OpTic send G2 packing

1-10-2016 18:00

OpTic Gaming have moved into the fourth round of ESL One New York after beating G2 Esports 16-7 on Cache.

The first elimination match of the day in New York pitted G2 Esports, coming off a disappointing 7-16 beating at the hands of Team Liquid, against OpTic Gaming, who had been thrashed by fnatic in the previous round of matches.

The French team started out the brighter of the two sides as they won the opening pistol round thanks to a trio of kills from Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro during an A retake. After losing an eco round, OpTic went on a full buy, a gamble that paid off as they won the round without losing a single man.

G2 looked to be in a great position to win the next round after Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon landed a double AWP kill through the door inside A, but Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas stepped up to the plate and won a 1v2 clutch to equalise the score and break the Frenchmen's economy.

OpTic pick up their first win in New York

OpTic continued amassing rounds, forcing G2 to call a tactical pause while down 2-7. A 1v3 clutch from William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba was further evidence of the state of disarray G2's players were in as the North Americans picked up 12 of the final 13 rounds of the half to take a commanding lead going into the second half.

The home side piled more misery on their opponents in the second half by winning the pistol round with an A retake before taking the next two rounds to reach match point. With G2 having no margin for error, their offense finally came to life, but it was too little, too late, as OpTic hammered the final nail into the Frenchmen's coffin to move on to the next round.

ESL One New York 2016Best of 1

OpTic

Matchpage

1st October 2016

Cache

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	20 - 12	+8	108.0	73.9%	1.54
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	20 - 15	+5	88.3	82.6%	1.40
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	19 - 15	+4	73.7	73.9%	1.34
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	16 - 16	0	90.0	78.3%	1.26
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	16 - 13	+3	68.3	78.3%	1.11

G2	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	19 - 18	+1	88.0	60.9%	1.13
Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom ScreaM	21 - 19	+2	97.3	65.2%	1.12
Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro bodyy	11 - 19	-8	69.9	56.5%	0.72
Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux SmithZz	11 - 17	-6	56.0	47.8%	0.70
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	9 - 18	-9	54.8	52.2%	0.65

The standings of ESL One New York's group stage, two matches into the third round, are:

Team	Record
Natus Vincere	2-0
SK	2-0
Virtus.pro	2-1
Astralis	1-1
fnatic	1-1
Liquid	1-2
OpTic	1-2
G2	0-3

yay! grats OpTic really happy for tarik

2016-10-01 18:03

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like omg, this is triggering me. But I hope kennyas goes to g2 now

2016-10-01 18:00

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keep dreaming xd you can't have a french team with the best players,a bot must be in anyteam. but his role shouldn't be awping..

2016-10-01 18:02

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I count far more than 1 BOT in G2

2016-10-01 20:00

G2 bombed hard enough to disband

2016-10-01 18:07

KICK SMITHZZ

-Smithzz already...

A choke job by G2.

lul

wp optic!

2016-10-01 18:01

They need to give more invites to good NA teams for these events. First ECS, now this, every tournament always has all the EU teams last place.

funny .Optic is destroyed by FNatic- a team very bad - lose to HR - who get destroyed by no name epsilon

2016-10-01 18:06

nice chain logic

2016-10-01 18:08

Too easy for optic, though they played their A game.

rip

rekt

Pathetic show from G2. You can't be strong, having SmithZz and bodyy in your squad. RpK should step it up too. EnVyUs suddenly turned out being a better team than that piece of a joke called G2. It's sad.

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Dude, bodyy is great, a bad game and you shit on him? SmithZz is bad as usual though, unless they're playing Dust2

A bad event and suddenly nV are better? I hope you're joking...

2016-10-01 18:21

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both are bad right now i would say

2016-10-01 19:38

Mmm I'd say g2 having a bad event is down to the way they play, if players are having off days they don't really have much to fall back on in terms of strats etc... They've been decent the past few months but they rely too heavily on just out aiming people

2016-10-01 19:41

G2 has an entire bad history apart from 1-2 months.

2016-10-01 20:01

OpTic send kennyS to G2

Rip G2 #GreenWall

RIP G2

Roster changes inc

feelsbadman for g2 .. feelsbadman for shox. deserves to win a major

Gotta love when the whole team plays well, gj OpTic

Early matches are bad for g2

From 13-5 vs Astralis on Dust 2 to getting raped by Optic on Cache!!!! That is so funny G2 they shouldn't attend to any esl events anymore! They had a go ESL PRO League tournament but the onyl ESL tournament that they played good.

Rip g2

They know me as BOT SmithZz. They know me from the AWP misses I make. They know me from the bad score I have. They talk about my score and they think for me leaving G2 is so easy. But I will never get replaced and that's it. But my chokes, they come from more than just sucking shox's cock. For me - being a BOT - it is about precision... This part people don't see. This part, it does not show up in hltv. When I go to bait my teammates for exitfrags on the server, everything already is a part of me...