OpTic crush Liquid 16-2

26-10-2016 17:17

OpTic pick up their first win by defeating Liquid 16-2 in the opening game of the ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals.

The ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals started with a match on Train between the two North American teams in Group A - OpTic and Liquid.

Following a clean pistol, OpTic took the first gun round to ensure a strong start on the Counter-Terrorist side. Liquid managed to grab a round by pushing B to make it 1-4, but were instantly reset in the subsequent one.

Despite the announcements from the team, we still saw Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas using the AWP a lot, and with a lot of success - locking up the B site together with Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz who had some massive multi-kill rounds.

Liquid were getting shut down all over the map and found themselves 12-2 down going into the last round of the half. Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella made an entry on B and helped his team to get into a 4v2 after-plant situation, but Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin and co. still lost the round due to a fast smoke-defuse by Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik.

Despite the announcements, mixwell was using the AWP a lot

After an A rush yielded them the pistol round win, OpTic weren't troubled and closed out the match with a quick 16-2 to secure their win, and a potentially important +14 round difference.

ESL Pro League Season 4 FinalsBest of 1

OpTic

Matchpage

26th October 2016

Liquid

Train

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	22 - 5	+17	123.9	94.4%	2.10
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	20 - 10	+10	120.6	94.4%	1.98
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	15 - 8	+7	100.4	88.9%	1.49
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	16 - 6	+10	55.8	94.4%	1.44
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	11 - 8	+3	74.5	94.4%	1.21

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Hiko	9 - 15	-6	72.2	55.6%	0.74
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	12 - 17	-5	60.1	44.4%	0.63
Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche Pimp	7 - 16	-9	41.0	50.0%	0.50
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	4 - 18	-14	30.9	50.0%	0.39
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	5 - 18	-13	39.3	44.4%	0.31

Following the opening match of ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals, Immortals and Envy will continue the action in group A.

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Overall bad performance from Liquid... I am disappoint Optic played good though

2016-10-26 17:18

9 replies

gg So much for Mixwell not AWPing lawl.

6 replies

still AWPed LUL

2016-10-26 17:27

5 replies

As he should! Mixwell should be doing whatever the hell he wants he's their key player

2016-10-26 19:40

4 replies

i think he doesnt really want to awp (i might be wrong)

2016-10-26 19:49

3 replies

I wonder wether they have a better option, im not too familiar with the best qualities of the other players on optic

2016-10-26 22:03

2 replies

they dont. they just switch things up. naf is technically a secondary awper but i think he plays the main awper in cache. (i might be wrong again)

2016-10-26 22:42

1 reply

Allright cheers :)

2016-10-27 23:19

Liquid 5 individually good players, no in-game leading tho = predicting bad performance until they have igl

2016-10-26 19:08

4-18 Kappa

2016-10-27 14:45

2016-10-26 17:17

AHA

ripquid

No match at all, Liquid played shit while Optic played very well.

awww <3, we both wrote the same thing

sry i edited :D

2016-10-26 17:19

Yes just like when liquid played vs G2.

2016-10-26 18:41

this wasnt even a match this was just a silver smurfing rape

2016-10-26 22:28

Expected

nice

OpTic CRUSH Liquid

nitr0-14

Yikes

2016-10-27 01:39

meow

ayy nitr0

expected naf highest killstealer 55 adr 16 kills 18 rounds

lol didn't even see that, that's a crazy low adr for 16-6

noice

NICE

rip tl

no s1mple no party

LUL RiP Liquid

rofl

NA scene is a joke

Glad mixwell still awps, ggs

Boring match WTF

Peacemaker was problem

"Hiko learning russian to join NaVi team"

why recruit a bot? :>

2016-10-26 17:21

LANwell?

Liquid without simple and peacemaker 4heads. Godwell awp best

nitr0-14 lol

2016-10-26 17:23

EZ for Optic

2016-10-26 17:24

s1mple beast carried liquid 100%

2016-10-26 17:25

-RUSH +XANTARES = EZ

GODTARES will not leave SS . He Says it always ^-^

2016-10-26 17:36

What announcement from Optic Gaming to be exactly?

2016-10-26 17:26

not exactly from the org but mixwell said he wasnt gonna awp anymore

2016-10-26 17:32

He is a good awper. if not him, who will take that role? Tarik or naf fly?

2016-10-26 17:37

It was supposed to be naf taking the awp role, but mixwell is a beast!

2016-10-26 17:57

s1mple was the problem kappa

thank mr optic

peacemaker was the problem

2016-10-26 17:34

Liquid Top8? lol

2016-10-26 17:38

cant lose with 2 tariks

2016-10-26 17:43

Lol what a rip

2016-10-26 17:49

ez for EU carrying a NA team as usual xD

2016-10-26 17:54

Ripquid

2016-10-26 18:03

2 murician bottomfraggers on optic, expected

2016-10-26 18:31

Bottom fragging, doesn't mean shit if you still win bro, +tarik is their second best player.

2016-10-26 18:42

yet tarik has more ADR than NAF !

2016-10-26 22:39

what we've learned: whichever NA team has the better EU carry wins Liquid s1mple > OpTic OpTic mixwell > Liquid Pimp ez OpTic win

peacemaker was the problem.. Kappa

2016-10-26 19:39

\_ounging in Brazil makes you lazzy I guess...

2016-10-26 21:07

Where is the anouncement of Optic?

2016-10-26 21:13

Mixwell announced he wont be the primary AWPer but he still is the primary AWPer on train, it is his best map to AWP on. Him and NAF will switch the AWP role depending on the map and side.

2016-10-27 06:48