mouz to face coL in The Defense grand finals

We are almost there! The Defense grand finals. In the mean time, check out our battle report between our two lower bracket finalist, Counter Logic Gaming and mousesports with mouz coming out on top. mouz will be facing compLexity in the grand finals.

Game 1



The game excitement started fast with a quick smoke snipe kill on Enigma with Sand King and Venomancer rotating towards the middle of the radiant jungle. Venomancer and Sand King continued mousesports aggresive dream ganking spree by taking Tinker at bot lane. CLG quickly responded to the incursion into radiant territory with four heroes rotating to crush the guerilla tactics of mouz's gank team.

Bamboe taking on Roshan with help from some Venomancer wards

However the mouz's aggression did not stop there, causing a skirmish of battles between the two teams to break out all over the map. Eventually CLG mounted a practical defense to deal with the micro battles, CLG's saving grace arriving in the form of a brutally efficient Leshrac, whos Diabolic Edict and Pulse Nova made quick work of any aggression against CLG's heroes. Unfortunately it resulted in very few important kills, leaving Stom Spirit to free farm and Broodmother to gain experience and significant gold farm.

With the early game skirmish over, CLG was in the lead on kills but woefully behind on map control and remaining towers. The unhindered farm and uncontested roshan from Broodmother and Venomancer led to mouz claiming the midgame quickly. While CLG had efficient responses to Broodmothers incursions on their jungle, popping Broodmother's aegis fairly quickly, it resulted in a team wipe on bottom tower for Sand King. Further aggression on bottom lane by mousesports led to an Ultra Kill for the broodmother and GG being called out by CLG pushing the two teams onto game two

Game 2



Smart ward play by mousesports led to CLG's bottom aggressive tri-lane, Enchantress, Shadow Demon and Brewmaster, being nipped in the bud with mouz warding their OWN jungle to prevent the hard camp spawning. This led to Enchantress only garnering precious farm from the hard camp next to the radiant supercliff, effectively cornering enchantress into mousesports First Blood right under the nose of the enemy base. This set the tone for mousesports early game, with smart ganks by Queen of Pain and her rune control pushing Mouz into the lead. CLG's smoke gank on Broodmother was sluggish leading to a critical conversion by mouseports claiming four hero deaths in return for Venomancer.

The transition into the midgame was bumpy for mousesports. Skirmishes began to break out in middle and bottom lane as CLG mounted their defense successfully against the armies of mousesports claiming kills on key heroes. However, these victories soon turned to ash as mousesports pushing strategy arrived in the form of an unchecked broodmother pushing into their bottom lane, aided by Nature. This critical time for CLG was compounded by 4 out of the 5 heroes not being able to teleport to the defense of their base leading to the loss of the melee barracks. This pushed CLG into disarray and while scrambling to defend bottom lane left three sacrificial lambs in mid lane, which mousesports claimed ruthlessly.


Following this loss, CLG desperately protected the remaining towers leading the game to descend into a back and forth of sniping off lone heroes. But with bottom lane lost, CLG slowly lost more and more ground. Any progress that CLG attempted to execute, regardless of success or failure, led to an determined lane push into their base by Prophet and Broodmother. Inevitably, CLG lost two key heroes in defense of their base, Windrunner and Brewmaster and the remaining heroes were unable to stop the simultaneous destruction of their remaining lanes, thus allowing mousesports to attain victory shortly thereafter.