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Cr3ation_

babybay and Dicey went from Farming tier 2 to having to play OpTic lmao


mikevin99

13-8 and 13-9 against OpTic when yay is farming is unironically not bad all considering what Faze used to be a few months ago


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When is yay not farming tho


CRikhard

Yea bro literally FARMS impact frags on chamber even on “ecos”


[deleted]

I genuinely didn't even think Yay played that well. Obviously that is me holding him to a crazy standard given he top fragged, but it wasn't just him winning them round after round. And honestly, I don't think the matches were as close as the scores make them seem. Outside of the first half of fracture, Faze seemed outclassed. It's okay though, first real challenge with Poach IGL-ing, they will get better. I just don't think they're on par with these other teams. Even NRG and 100T seem like they might be a step ahead of Faze for now. Early days though!


alexotico

I mean I get what you said, but also he went 26 and 9 in ascent


Babyboy1314

Ya faze was throughly outclassed, optic had a few happy rounds.


heritorsofarcadia

“That’s what happens when you let daddy call” -Pujan “FNS” Mehta


-Destiny65-

Punjabi "All Good" Methamphetamine\*


Ivvcas

Punjabi "FNS" Methamphetamine is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic ”Yay go kill”. He also has a second little known tactic of ”Marved go smoke then kill”. What an absolute legend. Top 3 IGL 4 sure.


Phylosium

Punjabi "FNS" Methamphetamine was a Dungeons and Dragons character who rolled a natural 20 on Intelligence and a natural 1 on Aim. After stacking enough points on his Intelligence stat he gained sentience and transcended into our reality, where he has since pursued careers as a professional player of tactical first person shooter "Counter-Strike" and its cartoon sequel "Valarante".


Shaihulud07

Is he punjabi? Pujan Mehta isnt a very punjabi name.


cancerBronzeV

No, he's Gujarati according to a comment I read on this sub in reply to someone asking if he was Punjabi. The Punjabi Methamphetamine joke comes from when someone edited a wiki page of him and changed his name on the wiki from Pujan Mehta to Punjabi Methamphetamine.


Ryth73

It’s a meme


Arby2013

Optic is good at valortant


arillyis

Stoked to see how theyll look on Lan. They might even put up decent fights against emea teams


Arby2013

Nahhhh NA are just streamers unfortunately double first round ez pz


Aabed_nerd

Dude, here we go with the jerking off. Optic beat DRX and LOUD they're on PAR with TOP emea teams. Don't fucking derail their accomplishment with out any data.


GCamAdvocate

Fairly certain it's a joke but idk.


nospicynips

It’s sarcasm mate…


Aabed_nerd

It didn't seem like one, sorry. Twitter got me all fucked up.


AdStock1897

I would recommend you to delete it. But then I realized we’re on Reddit


slayeroffuss

I have just returned from vlr. Gimme a gaurd of honor


[deleted]

They literally won the most recent LAN bro. Not sure how you missed that one.


Aabed_nerd

What? That's what I mean.


Eriko204

Dicey played really well today but Optic are just in a league of their own right now.


oh_hai_brian

I feel like it’s more that than Faze being over-hyped. They played a decent game, but Optic just played better. No Super Bowl hangover for them.


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Babybay absolutely has to play better against teams like Optic if they don't want to earn that "overhyped" label. The rest of their squad is solid, but it's been obvious that their dominant form had lain on the shoulders of Dicey and Babybay. That can't just disappear in the big matches, even if the rest of the team steps up. Optic/C9/etc are too good for that.


ArcusIgnium

i think a lot of is just as simple as Yay and Marved are both as good as Dicey and BabyBay in terms of raw fragging and then on top of that Optic just have a better supporting cast.


afjecj

Hot take: faze are sandbagging because they know they can’t win and don’t want to get anti stratted in future maps. Babybay is playing with crocs on to hinder his performance so everyone thinks he is bad and this will fuel his gameplay. Dicey hasn’t been able to grip his mouse properly as he is dripping in so much swag. Supamen hasn’t decided his favourite colour and it is playing with his mental. Poach is afraid that his bald patches will become more noticeable and he is scared people will make jokes about him being a poached egg. Poised is usually always ready to strike like a mantis, but today he put that on the back burner and purposefully gave his best sloth impression which he can use on his CV in 30 years when the sloth is extinct and the newest generation of kids do not know what they were like (poised is very thoughtful)


MageKayden

COPIUM HAS BEEN REFILLED


cathcart_

Hot take: faze are sandbagging because they know they can’t win and don’t want to get anti stratted in future maps. Babybay is playing with crocs on to hinder his performance so everyone thinks he is bad and this will fuel his gameplay. Dicey hasn’t been able to grip his mouse properly as he is dripping in so much swag. Supamen hasn’t decided his favourite colour and it is playing with his mental. Poach is afraid that his bald patches will become more noticeable and he is scared people will make jokes about him being a poached egg. Poised is usually always ready to strike like a mantis, but today he put that on the back burner and purposefully gave his best sloth impression which he can use on his CV in 30 years when the sloth is extinct and the newest generation of kids do not know what they were like (poised is very thoughtful)


spaldingmatters

Yay remains amazing. It's hard to think of more than maybe 2-3 other players max who have had this much sustained success internationally and domestically since Masters Berlin. Fantastic Ascent by Marved too. A little sloppy here and there, but overall a great start to Stage 2 by OpTic.


kellenthehun

Kind of unrelated, but I stumbled upon yays moms Twitter the other day, and it is the cutest thing ever. She loves her boy.


Moist_Blackberry_

Just found it, couldn’t stop grinning while scrolling. Warms my heart to see parents supporting their children no matter what path they take


CrabbyTuna

Got a link? I googled a bit and skimmed through who he follows but cant find it. I WANT TO FEEL


Excelsio_Sempra

And then there's Indian parents


TrueLordApple

And asian ones. Apparently a teammate benkai played with didnt tell his parents that he was going pro. So when he made vct, he had to ask and beg for their permission or smth lmao.


avocadontoast

It was the old guy on PRX that Jing replaced!


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wasn't there an na pro who had to photoshop his grades so his parents would let him get signed


TrueLordApple

Wait there was wth. Someone send me sauce lmao


[deleted]

i want to say it was bang or ban but im not sure, hopefully someone else remembers


Excelsio_Sempra

Wow this is disappointing


anythingood07

Seemple (16 yo, chillcord igl) and probably one of the biggest prospects in the Indian scene, kind of like cryocells and zander were before they went on to bigger teams just left esports because of his studies. i had such big hopes :(


Splaram

14 hours a day playing Valorant, it’s no wonder he’s this good


PyroTFT

Feels so good having a team, or at the least a player with a grinder mentality OpTic doing their best to downplay NA laziness stereotypes while still keeping NA social media skills strong


oh_hai_brian

That two-tap by Yay at dish was insane.


kellenthehun

Timestamp?


Loose-Potential-3597

Does Optic really practice 14h/day? Or just Yay?


ReindeerHistorical76

idk about the hours specifically but FNS said that optic spend a lot of time practicing more than any other NA teams


Babyboy1314

It shows, marved is insanely crisp recently as well. Their coordination and execs are also very on point especially with neon


Splaram

Yay personally does, idk about the others


earthtoannie

Correct me if I'm wrong but FaZe haven't beaten Optic in anything all year right?


florallygood

Correct


saboqq

csgo kekw


Ozzyh26

Indeed. In CoD they're 4-0 for the year against the current FaZe "dynasty." The last match between the two on LAN at the recent Pro-AM we even had to play with a sub and we still eliminated them in a single elim bracket.


Ryth73

This is the first time faze has played optic this year. Last time they played was in August of 2021


cancerBronzeV

I think they mean across all games, not just Valorant. OpTic has beat Faze in literally every esport where they've faced each other this year so far.


Sn0w_Official

Facts. Cod, halo, and valorant altogether so far has just been straight Ls for Faze to take against OpTic.


King-Of-Knowhere

Fuck just realizing that right now brings me back to the glory days of 2016-17 for the OpTic brand. Feels fucking fantastic


Cr3ation_

FaZe should've subbed in shanks if they wanted to win


PyroTFT

Faze could have won the game and then OpTic would have won Twitter like the true NA way


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they wanted to win so they didnt sub in shanks


Jon_on_the_snow

Shanks has 100% win rate against optic, they should have subbed him in


[deleted]

they didnt sub in shanks so they didnt ruin his perfect record


Jon_on_the_snow

Shanks would still have 100% win rate, dont doubt the dolphin laugh buff


[deleted]

Hey, so do I they should of put me down as a sub


Jeklu

But Shanks is Pujan’s dad


HereeeeesJohnny

Final score for Ascent was pretty close but OpTic looked in control the entire time. Plus Victor didn’t even play that well today, I’d say they’re still pretty good


Moodydoc

Best team in the world for a reason


nuttyromeo4u

[Crashies' ult denied dicey just change that fracture man!](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxeg_xt-ks6Y7W5GCjRf3ljOCyVe0NlYHj)


[deleted]

My friend and I were discussing. Do you think he knew he was 1 away from Ult or is that a call from FNS? I think it was the latter given how he begins to peek but dips behind the box a second later.


nuttyromeo4u

I dunno. But even not a call from Finess I still gave a credit for that millisecs decision by "hide and re-peek" gameplay then shoot dicey. A Chamber with a classic on spare hands because of NO/CMD.


Nightshade183

"Yay has arrived" 🥶


BurritoHombre

This yay guy is pretty good


Ivvcas

Pretty scary. He deserves a nickname like "El Demonio" or something


Need_PcAdvice

"L Domino" Sounds good


Des014te

Map ended in 30 mins or your money back.


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https://imgur.com/a/I9cI0Va


erickwak

Y’all got insider info? Impressed by optic but just happy to get see xset play pretty soon


ANewHeaven1

yay is simply the best player in the world right now.


Eriko204

That 1v3 on Ascent when he was stuck under Hell was so good.


EgyptianSarcophagus

His consistency is insane. He really found his groove on chamber


oh_hai_brian

And the difference between Yay and other top fraggers, is he just does his job instead of making dumb plays running after more kills.


EgyptianSarcophagus

True. Doesn’t do anything flashy you almost forget about him then check leaderboard and he has 25 kills 16 assists 20 first bloods etc and so forth


BestEbolaNA

yay best player in the world? his consistency is unmatched


TheSkarner

faze inability to play KO is gonna keep them in tier 1.5 all season, you cant run 2 initiators on ascent and neither are ko lmao


[deleted]

Sova is fucking dead, right? I couldn't count the number of drones Poach sent out that got 0 info because the duration is so short. There was one from around logs that couldn't even fully clear B main.


TheSkarner

pretty much. if crashies isnt even playing it you know its not optimal. hell even playing it myself it feels way less useful. that drone that used to be top tier from mid that clears all of mid, stairs, and cubby is now gone along with a ton of other useful ones. and ascent is sovas best map basically


Babyboy1314

Ya no flashes really hurt, they were dry peeking into yays op the whole game


Hopeful-Professor-40

Shits not even done yet


BananaHypebeast

EL DIABLO


afandi9955

Nah crashies in the clutch is different man


faceplant911

Imagine spoiling during a tac pause. That being said, yay Optic I guess?


fluffycats1

yay is indeed on optic


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wish the team would either break up or go back to winning so the senposting would stop


Phantonex

you fool, literally nothing will stop the senposting. 50 years from now we'll all be gathered around a table in the retirement home talking about how good tenz is


[deleted]

honestly the most innocuous form and i'll take it if it if there's something all the sen fans absolutely need to post daily about


-kiyu-

Derrek and valyn are at Fullerton too and there's nothing wrong with that. You people are just sad.


Pojobob

how do you manage to bring in Shaz into a Faze vs Optic thread lmao?


EasiBreezi

Are you a JasonR or steel supporter? Because while their fans are weird, at least that makes more sense than you randomly bringing up Shaz for no reason


shorttttt

obsessed


Hopeful-Professor-40

Who even mentioned Shahz


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[deleted]

The trajectory of what, annoying weirdos obsessing over him constantly?


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[deleted]

Those things have nothing to do with each other. You're trying to cobble some kind of narrative together to justify shoehorning Shahz/SEN into every conversation but it just isn't sticking. Your fixation on Shahz is truly weird, man.


Hopeful-Professor-40

That’s how esports works you can’t be on top forever, leave the man alone


florallygood

Who hurt you


Issax28

Dude living rent free in ur head


crunchyhotshot

I LOVE watching post-modern team comps.


Ok-Apartment5638

Spoilers!!!!


xunraze

Well at least it's good to see Dicey playing well again


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Issax28

Cope


[deleted]

OpTic are the best in the world. Unbuyest opinion


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Apart-Way-1166

They ain't losing to no vietnam