OpTic lose to Vega; on verge of elimination

30-6-2017 11:18

Vega Squadron go 1-1 in the tournament after beating OpTic, 16-10, on Train.

The first round of the map went the way of Vega Squadron, as the Russian-Ukrainian team retook an inner plant and defused the bomb. Vega Squadron then went on to win the first gun round with Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov getting three UMP-45 kills against AKs. Finally, the North American-Spanish side got on the board in the fifth round, and followed it up on the sixth, with executes on both the inside and outside sites. Eventually OpTic turned the first half around, taking it 6-9.

mir was vital to Vega’s success against OpTic

After switching sides, Vega Squadron won the second pistol round, with several players spread out throughout the map catching OpTic on the rotations. After winning the anti-ecos, Vega Squadron took the lead,11-10, by winning the first gun round. The Russian-Ukrainian team, with the momentum on their side and with Nikolay "⁠mir⁠" Bityukov leading the way, closed the match out, 16-10.

PGL Major Krakow 2017 Main QualifierBest of 1

Vega Squadron

Matchpage

30th June 2017

OpTic

Train

Vega Squadron	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov mir	28 - 17	+11	115.8	80.8%	1.58
Dmytro 'jR' Chervak jR	21 - 12	+9	81.6	80.8%	1.41
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov chopper	24 - 16	+8	87.0	76.9%	1.40
Pavel 'hutji' Lashkov hutji	22 - 18	+4	86.5	84.6%	1.28
Sergey 'keshandr' Nikishin keshandr	10 - 19	-9	66.3	61.5%	0.76

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	16 - 20	-4	76.2	80.8%	0.99
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	17 - 19	-2	64.5	61.5%	0.92
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	15 - 20	-5	76.7	69.2%	0.91
James 'hazed' Cobb hazed	18 - 24	-6	79.6	61.5%	0.90
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	16 - 22	-6	72.0	57.7%	0.87

Below you can see how the Swiss stage is looking:

2-0
PENTA
1-0
MOUZ	Cloud9
HellRaisers	FlipSid3
G2	GODSENT
1-1
Vega Squadron	Liquid
0-1
Dignitas	Immortals
Renegades	TYLOO
BIG	Tengri
0-2
OpTic

It's the end of an era - You lost Optic, good job, you killed the dreams of a man who wanted nothing more than to find a family of his own. Do you feel satisfied now? will you sleep better at night knowing you have achieved supreme victory with losing? Whatever I had coming, I got on my own ten fold... But selfish players have nothing better to do with their lives then drive a knife deeper into my back, over and over again... I will sleep at night peacefully now, knowing you can never find me or hurt me again.

2017-06-30 11:18

17 replies

NA CS LUL

10 replies

Lmao Vega squadron is like tier50 team and one of NA's best teams loses to it lol

2017-06-30 11:24

9 replies

nt Lurrpis

2017-06-30 11:30

1 reply

HAAHAHAHAHAH NA CS

2017-06-30 11:35

Michell has to get out of there

2017-06-30 13:07

5 replies

Mixwell* fucking mobile lmao

3 replies

-jdm+mixwell soon inc

2017-06-30 13:10

2 replies

pls no he's just as bad if not worse

2017-07-01 05:32

nope you kidding :D

2017-07-01 09:43

nt michell

2017-06-30 14:39

NiP KILLER reawakened

2017-07-01 06:33

Wut

2017-06-30 11:19

Rip NA

2017-06-30 11:21

nice copy pasta

WT FWHY SO FAST and So Loongg

ctrl + v

2017-07-01 05:33

Oh some lucky

2017-07-01 17:42

Vega > OpTic > NiP

Everyone>nip

2017-06-30 22:22

nice title lul

nice

time for optic to disband and hazed to get fired?

So ez for my russian friends

#OnlyVega

VEGAAAA

congratz boyyz!

Optic are becoming one of the best team to one of the worst, hope they fix the issues in team and play hard in next matches and qualify for major. GG VEGA

2017-06-30 11:20

19 replies

Its funny how stanislaw left optic to join liquid when they were good enough to compete with best teams, and now both teams suck.

18 replies

2017-06-30 11:29

True that

lol, you are right

2017-06-30 11:49

IKR, after shiftislaw left optic haven't found a replaced that's good (*cough* hazed) but arya might be a good replacement as igl after splice said fuck you to him

2017-06-30 11:56

liquid are on the way up, it took stan 6-8 months to get optic in championship winning state. He's had 5 with liquid and had a top 4 placing at one of the biggest events they've gone to and just last even beating fnatic in convincing fashon and taking astralis' best map off of them "but liquid lost 16-3 to penta LOL" Best of ones! Liquid played like shit and that wasn't their average performance I've still got faith

2017-06-30 12:08

12 replies

butthurt fanboy they suck, thats it

7 replies

not butthurt at all liquid will be top 10 in the world in a couple of months, at least the team i support attends events...

2017-06-30 16:00

Of course i am going to support my local team, i know where i am from.

2017-06-30 16:13

so i should support a shit uk team that i'll never get to see at a big lan? Because they're "my local team" Don't kid yourself ...

2017-07-01 00:48

Liquid are #9 right now. By the end of the year, I can see them around the top 5 area or battling for it

2017-07-01 01:24

Do you really believe by the end of the year Liquid could contend with the current top 4? Because I don't.

2017-07-01 05:15

Yeah I do. I trust stanislaw and he's already pushing Liquid higher and higher. There's plenty of time left for them to work issues out and even if they arent, as long as stan is there, I know Liquid will eventually make it.

2017-07-01 17:51

Rekt bitch

2017-06-30 16:36

At least both of our teams are shit for EU teams... for the other NA teams they're gods

2017-06-30 12:46

haHAA. TL w/o s1mple is nothing

2017-06-30 22:23

Like FaZe without NiKo or KARRYGUN, if you take the superstar out of a team, they're bound to be worse. S1mple was one of the top players in the world so loosing that level of skill would make any team worse....

2017-07-01 00:52

Faze w/o niko and karrigan>TL w/o s1mple anyway, brah only good player in this NA trash is elige

2017-07-01 15:06

RENEGADES GO 1-2; ELIMINATE OPTIC they s.u.c.k.

2017-07-01 11:39

WOOHOOO VEGA SQUADROOOON OOOOOO

GOOD JOB BOYS!

Hahahahahahaa

ez na ez Las Vegas

2017-06-30 11:23

Vega stickers hype

Not happening. Now some team who gets to play vega gets easily 2-1 record. Vega just isnt good enough.

2017-06-30 11:45

Sure? According to bookmakers f3, c9 and godsent should lose in upcoming games. If it is true and this teams will lose, we have f3 , godsent , liquid and c9 in 1-1 territory. Iam not sure about c9, but i think Vega is good enough to beat all rest.

2017-06-30 12:05

If Vega's individual skill shows up full out they are capable of beating any of the above mentioned teams. Especially if stewie or auto have an off game. People make jokes about Vega but they are not as bad as people think.

2017-06-30 15:14

optic without stan = shit Liquid with stan = shit gg Na

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Said it right after he left. Probably power of money. Something similar will happen in CLG in near future i suppose. Sad thing is, that these moves almost never benefit the richer teams. So basically you have decently skilled players spread all over the place capable of doing nothing (vs EU teams). And i dont see the reason to give NA so many slots in qualifiers when they are currently DESTROYED by tier2 EU or even CIS teams on regular basis. NA teams - and i mean pretty much all of them - need to get their shit together after the major.

2017-06-30 12:02

The reason they get so many slots is because it's a big market. You can't invite teams from only one market and expect the whole world to watch. There has to be a horse in the race for everyone so that the host of the tournament can make as much money as possible.

2017-06-30 15:16

I completely understand. Now will there be a horse if all these teams are dogshit and they wont qualify (not saying it happen, but its not far from it now)? And there will be teams in EU which will miss major qualifier/major due to that. I think this is problem where truth lies somewhere in the middle sadly, not expecting any change tho. Its just funny how NA teams will always come up with so many reasons why they cant succeed while brazilians are destroying the scene. My guess? They are overpaid, they dont need to win events (apply to lot of teams nowadays). What is 100k for 5 players, when they got 10k monthly? Nice bonus, def not something you really (really!) wanna grab.

2017-06-30 15:22

OpTic = shit Liquid = not shit One BO1 loss to Penta doesn't make them suddenly bad. And they have been getting straight molested on Mirage for a while now

2017-07-01 01:26

The fact you can admit they've been getting molested on Mirage for a while proves they're shit tho

2017-07-01 05:20

No. That means they're shit on Mirage.

2017-07-01 17:50

It's not how headlines work in journalism, right?

Journalism has been dead for awhile, my friend.

2017-07-01 05:37

That's a very complicated topic to really discuss. Depends on the country, beat (political, economic, entertainment, sports journalism), etc etc. And it's not like you don't have to obey simple rules now that journalism's "dead".

2017-07-01 08:59