posted by Sun_Tzu,

The Corsair Gaming Summer Tournament has come to an end, with mousesports having claimed their revenge on Fnatic.EU in order to make their way back into the finals after setting a Dota 2 record for the longest professional game played at 96 minutes in the deciding game of the lower bracket finals. In the Grand Finals they faced off against Virtus.Pro, with the winner walking away $6,000 richer.

Virtus.Pro vs. mousesports

Game 1

While Virtus.Pro got off to a good start and picking up some early kills, things were turned on their head quickly when VP ventured into the mouz jungle, giving up 5 deaths and getting nothing in return at 13 minutes in, making it 8-5 and sending Black^ on the Anti-Mage into hyperdrive, leading the farm board with his two kills and one assist on top of it all.

With such a big target on his back, kills on Black were at a premium, and three minutes later VP were able to find just that, catching out the mouz carry player and following it up with a Song of the Siren netting them another two kills for no reprisal. Coupled with VP having a considerably tower lead at this point with four down while having lost none, they were looking decent, even if the mouz cores were all getting rapidly getting highly farmed.

Still, VP had the map control and proceeded to try and siege the mouz base, but as they were unable to push through they ended up giving away kills instead, as well as seeing their farm stall while Black got out of control in the mid game, reaching 16k net worth to Airman's 12k on Naga Siren by 30 minutes in, leading into mouz winning an important Roshan fight 4-0 at 31 minutes.

The final fight of the game took place at 38 minutes, as VP tried to score a kill on paS Rubick with the Song of the Siren, only to have him use his Blink Dagger in order to jump into the trees and allowing mouz to counter-initiate on VP, winning the fight and causing VP to call the 'GG'.

Game 1 End Screen

Game 2

mouz got off to a good start, finding farm on the jungling Lifestealer by qojqva as well as Black farming away freely on his safelane Alchemist, going for the very early Battlefury. They were also able to open up an early slight kill lead, however this was all turned around with the first big fight of the game at 12 minutes, as VP came out on top 5-2 even after mouz bought back two heroes, with their freefarming Spectre picking up now 1 kill and 5 assists, well on his way to becoming a threat by the mid game.

Still the amazing farming power of Greevil's Greed kept Black^ skyrocketing to the top of the farm board and kept fights going back and forth with little advantage being scured by either team. Crucially mouz were able to get a few important kills on Airman, delaying his eventual Radiance and effectively stalling his farming entirely.

This farm advantage on the key heroes payed off dividends for mouz in the mid game as they started to consistently win engagements and push VP back into their base, preventing any split push attempts from kSi on Nature's Prophet. As Black kept on getting fatter and fatter, the end was inevitable, with mouz taking the game at 33 minutes.

Game 2 End Screen

Game 3

Game 3 got off to an absolute brawl, with VP sending a Lifestealer, Axe and Skywrath Mage down to the bottom lane in order to meet up with the mouz safelane trilane, clashing full on from the word go. While this worked out well for them for a while, with both of the 1v1 lanes finding good farm, they also ended up giving up quite a few kills due to the better early rotations from FATA- on Puck and qojqva on Batrider, punishing the overextensions of VP. However once Crazy on the Queen of Pain started coming to fights as well, this again tipped the balance in favour of VP, heading into the mid game with a real lead for the first time in the series.

Heading into the mid game, VP began evening out their aggression, no longer overextending as much but instead carving out a comfortable kill lead, even finding pick-off's on Black's elusive Anti-Mage in between building up their map control, pushing down all but one of mouz outer towers by the time that Black had been able to take only one Tier 1 Tower through his split-pushing.

Going past the 30 minute mark VP were finally able to push into the mouz base, claiming the first lane of Barracks of the game, and with their grip of the game keeping on slipping, mouz hung in there for a few more minutes before finally conceding the game at 34 minutes us VP were about to take Roshan in order to go in for the decisive push.

Game 3 End Screen

Game 4

VP went highly aggressive early on with their Razor, Axe and Venomancer offensive trilane, which ended up not working out with the massive damage of Black^ on Gyrocopter, using his Rocket Barrage to secure two quick kills on the lane for mouz and throwing VP off their game. By 5 minutes in the score of the game was 7-1 in favour of mouz, with all the kills having happened up on the top lane, until Crazy claimed a kill with his Queen of Pain on FATA's Beastmaster at mid lane.

While the top lane might have been lost, another kill at mid on FATA and a courier snipe by kSi's Nature's Prophet helped give VP some breathing room. However while the strong mid game of Queen of Pain and Nature's Prophet kept the game close, the sense of doom was looming with mouz constantly ahead on kills, as they kept on getting away from VP's gank attempts due to a lack of lock down from the Russians. This gave Black the time to farm up his Gyrocopter and start taking over the game, while Airman's Razor never really mounted to anything in this game.

While everything felt like it was going in mouz favour a big teamfight at 34 minutes around the Dire Secret Shop looked to turn the game around, with the Static Link of Airman doing wonders and VP winning the fight 4-1, however as VP got greedy and tried to go for the Roshan right after, mouz buying back were able to catch them out in the pit and claim their advantage back as well as an Aegis for Black on top of it.

Another few pick-off's after a failed ambush up top by VP and mouz were able to take to the high ground at 38 minutes, however this time it was mouz who slightly overextended in the face of buybacks, losing Black^ twice over as VP kept the series alive. As both sides kept on farming up, mouz got another win at around 45 minutes, taking a fight and seeing VP buy back half of their team in order to prevent the big push out of mouz, but not enough to contest Roshan, which gave over another Aegis for Black 48 minutes in.

This lead into mouz taking one of the few clean 5v5 fights of the game a few minutes later at the mid Tier 2, winning the fight and finally being able to push in mid, claiming the set of Barracks before rotating up top and then to the bottom, getting the Mega Creeps at 51 minutes in and forcing the 'GG'.