VG.CyberZen defeated Virtus.pro 16-7 on Mirage in the Group D opening match at the SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals.

Virtus.pro met VG.CyberZen in the second opening match of Group D in Kiev, Ukraine to determine who would advance to the winners' match against Cloud9 and who would go on to face elimination against Envy.

BingYuan "⁠tb⁠" Li and Zhuo "⁠advent⁠" Liang opened Mirage with a 2vs3 pistol round win and the T-sided Chinese team extended their lead to 4-0 after advent showed up once again, this time in a 1vs2 situation. Virtus.pro were trailing 1-7 in the first stages of the half but salvaged to situation to trail 7-8 at halftime.



The Chinese teams continue to impress in Ukraine

VG.CyberZen gave away the bomb plant and the first kill of the second half pistol round but had a successful retake to make it 9-7. KunHua "⁠LOVEYY⁠" Bai's 1vs1 clutch against Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski in VP's gun round put the Chinese team in a really good spot to win the map (11-7).

VG.CyberZen's 3vs5 retake which extended their lead to 13-7 was the breaking point in the match as tb & company went on to win the match 16-7 after WeiJie "⁠zhokiNg⁠" Zhong's ace to end the map.

Next up in Kiev will be the Group D elimination match which can be watched here.