Mousesports

Mousesports
Divisions Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
League of Legends
Pro Evolution Soccer
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
TrackMania
Founded 2002
Location Germany
Manager Cengiz Tüylü
Partners ZOWIE GEAR
Unikrn
Sennheiser
Website www.mousesports.com

Mousesports (abbreviated as mouz) is a professional eSports organization based out of 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 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.

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 2nd, Christian 'loWel' Garcia has been released from his contract with mousesports. On August 4th former Penta Sports player Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi was announced as his replacement.

Current roster

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Country ID Name Join date
 Netherlands chrisJ Chris de Jong 2013-10-21 [15]
 Slovakia STYKO Martin Styk 2017-08-08 [16]
 Czech Republic oskar Tomáš Šťastný 2016-08-22 [17]
 Finland suNny Miikka Kemppi 2017-08-04 [18]
 Estonia ropz Robin Kool 2017-04-12 [19]
 Ukraine lmbt (Coach) Sergey Bezhanov 2016-09-11 [20]

Dota 2

StarCraft II

TrackMania

Pro Evolution Soccer

ShootMania Storm

FIFA

Street Fighter V

ID Name Character(s) Joined
CCL Younes Lazaar Urien 2017-02-25[21]
Problem X Benjamin Simon Birdie, M. Bison 2017-02-25[21]

Tournament results

Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

References

  1. ↑ "G7 Teams Announced" (PDF). G7 Teams. 2006-08-08. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  2. ↑ Vandevorst, Nicolas (2007-05-14). "Nihilum Joins Mousesports". Fnatic. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  3. ↑ "Blizzard Exhibition Match between #1 guild and #1 PvP team". Blizzard Entertainment.
  4. ↑ "A journey inside Nihilum".
  5. ↑ "Ensidia". Ensidia Community Website.
  6. ↑ "Welcome to the New Nihilum.eu!". Michael "chaud".
  7. ↑ Horton, Samuel (2009-06-30). "Mousesports: The End of DotA". SK Gaming. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  8. ↑ Diener, Benjamin (2010-01-03). "mousesports presents StarCraft team". Mousesports. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  9. ↑ Fields, Frank (2010-03-24). "MorroW joins Mousesports". MeetYourMakers. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  10. ↑ Winther, Marc (2010-07-28). "cyx killed in car accident". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  11. ↑ Lannte, René (2010-07-29). "Toni (cyx) Daniloski died in car accident". Mousesports. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  12. ↑ Lannte, René (2010-12-06). "mousesports wins 6th title in a row". Mousesports. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
  13. ↑ Tasha, Lol (2012-03-17). "mousesports part ways with CS 1.6". SK Gaming. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
  14. ↑ Sean, Morrison. "Mousesports signs former Ad Finem roster". ESPN. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  15. ↑ http://www.hltv.org/news/11530-mousesports-sign-party-daddlers
  16. ↑ "STYKO transferred to mousesports; denis departs". HLTV.org. 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  17. ↑ http://www.mousesports.com/stories/oskar-joins-mousesports
  18. ↑ https://www.hltv.org/news/21191/sunny-joins-mousesports
  19. ↑ "ropz joins mousesports — Spiidi steps down". fragbite.com. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
  20. ↑ https://play.esea.net/teams/86298?tab=roster
  21. 1 2 Rosen, Daniel. "mousesports sign CCL, Problem X". The Score eSports. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  22. ↑ "History". mousesports. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  23. ↑ Hansson, Tomas. "SK.swe vinner CPL Winter 2003" [SK.swe wins CPL Winter 2003]. Fragbite (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  24. ↑ Nordgren, Sebastian. "mousesports wins CPL Spain". ESReality. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  25. ↑ F., Ian. "compLexity Wins ESWC 2005". SK Gaming. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  26. ↑ "WSVG Intel Summer Championship 2006 (Counter-Strike)". esportsearnings.com. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  27. ↑ "WSVG Louisville - Final standings". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  28. ↑ Winther, Marc. "mTw conquer ESWC Masters". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  29. ↑ Koller, Dominic. "mTw beat mousesports and win WEM 2008". SK Gaming. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  30. ↑ Koller, Dominic. "ESWC: fnatic beat SK to win ESWC Masters Cheonan". SK Gaming. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  31. ↑ Mira, Luis. "mousesports win GameGune 2009". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  32. ↑ "Arbalet Dallas: It's over, Na'Vi with the triple!". Fnatic. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  33. ↑ Orfanellis, Chris. "Frag eXecutors win e-Stars Seoul". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  34. ↑ "eSports at DHW11". DreamHack. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  35. ↑ Kovanen, Tomi. "SK beat ESC to win CS:GO challenge". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  36. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "Virtus.pro win Gfinity 3". HLTV.org.
  37. ↑ Kojadinovic, Vladimir. "Fnatic are the champions of ESEA Season 17". GosuGamers. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  38. ↑ Wyne, Jared. "Virtus Pro triumph at Acer A-Split Invitational". The Daily Dot.
  39. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "Virtus.pro win ESEA S18 Global Finals". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  40. ↑ Shepley, Nathaniel. "Gfinity Summer Masters I Recap and Results". Gfinity.net. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  41. ↑ Kojadinovic, Vladimir. "CEVO S7 Finals: VP takes the title". GosuGamers. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  42. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "HellRaisers win APM S1 Finals". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  43. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Virtus beat mouz to win CEVO S8". HLTV.org. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  44. ↑ Louchnikov, Aleksei. "Acer Predator Masters Season 2 LAN Finals: Mousesports victorious". GosuGamers. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
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