ZywOo Talks About Vitality Breaking NAVI's Winning Streak on Nuke

Team Vitality might be a one-man army, but it is still number two in the CS:GO world rankings which counts for something. Especially so, when considering that out of all the teams, they are the ones who brought Natus Vincere's (NAVI) 20 games winning streak on Nuke to an end in the grand finals of BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021.

Despite getting swept by NAVI '2-0' in the upper bracket final, Vitality fought their way through the lower bracket to face them in the grand finals once again. Though many expected another clean sweep, Vitality dug in deep and fought hard to take things down to a decider by handing NAVI a shocking defeat on their strongest CS:GO map, Nuke.

Speaking about this feat in a post-match interview with BLAST, Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut revealed how the team was feeling after they destroyed NAVI on Nuke with a '16-6' scoreline.

ZywOo reveals how Vitality felt after bringing NAVI's winning streak to a halt on Nuke

Vitality was facing a heavy disadvantage going into the grand finals of BLAST Premeir: Fall Finals 2021against NAVI, as they had already dropped a series against them earlier in the tournament. Still, the French juggernauts stepped into the ring confident as ever.

Things did not go their way as they lost on the first map, Mirage, which was their pick. Another '2-0' victory was on the cards for NAVI as the second map was Nuke, where NAVI held a 20 game winning streak.

Alas, it turned out to be a wrench in their plans as Vitaity gave them a sound beating, dominating the map with a '16-6' scoreline which surely created a moment of doubt in everyone's mind about NAVI losing the series.

Though nothing of the sort happened, breaking NAVI's streak was a big achievement in itself and ZywOo certainly enjoyed it as he went on to state the following in an interview with James Banks.

He went on to reveal that on Inferno it became really hard to make a comeback as their fighting spirit took a huge hit early on in the map, both individually and as a team.

However, all said and done ZywOo was really proud of the Vitality lineup as they played some really good CS in their last event together as a team. As for his future all that ZywOo said was, "I don't know, let's see what happens!"

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