The captain of Team Vitality`s CS2 roster, Dan “apEX” Madesclaire, shared his thoughts on their performance at BLAST Rivals Spring 2025. In an interview during the official broadcast, he briefly commented on the grand final match and discussed the team`s impressive string of victories.
According to apEX, the team was not fully awake on the first map, Inferno, and struggled significantly on the defensive side of Mirage.
Another five maps. I feel like I`m dying. We played so good and so bad at the same time. I don`t know what the hell happened on Mirage defense. We had a good plan, and then someone stopped following it. We started losing round after round, it was really horrible. On Inferno, we were still sleeping. On the other three maps, we played very well. And we won on Nuke again. It feels good.
Madesclaire emphasized that he and his teammates recognize that repeating such a lengthy winning streak is highly improbable once it eventually comes to an end.
We still really want to win. We understand that this only happens once in a career, once in a lifetime. After winning IEM Katowice 2025, I told the guys: `Let`s try to win as many tournaments as we can.` We had a week off the next week. But we kept telling each other: `Just a few days, guys, let`s keep giving our best.` And then two more days, then one more. And now we`ve won our fifth trophy in a row together. It`s incredible. I never thought I could do this.
BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 took place from April 30 to May 4, featuring teams competing for a prize pool of $350,000. In the grand final, Vitality defeated Team Falcons with a 3:2 scoreline.