Team Vitality's domination of 2025 continues, now having won three straight tournaments and 16 consecutive matches.
French Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) juggernauts 
Team Vitality continue to cement their place as the best team in the world after they claimed the championship of BLAST Open Spring 2025 by outlasting 
MOUZ, 3-2, in the tournament's best-of-five grand finals at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday (31 March).
Vitality claimed the grand prize of US$150,000 out of the event's US$400,000 prize pool along with their third straight tournament victory since they signed a second star in 
Robin “ropz” Kool to pair with 
Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut. The French team previously won Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Katowice 2025 in February and ESL Pro League Season 21 earlier this month, with the latter victory also coming against MOUZ. In addition, Vitality now hold the fourth-longest streak of match victories in CS history at 16 straight matches won.
Meanwhile, MOUZ settle for second place and US$60,000 in consolation. With the addition of former Vitality rifler 
Lotan “Spinx” Giladi, MOUZ have risen to be among the top contenders in the scene and now have three Top 3 finishes in 2025 to their name, including a win at PGL Cluj Napoca 2025 in February.
Vitality claim third straight title at BLAST Open Spring 2025
Both Vitality and MOUZ started their campaigns in BLAST Open Spring 2025 in Group A of the tournament's GSL format Group Stage, getting their first meeting in the event in the group's upper bracket finals. Vitality started strong with back-to-back sweeps over 
Astralis and 
Virtus.pro while MOUZ swept 
Team Falcons and took down 
Team Spirit in three maps.
While getting to the upper bracket finals already guaranteed both squads a spot in the Playoffs, a direct berth to the semifinals was still at play. Vitality trounced MOUZ with back-to-back 13-11 wins in Mirage and Dust II to advance to the semifinals and force their opponents to a quarterfinals start.
Thanks to their perfect run through the Group Stage, Vitality had to defeat just one opponent in order to advance to the grand finals: Spirit. In a rematch of the IEM Katowice 2025 grand finals, Vitality defeated Spirit in three maps (13-6 at Anubis, 5-13 at Nuke, 13-10 at Mirage) to earn their third straight grand finals appearance of the year.
Meanwhile, MOUZ earned the right to a rematch with Vitality in the championship match by scoring back-to-back sweeps over 
G2 Esports in the quarterfinals (13-8 at Inferno, 13-3 at Nuke) and 
Eternal Fire in the semifinals (13-11 at Nuke, 13-10 at Dust II).
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MOUZMany expected Vitality to take another easy victory at Lisbon, especially considering that it had only been two weeks since they soundly swept MOUZ in their previous grand finals showdown at ESL Pro League Season 21. While Vitality indeed emerged victorious in the end, MOUZ put up one hell of a fight. The grand finals took all five maps to decide the victor.
Vitality started the grand finals in historic fashion as they claimed the win at Inferno without dropping a single round. While clean sweeps are not unheard of in CS, this was the first time that it happened in the grand finals of a Tier 1 event. Shahar “flameZ” Shushan led the way with 14 frags and four assists on six deaths, ZywOo added 13 frags and four assists on a series-best two deaths, while ropz pitched in with 12 frags and one assist on four deaths.
Despite that demoralising 0-13 loss at Inferno, MOUZ were quick to strike back in map two at Mirage behind a stellar performance from Spinx. MOUZ started the map strong and built up a 9-3 first half lead as the T side before weathering a 8-3 run from Vitality in the second half to claim their first map win against their opponents this year. Spinx sparked the turnaround for MOUZ with 26 frags and five assists on 14 deaths.
The pivotal third map of the series at Dust II then saw another standout performance from Spinx to give MOUZ an unexpected 2-1 lead in the series. Vitality were up 7-5 as the T side by halftime, but four-round and three-round streaks by MOUZ in the second half gave the latter team the crucial 13-11 win in Dust II. Spinx once again top-fragged for MOUZ with 19 on 10 deaths while 
Adam “torzsi” Torzsás added 17 frags and seven assists on 12 deaths.
Map four at Nuke was unfamiliar territory for Vitality this year, as they were down a map and on the brink of losing in the grand finals. With the team having their backs against the wall, ZywOo and Dan “apEX” Madesclaire stepped up to force the series to a deciding fifth map.
Vitality dominated the first half of Nuke as the CT side and had a commanding 9-3 lead by halftime. MOUZ managed to string together back-to-back round wins twice in the second half, but it was not enough to stop Vitality from claiming the 13-7. ZywOo led the way with 21 frags and four assists on 13 deaths while apEX had 17 frags and eight assists on 12 deaths.
Train was the decider, with both squads going round-for-round until Vitality on the T side came away with a 7-5 lead heading into the side switch. While MOUZ won the pistol round of the second half, Vitality responded with a furious five-round streak to get within series point. MOUZ won round 19 to show some signs of life, but Vitality were quick to close out the 3-2 grand finals victory in the next round.
FlameZ top-fragged in the final map of the tournament with 21 frags and three assists, ZywOo added 18 frags and seven assists, while apEX had 15 frags and 10 assists – with all three players having 12 deaths. Ropz also pitched in with 14 frags and three assists on nine deaths while 
William “mezii” Merriman finished with nine frags and six assists on 13 deaths.
