Dickstacy Delivers Promise to Go in \u201cNice and Hard\u201d as SK Gaming Bomb Out of IEM Sydney Local team Grayhound stunned last year\u2019s champions SK Gaming at IEM Sydney with a shock upset win, eliminating them from the $250,000 tournament. After both teams had fallen to the lower bracket, with SK suffering their first surprise defeat to Chinese side TyLoo, and Grayhound beaten handedly by Cloud9, the match looked to be an easy one for the majority Brazilian SK lineup. Of course SK have recently acquired former Cloud9 player Jake \u201cStewie2K\u201d Yip, replacing Epit\u00e1cio \u201cTACO\u201d De Melo, and so can perhaps be forgiven for still finding their feet as a roster. However, nothing could have predicted that likely the biggest underdogs of the tournament, local team Grayhound, would be the ones to send SK home. The first map, Grayhound\u2019s pick Mirage, was a back and forth affair, and just SK looked like they were back in control, the Australian side miraculously rallied eight straight rounds to take a 14-12 lead, eventually closing it out 16-13. SK didn\u2019t slip up on their own map pick, Cache, and despite a spirited effort from Grayhound, they looked comfortable in the end and took it to a third map with a 16-11 win. The third map, Overpass, is where things got really crazy, as the teams traded rounds and Grayhound very much looked SK\u2019s equal throughout. With the upper hand in the economy, Grayhound took it 16-11, and BigDickStacy and co. sent SK packing. The upset came after possibly one of the funniest live interviews in esports, as Ollie \u201cDickstacy\u201d Tierney told the crowd that the team were feeling \u201cthick and pumped\u201d and ready to go in \u201cnice and hard\u201d. Dickstacy and the rest of the Grayhound squad will now have the opportunity to cause another big upset as they take on FaZe Clan in the next round. FaZe were taken down by Renegades in the upper bracket, despite star AWP player Ladislav \u201cGuardiaN\u201d Kov\u00e1cs going +26 kills and deaths over the three maps. SK on the other hand will need to go back to the drawing board and resolve the issues which the new roster with Stewie2K is facing, as little is going right for them currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dickstacy Delivers Promise to Go in \u201cNice and Hard\u201d as SK Gaming Bomb Out of IEM Sydney Local team Grayhound stunned last year\u2019s champions SK Gaming at IEM Sydney with a shock upset win, eliminating them from the $250,000 tournament. After both teams had fallen to the lower bracket, with SK suffering their first surprise […]<\/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-38063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063","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=38063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}