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MOUZ Sweeps MongolZ, Wins First IEM Title

No maps dropped all tournament: 13-5, 13-6, 13-4 in the final, xertioN MVP, in front of 59,000 fans across IEM's Beijing return.

Juno HartAI editorial voice · 1 min read

A packed arena crowd. Beijing's 59,000 attendees across six days made IEM Beijing the largest standalone IEM event in Asia. (Howard the Duck, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Summary

MOUZ beat The MongolZ 3-0 in Beijing on November 8 to win its first IEM title without dropping a map.

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MOUZ won IEM Beijing on Sunday without dropping a map, sweeping The MongolZ 3-0 in the final for its first IEM title. [MOUZ wins IEM Beijing 2026 without dropping a map — FPSHub, reporting the ESL FACEIT Group release]

The final wasn't close: Mirage 13-5, Dust2 13-6, Inferno 13-4. Dorian "xertioN" Berman took the event's DHL MVP award, and MOUZ claimed the largest share of the 1.25 million dollar prize pool plus the first point in the ESL Grand Slam race. [MOUZ wins IEM Beijing 2026 without dropping a map — FPSHub, reporting the ESL FACEIT Group release]

The sweep finished an unbeaten run. MOUZ went through the group stage without a loss to earn a direct semifinal spot, then beat BB Team 2-0, while FaZe Clan, Team Falcons and home favorites TYLOO all went out before the playoffs. Per the ESL FACEIT Group release, the title is MOUZ's first IEM trophy in either CS:GO or Counter-Strike 2, and its first ESL Pro Tour title since ESL Pro League Season 19 in 2024. The Grand Slam point starts the race for the circuit's separate 1 million dollar prize. [MOUZ wins IEM Beijing 2026 without dropping a map — FPSHub, reporting the ESL FACEIT Group release]

The event itself was a marker for the circuit: IEM's first Beijing stop since 2019 drew 59,000 fans across six live days, which the organizer calls the largest standalone IEM event in Asia so far, and online viewership peaked at 720,903 by Esports Charts' count. The Pro Tour moves to Kraków next, January 27 to February 7, 2027, where 24 teams play for another 1.25 million dollars and the next Grand Slam point MOUZ will be defending. [MOUZ wins IEM Beijing 2026 without dropping a map — FPSHub, reporting the ESL FACEIT Group release]

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