Cloud9’s CS:GO crew has been eradicated from the IEM Rio Main 2022 playoffs and MOUZ will progress to the semifinals, the place they’ll face off in opposition to Outsiders in a best-of-three to see who will get to take a shot on the $500,000 prize.
The vast majority of the MOUZ squad got here up from the MOUZ academy roster and have now made it to a semi-final of a serious, all inside a yr of progressing to the principle crew. The up-and-comers have now reached new heights, displaying that have may not be a prerequisite to make it to the highest.
The ex-academy crew got here in because the underdogs, taking down one of many favorites within the event 2-1. Every member of the young-gun MOUZ roster carried out nicely all through every map with no actual standouts within the collection. Now not was Cloud9 the kids in a collection; the undeniably much less skilled MOUZ squad held their very own in opposition to the CIS IEM Dallas 2022 winners.
MOUZ’s map decide, Inferno (11-16), went the way in which of the CIS C9 roster. Abay “HObbit” Khasenov breezed previous the worldwide roster, with the Kazakstanian participant serving to C9 take the primary map.
The second map, Overpass (16-13), noticed David “frozen” Čerňanský get up and carry his roster throughout the road. C9 nearly mounted a comeback on the CT aspect, however MOUZ halted them of their tracks. Frozen assured MOUZ the win, topping the leaderboard with 25 kills to 16 deaths, with an extremely harmful 97.3 ADR.
MOUZ’s CT aspect was too sturdy for the CIS roster on Historic (16-9). C9 struggled to get previous one spherical on the T aspect, with the rag-tag children of the MOUZ roster holding sturdy till they got here by means of on the final spherical of the collection.
Christopher “dexter” Nong and co. now progress to the semi-finals to tackle Outsiders. Virtually all of the event favorites have been eradicated, with NAVI being the final top-tier crew within the occasion, that means this could possibly be anybody’s main.
