024, where they reached the main stage, but failed to cope with FaZe in the first round.
The 2025 season started with a performance at BLAST Bounty Season 1, where they managed to reach the final stage, but not beyond the first round: a defeat from Eternal Fire and a final TOP-8.
At IEM Katowice 2025, Vitality started their performance right from the group stage. They beat 3DMax and FaZe one after another, which gave them a passage to the Group A final and a slot in the playoffs. Then they beat Vp with a score of 2-0, thanks to which they got straight to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, they dealt with a rather cheerful MongolZ, and in the grand final, they ate Spirit, smashing the best team in the world with a score of 3-0.
At ESL Pro League Season 21, Vitality passed the group stage with a score of 3-0. Then – victories over Liquid (2-0), MongolZ (2-1) and triumph in the grand final against MOUZ (3-0).
At BLAST Open Lisbon 2025, they started with a clear victory against Astralis (2-0). After that, they won against Vp with the same score of 2-0. In the match for seeding in the playoffs, they beat MOUZ with a score of 2-0.
Vitality Mappool
Vitality's best map is Nuke. There are 4 matches and 4 wins.
Anubis is doing very well (7 matches, 85% win rate), Mirage (4 matches, 75% win rate). In general, Vitality doesn't have any bad maps that they play. Vertigo - 71% win rate in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.
They don't play Ancient.
Spirit Form
We continue our analysis of the Spirit – Vitality match with an analysis of Spirit’s game form. In this match, they are playing as underdogs with a win odds of around 2.4.
The 2023 season was quite eventful for Spirit. The Serbian club played everywhere possible, but almost nowhere could they achieve significant results.
They started the previous season with a performance at IEM Master Katowice 2023, where they finished in the TOP-12. Then there was the local CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 2023, where they finished in the TOP-6.
One of the biggest tournaments of the 2023 season for Spirit was ESL Pro League Season 17, where the “dragons” took the TOP-28. They tried to get to the major in Paris, but again, all in vain.
From the middle to the end of the year, Spirit played at local events of small caliber. And they performed quite successfully, it is worth noting: TOP-1 at CCT North Europe Series #6, TOP-2 at CCT Online Finals #2, victory at Dunav Party LAN and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.
- Team Spirit lineup: chopper, zont1x, sh1ro, donk, magixx.
At the end of the year, they won BB Dacha. In 2024, the BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 tournament became the first major event for the “dragons”. There, Spirit played, frankly speaking, so-so: they took the TOP-16 in their debut championship under the auspices of BLAST, advancing to the Spring Showdown.
At IEM Katowice 2024, Spirit started their performance from the Play-In stage. There, they rolled over Apeks with no chance with a score of 13-0, and then confidently (except for map 2) beat MongolZ with a score of 2-0, thereby advancing to the group stage. The group stage was also not a problem for Spirit: having lost only 1 map to NaVi, they easily reached the playoffs, having beaten CoL and FaZe Clan with a score of 2-0. The IEM Katowice 2024 playoffs themselves became a confirmation of Spirit's dominance, because they easily closed out Falcons (2-0) and it was even easier against FaZe in the grand final (3-0).
After their triumph at Katowice 2024, Spirit advanced to PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where they managed to reach the playoffs, but lost to FaZe Clan in the first round of the main stage. Thus, Spirit took the TOP-8.
Then Spirit had a seemingly successful performance at BB Dacha, but the loss in the grand final to MOUZ with a score of 0-3 spoiled the feeling a little.
At IEM Dallas 2024 itself, Team Spirit passed the group stage very easily, without losing a single map in Basket B. However, they were unable to deal with everyone in the playoffs: at the TOP-4 stage, Vitality intervened and knocked Spirit out of the tournament.
Later, Spirit won BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. And then began a series of not very successful performances, including TOP-8 and TOP-16 at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024.
ESL Pro League Season 20 Team Spirit started in Group B, where they lost to MIBR in the second round of the upper bracket and after falling lower, they won against The MongolZ and 3DMAX with some difficulty, which gave them a passage to the playoffs, where in their first match they beat FURIA with a score of 2-0. And later they ran into NaVi, after losing to whom they ended their performance in the pro league.
Spirit performed at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, where they also failed to achieve success. Only TOP-6.
At BLAST Premier: World Final 2024, Spirit started their journey in Group B, where they fought against G2 Esports, Team Spirit, Vitality, and Liquid. They tied 1-1, beating Vitality but losing to G2 in the playoff seeding match. In the playoffs, Spirit made it to the grand final, but lost to G2 Esports with a score of 0-3.
Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B started with a victory over B8. Then they lost to Passion UA, won against Aurora, lost to G2, but won the last match against Sashi Esports. At the Elimination Stage, Spirit started with a defeat to FURIA, but then destroyed Wildcard and NaVi. Then, in the match for a full bo3, they dealt with Heroic. Spirit opened the playoffs of PW Shanghai Major 2024 with a victory over Liquid. In the semi-finals of Shanghai Major 2024, they beat MOUZ. In the grand final, they defeated FaZe, thereby becoming world champions for the first time in the club's history.
BLAST Bounty Season 1 started with the qualifying round with two confident victories against Fnatic and FlyQuest. In the playoffs, they also easily beat Heroic. Then came the expected victory against NaVi and triumph in the grand final against Eternal Fire.
IEM Katowice 2025 Spirit started with the first round of Group B. There they easily demolished Astralis, giving up a total of 9 rounds. In the match for the playoffs they played against NaVi, where in a protracted bo3 with additional rounds on the third map Nuke they lost with a score of 1-2. Having got into the lower bracket, they beat Liquid and GamerLegion, which allowed them to reach the playoffs. In the main stage they beat Vp and NaVi one after another, reaching the grand final, but in the match for the title they were unable to do anything against Vitality: 0-3 and TOP-2.
Spirit went through the ESL Pro League Season 21 group stage as expected: 3-0. They started the playoffs with a tough win (2-1) over Eternal Fire. But then they lost to MOUZ and were eliminated from the championship in the TOP-4.
At BLAST Open Lisbon 2025, Spirit started with a 2-0 win over The Hans Esports. Then came a super tough match against MOUZ, where they lost (1-2) in an unreal series with extra rounds. They beat FaZe 2-0 in the lower bracket. In the playoff match, they easily shut down Vp. In the first round of the playoffs, Spirit defeated their archrival NaVi, shutting down the “born to win” with a score of 2-0.
Team Spirit Mappool
Team Spirit's best map remains Vertigo, where the Brazilians played 5 times and won 3 maps. Next comes Mirage, with 7 games and a 4-3 statistic.
The neutral choice for Team Spirit will be Nuke and Ancient. There the Brazilians have 6 maps and the score is 3-3 on each.
The worst is on Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
Spirit – Vitality Personal Meeting History
This will be the 5th match between the teams over the past year. So far the score is 2-2.
Predicted result of the Vitality vs. Spirit match at BLAST Open Lisbon 2025
In this match, I'm betting on Vitality. The French have looked like a standard team so far in the 2025 season and have not given any reason to doubt at BLAST Open Lisbon 2025.
Result: Vitality wins.
