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OpTic Gaming lock in five till end of major

After a period of instability, OpTic Gaming have announced that they will be manning five members, at the very least until the conclusion of the major.

OpTic Gaming have announced that they will be hosting Canada Jason "JasonR" Ruchelski as their in-game leader for the time being, rounding out the five man roster for the CS:GO team. In addition to securing a fifth, the team has agreed for United States James "Hazed" Cobb to stick around for the same time period in the capacity of a coach. For context, the roster will be performing together over the course of the ESL Pro League Season 5 LAN finals in Dallas, Texas; ESL One: Cologne 2017 in Cologne, Germany; the offline qualifier for the PGL Major Kraków 2017 and, given that the team qualifies, the PGL Major Kraków 2017 itself.

In line with the announcement, OpTic Gaming will host the following roster until mid-July:

United States Tarik "tarik" Celik
Canada Keith "NAF" Markovic
United States Will "RUSH" Wierzba
Spain Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas
Canada Jason "JasonR" Ruchelski

United States James "Hazed" Cobb (coach)

The very same roster saw a decent performance at cs_summit, finishing in third place after a 1-2 defeat against Gambit Esports in the semi-finals. Their next LAN event, Intel Extreme Masters - Sydney 2017 saw a decent finish as well, with OpTic sporting a 3rd-4th place finish despite being stacked against some of the finest teams in the world. Parallel to all of the LAN events, the team has also managed to maintain a top two placement in ECS Season 3 North American league play, currently working with a 8-6 (57.1%) win/loss ratio.

Images courtesy of OpTic Gaming & DreamHack Flickr/Adela Sznajder

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