Vitality outlast Falcons in epic IEM Melbourne final to secure ESL Grand Slam
Vitality won their fourth consecutive CS2 tournament in 2025 this Sunday, April 25th, after beating Falcons by 3-2 in the IEM Melbourne 2025 grand finals, and clinched the ESL Grand Slam.
This was undoubtedly the best grand finals CS2 fans saw all year as Vitality came back from a 6-12 disadvantage on Nuke, the final map, and won the tournament in triple overtime.
Falcons will be beating themselves as they could have prevented Vitality from completing their Grand Slam run on Australian soil. Not only did they squander six map points in regulation, but they also had a good chance during overtime.
With this victory, Vitality have also extended their win streak to 21 and are just two away from tying Liquid's record in 2019. It's unreal how well Vitality have been playing since adding Robin "ropz" Kool at the start of the year.
ropz may have added that Midas touch that Vitality were missing, but once again, Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut claimed the MVP award as he top-fragged in the grand finals with 110 kills and averaged a 1.39 rating in IEM Melbourne.
FalconsVitality| Falcons |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 René 'TeSeS' Madsen |
105 - 95 | +10 | 90.0 | 71.5% | 1.16 |
 Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov |
97 - 81 | +16 | 73.2 | 70.0% | 1.09 |
 Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač |
83 - 92 | -9 | 74.7 | 72.3% | 0.98 |
 Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski |
81 - 96 | -15 | 75.9 | 71.5% | 0.97 |
| Emil 'Magisk' Reif |
68 - 87 | -19 | 60.2 | 69.2% | 0.83 |
| Vitality |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut |
110 - 82 | +28 | 91.1 | 80.8% | 1.34 |
 Robin 'ropz' Kool |
98 - 74 | +24 | 77.3 | 76.2% | 1.18 |
 William 'mezii' Merriman |
86 - 89 | -3 | 67.3 | 73.1% | 0.98 |
| Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire |
78 - 94 | -16 | 70.2 | 71.5% | 0.96 |
 Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan |
75 - 96 | -21 | 69.3 | 71.5% | 0.93 |
With Vitality claiming the ESL Grand Slam Season 5, they have become the fifth team to do so and the first to complete the run in CS2. FaZe, Natus Vincere, Liquid, and Astralis won the Grand Slam in previous years while CS:GO was still around.
