Trixi leaves FnaticMSI for Mousesports.

Mousesports CEO believes DOTA2 will be a core title in 2012.

Mousesports DotA in 2008.

Mousesports Counter-Strike team just having won the seventeenth ESL Pro Series.

A: We’ve never said we would quit on DotA entirely. We were extremely disappointed about our last DotA venture, since we had one of the hottest DotA teams back than, which wasn’t able to perform at its best because of some issues between players and unprofessional behavior. As you might now, mousesports is always striving for a stable, professional and successful roster, trying to work with players for years and even decades.We’ve always taken a closer look at the MOBA genre, trying to find the perfect moment to step in and give those other franchises a challenging time.A: The team will compete at the very next event , travelling to Kiev in the next days. Of course we would love to see our DOTA2 team competing in those major tournaments. We don’t differ between core / professional and amateur teams in mousesports, all teams are treated equal. At the moment, StarCraft II and Counter-Strike are the main titles as far as tournaments go, but we’re sure DOTA2 will make its way rather fast, becoming another core title at gaming events in 2012.A: Absolutely not, DOTA2 will not affect the other mousesports teams at all, despite the fact, that some CS players might not be into practicing that much, because they love this game. Also any CS rumours are absurd, since we haven’t got any CS:GO keys from Valve as of yet. Hint, Valve, hint!A: Who says, we can’t cover it with our current sponsors GeIL, MEDION, Intel, Razer and Sansibar? Signing a team without the financial assets to convert our goals doesn’t make much sense for mousesports. But of course we are always looking for new sponsors to support our players and us in any way, but that’s not DOTA2 related, that’s pretty much business as usual for all major gaming franchises.A: We were close to sign some big names in League of Legends several times in the past. What made us step back in the very last second was our experience with the original DotA that had tons of players, having fun with the game, while coming from different genres like Counter-Strike, WarCraft or Racing/sports games. We’re aware of the fact, that League of Legends is currently massively ahead of DOTA2, if you count stream viewers for example, but those aren’t everything. We’ve been playing Counter-Strike since our foundation back in 2002 and most of us have been in touch with it from the very early beta days in 1999. Valve constantly updated their games, whether it’s the original CS or CS: Source and they will do the same with DOTA2 – for years. We believe in Valve and especially Ice Frog in creating a great, competitive game which will still be fun to play for everyone. We do think both games (DOTA2 and LoL) can be played competively at events, as it would be a big achievement for the MOBA genre in general to have two big titles being played.A: Despite the fact our players originally come from DotA, they’ve competed in Heroes of Newerth in different teams lately, so they might need some practice time to step up to Na’Vi who are in practice for months now. But since all of our players are highly professional and competed at the top level in HoN they know which work needs to be done in order to accomplish their goals.A: We’ve started as a German CS team back in 2002, but already our WarCraft III division had several international players. Until now, we are following our German CS tradition but other teams like the StarCraft 2 division are mostly driven by international players. For our DOTA2 team we didn’t have any local restrictions, we have been looking for a competitive, professional and stable team.A: We will see, what tournaments the major organizations have in stock for us. If it seems like a cool competition, you can count us in.A: Since we haven’t really looked for a decorated DotA coordinator, that’s why Florian “PaisY” Schmedes who’s currently one of our SC2 coordinators will take care of the team management as our DOTA2 head coordinator. He joined mousesports this year and we are very satisfied with his work, so are the players.A: We have started to roll some shows at mousesports TV (www.mousesports.tv) with James “Kaelaris” Carrol, also our SC2 players are streaming by times. We do enjoy these new possibilities in gaming and are planning some improvements in 2012. You might have seen an episode of “mouz Trap!” which features a professional player analyzing his last replays live on stream and we would love to do the same in DOTA2: generating (video) content that’s not standard player livestreaming stuff, but more likely interesting, analytical shows that you can enjoy watching.But in order to produce it, we would need help of DotA experts that would like to join our staff as a commentator or news writer for example. We’re always happy for applications!