ZywOo Talks ApEX And ​​Shox Face Hate From The Crowd In Fall 2021 Finals

Team Vitality had a great performance at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021, finishing the LAN tournament as runner-up after a ‘2-1’ loss to NAVI in the grand finals. However, the crowd present at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark was not too pleased with the French driver dominating Astralis at the event.

Vitality first took down Astralis in the upper bracket, then another defeat was delivered to them in the lower bracket, knocking them out of the event. The whole encounter did not go well with the Danish crowd, most of which were in favor of the home team Astralis.

Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut in an interview with Dexerto shared how he, Dan “apEX” Madesclaire and Richard “shox” Papillon faced all the hate and boos from the crowd throughout the game, whether it affected their performance or not, and more.

ZywOo on Vitality facing hate from the crowd in BLAST Premier: Fall 2021 Finals

Vitality did not have an easy time in Copenhagen, Denmark playing at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021. They faced considerable hate from the LAN crowd, as they were the lucky ones to come back. in front of the home team. – Astralis, not once, but twice.

While apEX loved getting hate in Vitality’s bottom bracket final against Astralis, ZywOo kept his cool to let his performance do the talking. Talking about the incident later, he went on to say,

Even after Vitality beat Astralis for the second time in the tournament by a score of ‘2-0’, the crowd booed during the post-match interview. This ZywOo statement says,

British presenter and commentator, Alex “Machine” Richardson, who is holding the post-match interview, even stood up to the crowd. He told the crowd to show character when the home team lost, to respect their opponents and cheer for them the same way they did for their own team.

One thing’s for sure, all the booing and hate didn’t affect Vitality’s record as they knocked Astralis out of the tournament, leaving them with two losses in the same event.

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