OpTic Gaming are through to the ELEAGUE Season 2 semi-finals after defeating mousesports on two maps (16-7 on Train and 16-11 on Cache).

Train kicked off the series, and the first half was lopsided as OpTic ran all over mousesports' defence, powered by Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas, who made himself as much of a nuisance as possible on the Terrorist side.

Down 3-12, mousesports won the pistol round as Terrorist with a fast B execute, with Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong getting three headshots in quick succession. It was a welcome sign of life for the European team, who would go on to win the next three rounds, but once OpTic got their economy in order they kept mousesports' offence in check, eventually taking the map at 16-7.



OpTic advance to the semi-finals

Next up was mousesports' map pick, Cache, which began at a frantic pace as mousesports lost an anti-eco after taking the pistol round. After giving up two more rounds, mousesports went on a run of their own and retook the lead, but then OpTic tightened their defence to close out the half with a 9-6 lead.

The second half followed the same pattern as the first, with mousesports winning the pistol round but then failing to follow it up. With a string of three rounds, the European team reduced the gap to just two rounds and kept their hopes alive, but OpTic held on and locked down the map, 16-11, with Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz hammering the final nail into mousesports' coffin with a 1v3 clutch.