Please just don't play Pearl and the rest we can figure it out somehow
but from this icebox against loud that you mentioned, optic played the map 5 times(five months), and lost 4 of them, and barely winning against xset (pre copenhagen xset btw), so to pull a map that u havent played well since june, in this match would be a gigachad move by optic, they need to be feeling real confident in their practice.
pANcada said they were hiding Haven as their map pick, they banned it in groups, then proceeded to completely maul Lev and DRX on it, when they were both heavy favorites to win not only the map but the series. Sure, you can say it was down to the mental game, but nonetheless, they beat two of the world's best teams on that map