CS:GO – French Vitality Secures Their Position As The First Team For The Upcoming Rio Major

 

 

 

The current pandemic condition has taken a toll on every field and Esports is not excluded. It is stuck in quite a topsy-turvy situation as the pandemic has shifted the matches to an online platform which in turn massively shifts the away they generally operate. Here latency is a huge factor moreover when most of the titles have been historically used to play in an offline LAN with a complete stage, pyrotechnics, and also with the screaming adoration of the fans that punctuate desperate attempt to clutch.

Currently, the professional scene of Counter-Strike is likely one of the most seized scenes present within esports at the moment that is littered with players taking sporadic leave of absences to deal with the burnout while there are other scenes that entirely simply have players that are leaving en-masse for Riot’s Valorant.

However, amidst everything Counter-Strike has also found a massive disruption in their global rankings or seeds that has not been seen in quite some time. For example: For the first time in years, Astralis no longer continues to be a part of the top-five team, Liquid got dropped out of the top ten, and PUG stream teams are contesting the salaried players all the way to the finals in North America.

Although it is quite a bizarre time esports must go on and therefore the teams simply require weathering the wild changes that are happening around all the titles at the moment.

But as some falter, there are others who shall conversely rise like the French team Vitality (GS#2) who have already done such after winning against BIG, that has made them the first team that holds a confirmed and secured spot at the Rio Majors, which is perhaps a bit odd considering Brazil’s current plight. CS:GO – French Vitality Are The First Confirmed Team For The Upcoming Rio Major. This further means that the Major’s themselves are not confirmed while teams start with slotting for them.

But somehow all of this foretells well for Vitality, which in recent months has struggled with streaky showings, so it can either be the massively competent Vitality that would arrive and crush everything, or it can be the confusing Vitality that would log into the server and proceed to get crushed.

This situation led to NBK getting removed from the roster as the management thought that having two IGL’s on the team was causing the sporadic performance as ZywOo continues to put up monumental records repeatedly that further leads to Vitality often being referenced by opponents as Team ZywOo.

It was BIG that came out against Vitality by gaining a map lead after playing on BIG’s pick of Mirage: Vitality has picked up the remaining two maps in the BO3 although they found themselves constantly contested at every other turn.

All the three maps found both the teams scoring double-digits but yet OT never occurred as the force-buys turned into lop-sided economies with fading returns at pivotal moments.

The main question now lies solely at Valve and ESL, and also that how the Major’s will be played.

As it seems that both the organizer looks unfavorably towards having the Major being played online as the current situation may make it the most practical choice unless Brazil can somehow manage to turn the most recent outbreak of COVID-19 cases around.

However if ultimately the game is played online then it may work as a massive advantage for Vitality.