Chapter 45: The Talent That Won't Be Discarded by the Club

In the Tyloo battle room, the five of them were sitting together, a rare occurrence at the Coach's request.

Coach Johnta was a white man from the CIS region; he hadn't been at Tyloo for long, his Chinese wasn't very good, and his temper wasn't great either.

"Suka blyat! What kind of garbage did you play in the last match?" He slammed the tactical data he was holding directly onto the table, scattering the papers everywhere.

He had transferred from the veteran CIS team HellRaisers; he had played professional CS himself ten years ago, though his results were average.

Later, he transitioned to coaching and led his team all the way to the 2018 London Major, eventually losing 1:2 to Liquid in the quarterfinals, stopping in the top eight, which was still considered a decent record.

If it weren't for the high salary offered by Tyloo, he wouldn't have come to CN; after all, the CS culture in this soil was too barren and filled with harmful substances like skins and match-fixing.

So, for him, Tyloo was just a retirement job. Anyway, the management didn't have high expectations; maintaining their leading position in CN was enough.

As it turned out, he had only been here for a few months, and Tyloo had already lost to their old rival, VG.

Johnta believed that the tactics he devised were sufficient even against top European teams; who could have imagined that this group of guys at Tyloo had no professional spirit at all?

Not being flexible was one thing! They refused to train when told, and in matches, they did whatever they wanted, relying entirely on raw aim to brute-force their opponents.

The problem was, they couldn't even win those duels!

"BnTeT, why didn't you have xccurate hold the sniper rifle to prevent the opponent's Rush?"

"Somebody, aren't you the best at playing around the Smoke Grenade? How many times were you ambushed by aumaN and that Ori yesterday?"

"Attack and Summer, you two are new, so I won't mention the lack of coordination in many areas, but you know in your hearts how many shots you missed!"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at xccurate, the only one who hadn't been mentioned.

"The management has already communicated with me, seeking my advice on roster changes."

"If you perform like you did yesterday in this match, you will receive a notice of demotion in a few days."

There was no emotion; Johnta didn't even feel this was a threat.

Perhaps he was the only one in the team who knew about BnTeT's secret conversations with Tyloo's management.

Replacing xccurate was already a done deal, and all he could do was stimulate this guy a bit more—it was just making use of waste.

"Alright, go play PG, meeting adjourned."

The others took the tactical documents from the table and left the conference room without a word, only xccurate sat foolishly on his stool, his eyes looking somewhat dull at this moment.

How could this be?

Hadn't he only missed one training session?

Coupled with yesterday's mistakes, was it really enough to warrant replacing him?

He had bled and achieved merit for Tyloo!

If not for him, how could Tyloo have broken into the Major, and how could they have reached the world's top ten?

However, what he didn't know was that when a team couldn't produce results, there was always only one thing to do—find someone to kick.

Who to kick wasn't actually the point; the point was the act of kicking someone.

xccurate was merely a pawn abandoned by everyone at this point in time.

Meanwhile, another forgotten pawn boarded a plane to Shanghai.

……

On the other side, the five members of VG sat in the Training Room watching the loser's bracket final between Tyloo and PG.

Both were opponents they had played against, but strangely, even though they had found it much easier to play against Tyloo than PG, Tyloo was currently pinning PG down and dominating them.

"This xcc has woken up!" aumaN pointed out the most obvious change directly.

Commander advent added: "And there is clearly much more coordination between the team members; it looks a bit like the Tyloo of before."

zhokiNg and kaze both nodded, looking quite solemn.

Only Jiaoyang was relaxed; if he didn't have his teammates next to him, he might have even laughed out loud.

It looked like he could harvest some Talent again this time!

After completing the task 【Make the team sniper's AWP usage rate greater than 50%】 in the last match, what he obtained was actually a fragmented Talent 【Avatar】.

Fortunately, with the help of the 【Babel Fish】, he was able to understand that the meaning of these characters was—the arrival of a god.

It just so happened to echo the 【God's n0rb3r7 (Fragment)】 initially given by the Talent System.

When he first saw this name, he was a little surprised:

Wait, is there a player called God in CSGO?

And calling a professional player God or something, that's too cringey.

Hopefully, it's a powerful Talent; such a badass name should at least have an effect like the Avatar of a god.

……

Two hours later, as everyone expected, Tyloo crushed PG, and xccurate became the MVP with a 1.37 rating.

VG also adjusted many tactics based on Tyloo's real-time performance on the field, and the atmosphere unknowingly returned to the tension of yesterday, rather than the relaxation after defeating Tyloo previously.

Not long after, the match officially began, and the players returned to the battle room.

The BP phase.

Tyloo rarely didn't ban Nuke, instead banning the map VG had been winning on for the past few matches.

"Are they betting that we haven't practiced Nuke?" advent smiled.

This VG team might lack aim and lack intuition, but the one thing they didn't lack was practice.

His philosophy as both Commander and former Coach was—as long as there are matches, there are no holidays.

Wouldn't it be more satisfying to finish the matches and then take all the accumulated holidays at once?

Not counting the other two, their Qiyou Trio hadn't had a holiday in nearly two months.

If they didn't put everything into competition and training, how could they compete with strong teams like NaVi?

Tyloo not banning Nuke was nothing more than thinking that because Jiaoyang had just arrived, they wouldn't have time to practice it.

But ever since that phone call from Qing Zong that day, they hadn't stopped training, otherwise they wouldn't have dared to accept the challenge of an offline self-proof.

Since Tyloo wants to challenge the gold standard of CN's Nuke, then we have no choice but to fulfill their wish!

After VG banned Cache, which they completely don't play, they directly picked Nuke first.

Tyloo chose Dust II, which they didn't play yesterday; it looks like they want to force aim duels and avoid tactical deficiencies.

For the final map, only Mirage, Train, and Overpass remained.

VG didn't take any risks and conventionally banned Tyloo's strong map, Mirage.

Although Tyloo was executed yesterday, it's hard to say that today's Tyloo won't pop off.

Facing a choice between two again, Tyloo compared Train and Overpass, then banned Overpass and left Train.

Map pool selected: Map 1 Nuke, Map 2 Dust II, Map 3 Train.

The match officially began, and the small text Jiaoyang was waiting for slowly appeared before his eyes:

【Major Talent System activated】

【Drawing talents for this match...】

【Drawing complete...】

【Your talent for this match is: rain's Social Skills (Complete)】

【Basic Task: Further improve your relationship with your teammates】

?

Why does this talent feel so strange? Social Skills? What's the use of that?

Now, whenever he sees these unreliable talents, he thinks of 【broky's Prop Understanding】 and 【karrigan's USP Master】.

The basic tasks for those two also looked very simple, but in the end, with the actual bonuses, they were even harder to complete!

In the end, when the task wasn't completed, what he received was actually a negative effect!

This time he has learned his lesson; he must do his best to complete the task!