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
