Unexpectected results of ESG Tour Mykonos

Another premier CS:GO tournament has concluded, this time with quite unexpected results – mousesports get their first major win in more than a year, beating Team Liquid in grand finals with the 3:2 score.

Group stage

The group stage featured two groups each consisting of 4 teams.

SK Gaming, being the best team of the world according to the HLTV rankings, predictably took the first place in Group A, while mousesports were the second team to be qualified to take part in the playoffs. In their way, mousesports lost to SK (15:19 on Inferno), but then outplayed both Heroic (Train, Nuke) and Gambit (Cobblestone, Train) with the 2:0 score.

Group A results:

Group A
1.	SK Gaming	2-0	35-27	+8
2.	mousesports	2-1	79-62	+17
3.	Gambit Esports	1-2	56-55	+1
4.	Heroic	0-2	22-48	-26

Gambit	16	7	Heroic
SK	19	15	mouz
Gambit	12	16	SK
Heroic	0	2	mouz
Gambit	0	2	mouz

Despite being not in their best form for the last period of time, Virtus.pro managed to show a great run in Group B and finished first, beating both Team EnVyUs (16:6 on Train) and Team Liquid (16:10 on Mirage). Team Liquid, in its turn, managed to make it to the playoffs from the second place with the total score of 2:1.

Group B results:

Group B
1.	Virtus.pro	2-0	32-16	+16
2.	Team Liquid	2-1	58-48	+10
3.	BIG	1-2	71-77	+1
4.	Team EnVyUs	0-2	35-56	-21

Liquid	16	14	BIG
VP	19	15	nV
Liquid	10	16	VP
BIG	2	1	nV
Liquid	2	0	BIG

Playoffs

Four teams faced each other in a single-elimination bracket, with semi-finals being best-of-three and grand final being best-of-five.

The first semi-final was played between Virtus.pro and mousesports. The game was of really high quality and the teams deserved each other – two of three maps ended with the close score 16:14, yet VP managed to come out on top of the series. In the second semi-final Team Liquid unexpectedly crashed SK Gaming 2:0 on Inferno and Cobblestone. Even though not being able to compete in the Grand Finals, SK Gaming didn’t let their feelings affect their performance and managed to win the match for 3rd place against Team VP.

The Grand Final was a pleasure to watch, with all 5 maps being played. Team Liquid showed dominant performance on Inferno (16:5) and Mirage (16:13), but it was not enough to beat mousesports, who looked unstoppable on Cobblestone (16:8), Train (16:9) and especially on Nuke (16:4). Mousesports become the winners of ESG Tour Mykonos and take home $120,000.

The tournament was held in the Greek island Mykonos on September 7-10. Eight teams competed for the $240,000 prize pool.