FURIA 13-0 Vitality in statement win - BLAST Rivals Hong Kong

We've seen another 13-0 today, bizarrely, and this one was both even more shocking and even more decisive.

FURIA 13-0'd Vitality on Mirage with molodoy doing unspeakable things to Vitality's admittedly fractured T side, as he and YEKINDAR combined for over 250 ADR and 37 kills. Vitality had 28 kills and under 250 ADR combined.

Vitality went ahead after a stand-out performance from mezii on Inferno, dropping 24 in just 18 rounds, and it felt like Vitality would just cruise past FURIA. Alas, were that not the case.

Dust 2 was hard-fought, going the way of FURIA in round 23, and two big clutches - one from KSCERATO, one from yuurih - proved decisive. yuurih denied a ZywOo 1v2 in the first half, while KSCERATO ended the game with a 1v2 of his own.

And then, the 13-0.

molodoy started and ended the first half with a triple kill, sandwiching 13 kills in the ten rounds between them. YEKINDAR found some massive opening picks, and quite frankly, apEX had no idea how to break them down. molodoy was too quick, too clever, too dynamic.

It was just one of those days for Vitality - a day they don't have very often, if ever. ZywOo had never been 13-0'd before.

Spirit have not only been 0-13'd by FUT with a stand-in, but they also lost a map to G2. Worrying.

They're still in playoffs, of course, because... well, they've played against FUT and G2.

Spirit were far from their best, but as ever, sh1ro and donk gave them just enough to power past a plucky but ultimately insipid G2 team. After the first map, in which G2 pulled off an 8-2 CT half to take Mirage, Spirit were largely untroubled on maps two and three, letting up just eleven rounds en route to a simple win.

This was a largely uneventful pair of maps, in truth, as G2's energy on the first map just seemed to be sucked out of them by sh1ro on Nuke, and honestly, we feel that.

MOUZ needed three maps to get past FUT, despite the stand-in, but ultimately showed their quality on Nuke with a dominant third map to avoid an early exit.

They won eleven on the T side of Nuke as the cracks began to show in FUT's defence with coolio in the server, and that's fair enough, really. We're not going to judge them without their full roster. We will judge Spirit for losing 0-13 against them on this very map, though. MOUZ went 11-1. Spirit went 0-12.

Troubling.

Legacy appear to have run out of gas this year, as they were cleanly dismissed by Falcons in a very clear 2-0.

kyousuke ran rings around the Brazilians, who have seemingly just hit a wall with their form, even in Asia, which is not a great sign for them going into the Major. Or for us, who wrote about how good they were not that long ago.

Oops.

They need a regroup and a rethink, 'cause it isn't working right now.