Team Vitality has had an exceptional 2025 and it didn’t stop at the major, with MOUZ being the last obstacle on the way to the IEM Cologne finals.
| Match | IEM Cologne 2025 playoffs |
|---|---|
| Kick-off | August 2, 2025 at 1 pm ET |
| Top pick | Vitality wins 2-1 |
| Best price | GG.BET live odds |
| Betting favorite | Vitality |
Vitality is well on its way to winning another one of the biggest Counter-Strike tournaments of 2025. Its epic year started with winning IEM Katowice 2025, and it’s exclusively taken first-place finishes since then, all the way through the BLAST Austin Major. Despite having a packed trophy shelf already, IEM Cologne would be one of the team’s biggest of the year. Can it pull it off against MOUZ, though?
Betting tip: Don’t bet against Team Vitality until their winning streak is broken.
My Team Vitality vs MOUZ pick: Vitality wins 2-1 (3.33 at GG.BET)
There was a short little while where it seemed like Team Vitality wasn’t invincible. After winning the Intel Grand Slam’s $1 million prize, it headed to IEM Dallas. The team was still winning, but it survived nailbiters against The MongolZ and The Falcons, while MOUZ continued to look like a credible challenger. Vitality’s winning streak technically being snapped with an upset best-of-one defeat at the hands of Legacy certainly didn’t help matters.
WINNER TO SEMI-FINAL! TheMongolz vs Vitality – HIGHLIGHTS – IEM Cologne 2025 | CS2
Flash forward six weeks and Vitality looks as dominant as ever. The team recovered by steamrolling the competition in the Austin Major’s group stage and wound up taking home the organization’s second major championship. If there were any questions about motivation after winning a major and restarting the Intel Grand Slam journey, they were answered with the team steamrolling the IEM Cologne group stage.
It’s difficult to even broach the subject of CS2 betting when Vitality is involved because the team has been so good. It’s good on every map and wins every match. It’s similarly tough to delve into the X’s and O’s when it has an all-time great in Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut and the rest of the team is collectively excellent.
All this is to say that MOUZ is in a very difficult position. There isn’t any apparent avenue toward victory and they’re just going to have to play exceptionally strong Counter-Strike and catch Vitality by surprise in order to win. Given how often MOUZ has lost to Vitality this year, precedent suggests that won’t be the case.
| Team Vitality | MOUZ |
|---|---|
| apEX (IGL) | torzsi |
| ZywOo | xertioN |
| flameZ | Jimpphat |
| mezii | Brollan (IGL) |
| ropz | Spinx |
| Metric | Team Vitality | MOUZ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pistol round win% | 56.2% | 53.4% | Vitality |
| Top-rated player | ZywOo (1.38) | xertioN (1.11) | Vitality |
| Map win-loss | 86-18 | 70-49 | Vitality |
Stats include all matches played by both teams in 2025.
MOUZ vs Vitality has been a regular matchup in 2025 and MOUZ is yet to get a win. They’ve played seven times so far this year, with Vitality coming out on top each time.
Team Vitality won the BLAST Austin Major by defeating The MongolZ and made its way through the IEM Cologne group stage without losing a map:
MOUZ has played well in IEM Cologne, going 2-1 in the group stage before beating Furia in the playoffs. It was eliminated from the major, fittingly, by Team Vitality.
| Market | Odds |
|---|---|
| Team Vitality to win | 1.30 |
| MOUZ to win | 3.42 |
| Over 2.5 maps | 2.17 |
Lines pulled from GG.BET at 6:35 pm MT on August 1, 2025.
The GG.BET live odds are somewhat overestimating Team Vitality, at least relative to how it has performed against MOUZ. There aren’t any especially eye-popping lines that can be earnestly recommended, but there are some solid value plays.
Our pick: Vitality as the match winner at 2-1 at 3.33 odds at GG.BET
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