MOUZ won IEM Beijing with ease and after months of strong results, we're starting to see the very real poissibility that we're calling them PGL Major Singapore champions in a month's time.
623 days.
The last time MOUZ lifted a big trophy, GTA VI was “coming fall 2025”, s1mple was a FaZe stand-in, and 67 still just meant sixty-seven.
That’s how long all twelve MOUZ fans waited since the PGL Cluj-Napoca title in February 2025. Ask them and they’ll say it was worth it. Ask anyone else who sacrificed a Sunday morning’s sleep to watch the boring-ass IEM Beijing 2026 final, and you’ll get a very different answer.
Normally, we’d walk you through each map and pick out the best bits, but there’s just one small problem: nothing happened. MOUZ turned into pre-sex Vitality and turbostomped The MongolZ so hard we actually started feeling bad for them.
About the only moment worth highlighting on the Mongolian side was this re-enactment of fnatic’s 4 AWP peek. You know it’s bad when you only manage 15 rounds across three maps.
Don’t get us wrong, nobody expected The MongolZ to win it, but after the run they’d been on, we at least expected a fight.
Instead, xertioN’s boys went the entire tournament without dropping a single map. And it was the captain leading by example, topping the final’s scoreboard with a 1.44 rating to seal the MVP. That makes him the first IGL to take home an MVP award in four years, since Jame at the IEM Rio Major.
MOUZ couldn’t have picked a better time to lock in. This is the confidence boost they needed to break the shackles and head into the Major as a genuine contender, one that (hopefully) doesn’t melt at the first hint of pressure. A deep field always makes for an entertaining Major, and MOUZ have just planted themselves firmly in the Big 3 and among the favourites heading to Singapore.
Alright, that’s enough MOUZ glazing. Counter-Strike died today.
