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 EnVyUs. 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 Liang 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 Li & company went on to win the match 16-7 after WeiJie “zhokiNg” Zhong’s ace to end the map.