It was Vitality vs OG at the Upper Bracket Semifinals of Group C at ESL Pro League Season 17. A loss for either team meant being relegated to the mid bracket from the upper bracket. So, which team was forced to take the harder route? Find out only at Gamopo!
Vitality vs OG
Rosters
Let’s take a look at the rosters of Team Vitality and OG.
Vitality
- Dan ‘apEX‘ Madesclaire
- Mathieu ‘ZywOo‘ Herbaut
- Audric ‘JACKZ‘ Jug
- Emil ‘Magisk‘ Reif
- Lotan ‘Spinx‘ Giladi
OG
- Shahar ‘flameZ‘ Shushan
- Adam ‘NEOFRAG‘ Zouhar
- Maciej ‘F1KU‘ Miklas
- Abdulkhalik ‘degster‘ Gasanov
- Nikolaj ‘niko‘ Kristensen
Map Picks & Bans
- OG removed Nuke
- Vitality removed Ancient
- OG picked Anubis
- Vitality picked Vertigo
- OG removed Overpass
- Vitality removed Mirage
- Inferno was left
The Series
The Vitality vs OG series was a best of 3 with the maps being Anubis Vertigo and Inferno. Let’s see how it turned out.
Map 1 (Anubis)
Anubis started with OG on terrorist side as they looked towards making the most out of their map pick. But to their demise, it was Team Vitality that won the first few pistol rounds. While OG did manage to respond on the third round, Vitality kept making the right calls. Vitality won four rounds straight as they set up a massive gap against OG. The first half ended 10-5 in favor of Team Vitality. In the second half, it was now Team Vitality starting on the terrorist side. We weren’t able to witness much of the second half since Vitality thought it was in their best interest to finish off the map. They took just 6 rounds to finish the map 16-5. Advantage to Team Vitality!
JACKIIIIITO 🔥 pic.twitter.com/j74PDuP7ir
— Team Vitality 🐝 (@TeamVitality) March 9, 2023
Map 2 (Vertigo)
Vitality started their map pick of Vertigo on the terrorist side. While OG did lose the first pistol round, they made amends in the second. But it was just another case of Vitality domination as they kept picking up rounds with ease. The first half ended 9-6 in favor of Vitality. The second half saw Team Vitality starting it off strong. It was ZywOo being ZywOo as he kept picking up frags and clutching for his team. In the end, Team Vitality picked up the second map as well on a scoreline of 16-9.
With this series win, Team Vitality are now off to the playoffs. The two teams will be facing each other soon. That should be quite the exciting matchup! Wonder who will win- guess we will have to find out!
