SKADE upset Vitality in Pinnacle Cup

The Franco-Danish squad has struggled to find form in recent weeks, and were bested 2-0 here.

In a continuation of their recent run of disappointing form, overwhelming favourites for the Pinnacle Cup III title Vitality were beaten 2-0 by SKADE, losing 13-16 on the Bulgarians' pick of Overpass and 10-16 on their own pick of Nuke.

SKADE will move on to face Tricked in the semi-finals, and will be hoping to continue their impressive form since putting their current roster together, which has included an Elisa Invitational victory and a rise to their peak of #18 in the world ranking.

SHiPZ and co. have enjoyed a strong start to 2022.

Vitality were not the only quarter-final invitee who suffered defeat, with ECSTATIC and ENCE already eliminated earlier in the day; Dignitas will face BLUEJAYS in the last quarter-final.

This result for Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire and co. was a culmination of the recent struggles experienced by the super team, having crashed out of Katowice in 9-12th place and missed out on the playoffs of ESL Pro League, taking only two wins in their group.

Several issues have become apparent with the Vitality side ever since their promising start with the new roster, which saw them comfortably cruise through the BLAST Premier Spring Groups with a 6-2 map record. Among them are a shaky map pool, with the team sporting a winning record only on Dust2 and Inferno in 2022, and the waning form of the second best player of 2021, Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut.

With their RMR campaign set to begin in less than a months' time, and the Major itself in under two months, Vitality will need to rectify the issues in their game quickly if they are to even qualify to compete in Antwerp, let alone go deep in the Major itself.

Pinnacle Cup IIIBest of 3 VitalityMatchpage 0 2 28th March 2022 SKADE 13Overpass 16 10Nuke 16

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	40 - 39	+1	90.4	1.13
Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk	40 - 40	0	78.2	1.03
Mathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautZywOo	37 - 38	-1	67.3	1.01
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabiermisutaaa	31 - 45	-14	67.3	0.78
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh	30 - 42	-12	60.6	0.77

SKADE	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Georgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovSHiPZ	46 - 38	+8	94.3	1.27
Aleks 'Rainwaker' PetrovRainwaker	42 - 33	+9	88.7	1.24
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrovdennyslaw	39 - 35	+4	69.8	1.12
Simeon 'dream3r' Ganevdream3r	38 - 37	+1	79.1	1.11
Kamen 'bubble' Kostadinovbubble	38 - 37	+1	66.6	1.02

Tricked #53 Sebastian 'larsen' LarsenAndreas 'kiR' KirsteinOliver 'kwezz' RasmussenOliver 'IceBerg' BergMathias 'PR1mE' Carlsen Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Age: 21 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.27 Maps played: 962 KPR: 0.85 DPR: 0.62 Dignitas #36 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergAdam 'friberg' FribergJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonHåkon 'hallzerk' FjærliLudvig 'HEAP' Alonso ECSTATIC #22 Dion 'FASHR' DerksenJakob 'Daffu' SchildtAdam 'WolfY' AnderssonThomas 'birdfromsky' Due-FrederiksenMarcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen SKADE #18 Kamen 'bubble' KostadinovSimeon 'dream3r' GanevGeorgi 'SHiPZ' GrigorovDenislav 'dennyslaw' DimitrovAleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov ENCE #9 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferPavle 'Maden' BoškovićPaweł 'dycha' DychaOlek 'hades' MiskiewiczLotan 'Spinx' Giladi Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire Age: 29 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 1945 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.70 BLUEJAYS #43 Daniel 'dan1' GligorovAndrej 'Necrogenes1s' ManceskiAleksandar 'CacaNito' KjulukoskiDamjan 'kyxsan' StoilkovskiJane 'aidKiT' Apostoloski Vitality #8 Dan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautKévin 'misutaaa' Rabier