Astralis defeat OpTic, go 1-1

After losing the first two rounds, OpTic decided to go in for an early buy on the Terrorist side of Train and won three critical rounds in the row that allowed them to get the early lead and the economic advantage.

The North American team kept the pressure up, getting to a 6-2 lead before Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz picked up a hat trick of kills and clutched the 1v1 against Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas. Astralis managed to get a couple of rounds, making the score 6-5, but lost a 5v2 advantage in the following one to OpTic's duo William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba and mixwell.

The Danes secured the last couple of rounds of the half to get a 8-7 lead only to lose the lead shortly after, when their A site pistol round rush got decimated by OpTic's defense.

Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz's team won four rounds in a row, but the streak was broken by an Astralis B site hit which was opened up by device's AWP. That round seemed to have boosted the confidence of Astralis, who closed out the map 16-12 from the Terrorist side.

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Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice	29 - 9	+20	92.4	92.9%	1.75
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh	25 - 20	+5	100.0	78.6%	1.44
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye	19 - 15	+4	70.1	78.6%	1.11
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossandergla1ve	17 - 17	0	81.3	71.4%	1.03
Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x	15 - 14	+1	60.2	75.0%	1.01

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	22 - 20	+2	83.3	64.3%	1.17
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell	14 - 18	-4	61.6	67.9%	0.94
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw	15 - 22	-7	55.0	60.7%	0.78
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	13 - 22	-9	55.4	53.6%	0.68
Tarik 'tarik' Celiktarik	11 - 23	-12	58.4	60.7%	0.65

Current standings:

2W-0L	1W-0L	1W-1L	0W-2L
Natus Vincere	G2	MOUZ	HellRaisers
SK	Virtus.pro	Envy	FlipSid3
	Gambit	FaZe	North
	GODSENT	Liquid	OpTic
		fnatic
		Astralis

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