Three teams from the top six have fallen at the hands of MOUZ in Malta, and they look to take the scalp of the world's No. 7 in the title decider. MOUZ have joined Natus Vincere in the grand final of ESL Pro League Season 18 after taking down ENCE in a 2-1 series (Mirage 16-13, Vertigo 11-16, Nuke 16-8). The team around Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek has continued an upset rampage through the tournament in Malta, adding the world's No. 2 team to their previous playoffs scalps of G2 (#3) and FaZe (#6), ending Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer's team's streak of four grand finals appearances in a row in the process. MOUZ began the series with a closely-fought Mirage in which they had to stave off ENCE's comeback attempt from 5-12 down spearheaded by Guy "NertZ" Iluz. In the end, though, a labored 1v2 clutch from David "frozen" Čerňanský helped them close out the map. ENCE responded on Vertigo, where a lacking CT side cost MOUZ a chance to end it in two, but they made up for that in spades with a dominant showing on Nuke. MOUZ were more than ready for their opponents' signature fast-paced style as they decimated ENCE on the defense with an 11-4 half, and had no trouble closing it out with a pistol round to boot. The title decider between MOUZ and Natus Vincere is set to take place on Sunday at 16:00 and will be played in a best-of-five series, which will come as a big test of the map pool to two teams who made substantial lineup changes in the summer off-season. MOUZ will likely go into the final as slight favorites given that their wins in the last three rounds of the playoffs bracket came up against three of the world's top-six teams. NAVI, in comparison, have yet to lose a map at the event but faced lower-ranked opposition in Eternal Fire and Monte in the bracket stage.Date Matches ESL Pro League Season 18 01/10/2023 Natus Vincere 16:00
MOUZ
Match ENCE
Matchpage 1 2 30th September 2023
MOUZ 13Mirage 16 16Vertigo 11 8Nuke 16
ENCE
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Álvaro 'SunPayus' GarcíaSunPayus
58 - 50 +8 70.0 1.14 Guy 'NertZ' IluzNertZ
58 - 49 +9 70.8 1.11 Pavle 'Maden' BoškovićMaden
54 - 52 +2 80.6 1.08 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi
45 - 57 -12 67.0 0.84 Paweł 'dycha' Dychadycha
39 - 55 -16 69.9 0.84 MOUZ
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsástorzsi
69 - 46 +23 80.4 1.23 Jimi 'Jimpphat' SaloJimpphat
55 - 44 +11 74.8 1.23 Dorian 'xertioN' BermanxertioN
56 - 60 -4 85.8 1.12 David 'frozen' Čerňanskýfrozen
47 - 44 +3 69.5 1.08 Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradeksiuhy
35 - 61 -26 54.7 0.75 Eternal Fire #25
Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın
Ali 'Wicadia' Haydar Yalçın
Sezgin 'Fabre' Kalaycı
ENCE #2
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković
Paweł 'dycha' Dycha
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García
Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Natus Vincere #7
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy
Justinas 'jL' Lekavicius
Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy Time is adjusted to your selected timezone
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Age: 21 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 723 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.69
FaZe #6
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants
Filip 'NEO' Kubski
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Age: 21 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 1365 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.64
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Age: 33 Team: ENCE Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 1772 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.68
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Age: 24 Team: ENCE Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 430 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.68
MOUZ #11
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Jimi 'Jimpphat' Salo
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen
Monte #13
Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev
Alexander 'br0' Bro
Volodymyr 'Woro2k' Veletniuk
Sergiy 'DemQQ' Demchenko
Szymon 'kRaSnaL' Mrozek
Sergey 'lmbt' Bezhanov
G2 #3
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač
Justin 'jks' Savage
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Jan 'Swani' Müller