MOUZ have now qualified for BLAST Premier World Final in Abu Dhabi with their win at ESL Pro League Season 18.
The young side will now join the likes of Heroic, Vitality, FaZe, and G2 at the event.
With an average age of just 20, the team beat some of the best in the world on their road to a 3-0 victory in the final against NAVI.
torzsi may have won the HLTV MVP award for his performances in Malta, but the entire event was a real performance from MOUZ.
Starting out in Group B, the team began their time in the event with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of MIBR. Pushed down to the Lower Bracket, they secured advancement from the Group Stage with 2-0 victories over Evil Geniuses, Heroic, and a revenge victory against MIBR.
Having to go through the entire playoff bracket from round one, they racked up their fourth successive 2-0 win with a game against Brazilian team FURIA, and extended that run to five 2-0s in a row with a win against FaZe.
They dropped just their second map of the event in the quarter-finals in a 2-1 win over G2, and followed that up with a second 2-1 win against ENCE in the semi-finals.
In the grand final, they needed just three maps of the best of five to take down NAVI. s1mple tried his best for the Ukrainian org, but ultimately failed even to record a positive KD throughout the series as he finished with a 63-64 statline.
On the side of MOUZ, all four of torzsi, xertioN, Jimpphat, and frozen managed sixty kills across the three maps, with all four starring moments Inferno, Overpass, and Mirage.
A dominant showing from MOUZ, even captain siuhy, their lowest fragging player with 57 kills, would have been the second-highest fragger on NAVI.
The win marks the first tier-one event win for everyone on MOUZ except frozen, who previously won ESL Pro League back in Season 10.
The win caps off an impressive final year of CS:GO for siuhy, he also finished in second place at the BLAST.tv Paris Major with GamerLegion. One of the hottest prospects in the game, it's clear with this victory why MOUZ were so keen to bring him back into the fold before the player break.
NAVI shouldn't be too disheartened by their defeat here; due to their placement on the World Leaderboard, they are also qualifyed for World Final.
Likewise with MOUZ's semi-final opponents ENCE. They have also secured a spot at the World Final.
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