MOUZ rallied after a three-map semi-final against fnatic to defeat ex-Winstrike in the Snow Sweet Snow 3 grand final in a two-map series with overtimes on both of the maps to claim the $40,000 grand prize.
The tournament win comes as a breath of fresh air for the squad led by Christopher "dexter" Nong, as they stumbled at ESL Pro League, finishing in 21-24th place with a 1-4 record in Group B, and were eliminated from Fantasy Expo Spring Cup after two best-of-one losses to PACT and DBL PONEY, and will now have a boost of confidence after a rough patch as they set their sights on DreamHack Masters Spring at the end of the month.
ex-Winstrike, who made their European rivals suffer for the victory, won’t have much time to dwell on their close grand final loss, which no doubt will be a tough pill to swallow after taking Evil Geniuses out in the semi-finals, as the CIS squad now has European Development Season 3 and Funspark ULTI Europe Regional Series 1 to put their focus on, as well as their ESEA Premier quarter-final match against AGO also on the horizon.

ropz topped the scoreboard in the final with a 1.36 rating and 100 ADR
The first half of Nuke, MOUZ’ map pick, was a close affair as the two teams stayed neck-and-neck since the early rounds with ex-Winstrike winning the first three rounds on the defense before dexter and company brought it to a 4-4 tie by the eighth round. The half ended with the European mixture ahead by one on the attack, but their CIS counterpart tied it right back up on their first round on the offensive.
An ace by Robin "ropz" Kool when down 10-12 got MOUZ back on track as the two teams remained close all the way to the end, ultimately sending the map to overtime. It then took the European combine not one or two, but three overtimes to overcome Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov's men and secure their pick and take the lead in the series, 25-22.
MOUZ were first out of the gate on Dust2, taking a 4-0 lead on the CT side, but ex-Winstrike didn’t take long to bring it back to a tie and even take the lead, 5-4, in another exciting half that saw the two teams battle to get ahead before switching sides, with mouz taking the half by one round.
The European squad managed to extend their lead in the second pistol round, but were quickly equalized as the two teams continued the nail-biter all the way to the final round, prompting another overtime. This time around MOUZ took the lead in the first half and converted after all six extra rounds, 19-17, to secure the series and the title.
Snow Sweet Snow 3Best of 3

ex-Winstrike

Matchpage 0 2 7th April 2021


MOUZ 22Nuke 25 17Dust2 19
Aleksei 'El1an' GusevEl1an | 59 - 57 | +2 | 78.9 | 1.12 |
Vladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoKrad | 61 - 58 | +3 | 79.9 | 1.07 |
Igor 'Forester' BezotecheskiyForester | 57 - 55 | +2 | 67.0 | 0.97 |
Viktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevLack1 | 48 - 54 | -6 | 65.9 | 0.96 |
Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovNickelBack | 47 - 61 | -14 | 70.5 | 0.94 |
Robin 'ropz' Koolropz | 73 - 58 | +15 | 100.7 | 1.36 |
David 'frozen' Čerňanskýfrozen | 62 - 60 | +2 | 92.5 | 1.17 |
Aurimas 'Bymas' PipirasBymas | 48 - 44 | +4 | 62.3 | 0.95 |
Frederik 'acoR' GyldstrandacoR | 51 - 57 | -6 | 57.3 | 0.89 |
Christopher 'dexter' Nongdexter | 51 - 55 | -4 | 62.1 | 0.86 |
The Snow Sweet Snow 3 standings, including Regionals are:
1.
MOUZ - $40,000
2.
ex-Winstrike - $4,000
3-4.
fnatic
3-4.
Evil Geniuses
5-8.
Wisla Krakow - $7,000
5-8.
SKADE - $7,000
5-8.
Dignitas - $4,000
5-8.
HAVU
9-12.
Tricked - $6,000
9-12.
Nordavind - $6,000
9-12.
Anonymo - $3,000
9-12.
SINNERS - $3,000
13-15.
Trident - $3,000
13-15.
EXTREMUM
13-15.
Sprout
16-18.
OFFSET - $3,000
16-18.
FORZE
16-18.
Sangal
19-20.
Galaxy Racer -$3,000
19-20.
Young Ninjas - $3,000
21-23.
K23 - $1,000
21-23.
Nexus - $1,000
21-23.
BLINK - $1,000
24-26.
LDLC - $1,000
24-26.
HONORIS - $1,000
24-26.
Copenhagen Flames - $1,000
27-28.
GTZ - $1,000
27-28.
UMX - $1,000


HAVU #16


Jani 'Aerial' Jussila

Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen

Lasse 'ZOREE' Uronen

Olli 'sLowi' Pitkänen

Jemi 'jemi' Mäkinen


Sprout #24


Timo 'Spiidi' Richter

Denis 'denis' Howell

Marko 'kressy' Đorđević

Josef 'faveN' Baumann

Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich



BLINK #56



Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti

Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi

Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci

Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci

Kujtim 'gulito' Durmishi


OFFSET #66


Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco

Rui 'RIZZZ' Lima

Filipe 'NOPEEJ' Dias

Bruno 'shellzi' Teixeira

Diogo 'snapy' Rodrigues


MOUZ #18


Christopher 'dexter' Nong

David 'frozen' Čerňanský

Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand

Robin 'ropz' Kool

Aurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras


DBL PONEY #44


Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt

Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro

Lucas 'Lucky' Chastang

Thomas 'Djoko' Pavoni

Aurélien 'afro' Drapier



Trident #49



Denis 'seized' Kostin

Timur 'clax' Sabirov

Mikhail 'tricky' Krutov

Aleksandr 'glowiing' Matsievich

Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin


FORZE #41


Almaz 'almazer' Asadullin

Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov

Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko

Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin


Tricked #38


Andreas 'kiR' Kirstein

Oliver 'kwezz' Rasmussen

Philip 'Lucky' Ewald

Mads 'zypztw' Hermansen

Mathias 'PR1mE' Carlsen


HONORIS #79


Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas

Filip 'NEO' Kubski

Kamil 'reiko' Cegiełko

Łukasz 'azizz' Kałkowski

Kacper 'gRuChA' Gruszeczka


Wisla Krakow #31


Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek

Patryk 'ponczek' Wites

Grzegorz 'jedqr' Jędras

Krzysztof 'Goofy' Górski

Olek 'hades' Miskiewicz



Young Ninjas #52



Anton 'Sapec' Palmgren

Love 'phzy' Smidebrant

Linus 'LNZ' Holtäng

Linus 'nilo' Bergman

Tim 'Mann3n' Isak


Nordavind #43


Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann

Kevin 'HS' Tarn

Daniel 'mertz' Mertz

Sabit 'mirbit' Coktasar

Anton 'supra' Tšernobai


Dignitas #35


Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

Adam 'friberg' Friberg

Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson

Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli

Ludvig 'HEAP' Alonso


Copenhagen Flames #26


Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen

Magnus 'Nodios' Olsen

Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi

Marcus 'maNkz' Kjeldsen

Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard



Anonymo #46



Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Paweł 'innocent' Mocek

Wiktor 'mynio' Kruk

Kamil 'KEi' Pietkun

Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz


Christopher 'dexter' Nong

Age: 26 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 793 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.66


ex-Winstrike #22


Aleksei 'NickelBack' Trofimov

Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko

Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev

Aleksei 'El1an' Gusev

Igor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy


SKADE #28


Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov

Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov

Viktor 'Duplicate' Mitev

Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov

Blagoi 'oxygeN' Dimitrov


EXTREMUM #34


Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand

Aaron 'AZR' Ward

Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad

Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai

Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas


Galaxy Racer #57


Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun

Niclas 'PlesseN' Plessen

Adam 'dezon' Wahlqvist

Hugo 'chawzyyy' Günther

Joel 'joel' Holmlund


Robin 'ropz' Kool

Age: 21 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 918 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.62


SINNERS #33


Tomáš 'oskar' Šťastný

Jindřich 'ZEDKO' Chyba

Sebastian 'beastik' Daňo

Max 'SHOCK' Kvapil

Adam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar


Sangal #58


Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli

Ahmet 'paz' Karahoca

Engin 'ngiN' Kor

Ekrem 'l0gicman' Aydin

Ömer 'imoRR' Karataş


GTZ #130


Pedro 'fakeS2' Sousa

Rafael 'rafaxF' Faria

João 'dead' Oliveira



LDLC #51



Christophe 'SIXER' Xia

Lambert 'Lambert' Prigent

Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss

Bryan 'Maka' Canda

Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus


Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov

Age: 34 Team: ex-WinstrikeC



Evil Geniuses #14



Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz

Tarik 'tarik' Celik

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte

Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov

Owen 'oBo' Schlatter



K23 #61



Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev

Rustem 'mou' Telepov

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan

Petr 'fame' Bolyshev


Nexus #86


Cătălin-Ionuț 'BTN' Stănescu

Valentin 'SEMINTE' Bodea

Adrian 'XELLOW' Guță

Cristian 'sXe' Niță

Mihai 'iM' Ivan


AGO #23


Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz

Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak

Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski

Michał 'snatchie' Rudzki

Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas



PACT #67



Jacek 'MINISE' Jeziak

Dawid 'lunAtic' Cieślak

Kacper 'darko' Ściera

Arek 'Vegi' Nawojski

Kamil 'Sobol' Sobolewski



UMX #102



Kirk 'Tadpole' Stephens

Tom 'arTisT' Clarke

Oliver 'Maza' Mazarelo

Matas 'Extinct' Strumila

Callum 'Girafffe' Jones


fnatic #19


Jesper 'JW' Wecksell

Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson

Maikil 'Golden' Selim

Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin

Jack 'Jackinho' Ström Mattsson
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