Vitality beat Aurora to reach EPL final
Vitality will contest the final against the winner of Spirit vs. It will be the chance for the three-time Major champions to win their second trophy of the season before Dan "apEX" Madesclaire temporarily steps down from the roster for PGL Masters Bucharest.
HLTV10 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Date Matches ESL Pro League Season 24 11/10/2026 Vitality 17:00 MOUZ/Spirit winner Match Neither team could pull away in the first half of Anubis, trading three-round streaks.
Vitality twice appeared on course for a sizeable lead, only for Ismailcan "XANTARES" Dörtkardeş and woxic to halt the momentum with big individual plays. Heading into the second half, Ashley "ash" Battye hailed his players' reaction to Vitality 's early aggression.
Very, very impressed," the British coach said, asking them to keep it up in the second half. Aurora 's players followed the coach's instructions and took control of the game from the initial exchanges.
A lapse in communication cost them an important round against a shoddy buy, but they remained composed and put the game to rest, with woxic posting a jaw-dropping 3.13 CT rating.
The Turkish AWPer lacked the same bite on Cache as Aurora could only muster four rounds on defense despite a stellar showing from XANTARES (15-6 K/D, 130 ADR and 2.31 rating).
The result marks MOUZ 's third grand final of the season, with Vitality standing between them and the trophy, while Spirit are set to meet Aurora in the third-place decider.
"This win will give us a lot of confidence," Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás said in a post-match interview. While they won and converted the pistol, Spirit found themselves 2-8 down before finally clicking into gear and won five in a row.
MOUZ then won a crucial halfbuy after Danil "donk" Kryshkovets 's overpeek into Lower and took that momentum all the way to the bank, with torzsi crowning a fantastic performance with a post-plant 3k.
Spirit showed a different face on Mirage, however, looking composed and, more importantly, buoyed by an online donk .
The Russian phenom topped the board for his team with 19 kills on the map, while also putting the final nail in the MOUZ coffin with a 1vs2.
Aurora kept their comeback hopes alive by turning around a 2v4 in the pistol and adding two more rounds to cut the deficit to one.
Opinion
Fictional bylines. Each take uses a line above and adds no facts.
Team Spirit still has to answer for this: "Date Matches ESL Pro League Season 24 11/10/2026 Vitality 17:00 MOUZ/Spirit winner Match Neither team could pull away in the first half of Anubis, trading three-round streaks." That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
The headline skips this: "Very, very impressed," the British coach said, asking them to keep it up in the second half. Aurora 's players followed the coach's instructions and took control of the game fro…" That is the reading I would argue. The rest of the card does not cancel it.
Ivo Quill · contrarian
MatchesTeam VitalityMOUZAuroraTeam SpiritPRXANTARESdonkapEXwoxictorzsi
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