Team Vitality has done something that seemed impossible just a few years ago: made the Astralis dynasty look beatable on paper. After eliminating Astralis 2-0 at the IEM Cologne 2025 group stage and stacking up 20 big-event titles to Astralis’s 19, the French organization has officially overtaken the Danish legends in the one metric that matters most in esports, winning.
The conversation has shifted from “can anyone catch Astralis” to “has Vitality already passed them.” And the answer depends entirely on how you weight history versus momentum.
The case for Vitality
Astralis holds four Major titles and remains the only organization to win three consecutive Majors, a streak from 2018 to 2019 that still stands as the most dominant run in Counter-Strike history. Vitality has three Majors: BLAST.tv Paris 2023, Austin 2025, and StarLadder Budapest 2025.
But raw Major count doesn’t tell the full story. Vitality now holds 20 big-event titles compared to Astralis’s 19, a milestone crossed after the IEM Krakow 2026 event. Vitality also holds a clear head-to-head advantage over Astralis across multiple matchups in the 2024-2025 period. The Cologne elimination was just the most visible example of a pattern that’s been building for over a year.
