mouz advance over fnatic

Mousesports have defeated fnatic 16-14 on de_dust2_se in an extraordinary clash in Group A's decider at DreamHack Winter. The Brits will advance to the playoffs as second placed ahead of the Danes, while NiP expectedly topped the group with all three victories.

The deciding match of Group A, in which mousesports needed only a draw due to already having better round difference, was played on de_dust2_se with fnatic starting on the Terrorist side.

The Danes continued where they left off in their previous clash with ESC by winning their 3rd pistol round in a row and that brought them a 3-0 advantage early on.

However, as soon as mousesports saved up money for the big guns they came back into the game, starting with an excellent 4-kill round by James "Mx" Smale and then equalizing the score at 3-3.

The seventh round of the match came down to the wire with Andreas "MODDII" Fridh holding on in a 1-on-3 just long enough for c4 to explode in the last second. Round after that mousesports had another favorable situation, this time in the B bombsite, but Fridh again stepped up and won a 1-on-2 to put his team up 5-3.

After an eco by mouz, yet another amazing round came along, this time with Michael "Friis" Jørgensen in the starring role. One of the best AWPers from the CS 1.6 era was left alone in a 1-on-2 situation and he managed to take out both opponents with the big green, giving his team another close round win for 7-3.

Friis showed glimpses of his AWP skill in CS:GO

Despite of losing so many rounds they shouldn't have, mousesports kept their spirits up and they stringed three rounds in a row, two of which came after 2-on-3 and 2-on-4 situations, to get back on the scoreboard 8-6.

In the last round of the half, fnatic was in serious money problems, but they still managed to pull off a successful attack to go up 9-6.

Moving into the second half, the UK squad quickly faced a 3-on-5 situation, but 4-kills from Sam "RattlesnK" Gawn, including a 1vs1, gave his team the very important round that eventually led to a 9-9 result.

As fnatic saved up money for the big guns, they decided to play with two AWPs and it paid off, bringing them the next three rounds and a 12-9 lead, as we witnessed some nice kills by Finn "karrigan" Andersen.

However, that was all they managed to accomplish in this match, as from that point on mousesports grinded out round after round, most of which ended with fnatic trying to save weapons. Eventually, the Brits came up to match point at 15-12 and that practically meant game over as they were through with even the 1 point.

mousesports came back from 8-3 and 12-9 deficits to go through

The teams still played it out and the final score stood at 16-14 in favor of mousesports, putting them through to the playoffs with 6 points in second placed.

In the other match of the last round in Group A, NiP have defeated ESC Gaming 16-10, although it was already settled before they even started that the Swedes will top the group and that the Poles will drop out as last placed.

NiP and mousesports are therefore through to the playoffs, but their opponents will not be known until after the draw which will be done live on stream after all groups are finished.