Vitality won ESL Pro League Season 24 on October 11, beating MOUZ 3-0 in the best-of-five grand final in Katowice, according to HLTV. The maps finished Cache 13-7, Inferno 13-8 and Dust2 16-12, the last after overtime. HLTV said the trophy is Vitality's second in a row, following their StarSeries Fall win in September.
How the final went
MOUZ opened Cache 5-1 on the CT side, but Vitality won six consecutive rounds to take the half. After the switch, Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut finished the map with 21 kills, a 2.00 rating and 107 average damage per round as Vitality closed it out 13-7.
On Inferno, Shahar "flameZ" Shushan and Dan "apEX" Madesclaire held the Banana area as Vitality built a 9-3 half. Vitality then won the second round of their T side on a force-buy, and although MOUZ narrowed the scoreline, the map ended 13-8.
MOUZ started Dust2 well, but repeated Vitality attacks on the B site gave them the lead at halftime, helped by a late triple kill from William "mezii" Merriman that opened the site. Multi-kills from Dorian "xertioN" Berman took MOUZ to three map points, while HLTV described Adrian "xelex" Vincze as almost absent from the map. Vitality forced overtime, MOUZ lost all three of their T-side rounds in its first half, and Vitality closed out the map and the series.
ZywOo named MVP
HLTV named ZywOo the event's Most Valuable Player. He averaged a 1.43 rating across the tournament, the highest of any player, and was Vitality's top-rated player in all three of their playoff series: against PARIVISION (1.66), Aurora (1.44) and MOUZ (1.65).
He also led the event in kills per round (0.86) and round swing (+4.33%), and ranked second in damage per round (85.0) and KAST (79.2%). HLTV said the award is his sixth of the year and extends his all-time record to 34 MVP medals.
