Chapter 36

【? Who are you?】

【Who the hell are you?】

【You still know how to come back?】

【Go to hell, sb Wanjiqi.】

"Everyone knows the broadcast order of this live room, right? Unconditionally CN teams, and then watch whichever has higher traffic."

"These few days are all DH Dallas CN qualifiers; only after watching them will there be BLAST Miami."

"Then today our first match is to watch VG play 8EASY; this match is particularly interesting."

Wanjiqi, who knew the inside story in advance, couldn't wait to see the surprised look of the bullet comments.

【What kind of niche treasure match is this?】

【Not watching TYLOO but watching VG, right? Did the VG boss give you money?】

【What's interesting about this match? Isn't VG a steady win? They played 2:0 last time.】

【So many cloud viewers in the live room? VG changed people! The one they changed is that Jiao Yang who was sprayed as a cheater by the bullet comments before.】

【I get it, Wanjiqi is going to start washing cheaters again? Wanting to climb the mountain again?】

【People are going to prove themselves offline, that's about enough.】

【Didn't they say he was switching to coach? Why does he still need to prove himself offline?】

【Ah? If I remember correctly, the DH Dallas qualifier is an online match, what can playing online prove? If he secretly cheats, cheats once to prove himself and then switches to coach to turtle up, I won't recognize it.】

【Indeed, the Indian War God could even cheat from offline to online, who knows if VG is protecting someone?】

The bullet comment saying it was an online match had just been sent out when the director's camera gave the scene—

The VG club's viewing room lights were dancing, and the two teams walked into the match venue from both sides amidst the cheers of the audience.

On the left was the VG team led by advent, the skinny aumaN and the burly zhokiNg walking together, while Jiao Yang, who had the 【Babel Fish】, and kaze, who wasn't very good at Chinese, were already chatting.

On the right was the 8EASY team led by the white foreigner V4D1M, with three Chinese people walking together, while another white person followed captain V4D1M without speaking.

【Why are there two white people in 8EASY?】

【freeman really isn't playing? Then what are they playing?】

【Is that square-headed one Jiao Yang? Doesn't look very strong.】

【Haven't seen that kid in 8EASY before, can someone so young play?】

"Let me briefly say, this match was applied for offline by VG from 5E to the DH organizer with 8EASY's consent." Wanjiqi added a sentence appropriately.

【Meaning this is to prove himself?】

【A bit of something there.】

【To clear the rhythm, it seems Jiao Yang might really not be cheating.】

【VG's venue is really big, rich and imposing, don't know how much money they made from gambling.】

【Might have a promotional meaning? Doesn't feel like it was done casually.】

Because it was just a qualifier, there weren't that many procedures; once the two teams sat in the player seats, the match officially began.

First was the map selection segment.

VG took the lead in banning Cache, which they never play.

Immediately after, 8EASY chose to ban VG's strong map, Nuke.

VG paused for a moment in map selection, then pointed out Inferno, which had just won by a large margin against NaVi.

8EASY didn't hesitate and chose Overpass, which they lost to VG last time.

The final map selection would be decided between Mirage, Dust2, and Train.

VG chose to ban Mirage, so 8EASY could only choose between Train or Dust2.

8EASY's captain V4D1M fell into thought; Train was a map neither side was good at, while Dust2 was a map both sides were very confident in.

If it were usual, he would choose to ban Dust2, because the team's firepower in the past couldn't compare to these old VG veterans.

If they played a map that everyone wasn't familiar with, then the possibility of winning based on luck or state would be greater.

But...

Thinking of this, he glanced at the young kid beside him.

He chose to ban Train.

This meant he believed the team could defeat the opponent in firepower!

The match maps were set: Map 1 Inferno, Map 2 Overpass, Map 3 Dust2.

And the players from both sides were also in position on the server.

VG: advent, aumaN, zhokiNg, Kaze, Ori

8EASY: V4D1M, equal, koshak, expro, mitsuha

Upon seeing the last ID in the 8EASY team, whether it was the audience in the venue or the bullet comments in the live room, they completely exploded.

【mitsuha?】

【???】

【Did these two teams discuss this?】

"Hey, this mitsuha wouldn't be..."

"Impossible, right? Really this young?"

"No wonder... no wonder they wanted to play offline!"

"Is it really Sanye? How long has it been since he was hammered for cheating last time?"

"Wouldn't he have secretly practiced and then come to play professionally to prove himself?"

"I think Sanye is a definite cheater, no way to wash that."

"Isn't that Jiao Yang the same?"

At the same time, on the VG team side, during the pre-match preparation segment, advent sighed.

"Jiao Yang, you're a bit too impulsive. Knowing that the opponent's lineup has changed, you could have completely waited for the next match."

advent, as an old-timer, naturally knew the situation of the opponent's mitsuha, which was Sanye.

Last year, someone hammered him on a website, posting a series of suspicious videos, which spread wildly in the entire CSGO circle at the time.

Some people also found quite a bit of evidence of his contact with cheats, including riding cheat trains and joining private cheat groups.

However, quite a few people still supported him and hoped he could prove himself offline, and there were even streamers willing to reimburse the expenses, but Sanye refused them all on the grounds of heavy academic pressure.

Originally, everyone was angry at the official and platform's inaction on anti-cheat, and this refusal directly forced out everyone's anger; for a time, the vast majority of people thought he must be a cheater.

Regardless of what the answer is, Valve didn't ban him, so he is allowed to come and play matches.

Since Sanye now dares to come to the offline professional arena to prove himself, it at least shows that he is confident he has a game level that rivals his previous one.

Which means this kid might have already surpassed the vast majority of people present.

And changing two people before the match also meant a change in the opponent's tactics.

VG might not be able to respond like before, losing the information advantage, making it hard to use established tactics.

Although advent still had great confidence in winning the match, wanting to make Jiao Yang play gorgeously would be a difficult thing to determine.

Jiao Yang nodded at advent's words, then shook his head.

After all, after Aqing made that phone call and said "Can I trust you?", he had no choice.

Yes, he could certainly avoid the battle for one match, and then choose to prove himself offline when facing a weaker opponent, using gorgeous data to make others shut up.

But if he showed weakness in front of Aqing, wouldn't that prove his mediocrity?

Mediocre enough to shrink back when facing a newcomer from who knows where, even if the newcomer's teammates were only at a domestic second-tier level.

Aqing wouldn't allow him to be distracted for CSGO, and he wouldn't allow himself to be so timid either.

Taking a deep breath, Jiao Yang said in a low voice:

"Wanting to win is an impulse, and I will keep rushing forward."