The season in "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" is coming to an end - Team Vitality has now celebrated the penultimate title of the year. The team convincingly produced ninjas in pajamas in the final 3:0 (16:10; 16:10; 16:13) and thus confirmed the increasing shape curve.

"We have reached the final many times this year, but we have never been able to win the cups. This title at the end of the year makes us very happy, " Richard "shox" Papillon said in an interview after the game. "We felt very comfortable and felt early that victory was possible here.»

Last appearance of the Vitality lineup?

Nevertheless, it could have been the last success of the current lineup. Already in November, the French website "1pv" reported about a new Year's commitment of the Danes Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen and Emil "Magisk" Reif, who had recently left Astralis before the expiration of their contracts from the lineup. However, an official confirmation is still pending.

However, none of this was felt at the IEM winter. From the semifinals, NiP had to do without star player Nicolai "dev1ce" Reetz, who is out due to health problems.

However, substitute Love "phzy" Smidebrant - already the third player who was temporarily promoted from the second team of the ninjas - did well. In the final, however, Vitality was one class stronger, NiP was unable to reach the end of all three cards against the French despite good initial phases.