Bymas to miss IEM Katowice, JDC to take his place

13-2-2022 17:14

The Lithuanian rifler tested positive for COVID-19 just two days before the start of the tournament.

Aurimas "⁠Bymas⁠" Pipiras will not compete at IEM Katowice after testing positive for COVID-19, MOUZ announced on Twitter. The organization has called up 21-year-old rifler Jon "⁠JDC⁠" de Castro from the academy team to fill the void left by the Lithuanian's absence.

The rest of MOUZ have been given the green light to participate in the Play-In stage of the Polish tournament after returning negative PCR tests, with the European squad set to face GODSENT in their opening match on February 15.

Bymas will have to sit out MOUZ's first event of the year

This comes as a blow for MOUZ, who went through a rebuild in the winter off-season bringing on veteran Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt and former academy AWPer Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás, and were looking to hit the ground running in their first event of the year.

Before the event in Katowice, JDC will finish playing the ongoing WePlay Academy League with MOUZ NXT, with the team set to compete in the grand finals of the event later on Sunday.

"Auri [Bymas] really deserved to play this tournament. The situation is unfortunate," commented MOUZ coach Dennis "⁠sycrone⁠" Nielsen. "The team has made tremendous progress daily, and this is a true bummer. JDC is a great stand-in though, so let's go!"

MOUZ will field the following roster at IEM Katowice:

David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský
Christopher "⁠dexter⁠" Nong
Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt
Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás
Jon "⁠JDC⁠" de Castro (stand-in)

Dennis "⁠sycrone⁠" Nielsen (coach)

EZ4MOUZ

2022-02-13 17:15

16 replies

slowly becoming mouz nxt

2022-02-13 17:26

15 replies

huge upgrade, bymas to academy team

2022-02-13 18:39

8 replies

Struggling to understand why Xertion didn’t fill in instead.

2022-02-13 18:41

7 replies

maybe because of visa? if xertion is in israel its much easier to get an player living in EU to get to Katowice

2022-02-13 19:01

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I don’t think Israelis need a visa to enter the EU but it’s still a hassle

2022-02-13 19:14

maybe roles, idk any of roles though. maybe they want to keep xertion just for weplay and not burn him out

2022-02-13 19:46

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weplay is over now, he is free, no tier 2 tourneys for them for a week atleast

2022-02-13 20:04

hmm true

2022-02-13 20:05

the mouz coach used to coach academy so if anyone knows who would fit well its him, also possible xertion couldnt travel in time/ visa issues

2022-02-13 23:53

hasnt JDC been in mouz nxt for the longest time aswell?

2022-02-14 13:46

just -dexter, NBK- to IGL and we are good. NBK- Frozen torzsi bymas JDC/Xertion Siuhy as 6th so he can start to learn to tier 1 IGLing with NBK-

2022-02-13 18:58

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2022-02-13 19:20

But then Siuhy instead of JDC etc. , but then rhey rlly need some time

2022-02-13 21:17

give dexter a few tournaments, if it doesn’t work then they should definitely do this

2022-02-14 03:20

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I mean, he has been around for as long as it needs by now. He even had Ropz most of time.

2022-02-14 17:53

+1 Dexter is in over his head, he is not ready to be at the helm of a Tier 1 team (although right now Mouz are more T2). Really hoping the NXT additions and NBK can turn things around, they're spiraling right now.

2022-02-14 21:16

upgrade

well see, I dont think so

2022-02-13 17:18

I agree, MOUZ is definitely not an upgrade compared to Mouz academy, idk why JDC agreed to this.

2022-02-13 19:54

Definitely not

2022-02-13 18:19

-1

2022-02-13 18:37

2022-02-13 19:00

aw :(

nice

Lessgo

WTF so many Covid Changes ?

Yep, pandemic is not over...

2022-02-13 17:16

Covid spikes in every country + lockdowns coming off

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+1 I hope so

2022-02-13 17:17

As you can see in PL we currently have 40k new sick people everyday so I won't be shocked if there will be more changes

2022-02-13 17:57

And they remove all restrictions on 3 march

i doubt there will be anything until the arena opens to the public. thats when i could see stuff going WRONG but before that

2022-02-13 19:35

many? were lucky its only two

2022-02-13 19:04

sad

Sad

Unlucky for Bumas man ((( Gl to JDC though

damn, gl brother :)

Legit

Very sad( rip mouz

rip

Upgrade lol

the only upgrade i see that is needed is in movistar riders dav1g

2022-02-13 17:49

ferbuary

2022-02-13 17:21

Ferbruary actually

2022-02-13 17:24

2022-02-13 17:22

Upgrade but i wouldn't want it to happen like that. Wishing Bymas a fast recovery

2022-02-13 17:23

anluko maluko

after kato pls -dexter +jks NBK IGL

wow, that's a good one

EZ4JDC

get well soon Aurimas best Lithuanian player to touch this blessed Earth

nt Kvik major legend >>>

2022-02-13 18:26

Who?

2022-02-14 19:43

ez for major legend Kvik

2022-02-15 12:49

NOOOOOOOO

unluko but Mouz has no chances with this lineup frozen and torzsi 2v5 gg

2022-02-13 17:29

jdc is better than bymas

2022-02-13 17:41

xddddd

2022-02-13 17:44

Can't they just replace mouz with mouz nxt? nxt >> mouz

2022-02-13 17:30

fake testresult to upgrade their main roster gg mouz

2022-02-13 17:31

=DD

2022-02-13 17:59

I think xertion is better but they prob promoted jdc becuse of the roles

And visa ofc...

2022-02-13 19:49

Big upgrade tbf. Mouz might go far with this team

2022-02-13 17:32

-dexter +Bymas?

upgrade tbh

2022-02-13 17:35

I shouldn't be saying this but, Pog?

2022-02-13 17:39

-nbk +xertion is the next step

oh wow suddenly I'm not interested in IEM Katowice anymore, I wonder why

2022-02-13 17:45

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2022-02-13 22:26

2022-02-15 14:25

time to proof himself

Bummer

2022-02-13 17:46

Thats actually an upgrade

2022-02-13 17:47

Not a upgrade, but still decent stand in.

2022-02-13 19:50

-JDC +XERTION

Sad for Bymas, get well soon mate. But, JDC is an upgrade for Mouz tbh.

2022-02-13 17:48

sad but hopefully he does well!

2022-02-13 17:50

ez mouz

2022-02-13 17:51

UNLUCKO

2022-02-13 17:53

unlucko, but upgrade maybe

2022-02-13 17:54

GL maybe an upgrade.

2022-02-13 18:00

- nbk + xertion and mouz has a chance to win...

2022-02-13 18:01

so many positive . GL

2022-02-13 18:10

polish event, they have 3 polish players they could use wtf

Good move. JKS can be a game changer.

2022-02-13 18:12

Soo sad for Bymas hope he recovers quickly

2022-02-13 18:15

POG

2022-02-13 18:17

Upgrade

Antivax bymas lmao i thought he said something that he loves vaccine what happened bro???

2022-02-13 18:18

Reply needs to have actual content

2022-02-13 21:52

good for moux jdc > botmas

2022-02-13 18:28

NOOOOOOOOOO FFS

2022-02-13 18:25

RIP dream :,(

i hate this man. when is this going to end??? whos next simple?zywoo?

2022-02-13 18:27

Nah, they are too good to miss tournament ;)

2022-02-13 18:34

better happen now than couple days before major ...

2022-02-13 18:49

Bymas overrated.

Go JDC

2022-02-13 18:32

unlucko for bymas, JDC is a pretty good stand in. Hope it goes well

2022-02-13 18:33

It's getting worse and worse with each covid positive. It's sad that some teams need to change rosters with not having enough time to practise together. I think that LANs in this situation are extremely stupid.

Very unlucky faze and mouz losing their best players because of fraud covid19 :(

2022-02-13 18:35

Why not xertion?

2022-02-13 18:40

1 step closer to MOUZ NXT becoming MOUZ...

Sad for Bymas but I’m hyped to see jdc in t1

2022-02-13 18:46

wtf how he caught corona

Fak

2022-02-13 18:52

hahahah xD

Why not xertion...smh

2022-02-13 19:23

Whgy not xertion? Roles or...?

2022-02-13 19:38

likely an upgrade

2022-02-13 19:42

It's cool that JDC gets a shot. Might even end up performing better than Bymas

2022-02-13 19:45

Frozen vs godsent

2022-02-13 20:26

no bymas, no ropz >:( sadge

2022-02-13 20:37

jdc>>>>bymas so theres a chance they win against godsent now

2022-02-13 20:48

HYPE!!!

2022-02-13 20:49

BYMAS KEKW

2022-02-13 20:51

I played 1 time vs bymas, nothing special, he won, his movement is good but still nothing special from a player from mouz.

well ye i saw his stream or something i think he is not trying against players like you, he was pretty sht against casuals, against pros he uses extra focus i think. Also his mentality pretty good i saw him missing many shots then 2 instant headshots..

2022-02-13 21:45