ENCE secure IEM Dallas 2023 Championship
A PR disaster surrounding the legendary Finnish AWPer Aleksi 'allu' Jalli was the end of ENCE's longstanding local squad featuring the likes of Jere "Sergej" Salo and Miikka "suNny" Kemppi. The reigns of the squad were handed to veteran Danish leader Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer at the start of 2021. After countless changes and multiple falls from the top, including the loss of superstar rifler Lotan "Spinx" Giladi, ENCE has yet again climbed the mountain and this time, they hope to go all the way to the top. Their opponents have had quite a similar story of builds and rebuilds.
MOUZ's journey began with the amazing 2019 karrigan roster being slowly ripped apart as piece after piece was replaced over the online era. And with ropz's departure at the start of 2022, the team was forced to take inventory and put together a roster of phenomenal youngsters. Promoting their Academy stars was the obvious step, but the signing of NBK was an unnecessary miss. With the trio of xertioN, JDC and torzsi united in the main squad, dexter was given the support of Sycrone to put together a playbook. MOUZ built a resume filled with playoff appearances by the end of 2022. A shaky start of 2023 could be completely forgotten if they emerge victorious today.
The match started on Mirage, with dycha putting up 4 in the pistol. SunPayus farmed the conversion with an MP9 as ENCE got off to a massive 7-0 start to the half. MOUZ finally started their attack with two rounds thanks to frozen but were unable to take control of the economy as ENCE bounced back thanks to dycha and maden. Still, MOUZ managed to pick up the final two, but ENCE went into halftime with an 11-4 lead.
MOUZ managed to pick up their own CT pistol, starting their defence on the right foot. And with the Hungarian AWPer hungry for frags, MOUZ got up to an 11-8 scoreline. But ENCE's star duo of NertZ and SunPayus stepped up, shutting down Dexter's youngsters and securing the map 16-9.
Nuke started off with another CT pistol for MOUZ, thanks to JDC and frozen. And the Dallas crowd would be repeating those names time and time again on this map as they pushed MOUZ to 4. But Nuke is still ENCE's playground, and Snappi called some brilliant T rounds to take the lead 5-4. The JDC-frozen duo kept harassing ENCE's attack keeping MOUZ in the game with a 6-9 deficit in the half.
Yet another pistol round thanks to MOUZ's super-duo, and MOUZ quickly extended to a 10-9 lead as xertioN stepped up in a clutch. Maden and dycha stepped up for the side of ENCE and pushed MOUZ's defence to its limits, taking back the lead 13-10. Money broken for MOUZ, ENCE secured matchpoint with a clean round. dycha delivers a double and ENCE close the map out 16-10.
ENCE secure the org's 3rd trophy and the first for the Snappi-led international roster. A massive achievement for the plucky underdog stars that make up the Finnish organization's international constellation. The third time really is the charm as they finally get over the Dallas hurdle they tripped at in 2019 and 2022. Their Spanish AWP star will secure the MVP award after a scorching run through the NA event.
MOUZENCE| MOUZ |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jon 'JDC' de Castro |
49 - 34 | +15 | 95.9 | 74.5% | 1.27 |
 David 'frozen' Čerňanský |
41 - 34 | +7 | 90.2 | 74.5% | 1.26 |
 Dorian 'xertioN' Berman |
24 - 42 | -18 | 66.1 | 70.6% | 0.81 |
 Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás |
27 - 37 | -10 | 54.8 | 60.8% | 0.76 |
 Christopher 'dexter' Nong |
19 - 42 | -23 | 47.0 | 56.9% | 0.55 |
| ENCE |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Álvaro 'SunPayus' García |
45 - 29 | +16 | 97.7 | 72.5% | 1.45 |
| Guy 'NertZ' Iluz |
40 - 28 | +12 | 81.2 | 74.5% | 1.30 |
 Pavle 'Maden' Bošković |
41 - 35 | +6 | 90.1 | 72.5% | 1.17 |
 Paweł 'dycha' Dycha |
36 - 34 | +2 | 73.2 | 64.7% | 1.02 |
 Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer |
27 - 34 | -7 | 56.7 | 60.8% | 0.84 |
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