MOUZ booked a place in the ESL Pro League Season 24 semi-finals on Friday with a 2-0 quarter-final win over FURIA in Katowice, HLTV reported. It was the team's fourth match of the event and the fourth in which it did not drop a map.
The series was a rematch of the two sides' second-round meeting in the Swiss stage, though HLTV noted the map veto was completely different this time. FURIA were more competitive than in that first encounter, but failed to capitalise on three won pistol rounds, two of them on Nuke, their own map pick.
Nuke goes the distance
MOUZ controlled the first half of Nuke, with Oldřich "PR" Nový and Lotan "Spinx" Giladi combining for 23 kills, though the four rounds FURIA took kept a comeback within reach. Adrian "xelex" Vincze opened the second half with a 1v4 clutch attempt that, after three kills, came apart when he faltered on the bomb plant, according to HLTV. He followed it with two Galil kills in the next round as MOUZ won on a force-buy.
FURIA pushed back once their economy recovered, but MOUZ found openings twice and closed the map in the 24th round, the last of regulation.
Inferno
On Inferno, MOUZ built a 6-2 lead on the T side before FURIA answered with three straight rounds. The Brazilian side then won a pistol round without losing a player to come within one, but lost the conversion round that followed, and MOUZ took the next six rounds to finish the series.
Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo's side have been drawn into Group B of the Thunderpick World Championship in Malta, alongside Legacy, PARIVISION and BetBoom, HLTV reported.
Speaking in the post-match interview, MOUZ's Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás credited the team's preparation for the veto.
Coming into today, confidence was in the camp, for sure. We had really good preparation because of the veto. I think sycrone had a really good read on the veto.
