Spotlight on the Top 20: mousesports

In this series, we take a look at the teams that finished 2020 in the Top 20 rankings. Today we take a look at number 9.

Name: mousesports

Origin: Germany

mousesports’ 2020 season have been highly contrasting. The historic organization started out by winning the first big event of they when they took the title at ICE Challenge in London and a following 2nd place at ESL Pro League Season 11. However, a roster shake-up, a banned coach and most importantly the rise of an “online era”, shattered their drive and momentum.   

Active roster:

Chris “chrisJ” de Jong

Robin “ropz” Kool

Finn “karrigan” Andersen

David “frozen” Čerňanský

Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras

Transfers in 2020:

Out: woxic (Cloud9) – Rejin (Coach)

In: Bymas (FaZe) – mithR (Coach)

Highlight of the year:

As earlier mentioned, did mousesports not need much time to get 2020 going. In the start of February, the powerful team led by karrigan took home the first big event of the calendar year at ICE Challenge in London. Karrigan and his troops grabbed a staggering $125.000 worth of prize money, after beating Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and the rest of NAVI 3-1 in a thrilling Grand Final. A matchup, that most likely will be remembered by the Flying Dutchmen aka. chrisJ and his miraculous 1v5 ace on the B-site of Train.

Low point:

When ESIC released their first report on the “Coaching Bug” back in September, it brought devastating consequences for mousesports, both for the team and organization. mousesports’ coach Allan “Rejin” Pedersen was one among 37 coaches, who all received a ban for their involvement in the scandal. Rejin was one of the coaches who received the harshest punishment, with his 19.5 months owing to a total of 7 prohibited cases from his time at Tricked.  

The historic CS:GO organization felt compelled to release the successful coach, which they did on the 6th of October. A coach who has lead mousesports to huge victories as ESL Pro League Season 10 and CS:GO Asia Championships 2019.

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