Team Spirit blitzes MOUZ to claim IEM Cologne championship

Team Spirit swept MOUZ in the best-of-five Grand Final to claim the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne championship and the $400,000 first prize on Sunday in Germany.

Eighteen-year-old Danil "donk" Kryshkovets of Russia continued his dominant play by leading everyone with 62 kills and a +21 kills-to-deaths differential. All five members of Team Spirit racked up at least 39 kills while Russia's Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov posted a +9 differential.

Team Spirit, which defeated MOUZ 2-1 in the Group B Upper Bracket finale on Tuesday, wasted little time reasserting itself on Sunday. MOUZ picked the Mirage map to open the match, but Spirit claimed a 13-7 win on Mirage. Spirit selected the Ancient map and earned a 13-11 victory as Kryshkovets recorded 26 kills. MOUZ chose the Nuke map in hopes of staying alive, but Team Spirit carved out a 13-6 win to wrap up the sweep.

While Team Spirit gets to split $400,000, MOUZ settled for the $180,000 second prize. Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin, the 22-year-old Swede who turned pro when he was 15, led MOUZ with a 1.08 rating. He collected a team-high 45 kills versus 47 deaths.

Intel Extreme Masters Cologne prize pool:

1. $400,000 -- Team Spirit

2. $180,000 -- MOUZ

3-4. $80,000 -- Team Vitality, Natus Vincere

5-6. $40,000 -- FURIA, The MongolZ

7-8. $24,000 -- G2 Esports, FaZe Clan

9-12. $16,000 -- Team Falcons, 3DMAX, Aurora Gaming, Ninjas in Pyjamas

13-16. $10,000 -- Astralis, GamerLegion, Team Liquid, HEROIC

17-20. $4,500 -- paiN Gaming, Virtus.pro, TYLOO, FlyQuest

21-24. $2,500 -- BIG, MIBR, Complexity, B8