mousesports move on to EPICENTER semis over Evil Geniuses

Putting on a convincing show against Evil Geniuses, MOUZ have made it through to the semi-finals at EPICENTER after coming out on top of Group B.

Once again playing with Igor "⁠crush⁠" Shevchenko instead of Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte, whose visa situation still appears unresolved, Evil Geniuses could not repeat their success from the opening match as they went up against a strong-looking MOUZ.

The European side managed to shake off a tough opening matchup against Virtus.pro earlier that day, securing a berth in the semi-finals with a dominant victory, leaving EG to play for quarter-final seeding on Thursday.

The series began on Train with MOUZ looking in cruise control on the Terrorist side at first, mounting a 5-0 lead, but Evil Geniuses put together a decent defensive half despite the early deficit, winning seven out of the last ten rounds thanks to some great AWPing from Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov.

The North American team got their first lead at the beginning of the second half with a pistol round victory, courtesy of Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's triple, but a dominant defense saw MOUZ turn things back in their favor and close out the map comfortably at 16-11.

Starting on the defensive side on Inferno, Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's team put on another one-sided performance despite losing the pistol round to CeRq's ace, as Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker replied with two kills and three assists with the Scout in the second-round forcebuy before MOUZ started setting the pace with timely aggression.

Evil Geniuses could only find two more rounds in the first half with a couple of consecutive B attacks and, once the sides switched, they couldn't convert another pistol round win, with the European squad rallying to a quick 16-4, 2-0 victory.