mousesports

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mousesports
Abbreviation mouz
operator mousesports Ltd.
Manager GermanyGermanyStefan Wendt Jan Dominicus
GermanyGermany
Headquarters GermanyGermany Hamburg
founding year 2002
Clan color red
Main sponsor Snipes
Nitrado
Vodafone
Razer
Homepage www.mousesports.com
Teams

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mousesports (short mouz ) is a German e-sports - organization . Mousesports currently provides teams in the computer games Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , Starcraft II , Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege , FIFA and Rocket League , and since April 2016 also for the mobile MOBA Vainglory .

In the Counter-Strike series, mousesports is the record champion in the ESL championship with 18 titles so far (as of January 2016). The biggest international successes of mouz include top 3 placements at the World Cyber ​​Games and the Electronic Sports World Cup , as well as first place at the ESL Intel Extreme Masters II .

mousesports has won over US $ 4 million in prize money since 2002 (as of May 30, 2019).

history

Mousesports was founded on March 24, 2002 from the then very strong Counter-Strike team of mystical lambda ( mλ * for short ). On October 18th of the same year mousesports broke away from the label eSportCenter and switched to the management of Freaks 4U GmbH . A few days later, mousesports introduced Nvidia as the new main sponsor, who supported the team for the next few years. The first major international tournament, the World Cyber ​​Games 2002, finished mouz in third place.

Soon mousesports expanded with other teams. In 2004 a Warcraft III department was opened, which participated in the WC3L and later also in the NGL ONE . Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider, who has won the ESL Pro Series three times, has been with mouz from the start. His former teammates include Jang "Moon" Jae-ho and Yoan "ToD" Merlo . Mousesports was also active in Unreal Tournament, Quake and FIFA.

In the Counter-Strike series, mousesports has been one of the most successful German teams since it was founded. With regular participation in international tournaments, mouz is the figurehead of German e-sports. In early 2005, the team traveled to Asia for several months to take part in the first season of the World e-Sports Games . Meanwhile, it was represented by a replacement team in the EPS so as not to let the license expire.

In 2006 the Norwegian Ola "elemeNt" Moum was signed. He moved to Berlin especially for mousesports and was the first e-sports legionnaire in Germany. However, the collaboration only lasted half a year because communication problems arose and the results were not satisfactory. Quake player Jason "socrates_" Sylka later moved to Berlin to train for half a year.

At the beginning of 2007, the cooperation with the management of Freaks 4U GmbH was restricted and mousesports formed a limited company . In addition to mouz, the company also included the Nihilum team, which was then primarily known as the World of Warcraft guild, along with its well-frequented website.

In 2008 the Counter-Strike-1.6 team from mousesports started a successful series on a national level. From summer 2008 to spring 2012 mousesports won the ESL Pro Series nine times in a row . The mice were also able to catch up with the world's best internationally and celebrated successes such as first place at the Global Challenge Dubai as part of the ESL Intel Extreme Masters III. The hit series was overshadowed by a death. On July 28, 2010, the Counter-Strike player Antonio "cyx" Daniloski had an accident in a car. The cause was a burst tire. He was on his way back from Frankfurt am Main Airport after missing a flight to Shanghai . There he and his team should take part in a tournament of the Intel Extreme Masters ; a replacement flight for the next morning was already booked.

As a result of persistent failures and falling prize money, mousesports closed its 1.6 department in March 2012. In April 2012, mouz signed a British roster in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , which, however, did not celebrate any notable successes. It was only with the return to the German scene that the first minor successes could be achieved in CS: GO. Since then, the CS: GO department has been characterized by regular player changes.

In Dota 2 , too , mousesports has kept players from various nations under contract since 2011. So far, the mice have participated in The International three times (as of 2014).

On April 7, 2016, mousesports joined the mobile MOBA Vainglory with the takeover of the Vainglory team Rebirth of Empire .

In September 2019, a team was signed in the Rocket League game .

CS: GO team

The main focus of the esports organization is on the team in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . Currently, mouz no longer holds players who already played for the mice in the previous Counter-Strike 1.6 .

The lineup is characterized by player changes, which, however, brought initial success over time. In March 2015, Mousesports signed a young talent named Nikola "NiKo" Kovač from Bosnia and Herzegovina . He quickly went from being a substitute with broken English to being one of the best players in the world in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . With this, mousesports has once again produced a star player in the Counter-Strike scene like Fatih “gob b” Dayik, for example, before . On February 15, 2017, Mousesports announced that Nikola "NiKo" Kovač was transferring to Team Faze for a transfer fee of half a million euros. It was the highest transfer fee paid in eSports to date. Known for giving young talents a chance, the mice made another change in 2016. Tomáš "oskar" Šťastný joined the German esports organization on August 22, 2016. The AWP player who switched from Hell Raisers to mousesports showed a good performance in the first few games. At the beginning of October 2016, Šťastný announced that he would be taking a break for private reasons. Shortly afterwards, the Czech and mousesports split up. On October 8, 2016, the mice signed the Spaniard Christian "loWel" Garcia Antora to replace Šťastný. On the coaching level, too, mousesports has received reinforcement with Sergey "lmbt" Bezhanov.

After Mousesports was eliminated in the group stage at the Eleague Major: Atlanta 2017 , the team decided that something had to change. Due to his decision, Chris “chrisJ” de Jong, who had played with the mice since 2013, was replaced by Tomáš “oskar” Šťastný, who had previously been in action at Mousesports. After being eliminated from the group stage at the PGL Major: Kraków 2017 after three defeats and only one win, further changes were made to the team. Christian “loWel” Garcia Antora was replaced by Miikka “suNny” Kemppi, who was previously at Penta Sports . The team has since won the V4 Future Sports Festival in Budapest, endowed with € 200,000 prize money, or the fourth season of the Star Ladder & i-League StarSeries .

With the victory in the ESL Pro League Season # 10, the team celebrated the greatest success in clan history in December 2019. Not least because of this victory, the team climbed to fifth place in the world rankings in December 2019. This was followed by victory at cs_summit # 5 and 2nd place at EPICENTER 2019. The team was named the second best CS: GO team of the year 2019 by the scene website 99damage.de.

Overall, 2019 was the most successful in the history of the CS: GO team. In February 2020, the team surprisingly failed in the group stage of the ESL Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice . In the end, the split was 7 - 8.

Active players

Counter-Strike Global Offensive

  • SlovakiaSlovakia David "Frozen" Čerňanský (since 2019)
  • DenmarkDenmark Finn "karrigan" Andersen (since 2019)
  • NetherlandsNetherlands Chris "chrisJ" de Jong (since 2013)
  • EstoniaEstonia Robin "ropz" Kool (since 2017)
  • TurkeyTurkey Özgür "woxic" Eker (since 2019)
  • DenmarkDenmark Niels 'NaToSaphiX' Sillassen (Stand-In, since 2019)

Paladins

  • SwedenSweden Ted "Kowa" Hansson (since 2017)
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Daniel "NTBees" Byrne (since 2017)
  • PolandPoland Cuba "Andzejdudel" Danczuk (since 2017)
  • ItalyItaly Giulio "Cybe8" Bavaresco (since 2018)
  • GermanyGermany Espen "Sephicloud" Krispien (since 2018)
  • DenmarkDenmark Oliver "Slashwhine" Pasgaard (since 2017)

Smite

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jordan "BigManTingz" Theaker (since 2018)
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Nika "Nika" Pataraia (since 2018)
  • EgyptEgypt Mohamed "Cherryo" Dewedar (since 2018)
  • FranceFrance Bastien "Dardez" Proust (since 2018)
  • FranceFrance Ethan "Jermain" Batharsè (since 2018)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

  • FinlandFinland Joonas "jNSzki" Savolainen (since 2019)
  • FinlandFinland Ville "Sha77e" Palola (since 2019)
  • FinlandFinland Jouni "Bounssi" Salo (since 2019)
  • FinlandFinland Alex "SlebbeN" Nordlund (since 2019)
  • BelgiumBelgium Santino "Gomfi" de Meulenaere (since 2019)
  • FinlandFinlandMikko "ProtaX" Mutanen ( Coach , since 2019)

Unreal Tournament 4

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dylan "dylan" Cunningham (since 2017)
  • EstoniaEstonia Aleksandr "s1aY" Volkov (since 2017)
  • GermanyGermany Klaus "frag ^ m" Wiedemann (since 2017)
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sean "w) v" Butcher (since 2017)
  • SwedenSweden Mikael "znatch" Lindahl (since 2017)

League of Legends

  • GermanyGermany Niklot "Tolkin" Stüber (Toplane, since 2018)
  • DenmarkDenmark Dennis "Obvious" Sørensen (Jungle, since 2018)
  • GermanyGermany Ardian "nite" Spahiu (Mid Lane, since 2018)
  • GermanyGermany Norman "Gistick" Kaiser (Support, since 2018)
  • NetherlandsNetherlands Patrick "Conjo" Jacobs (Bot Lane, since 2018)

Rocket League

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Kyle "Scrub Killa" Robertson (since 2020)
  • ItalyItaly Francesco "kuxir97" Cinquemani (since 2019)
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jack "Speed" Packwood-Clarke (since 2019)

Other titles

  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom Benjamin "Problem X" Simon (Street Fighter, since 2017)
  • GermanyGermany Florian "oNio" Roschu (Trackmania, since 2011)
  • GermanyGermany Gabriel "HeRoMaRinE" Segat (StarCraft II, since 2011)
  • GermanyGermany Patrick "AzZze" Strascheck (FIFA, since 2014)

Important former players

Successes (excerpt)

Counter-Strike 1.6

  • fourteen times German champion of the ESL Pro Series (Seasons I, III, V, VII, IX, XII, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20)
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2002: 3rd place
  • CPL Winter 2003: 3rd place
  • World e-Sports Games 2005 Season 1: 3rd place
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2005: 3rd place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters II: 1st place
  • ESWC Masters of Paris 2008: 3rd place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters III GC Dubai: 1st place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV European Championship Finals: 1st place
  • World e-Sports Games e-Stars 2011: 5th place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters VI GC Guangzhou: 2nd place
  • ESWC 2011: 3rd place
  • DreamHack Winter 2011: 4th place

Counter-Strike: Source

  • ESL Pro Series 2011 Winter 1st place (Season 19)
  • ESL League Cup 2011 Winter 1st place

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

  • three times German champion of the ESL championship (seasons 25, 29 and 30)
  • Semi-finals at DreamHack Winter 2012
  • 99damage Arena # 2 and # 7 winners
  • ESEA Season 18 LAN: 4th place
  • Acer Predator Masters Season # 1: 2nd place
  • Intel Extreme Masters X - gamescom 2015: 4th place
  • CEVO Finals Season 8: 2nd place
  • Acer Predator Masters Season # 2: 1st place
  • Semi-finalists of Eleague Season 1
  • Gfinity CS: GO Invitational 2016: 2nd place
  • ESL Pro League Season 4 : Semi-finals
  • ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals: Quarter Finals
  • ESG Tour Mykonos 2017: 1st place
  • DreamHack Winter 2017: 2nd place
  • Esports Championship Series Season 4 - Finals: 2nd place
  • Star Ladder & i-League StarSeries Season 4: 1st place
  • V4 Future Sports Festival: 1st place
  • Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Sydney: Semi-Finals
  • Semi-finalists of the Eleague Premier 2018
  • ESL One New York 2018: 1st place
  • DreamHack Open Tours 2019: 1st place
  • CS: GO Asia Championships 2019: 1st place
  • ESL Pro League Season 10: Finals: 1st place
  • cs_summit # 5: 1st place
  • GG.Bet ICE Challenge 2020: 1st place

Starcraft II

Warcraft III

  • three times German champion of the ESL Pro Series (Seasons X, XI, XVI) - Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider
  • WC3L Season VIII: 3rd place
  • NGL ONE 2007: 2nd place
  • NGL ONE 2007/2008: 3rd place
  • WC3L Season XIII: 2nd place

DotA 2

  • Star Championship, Kiev 2011: 4th place
  • Dota2Replays Brawl 2012: 1st place
  • The GD Studio: Arena # 1 2012: 1st place
  • DreamHack Summer 2012: 3rd place
  • The International 2013 Western Qualifier: 1st place
  • RaidCall EMS One Cup 2: 1st place
  • RaidCall D2L Season # 3: 2nd place
  • Premier League Season 5: 2nd place
  • The International 2014 European Qualifier: 1st place
  • ESL One Frankfurt 2014: 5th - 8th place
  • The International 2014 11th place

Trackmania (Nations)

  • ESL Pro Series # 17 Winter Season: 2nd place (oNio)
  • ESL Pro Series # 18 Summer Season: 1st place (oNio)
  • ESL Pro Series 2011 Winter 2nd place (Scream)

Trackmania (Canyon)

  • Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC): 2nd place (oNio)

Trackmania 2 stage

  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2015 (ESWC): 8th place (oNio)
  • Gamers Assembly 2016 (GA2016): 5th place (oNio)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mousesports - eSports Team Summary :: e-Sports Earnings. In: e-Sports Earnings. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ WCG 2002 ( Memento from May 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ESWC 2004 , ESWC 2005 , WCG 2005 ( Memento from May 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), WCG 2006 ( Memento from April 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), IEM I , ESWC 2007 , IEM II , ESWC 2008
  3. ↑ mousesports.de: Support for the EPS ( Memento from February 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ fleks and elemeNt on mousesports. readmore.de, January 1, 2006, accessed December 25, 2015 .
  5. ↑ elemeNt and PapsT are leaving mousesports. readmore.de, August 7, 2006, accessed December 25, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Socrates_ moves to Berlin for mouz. readmore.de, October 4, 2006, accessed December 25, 2015 .
  7. ↑ mousesports ends the successful Counter-Strike 1.6 chapter. FOR THE LAST TIME: FROM THE MOUZ. readmore.de, March 17, 2012, accessed May 15, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Announcing the 2019/2020 Rocket League lineup. September 5, 2019. Retrieved September 21, 2019 (American English).
  9. ↑ NiKo to join FaZe Clan following DreamHack Masters Las Vegas | ESPN. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ oskar joins mousesports | mousesports. In: www.mousesports.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Dennis Gonzales: oskar benched indefinitely for personal reasons; nex to stand in. thescoreesports.com, October 5, 2016, accessed on October 8, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Michael Puttler: loWel for oskar to mousesports. Change: nex remains stand-in. 99 Damage, October 8, 2016, accessed October 8, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Mousesports consistently draws from the major defeat. 99damage.com, January 29, 2017, accessed January 29, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Luis Mira: mousesports beat Virtus.pro to win V4 Future Sports Festival. hltv.org, March 25, 2018, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Luis Mira: mousesports beat Na`Vi to win StarSeries i-League S4. hltv.org, February 26, 2018, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: mousesports celebrates the greatest success in CS: GO history. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  17. ^ HLTV.org - The home of competitive Counter-Strike. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Match: mousesports vs. G2 Esports (December 16, 2019, 01:30) «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Coverage: EPICENTER 2019 «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Best Team of the Year 2019. Accessed December 27, 2019 .
  21. ↑ G2 misses the Grand Slam, mousesports trumps: The annual review part 4 - ESPORTS. December 31, 2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Match: 100 Thieves vs. mousesports (02/27/2020, 8:05 pm) «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Coverage: IEM Katowice 2020 «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  24. ^ The return to Rainbow Six Siege. Accessed February 13, 2019 .
  25. ↑ mousesports vs. Liquid at ESL One New York 2018 | HLTV.org. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Achievements of Santeri "Naama" Lahtinen on esportsearnings.com, accessed on September 2, 2016
  27. ↑ a b c d e f g Successes of Komincz "MaNa" Grzegorz on esportsearnings.com, accessed on September 2, 2016
  28. ↑ a b c Successes by Stefan "MorroW" Andersson on esportsearnings.com, accessed on September 2, 2016
  29. ↑ a b c d e Successes of Marcus "ThorZaIN" Eklöf on esportsearnings.com, accessed on September 2, 2016
  30. ↑ Article on ESET Summer Masters 2011 on Liquipedia, accessed on September 2, 2016
  31. ↑ a b c d e f g Successes by Dennis "HasuObs" Schneider on esportsearnings.com, accessed on September 2, 2016
  32. ↑ Article on NorthCon 2011 on Liquipedia
  33. ↑ TrackMania. In: trackmania.drakonia.eu. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .