OpTic qualify for ESL One New York

28-9-2016 03:58

OpTic have secured the eighth spot at ESL One New York by winning the North American qualifier over Cloud9.

Eight teams stood at the start of the ESL One New York North America qualifier, including some of the biggest names such as Cloud9, Immortals and OpTic, and played for a single spot at the $250,000 event kicking off in just under three days.

Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert's team defeated CLG in a narrow best-of-three in the quarter-finals and quickly disposed of TSM on their way to the grand final.

OpTic snatched the last spot at ESL One New York

On the other side of the bracket, the Brazilians and OpTic won their initial battles over Complexity and NRG respectively before meeting in the semi-finals.

Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas and company squeaked by Immortals and took on Cloud9 in today's grand final. After two close encounters, on Train and Overpass, OpTic comfortably secured Cobblestone and grabbed the last spot at ESL One New York.

ESL One New York 2016 North America QualifierBest of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

28th September 2016

OpTic

Train

Overpass

Cobblestone

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	73 - 55	+18	85.3	70.4%	1.26
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	65 - 52	+13	83.5	75.3%	1.23
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	66 - 56	+10	91.4	72.8%	1.21
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	56 - 53	+3	80.7	75.3%	1.13
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	46 - 54	-8	65.6	71.6%	0.97

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	79 - 62	+17	99.1	72.8%	1.30
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	48 - 63	-15	80.8	71.6%	1.00
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	56 - 61	-5	64.2	71.6%	0.93
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	43 - 57	-14	59.3	60.5%	0.84
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	43 - 63	-20	62.5	64.2%	0.81

All teams are now locked in for the event running from September 30-October 2:

SK	Virtus.pro	G2	Astralis
Natus Vincere	Liquid	fnatic	OpTic

ESL One New York will begin with a group stage played in the Swiss format, with top four sides advancing to best-of-three single-elimination playoffs.

Make sure to stay tuned to HLTV.org as we'll roll out the event's preview as well as the viewer's guide in the next two days.

can't believe c9 can't fucking qualify now..

2016-09-28 03:58

22 replies

gg #2

4 replies

2016-09-28 03:59

3 replies

SUMMER OVER BOYZZZ

2016-09-28 04:04

2 replies

im a optic fan just mad i got #2 and not first post

2016-09-28 04:08

Its a online Qualifier guys calm down. I guarafuckingtee all of you that if C9 would have qualified that they would go farther in the tournament then Optic will.

2016-09-28 08:41

choke 9

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top 5 world, kappa

2016-09-28 07:33

unexpected

2016-09-28 05:12

Its great isn't it. Don't worry though someone might not be able to go. Or there might be some type of petition. C9 usually doesn't qualify for things, but gets in them anyway.

2016-09-28 06:25

12 replies

We are 2 days before the event, and nothing happend yet.

2016-09-28 06:29

Maybe optic will not have time to get everything organized. That would be about how things normally go.

2016-09-28 06:30

Sad, C9 are a much better lan team.

2016-09-28 08:42

You seem to be pretty upset over everything related to C9. Just relax for a moment and enjoy the event.

2016-09-28 06:32

8 replies

Nah, I just like giving C9 fans shit. It is a bit annoying how over rated they are, but it will be over soon enough.

7 replies

So you aren't mad but you enjoy going on to internet forums for the sole purpose of shitting on other people?

2016-09-28 06:34

6 replies

Giving someone shit is not the same as shitting on them. Also C9 fans are pretty annoying so whatever.

2016-09-28 06:36

5 replies

Whatever the difference may be, you are giving someone a hard time when they are probably already dissapointed after the loss. This is the kind of shit that isn't needed, just grow up and enjoy the game. It doesn't really matter how "annoying" the fans are. Evey team has annoying fans so just get used to it.

2016-09-28 06:40

rekt

2016-09-28 06:54

Memed

2016-09-28 07:02

lmfao c9 sucks get over it

2016-09-28 07:41

When did I say anything about c9?

2016-09-28 13:48

tbh tarik started delivering in OpTic, RUSH and m1xwell were delivering all the time and stan & NAF are doing their job, OpTic top1 NA IMO

2016-09-28 11:27

Forever Second :(

2016-09-28 15:56

i was so close... 2 ez for optic, clown 9 fans cry more plz

GL OpTic

13213

WEW

TOO SOON

at least Astralis will be there

19th

ez SK best team in the world

14 replies

MingLee Watch SK lose to Optic now MingLee

2016-09-28 04:00

m1xwell on lan 4Head

11 replies

BR CS 4Head

2016-09-28 04:01

10 replies

two majors!

2016-09-28 05:16

LUL 2 baits one post LUL

2016-09-28 06:42

2 majors 4head =D

2 baits one post

You talk like you have won one

2016-09-28 10:02

you talk like you have a scene! DEVOLVE MEU OURO fdp

2016-09-28 13:14

Fox > Brazil

2016-09-28 15:35

fox > all

2016-09-28 17:10

atleast portugal dont need to buy a brazilian players

2016-09-28 20:00

yeah also all of your teams are shit

2016-09-28 20:04

Renegades 16 - 0 SK gaming

2016-09-28 12:43

EZ 4 RENEGADES

RIP Cloud9

SK vs VP Finals pls....

2016-09-28 04:05

Nt. SK won't make the finals.

2016-09-28 08:15

oline vs lan

2016-09-28 04:09

Choke9

Congrats to Optic, little slip up on the 2nd map but other than that they had this win in the bag the whole series.

2016-09-28 04:11

You could say the same thing about cloud 9 the first map could have one 2 0 just like optic could have

2016-09-28 05:47

? Optic out played them on every map in the series, had a little slip up on the 2nd map.

2016-09-28 05:50

I dont think they outplayed them on overpass, C9 had it on lock down during their CT side. And train was decided by a few timings and plays that could have gone either way.

2016-09-28 05:59

that 1v1 autim won while having 14hp saved overpass, else it would have been 13-6 up for opric and a save from c9

2016-09-28 06:35

That's true but that could also be said for a lot of the timings and rounds on train. Like the numerous times Stan pushed inner right after a c9 member cleared it or the flying ak shot at connector.

2016-09-28 06:37

hang on... what about Immortals ?!, they play against Echo Bots, and that was it... what happened after that ???

2016-09-28 04:12

For the ECS promotion, not ESL qualifier.

2016-09-28 04:14

ohhh okay... but what about the ESL game, i can't find it....

2016-09-28 04:15

hltv.org/match/2304847-optic-immortals-e..

2016-09-28 04:16

FeelsBadMan IMM won last pistol as CT up 13-3 playing CT side on Train. :(

2016-09-28 04:17

ohhh i remember now... lol.... thanks

2016-09-28 04:18

Liquid will get steamrolled by any of the other seven teams.

2016-09-28 14:54

wat the frick

2016-09-28 04:13

imgur.com/a/QpPBt dat was fast :) stanislaw was the solution Kreygasm

Good luck to optic. So much potential

2016-09-28 04:21

Very good!

2016-09-28 04:29

+FaZe +mouz +TyLoo +EnVy +IMT would be good :)

2016-09-28 04:34

NiP? Godsent? Dignitas? Heroic?

2016-09-28 14:20

Sorry man, but GODSENT no.. They looks like a t5-6 now.. Even g3x or LG are better

2016-09-29 02:22

g3x and LG would get 16-0'd by Passions, Epsilon, etc. Calm down a little

2016-09-30 01:00

OpTic deserved this, played well every map.

2016-09-28 05:04

OG going to NY! Vision's gonna be great next week

2016-09-28 05:17

yeah OG deserved it

2016-09-28 05:30

daps was the problem?

2016-09-28 05:20

a team in top5 can not qualify, HLTV ranking lul.

2016-09-28 05:33

Time to see OpTic get destroyed on LAN now Kappa

2016-09-28 05:36

NoKappa

2016-09-28 07:56

Cry9

it's not that I hate optic, I just think c9 had a better chance at going further in the tournament. Optic will choke again like they did at the last major, and we all know optic players are still toxic af, so once this little honeymoon phase since picking up Tarik is over, I expect shit results.

2016-09-28 07:30

I pretty much agree. Played with stanislaw in an ESEA pug a couple weeks ago and he queued with a toxic loser who yelled at me for "following him" in upper tuns while we were saving. He's the type of "pro" to not comm at all with the team because he thinks he's too good for us. Hope he gets shit on in this tourney cause he deserves it with that shit attitude. ;)

2016-09-28 15:21

gl optic

Everything is back to normal yay

2016-09-28 07:45

C9 choke when it matters. Optic will get a new hole ripped in NY, though.

2016-09-28 07:58

Hell yeah

2016-09-28 08:18

convincing throw from c9 looks like they actually lost it

2016-09-28 09:05

HLTV teams rank almost terrible like this on gasugamers EleGiggle

2016-09-28 09:30

C9 back to sucking. They played well for a couple weeks, but did not win a Tier 2 or 3 tournament in that period. Now the dream is over again.

2016-09-28 10:14

I hope for SK vs VP finals :o

2016-09-28 10:17

OG are going to get thrashed in NYC though, at least Cloud9 can hang with Na'Vi, SK and beat Astralis, fnatic, Liquid etc.

2016-09-28 10:28

Liquid , are you fucking kidding me ? Cloud9 would be much better to see.

2016-09-28 10:32

lots of teams can beat liquid atm

2016-09-28 10:52

They invited teams right after Cologne (where Liquid placed 2nd).

2016-09-28 17:26

RIP c9 :(

2016-09-28 10:40

lmao liquid and optic will get trashed so badly. its amazing that c9 didn't get invite to the event, and they invite liquid who are so bad without simple

2016-09-28 10:42

They invited Liquid after ESL Cologne. expected

Only to go out in last place :)

2016-09-28 10:46

GOD TARIK

2016-09-28 11:05

gl tarik

2016-09-28 11:08

People think C9 are awful, maybe Optic just played well. They have been getting better and better as time has gone on and hope they do well as ESL.

Tarik and mixwell were gods at the game. Props to them.

2016-09-28 12:05

C9 LUL

2016-09-28 12:14

these onliners will be rekt at NY. waste of spot.

2016-09-28 12:29

you might be in for a surprise

2016-09-28 15:02

they won't take a single map, I'll come back with a reply to remind you of this in the next couple of days.

2016-09-28 18:34

i might have been wrong

2016-10-01 05:39

c9 :| wtf

2016-09-28 12:48

C9 top 5 MEGALUL

2016-09-28 14:27

This optic team is very good, watch out every1!!

2016-09-28 14:56

daps was the problem

Clown 9. ELEAGUE American Minor: Immortals and TSM/NRG qualify over C9 for the major qualifier.

2016-09-28 16:23

rip autimatic

2016-09-28 16:30

come on guys, you all know that c9 cant play lan with that type of teams, optic will do better than c9 i think...

2016-09-28 16:33

is Optic best NA team then ?

2016-09-28 16:56

I dont know, but the fact is, you can see what games were played like last month or something, and make a statement about c9 being the best na team atm, but to me online matches doesnt mean a damn thing... the oportunities that c9 had with pressure they choked, simple as that, if optic go to this lan and put a fight against the top teams to me they are better than c9 by far... immortals crushed c9 at last lan, optic now outplayed c9 100% on pressure game... how could a team be the best if they cant perform on lan/pressure? the chances of ska or shroud or n0thing playing like a bot on a pressure important game is huge... and they are doing the same thing forever lol, this "oh but c9 still looking hot atm" is the normal thing ahahah

2016-09-28 17:01

last time optic played on lan they got rekt. This is optic's honeymoon phase, similar to cloud9's when auti first joined. Naf and stan are toxic af, there will be arguments soon especially with a braindead teammate like Tarik. Also to note, all of optic's wins have been online, winning against sk, and beating c9 are all online games, on lan they are still shit.

2016-09-28 17:49

yeah, but they are kind of a fresh team, MAYBE they will perform, just like beggining of every cloud9 time lol, cant you see it? just with auti, mayyybe c9 will become good, oh no, choked already couple times, hmm not going to happen.... till optic choke in this lan they will have at least a hope to be better than c9 for me, you need to go full bot mode to be worse than c9 on lan comps

2016-09-28 19:01

Yea they got rekt at the major where to get there they had to qualify on LAN beating Immortals 2-0 in semis 16-6/16-5 then 2-1 in finals of the Americas minor. Then they went to the major qualifier an beat Hellraisers flipside and Fluffy Gangsters to qualify for the major. They've also beaten Astralis on Lan and played SK and NIP and other teams pretty close.

2016-09-28 23:08

m8 that was with a different lineup. And at the major they got destroyed. pretty sure they came out in last or close to last place. They also got rekt at northern arena lan, I mean naf just doesn't show up on lan they lost to echo, tsm, and heroic on lan. All teams that have lost to c9 recently. Astrallis also got beat by c9 on lan. Optic's only acheivments are, winning against sk in an online series, and winning against immortals in an online series and beating c9. optic doesn't even play in the same room together, Tarik, stan, and naf aren't even in the same state as mix and rush.

2016-09-29 16:05

Northern Arena wasn't this lineup. They have yet to play on LAN with this lineup. hltv.org/match/2302607-astralis-optic-es.. NAF has had some good LAN performances.

2016-09-29 19:10

It's funny because if this game was on LAN, C9 probably would have won.

2016-09-29 02:32

The entry into these tournaments are kind of a joke. Cloud9 is like 21 and 1 in ESL...but they don't qualify for this major because they lost 2 - 1 in qualifier. Autimatic with the carry.

2016-09-28 16:35

thats the key thing, c9 flyes with online games bo2 and stuff... when come to important decider matches, they choke... optic is playing good, we dont know how they will perform on lan against top teams yet... but is not that hard to play on lan better than c9, for real =p

2016-09-28 16:41

There is so much ignorance in that post holy shit. -ESL NY is not a major -Why the fuck would C9's online record in a completely different league matter at all in this qualifier? Invites were handed out before C9 had any good results on LAN, and understandably it was the teams with good results that got invites.

2016-09-28 17:15