FlipSid3 defeated OpTic 16-13 on Train and knocked the North Americans out of ESL One Cologne.

FlipSid3 and OpTic met on Train to decide who would be eliminated from Group B at ESL One Cologne. The CT-sided FlipSid3 secured the first round of the match and successfully grabbed the anti-ecos.

Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas entry kill in the fourth round led to a round win but FlipSid3 responded after two rounds to make it 4-2. OpTic replied immediately despite giving the opening kill to Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy and then took the lead (5-4). mixwell's superb performance won OpTic the half as they led 9-6.

WorldEdit had one of his better games 

OpTic won the first two rounds of the second half but FlipSid3 responded to with two of their own. FlipSid3 tied the game at 12-12 as the teams entered the last stage of the game.

mixwell & company won a 3vs4 post-plant situation to get in front but FlipSid3's Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin went huge to get his team two rounds, making it 14-13. FlipSid3 won the match 16-13 and eliminated OpTic.

ESL One Cologne 2016Best of 1 FlipSid3Matchpage 16 13 6th July 2016 OpTic 16Train 13

FlipSid3	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinWorldEdit	28 - 16	+12	94.7	1.48
Yegor 'markeloff' Markelovmarkeloff	18 - 13	+5	67.9	1.14
Andrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyB1ad3	21 - 18	+3	64.3	1.08
Oleksandr 'Shara' HordieyevShara	16 - 18	-2	78.3	1.08
Jan 'wayLander' RahkonenwayLander	19 - 20	-1	78.1	1.04

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellasmixwell	32 - 19	+13	97.0	1.56
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	16 - 19	-3	61.9	0.91
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	14 - 21	-7	70.2	0.88
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw	12 - 21	-9	52.1	0.74
Damian 'daps' Steeledaps	11 - 22	-11	54.7	0.59

Next up in Cologne will be Liquid vs. Virtus.pro, the winners' match of Group C, whose streams can be found on our match page.

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