Team Vitality wins ESL Pro League Season 16
Team Vitality wins ESL Pro League Season 16
EPL season 16 matches ended on October 2. Team Vitality and Team Liquid faced each other in the grand final of the tournament.
Team Liquid won the first map of the best-of-5 series (Inferno), after which Team Vitality tied the series immediately on Dust 2. On Mirage the teams didn't reveal the strongest in regular time, and the match went into overtime. It took six series of overtimes for Liquid to win the map - 25:21.
On Overpass it came down to overtimes again, but this time Team Vitality won them - 19:17. The decisive fifth map was Vertigo, where the players of the French club were stronger with 16:11 and the series win with a score of 3:2.
Team Vitality earned $175,000 and received an invitation to BLAST World Final 2022 and IEM Katowice 2023.