OpTic Dashy explains the harsh \u201creality check\u201d after getting eliminated at CWL Fort Worth CWLThe Call of Duty scene was shocked when OpTic Gaming were ousted so early from CWL Fort Worth, and star young gun Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell gave some insight on what it was like during their run and what they team\u2019s working on moving forward. The Greenwall had gone into Texas as the favorites for the CWL\u2019s first event in 2019. Coming hot off a dominating run in Las Vegas, the all-star lineup had everything going for them until a messy day of pool play led into brief Loser\u2019s Bracket run. In the latest episode of the CWL\u2019s Hot Mic, host Clint \u2018Maven\u2019 Evans and Dashy went through how the team was feeling at the start of the tourney as going into a strong pool and the quality of play that led to unfortunate results. What went wrong in Fort Worth In looking at what went wrong for OpTic during their tournament, Dashy pointed to the hyped Group of Death in tandem with a slow ramp up to their form which eventually landed them in a tough situation. \u201cA couple things went wrong,\u201d Dashy explained. \u201cObviously we got the hard pool, and we had a slow Friday. Obviously you play all your pool matches on Friday, you can\u2019t start slow especially in a hard group like that. You just add so much pressure on yourself to win.\u201d The pressure definitely amounted since the team quickly dug a hole for themselves with back-to-back losses against Envy and Team Reciprocity. They were able to pick themselves up a bit by winning out against eUnited with an emphatic 3-0 fashion, but it still left the team in a precarious spot. (Timestamp at 2:48 for mobile viewers) Dashy even recalled the funny calculations the team took into consideration in regards to the map wins, hoping they could get a lift out of Team Envy who had to win out against Reciprocity to avoid the Loser\u2019s Bracket. \u201cWe went 0-2 in our pool,\u201d Dashy said. \u201cWe\u2019re like \u2018damn, we\u2019re probably not going to make it out\u2019 but then we thought about it \u2018If [Reciprocity] lose to Envy, and we 3-0 eUnited [we have a chance].\u201d Getting Better Dashy hilariously remembered rooting for Envy in the waning moments of pool play, knowing that they needed some help to avoid losers. That help didn\u2019t come, and the rest of the event served as a worthwhile \u201creality check\u201d for the OpTic team. \u201c[Since Fort Worth] we took our practice a lot more serious,\u201d Dashy said. \u201cNot to say we weren\u2019t, but we just understood like \u2018hey, we just got Top 12 our practices need to be serious.\u2019 We got a reality check. We got smoked, basically.\u201d Though Fort Worth didn\u2019t turn out results that OpTic would\u2019ve wanted, Dashy is using the experience as motivation to \u201cgo hard and\u2026 prove why [they\u2019re] one of the best teams in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic Dashy explains the harsh \u201creality check\u201d after getting eliminated at CWL Fort Worth CWLThe Call of Duty scene was shocked when OpTic Gaming were ousted so early from CWL Fort Worth, and star young gun Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell gave some insight on what it was like during their run and what they team\u2019s working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}