mousesports secure playoffs spot over G2

mousesports have eliminated G2 from IEM Sydney 2018 with a 2-0 victory (16-9 on Dust2 and Mirage) to move on to the event's playoffs.

The last series of day three in Sydney kicked off on Dust2, G2's map pick, with MOUZ winning a near-flawless CT pistol, but failing to follow that up in the next round as Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt clutched a 1v2 situation after finding two more opponents.

Down 1-3, MOUZ started tightening up their defence to eventually grab a minimum lead, 5-4. G2 still managed to equalize things off in what seemed to be a back-and-forth affair. Despite this, Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong's men looked quite dominant in the latter stages of the half, stringing five rounds together to go up 10-5 by half-time.

Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire opened up the second half with a clean quad-kill to help G2 pick up their T-side pistol, leading them to reduce the deficit to 8-10. In the first gun round, however, MOUZ got back to winning ways with a double-kill from Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný and Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi, and, from that moment, there was little that G2 could do to stop them from closing out the map, 16-9.

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Next up was Mirage, MOUZ' map pick, where the European mixture started things off with a successful CT pistol, which they capitalized on the subsequent anti-eco. Nevertheless, apEX played a key role in his team's eco in the next round, finding two-entry-kills with a Deagle, to counter their opponents.

MOUZ immediately responded with Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk coming up huge with a Deagle triple-kill, yet G2 further added to their lead in the next two rounds, 5-3. Still, in three of the next four rounds, quad-kills from oskar, chrisJ and Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool inspired mousesports to lose only one more round, the final of the half.

In the second half, Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro could not defuse the bomb in time after a back-and-forth pistol round, encouraging MOUZ to quickly hit match-point without much response from G2.

NBK- then found a lifeline for his team with a MP9 quad-kill, but it was in vain as all that chrisJ's men had to do was to win a single round, which they calmly did four rounds later, 16-9, to book their spot at Qudos Bank Arena.

IEM Sydney 2018Best of 3 MOUZMatchpage 2 0 3rd May 2018 G2 16Dust2 9 16Mirage 9

MOUZ	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Robin 'ropz' Koolropz	42 - 23	+19	84.8	1.37
Miikka 'suNny' KemppisuNny	34 - 33	+1	83.1	1.21
Martin 'STYKO' StykSTYKO	34 - 28	+6	82.4	1.17
Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastnýoskar	38 - 26	+12	73.6	1.16
Chris 'chrisJ' de JongchrisJ	34 - 28	+6	61.1	1.04

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell	32 - 32	0	76.5	1.05
Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS	30 - 37	-7	63.6	0.90
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianarobodyy	27 - 34	-7	60.1	0.87
Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK-	25 - 38	-13	62.2	0.77
Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX	24 - 41	-17	56.3	0.67

Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt Age: 23 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1357 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.66 MOUZ #5 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro Age: 21 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 594 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.67 Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi Age: 23 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 841 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.69 Robin 'ropz' Kool Age: 18 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 334 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.64 Martin 'STYKO' Styk Age: 22 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 790 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.67 Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire Age: 25 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1191 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.71 Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong Age: 27 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1148 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.65 Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný Age: 26 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 741 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.66 G2 #11 Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireOscar 'mixwell' CañellasAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro