Justinas "jL" Lekavicius is the first player to be announced by the Apeks organization following some changes in the squad. These changes resulted in Hugo "chawzyyy" Günther and Asger "AcilioN" Larsen being benched from the active line-up. 

jL played for the Spanish organization, utilizing the rifle role as well as the Big Green registering 18.3% of his frags with the AWP. jL also played a big part in many of their event victories under the MAD Lions banner. After the resolution of MAD Lions, jL alongside Woro2k and TMB, played under the ex-MAD Lions banner until late July. 

Who the last player on the Apeks roster will be, is still yet to be announced, but for now, the active roster is as follows:

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For the second time at DreamHack Open November, MOUZ was beaten by MAD Lions.

Both teams were 1-1 in Group A and had to win the decider match to qualify for the playoffs. It started well for MOUZ, who came out hot on their CT-side on Dust2. But the 11-4 lead at the break quickly diminished in the second half, where MOUZ crumpled and only managed to win two rounds. It was the trio of Thomas 'TMB' Bundsbæk, Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius, and Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell who stole all of MOUZ' momentum during the map, that ended 16-13 in favor of MAD Lions.

The hot streak carried over on Nuke for MAD Lions. Once again it was their CT-side, that was near flawless. Again it was the Lithuanian rifler Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius who made a lot of damage, while Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk controlled the outside area with his AWP. On the other side of the server, it took in-game leader Christopher 'dexter' Nong 15 rounds to put his first kill on the scoreboard in another catastrophe of a T-side from MOUZ.

The Australian immediately took his revenge on the CT-side, where he made three kills in the pistol round to quadruple his total kills on the map, but it was not near enough for MOUZ to avoid the elimination from the tournament. MAD Lions on the other half can look forward to Saturday's Semi-Finals, where they face Fnatic. There is $50.000 on the line for first place and a spot in the ESL Pro League Conference for the winner of DreamHack Open November.

MAD Lions – MOUZ (2-0) | DreamHack November 2021

 {cflag:UA} Woro2k – 1.54 Rating / 25-18 K-D / 107.7 ADR

Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius | 1.32 Rating / 45-30 K-D / 81.6 ADR

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Friday's Pley of the Day is from DreamHack Open November 2021, in the match between MAD Lions and the dominant Germans from BIG. In the 11th round on Mirage, MAD Lions' Justinas "jL" Lekavicius saw himself being placed in a tough 1v3 situation, with the bomb dropped near CT. 

Despite the difficult circumstances, the Lithuanian international were capable of bringing home the round for his team by taking down every remaining opponent on the server.

MOUZ got off to a rough start at DreamHack Open November with Aurimas "Bymas" Pipiras missing the opening day with sickness. In his place, MOUZ had called in Chris "chrisJ" de Jong from the bench to help out the team. 

The match began on MAD Lions’ pick of Dust2, where MOUZ started off things on the right foot as they quickly grabbed a 5-0 lead on the defense. MAD Lions responded well by stringing together six rounds of their own to go up 5-6, with the whole team stepping up huge. MOUZ managed to add a single round to the scoreboard before Woro2k and company finished off the first half with a 6-9 advantage. Even though MOUZ came out looking strong on the offense by stringing together five rounds in a row once again, MAD Lions still managed to come back to life and close out the map 12-16.

Starting out on the Terrorist side, MOUZ picked up a strong 3-7 lead showcasing why they picked Nuke as their map. However, unfortunately for them, MAD Lions found their footing at the end of the half and climbed their way back on the scoreboard, picking up an 8-7 advantage right before halftime. In the second half, MOUZ took control of the map and shut down any chances of MAD Lions. The starplayer of MOUZ, Robin "ropz" Kool was instrumental on Nuke, where he dominated the MAD Lions players hard.

With the Estonian activated, it was interesting to see, if MAD Lions could handle MOUZ on Mirage. The Lions had an ace in the sleeve though. Thomas "TMB" Bundsbæk had been quiet in the match, but on the decider map, the Dane went crazy! In the first half alone, TMB accounted for 26 kills and an ADR of 192.7, and a staggering 8-0 in opening kills! MAD Lions took a 9-6 lead with them to the second half, while Chris "chrisJ" de Jong had a terrible time being crushed on the map going 4-21 in K-D. MOUZ won the pistol round in the second half, but that was the only good news for the roster, who had to succumb to the continuing pressure from TMB and MAD Lions, who won 16-8.

With the result, MOUZ will play an early elimination match against the loser of BIG vs GamerLegion. MAD Lions is now one win away from reaching the playoffs.

MAD Lions – MOUZ 2-1| DreamHack Open November

16-12 (Dust2) | {cflag:LT} jL – 1.58 Rating / 29-16 K-D / 102.4 ADR

10-16 (Nuke) | {cflag:EE} ropz - 1.83 Rating / 32-14 K-D / 118.1 ADR

16-8 (Mirage) | {cflag:DK} TMB - 2.31 Rating / 33-14 K-D / 152.9 ADR

MVP: {cflag:DK} Thomas "TMB" Bundsbæk - 1.42 Rating / 69-52 K-D / 103.9 ADR

	30 days	90 days
Fixture count	23	51
Maps count	50	110

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