OpTic send Splyce packing

Two North American teams faced off in Group A's elimination match. In their opening matches at the CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9 Finals, OpTic lost to HellRaisers 2-1 while Splyce fell to Virtus.pro with the same scoreline.

OpTic started on the CT-side of Mirage and secured the pistol round. They also got the first weapon round and gained a 4-0 advantage. Splyce grabbed their first round on the fifth but got reset right after as they lost the following one (5-1).

Splyce picked up another round after losing two but OpTic answered with six of their own to make it 12-2. David "⁠DAVEY⁠" Stafford took the stage once again as he clutched a 1v3 to secure his team's third round as the half finished with a 12-3 score.

Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas picked up an opening-kill to kick off the second half and William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba closed out the round with a quad-kill (13-3). OpTic did not mess around and finished it off 16-3 to take the first map victory.

Splyce had a better start on Train as they won the pistol round and the anti-ecos on their T-side. OpTic got back into it with RUSH's triple-kill as they stopped an A-push in the first buy round. After OpTic tied it at 3-3, Splyce had a perfect round and took the lead without losing a single player.

Splyce's double AWP setup paid off and they controlled the pace of the first half with their strong A rushes. Andrew "⁠Professor_Chaos⁠" Heintz clutched a 1v2 to get his team their 10th round and Splyce won the half 11-4, gaining a massive advantage before going into the their CT-side.

This advantage started to fade when OpTic won the pistol round and went on to cut the deficit to two rounds (13-11). OpTic had the chance to tie it at 13-13 but lost a 2v2 and Splyce closed it out 16-12.

Cobblestone was the last map and the CT-sided OpTic grabbed the pistol round thanks to Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele's triple-kill. Although they secured the first weapon round, OpTic lost a 2v4 to pistols of Splyce (4-1). As OpTic extended their lead to 7-2, Splyce called a timeout to sort out their T-side strategy. 

After the timeout, Splyce planted the bomb on the B-site but the retake was strong and OpTic made it 8-2. Splyce finally replied back towards the end of the first half as DAVEY kept getting entry-kills and the score was 9-6 in favor of OpTic at halftime.

Splyce had a clean pistol round on their CT-side and the momentum was on their side but Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's quad-kill gave OpTic their 10th round and they went on to make it 12-7. A MAG-7 triple-kill by Professor_Chaos kept Splyce alive but they got reset right afterwards and OpTic won the map and the series, 16-8 and 2-1, respectively.

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OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	68 - 43	+25	93.5	77.5%	1.40
Damian 'daps' Steeledaps	58 - 43	+15	93.6	78.9%	1.28
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	53 - 42	+11	91.0	76.1%	1.24
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell	53 - 41	+12	75.6	78.9%	1.22
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw	47 - 44	+3	73.8	71.8%	1.06

Splyce	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
David 'DAVEY' StaffordDAVEY	51 - 56	-5	84.8	67.6%	1.03
Arya 'arya' Hekmatarya	44 - 57	-13	66.2	62.0%	0.86
Abraham 'abE' FazliabE	44 - 60	-16	73.4	57.7%	0.86
Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' HeintzProfessor_Chaos	36 - 50	-14	56.3	60.6%	0.78
Jason 'jasonR' RuchelskijasonR	36 - 56	-20	61.8	64.8%	0.76

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