mousesports beat Na`Vi to win StarSeries i-League S4

26-2-2018 00:16

mousesports came from a map down to beat Natus Vincere 2-1 and win StarSeries i-League Season 4.

The first map of the tournament decider, Overpass, started with Na`Vi taking the pistol with ease and then barely surviving an anti-eco as Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool went huge with the Desert Eagle. A surprising third-round buy from MOUZ did not pay off, putting them in a dire economic situation.

Na`Vi kept finding opening kills, forcing MOUZ to play from behind in multiple rounds, with the scoreline blooming to an 8-1 advantage for the home side. MOUZ then finally got a break as they won two rounds in a row, but Na`Vi were soon back at it - running all over the CTs to secure an 11-4 lead.

The Ukrainian team picked up where they had left off and further extended their lead after taking the second pistol of the game. A ropz ace did not keep Na`Vi from reaching map point, but then the home side struggled to put the game to bed, curiously only doing so on a very weak buy after losing two rounds in a row.

mousesports win StarSeries after beating Na`Vi

MOUZ came into Mirage looking a different side and secured a quick 3-0 lead without letting their opponents get a single bomb plant. Natus Vincere then got their first on the board after Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev won a 1v2 situation, but the European mixture replied immediately, setting themselves up for a 6-1 lead.

Big plays from Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev allowed Na`Vi to string rounds together for the first time since the start of the map, but the rest of the half was all about MOUZ' great defence as Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný's side stormed to an 11-4 lead.

The second half began at a frantic pace as the teams kept trading blows, with s1mple rescuing his team time and time again with vital plays. With the 20-year-old talent in stunning form, Na`Vi managed to bring the deficit to a minimum, but then a team ace from MOUZ put them on 14 rounds.

Natus Vincere kept their hopes alive by taking the next round, this way resetting MOUZ' economy. The Ukrainians went on another great run, hitting match point, but, with their backs against the well, mouz responded in the 30th round to level up the score at 15-15.

The first overtime failed to determine a winner as both teams won two rounds on the offensive side - Na`Vi only doing so thanks to two 1v2 clutches from Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov. In the second overtime, Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong turned hero as he constantly kept Na`Vi's players at bay with his AWP, helping MOUZ to win four consecutive rounds and force a decider map.

s1mple was in top form - but it was not enough

With the momentum now swinging in their favour, MOUZ got off to a flying start on Train, winning eight of the first nine rounds after abusing the B site - where an out-of-form Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko was stationed.

Na`Vi then finally got a footing in the game as they won three of the next four rounds, but MOUZ were unfazed by that and secured the final two rounds of the half to secure an 11-4 lead.

A quad-kill from Edward in a B execution gave Na`Vi the second half pistol and marked the start of a great run from the Ukrainians, who won five rounds in a row to bring the deficit to 9-11. It looked liked MOUZ were falling apart but then they set up a very tight defence, winning five rounds in a row en-route to a 16-9 finish.

StarSeries i-League Season 4Best of 3

MOUZ

Matchpage

25th February 2018

Natus Vincere

Overpass

Mirage

Train

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Robin 'ropz' Kool ropz	65 - 55	+10	76.8	72.7%	1.13
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong chrisJ	71 - 61	+10	78.5	67.0%	1.11
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný oskar	65 - 58	+7	77.1	70.5%	1.09
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi suNny	60 - 64	-4	79.6	69.3%	1.02
Martin 'STYKO' Styk STYKO	39 - 60	-21	62.6	61.4%	0.75

Natus Vincere	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev s1mple	90 - 53	+37	98.0	76.1%	1.56
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev flamie	62 - 62	0	79.1	67.0%	1.06
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Edward	61 - 61	0	72.6	68.2%	1.03
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov electroNic	47 - 62	-15	67.6	67.0%	0.93
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Zeus	38 - 62	-24	53.1	61.4%	0.73

SL i-League StarSeries Season 4 final standings:

1. MOUZ - $130,000
2. Natus Vincere - $50,000
3. Liquid - $30,000
4. FaZe - $15,000
5-8. G2 - $10,000
5-8. SK - $10,000
5-8. Astralis - $10,000
5-8. Renegades - $10,000
9-11. HellRaisers - $6,000
9-11. HEROIC - $6,000
9-11. Cloud9 - $6,000
12-14. Virtus.pro - $4,000
12-14. TYLOO - $4,000
12-14. Gambit - $4,000
15-16. fnatic - $2,500
15-16. MVP PK - $2,500

Let me guess: -Zeus? He played in Gambit and they won a major. After he left Gambit sucked. Yes he had one of those bad days today, and yes his strats might not be very complicated, but who does better than he? ANGE1? C'mon, the only time his team showed something cool was when B1ad3 coached them and s1mple played with them. Nobody can be sure that ANGE1 will improve Na`Vi. Look at karrigan - Astralis' level dropped dramatically for a reason and they benched him, but he still was the guy that made FaZe finally look like a team instead of an MM-like mix with 5 individuals, while Astralis won a major and then step-by-step dropped to a level of a team that may not even get to the semis, it's not all about an IGL in the end, the other 4 players should win duels, and electronic prior to the OT on mirage looked mediocre, because everybody has bad days from time to time, both electronic and flamie on train for example, but you only criticize IGLs that have a harder work to do - not just run'n'gun but constantly analyze what is happening and where all the players are to make calls, while regular fraggers should just listen to what their IGL says and focus on their crosshairs, that's why IGLs are usually weaker as fraggers. Also don't forget that Astralis and FaZe lost to Na`Vi. Oh btw: how much did you losted? ;-D

2018-02-26 00:16

57 replies

I don't think they will kick Zeus.

2018-02-26 00:17

25 replies

Idk, something needs to change

2018-02-26 00:18

24 replies

dont kick zeus. -edward +guardian and -flamie +niko ez top 1 world

18 replies

tldr

2018-02-26 00:19

better -karrigan +s1mple in FaZe, only one switch and more skill

13 replies

whos igl? -olof +chrisj

2018-02-26 00:21

7 replies

niko

2018-02-26 00:23

5 replies

Biggest xD of my life

2018-02-26 00:35

4 replies

What's wrong? He did it in mousesports..

2018-02-26 01:27

3 replies

How did that work out for him?

2018-02-26 02:41

2 replies

He didn't really have the best players with him, now he does.

2018-02-26 03:05

1 reply

Fair.

2018-02-26 03:12

-olof +tarik

2018-02-26 08:49

omg you so nobrain, yes switch igl for top fragger why not

2018-02-26 00:22

-guardian +kennyS -olof +s1mple : niko s1mple kennyS rain and karrigan (such very good igl, one of the best in the world, and play not bad yet)

2018-02-26 02:18

not really dude, -olof +S1mple will work great i think but Guardian has been on top performance the last few months

2018-02-26 11:47

for real, the best trade they can do its -guardian +simple, because simple want snipe if there is guardian he will not snipe, and olof played not bad since he join faze

2018-03-03 15:04

Removing karrigan is a terrible idea, yup he's not a heavy fragger, but wonder what FaZe will look like without an IGL... The worst choice would be to trade him for a fragger, things would only get worse

2018-02-26 04:11

XD S1mple, guardian and niko on the same team, CHAOS FORMULA RIGHT THERE

and add coldzera to them

2018-02-26 00:32

S1mple: Niko yu faking bich why yu do zis Guardian: Fak yu s1mpel NiKo: I du what i want Coldzera: FAK YU GAYS, JANELAAAA

2018-02-26 22:29

flamie was lacking on train and electronic needs to find his spot in the team.

there is nothing to fix, just look where navi were when they got electronic and look where they are now, they are progressing, just give them more time to fix their map pool and they will win more tournaments

2018-02-26 00:48

2018-02-26 01:36

The Navi that got to these finals is miles better than the Navi that was playing with Seized running the show. They've actually started to show promise in their play, I think it's unfair to criticize them right now. They didn't win a final, so what? Like 6 months ago they wouldn't have made it out of groups.

2018-02-26 01:29

Nothing needs to change, you just need patience.. How long has it been for the old SK quatuor to get to such level ? Several years, with no results but confidence and trust. And it worked in the end

2018-02-26 02:19

Dude wtf lmaoooooo

damn someone w- brain on hltv, ggwp to you

he played bad but he is great IGL

Like Karrigan

2018-02-26 02:42

Yep

2018-02-26 08:47

lmao again you

+1 s1mple fangays think zeus is the problem when he's part of the solution

2018-02-26 00:57

Na'Vi disband ez fix Ruskis can't even win with cheats

Really fast dude, congratz!!!

2018-02-26 00:20

dont what you are talking about after they picked up kjaerbye they were terrible as soon as karrigan left they make semis for almost a whole year straight and actually won a major they were the favorite to win so this a very bad bait

Or may be you should carefully read the whole comment and only then answer? "Astralis won a major and then STEP-BY-STEP dropped to a level of a team that MAY not even get to the semis" After the major: 4 semis, 2 finals, ***step-by-step***, then 10 tournaments and 6 of them (more than a half) out of top4. And then recall what "may" means ;-)

2018-02-26 00:34

and where were they with karrigan losing to mouz in quarters and zero finals

No offense, but actually i do not see as much comments like "-Zeus +X" as people (including you) starting discussion about those non existing comments.

wtfff (''' ._. ''')

2018-02-26 00:24

What a retarded emote, nobody uses that.

I do (._.')

Lmao you's a legend

2018-02-26 08:02

no, he's retarded.

2018-02-26 11:46

2018-02-26 02:45

Astralis won the major bc they just got gla1ve and he called insane, i dont get ur point?

2018-02-26 00:38

My point is that it wasn't all about karrigan, they also had bad matches with gla1ve, so you shouldn't blame everything on just their IGL, plus there's no ideal IGL that makes no mistakes.

2018-02-26 00:43

Ah kk, true, ty for clearifying that.

2018-02-26 14:06

Copypasta alert

2018-02-26 00:39

+1 good words

2018-02-26 01:34

2018-02-26 02:02

-self-triggering. +self-reflection +grammar +English

There are no better IGL available atm that speak the language. They should just focus making strats with the rest of the team while Zeus plays DM.

2018-02-26 08:26

Tfw this post is not flagged as edited

2018-02-26 09:20

Losted.. Oh, dear

2018-02-26 09:27

gg but s1mple MVP, second best player in the world, right after NiKo

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s1mple >> Niko everyday

Yea no.

okay. Ropz >> Niko ez pz.

With his current form S1mple > Niko.

Not everyday but Most of the time

I don't often watch Faze games so you might be right.

2018-02-26 00:27

+1 N1ko choker S1mple chokes, but n1ko chokes on his own d1ck

2018-02-26 00:36

Agreed. s1mple >>>> niko But its worth mentioning... NiKo > s1mple >>>> niko

2018-02-26 02:47

S1mple >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Niko

s1mple > NiKo bro :)

2018 and we still have people thinking that NiKo, the choke master, is the best player of the world.

+100000 Even niko > danish cs on choking

cmon xaxaxa coldzera best in the world

Not in pure aim. if you look at comment #160, he explains it pretty good that cold doesnt has the explosive aim as niko / simple have

2018-02-26 05:27

Pure aim? Shroud(rip), ScreaM, NiKo and s1mple in order are the top 4.

2018-02-26 06:15

god zeus

asd

nice, good work mouz!

eZ 4 mouz

Was not easy

Yes

2018-02-26 01:38

ez mouz

gg easy for ma boy ropz

NO IWAS TOO LATE

s1mple mvp, zeus electronic flamie edward lvps. s1mple hobbit ange1 adren dosia new cis superteam. (maybe electronic/mir instead of dosia)

Dosia is trash with potato aim.

-zeus useless bot

Zeus s1mple hobbit adren electronic

SK!

Deserved! Looking forward to this Mouz line up, they really have potential nt s1mple #frees1mple

team s1mple almost done it

Someone save s1mple. This team does not deserve to have him.

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But he wants to play in Navi

He will change his mind soon. It's pathetic how he tryhards and the rest of na`vi suck dicks :D

I think if he leave NaVi, we will never hear about them, they are soo bad

Yes, na`vi will be somewhere near top25-30.

If they're lucky, that is

2018-02-26 02:48

Even they all suck s1mple not goona leave Na`Vi cz s1mple loves Na`Vi and playing in Na`Vi was his dream.

2018-02-26 00:28

i think it was the only tier1 tournament they could've won. s1mple has 2 choices: stay&earn ez 20k$/m or leave&join a team where people actually care about this game and are able to win tier1 tournaments.

2018-02-26 00:30

ill take the ez 20k/month

2018-02-26 02:49

gold digger spotted

2018-02-26 02:50

ty for the compliment

2018-02-26 03:11

ayyy Pretty good showing from mouz NaVi need to work on different maps Or they could replace edward or Flamie with someoNE from vega, or some other russian team S1mple is still god

EZ my brothe

2018-02-26 00:47

ez s1mple

Poor s1mple man

S1mple is in elo hell.

Sqmple mvp plese Sqmple mvp plese Sqmple mvp plese Sqmple mvp plese Sqmple mvp plese

gg s1mple in this series imgur.com/RM4iaaW

Great job mousesports, first time a non-winner gets MVP though

has hltv announced mvp yet?

yes it's s1mple, article will be up soon on HLTV

nice!

Yes. S1mple already got it.

Not first time. apEX got it before once when he lost too

2018-02-26 00:25

I don't see any MVPs on apEX's HLTV profile, you might be referring to a tournament before the MVP medals were introduced Here's HLTV confirming s1mple is the 1st twitter.com/HLTVorg/status/9679035929245..

Hmm I thought I remembered otherwise, guess I was wrong. But it was before the medals I was thinking, yes

2018-02-26 01:13

S1mple MVP

deserved

Nice one team Mousesports.

s1mple 1v9

bot zeus

wp :c

They've done it! I'm proud of ma boy Chris he struggled in the last 3 years and now he finally comes alive.

hope they keep it up looking forward to them being at least top 3 this year

+1 this iteration of mouz is on a MASSIVE upswing right now

AUF GEHTS

ez 4 mouz

poor s1mple, reminds me of messi with national team, great individual skill but shitty teammates

Faze s1mple please

+37 IN BO3 AND STILL LOST OMG S1mple deserve that MVP...

actually he got it

Damn!

sad

Congratulations to mousesports. Great teamwork, deserved title!

YESS

s1mple had offer from faze , now he will waste 2 years in navi feelsbadman

He already wasted almost 2 years in navi. He got offer from faze in 2016 when he left liquid but went to navi instead because it was his dream.

in 2016 ? damn. anyway he deserve for better team

Ye it was in august 2016 and faze were looking for replacement for allu and iirc faze offered him MUCH MORE MONEY than navi. He still declined.

2018-02-26 00:26

If I remember right he said playing for Na'vi is his dream come true.

2018-02-26 00:33

And at that moment he wanted to be closer with hes family and gf

2018-02-26 16:03

+37 still lost shit

EZ Clap

s1mple is the best player in the world bye niko and cold

S1mple :( He did everything he could and they still lost..

s1mple MVP... congrats MOUZ

Good job mouz! FeelsBad 4 S1mple though. Carries against Astralis and FaZe just to lose the last game Mouz Top 1 confirmed

DESERVED WIN FOR MOUSESPORTS! GJ OSKAR AND COMPANY

gj mouz chrisJ CS legend

MOUZ CHAMPIONS !!

mouseports deserved the win but simple does deserve the mvp

+1 he is playing out of his mind right now, navi wouldnt have made the finals without S1mple.

gg mouz, save s1mple

98.0 ADR What a God this s1mple man is - most likely will be #1 in the world 2K18

he won't. You need achievments to become #1, na`vi can't win a tier1 tournament.

Well it's not like Faze or SKs star players are winning right now and they're the most likely candidates so who else?

2018-02-26 00:31

2018 has a lot of events to come.

Very true but if we continue to have very random winners then s1mple is an obvious frontrunner atm imo.

2018-02-26 04:06

gj mouz

Simple is a beast man. How I wished the rest of Na’Vi stepped up too, kinda unfair to him

90 kills +37 Still lost LUL

Very close match, for a moment i thought i was going to lose my bet.

What does s1mple have to do to finally win? This guy is so fucking unlucky,he played like the best player in the world,he carried them so much it can't be expressed by words and he still can't do it.I'm frustrated,i would break the table and the computer if i'd be him

s1mple +37 PogChamp

-styko +s1mple !!!

holy shit that squad would be nuts...

Haha S1mple alone... Well deserved MVP title despite the lose.

s1mple :(

some will hate me for saying this but:-rain +s1mple

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Why would you remove rain? He's the most consistent player on FaZe.

usually but he has been pretty poor this year so far

I still would rather drop Olof first, before dropping rain. But as long as Guardian is playing for FaZe, getting s1mple won't even be a topic to discuss for them.

i still agree i was just putting that out there

anyone but rain

-rain ??? Gime some of the drugs youre taking m8

2018-02-26 00:41

Really happy for Mouz. They really have improved at lot since the end of 2017. I hope they will continue to keep up this performance and somehow figure out how to keep from choking from time to time.

gg #frees1mple

90 frags holly shit

Wp mouz <3 Nt Navi :/

s1mple deserves better team... liquid 2016 > this navi..... so sad

Faze s1mple

ugh come on get s1mple out of here

mouz tier 1 pogchamp

WHAT MORE CAN THIS GUY DO?

s1mple holy fucking shit...

Happy for Mouz to win such a big tournament, with all the top teams in attendance. Fair play to LanJ, what a transition he's made as a player and team mate. GG WP S1mple

S1mple averaging 30 a map and still loses. Time for this guy to re-evaluate his options.

#1 Mykonos #2 ECS Finals #2 Dreamhack Winter Major Legend Spot #1 Starladder mouz easily top 5 and arguably top 3 in last couple of months even tho they get alot of hate from so called experts like yNk and Thorin. #haters plus they are a real team with individual power and tactics aswell as 5 guys contributing and no superstar like NaVi. Just a great showing. <3

GG both teams :)

Kick ZEUS, Kick Edward, Kick Electronic plz

mouz deserved the win, navi deserved the loss, still having mental fights, specially zeus vs edward I think, the only person im sad for is s1mple! amazing performance! Zeus, please go over this tweet and learn something from it twitter.com/lurppis/status/9678835620735.. s1mple lez go twitter.com/Thooorin/status/967900314019.. twitter.com/Thooorin/status/967901139114..

S1mple 90-53 +37 and still lost lol

lol s1mple +37 and still loss xD

s1mple are you kidding me ? greatest cs talent in the world

where are now haters? ropz onliner? In your face. BTW simple just to amazing DESERVED MVP

I'm gonna cry all night((

s1mple 90 kills WTF

GOD

So happy for mouz and my two favourite players LanJ and Oskar

MOUZ ERA !!

He is the best player of all time of course , you are the beast men , you are alone you are absolutely beasttttttttttt fuck you zeus

Good job from the legend, ma boy Chris and the rest of mouz.

congratz mouz!

I hate oscar), this is the best Awp in the world, NaVi nice try, it s was a good game

Zeus lost this game.

S1mple can't carry this much

sad for s1mple

I'm so sad for NaVi, but in the other hand I'm happy, glad to see guys from mouz are getting better and better. Hope they will win more events, it's great to see that team effort, everyone playing on top level.

I feel bad for S1mple can we get a good roster change for him

gg was pretty insane. if flamie and edward could be more consistent they could become the best.

Lool Styko please step up.

he played pretty well on mirage, he is actually playing kinda smart on that map. everyone got destroyed on Overpass and he wasnt rly needed on train. tbh he played alot better the whole tournament compared to a few weeks an month back.

2018-02-26 00:37

Well his statics look pretty shit but he had some great impact frags

exactly that what matters the most. i think he can improve alot more. wasnt a fan of him but he is alright now. Atleast he doesnt drag down the team o much like certain other indeviduals *cough* zeus

This WAS him stepping up from previous performances in tournament finals.

Deserved

Gz mouz! good game

s1mple deserving better an that LOL

Already told it a while ago. If s1mple keep playing with these shitty teammates, he will achieve nothing, btw if he keeps this level, he will probally be number one on hltv’s top 20 next year

2018-02-26 00:42

gg mouz, deserved ! strong team, strong game plan, strong individuals! lanJ for sure one of the most powerfull IGLs out there atm. + they have a decent map pool. if they keep their form, they will be a semifinal candidate in every tournament 2k18!

if we enter the mouz era, I wouldn't be sad about it. Legendary org deserves to see success.

2018-02-26 00:45

Amazing game, mouz. Keep it up! And respect for the MVP, s1mple.

Congratz to mousesports. Incredible performance from s1mple, but unfortunately you cannot win titles by yourself in a team based game.

S1MPLE > NIKO

2018-02-26 01:12

S1mple is so obviously cheating...

2018-02-26 01:28

What a sad team

GGWP, sad day for Natus'S1mplere...

2018-02-26 01:30

gg wp

2018-02-26 01:54

wow thumps up s1mple, eventhough you are a bot and trying to knife cold

2018-02-26 02:17

Simple deserved the MVP. Stellar performance. You couldn't ask anything more from him. Congrats to mouz, they truly deserved the win though.

2018-02-26 02:37

Fucking ridiculous that every team got money. 300k purse and 3rd gets a pathetic 30k, winner a measly 130k. "Let everyone play" "everyone's a winner" blaablaa. Only the top4 should get anything; 150k, 85k, 50k and 15k.

2018-02-26 02:39

Natus Vincere Natus Vincere K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Ukraine Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 90 - 53 +37 98.0 1.56 Russia Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev 62 - 62 0 79.1 1.06 Ukraine Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev 61 - 61 0 72.6 1.03 Russia Denis 'electronic' Sharipov 47 - 62 -15 67.6 0.93 Ukraine Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko 38 - 62 -24 53.1 0.73 LMAO THIS IS EMBARASSING

2018-02-26 03:32

this is NOT EMBARASSING this is shows how competitive Cunter-Strike works team play wins over one teammates bait + eco/exit fragger stats hunter

2018-02-26 04:47

2018-02-26 13:44

Replace Zeus plz, he’s awful, navi lose coz of him.

2018-02-26 03:44

1ManArmy

2018-02-26 05:28

"well here we go" "well there it is"

2018-02-26 05:41

Not bad at all for Navi, I must admit.

2018-02-26 06:30

Winner takes it all. NaVi should have won that but Electronic didn't show up at all.

2018-02-26 07:50

Deserved!

2018-02-26 07:00

Finally mouz won an event, congrats

2018-02-26 07:08

Congratulations to mousesports - well deserved! And well played to Na'Vi! :3

2018-02-26 07:23

classic navi, classic s1mple twitter.com/Thooorin/status/967877914585..

2018-02-26 07:46

oskar looks so happy on this picture lel

2018-02-26 08:52

What a fucking carry by s1mple

2018-02-26 08:57

MY BOYSSS

2018-02-26 08:58

Good job boys.. its really nice to see diferent teams in finals and not jsut faze sk clown9

2018-02-26 09:49

Seized gotta have a funny taste in his mouth being cut for the 'amazing talent' that is electronic... what a joke. I cheered for mouz, but having that kind of a hard carry on your team and still lose... it shouldnt happen at this level.

2018-02-26 09:58