CS2: Vitality and Vertex are the first eliminated teams at IEM Sydney

After about 36 hours travelling to Australia, the first two teams are set to go back home after being eliminated at IEM Sydney. Vitality, number 1 team in the world, lost its second game in the tournament as they were defeated by FaZe by 2-1 this Monday. Apeks took down the Australians from Vertex by 2-0. This is the first big LAN being played on Counter-Strike 2. The grand final will take place on Sunday and US$100 thousand is up for grabs, plus a spot at IEM Katowice.

The first games were in Bo1 matches and Vitality lost to the Russians of BetBoom by 16-14 on Mirage. Following the defeat, Mathieu "ZywOo" dueled FaZe on the Bo3 match. On FaZe's pick, Vitality took the game to OT and started out with a 16-14 advantage. FaZe cameback on a 13-10 victory on Inferno. The decider map, Nuke, favored Finn "karrigan" as they eliminated Vitality on a 13-9 scoreboard.

Vertex played their first match vs MOUZ and was completely dominated on Mirage by 13-2. Next, the Australians battled for their survival against Apeks. On Mirage, they crumbled by 13-5 and on Anubis, Apeks eliminated Vertex by 13-11.