{"id":23953,"date":"2026-08-22T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/team-spirit-shatter-two-year-curse-to-eliminate-team-vitality-from-ewc-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:36:08","slug":"team-spirit-shatter-two-year-curse-to-eliminate-team-vitality-from-ewc-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/team-spirit-shatter-two-year-curse-to-eliminate-team-vitality-from-ewc-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Spirit Shatter Two-Year Curse to Eliminate Team Vitality from EWC 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the Six-Match Curse <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Going into this quarterfinal, Team Vitality held a formidable psychological advantage over Team Spirit. Since Spirit&#8217;s last victory against Vitality at the BLAST Premier World Final 2024\u2014where they won 2-0 in the group stage\u2014Vitality has dominated the head-to-head, winning six consecutive matchups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This streak included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/news\/read\/vitality-are-unstoppable-champions-of-iem-rio-2026-and-history-s-greatest-cs-2-dynasty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">painful 3-0 sweep over Spirit in the Grand Finals of IEM Rio 2026<\/a>. However, Spirit flipped the script this time around, shattering their losing streak on the EWC stage.<\/p>\n<p> High-Stakes Drama Between Spirit and Vitality <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The best-of-3 series lived up to its massive expectations, featuring some intense back and forth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Team Spirit set the pace early on their map pick of Anubis, edging out a tight 13-11 victory to put Vitality on the ropes.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/news\/read\/team-spirit-shatter-two-year-curse-to-eliminate-team-vitality-from-ewc-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the Six-Match Curse Going into this quarterfinal, Team Vitality held a formidable psychological advantage over Team Spirit. Since Spirit&#8217;s last victory against Vitality at the BLAST Premier World Final 2024\u2014where they won 2-0 in the group stage\u2014Vitality has dominated the head-to-head, winning six consecutive matchups.\u00a0 This streak included a painful 3-0 sweep over Spirit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":23954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-23953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-esports","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}