The German team, mousesports, reported earlier today that they were not able to play in the IEM5 Global Challenge, following Antonio "cyx" Daniloski missing his flight. mousesports have now issued a statement which states that Daniloski yesterday died in a car accident on his way home from Frankfurt airport.

Daniloski had missed his flight yesterday and was on his way home from Frankfurt airport, when one of the tires on the car punctured causing an accident in which the 19 year old German sustained fatal injuries. Today is a sad day for the counterstrike community as well as mousesports. We must say goodbye to our beloved friend and player, Antonio "cyx" Daniloski.

Starting point was a missed flight from Frankfurt to Shanghai (China), which our entire Counter-Strike 1.6 team was suspected to take. Unfortunately, Antonio "cyx" Daniloski missed the flight and received another flight on Thursday morning.


On his way back from the airport, he had a car accident due to a tire failure and passed away of the consequences.

Our thoughts at this difficult time for us go to Tonis family, relatives and friends. We mourn a friend and player who was always loved by everyone in our mousesports team and the whole gaming community and because of his commitment and engagement he was one of the most important and famous personalities of all time in mousesports.

Toni led the mousesports team to many victories,such as five consecutive ESL Pro Series titles, the IEM World Championship 2008, the IEM European Championship 2010 and many more.

Rest in peace mate, we will greatly miss you.

Our Counter-Strike 1.6 team is already on their way back to Germany and we've canceled our presence and Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Shanghai.