Enemy, SPLYCE to MLG Minor final

Enemy and SPLYCE have made it to the grand finals of the MLG Americas Minor after defeating Winterfox (2-0) and OpTic (2-1) respectively.

The final day of the MLG Americas Minor kicked off with two semifinals that saw the four presumed teams to make the playoffs facing off in best-of-three matches.

The first match was a face-off between Enemy and Winterfox with the former team having looked quited strong throughout the group stage and this confidence translated into the first map of de_mirage where following a paltry 8-7 CT-side, Enemy racked up eight Terrorist rounds to take the map 16-8.

Relyks and the rest of Enemy cruised into the grand final over Winterfox

With Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen and Michael "⁠Uber⁠" Stapells firing on all cylinders, Winterfox were unable to get the ball rolling on de_overpass either as Enemy pulled away with a 16-7 map win and advanced to the grand final.

MLG Americas Minor ChampionshipBest of 3 EnemyMatchpage 2 0 17th January 2016 Winterfox 16Mirage 8 16Overpass 7

Enemy	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Kenneth 'koosta' Suenkoosta	46 - 26	+20	-	1.47
Michael 'Uber' StapellsUber	43 - 25	+18	-	1.33
Richard 'Lucky' VasconcelosLucky	37 - 26	+11	-	1.18
Skyler 'Relyks' WeaverRelyks	37 - 26	+11	-	1.12
Michael 'MAiNLiNE' JaberMAiNLiNE	28 - 30	-2	-	0.92

Winterfox	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Kyle 'flowsicK' MendezflowsicK	34 - 38	-4	-	0.98
Alexander 'LeX' DeilyLeX	29 - 39	-10	-	0.79
Derek 'desi' Branchendesi	27 - 37	-10	-	0.75
Todd 'anger' Williamsanger	20 - 37	-17	-	0.60
David 'Xp3' GarridoXp3	23 - 40	-17	-	0.59

The second semifinal would actually turn out to be the calamitous one for OpTic and early indications of the 14th ranked team in the world underperforming began on de_cbble where SPLYCE took the match to overtime and then clinched a 19-17 map win.

OpTic were unwilling to bandy about at that point and crushed SPLYCE on their map pick of de_cache with a 16-5 scoreline.

DAVEY was instrumental in SPLYCE shocking OpTic

However, on the decider map of de_mirage it was SPLYCE's newly signed David "⁠DAVEY⁠" Stafford as well as Arya "⁠arya⁠" Hekmat and Abraham "⁠abE⁠" Fazli who put in strong performances to give SPLYCE the 16-8 win as OpTic crumbled under both external and internal pressure.

MLG Americas Minor ChampionshipBest of 3 OpTicMatchpage 1 2 17th January 2016 Splyce 17Cobblestone 19 16Cache 5 8Mirage 16

Splyce	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Abraham 'abE' FazliabE	69 - 63	+6	-	1.22
David 'DAVEY' StaffordDAVEY	61 - 51	+10	-	1.20
Arya 'arya' Hekmatarya	58 - 56	+2	-	1.04
Andrew 'Professor_Chaos' HeintzProfessor_Chaos	38 - 57	-19	-	0.72
Jason 'jasonR' RuchelskijasonR	37 - 56	-19	-	0.70

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
William 'RUSH' WierzbaRUSH	63 - 52	+11	-	1.16
Damian 'daps' Steeledaps	57 - 54	+3	-	1.12
Shahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanShahZaM	59 - 53	+6	-	1.08
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicNAF	58 - 50	+8	-	1.08
Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw	46 - 54	-8	-	0.87

With many having considered OpTic the favourites to take the MLG Minor after the team's ELEAGUE Road to Las Vegas victory, the grand final is now instead a battle between Enemy and SPLYCE and will begin shortly.

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Kenneth 'koosta' Suen Age: 19 Team: Enemy Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 111 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.67 Arya 'arya' Hekmat Age: 23 Team: Splyce Rating 1.0: 0.92 Maps played: 160 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.73 Abraham 'abE' Fazli Age: 23 Team: Splyce Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 135 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.74 David 'DAVEY' Stafford Age: 19 Team: Splyce Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 146 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.70 Michael 'Uber' Stapells Age: 19 Team: Enemy Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 124 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.69