SK sweep past OpTic; to IEM final

6-5-2017 08:38

SK Gaming are through to the IEM Sydney final after easing past OpTic on two maps (16-1 on Train and 16-7 on Overpass).

The series kicked off on Train, which was OpTic's map pick, but the outcome would have suggested otherwise. SK jumped out to a 6-0 lead and immediately put the North Americans in danger of getting blown out.

OpTic then finally got a round on the board, but they were unable to follow it up, getting instantly reset. With nothing going their way, OpTic's players were in a state of complete disarray, allowing some strong individual plays from João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos and Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga, with the half ending in a 14-1 scoreline.

Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David piled more misery on OpTic by clutching a 1v3 situation in the pistol round, putting SK on map point. The Brazilians went on to close out the map as they entered the inner bombsite without any resistance.

SK advance to the final in convincing fashion

Map two, Overpass, followed the same pattern as the first, with SK strolling to a massive 10-1 lead on the Terrorist side. With a well-placed incendiary, Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas prevented the bomb plant and gave OpTiC their second round of the map, with his team going on to pick up two more rounds before the end of the half.

Down 4-11, OpTic won the pistol round as Terrorist with a team ace and followed that up with the corresponding anti-ecos. However, once we reached the gun rounds the course of the game changed immediately as SK won five in a row en-route to a 16-7 finish.

IEM Sydney 2017Best of 3

Matchpage

6th May 2017

OpTic

Train

Overpass

SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	42 - 16	+26	102.1	92.5%	1.73
João 'felps' Vasconcellos felps	35 - 23	+12	106.0	87.5%	1.55
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga fer	37 - 18	+19	97.0	85.0%	1.52
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo FalleN	29 - 16	+13	69.4	82.5%	1.31
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo TACO	22 - 16	+6	61.0	75.0%	1.07

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	26 - 31	-5	75.3	50.0%	0.94
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	23 - 31	-8	72.7	50.0%	0.83
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	15 - 34	-19	60.8	50.0%	0.61
James 'hazed' Cobb hazed	13 - 33	-20	38.0	47.5%	0.41
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	12 - 36	-24	46.3	40.0%	0.40

ez 4 SK

2017-05-06 08:39

10 replies

You danes are scared of SK? You ran from us by skipping ESL Cologne but you CANT RUN NOW!!! We are waiting for u on finals

2017-05-06 08:40

9 replies

ez karrigan

2017-05-06 08:42

7 replies

+1 . ez for faze ez for astralis ez for swedes . no chance . EU>WORLD

2017-05-06 08:44

4 replies

2017-05-06 08:59

A smart yellow teeth +1

2017-05-06 09:11

2 replies

thx my muslim brother . but my teeth are not yellow they are golden .

2017-05-06 09:12

1 reply

Ok as long as you can eat my Döner idgaf what your teeth are :D

2017-05-06 09:13

Niko Disagree, ez katka

2017-05-06 08:46

nt but kio too strong

2017-05-06 09:00

Kerrigan will reck the Brazilians bo13 7-1

2017-05-06 08:38

We saw a show from SK, beating Optic like they're nothing, like silvers. Guys, this is real, SK is coming back to their original form and if they continue like that you can expect the next major again for us. Astralis will chocke in the finals. GGWP

2017-05-06 08:41

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Astralis won't be in the finals but NT mate.

2017-05-06 09:21

if thats how sk play against silvers then i can only imagine how badly theyd get destroyed by shitty lems

2017-05-06 09:22

FaZe won against them like it would be nothing as well :o

2017-05-06 13:48

ez gg

Nice match

Dude... u broke the combo :/

ur welcome :)

what a faggot man

ez sk

ez SK

MONSTER GODZERAAAA!! SK is Back <3

fallen saying it looked easy because they played the best counterstrike ever... They win summit and against optic with a standin, so pathetic.

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FRENCH CS? i aren't think that

winning against optic with a stand-in doesn't make SK the best team in the world. Maybe the luckiest? #cryisfree

2017-05-06 08:43

I agree, This final will prove if this is true. And ignore this favela.

2017-05-06 08:49

Nice french teans :b

at least cheaters in french teams get caught and banned...

2017-05-06 08:45

Bro, at least quote the guy right. He said "We played the best cs with the new roaster" And they did imo, they won Astralis 16-12 in BO1 which could've been even more of a beatdown if some clutches and mistakes weren't made by SK. Now they stomped Optic, nothing more to say about that. Since when is winning pathetic?

2017-05-06 08:58

Since the team you don't like wins :P

2017-05-06 10:01

Hiii I'm french too and I want to tell everyone that WE AREN'T ALL LIKE THIS GUY

2017-05-06 11:48

Brazil zil zil zil <3 I'm so proud with my TEAM, my boys, my country <3 Thank you HLTV, nice words <3 SeemsGood SeemsGood We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

welp that was easy

Wut so many brazilians LOL (I'm brazilian too)

I cant see astralis and faze winning against sk atm

How not? They're the top1 and top2 for a reason. Sk is playing good, but I still favorite faze and astralis over them.

2017-05-06 09:15

With cold and wallen playing like this sk is unbeatable

2017-05-06 09:18

It's not that optic were giving them any difficulty though... No way it'll be that ez vs either faze or ast...

2017-05-06 09:24

Fer is the most smartest player in csgo right now.

most smartest but I think coldzera is smarter

Coldzera has better overall aim but fer has the ability to penetrate any team's defense like hot knife through butter. This ability is pretty rare in csgo.

no, he's not the only reason coldzera doing all this work, cuz fer doing his job right replace fer w/ any1 else and this team will stuck in groupstage forever

2017-05-06 16:14

the smartest player*

2017-05-06 08:53

Fallen is back!

EZ SK <3

gg ez, sk the best team in NA CS, top 3 in the world.

Too Easy !

let's go sk <3 <3

4Head JASONR 4Head WAS 4Head THE 4Head PROBLEM 4Head

Optic players looked lost

they all looked so depressed

2017-05-06 08:50

They must be, having to play all these tournaments with different standins, naf fly tweeted out that they didn't expect much so I guess they just yolo'd that game

2017-05-06 08:55

2017-05-06 09:28

Godzera mode engaged

2017-05-06 09:01

Well done by SK. Love seeing FalleN awping when he hits those insanely fast shots. On the T side of Overpass he was sitting back with the awp calling the strats and whatnot while his teammates were mulling Optic down. I found it funny that he didn't need to step up till the 2nd half when they lost the pistol round and Optic chained some rounds.

2017-05-06 09:02