Mouz
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Short name | mouz |
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Divisions | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive League of Legends FIFA 19 Rocket League StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm TrackMania Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Paladins Smite Street Fighter V Fortnite Unreal Tournament 4 |
Founded | 2002 |
Location | Germany |
Manager | Stefan Wendt |
Partners | Vodafone Deutschland SNIPES NITRADO noblechairs |
Website | www |
Mousesports (abbreviated as mouz) is a professional eSports organization based in Germany. Mousesports fields teams in many different games, and are particularly known for its Counter-Strike team. Mousesports was one of the founding members of the G7 Teams.[1] mouz's League team currently competes in the ESL Pro Series, having formerly competed in the League of Legends Championship Series Europe.
History
Mousesports was formed in 2002 in Berlin, Germany, as a Counter-Strike team. The team began to compete in small tournaments, which gradually lead to their progression in larger ones, as well. By 2006, when G7 Teams was created, Mousesports was one of the greatest gaming organizations in Europe, consisting of Counter-Strike, Warcraft III, Quake 4, Battlefield 1942 and Unreal Tournament divisions.
On May 13, 2007, Mousesports announced that it had acquired Nihilum, the officially recognized premiere worldwide World of Warcraft organization, with Nihilum recognized as a subsidiary of Mousesports.[2][3] The guild was remade into a community called "Nihilum: Mousesports MMO". Nihilum was Mousesports' consistently strongest gaming team in the European competition.[4] However, the relations between Mousesports and Nihilum grew uncertain in the fall of 2008 and finally, on November 10, it was announced that the former PvE team of SK Gaming would be merging with the players of Nihilum, effectively ending the partnership that lasted for over a year and a half.[5] Despite this, however, Mousesports continued to maintain the Nihilum brand and on August 1, 2009, launched a new community website to connect the World of Warcraft guild Method, along with the WotLK Wiki and the Nihilum brand under a single domain.[6]
On April 20, 2009, Mousesports announced that it would be withdrawing its support for Defense of the Ancients despite the huge amount of success they were having.[7] In early 2010, the organization announced the addition of a star-studded StarCraft: Brood War roster, which originally consisted of several American, Canadian, German, Polish and Ukrainian players.[8] Since their original induction into the organization, the team completely switched focus to StarCraft II during the Wings of Liberty beta period and has since become one of the greatest-renowned teams.[9] In one of the greatest-known tragedies in electronic sports history, Mousesports' Counter-Strike player since 2007, Antonio "cyx" Daniloski, died on July 29, 2010 in a car accident caused by tire failure after missing a flight to China to compete for his team.[10] The aftermath of his death featured numerous memorials, tributes, eulogies and a permanent dedication on the official Mousesports website.[11] Several months following Daniloski's death, Mousesports announced the retirement of remaining Counter-Strike players Fatih "gob b" Dayik, Navid "Kapio" Javadi and stand-in Christian "Blizzard" Chmiel, effective following the ESL Pro Series Season XVII Finals.[12]
In March 2012, Mousesports announced that it would be ending its support of its Counter-Strike division, citing the organization's perception of the lack of market, considering the rising prominence of Dota 2 and League of Legends.[13] Mouz picked up a new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster later that year.[citation needed]
In April 2017, Mousesports signed the roster of the former Dota 2 team, Ad Finem, marking the first return for the organization to the game in nearly two years.[14]
On August 2, Christian 'loWel' Garcia was released from his contract with mousesports. On August 4 former Penta Sports player Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi was announced as his replacement. Less than a week later, on August 8, mousesports released Denis 'denis' Howell from his contract and signed Martin 'STYKO' Styk to replace him, formerly of HellRaisers.[15]
In December 2017, the Mousesports Dota 2 team disbanded.[16]
In March 2018, Mousesports signed their first full roster for competition in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.[17]
On June 27, 2018, Mousesports announced the acquisition of Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski from Virtus.pro as a replacement for the benched Martin "STYKO" Styk.[18]
On July 30, 2018, Mousesports announced that they were acquiring the Rocket League team of Tigreee, Alex161, and Skyline.[19] Alex161 and Skyline previously played under Servette Esports, with Tigreee being acquired from Team Secret. This Mousesports team began play in RLCS Season 6, as Alex161 and Skyline retained their qualified spot won under Servette.
On October 15, 2018, Mousesports announced the return of Martin "STYKO" Styk to the starting lineup.[20]
On January 10, 2019, Mousesports announced the acquisition of Linus "al0t" Möllergren from compLexity Gaming, replacing Skyline.[21]
On February 13th, 2019, Mousesports announced the signing of the former ENCE esports Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege roster, as well as coach Michiel "oVie" van Dartel.[22]
Current rosters
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
ID | Name | Role | Join date |
---|---|---|---|
chrisJ | Chris de Jong | IGL | 2013-10-21 [23] |
STYKO | Martin Styk | Support | 2018-10-15 [24] |
oskar | Tomáš Šťastný | AWPer | 2016-08-22 [25] |
suNny | Miikka Kemppi | Rifler | 2017-08-04 [26] |
ropz | Robin Kool | Rifler | 2017-04-12 [27] |
lmbt (Coach) | Sergey Bezhanov | 2016-09-11 [28] |
StarCraft II
- Gabriel "HeRoMaRinE" Segat
TrackMania
- Florian "oNio" Roschu
FIFA
- Mario "elast1Cooo" Pflumm
Street Fighter V
- Benjamin "Problem X" Simon
Paladins
- Daniel „NTBees“ Byrne
- Kuba „Andzejdudel“ Danczuk
- Aleks "Alex" Suchev
- Espen „Sephiclou“d Krispien
- Svetoslav "Bolka" Nikolov
Smite
- Jordan „BigManTingz“ Theaker
- Nika „Nika“ Pataraia
- Mohaned „Cherryo“ Dewedar
- Bastien „Dardez“ Proust
- Josh "Spudio" Conner
League of Legends
- Niklot „Tolkin“ Stüber (Top Lane)
- Dennis „Obvious“ Sørensen (Jungle)
- Ardian „nite“ Spahiu (Mid Lane)
- Norman „Gistick“ Kaiser (Support)
- Patrick „Conjo“ Jacobs (Bot Lane)
Fortnite
- Philip "Surgetale" Robben
- Marvin "cRaBBLe" Willberg
- Tim "Moeps" Möbus
- Vlad "TheVs" Moroz
Unreal Tournament 4
- Dylan "Dylan`" Cunningham
- Sean "w)v" Butcher
- Mikael "znatch" Lindahl
- Aleksandr "s1aY" Volkov
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
ID | Name | Joined |
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Willkey | ![]() |
2019-02-13[22] |
Bounssi | ![]() |
2019-02-13[22] |
Gomfi | ![]() |
2019-02-13[22] |
SHA77E | ![]() |
2019-02-13[22] |
SlebbeN | ![]() |
2019-02-13[22] |
Rocket League
ID | Name | Joined |
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Alex161 | ![]() |
2018-07-30[29] |
al0t | ![]() |
2019-01-10[30] |
Tigreee | ![]() |
2018-07-30[29] |
Former Rosters
Dota 2
ID | Name | Joined | Left |
---|---|---|---|
Madara | Omar Dabachach | 2017-04-07[31] | 2017-12-23[16] |
ThuG | Dimitris Plivouris | 2017-04-07[31] | 2017-12-23[16] |
SkyLark | Kharis Zafiriou | 2017-04-07[31] | 2017-12-23[16] |
Maybe Next Time | Verros Apostolos | 2017-04-07[31] | 2017-12-23[16] |
SssaSpartan | Giorgos Giannakopoulos | 2017-04-07[31] | 2017-12-23[16] |
Pro Evolution Soccer
- Mike "El_Matador" Linden
- Matthias "GoooL" Winkler
- Dennis "wiDe" W.
Tournament results
Counter-Strike
- 3rd — World Cyber Games 2002
- 3rd — CPL Europe Cannes 2002[32]
- 3rd — CPL Europe Copenhagen 2002
- 3rd — CPL Winter 2003[33]
- 5-8th — ESWC 2004
- 7th — CPL Summer 2004
- 3rd — World e-Sports Games Season 1
- 1st — CPL Spain 2005[34]
- 3rd — ESWC 2005[35]
- 5th — Intel Summer Championship 2006
- 5-6th — IEM Season I World Championship
- 4th — WSVG Louisville 2007[36]
- 1st — IEM Season II World Championship
- 3rd — ESWC Masters of Paris[37]
- 4th — ESWC 2008
- 1st — IEM Season III Global Challenge Dubai
- 2nd — World e-Sports Masters 2008[38]
- 3rd — ESWC Masters of Cheonan[39]
- 1st — GameGune 2009[40]
- 1st — IEM Season IV Global Challenge Gamescon
- 1st — IEM Season IV European Championship
- 2nd — Arbalet Cup Dallas 2010[41]
- 5-8th — Copenhagen Games 2011
- 5-6th — World e-Sports Games: e-Stars Seoul 2011[42]
- 2nd — IEM Season VI Global Challenge Guangzhou
- 3rd — ESWC 2011
- 4th — DreamHack Winter 2011[43]
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
2012
- 3rd-4th — Sound Blaster CS:GO Challenge[44]
- 3rd-4th — DreamHack Winter 2012
2014
- 13-16th — EMS One Katowice 2014
- 5-8th — Gfinity G3[45]
- 7-8th — ESEA S17 LAN[46]
- 4th — Acer A-Split Invitational[47]
2015
- 4th — ESEA S18 LAN[48]
- 3rd-4th — Gfinity Summer Masters I[49]
- 3rd-4th — CEVO S7 LAN[50]
- 2nd — Acer Predator Masters Season 1[51]
- 4th — IEM Season X Gamescom
- 13-16th — ESL One Cologne 2015
- 9th-12th — DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
- 2nd — CEVO S8 LAN[52]
2016
- 1st — Acer Predator Masters Season 2[53]
- 7-8th — IEM Season X World Championship
- 9-12th — MLG Major Championship: Columbus
- 5-8th — DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016
- 9-12th — ESL One Cologne 2016
- 3rd-4th — ELeague Season 1
- 3rd-4th — ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals
2017
- 12th-14th — ELEAGUE Major 2017
- 5th-8th — DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017
- 12th-14th — PGL Major Kraków 2017
- 1st — ESG Tour: Mykonos, 2017 [54]
- 3rd-4th — DreamHack Open Denver 2017 [55]
- 2nd — ECS Season 4 Finals [56]
2018
- 5th-8th — ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018[57]
- 1st — StarLadder Starseries & iLeague Season 4[58]
- 1st — V4 Future Sports Festival [59]
- 3rd-4th - StarSeries i-League Season 5 [60]
- 5th-6th ESL Pro League Season 7 [61]
- 1st — ESL One New York 2018 [62]
References
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- ^ Diener, Benjamin (2010-01-03). "mousesports presents StarCraft team". Mousesports. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Winther, Marc (2010-07-28). "cyx killed in car accident". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
- ^ Lannte, René (2010-07-29). "Toni (cyx) Daniloski died in car accident". Mousesports. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Tasha, Lol (2012-03-17). "mousesports part ways with CS 1.6". SK Gaming. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ Sean, Morrison. "Mousesports signs former Ad Finem roster". ESPN. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
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- ^ a b c d e f "Verros Apostolos on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Rainbow Six debuts in mousesports". mousesports. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ "snax joins mouz". mousesports. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
- ^ "mouz is ready for kick-off". mousesports. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ^ "official mousesports bring styko back into starting lineup". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ^ "mousesports on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ^ a b c d e f "The return to Rainbow Six Siege". mousesports. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ^ http://www.hltv.org/news/11530-mousesports-sign-party-daddlers
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/news/25096/official-mousesports-bring-styko-back-into-starting-lineup
- ^ http://www.mousesports.com/stories/oskar-joins-mousesports
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- ^ "ropz joins mousesports — Spiidi steps down". fragbite.com. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
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- ^ Švejda, Milan. "HellRaisers win APM S1 Finals". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ Mira, Luis. "Virtus beat mouz to win CEVO S8". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ Louchnikov, Aleksei. "Acer Predator Masters Season 2 LAN Finals: Mousesports victorious". GosuGamers. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ Pham, Hung. "mousesports defeat Liquid to win ESG Tour Mykonos". fragbite.com. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ Gooderson, Robert. "DreamHack Denver is done — Cloud9 win on home soil". fragbite.com. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ https://fragbite.com/cs/news/41921/ecs-season-4-finals--faze-win-the-grand-final-over-mousesports
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/news/22592/mousesports-edge-past-space-soldiers-to-qualify-for-major-playoffs
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/news/22897/mousesports-beat-navi-to-win-starseries-i-league-s4
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/news/23140/mousesports-beat-virtuspro-to-win-v4-future-sports-festival
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/events/3666/starseries-i-league-season-5
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/events/3373/esl-pro-league-season-7-finals
- ^ https://www.hltv.org/news/24958/mousesports-pull-off-comeback-vs-liquid-to-win-esl-one-new-york
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