FaZe takes revenge on OpTic by beating them 16-11 on Overpass, as Day 2 of the ELEAGUE Major Qualifier has come to an end.

The battle on Overpass kicked off with a bang as a crazy pistol round came down to a duel for the ace between Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas and Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup, the Dane ultimately defending the bomb plant with a salvaged USP and spurring FaZe onto to a comfortable 5-0 lead on T-side, clinically cleaning out the sites, bar a much too close 1v1 against a full eco in the 4th round.

The European mixture have had a bad record head-to-head with OpTic in recent events and they were determined to change that by draining the North American's hope as early as possible, Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen again saving a hairy anti-eco in the 8th round.

Luckily for the Green Wall, Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic then decided to wake up in a big way by first defending the A-site by himself with a quad AWP kill and got two crucial opening picks in the next. FaZe swiftly replied with another round to put the pressure back on OpTic, but William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba was then the one to answer the call of duty, stopping a B-push with a FAMAS 3K and lowered the deficit to a 3-9 scoreline.

Just when they needed the feel-good moment the most before half-time, it was then Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik that pulled of a most unlikely 1v4 defuse and took three kills with a Tec9, now 6-9 for OpTic.



karrigan made the difference in more than one way for FaZe



That spurred on a flawless glock train round for the North American side to equalize the score, and most fortunately for OpTic they could put FaZe on eco again after a close 4v2 that they almost threw away, but mixwell this time was the hero of the day.

Little did that matter in the economic scheme though as Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard and company had the rounds go down to last man standing scenarios, karrigan then having the perfect read on their 5-7 buy to backstab the B-push with a triple for himself in the 23th round to make it 11-11.

The most absurd exchanges continued, but Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey and co. seemed to have just the slight edge in the reads of their opponent and the fastest rising rivalry ended with FaZe closing out the map 16-11.

This leaves us with the following standings:

Stay tuned to HLTV.org for the draw of the Day 3 matchups, coming up shortly.