MOUZ suffer first group stage elimination since Brollan addition

The No. 1 team in the world is out early after losses to 9z and a G2 team with a stand-in after back-to-back tournament wins.

In a crazy finish to Ancient, Stewie, NiKo, m0NESY and huNter- all came up with big plays to eliminate MOUZ

Update: The Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip clip has been updated, apologies!

G2 are through to the Group A lower bracket final and are set to face off against Liquid for a spot in the playoffs at IEM Dallas after eliminating MOUZ from the tournament in a 2-1 series.

Date Matches
IEM Dallas 2024
30/05/2024
01:00
Match

Despite fielding a stand-in, G2 took advantage of MOUZ's Inferno weakness and came out on top of a back-and-forth finish on the deciding Ancient thanks to several big clutches late in the game.

Even Stewie2K, otherwise rather quiet throughout the tournament so far, found his impact with a crucial solo triple with an MP9 in one of the game-changing rounds of Ancient.

Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač, Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov also contributed with huge plays in the Ancient finish, the trio securing a 1v3 and two 1v2 clutches in seven of the last eight rounds of the match.

These plays came after it looked like MOUZ assumed control over the series in the second half of the decider. Their confidence-boosting Nuke victory promised a return to form, but missing trade kills in some of the aforementioned situations meant they came up short in the end.

With the loss, MOUZ exit the event in 9th-12th place, which marks their first group stage elimination with their current lineup. The No. 1 team had just come off of back-to-back victories at ESL Pro League Season 19 and BetBoom Dacha and was looking to prove those who call them "studio merchants" wrong.

"We should perform, but of course the circumstances were really tough," Dorian "⁠xertioN⁠" Berman said on the desk after the match. "We had three weeks on the road with EPL and BetBoom, and after that having five days home where you have to take a break and we didn't play at all, it was really tough."

"We felt like we had a lot of weak maps that we couldn't work on. It is what it is, it just sucks to lose."

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Matchpage
2
1
29th May 2024
13
Inferno
8
5
Nuke
13
13
Ancient
10
 G2 K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating2.0
49 - 43 +2.76% 86.2 75.8% 1.20
47 - 42 +4.18% 79.0 69.4% 1.13
38 - 44 -2.32% 61.0 74.2% 0.94
31 - 46 -0.42% 63.5 74.2% 0.90
28 - 42 -2.28% 52.5 61.3% 0.78
 MOUZ K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating2.0
49 - 39 +2.62% 93.6 72.6% 1.28
48 - 43 -2.08% 83.6 74.2% 1.24
40 - 33 +0.34% 63.4 83.9% 1.14
40 - 36 -2.42% 66.5 69.4% 1.03
38 - 43 -0.42% 66.6 72.6% 0.94
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
1744
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.66
Israel Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
486
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.67
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.15
Maps played:
1902
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.66
United States Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip
Age:
26
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
1549
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.69
Russia Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.19
Maps played:
540
KPR:
0.78
DPR:
0.60
nexa got bailed out hard.
2024-05-29 05:26
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#9
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United States typical_MM_BOT
nexa was bad but siuhy was the worst player on the server despite the stats, he lost multiple rounds for his team single handedly and didn’t seem to have great calls or any control of the game as IGL. “Let’s try solo pushing a smoke again, it didn’t work the last three times but surely THIS time it will”. …….BOT
2024-05-29 05:37
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13 replies
siuhy trying to ruin fantasy most picked player btw
2024-05-29 05:45
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Torszi was horrific, bad shots missed. Notable ones on anc were the one onto hunter at mid and stew kn b for the 3k. Its funny coz the one time i pick torszi instead of brollan torszi shits the bed and brollans the best player for mouz by far…
2024-05-29 06:09
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8 replies
Its literally always like this. The ones I pick for fantasy suddenly become bots xD
2024-05-29 07:04
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2 replies
always pick the cheaper one
2024-05-29 08:32
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1 reply
I dont play fantasy often but as an example I picked sjuush couple times as a cheap pick because I thought he was undervalued and then he always had like the worst tournament so then I decided to not pick him and BOOM best player in the team like wtf.
2024-05-29 11:12
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to be fair its dexters fault torszi missed those shots
2024-05-29 07:15
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4 replies
#40
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Slovakia Psycho2k
Yes,goddamn dexter😡😡😡😂😂
2024-05-29 07:24
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If your saying that Dexter is a better IGL than Siuhy Then meds please
2024-05-29 10:21
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1 reply
no im saying, torszi use to blame dexter for him being bad and after siuhy came torszi had one good tournament and was like "my bad plays before is because of dexters style of leading" soemthing like that
2024-05-29 23:41
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Absolutely xD
2024-05-29 11:13
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#59
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Serbia Lazang
I ain't gonna be too critical of suihy's stats themselves, because everybody can have a bad game and seems like he isn't as sharp mechanical this tournament as he was in Dacha and EPL, but one thing I gotta critique is definitely callling. I still can not comprehend call in 22nd round of Ancient, it's 11-10, stakes are high, and you decide to push through molotov with a C4 and with no utility support or any support whatsoever!? Like, If you fall, round might be pretty much over as it was, because hunter just smoked of A main and what are you going to do? And it's just one example... I genuinely think his calling wasn't on point today and I don't want to speculate the reasons, because it could be multiple things. Still kinda sad that they can't seem to break through that LAN pressure.
2024-05-29 09:12
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2 replies
individual descision making was very questionable from him especially on ancient, lost a couple rounds by himself
2024-05-29 09:23
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#90
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
United States typical_MM_BOT
Yeah he lost bomb walking through Molly/smoke solo at least two times in that map, possibly three. Just had a ton of boneheaded solo plays that cost his team, and that isn’t even mentioning how disjointed the calling looked. I’m a fan of siuhy but this map 3 was truly heinous from him on all levels.
2024-05-29 14:55
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expected
2024-05-29 05:26
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best top 1 team ever
2024-05-29 05:27
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1 reply
#99
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Turkey Tagan35
faze real top1
2024-05-29 17:23
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" nooooooooooooooooo"Hooxi's sweating and yelling at home
2024-05-29 05:27
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19 replies
It would be funny as hell if G2 won this tournament and hooxi got benched just so they can get stewie.
2024-05-29 05:29
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18 replies
Cant wait if it happens hahaah
2024-05-29 05:30
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Well mouz did a huge mistake playing this bookie tournament and then going to Dallas tired and 0 practice - bad management by mouz.
2024-05-29 06:05
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15 replies
I agree. Never been to the US but I can imagine the jetlag being horrible.
2024-05-29 06:14
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1 reply
It’s kinda 2012 to still expect players to play all tournaments 0 break etc - weird that this unprofessional management still happens in 2024. G2 / faze don’t do this
2024-05-29 06:21
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why? 300k > 100k they have their cologne spot either way. if you dont take the trophies and respect or whatever into account, it seems understandable to me that they would rather do betboom for bigger potential prize, as in this case dallas doesnt really offer them anything of importance. They came, tried what they could at the moment and it didnt work out. i guess for them its 'whatever, go next' also, im ofc not saying that losing to 9z and G2 is something good for them, but the point still stands
2024-05-29 07:38
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11 replies
What a bad take, that prize money is irrelevant for players who earn more than enough + it’s a garbage bookie tourney with 0 crowd and only 8 teams, has a reason most top teams didn’t give a fuck about it . Go check which tournaments are played by proper tier 1 orgs (not mouz).
2024-05-29 07:46
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10 replies
Money is irrelevant, you heard it here first folks!
2024-05-29 11:14
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2 replies
Learn to read first.
2024-05-29 16:37
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1 reply
Chill, just a bad joke
2024-05-29 21:19
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Are you mental? How do you think orgs make money to pay salary for their players, you know every turnament prize pool that a team wins the money goes to the org, and mouz already has a cologne invitatio so there is 0 insentive to play
2024-05-29 11:41
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1 reply
Lmao are you seriously so naive to think mouz org needs that prize money to operate? If they did they’d be broke long ago since they didn’t win shit for many years. And you can’t operate a whole company on price money that also gets shared with players. 😂
2024-05-29 16:39
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If Cologne spot does not matter for them, money is irrelevant, why play Dallas? Only because it has IEM in the name, and other top teams are there? You could maybe argue about Grand Slam, but i personally see no real point to tryhard for dallas, if you can secure far easier and bigger bag of money, and still take part in Dallas, why not? You didnt give a single reason for why dallas would matter to them, please do, beacuse i dont see any. regards
2024-05-30 14:14
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4 replies
The tournament is a proper arena tournament with crowd and has tradition + Cologne qualification + IGS notch, that’s it, fairly straight forward. The price money in this case is just a bonus, the players who can win tournaments like these usually earn enough money so they’re not dependant on price money.
2024-05-30 15:57
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3 replies
While i understand your point that Dallas might be important for many, i cant see why this makes mouz a "not tier 1 org". i'm going to repeat myself, but they have their cologne spot already, still plenty of chances to get igs, so only the 'prestige' is left. Even if its not critical, i dont see anything wrong with getting more money and 'skipping' a tournament that doesnt really bring anything to you except playing in an arena in front of a crowd. regards.
2024-05-30 19:28
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2 replies
When I said that I exaggerated of course, no my real opinion about mouz is that they’re a tier 1 org, but a flawed one, they lack experience on the highest level of competition and they are often willing to let their star players go maybe because they have a cheap attitude. And if you let your star players always go, you can not build a consistent tier 1 org / team, this is a fact. Go compare mouz to Vit, G2, Faze, Navi - these orgs and others never let their players go unless they don’t want them anymore for practical reasons. So this is why I said mouz isn’t a real tier 1 org - the nerds would say they are a tier 1.5 org, that is perhaps more precisely what they are at the moment. And unless these factors change they will stay that way. And IEM Dallas is way more important than some bookie tournament, just alone for PR reasons / ad reasons, that are very important to orgs that are properly managed. Also in this regard mouz is a subpar org that don’t have the reach G2 or Faze for example have with massive YouTube channels etc - that’s why they don’t play low class tournaments that aren’t really good and don’t get many people really excited. Studio (only) tournaments are garbage in my opinion and wouldn’t exist in an ideal world, they are barely better than online tournaments.
2024-05-30 19:43
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1 reply
understandable, i think i see what you mean now. Makes sense tbh, but i guess it just depends on your attitude and prorities. have a good day :)
2024-05-30 21:43
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#53
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Estonia ChadMaxxing
look at what faze chads did, they were tired but every final made.
2024-05-29 08:39
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i'd rather have them -nexa +stewie. i think hooxi > nexa
2024-05-29 08:06
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#6
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India Nujen
shortest top 1 of all time Pog
2024-05-29 05:28
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2 replies
flukest team in history?
2024-05-29 09:56
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1 reply
#77
Faceit level 10  | 
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Sweden XenoRex
nah, fnatic hit top 1 and it lasted for 1 week in 2020
2024-05-29 11:05
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#7
Faceit level 6  | 
NiKo | 
Canada swagcrazy
HLTV writer I think you forgot to mention nexa in this article!
2024-05-29 05:28
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Best igl top fragger, made me think of these times in Mouz when niko top fragging and igling
2024-05-29 05:35
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#13
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Peru fr1daySzs
-nexa +stewie2k
2024-05-29 05:35
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1 reply
#100
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Murdy | 
Sweden Murdy
Honestly, hope so. nexa looked awful.
2024-05-29 17:38
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#14
Faceit level 8  | 
DZ | 
Algeria SilverQuick
It's de_airport already that's a tough one for VAMOUZ.
2024-05-29 05:37
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Brollan and xertion 1vs8
2024-05-29 05:37
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2 replies
2v8 you mean
2024-05-29 08:30
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1 reply
Yes
2024-05-29 08:31
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#16
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India pquest10
gl stewie
2024-05-29 05:37
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Mickey Mouz
2024-05-29 05:40
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EZ4STEWIE
2024-05-29 05:44
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brollan still carrying so far
2024-05-29 05:46
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Most sweet and unexpected win ever :) Dude Niko topfrag as igl
2024-05-29 05:53
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#25
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ALLAHTARES
Damn, eliminated by stew
2024-05-29 06:14
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Mouz played bad from the start. They need to take some weeks off.
2024-05-29 06:15
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#28
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States jibjeenyus
Y'all believe me that Hooxi needs to go now? Hooxi is mandatory, nexa will be a huge plus also to go
2024-05-29 06:15
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10 replies
Bad take then say which igl should replace hooxi and don’t say niko, he won’t top frag like this always if he has to igl
2024-05-29 06:22
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2 replies
nexa used to be an igl. But I think they are just lacking of firepower
2024-05-29 09:00
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1 reply
Nexa was already igl of G2 and it was a mess, omg - at least come up with something that makes sense
2024-05-29 16:21
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#32
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United States z_z
idiot
2024-05-29 06:38
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🤡.oO(Stop taking my job)
2024-05-29 08:32
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Im not g2 fan but this doenst tell shit, if you watched the game, you can tell mouz lost the match, g2 didnt win it
2024-05-29 09:08
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4 replies
#71
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States jibjeenyus
It's not a coincidence they do better without hooxi, I say bring tabsen in as igl and krimbo for firepower over nexa. Been saying for months hooxi has had way to much time and chances to prove he can lead this team to the top, it's not gonna happen.
2024-05-29 10:15
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They don't do better. It was a struggle against falcons, got destroyed by vita and barely scraped by mouz who, let's be real, have had a hectic schedule playing event after event and are tired and burned out. The 1v1 againts NiKo shouldn't have happened, stew multikilling with mp9, 1v3 vs huNter etc. That should have been a mouz game.
2024-05-29 13:07
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Niko aint gonna approve that move bro
2024-05-29 16:57
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1 reply
#101
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States jibjeenyus
Fr
2024-05-29 18:15
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#30
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United Kingdom _xC4ctus
POG 2K
2024-05-29 06:22
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Liquid naf-twistzz vs G2 stew with Niko and monesy hell yeah
2024-05-29 06:43
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#34
Faceit level 9  | 
Singapore floofy1
stewie3k now Pog
2024-05-29 06:49
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#35
Faceit level 4  | 
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
unimportant tournament + tried too hard at betboom dacha?
2024-05-29 06:54
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3 replies
yes, they dont care about Dallas they already have cologne spot.
2024-05-29 07:12
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Yeah money and rank points.. who cares right?
2024-05-29 09:31
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1 reply
#83
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
lol
2024-05-29 11:58
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Bot siuhy is back
2024-05-29 07:19
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Stewie :)) alive
2024-05-29 07:28
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all good boys, get some rest
2024-05-29 08:19
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#48
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Scotland TWGKofi
Welcome back to Top 1 FaZe
2024-05-29 08:29
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A worse performance was already expected from MOUZ .. schedule too tight, players too worn out - take some rest ♥
2024-05-29 08:41
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2 replies
Excuses, schedule same as everyone. Losing to G2 in groups with bot2k stand-in and NiKo IGLing is unacceptable.
2024-05-29 09:06
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1 reply
I am not talking about the schedule for Dallas! MOUZ played at IEM Chengdu (China) and got 2nd place, then ESL Pro League (Malta) and won, then BetBoom Dacha (Serbia) and won, and then also went to IEM Dallas (USA) From the 8th of April until now .. I see how all that wears you out :)
2024-05-29 09:12
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They need some rest
2024-05-29 08:46
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many rounds MOUZ could have won in ancient, at least 2 turning points. the 1vs3 in 6:9 with hunter left only, jim should not go through the smoke without check the hidden corner. and also the 2vs2 in 9:9, siuhy killed stewie2k, he should just go away to stick together with torzsi cuz torzsi was the one to plant the bomb, but he just let Niko get the chance to play 1vs1.
2024-05-29 09:15
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Dexter held torzi back!!! Last iem Dallas they got to the grand final vs ence before they were raided by falcons. I mean I woulda loved to see mouz win but damn. You've got suhy plus brollan and jimp vs frozen and JDC come on. I heard spunj say they went to an NBA game the night before the lost to 9z? English word/s for that are: hubris, complacency, overconfidence. Down for mouz winning a major because they believed in Dexter but shit. You have a job! Millennials..
2024-05-29 09:26
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1 reply
#86
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Russia i0n1x
lol i love the salt
2024-05-29 13:34
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#66
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Germany hltvfinest
bye hooxi
2024-05-29 09:51
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#68
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Europe LastBlast
brollan was best on server so...
2024-05-29 10:04
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#69
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Poland netsiob0b
mouz win iem ez
2024-05-29 10:08
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#70
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Russia KopHuLLloH
Bruh, here goes that #1 spot
2024-05-29 10:15
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#73
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Russia mshkoda
Really unexpected
2024-05-29 10:45
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#74
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Westmelon | 
Denmark dn7
The stewie effect
2024-05-29 10:46
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#75
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El Salvador Bredalow
Number 1 team btw lol hltv deluded as always
2024-05-29 10:55
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Was gonna happen sooner or later. You can only play so many tournaments in a row, without breaks, before fatigue is gonna set in.
2024-05-29 10:56
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Yep, the exact moment I puck Brollan and Siuhy in my fantasy xdd
2024-05-29 11:46
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#85
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
kinkybdsm | 
Other MissingN0
Most fluke #1 run ever lmao
2024-05-29 13:25
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#87
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Sweden Vrede
Mouz wins only EPL LUL
2024-05-29 13:36
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#88
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United States breaston
Ppl were so upset when everyone said undeserved #1
2024-05-29 13:50
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#89
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Sweden ELDREGN
Shit happens, mouz is a fantastic team. On to the next one lads!
2024-05-29 13:57
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#92
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Australia Beard43
I guess siuhy had an off day and forgot to tell torzsi when to click. G2 same as anytime they ever win, hard carried by raw talent. WP all the same. #FREEmONESY
2024-05-29 15:19
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#93
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Poland vulcang4
Faze no.1 again after dallas.
2024-05-29 15:29
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#94
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Destroyer | 
Other Marauder_
before you guys complain why the fuck nexa is on g2. You must remeber Niko has personally revealed in an interview that the reason nexa is on the team is because of things he does for the team that cant be seen in the server. Exactly as to what this is, was never specified, only that it makes the team happy or that it gives good vibes.
2024-05-29 15:44
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#103
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
KARMY | 
Finland Kahvipollo
From the little I watched, G2 had some good mid round calling. Maybe -hooxi is the way to go
2024-05-29 18:37
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The goat is back
2024-05-29 19:50
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Stewie2K Pog
2024-05-29 20:58
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