Mouz (stylized as MOUZ), formerly mousesports, is a professional esports organisation based in Germany. It fields teams in several games but is particularly known for its CS2 team. MOUZ was one of the founding members of the G7 Teams.
History
Mousesports was formed in 2002 in Berlin, Germany, as a Counter-Strike team. The team began to compete in small tournaments, which gradually led to their progression in larger ones, as well. By 2006, when G7 Teams was created, mousesports was one of the greatest gaming organisations in Europe, consisting of Counter-Strike, Warcraft III, Quake 4, Battlefield 1942 and Unreal Tournament divisions.
On 13 May 2007, mousesports announced that it had acquired Nihilum, the officially recognised premiere worldwide World of Warcraft organisation, with Nihilum recognised as a subsidiary of mousesports. The guild was remade into a community called "Nihilum: mousesports MMO". Nihilum was mousesports' consistently strongest gaming team in the European competition. However, the relations between mousesports and Nihilum grew uncertain in the fall of 2008 and finally, on 10 November, 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. Despite this, however, mousesports continued to maintain the Nihilum brand and on 1 August 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.
In a quarter-final played on 19 June 2025, MOUZ eliminated defending Major champions Team Spirit in a dramatic 2–1 victory at the Blast Austin Major 2025, advancing to the semi-finals. On 20 April 2009, mousesports announced that it would be withdrawing its support for Defense of the Ancients despite the huge amount of success they were having. In early 2010, the organisation announced the addition of a star-studded StarCraft: Brood War roster, which originally consisted of several American, Canadian, German, Polish and Ukrainian players. Since their original induction into the organisation, 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. In one of the greatest-known tragedies in electronic sports history, mouz Counter-Strike player Antonio "cyx" Daniloski died on 29 July 2010 in a car accident caused by tire failure after missing a flight to China to compete for his team. The aftermath of his death featured numerous memorials, tributes, eulogies and a permanent dedication on the official mousesports website. 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.
In March 2012, mousesports announced that it would be ending its support of its Counter-Strike division, citing the organisation's perception of the lack of market, considering the rising prominence of Dota 2 and League of Legends. 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 organisation to the game in nearly two years.
On 2 August, Christian 'loWel' Garcia was released from his contract with mousesports. On 4 August former Penta Sports player Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi was announced as his replacement. Less than a week later, on 8 August, mousesports released Denis 'denis' Howell from his contract and signed Martin 'STYKO' Styk to replace him, formerly of HellRaisers.
In December 2017, the mousesports Dota 2 team disbanded.
In March 2018, mousesports signed their first full roster for competition in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
On 27 June, mousesports announced the acquisition of Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski from Virtus.pro as a replacement for the benched Martin "STYKO" Styk.
On 30 July, mousesports announced that they were acquiring the Rocket League team of Tigreee, Alex161, and Skyline. Alex161 and Skyline previously played under Servette Esports, with Tigreee being acquired from Team Secret. This Mousesports team began play in RLCS Season 6, as Alex161 and Skyline retained their qualified spot won under Servette.
On 15 October, mousesports announced the return of Martin "STYKO" Styk to the starting line-up.
On 15 November, the coach of the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege team announced the team was dropped by mousesports and he would not stay with the team.
On 10 January 2019, mousesports announced the acquisition of Linus "al0t" Möllergren from compLexity Gaming, replacing Skyline.
On 13 February 2019, mousesports announced the signing of their second Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege team, the former ENCE esports Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege roster, as well as coach Michiel "oVie" van Dartel but later dropped the team on 1 July 2019.
On 14 March, mousesports revamps their roster with the acquisition of woxic, frozen, and karrigan. While oskar is released, suNny and STYKO is benched from the line-up.
On 22 June 2020, mousesports announced their withdrawal from the RLCS and competitive Rocket League as a whole and released their roster.
In March 2024, MOUZ returned to Dota 2 by upsetting The International 2023 champions Team Spirit 1–0 in the opening day of the 1win Series Dota 2 Spring group stage.
On 17 December 2024, MOUZ announced their withdrawal from the League of Legends scene, MOUZ's League of Legends team recently competed in the ESL Pro Series, having formerly competed in the European Challenger Series.
Roster
Counter-Strike 2
DOTA 2
Tournament results
Counter-Strike 3rd — World Cyber Games 2002 3rd — CPL Europe Cannes 2002 3rd — CPL Europe Copenhagen 2002 3rd — CPL Winter 2003 5–8th — ESWC 2004 7th — CPL Summer 2004 3rd — World e-Sports Games Season 1 1st — CPL Spain 2005 3rd — ESWC 2005 5th — Intel Summer Championship 2006 5–6th — IEM Season I World Championship 4th — WSVG Louisville 2007 1st — IEM Season II World Championship 3rd — ESWC Masters of Paris 4th — ESWC 2008 1st — IEM Season III Global Challenge Dubai 2nd — World e-Sports Masters 2008 3rd — ESWC Masters of Cheonan 1st — GameGune 2009 1st — IEM Season IV Global Challenge Gamescon 1st — IEM Season IV European Championship 2nd — Arbalet Cup Dallas 2010 5–8th — Copenhagen Games 2011 5–6th — World e-Sports Games: e-Stars Seoul 2011 2nd — IEM Season VI Global Challenge Guangzhou 3rd — ESWC 2011 4th — DreamHack Winter 2011
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
2012 3rd–4th — Sound Blaster CS:GO Challenge 3rd–4th — DreamHack Winter 2012
2014 13–16th — EMS One Katowice 2014 5–8th — Gfinity G3 7–8th — ESEA S17 LAN 4th — Acer A-Split Invitational
2015 4th — ESEA S18 LAN 3rd–4th — Gfinity Summer Masters I 3rd–4th — CEVO S7 LAN 2nd — Acer Predator Masters Season 1 4th — IEM Season X Gamescom 13–16th — ESL One Cologne 2015 9–12th — DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 2nd — CEVO S8 LAN
2016 1st — Acer Predator Masters Season 2 7–8th — IEM Season X World Championship 9–12th — MLG Major Championship: Columbus 5–8th — DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 9–12th — ESL One Cologne 2016 3rd–4th — ELeague Season 1 3rd–4th — ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals
2017 12–14th — ELEAGUE Major 2017 5–8th — DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017 12–14th — PGL Major Kraków 2017 1st — ESG Tour: Mykonos, 2017 3rd–4th — DreamHack Open Denver 2017 2nd — ECS Season 4 Finals
2018 5–8th — ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 1st — StarLadder Starseries & iLeague Season 4 1st — V4 Future Sports Festival 3rd–4th — StarSeries i-League Season 5 5–6th — ESL Pro League Season 7 15–16th — FACEIT Major: London 2018 1st — ESL One New York 2018
2019 1st — Dreamhack Open Tours 2019 3rd–4th — ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals 9–11th — StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019 1st — CS:GO Asia Championships 1st — ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals 1st — CS_Summit 5 2nd — EPICENTER 2019
2020 1st — ICE Challenge 2020. 2nd — ESL Pro League Season 11 1st–2nd — BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Showdown 2nd — Dreamhack Masters Winter 2020 Europe 7th–8th — BLAST Premier Fall 2020
2021 3rd–4th — cs_summit 7 1st — Flashpoint Season 3 (RMR) 12th–14th — PGL Major Stockholm 2021
2022 2nd — Global Esports Tour Dubai 2022 3rd–4th — IEM Rio Major 2022
2023 13th–16th — IEM Katowice 2023 5th–8th — ESL Pro League Season 17 13th–16th — IEM Rio 2023 3rd–4th — Elisa Invitational Spring 2023 23rd–24th — BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 2nd — IEM Dallas 2023 1st — ESL Pro League Season 18
Counter-Strike 2
2023
3-4th — IEM Sydney 2023 1st — ESL Pro League Season 18
2024 1st — ESL Pro League Season 19
2025 1st — PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 2nd — ESL Pro League Season 21 2nd — Blast Open Lisbon 2025 3-4th — IEM Melbourne 2025 3-4th — BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 2nd — Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2025 3-4th — BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 2nd — IEM Cologne 2025
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