Renegades sweep OpTic; on to grand final
The first semi-final of the iBUYPOWER Masters began on Renegades pick of Cache. After a fast A push from the Australian side, OpTic shut down Renegades and took the pistol. Óscar "mixwell" Cañellas and Aleksi "allu" Jalli power OpTic to the standard 3-0 lead, and allu continues his destruction with the M4A4 and secures the first gun round for his team.
After a big round by Emil "Magisk" Reif, Renegades win their first round after a close 1v1 win by Keith "NAF" Markovic. This leads into a series of round wins led by Noah "Nifty" Francis and Justin "jks" Savage to take the lead at 6-5.
After an attempted clutch by jks, OpTic cut off Renegades' momentum, but were immediately reset by the Nifty-led squad. Despite the efforts of allu, Karlo "USTILO" Pivac and company closed out the first half 9-6.
USTILO began the second half with a bang, as he collected four frags to put his team in position to take map one. After a small hiccup, NAF and jks helped their team onto 14 rounds. The Renegades then easily closed out the map 16-7 with huge plays from NAF and Nifty.
Overpass started fairly chaotic, with Renegades prevailing in the first three rounds thanks to NAF on the A bombsite. They racked up a large lead with NAF leading the way, getting up to 7-0.
Magisk finally got OpTic on the board with a big triple kill in round eight and the European team converted the round, putting a stake in Renegades' economy. Nifty put a halt to OpTic's comeback, and set his team up for a big first half. The first half then ended at 10-5 for the Australian team.
OpTic kicked off their comeback campaign with a pistol round win, which led to two quick rounds. However, Nifty put a wrench in the works with multiple huge rounds and powered his men to secure more gun rounds, putting Renegades onto 15 rounds. Nifty and Aaron "AZR" Ward put the final nail in the coffin and took down OpTic 16-7 on Overpass.
RenegadesOpTic| Renegades |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Noah 'Nifty' Francis |
55 - 25 | +30 | 109.3 | 87.0% | 1.78 |
 Keith 'NAF' Markovic |
38 - 22 | +16 | 93.3 | 84.8% | 1.46 |
 Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac |
37 - 28 | +9 | 80.2 | 80.4% | 1.32 |
| Justin 'jks' Savage |
29 - 25 | +4 | 73.0 | 76.1% | 1.11 |
| Aaron 'AZR' Ward |
26 - 32 | -6 | 66.4 | 67.4% | 0.89 |
| OpTic |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aleksi 'allu' Jalli |
36 - 36 | +0 | 82.6 | 67.4% | 1.07 |
 Emil 'Magisk' Reif |
29 - 36 | -7 | 71.9 | 63.0% | 0.89 |
 Adam 'friberg' Friberg |
26 - 38 | -12 | 77.6 | 60.9% | 0.81 |
 Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas |
20 - 38 | -18 | 49.3 | 60.9% | 0.67 |
 Kevin 'HS' Tarn |
21 - 37 | -16 | 52.0 | 63.0% | 0.66 |
With this result, OpTic will head home while Renegades will move on to face the winner of Cloud9 vs Liquid in the final later today.
