Team Vitality have put an end to a trophy drought stretching back to May by winning StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026. In the final, the team defeated Aurora to secure the title – but the victory carries more weight than just a trophy.

The revenge aspect is hard to overlook. Aurora had earlier in the tournament beaten Vitality 2-1 in the upper-bracket final and forced them down into the lower bracket. That win sent Aurora directly to the grand final, while Vitality had to fight their way back via a 2-0 victory over FURIA in a consolidation match – a match in which ZywOo delivered a dominant performance with 42 kills and a rating of 1.88 across two maps. When the two sides finally met again in the decisive best-of-five, Vitality turned the tables and lifted the trophy.

For Vitality, it is their first championship since May, and according to available reports the team played the final with their usual five-man lineup – a detail that underlines that the team has gone through periods with an incomplete roster in the intervening period.

Aurora finished as runners-up, demonstrating that they are a team capable of challenging the very top of the CS2 field. Their victory over Vitality earlier in the tournament was no fluke, but in the decisive match it was Vitality who stood tallest.

Neither the map score from the final nor individual top performers from the decisive match have been confirmed in available sources, but the tournament result is clear: Vitality are StarSeries Fall champions, and the trophy drought is over.