Mousesports are starting the new decade in the same way they ended the previous one – with CS:GO tournament titles. They took down Natus Vincere 3-1 in the grand final of Ice Challenge 2020, thus making it four titles from the last five CS:GO tournaments they’ve played.
Mousesports and winning – name a more iconic duo
Mouz’ incredible run of form began at CS:GO Asia Championships in the end of November and includes five successive finals. After beating ENCE in the final in Shanghai, mousesports took home the big one at the Season 10 ESL Pro League Finals. Another title followed at cs_summit 5 before Vitality finally put an end to the streak at EPICENTER 2019.
Well Vitality was not in London for the ICE Challenge and in their absence there was no one capable of stopping the mouz plow. MAD Lions came the closest to spoiling the champions’ party in the semifinal but couldn’t pull through on Nuke and eventually fell 16-12 on the deciding map.
The final could have turned out different if Natus Vincere had held on to the 10-5 advantage they enjoyed on the opening map – Dust 2, but as it so often does the classic map offered a tale of two halves and mousesports squeezed out a 16-14 result that would propel them to victory.
The following three maps were far from the tension Dust 2 offered as the winner got through the finish line quite comfortably. Unfortunately for the CIS side, mouz were winners two out of three times – on Inferno (16:8) and Nuke (16-9), leaving Train (16-11) as the only consolation for Denis “electronic” Sharipov and pals. That and the young Russian’s first MVP award, that is. Pity it had to come in a loss.
Here’s a more iconic duo - mousesports winning CS:GO tournaments and not getting MVPs.
