Despite being one of the teams touted as the dark horse, Complexity was dominated by OG on the opening day of BLAST.tv Austin Major Stage 1. A banging NICOODOZ performance saw the team, many predicted to go 3-0 in Stage 1, lose the first match to start their campaign.
VETO
- OG removed Train
- OG removed Anubis
- Complexity removed Mirage
- Complexity removed Dust2
- Complexity removed Nuke
- OG removed Inferno
- Ancient was left over
Map 1: Ancient; Winner: OG
Starting strong on the defence, OG started the map with a clean and coordinated retake in the pistol round. It wasn’t until the first gun round that CoL managed to put a round on the board. Taking back the momentum from the fifth round, OG went on to put together a streak of seven rounds before CoL won a single round before switching sides. While 3 rounds were too few to begin with, CoL’s defence could not hold the fast-paced OG offence that did not waste any time or give the Americans the space to start mounting a comeback. Winning all the rounds on the offence, OG managed to pick apart the CoL defence to win the map with a 13-3 dominant scoreline.
nicoodoz, having performed well leading up to the Major, went on a tear as he dropped an unbelievable 33 kills in 16 rounds, surpassing the 2KD mark; amongst everything, he managed to bring out the performance of his life, and no better time to do it than the opening day of a Major.
OG now find themselves two wins away from Stage 2, and given how they delivered against what could be the best team from Stage 1, it is unlikely that qualification to be an issue for them. Only time will tell if this was a fluke or if OG is the team that the top contenders need to watch out for.