Vitality beats PARIVISION to win PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026

A trophy for apEX on his birthday

It's another Grand Final Sunday and it's another trophy lifting Sunday for Vitality as the reigning Major champions have picked up their second LAN title of 2026 after beating PARIVISION 3-0 in the final of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026. Even though PARIVISION went down 0-3, they pushed Vitality on Overpass and despite being brushed aside on Dust2, they made apEX and his boys sweat and earn the title, pushing Inferno to overtime.

Four round streaks from either team saw Vitality's pick of Overpass get going with ZywOo's AWP finding early impact to see Vitality take a 7-5 lead at the break. Vitality evened out the pistols but PARIVISION fought back as soon as the guns came out. Jame and co. dropped the momentum as ropz came in with a huge Deagle 1v2 on the B site to see Vitality hit double digits and Vitality saw off a late comeback attempt, with PARIVISION stealing a 2v5 late on, to take a 13-10 win.

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PARIVISION had no answer to Vitality's defence to get Dust2 going as Vitality raced away to a 6-0 lead before an intuitive play from Jame to let flameZ through from Long, saw PARIVISION hit Vitality unexpectedly on the A site to get on the board. With mezii having the B site on lockdown, PARIVISION couldn't find much on their T side though as it was Vitality storming to a 9-3 lead. zweih picked up a 1v2 to see PARIVISION pick up a chaotic second pistol but a force buy B hit saw Vitality answer back instantly and flameZ's openers saw Vitality go 2-0 up in the final following a comfortable 13-4 win on PARIVISION's pick.

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ZywOo kicked off Inferno with a 1v2 on the B site saw Vitality fought back from a 3v5 to take the opening pistol on PARIVISION's second pick. Vitality had the pathway set for a strong CT half but Jame in a 1v4, ninja'd apEX and his boys, who expected the Russian AWPer to be saving, to see PARIVISION take the lead at the end of the first half, going two rounds ahead. A BELCHONOKK quad kill saw PARIVISION pick up the second pistol but apEX answered with the force. BELCHONOKK's ace saw PARIVISION find momentum again on their T side before six in a row from Vitality that included a big apEX clutch, an incredible ZywOo spray transfer and flameZ quad kill that put Vitality on match and tournament point first. xiELO managed to clutch out a last second 1v3 to push overtime.

With ZywOo's AWP on the A site and flameZ shutting down B site, Vitality found two on their CT side to kick off overtime before a ropz clutch put Vitality on map and match point and Vitality made sure to convert it at 16-13 to win the final in three straight maps.

Source: PGL

PARIVISION
0 - 3
Vitality
All maps
PARIVISION K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali 49 - 41 +8 63.3 69.6% 0.97
Ivan 'zweih' Gogin 37 - 48 -11 65.9 78.3% 0.92
Andrey 'BELCHONOKK' Yasinskiy 44 - 48 -4 62.8 62.3% 0.86
Vladislav 'xiELO' Lysov 42 - 49 -7 65.2 69.6% 0.80
Emil 'nota' Moskvitin 31 - 50 -19 61.7 60.9% 0.72
Vitality K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan 54 - 44 +10 83.4 73.9% 1.48
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut 48 - 39 +9 68.5 75.4% 1.22
Robin 'ropz' Kool 49 - 38 +11 76.7 81.2% 1.19
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire 36 - 45 -9 75.2 72.5% 1.07
United Kingdom William 'mezii' Merriman 49 - 40 +9 68.3 72.5% 1.04

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