Vitality defeat North 2

In the group A lower-bracket final Vitality dealt with North, taking them down on Nuke (16-10) and Mirage (16-11). The French side has, therefore, secured a spot in the quarter-finals of DreamHack Masters Dallas.

North had a tremendous start to the CT side of their map pick, Nuke, winning seven straight rounds while Vitality only mustered five kills and a single bomb plant. The deadlock was finally broken by the Frenchmen with an A push and followed up by a successful outer take, getting them back into the match.

As the score was 7-3, Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut and Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire turned around a 2v4 situation which proved crucial to Vitality breaking the bank of their opponent. The score was on the verge of being equalized when Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen woke up and brought in the last two rounds of the half with AWP multikills.

Winning the second pistol and shutting down the first-round A site execute allowed Vitality to tie the score at 9-9 early into their CT half, and they didn't have issues extending that further as Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså and co. couldn't find openings onto the bombsites with their quick hits. Nine rounds straight went the way of Vitality (15-9) before their opponents got their first on the offense, but ZywOo replied with a triple in the next round, closing out the map.

After a slow start, apEX led Vitality to a win on Nuke

An 0-2 start after losing the pistol was quickly turned around by North on the CT side of Mirage, with Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye doing the brunt of the work as they took a 5-2 lead. After some back-and-forth, Vitality won a crucial force buy where Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt Deaged down two, getting the Frenchmen to a one round deficit (6-5), but North then replied with a force of their own, moving up to eight rounds before the switch.

Vitality shut down North's pistol round perfectly, taking down all five opponents before they even encroached on the A bombsite, without losing a single member. North were back on track swiftly, though, with Kjaerbye coming up clutch in back-to-back after plants (10-9).

North's following attempts fell short, Vitality picking them off before they approached the sites and reaching a 14-10 lead. An explosion onto the A bombsite then worked out for valde and co., but the followups weren't as successful and saw the Danish side eliminated, losing 16-11 on Mirage and 2-0 for the series.

DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019Best of 3 VitalityMatchpage 2 0 30th May 2019 North 16Nuke 10 16Mirage 11

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Mathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautZywOo	40 - 27	+13	69.8	1.23
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekinALEX	37 - 32	+5	79.6	1.23
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	41 - 34	+7	82.6	1.18
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	32 - 31	+1	70.1	1.01
Cédric 'RpK' GuipouyRpK	29 - 32	-3	62.5	0.92

North	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye	35 - 36	-1	68.7	0.98
Jakob 'JUGi' HansenJUGi	33 - 33	0	70.8	0.97
Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy	27 - 36	-9	71.2	0.88
Nicklas 'gade' Gadegade	31 - 39	-8	66.1	0.88
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde	30 - 35	-5	54.7	0.81

Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Age: 24 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 1581 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.66 Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Age: 18 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.32 Maps played: 428 KPR: 0.89 DPR: 0.63 Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Age: 23 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 787 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.66 North #13 Philip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeJakob 'JUGi' HansenNicklas 'gade' GadeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Age: 21 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1247 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66 Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire Age: 26 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1415 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.71 Vitality #5 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Jakob 'JUGi' Hansen Age: 22 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 795 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.61