{"id":25051,"date":"2025-04-26T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=25051"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:05:09","slug":"falcons-vs-vitality-grand-final-prediction-iem-melbourne-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/cs2-predictions\/falcons-vs-vitality-grand-final-prediction-iem-melbourne-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons vs Vitality &#8211; Grand Final Prediction &#8211; IEM Melbourne 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match Overview<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>It is time for the <strong>Grand Final<\/strong> of<strong> IEM Melbourne 2025<\/strong>, and this time, it will be <strong>Falcons <\/strong>who face off against the best team in the world, <strong>Vitality, <\/strong>in a best-of-five match; only one of them will take the trophy home.<strong> Falcons <\/strong>have had a second <strong>Grand Final <\/strong>appearance in a row, and <strong>Vitality <\/strong>has won three tournaments out of the last three they&#8217;ve played. The best players in the world against each other, <strong>&#8216;NiKo&#8217; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;m0NESY&#8217; <\/strong>against <strong>&#8216;ZywOo&#8217; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;ropz&#8217;. <\/strong>These two teams met each other at the group stage, and <strong>Vitality<\/strong> won with a <strong>score of 2-0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Heads-up Match Result and Players Statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favi-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favi-1.png 346w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favi-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favi-1-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favit.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favit.png 708w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favit-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favit-150x88.png 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/favit-450x265.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Falcons vs. Vitality &#8211; Group Stage &#8211; IEM Melbourne 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Falcons Path to the Grand Final<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>They started by winning their opening group stage match against <strong>SAW and then taking <\/strong>down <strong>Natus Vincere, <\/strong>but they couldn&#8217;t make it straight to the semi-final as they lost to <strong>Vitality <\/strong>in a group stage. In their quarter-final match, they played against <strong>GamerLegion <\/strong>and won with a <strong>score of 2-0<\/strong>. Their semi-final match was against <strong>MOUZ, <\/strong>and they didn&#8217;t leave any chances for <strong>MOUZ <\/strong>as they won with a<strong> score of 2-0<\/strong> and lost only nine rounds for two maps in total.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Falcons Semi-Final Match Result<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fase-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fase-1.png 346w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fase-1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fase-1-150x114.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fasemi-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fasemi-1.png 706w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fasemi-1-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fasemi-1-150x89.png 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/fasemi-1-450x266.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MOUZ vs. Falcons &#8211; Semi-final &#8211; IEM Melbourne 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Falcons Team and Players Form<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;NiKo&#8217; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;m0NESY&#8217; <\/strong>show star performances and seem ready to fight any team. <strong>&#8216;kyxsan&#8217; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;TeSeS&#8217; <\/strong>also show great form at this tournament. Overall, they&#8217;re in great shape as a team, and it might be also the honeymoon period that helps them since it is their first tournament with <strong>&#8216;m0NESY&#8217; <\/strong>in their roster. One of the strongest star players, the duo of <strong>&#8216;NiKo&#8217; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;m0NESY&#8217;, <\/strong>without a doubt, can run over any team on a good day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">kyxsan is happy with his team performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/kyxsancs\/status\/1916061701667000785\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vitality Path to the Grand Final<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected from <strong>Vitality, <\/strong>being in such incredible form, they didn&#8217;t lose a single map on their way to the <strong>Grand Final<\/strong>. At the group stage, they met <strong>FlyQuest<\/strong>, <strong>Liquid, <\/strong>and <strong>Falcons, <\/strong>and nobody came close to winning against <strong>Vitality, <\/strong>as they won all the matches with a <strong>score of 2-0<\/strong>. The semi-final match was against <strong>TheMongolZ. <\/strong>The<strong> <\/strong>best <strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>could do was win six rounds in total for two maps they played, so it was another team getting demolished by <strong>Vitality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vitality Semi-Final Match Result<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"347\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/vise-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/vise-1.png 347w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/vise-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/vise-1-150x112.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"707\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/visemi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/visemi.png 707w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/visemi-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/visemi-150x88.png 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/visemi-450x264.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vitality vs. TheMongolZ &#8211; Semi-final &#8211; IEM Melbourne 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vitality Team and Players Form<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, this team is just unstoppable now since they have a 20-match win streak and have won three tournaments in a row, leaving no chance for other teams they played against. <strong>&#8216;ZywOo&#8217; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;ropz&#8217; <\/strong>are the best star players duo in the world now, and all the puzzles they have in <strong>Vitality <\/strong>are working perfectly under the in-game leadership of <strong>&#8216;apEX&#8217;<\/strong>. With one of the best entry-fragger players, <strong>&#8216;flameZ&#8217;, <\/strong>and the support of <strong>&#8216;mezii&#8217;, <\/strong>it is hard to imagine someone stopping this team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">apEX is ready to fight for the trophy and Grand Slam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Won 2-0 over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1mongolz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@1mongolz<\/a> convincingly.<br>Now we are playing for the Grand Slam tomorrow.<br>Thank you everyone.<\/p>&mdash; Dan Madesclaire (@Vitality_apEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vitality_apEX\/status\/1916092991992643704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match Prediction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vitality <\/strong>is a much better team in this match, and they have the better players overall. On top of everything else, <strong>Vitality <\/strong>has a better map pool since they&#8217;ve been playing together for a longer period of time and have had much more time to practice. We expect <strong>Vitality to win<\/strong> this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Can<\/em><strong><em> Falcons<\/em><\/strong><em> break the <\/em><strong><em>Vitality <\/em><\/strong><em>streak, or will it be <\/em><strong><em>Vitality <\/em><\/strong><em>to dominate over another team here and take home the fourth trophy in a row? We will have to see it this Sunday at <\/em><strong><em>08:30 CET<\/em><\/strong><em>; this match will be fire, so don&#8217;t miss the action!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t know where to bet on this match, you can check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/betting\/best-cs2-betting-sites-for-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our list of top betting sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Overview It is time for the Grand Final of IEM Melbourne 2025, and this time, it will be Falcons who face off against the best team in the world, Vitality, in a best-of-five match; only one of them will take the trophy home. Falcons have had a second Grand Final appearance in a row,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":25063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-25051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs2-predictions","8":"tag-cs2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25064,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions\/25064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}