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Counter-Strike: Bootman's Playbook: Mousesports

By: Chris Boutté - Published December 15, 2005 at 11:18 AM EST - Writer Archive
Mousesports joins the infamous list of playbooked teams. Bootman takes a look at Mousesports tactics on Nuke, Train, and Inferno.

de_nuke: Defense

Pistol Round

Watch for mouz to try  this pistol round CT setup. They have a 2-1-2 setup. This has two players outside doing a stack with one on the outside boxes and one on the ground. In the ramp room they have two players playing with one on the ramp box and one on the ground. The fifth player will be on the rafters to watch hut. This isn't too risky since the two outside players have quick and easy entry into the upper site from outside.

*note* If mouz has to eco on defense they usually buy d.eagles.

Roman R.

Roman will be the solo ramp player. This is pretty risky if you ask me, I don't care if god himself is playing ramp room, this is one of the easiest sites to rush on any map, there is no way one player can hold this by himself against a good team. Roman starts off with the routine flashbang and then he plays kind of dumb. Not only is he a sitting duck in the ramp by himself, he plays on top of the boxes or in front of them, so basically he is always peeking. Guess what Roman, when you get picked off from the radio room and your backup is on the opposite side of the rafters, you and your team are pretty much screwed.

Also watch for Roman to be on a quick flank if upper is in trouble. He'll push the radio room rather fast and come through the hut or squeak door.

Gore

Gore is the floor player. He is one of those guys that likes to drop from the rafters to play floor. The only problem with this, is the fact that hes not very good at dropping onto the boxes in the site. See landing on the boxes will only take off 25 health max. Landing on the ground can do up to 70 damage taking you to 30...So when you get rushed in upper with as much life as you would have taking two AK bullets to the chest, it isn't really a good situation for you.

Other than being a putz, gores favorite spot to play is on top of the hut. This is one of the best spots to play from. You can watch the squeak door, hut window, hut entrance, and even outside if the offense hugs the wall. The only draw back to this is that when this guy has 30 health after a botched drop from the rafters, if a nade lands in the right spot in the hut, he's turning into superman going for a little flight. If he's not on the hut he is almost always playing from the bombsite box. And once again going back to him having 30 hp, if mouz's opponents read this, I highly suggest banking an HE grenade off the wall to the bomb boxes for an easy kill.

Papst

Papst is the guy that switches it up the most for mouz. He is another player inside. Wheres he playing?! Rafters? Floor!? OUTSIDE?!?!?! YA NEVER KNOW WITH THIS FELLOW! He is mostly going to play the floor inside coming from outside. He likes to have a flashbang primed so when the door is opened quick, he lobs one of those bad oscars in there to slow the rush down a little. One problem is that he seems to get picked from the hut window...a LOT. When he plays in the rafters, which is pretty rare, he likes to play on the opposite side of the rafters rather than near the ladder.

Blizzard

Blizzard is the closest thing to backup that Roman R. is going to have. He is almost always right above the ladder or on the railing of the rafters near the ladder. But the problem is that sometimes he likes to go to the opposite rafters which screws Roman even more than he already is. So blizzy, if you're reading this, I suggest you stay above the ladder as much as possible.

It is also rare, but sometimes blizzard will go outside into the garage.

de_nuke: Offense

Pistol Round

The last time mouz played nuke, they did a slow ramp tactic. They made sure that there were no pushes up top or from the ramp. They played coL and they gave up the ramp, kind of. CoL had two players sitting in the vents with quick access to either site.

There isn't much to cover on mouz's offense. They pretty much only run two tactics. They run them well, but if you start getting repetitive against a team that can adapt, you're sort of S.O.L., because you have nothing else practiced.

Inner Tactic

Mouz is very good at this, so they like to run it a lot. They send one outside, one hut. The other three are flashing to open the door then throwing more flashes than I even knew you could afford out of the door to the outside entrance, then they go on to flash behind the bombsite boxes and they take the site. The inner site is virtually blind, so when a team starts to give up the site so they can just retake it, mouz is all out of nades and luck.

Inner Fake

After they run the inner fake a few times they do the exact same thing, but then they start pushing up to the ramp. Not too complicated.

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Chris next time use regular CS models please! Haha, great playbook though, mouz should do very well if not win Winter CPL.
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Haha, not sure about the "Putz" style comments, seems a bit offensive, even if it was meant in jest. In addition, releasing a playbook the day the matches are due to start seems a bit off, as I seem to remember previously releasing about a week before the matches, which gives a team time to adjust if necessary. Still, I guess it helps the spectators realise what's going on, and look for their weaknesses as they play.

Looks good anyway :)

This comment was edited at 12/15/2005 11:30 AM
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"then he plays kind of dumb."

"Other than being a putz"

"One problem is that he seems to get picked from the hut window...a LOT."

"which screws Roman even more than he already is"


Either you are very good friends with these guys or you think they are the worse top team in the world..
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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good read. i agree with #1 they should do good if not take the event :D Gl mouz
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nice......
#doitonlan
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what's wrong wit cz models?
Runnin' around wit my AK-47, watch em all fall down
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i hate it when u do these, i mean they are great articles but a day before a major event. i just think its horrible. i cant think of anything else i can say withought geting nuked.
"BSL taking his shirt off. One of the best CS celebrations I have ever seen."

ooh a playbook...
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This idiot forgot de_cbble! WTF
I tip my hat to any entity that could bring so much integrity to evil.
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Mouz has a well known history of being absolutely terrible on nuke, and with 1 guy playin ramp with a colt, it's easy tyo see why.
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its not that bad... cuz really anyone can see their strats.. just download some demos. chris is just making it easier for us :)
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For a second there, I thought maybe this event would come without a playbook, WRONG. Good write-up, a few more maps, and it would have been spectacular.
GotFrag CoD and Features Head
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good read
#dodealers
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#11 nah its different from watching a demo cause u might not have enought time for an indepth look at them at an event but now any team facing them has it all laid out for them, with litlle time for mouz to chnage it up properly.
"BSL taking his shirt off. One of the best CS celebrations I have ever seen."
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nice write up
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what you are trying to say is that mouzsports strats need work?
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very good read, keep it up!
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Sweet writeup, keep 'em coming.

And yeah, CZ models zUckZ

This comment was edited at 12/15/2005 12:19 PM
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oh booty, your so edgy!
Coverage Director - GotFrag.com
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#3 everyones making mistakes, bootman points them out
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Nice playbook. You did use a few matches from a long time ago though and mouz do quite frequently change things up. They have so many CT pistols for cbble for example. Mouz's main weakness is that they sometimes do do really dumb things as a team, however, their play in 2v2s etc is exemplary. Mouz practically managed to win every single 2v2, 3v3, clutch situation they were in at CPL Spain, hence why they won.
[b]GotFrag Features Writer[/b]

#21 ftw
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Yea gj bootman. Give away another teams strats right before a major event. And he wonders why pro teams don't like him...
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3D's playbook right before Digital event and u post the other teams playbook right before a major event.. figures.
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man I was wondering why mouz are bad on nuke, now I know, they only have 4 players as CT!!
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Nice article. I really like their nuke setup, good job bootman.
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nice article but stop using those gay condition zero models
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NICE! good job bootman
representin' #dealteam since 2004
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YOU'RE MY BOY BLUE!
I AM LEGEND
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real good stuff
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lol #25. I was thinkin the player breakdown seemed shorter than normal at the time....

nice article ;)
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!!!!!

This comment was edited at 12/16/2005 4:04 AM
tommorow comes today
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haha blizzard :D
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if only every WORLD CLASS TOP CS PLAYER was as smart as bootman...

"then he plays kind of dumb."

"Other than being a putz"

"One problem is that he seems to get picked from the hut window...a LOT."

"which screws Roman even more than he already is"
/sarcasm

im tired of this guy thinking he is better then all the top players in the world...i mean he hasnt ever played past cal-im, gj knowing how to write like you're smarter then everyone!
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damn nice, but i cant tell how I hate your cz skins.
amk #teamFrantic

#35 ftw
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really bad ct spots :p
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By my opinion mousesports are oe of the best in the world...maybe de_nuke is a little of for them, but none the less they are good...allongside with SK, NiP, ComplexitY, Begrip, fanatic, and NoA...the best in the world

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