Liquid pick apart OpTic, advance to playoffs

5-7-2017 21:12

With a dominant 16-5 victory over OpTic on Cobblestone, Liquid secured a spot in ESL One Cologne quarter-finals following a 3-0 record in the group stage.

The first two rounds saw 1v2 clutches going each team's way, as William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba picked one up on the A bombsite in the pistol round and Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz replied in the following forcebuy.

Liquid went up 5-1 with Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski clutching a 1v1 on the way before OpTic strung three rounds together with RUSH adding another pivotal play to his name, a triple including a 1v1.

Liquid go 3-0 to secure a spot in the quarter-finals

However, from there on the half was firmly in the hands of Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano and company, who only conceded one more round before claiming 10 in total on their defense.

Liquid grabbed the following pistol to start off the second half and survived the next anti-ecos for a 13-5 lead. stanislaw then opened up the A site thanks to sneaky play, resulting in OpTic saving three weapons. Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas's side were unable to put those weapons to use, though, and Liquid soon picked up a dominant victory at 16-5.

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5th July 2017

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Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz stanislaw	23 - 12	+11	118.7	90.5%	1.84
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Twistzz	20 - 10	+10	99.6	85.7%	1.60
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	20 - 12	+8	101.0	81.0%	1.33
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	15 - 9	+6	68.0	85.7%	1.29
Josh 'jdm64' Marzano jdm64	10 - 11	-1	62.7	81.0%	1.05

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	13 - 16	-3	73.5	71.4%	0.90
James 'hazed' Cobb hazed	11 - 19	-8	58.0	66.7%	0.86
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	10 - 15	-5	51.7	61.9%	0.79
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	11 - 19	-8	58.9	52.4%	0.69
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	9 - 19	-10	53.3	57.1%	0.60