Vitality vs Aurora Result BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026

Team Vitality defeated Aurora 2-0 on March 28, 2026, in the Semifinals of BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026 at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The maps were Inferno 13-5 and Nuke 13-5.

Vitality advance to the Grand Final. Aurora are eliminated from the tournament. EsportScanner provides free AI esports predictions for every BLAST Open Rotterdam playoff match.

Map results

Inferno

Vitality dominated Inferno from the opening rounds. The 13-5 scoreline is one of the most one-sided map results of the entire Rotterdam playoff stage. Aurora were unable to find individual or collective answers across either side of the map.

flameZ posted his highest individual output of the tournament on Inferno. His 1.83 series rating was built across both maps - but his Inferno performance was the individual moment that set the pace for the entire series.

Nuke

Nuke was equally dominant. Vitality closed out 13-5 for the second consecutive map - matching the Inferno scoreline exactly. It reflected a level of collective control that Aurora could not disrupt at any stage of the map.

XANTARES - who had been Aurora's standout performer across the entire Rotterdam campaign posting 1.39 against MongolZ and 1.45 against FURIA - finished with a 0.47 series rating. It is the lowest individual rating of any player across the Semifinal round and the starkest individual containment result of the entire tournament.

Standout performances

Vitality - flameZ 1.83, ropz 1.53, ZywOo 1.43, mezii 1.34, apEX 1.05

Aurora - MAJ3R 1.11, Wicadia 0.96, woxic 0.61, soulfly 0.60, XANTARES 0.47

flameZ posted a 1.83 rating - the highest individual output of any player in the Semifinal round and the highest of his entire Rotterdam campaign. His performance across both maps gave Vitality a second primary carry operating above ZywOo's output for the first time in the tournament.

ropz at 1.53 was the second highest individual rating of the series. The combination of flameZ at 1.83, ropz at 1.53, and ZywOo at 1.43 gave Vitality 3 players operating above 1.40 simultaneously - the deepest collective individual performance of any team in the entire BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026 tournament.

XANTARES at 0.47 is the defining statistic of this series. His 3-month baseline entering the Semifinal was 1.14. His Rotterdam campaign peak was 1.45 against FURIA. His Semifinal output was 0.47 - a 0.98 rating-point drop from his tournament peak. Vitality's preparation specifically targeted his individual patterns across both maps and produced the most complete individual containment result of the entire tournament.

MAJ3R at 1.11 was Aurora's only player to rate above parity. His competitive individual output could not compensate for XANTARES at 0.47 and woxic at 0.61 across 2 consecutive dominated maps.

Context and what comes next

Vitality advance to the Grand Final of BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026. They will face the winner of NaVi vs PARIVISION - the second Semifinal on March 28 at 18:30 CET.

Vitality's Grand Final run - completing the group stage unbeaten, sweeping PARIVISION 2-0 in the Upper Final, and now sweeping Aurora 2-0 in the Semifinals - reflects a team performing at the highest collective level of any roster at Rotterdam. Their 3-player above-1.40 performance against Aurora is the statistical peak of their 2026 season.

Aurora are eliminated from BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026. Their tournament run - sweeping MOUZ on Day 1, beating FaZe and FURIA in the upper bracket, and ending The MongolZ's historic run in the Quarterfinals - was the most unexpected deep run of the entire Rotterdam campaign. XANTARES's containment in the Semifinal does not diminish the individual performances he produced to get Aurora there.

Was EsportScanner AI correct?

EsportScanner AI gave Vitality a 72% win probability ahead of this match. The prediction landed - Vitality won 2-0 with scorelines of 13-5 on both maps.

The result was more comprehensive than even the 72% probability suggested. flameZ's 1.83 rating and XANTARES's 0.47 containment were the 2 individual variables that made the result a sweep rather than a competitive series.

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