Vitality have claimed the ESL Professional League Season 22 title after sweeping Falcons 3-0 within the grand closing — lastly ending their long-awaited trophy drought!
The ESL Professional League Season 22, held in Stockholm, Switzerland, concluded with a large grand closing conflict between the Arab powerhouse Falcons and the French giants Vitality. After the addition of kyousuke, Falcons discovered their kind and reached the ultimate in pursuit of their second title. Standing of their approach was Vitality — who had gone 4 months and not using a trophy since their final triumph on the BLAST.television Austin Main 2025.
Within the grand closing, Vitality delivered a flawless 3-0 efficiency, utterly dismantling m0NESY’s Falcons.
flamEZ’TALITY! 🔥
The person of the second was undoubtedly flameZ. The Israeli rifler was on hearth, posting a 1.42 score on Prepare and a 1.71 on Inferno, dominating each maps single-handedly. On the ultimate map, Mud II, he shone as soon as once more with a 1.65 score, simply behind mezii, and was rightfully named the MVP of the Grand Remaining.
Regardless of his unbelievable displaying within the closing, flameZ didn’t win the event MVP award — which as an alternative went to his opponent, m0NESY.
And fact be informed, m0NESY completely earned it: throughout 15 maps, he achieved a 1.38 score, along with his closest competitor being FaZe’s new signing Twistzz at 1.33. Curiously, flameZ didn’t even make the general prime 10.
| Crew | Participant | Okay – D | +/- | ADR | Ranking 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcons | Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov | 51 – 42 | +9 | 78.1 | 1.29 |
| Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač | 46 – 46 | 0 | 93.5 | 1.19 | |
| Maxim ‘kyosuke’ Lukin | 34 – 48 | -14 | 57.3 | 0.88 | |
| René ‘TeSeS’ Madsen | 29 – 47 | -18 | 48.8 | 0.70 | |
| Damjan ‘kyxsan’ Stoilkovski | 22 – 46 | -24 | 44.5 | 0.68 | |
| Vitality | Shahar ‘flameZ’ Shushan | 62 – 41 | +21 | 102.6 | 1.60 |
| William ‘mezii’ Merriman | 41 – 38 | +3 | 70.4 | 1.15 | |
| Robin ‘ropz’ Kool | 44 – 35 | +9 | 80.9 | 1.12 | |
| Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut | 42 – 27 | +15 | 64.9 | 1.05 | |
| Dan ‘apEX’ Madesclaire | 40 – 41 | -1 | 70.3 | 0.96 |
Vitality Strike 2: Their eighth Trophy of 2025! 🏆
Surely, Vitality have dominated 2025. They received seven titles within the first half of the yr, entered the second half and not using a trophy, and eventually broke their streak with this ESL Professional League victory — ending their semifinal misfortune in fashion.
We need to equal the legendary Astralis’ 2018 document by profitable 10 trophies this yr.
apEX, 2025
- IEM Katowice 2025
- ESL Professional League Season 21
- BLAST Open Lisbon 2025
- IEM Melbourne 2025
- BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 1
- IEM Dallas 2025
- BLAST.television Austin Main 2025
- ESL Professional League Season 22
