Vitality won a long and entertaining battle against the reigning Major champions to secure their in-game leader’s first big title in the Cathedral of Counter-Strike. It was a fantastic match featuring great strats and raw aim in equal measure, with ZywOo’s AWPing prowess proving the difference in a close-fought series.

It may not have gone to five maps, but it was a titanic clash of two evenly-matched sides, as NAVI and Vitality locked horns in the grand final of IEM Cologne. It was the first time the prestigious tournament was played on CS2, and a lot has changed the last time around—a year ago, s1mple was still on NAVI’s active roster, and zonic was still coaching Vitality—but the level of excellence on display was once again worthy of the spectacle in the Cathedral of CS.