Just hours after being swept themselves, OpTic Texas rebounded in a giant technique to dominate the Boston Breach and advance to Championship Sunday on the Call of Duty League Boston Major with a 3-0 victory.
The collection began with an absolute thriller within the collection’ first map, Hydro Hardpoint. In a backwards and forwards affair, Boston held a 245-211 lead late within the map. With Boston simply 5 seconds from taking the map and a 1-0 lead, OpTic wanted to play good to have avoiding a map loss. Thankfully for the Green Wall, they’ve Dashy on their facet.
The MVP candidate got here up large, profitable what appeared like each single gunfight down the stretch. With the Breach desperately attempting to get into the Hardpoint, Dashy picked up two of the most important kills of the match, taking down Methodz and Nero to maintain Boston off the purpose and permit for reinforcements to reach. The rotation to the following hill was received by OpTic, and Texas managed the unthinkable to take the 1-0 lead. While Dashy got here up with the well timed kills late within the map, Shotzzy placed on a present of his personal. The celebrity notched 40 kills within the Hardpoint, good for a 1.74 Ok/D in a sport mode his group has struggled with in latest matches.
Despite the gut-wrenching loss in map one, Boston got here out firing within the collection’ second map, Fortress Search and Destroy. The Breach took 4 of the map’s first 5 rounds and regarded poised to tie the collection at one map apiece. But from that second on, OpTic flipped the proverbial change and turned the map on its head.
After Texas lastly obtained a spherical to cease the bleeding and convey it to a 4-2 depend, iLLeY took over. While identified for pulling out the sniper in SnD, the 2020 world champion made his performs with the TAQ-56 in hand depend. He discovered all 4 gamers within the seventh spherical, notching an ace and reducing the Breach’s result in only one. In an enormous swing spherical that OpTic wanted to win, iLLeY discovered one other three kills and Texas introduced the map to a 4-4 stalemate.
“We just turned up. I turned up. We just rebounded,” iLLeY, who sported a 1.83 Ok/D within the Search and Destroy, stated after their victory. “Talked over our HP, what we wanted to do. Talked over our SnD. And just cleaned it up.”
In a one-vs-one scenario that includes Shotzzy and Nero, Shotzzy continued his heroics by defending the planted bomb and discovering the ultimate kill wanted to provide his group the lead in a map that appeared all however over simply minutes earlier. With yet one more first blood within the spherical for OpTic, the Boston gamers fell one after the other because the Green Wall discovered themselves only one extra map win from Championship Sunday.
OpTic rode the momentum within the first spherical of the collection’ third map, El Asilo Control. Starting on the offensive finish, Texas discovered themselves down 16-5 within the lives depend for the spherical. Despite the massive benefit for Boston, OpTic obtained a clear four-down and stacked the purpose for the win, giving themselves an enormous leg up within the map.
While Boston did handle to snag the following offensive spherical to tie the Control at 1-1, OpTic received the following two to clinch the map and punch their ticket to Sunday. They could have a rematch with the Los Angeles Thieves, whom they beat 3-2 on Thursday, on Sunday at 2pm CST for a spot within the Elimination Bracket Finals.
