Many had set their hopes high for mousesports in the EPS playoffs but a disappointing start against ALTERNATE aTTaX surely proved them wrong. Not only mouz suffered a huge loss in that match (16-7), but it was also unable to perform as a consistent team, being constantly overcome due to the lack of communication and solid strategies.

"The problem simply consisted in the fact that the line-up will be changed. And thereby the mental cohesion of the team was somewhat broken," Roman "Roman R." Reinhardt told faculty.de.

After this loss against aTTaX, mousesports was sent to the lower bracket, where it had to face SK Gaming's German team. After a convincing start in the match, mouz reached the halftime with an 11-4 advantage. Nonetheless, a disappointing beginning in the second half saw SK win seven rounds in a row, which certainly made some fans foresee another shocking outcome, but mousesports ended up winning the match by 16-13.

Questioned about the team's lack of cohesion, Reinhardt said that, since the team would have roster changes soon, it practiced for this event like if it was a mix team, with the simple goal of doing the best it could during the EPS playoffs.

Although Reinhardt doesn't discard the chance of a first place in this tournament, he says that it solely depends on the players' potential since he recognized that the team isn't well prepared. Still, he stressed that the relationship between mousesports' players is good and that "no hatred or aversion exists".

"I can only say that I won't stay anymore in mousesports' line-up and that the team will have a five-man roster. The best option every team can have."

Given Reinhardt's departure as granted after these words, this decision would leave mousesports with four players, but since the board announced that Michael "neo" Mitrega would only only play during the 2006 season, which is now coming to an end, he will most likely not join his current team mates next year. With Navid "Kapio" Javadi joining the team in January, several reports have been suggesting a move from Tim "silver" Hochgrebe and Manuel "Tixo" Makohl to mousesports, who never hid their disappointment towards mTw's achievements this year.

Tim "silver" Hochgrebe told faculty.de that he will move to another team and that he is looking forward to play for it.

"I wait the future with my new team very ecstatically. It will be the best team I have ever played for," said Hochgrebe.

With Reinhardt's departure, mousesports' line-up will be as follows:

Christian "Blizzard" Chmiel
Martin "fleks" Wehrmann
Michael "neo" Mitrega
Franz "gore" Burghardt