Team Vitality completed a clean 3:0 sweep over Natus Vincere in the BLAST Rivals Fort Worth 2026 grand final on May 3, claiming their fifth tournament title of the season and pocketing the $250,000 first-place prize at Dickies Arena. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut took home his 32nd career MVP award, extending the most-decorated individual run in modern CS2.
The maps that decided it
NAVI looked dangerous early. On Nuke they jumped to an 11:0 lead on their CT half — clinical executes, Aleksib calling spread, JL and Makazze trading rounds — and looked entirely capable of taking the opener. Then the half flipped. Vitality's T-side response was the most decisive comeback of the playoffs: ZywOo openings on Lower, ropz controlling Outside, mezii cleaning up at the bomb. Overtime resolved 16:12 to Vitality, and the psychological tilt was set.
Anubis was a closer, more controlled affair. Vitality leaned on map control and slow B executes, taking it 13:11 with apEX calling textbook mid-late-round retakes. Dust2 was the closer that wasn't close — 13:3, Vitality pacing every round, NAVI never finding an answer to ZywOo's AWP across long.
What this means for IEM Atlanta
The Fort Worth result is the fifth tournament Vitality have closed out this season — Rotterdam, the regional qualifier, and now Fort Worth all stacked into a window of less than ten weeks. Going into IEM Atlanta on May 11–17, they are the unambiguous tournament favorite. NAVI's grand-final showing keeps them in the top tier of contenders despite the loss, but the gap on Vitality is starting to look structural rather than form-based.
The Vitality dynasty narrative — already in conversation through the spring — now reads less like hype and more like the working assumption for the rest of 2026.
