This was the first time when the winners of Split 2 matched up against the fan-favorite team, and boy was it a match. With Doma being replaced by Amaterasu, VLT seemed a little off as they lost 13-2, 13-7 to Orangutan.
Orangutan Esports Roster and Lineup
Orangutan Esports is a team of skilled players led by Sabyasachi “Antidote” Bose as IGL, Akram “Rawfiul” Virani, Rishi “RvK” Vijayakumar, Azis “azys” Nandang, Jm “tesseract” Ignacio, and Rajiv “LeVi” Satpute (Sub).
Velocity Gaming Esports Roster and Lineup
The roster of Velocity Gaming consists of Sagnik “Hellff” Roy, Debanjan “DEATHMAKER” Das, Karan “Excali” Mhaswadkar, Domagoj “Doma” Fancev, Adam “ec1s” Eccles as IGL and Anuj “Amaterasu” Sharma.
Map Veto and Selection
Velocity Gaming banned Fracture while Orangutan banned Lotus. Velocity picked Haven and Orangutan picked Ascent. Split and Pearl were banned and Bind remained.
Match Recap
Haven started with OG winning the pistol round and continuing to win 5 rounds in a row, showing pure dominance. Round 6 was the first-round win by VLT, that too a thrifty round, making the score 1-5. Round 7 was another round win by OG, thanks to Rawfiul’s 4k with the operator. Round 8 was an amazing ace by Ec1s, bringing VLT to 2-6. But 2 seemed to be all VLT got as they finished the half at 10-2.
OG won the second pistol round as well and finished the map at 13-2 as they did not give VLT any chance to breathe in the second half.
On Ascent, VLT seemed more confident as they won the pistol round at first as well as the anti-eco round with a triple kill by Deathmaker. They lost the bonus round as Antidote got a quad kill for the team. OG managed to win 5 rounds in a row. Round 10 although, was a thrifty win by VLT as Deathmaker got the opening kill on his Jett Knives. OG finished the half at 8-4, with Tesseract getting a triple kill in round 12.
In the second half, OG won the pistol and the anti-eco round. They lost their bonus round but still proceeded to win the next two rounds and eventually, win the map at 13-7.
Tesseract was the match MVP as his KDA on Sova was 43/17/7.
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