Team Vitality sweeps Team Spirit as FaZe Magic reigns supreme at StarLadder Budapest Major

Workforce Vitality and FaZe Clan have secured a spot within the StarLadder Budapest Main 2025 Grand Closing.

The Austin Main champion bested the 2024 Shanghai Major winner, whereas FaZe Clan defeated an in-form NAVI facet.

Workforce Spirit appeared to proceed its tremendous run of type within the Hungarian capital with victory over a Workforce Vitality facet hoping to rediscover its early-season type with a second consecutive Main Grand Closing look.

Danil ‘donk’ Kryshkovets started Mirage by main the cost as soon as extra, securing three fast pistol eliminations on the Mid defence. Workforce Spirit’s defence held agency within the opening half, ending the primary 12 rounds with an 8-4 benefit over the defending Major champions. 

Workforce Vitality, nonetheless, answered again within the second half with eight rounds of its personal to scale back the deficit and power extra time.

Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut’s AWPing proved essential in spherical 30, with 4 eliminations in Mid, sending Mirage right into a second extra time. Regardless of a one-versus-three clutch from Leonid ‘chopper’ Vishnyakov in spherical 32, Workforce Vitality overturned an 11-4 deficit to seize a 19-17 win.

The French organisation raced to an early lead on Mud II however was unable to shake a resilient Workforce Spirit assault, ending the primary half all sq. at 6-6.

Either side traded rounds backwards and forwards earlier than Workforce Vitality broke the impasse in spherical 19 for a three-round benefit. The eight-time 2025 Tier 1 occasion winners stored the ball rolling, extending the result in outright victory. A 13-8 win secured the 2-0 sweep, retaining Workforce Vitality’s quest to defend its Main title alive.

After besting FURIA in the quarter-finals, NAVI confronted off towards FaZe Clan in a battle of the underdogs as each appeared to return to the head of Counter-Strike esports. Drin ‘Makazze’ Shaqiri dominated the opening half of Historic, topping the scoreboard with 16 eliminations on the finish of a scientific 10-2 half for the Ukrainian organisation.

FaZe Clan tried to scale back the deficit within the second half, however NAVI’s defence held agency to safe a scientific 13-5 win to open the best-of-three.

The pistols of NAVI opened Nuke with deadly precision, securing one other early lead. Nonetheless, the Purple Militia answered again with 4 essential attacking rounds, permitting the staff an opportunity to overturn NAVI’s 8-4 lead within the second half. FaZe Clan slowly mounted the comeback, closing the hole to at least one spherical. A fadeaway headshot from Mihai ‘iM’ Ivan in spherical 20 was the catalyst for NAVI to revive a two-round lead, placing FaZe Clan’s economic system getting ready to collapse.

David ‘frozen’ Čerňanský continued to show glorious clutching skill, sticking a one-versus-one defuse to assist swing the momentum in FaZe Clan’s favour. Consequently, FaZe Clan took the result in win Nuke 13-11, levelling the sequence.

Having continuously battled again from behind, FaZe Clan lastly asserted its dominance within the first half of Inferno, taking 9 rounds within the first half with some well-timed rotations and aggressive Banana management. NAVI had its possibilities within the opening half, with Valeri ‘b1t’ Vakhovskyi scoring 4 headshots in spherical 5 and Ihor ‘w0nderful’ Zhdanov’s one-versus-two clutch in spherical 11 weren’t sufficient to cease its opposition.

FaZe Clan’s rotations proved the distinction in spherical 15. A fast pivot to the A website secured the Purple Militia’s tenth spherical, placing the pressure on NAVI’s economic system. NAVI continued a defiant fightback. A defuse with 0.044 seconds left on the clock in spherical 18, and a few quick changes to fast rotations closed the hole to 3.

Regardless of NAVI’s finest efforts to scale back the deficit, FaZe Clan’s offence proved superior, securing a 13-8 win and a 2-1 sequence victory to ebook its place within the Grand Closing.

Having discovered itself on the verge of a Stage 1 elimination, FaZe Clan is now able to compete for an additional Main title.

Three weeks of world-class Counter-Strike come all the way down to the StarLadder Budapest Main Grand Closing, the place FaZe Clan and Workforce Vitality faces off in a best-of-five sequence to find out the champion. 

Happening on December 14th at 5 PM GMT, followers can tune into the Budapest Main Grand Closing throughout StarLadder’s Twitch, YouTube, and Kick channels.