Liquid eliminate mouz in Atlanta

25-1-2017 19:41

Liquid demolished Mousesports on Nuke (16-4), eliminating the European team and getting one win away from the playoffs.

The elimination match between Liquid and MOUZ ended up being on Nuke - a map the North American side had decent results on, while the Europeans had not played it in a competitive match for quite some time.

The start of the match reflected that, as Liquid got to a 5-0 lead with MOUZ barely making a dent on their defenses. Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač picked up four kills on A to get his team on the board, but Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche denied their plant on the lower site to reset the European team in the following round.

Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin and co. continued to roll MOUZ, getting a 11-1 lead before losing an anti-eco, again on the A site. Liquid tried to change up their CT side, pushing agressively from secret and ramp, but MOUZ won some duels and held off the retake of the A site.

Liquid finally closed out a match in time

MOUZ ended the first half with three round wins in the row to make it four all together, however, Liquid took the pistol with a quick vent dive and followed that up with Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella clutching a 1v2 anti-eco on B.

Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong got an entry in their first gun round, but Liquid clutched it out on the lower site and closed out the map 16-4.

ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 1

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25th January 2017

Liquid

Nuke

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač NiKo	14 - 18	-4	82.6	45.0%	0.88
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	11 - 17	-6	51.8	50.0%	0.72
Christian 'loWel' Garcia Antoran loWel	7 - 15	-8	44.8	55.0%	0.61
Denis 'denis' Howell denis	6 - 17	-11	36.7	30.0%	0.35
Timo 'Spiidi' Richter Spiidi	1 - 19	-18	26.9	25.0%	0.13

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	22 - 9	+13	103.5	90.0%	1.74
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	16 - 8	+8	103.3	80.0%	1.50
Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Pimp	19 - 7	+12	92.3	75.0%	1.47
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	14 - 5	+9	65.3	95.0%	1.41
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Hiko	15 - 10	+5	80.2	85.0%	1.33

Current standings:

2W-1L	1W-2L	2W-2L
Gambit	OpTic	North
Astralis	GODSENT	Envy
SK		Liquid
FaZe
3W-0L	3W-1L
Virtus.pro	fnatic
Natus Vincere
1W-3L	0W-3L
G2	HellRaisers
MOUZ	FlipSid3

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Grats to Liquid hope they will get their legend status back too. Such a splendid performance done by James "Spiidi" Bond for breaking his own record and going 0-0-12, I mean cmon did they choose him over gob b? Even gob b would get easy trade kills that spiidi missed yet he would manage mouz more better than NiKo does as IGL so NiKo would focus more on his game. I'm so glad that mouz eliminated, hope they will replace Spiidi and denis soon with real players even semi-pro's on FPL would do better than this duo.

2017-01-25 19:41

16 replies

EZ FOR ELiGE

2 replies

Mouz really needs to kick NiKo, he's holding back Spiidi and Denis a lot

2017-01-25 19:42

1 reply

WRONG WAY ROUND

1-19 jesus christ spiidi wtf was that. 0.08 rating

ez liquid 2-3

nice

lul

haha

0.08 LUL

have to agree

God Spiidi

LMAO

nowadays I only click past the news title to read your comment. Always more interesting that the match result we already know cause it's written in the sidefuckingbar

2017-01-25 19:43

nice cheater

2017-01-25 19:44

for the love of god , please uninstall spiidi

GodSpiidi !

3 replies

the best around

#FreeNiKo

2017-01-25 19:47

he just needs to leave germany then he'll be fine

2017-01-25 19:49

LUL SPIIDI 1-1-20

ez for spiidi

spiidi played the match of his life

rip

1-19

0.08

Mouz lost the game at the veto. Wtf were they thinking when they let nuke go to the "randomizer". Spidii was non existent, lowel got some good entries at the end of the T half but that was about it. Niko keeps tilting the shit out of his team. Liquid finally catch a breather after 2 exhausting matches.

Yeah they did the same against HR, but that time they got lucky. What a terrible team, they can play only 2 maps and they are not even good on them lol

2017-01-25 19:45

Well overall it was one sided I think liquid can make it to playoffs but we will see

EZ FOR LIQUID

1/19 BOT SUPREME GOD OF GALAXY

-spiidi - denis already...

niko pls leave

Just NiKo wasting his carrer with losers...

wasted major spot like always they got 6 years a major spot and eliminated 6 times in groups

spiiiiidiiiiii

they got 3 vetos and don't ban nuke, wow

reminded me of solek performance on asus rog 2014, he went -1/20 against overdrive's mix, also on nuke

Get_right (0.09) > Spiidi (0.08) confirmed

mouz is in the 1-3 group, not the 0-3 group

0.08 Nice one

Denis 'denis' Howell 6-17 -11 36.7 0.43 Timo 'Spiidi' Richter 1-19 -18 26.9 0.08 NICE GERMANISTAN SCANE XDDDDDDD

Everyone saying NiKo leave, you are wasting your career and shit.. you guys do realise that his attitude/emotions is way too bad to fit into any team right? He can't handle being behind on the scoreboard.

true but with spidii and denis in your team everyone would turn into a rager. i honestly would rather play with hunden

Poor Spiidi. Hope BIG can make the next major.

mouz 1-3 not 0-3

spiidi is just horrible

Mousesports won 1 game, not 0-3

back to the drawing board mouz

it's wrong, lul, they won against HR so not 0-3 but 1-3

2017-01-25 19:46

Please go vote twitter.com/Thooorin/status/824325175848..

mouz probably should kick both spidii and denis and make an international team without any german members. i guess nex is aight but what mouz realy needs is a igl and not another inconsistent fragger

Stop blaming just Spiidi lol, what should he do,just blame the team and NiKo putting pressure on it and ragging all the time... like cmon even I that i am not a pro player i dont rage that much also you cant blame only spidi because others players its not like the performed any better with 5-6 kills Niko is toxic af.

Yeah Mouse just had no idea of how to play on Nuke. Niko getting a couple useless kills doesn't mean he isn't just as much of a problem. You can't get BTFO'd that bad if anybody is doing what they're supposed to.

2017-01-25 20:01