EMEA is living rent free in Optic's head , even FNS tweeted after losing to guild " he doesn't care about these " but we all know he does and he should.
And next about maps
Optic can't beat TL on haven , ascent, breeze and icebox.
Liquid will insta ban pearl , optic has to pick bind . Liquid bans fracture ( optic's next hope ) .
There is no way optic can beat liquid, and if the GOAT Emil anti strat optic on bind . It's a swift 2-0 . Bye bye NA
PS - jampii chamber diffs yay , woof woof woof
Anything can happen. I'm still bit concerned about OpTic getting rolled on some maps pretty often. TL did on Pearl as well today, but OpTic constantly has to do reverse sweeps it feels like. Maybe they just have some sort of mental block on first maps and then add that to their mental block against EMEA teams in the past and that can be receipt for disaster on their side. Like no one expected Guild to win vs them, but what happened. Yeah it was classic OpTic first game, but still pretty convincing 2-0. On top of that OpTic has relied a lot on Yay and Crashies this tournament while players like Marved haven't had the best showing outside of couple maps.
Obviously on the other side Liquid's current map pool doesn't look that good. Having Fracture as perma ban and looking weak on Pearl. Map pool should favor OpTic even tho I think OpTic's map pool is bit overrated.
All in all OpTic should be the favorites and I expect them to win, but anything can happen.
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