{"id":29841,"date":"2023-04-23T21:36:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=29841"},"modified":"2023-04-23T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:36:06","slug":"team-vitality-defeat-heroic-in-iem-rio-2023-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-vitality-defeat-heroic-in-iem-rio-2023-grand-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Vitality defeat Heroic in IEM Rio 2023 grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Team Vitality completed a memorable comeback at <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-spring\/\" title=\"IEM Spring betting guide\">IEM Spring 2023<\/a> (IEM Rio) by defeating Heroic 2-0 in the $250,000 grand final.<\/p>\n<p>After losing to OG in their first-round match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO betting\">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/a> tournament, Vitality went on to win five straight matches to reach the final, defeating BIG (2-0) and Cloud9 (2-1) in their quarter-final and semi-final series, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>When the first map went all the way to round 29 of 30, with Vitality taking their map pick 16-13, it looked like we were in for a great final series.<\/p>\n<p>Heroic needed to win their map pick Inferno to keep the series alive, but after a 5-10 first half, the match was all but over.<\/p>\n<p>No-one on the Vitality roster finished with a negative kill\/death difference for the second map, with Emil &#8220;Magisk&#8221; Reif ranking lowest with an even record. <\/p>\n<p>Vitality went on to win Inferno 16-12 and clinch their first tournament victory since August of last year, when they won <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/esl-pro-league\/\" title=\"ESL Pro League betting guide\">ESL Pro League<\/a> Season 16.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WE ARE YOUR <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> RIO CHAMPIONS<\/p>\n<p>Paris, we are coming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VforVictory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VforVictory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mJLIvatHn6\">pic.twitter.com\/mJLIvatHn6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team Vitality \ud83d\udc1d (@TeamVitality) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamVitality\/status\/1650221743603056646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To cap off a successful event for Vitality, their star sniper Mathieu &#8220;ZywOo&#8221; Herbaut was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) for his outstanding performance at IEM Rio.<\/p>\n<p>After amassing an event-high 1.31 rating across 15 maps played, the French superstar won his 14th career MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>ZywOo carried Team Vitality to the playoffs, finishing with ratings of 1.61 and 1.45 in their lower-bracket round one series win over FURIA and lower-bracket final win over OG, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Fro Heroic, the story of the perennial bridesmaids continues after reaching another grand final only to lose again.<\/p>\n<p>The Danes have finished second in three of their last six S-Tier tournament appearances, including IEM Rio Major 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice\/csgo\/\" title=\"IEM Katowice betting guide\">IEM Katowice 2023<\/a>, and IEM Rio 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Vitality went the long way round to take out IEM Spring 2023, clinching the title with a 2-0 win over Heroic on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2988,11,3163,235,3141,2768,676,215],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive","tag-csgo","tag-emil-magisk-reif","tag-heroic","tag-iem-rio","tag-iem-spring","tag-mathieu-zywoo-herbaut","tag-team-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29860,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions\/29860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}