This is the third official confrontation between the two teams in the past half year. For the first time, they met under two other names: Team Envy (Optic) and X10 Crit (Xerxia) at VCT 2021. In this match, X10 must overcome many difficulties to win. After that, both teams switched to playing under another name and at this second confrontation, Xerxia continued to have a hard match. However, they are still the winner.
However, at this 3rd confrontation, Optic regained what was lost. The boys from Thailand easily defeated Xerxia with a score of 2-0, thereby grasping the ticket to the play-off Stage 1 Masters.
Xerxia started slowly and Optic took advantage
Both teams have brought the eye -catching handling phase in the first map – Fracture. Including fast -attack situations to change the site slowly, Victor “Victor” Wong chose to use Neon, the “cabinet” agent he often uses from Challengers 1 in North America.
Although Neon is an agent with many advantages for Optic, in the 8th game, both teams are still in a balanced position in the number of defeated lives. Xerxia is extremely intelligent when pretending to use the swing cord to overflow the B site and place the bomb. Even when Optic captured the core agents in the confrontation, Thanamethk's ultimate “Crws” Mahatthananuyut has made them unable to remove bombs, bring victory to Xerxia, raising the ratio of the first map to 5-3.
Optic tried hard to fight and take the lead in the first half of the game, but the great shining situation of Pankawat “Sushoys” Subsiriroj with the Guardian gun made the equilibrium score 6-6. When Optic is an attacking team, they use Neon and Breach to push straight into the site with all their skills, capturing a lot of advantages through pushing while the opponent is blind. This makes Xerxia unpartum and they have many difficulties in defending the opponent.
There was once even Xerxia even threw away the game that they seemed to have successfully clutch. In game 16, itthirite “Foxz” Ngamsaard successfully ran out of Brimstone's ultimate, but then accidentally turned back, lost the game and brought the match into the extra period. Optic then excelled in winning 13-9 on the first map. This makes them only a single map from the play-off round.
Quickly win quickly in Haven
Optic has a smooth start on the second map. This makes Xerxia constantly falling into a 1v4 situation that they cannot succeed. Must wait until game 4, when Nuchaphon “Sscary” Matarat sneaked into Site B and defeated two lives with Sherriff, Xeria had the first game of victory.
Everything then even more convenient with Optic. When they tried to attack the Site A area, Jaccob “Yay” Whiteaker almost clattered with an operator purchased early. However, Killjoy's excellent ultimate made him freeze. This helps XErixa can remove bombs and pull close to the ratio distance. But soon, Optic improved his achievement by winning another 2 game, leading the opponent 9-3.
When Optic seemed to finish this map, Xeria suddenly won the first two games of the second half of the match. As soon as the 9-3 curse was about to happen, Jimmy “Marved” Nguyen had successfully clutch 1v2 to prevent it effectively. Optic Gaming ended the map with a score of 13-6, thereby finishing the match at 2-0 final, Xeria Esports out of the race at Stage 1 Masters. This also means that Optic will face the North American team The Guard in this fifth play-off round.
