Sorry, fellow old people. Counter-Strike is a zoomer’s game now.

It’s not just about donk – once again, the MVP – but also about the fact that the only team who could stop him was the also exceedingly young MOUZ.

After Spirit donked Falcons 2-0 in the semi-final, they came up against a MOUZ team who had quite comfortably dispatched HEROIC. degster and NertZ had their moments in the semi but just couldn’t overcome MOUZ’ depth of talent.

Falcons barely laid a glove on Spirit after the first handful of rounds, though. donk was moved onto the A site of Vertigo on the CT side rather than the B site (where he famously was weakest out of any of the maps), and he dropped a 16-kill half.

Normal.

donk was also the only Spirit member to go positive in what was a very decisive showing from MOUZ. He somehow managed 102.6 ADR in an 0-3 loss, as siuhy on the other side went berserk, dropping 52 kills in the series, with xertioN backing him up closely.

Wait, donk dropped 100 ADR in an 0-3 loss?

xertioN should definitely take a lot of credit, though. He was superb in the semi-final and all tournament long; a boisterous battering ram of a player who bounded through defences time and time again to find openings and win rounds single-handedly.

We don’t want to say it’s because there is no arena, but… well, MOUZ has won back-to-back events without a big crowd.

If MOUZ keeps up this form, they are on the brink of being the de facto number-one team in the world, but we need to see them have some balls on the big stage to truly believe it.

Take down FaZe Clan in Dallas or Cologne, and we might just become MOUZ fan converts.

Final standings:

1st 🇪🇺 MOUZ – $300.000
2nd 🇷🇺 Spirit – $100.000
3-4th 🇪🇺 HEROIC – $50.000
3-4th 🇩🇰 Falcons – $50.000
5-6th 🇧🇷 MIBR
5-6th 🇷🇺 Virtus.pro