MOUZ continues incredible EPL run against Spirit

The penultimate day of ESL Pro League has come to a close, with drama galore.

The day, of course, began with a game we've become all too familiar with: Vitality vs. Aurora. We'd call it a rivalry, but that wouldn't be fair, because Vitality always kicks Aurora's ass. Today was no exception.

Though the start would've given even the most confident Golden Hornet a scare.

Aurora looked superb on Anubis, specifically on the CT-side. We doubted they could keep that map on lock like they did with their previous roster, but thanks to a woxic life game, it was no issue today. The Turkish AWPer was absolutely farming, pocketing ZywOo, and shutting down both flameZ's and mezii's attempts to control the map. He was incredible.

But ZywOo is number one for a reason, just as we're not huge woxic fans for a reason.

The other two maps were a different experience entirely. Cache, for starters, was a woxic disasterclass, with him managing all of a 0.47 HLTV rating. His French counterpart, meanwhile, strolled into a 2.36 top-fragging performance. Between him and flameZ, Vitality had it relatively easy, and that wasn't just the case on Cache. Mirage also saw the Bees outclass their opponents in every way.

ZywOo continued his shenanigans alongside flameZ, but ropz also checked in for Mirage. The three were simply too much for Aurora to handle, especially since Wicadia was the only player on their team who showed up.

On the other side, who let MOUZ get this much sauce?

These Mice might be better than men, because they have been cooking at EPL. Until today, they had a perfect record, and for map one they looked to maintain it. They came into Spirit's reliable Dust II pick with high confidence, and torzsi especially looked up to the task. That alone was huge for MOUZ; D2 isn't called an AWPer's paradise for nothing. That said, this map was uncharacteristically bad for Spirit. donk was massively negative. However, MOUZ would argue they made him harmless, and there's definitely something to be said about that.

MOUZ's own map pick, Mirage, was less good, though.

donk stomped them out, clearly carrying a chip on his shoulder from that last map. The kid phenom went 19-10 in 18 rounds, shutting down any semblance of an idea MOUZ might've had on their T-side. This is where the perfect streak at this event died, but it wasn't going down quietly.

MOUZ rallied on map three, whereas Spirit had quite an odd one.

Something just wasn't quite right with donk, or MOUZ had a brilliant game plan; he didn't reach his level, and neither did sh1ro, but then again, it was a playoff. Weirdly, zont1x was the only one who showed up, as he did on the other two maps. Fair dos to MOUZ, though; they were the better team. Especially big credit to PR. He was awesome on Nuke CT-side, and his pickup by MOUZ may well prove to be the move of the year at this rate.

Though that prediction might age poorly if MOUZ loses to Vitality in the finals tomorrow at 17:00 CEST. But we'll see.