When the news of cyx's untimely passing was announced in the early hours of July the 29th 2010 the world mourned the loss of young life in a tragic motorvehicle accident but the Counter-Strike world also mourned the end of an era for mousesports . The German giants whose shadow had long loomed over German Counter-Strike had been back in the mix amongst the top tier teams for titles prior to the accident, but were never the same again following it.

This is a story which a lot of the time might seem like a Mousesports story, but ultimately it begins and ends with Antonio 'cyx' Daniloski. This the story of a team who time and again broke through barriers to reach success in some of the most competitive eras in Counter-Strike history. From rookie to MVP, from challenger to champion, from underdog to legend; this is the story of cyx.


2007

The early rise of a young cyx and the growing pains of mouz

In 2007 the German ESL Pro Series saw its tenth season take place and few would have looked to relative nonames 360eSports as a team who would make the top 4 and thus secure a spot at the LAN finals. German CS has always been Mousesports' domain, but even they had not run over their domestic scene without resistance. In fact as the year began Mouz had only just, seemingly, returned to their perch atop the German scene.

2006 had been the year their experimental elemeNt-led lineup had underwhelmed while mooN's Alternate aTTaX had broken out to stellar international form. The once underdogs to mouz had placed 3rd at ESWC, 2nd at WSVG ISC and won the WSVG Finals in New York. The latter had even come without silver and Tixo in the lineup. Mouz had sought to regain their position by signing the aTTaX trio of Kapio, Tixo and silver for 2007. With the year ending as mouz's then lineup won EPS Season IX and aTTaX seemingly dismantled by Mousesports' acquisitions the German scene looked set to return to a familiar state of Mouz dominance.

The little known 360 emerged from the regular season in June of 2007 with a record of 10 wins, two losses and two ties to place 3rd overall and book a spot in the playoffs. At the EPS finals 360 lost to mouz in the first round, on tuscan, and fell short in an overtime battle with pod on train, seeing them eliminated in 4th place overall. The new mouz lineup, however, fell in the final to a retooled aTTaX, powered by the ever-improving roman, as Alternate came from the lower bracket to spoil the mouz coronation. As the EPS awards were given out the rookie of the season award went to a 16 year player from 360 called cyx.

In the German scene lineup changes always come after the end of an EPS season, due to the rules surrounding roster changes. A couple of weeks after the EPS finals ESWC saw the last straw for that incarnation of mouz as they finished tied for 17th place, adding to one of the worst years of CS in the organisation's history as that result was added to a 13th-16th placing at shgOpen, 9th-12th at SEC, 5th-8th at the IEM I finals and the aforementioned EPS SX 2nd place. The very same ESWC event provided the context for mouz's next change.

ID Gaming had taken 360 player gob b to the event as a stand-in, and despite not progressing from the first group stage had surprised many by beating wNv.cn on cbble and losing to NoA on nuke in a reasonably close game, going out on round difference in a two-way tie for second place. Less than two weeks later, on the 12th of July, Mousesports officially removed veteran Blizzard and silver, the third wheel from the aTTaX trade, and replaced them with gob b and cyx from 360esports.

At the time this move was quite the gamble. Blizzard had long been considered one of the most stable and polished players in the German scene, while these two new players had little to no experience under their belts. Early results didn't let on how much of an impact these players would have. At the NGL ONE Season 3 finals mouz managed to beat a pre-Sunde NoA before losing to fnatic in the upper bracket final and then an SK.swe team in the consolidation final which featured striker as a stand-in. In October what should have been a good chance to qualify for KODE5 at a qualifier in Holland turned into a debacle as mouz lose twice to CMAX.gg, both times on inferno.

Domestically the new lineup also had its struggles as a perfect regular season of 15-0 went to waste when the team finished second to roman's aTTaX team for the second straight time. mouz had won the upper bracket final 16:14 with a huge 13:2 second half comeback only to lose twice in the final, the first map seemingly ripe for them to take the EPS title as they led 10:5 as CT on nuke but blew the game and lost 13:16. In the final map aTTaX blew them away with a 14:1 CT half on inferno to all but seal another title for Alternate and another season of disappointment for mouz.

Mousesports had the season's MVP, Tixo, but as 2007 came to a close they still didn't have the answer to how they'd climb back into the international picture or regain their domestic dominance.


2008

At the NGL ONE Season 4 Finals, the first significant event of 2008, mouz found themselves felled once more by roman's Alternate and again a Finnish side put the nail in the coffin of a tournament run as Roccat took them out in three maps, with mouz's only win being a 16:14 scrap. Finishing in 4th there was no reason for anyone to feel like the rebirth of mouz was incoming imminently. In fact it was and the team was only weeks away from the biggest Counter-Strike accomplishment in the organisation's history.

Masters of Europe for the first time

At the second IEM Finals a fat $50,000 awaited the champions and every team in attendance was gunning hard for the top spot. After making it to the playoff portion of the tournament mouz looked set to fall at the same hurdles as Alternate eliminated them from the upper bracket, leaving them facing a run of four straight map wins to reach the title. After defeating SK.swe on nuke the cyx and mouz got their rematch against Alternate in the consolidation final. This time mouz came through when it mattered most and all of a sudden they were in the Grand Final, playing for the $50,000 and a shot at a major title. Their opponents were the surprising eSTRO, featuring phenomenal individual star solo, and the South Koreans would need to win only one map to take the IEM title.

The first map was dust2 and mouz took it handily with a 16:8 score. With cbble as the final map to decide the IEM crown the South Koreans felt more than out of place, with no regular and competitive league structure to have prepared them on such a map, and mouz again repeated their feat with a 16:8 score to take the title. The 17 year old cyx had played his part in helping Mousesports to their first major international title, thoroughly eclipsing the 2005 CPL Barcelona World Tour stop win over a confused NiP lineup and a still gelling coL. For a year which had shown no signs of greatness mouz had begun what would be the best year in their history and one of the most criminally underrated years of a top tier team.

Putting the house in order

After defeating dimension4 to win the KODE5 2008 France qualifier and aTTaX twice to win the German ESWC qualifier mouz seemed to have built a legitimate run of form. The latter victory had even seen them repay the favour to aTTax and win from the lower bracket with an overtime 19:16 win on train and a 16:14 on nuke to deny their rivals. Heading into the EPS SXII Finals with a 10-2-2 record mouz were shocked by a loss to n!faculty on cbble in the upper bracket final. After defeating aTTax in another overtime train game mouz tied things up with n!faculty by winning 16:13 and headed into a final map for the EPS crown that had eluded the team a season earlier.

The final map, inferno, would prove to be one of the mouz's strong suits that year and such was the case at this moment as they annihilated their opponents 16:2 to win their first EPS crown in two seasons. That map proved to be one of the great games of the young cyx's career as he put up a 23-2 scoreline on the CT half. He would go home with the MVP award as well as his first EPS title. If the miraculous IEM run had not signalled it already cyx had arrived as an individual player.

Challenging for titles

With matters in order domestically and their IEM crown's legitimacy to defend mouz went into the busy Summer's tournament schedule as one of the favourites, a position most of the team had never been in before. Despite not taking any of the titles mouz were able to put together a consistent string of placings to suggest they deserved their position as challengers for the majors of 2008. At ESWC Masters Paris they once again met and beat eSTRO, this time on train in the quarter-finals, but their semi against fnatic began poorly as they only managed two terrorist rounds on train and failed to finish their comeback, put out in 3rd overall.

At GameGune an early surprise loss to A-gaming, featuring starix and hooch, was corrected as mouz ran through lower bracket matches against EG, x3o and a rematch with A-gaming to reach the finals and MiBR. Despite winning the first map, inferno, comprehensively the second map proved too much to take the title away from the Brazilians. mouz took an 11:4 CT first half on train but MiBR shut them down with a seemingly impenetrable 12:1 defensive half of their own.

The main ESWC event saw another victory over SK.swe as mouz fought back from a disasterous 3:12 first half as CTs on the deciding map, inferno, to win 16:14. The semi-finals though saw them pitted against eventual champions MYM.pl, who seemingly had destiny on their side as they became the first team to repeat as ESWC champions in history. mouz found themselves eliminated in two straight maps and thoroughly humiliated on map one where the Poles crushed them by a flawless 16:0 score on train, failing to give up a single round to the Germans' terrorist side. Were that not bad enough the bracket draw saw eSTRO, the team mouz had taken care of in the IEM II Finals and ESWC Masters Paris, move on to the final as mouz exited in 4th after losing to fnatic in the 3rd place decider.

A Summer with its share of disappointments had allowed mouz to establish themselves as a true top tier team again. They had not broken through to another title but they had cemented their position as dark horses for any tournament they attended and a difficult matchup for a few top teams in particular. While teams like mTw, SK, MYM.pl, Roccat and fnatic attended IEM events in North America mouz stayed back home and perhaps were a little forgotten as SK.swe and fnatic took down those titles, in Los Angeles and Montreal respectively. The next IEM event took place in October as top tier competitive Counter-Strike made its first trip to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

A breakthrough in Dubai

mouz looked to be in good form at IEM III Dubai as they beat MiBR and SK in the upper bracket, SK again finding no answers for mouz's inferno. In the upper final mouz met MYM.pl and once again the Poles got the better of them, defeating them on dust2 16:12 this time. After winning a crucial inferno match against GamePlay, the new name of Roccat, mouz once more found MYM.pl standing in the path between them and a title. Choosing dust2 as the first map mouz took a 16:10 victory. Thanks to the map selection system MYM had a choice between inferno or another dust2 game for the deciding map and chose to try to repeat their feat from the upper bracket final and win on dust2, knowing mouz's strength as an inferno team.

Map two saw the signature individual performance of cyx's career as mouz won 16:8, with a 13:2 terrorist first half, on the back of superlative AWPing from the 17 year old. His 19-7 first half clinic all but finished the ESWC champions and in the second half his team would win the entire tournament on a knife kill at the catwalk. mouz had taken their second international title of 2008 and defeated one of their toughest opponents along the way. What's more they had once again shown themselves to be a team capable of coming back from the lower bracket to win the title, displaying impressive mental fortitude.

The battle for the year between the esports masters

In November mouz jetted off to China for the World e-Sports Masters back in the position of being favourites to take another championship. A favourable drawing against eSTRO in the semi-finals, the team they had tormented and denied success all year, saw them move on in two maps to reach the final. Awaiting them in the final was the ultimate test in 2008: the mighty mTw.dk, champions of KODE5 and ESWC Masters Paris. In a three map affair mouz were forced into the runnersup spot as mTw won the deciding map and their third title of 2008.

For mouz it would be a particularly bitter series loss as the first map had gone to mTw 16:14 on dust2 after the Germans had put up a very solid 10 rounds as terrorists in the first half. Map two had gotten mouz back in the series as they won their trusty inferno, against an mTw team which also counted the map as one of their strongest. A 26-4 CT performance by Sunde, mTw's focal point, was countered by a 22-3 CT performance by cyx to keep his team's hopes of the title alive.

When mTw.dk went on to win the WCG gold medal the following month, for their fourth international title, 2008 was sealed as the year of mTw. The team known for their incredible teamplay and tactical application had been the only team to exert any kind of dominance over what had been arguably the most competitive year in Counter-Strike history, with six top level teams taking home titles. What seemed to get lost in the mix of that Danish success was the performance of mouz as their play in the WEM final provided a case to call them the second best team of the year, all of two rounds away from a third title of their own. The Germans had also shown an impressive ability to matchup with the entire spectrum of elite level teams that year.

Perhaps the reason mouz's run slipped through the cracks was their inability to compete in the World Cyber Games with their full lineup, due to tactican gob b's Turkish nationality, and their fall at Dreamhack Winter coinciding with SK.swe's revival. At the WCG SK had narrowly missed out on the gold medals and then with a victory over mTw had taken Dreamhack to close out the year. Meanwhile mouz saw themselves once more paired up with the fearsome mTw in the quarter-finals and after a 2:16 thrashing on train in the first map ended up eliminated in three maps overall. One event remained for the Germans: the EPS finals.

Back-to-back

Coming into the EPS SXIII LAN finals with a record of 13-1-1 mouz took care of roman's TBH in two maps to reach the final, where this time n!faculty would be their opponents. If the early part of 2008 had seen doubt over who was the best German team all lines of questioning would be put to rest as mouz smashed their opponents 16:3 on nuke and 16:1 on dust2 to repeat as EPS champions and finish the year on a high note.


2009

The gore era comes to an inauspicious close

The IEM III European Continental final was the first significant event of 2009 and mouz fell at the first hurdle as they failed to progress to the playoffs, defeating only MYM.pl and SK.swe on their home of inferno in the group, and thus also did not quality for the Global Finals. Two months later things seemed to have been righted as Mousesports finished third at ESWC Masters Cheonan, losing to the now rolling fnatic in the semi-finals and handling underdogs alchemists in the 3rd place decider.

At KODE5, a week later, the cracks showed once more, however, as the team were eliminated in the first round by a wNv.gm team composed of names non-Chinese readers will never have heard of, with the lone exception being the not-so-famous-himself Rita. This loss came despite winning the first map, inferno, easily and leading 10:5 in the first half of the second, dust2, after having been CTs. The Chinese team took dust2 and then the third map, nuke, in overtime.

Back home in Germany the EPS season had yet to finish and so gore was announced as "inactive" and substitute Blizzard was brought in to play the EPS Finals. Despite having a stand-in mouz and cyx charged to their third straight EPS title as they beat roman's Alternate in two maps in the final. Towards the end of June gore's replacement was announced as cash. mouz's first event was only a couple of weeks later and the team won GameGune, defeating WICKED (ex-MYM.pl) in the upper bracket final and the final.

A deceptive return belies the real fall

The next month seemed to show more signs of providence as the team were invited to the IEM IV SuperCup along with fnatic, SK.swe and mTw.dk. At the time some complaints were made about mouz even being invited as the other teams had all earned their spots, with top 3 placings at major tournaments, while many felt the fourth spot should probably have gone to the Poles of WICKED. Nevertheless mouz had an opportunity and they made the most of it as they handed the dominant fnatic lineup of Gux, GeT_RiGhT and f0rest their second ever Bo3 series loss, following the EPS.sca final vs. mTw, in two straight map wins on nuke and dust2, both by 16:10 margins.

In the final they met mTw.dk but this time it was mouz who emerged victors in an evenly fought war. After winning on nuke and losing on train 13:16 the Germans took the title 16:13 on dust2, the map they had narrowly lost to the Danes on in the WEM final. Suggestions of the aftereffects of extra-cirricular activities taking their toll on the other teams aside those back-to-back-to-back wins over WICKED, fnatic and mTw.dk seemed to have resurrected mouz's status as a top tier team and vindicated their decision to bring in cash. That was not in fact to be the case though as mouz was headed into their worst spell since cyx had joined the team.

IEM IV Chengdu saw the Germans eliminated 5th-8th after a two map loss to Tyloo and IEM IV Dubai proved even more disasterous as the team failed to progress from the group stage, a dust2 loss to k23 being the backbreaker. cash was benched as the team headed into the WCG with Seraph standing in for their underwhelming young addition and veteran Blizzard returning to fill gob b's shoes. What should have been a guaranteed win for mouz against Belarusian team SnG, and thus a spot in the playoffs, proved to be the humiliating nail in the coffin on that year's lineup as a shockingly bad terrorist performance on train saw the Germans yield one round and, despite clawing their way back, they lost 14:16 to be eliminated from the tournament.

The dream team is set

On the second of December news broke that Alternate star roman, long a thorn in the side of mouz and known for his stellar individual international performances, would be joining the lineup in 2010. As usual the EPS season had to be played out and the year would end on a positive as far as EPS went also. Despite Alternate leading the standings at the end of the regular season mouz defeated their rivals in two maps to take a fourth straight EPS championship, defending home soil once more.


2010

It had not been since the acquisiton of the aTTaX trio of Kapio, Tixo and silver, coming off their impressive 2006 results, that mouz had come into a year with recruits who the international community felt sure would place them back in the hunt for the major titles. Adding the exceptional individual talents of roman to a team already filled with the best players Germany had to offer seemed a recipe sure to yield success. What's more the year seemed wide open as fnatic's dominance had been broken in the latter part of 2009, and indeed their lineup, so that 2010's trophies seemed once more available for any of three or four top teams to vie for.

The miracle in Brühl

A change in the format of the IEM saw the continential finals held months earlier and at a separate location from the Global Finals, now rebranded as the World Championship, and single elimination with Bo3 series was brought in as the new standard structure. After battling through a tough group stage mouz found themselves in the quarter-finals facing a newly formed KerchNET lineup which featured former Hellraisers talent Edward and markeloff. That KerchNET lineup was of course the team we now know as Na`Vi, whose 2010 campaign would be the most successful year of competitive Counter-Strike ever played.

The signs of Na`Vi's future ascension were right there in their quarter-final series but perhaps went unnoticed thanks to the theatrics of mouz's performance on the other side of the matchup. KerchNET shocked the Germans as they took map one, dust2, 16:12. After a solid 10:5 CT half on inferno, which they had even led 8:1 at one point, the Ukrainians seemed primed to provide a major upset as they began the second half 3:0 to reach a 13:5 overall score.

At that point mouz locked in and something miraculous occured as the German team simply refused to lose, racking up seven straight rounds. Even when KerchNET won two rounds to make it 15:12 overall, and give them three straight series points, mouz would not be broken and they forced the game to overtime. In overtime a close 3:2 first half as CT for mouz was followed by a 3:1 victory as terrorist to even the series and send it to a deciding third map. That third map was to be played on nuke and mouz followed up a six round T performance with an almost flawless 10:1 CT shutdown to move into the semi-finals.

Looking back now on that series it contained all the seeds of themes which would blossom throughout 2010. mouz and Na`Vi played a war which saw them very evenly matched up. Na`Vi put themselves in position to win as terrorists on inferno only to crumble in key situations, a weakness which would not escape them entirely but which overcoming would be the key to their first major title. Lastly Na`Vi's inability to play nuke against the elite level sides showed itself for the first, but not the last, time.

Living the dream

In the semi-finals mouz met SK and the matchup seemed to favour the Swedes. Due to KerchNET not having flourished into what we now know as Na`Vi many were counting the Germans' narrow win over the Ukrainians as a mark against them, suggesting this meant that the SK team which had closed out 2009 with an Arbalet Cup Europe victory would take the semi-final and likely meet fnatic in a familiar finals matchup. Instead mouz took the game to the Swedes and won the first map in a double overtime thriller on inferno and the second on dust2, new recruit roman living up to some of his hype with a big performance. Just like that Mousesports was in the final of the event they had failed to reach the playoffs of one year before. But they were sacrificial lambs to the new fnatic lineup of course, we all said.

fnatic had torn up surprise semi-finalists Ravens in such a brutal fashion that they seemed all set to be the team who were crowned IEM European champions. They had replaced Gux with threat but their teamplay style still boasted the talents of GeT_RiGhT and f0rest, capable of taking over any game by themselves. mouz, on the other hand, had seemingly played out of their skins in two straight series and now surely their run of good fortune would run out. In fact there was still something special in store for the home soil heroes.

The first map went to mouz 16:9 on nuke. The second to fnatic as mouz came up short on inferno 13:16. With the decider on tuscan mouz initially looked to have given themselves breathing room as they went up 10:5 first half as terrorists. fnatic turned it on second half though and after 12 rounds played GeT_RiGhT's 20-6 had put his team up 14:13. What's more mouz player roman was sporting only a deagle in the B site, to which the fnatic players were headed. As the fnatic players pushed into the site, being played by roman alone, the new mouz player headshot two with his deagle and broke the round wide open for his team to win, the remaining kills coming from Tixo to total three for the B backup.

mouz won the last two rounds and edged the series 16:14 to become champions at their first event with their new lineup. The $25,000 for first place was accompanied by a sense that this might be the year mouz could go the whole way and become the best team in the world.

Another war with the great ones

After the two month layoff before the IEM IV World Championship CS fans around the globe were ready for what promised to be an incredible tournament as Group A contained what was then considered the most ridiculous Counter-Strike group ever. mTw, fnatic, FX, mouz, EG and oXmoze comprised a seemingly impossible to predict group. mouz got off to a dream start winning their first three matches but then fell in the remaining two to finish in third place, once more booking them a spot in the quarter-finals.

Who should they meet there? The now renamed Na`Vi (KerchNET) in a rematch of the same series from the European Championship. Fate seemed to be playing out the same story again as Na`Vi took map one on dust2. The second map again was inferno and again Na`Vi took the early lead as CTs, 9:6 this time. Once more the Ukrainians reached 3:0 immediately on their T side, making it 12:6 overall, and yet again the Germans refused to lose. Na`Vi once more crumbled mentally and this time mouz won the second map in regulation, 16:13 overall after 10 straight round wins. Any ordinary team would have been crushed after seeing two prime opportunities to move on snatched up from before their eyes but this Ukrainian team wasn't just any ordinary team. Still, the third map was to be tuscan and mouz had to be feeling confident.

mouz went up 10:5 as CTs in the first half but in that second half Na`Vi forged the beginning of their own miraculous and great storyline. Winning that second half 11:4 the Ukrainians took the map 16:14, the series two maps to one and would go on to become the first ever Ukrainian Counter-Strike World Champions. This time we can once more look back on the result more favourably than at the time. Even after Na`Vi's victory over mouz, and then EG, many picked fnatic, again off a sparkling semi-final performance, to win the entire tournament. Only once Na`Vi climbed that final mountain did anyone look back on the mouz series with more objective eyes.

For mouz that series proved to be the one that got away for 2010. Had they have won those additional two rounds their route to the final seemed set as they would have faced an EG team who had lost to them on inferno already that tournament. Instead they were eliminated in 5th-6th place after playing the eventual World Champions the closest of anyone in Hannover.

The downturn

After Na`Vi won the Arbalet Best of Four exhibition tournament featuring SK, UNITED and fnatic mouz's stock seemed to rise even more in light of their matchup against the Ukrainians. Perhaps mouz were set to be permanent contenders for the year after all. The next event on the calender came in May as the world's best teams met for Arbalet Cup Europe in Stockholm, Sweden. Despite moving through to the second group stage without discomfort mouz found themselves facing a tough draw as they lined up with fnatic, mTw and CIS superteam UNITED. After a three-way tie for second mouz came out on the wrong end and had to watch fnatic and mTw go on to first and third place respectively.

Back in Germany mouz had been unrelenting in their domestic prowess and had achieved another perfect regular season of 15-0. At the finals they took care of Alternate in two maps and were crowned EPS champions for the fifth straight time, giving cyx his fifth, and final, EPS crown. Never had mouz been so dominant at home, always previously having to battle with teams like Ocrana, aTTaX/Alternate and n!faculty. Instead the German giants seemed untouchable domestically, and with all the best individual players in Germany in their lineup where was a challenge going to come from in the future?

July saw the return of ESWC, which had been absent for one year due to bankruptcy, and with losses to FX and mTw, both of whom were steadily returning to the top tier, mouz was eliminated in the second group stage. In one of the busiest Summer months in CS history three more tournaments would be played, with mouz set to attend all of them in succession.

The final battle

Next up was Arbalet Cup Dallas where Mousesports took advantage of H2k having upset SK, in a three map thriller, to move into the final after two map wins. In the final they found themselves matched up in their third Bo3 vs. Na`Vi in 2010. Again it was a close affair as Na`Vi pulled out map one, dust2, 19:15 in overtime. This time the Ukrainians sealed the deal on the second map, again inferno, as they won 16:12.

For mouz this tournament must be the most bittersweet as their second place, and $15,000 prize, was a welcome return to the top 3 but once more was met by a close loss to the team of the year. As we reflect back now, in the light of Na`Vi's entire stellar 2010 run, we can see that mouz was one of the only teams capable of matching up with the Ukrainians stylistically and every series the two played was winnable for each team. How much more bitter a pill to swallow knowing that with cyx gone only weeks later mouz would never know what could have happened in the rest of the year or in future matchups against the world beating Ukrainian side.

The final tournament of cyx's career was a fairly humdrum affair as mouz attended GameGune with stand-ins Blizzard and d0m AZ replacing roman and Tixo. The first sign that using stand-ins wouldn't cut it came with mouz's loss to CNB in the second round of the upper bracket on dust2. When they were eliminated in the third round of the lower bracket by k1ck on train 16:14 the entire tournament seemed to be one to forget for everyone involved with mouz.

The hectic July tournament circus was set to come to a close with IEM V Shanghai, the first Global Challenge of the fifth IEM season. Despite teams such as EG and SK pulling out only days before the event mouz were all set to attend, placed in Group B with fnatic, Tyloo.raw and wNv.cn. Early on the morning of July 29th news was first released that mouz had been withdrawn from the tournament due to cyx missing his flight and being unable to arrive at the event until the following day, so that despite the other four members being set to arrive the team would not be able to field its full roster. Shortly thereafter the news was officially broken that the 19 year old cyx had been part of a car accident on his way home from the airport.

In the space of three years, and just over two weeks, cyx was a part of the most successful Mousesports lineup ever and accomplished the greatest feats in the history of German Counter-Strike. He won the rookie of the season award, the Most Valuable Player award, five EPS titles in a row, the IEM II finals, IEM III Dubai and the IEM IV European Championship in his stellar career as a Counter-Strike professional. Three times he helped his teams break through barriers on their way to significant international titles. His career boasted victories over all of the elite teams and more titles than any German player before him had ever totalled.

The story of cyx ends here. Gone but not forgotten.

Antonio 'cyx' Daniloski (1990.10.07-2010.07.29)




cyx's career accomplishments:

2007 EPS SX (4th)
2007 EPS SX rookie of the season
2007 NGL ONE S3 (3rd)
2007 EPS SXI (2nd)

2008 NGL ONE S4 (4th)
2008 IEM II Finals (1st)
2008 EPS SXII (1st)
2008 EPS SXII MVP
2008 ESWC Masters Paris (3rd)
2008 GameGune (2nd)
2008 ESWC (4th)
2008 IEM III Dubai (1st)
2008 WEM (2nd)
2008 EPS SXIII (1st)

2009 ESWC Masters Cheonan (3rd)
2009 EPS SXIV (1st)
2009 GameGune (1st)
2009 IEM IV SuperCup (1st)
2009 EPS SXV (1st)

2010 IEM IV European Championship (1st)
2010 IEM IV World Championship (5th-6th)
2010 Arbalet Cup Europe (5th-6th)
2010 EPS SXVI (1st)
2010 Arbalet Cup Dallas (2nd)

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