ZywOo on top in old rivalry against s1mple
In their first meeting since 2023, it was ZywOo coming out on top against his old rival s1mple as Vitality kicked off their IEM Kraków 2026 campaign with a 2-0 win over BC.Game in the Group B upper bracket quarter-final. The highly anticipated matchup of ZywOo vs s1mple went the way of ZywOo, unsurprisingly although s1mple did have his moments which in the end wasn't enough for BC.Game.
A quick A hit saw BC.Game start with a chaotic pistol round on their pick of Dust2 before a ZywOo clutch saw Vitality answer with the force. While flameZ with a couple of big rounds made sure Vitality kept it close, a big 1v2 in the final round of the half from electroNic saw BC.Game take a two round lead on their T side. A sloppy CT hold from s1mple and co. saw BC.Game manage to pick up a solitary round in the second half as Vitality eased to a 13-8 win.
Overpass saw Vitality get going with a well-oiled T side and barring a couple of multi-kill rounds from the AWP of s1mple and MUTiRiS, it was all Vitality as they took an 8-4 lead. A quad kill round from aragornN was all that BC.Game converted as a one-round T side meant that Vitality eased to a 13-5 win to take the series win in a 2-0 manner.
VitalityBC.Game| Vitality |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan |
35 - 26 | +9 | 93.9 | 82.1% | 1.65 |
 Robin 'ropz' Kool |
29 - 15 | +14 | 77.2 | 89.7% | 1.38 |
 Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire |
25 - 23 | +2 | 76.1 | 82.1% | 1.27 |
| Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut |
29 - 18 | +11 | 66.6 | 84.6% | 1.13 |
 William 'mezii' Merriman |
15 - 22 | -7 | 55.8 | 82.1% | 0.86 |
| BC.Game |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev |
27 - 26 | +1 | 79.3 | 74.4% | 1.07 |
 Adones 'krazy' Nobre |
25 - 24 | +1 | 73.5 | 66.7% | 1.04 |
| António 'aragornN' Barbosa |
20 - 27 | -7 | 46.5 | 74.4% | 0.78 |
 Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov |
18 - 29 | -11 | 58.2 | 64.1% | 0.67 |
| Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes |
14 - 29 | -15 | 50.4 | 64.1% | 0.63 |
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