FaZe claim win over OpTic

The battle on Overpass kicked off with a bang as a crazy pistol round came down to a duel for the ace between Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas and Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup, the Dane ultimately defending the bomb plant with a salvaged USP and spurring FaZe onto to a comfortable 5-0 lead on T-side, clinically cleaning out the sites, bar a much too close 1v1 against a full eco in the 4th round.

The European mixture have had a bad record head-to-head with OpTic in recent events and they were determined to change that by draining the North American's hope as early as possible, Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen again saving a hairy anti-eco in the 8th round.

Luckily for the Green Wall, Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic then decided to wake up in a big way by first defending the A-site by himself with a quad AWP kill and got two crucial opening picks in the next. FaZe swiftly replied with another round to put the pressure back on OpTic, but William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba was then the one to answer the call of duty, stopping a B-push with a FAMAS 3K and lowered the deficit to a 3-9 scoreline.

Just when they needed the feel-good moment the most before half-time, it was then Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik that pulled of a most unlikely 1v4 defuse and took three kills with a Tec9, now 6-9 for OpTic.

That spurred on a flawless glock train round for the North American side to equalize the score, and most fortunately for OpTic they could put FaZe on eco again after a close 4v2 that they almost threw away, but mixwell this time was the hero of the day.

Little did that matter in the economic scheme though as Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard and company had the rounds go down to last man standing scenarios, karrigan then having the perfect read on their 5-7 buy to backstab the B-push with a triple for himself in the 23th round to make it 11-11.

The most absurd exchanges continued, but Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey and co. seemed to have just the slight edge in the reads of their opponent and the fastest rising rivalry ended with FaZe closing out the map 16-11.

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FaZe	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	29 - 17	+12	98.9	70.4%	1.48
Philip 'aizy' Aistrupaizy	19 - 18	+1	77.8	77.8%	1.18
Håvard 'rain' Nygaardrain	21 - 22	-1	71.6	70.4%	1.03
Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu	15 - 20	-5	68.2	70.4%	1.01
Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieykioShiMa	13 - 20	-7	68.3	74.1%	0.83

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tarik 'tarik' Celiktarik	24 - 20	+4	85.1	77.8%	1.26
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	19 - 20	-1	80.2	70.4%	1.10
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell	18 - 18	0	71.7	66.7%	1.08
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw	19 - 19	0	78.6	63.0%	1.00
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	17 - 20	-3	68.0	70.4%	0.92

This leaves us with the following standings:

2W-0L	1W-1L	0W-2L
HellRaisers	CLG	Renegades
Immortals	MOUZ	Spirit
GODSENT	Ninjas in Pyjamas	Envy
FaZe	G2	Cloud9
	Vega Squadron
	Dignitas
	TYLOO
	OpTic

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