Scump reveals biggest reason behind OpTic Chicago\u2019s Stage 3 Major improvement YouTube: OpTic ChicagoAfter somewhat of a resurgence and a far more convincing performance at the CDL Stage 3 Major, Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has revealed the key reason behind their drastic improvement. Throughout Stage 3, OpTic looked to be seriously struggling. Their losses were against top teams, but they just didn\u2019t look like they were competing at the right level, especially in their quick loss against Atlanta FaZe. While expectations were low headed into the Major, with the team starting in the Loser\u2019s Bracket, they came out and made a decent run, sweeping Florida Mutineers and Dallas Empire and even taking Toronto Ultra to a game five, round 11. They came fourth, and looked almost like the OpTic of old during their run, especially thanks to Dashy\u2019s Team of the Week-caliber performance. But Scump says it boiled down to one key difference. Appearing on the OpTic podcast, Scump and Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper spoke about their Major performance, and what went wrong or right for the team throughout Stage 3. \u201cWe literally just needed confidence again,\u201d Scump said, after owner Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez brought up the changes in their play. \u201cWe know we\u2019re good, it\u2019s just we go into a match with no confidence and the result would speak for itself. And then we would lose more confidence.\u201d He goes on to add that the team \u201cneeded one good day\u201d to get into their stride, and that came in the form of their wins over Florida and Dallas. That has been huge for Scump, who says that he would now \u201cbe confident against any team again.\u201d Topic starts at 36:52 Of course, with that confidence came vast improvements in individual gameplay. Scump himself was great, and Dashy was absolutely lights-out, pulling off incredible plays and notching up the highest KD of the Major. So, a confident OpTic is clearly one to fear, with each player firing on all cylinders and putting up a fight against the very best teams. Now, looking ahead to Stage 4 and the return of LAN tournaments, many CDL teams will be increasingly wary of OpTic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump reveals biggest reason behind OpTic Chicago\u2019s Stage 3 Major improvement YouTube: OpTic ChicagoAfter somewhat of a resurgence and a far more convincing performance at the CDL Stage 3 Major, Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has revealed the key reason behind their drastic improvement. Throughout Stage 3, OpTic looked to be seriously struggling. Their losses were against […]<\/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-31034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034","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=31034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}