Team Vitality outlast Falcons, win grand final at IEM Melbourne

Field Level Media|published: Sun 27th April, 11:22 2025

A backlit keyboard is part of the gear online video game streamer Jordan Woodruff uses in his Gilbert home. Jordan Woodruff

Team Vitality recorded a 3-2 victory over Team Falcons in the grand final of the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Melbourne 2025 event on Sunday in Australia.

Vitality and Falcons split the first four maps before the former notched a 22-20 win on Nuke to pocket the $125,000 first-place prize.

Team Vitality opened with a 13-2 victory on Inferno before Team Falcons responded with a 16-12 decision on Dust II. Vitality countered with a 13-9 triumph on Train before Falcons once again leveled the contest, this time with a 13-10 victory on Mirage.

Frenchman Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut collected 110 kills and a plus-28 kills-to-death differential to pace Team Vitality.

Denmark's Rene "TeSeS" Madsen had 105 kills, and Russian Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov had a plus-16 kills-to-death differential for Team Falcons.

The top three teams from each group advanced to the single-elimination playoffs, which began Friday. All matches were best-of-three until Sunday's best-of-five grand final.

IEM Melbourne prize pool:

1. $125,000 -- Team Vitality

2. $50,000 -- Team Falcons

3-4. $25,000 -- MOUZ, The MongolZ

5-6. $12,500 -- GamerLegion, Team Liquid

7-8. $7,000 - FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere

9-12. $5,000 -- 3DMAX, Complexity, FlyQuest, MIBR

13-16. $4,000 -- BIG, paiN Gaming, Virtus.pro, SAW

--Field Level Media