Of their first match since dropping celebrity Dashy and subsequently changing him with Huke, OpTic was clutch at each second in a heart-pounding 3-2 victory over the Boston Breach.
OpTic struggled on the season’s first main event, the Raleigh Main, again in December and their roster uncertainty had been the speak of the CDL for the previous month. There have been quite a few gamers linked to the opening within the roster, however in the end Texas selected Huke, who was a world champion with the Dallas Empire in the course of the inaugural 2020 CDL season.
Early returns for the new-look roster should have followers excited, with every member of the OpTic roster making huge performs of their first match of stage two.
Within the collection’ first map, Lodge Hardpoint, the honeymoon part obtained off to nearly as good a begin as doable. OpTic had been firing on all cylinders with their new-look roster en path to a 250-180 victory. Every member of the Texas facet was optimistic within the slaying class, with newcomer Huke posting a 1.30 Ok/D whereas iLLeY performed one in every of his greatest maps in latest reminiscence with a 23-11 statline to assist lead his group to a 1-0 lead.
Whereas OpTic seemed dominant in that first map, Boston got here out swinging in Embassy Search and Destroy, seeking to even the match. Every particular person spherical was aggressive, but it surely was Breach that got here away with spherical after spherical, finally climbing to a 5-0 lead. Texas did handle to steal a few rounds to carry it to 5-2, however Boston proved to be an excessive amount of within the eighth as they closed the map to knot the match at a map apiece.
The third collection of the match, Lodge Management, sadly, handled technical difficulties. OpTic discovered themselves with a 2-1 lead after some huge performs from Scump earlier than there was an interruption that stopped the map. After a couple of minutes, the motion was again on with OpTic on the attacking facet. It was a masterclass from the Inexperienced Wall, with Texas stacking the purpose and gathering the map win to take a 2-1 benefit within the collection.
Within the fourth map of the collection, Embassy Hardpoint, Boston seemed like they had been effectively on their strategy to a snug victory to ship the collection to a map 5, main by greater than 100 factors at a number of factors. However OpTic continued to battle, scrap, and crawl their means again to take the lead late within the map. However Boston by no means flinched as they had been capable of take down all 4 OpTic gamers and get the remaining time wanted to take the map 250-244.
Boston shall be again in motion in opposition to the Las Vegas Legion on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 2pm CT whereas OpTic will face the Seattle Surge on Friday, Jan. 20 at 3.30pm CT.
