Chapter 203

207. Chapter 203: The best PP-Bizon user in the world!

February 15, 2019, Katowice was cloudy to overcast, with extremely high winds.

The howling demon wind made the windows bang, and also caused Xu Beifang to wake up from his sleep early.

He picked up his phone from the bedside, finding it was only 8:00 AM. Zywoo in the next bed turned over, still in dreamland.

Lack of sleep caused a bit of a headache. Xu Beifang closed his eyes, wanting to continue sleeping.

But the sound of the window caused him to be unable to fall asleep again, so he could only get up and start washing.

The IEM Katowice organizing committee succeeded; they brought a tense atmosphere to the players, making Vitality's time a bit insufficient.

After the game ended last night, just the simple review took until nearly 2:00 AM.

So Xu Beifang didn't even sleep for 6 hours last night. He originally intended to sleep until he woke up naturally, but this demon wind in Katowice didn't seem to want them to have a good dream.

While washing, he was thinking about last night's review.

Yesterday's game was won by a very small margin. The AVANGAR team brought them a lot of trouble, and they had to review the game.

And some of their own tactics were also adjusted based on some feedback from AVANGAR.

But because the time was too late, he hadn't had time to review some things on an individual level.

After washing, Xu Beifang tentatively sent a message to Pasha. He originally just tried it, but unexpectedly got a response.

Xu Beifang packed his personal clothes and started taking the elevator to the 4th floor—this was the hotel's fitness area.

"You don't have a game, why did you get up so early today?" Seeing Pasha, Xu Beifang asked curiously.

Pasha came here to retire this time and didn't need to participate in the schedule. It was equivalent to being a guest, with no pressure throughout the whole process, and he could sleep until he woke up naturally every day.

Pasha shrugged: "The sound of the glass was too noisy, I was woken up very early. Seeing your message, I came over."

The two walked into the gym and started warming up, preparing to run 5 kilometers to move around and then finish.

"How was the game yesterday?" Pasha asked while moving his body, "There were too many games yesterday, I didn't finish watching them."

Yesterday's Challengers Stage played a total of 16 BO1s. Even as a viewer, Pasha couldn't watch them all. To understand the specific situation, he still had to come and ask Xu Beifang, the professional.

Xu Beifang turned on the treadmill and started walking slowly to speed up, "Grayhound from Australia, Green Dragon from the CIS, as well as Vega and Winstrike are already on the verge of elimination."

"It's just that Green Dragon is a pity. I feel that SDY still has strength. He led some not-so-powerful players into the Major for two consecutive Majors."

Pasha heard this and also remembered that SDY. After all, the IGL ID of Green Dragon was very special, the full name was "somedieyoung", which always reminded people of that famous English song "If I Die Young".

"Is he that strong? I felt this team was quite bad before." Pasha's impression of the opponent stopped at the ID.

Xu Beifang didn't dwell on the player SDY either.

For a first-tier player, SDY was an occasional eye-catching second-tier IGL, but his individual style wasn't excellent to an exaggerated degree.

If it were an IGL like Jame, appearing once in people's eyes, perhaps everyone would already have an impression.

"Then which teams are 2-0 now?"

"NRG and Renegades. The state and strength of these two teams are not on the same level as other teams." Xu Beifang answered while running, "Mainly because our map pool has problems, otherwise we would have a chance against teams of this level."

Pasha would still pay attention to his little brother's games in his spare time and also knew about Vitality's current map pool problem.

7 active duty maps, they only know how to play the old three and Overpass. The level of the other three maps is fine against second-tier teams, but it's not enough when encountering first-tier teams.

"The problem isn't big. Didn't you see a piece of information released by Valve two days ago? After this Major, the active duty maps will be changed." Pasha said.

"Remove Cache, add Vertigo. After this Major, as long as you are willing to put in the effort to practice, the overall level can skyrocket."

Xu Beifang also recalled this matter. The addition of Vertigo was definitely a replacement for first-tier teams.

For those teams good at Cache, this was definitely a major blow.

After all, their strong map was directly removed, and they would have to spend more time practicing new maps later, or practice that previously fixed ban map.

But for French teams like Vitality and G2, the removal of Cache was just too great.

Because the French Cache was purely a free map. They practiced it very frequently, but they just couldn't play it well.

Some things aren't necessarily successful just because of hard work. Not adapting is not adapting, just like letting Apex be a sniper, he would only perform the Spring Festival Thirteen Rings for you.

There is a small episode here. Regarding the removal of Cache, NaVi was overjoyed.

The story of the design of Cache map originated from the national tragedy of Ukraine. As a Ukrainian team, NaVi took the lead in boycotting this map, fully interpreting what is called political correctness.

With the appearance of new maps, Vitality would stand on the same starting line as other first-tier teams this time. Xu Beifang believed that as long as they seized the opportunity, they could make up for the weakness of their map pool.

Besides, although watching games in his previous life was swallowing dates whole, he still had fresh memories of some special places in Vertigo.

For example, the T-side double boost to fly to B slope, the A-site double boost to watch A-small yellow cloth, and the eternal fire fight at A-long.

With Xu Beifang, the time machine, compared to other teams, Vitality was already far ahead!

"But that's also a matter after the Major. There is no time to practice maps for this Major."

Pasha smiled when he heard this. When VP first built the team, it was about the same.

There is no way to solve this point, it can only rely on playing more!

But what new teams lack most is time. Researching props, coordinating and practicing tactics, team training and review, everything needs time.

"Then who are you playing today?" Pasha asked again.

Xu Beifang pondered for a few seconds: "If I remember correctly, it should be FURIA."

The Challengers Stage game reached the third round. They finally didn't have to know their opponents half an hour before the game like the first two rounds.

This round officially started, and they got their match table in advance.

The opponent was FURIA from Brazil. Their world ranking was 23, but they were already the number one team in Brazil.

"Then you have to be careful. This FURIA is still very strong, and..." Pasha pondered for a few seconds, "The style is very special, a bit like the opposite of AVANGAR."

This FURIA is now built around a player named Art.

Art is the most unique player in the whole of Brazil and even the CSGO professional circle.

Others play games for dreams, while Art plays games purely for free internet.

Xu Beifang always claimed to be a Silver player in official matchmaking, a C-level demon king on 5E.

But if you want to say which professional player's playstyle would make Silver players have the deepest sense of substitution, then perhaps it would only be this IGL named Art.

While other people's fans were still arguing about who is the world's number one Desert Eagle between S1mple and NiKo, and who is the world's number one 553 between Nice and EliGE, he had already become the world's best PP-Bizon user.

As a 22-year-old older player, his professional career was quite similar to Xu Beifang's. He also debuted in a weak team in the first year and later joined a top team.

Older in age, he ate the last dividend of Brazilian CSGO, and he turned into the dividend itself!

Under his leadership, today's Brazilian FURIA has become one of the most aggressive teams, and it is completely the other side of the coin in style from the AVANGAR they encountered yesterday.

Xu Beifang was still looking forward to the confrontation with such a player with a special style.

The two chatted without a word, and 5 kilometers were quickly finished.

But also because of the chat, the running rhythm of the two was disrupted, making them exhausted.

After the morning run, the two sat on the bench press bench to rest. Xu Beifang took out his phone and took a photo.

Then he sent it to Bilibili to let fans see his daily dynamics. Many people were still quite interested in this matter.

Edit the text and upload the photo:

"Pasha gives me strength! Help me successfully advance!"

8:00 AM in Katowice, it was still around 3:00 PM in the country. Once Xu Beifang's dynamic was sent, he quickly received comments from many fans.

【Why did Pasha go to Katowice?】 【Tears, miss that time】

【I still remember when Beifang performed well, Pasha's appreciative gaze.】

Looking at these comments, Xu Beifang just smiled helplessly.

If he had enough ability at the beginning, perhaps he would choose to stay and change VP.

But Pasha and Neo had already left the team, so staying in VP had no meaning.

He didn't think that coming to Vitality was a mistake.

Xu Beifang would always maintain upward momentum, boiling with blood for the cheers of the audience.

However, past experiences were already memories.

Xu Beifang felt quite good about this.

Fans below were constantly expressing their views:

【Little Xu is playing FURIA today, this is great, I almost fell asleep watching AVANGAR yesterday】

【That Jame is really good at saving, I also fell asleep watching half of it】

【I feel that playing against Art of FURIA, this game will be very interesting. It is recommended that Little Xu be aggressive and let Art see what is called the world's number one pressure!】

【Art's Bizon will be stuffed into Beifang's mouth, haha】

Xu Beifang looked at the outrageous remarks in the comment area and couldn't speak.

But he heard the system's prompt in his ear.

【Beep!】

【Received a suggestion, let Art see what is called the world's number one pressure, suggestion difficulty 5 stars, reward C-level treasure chest after completion.】

Xu Beifang raised his eyebrows. Like teaching Tyloo a lesson, let Art see his own pre-pressure intensity, the difficulty was also 5 stars.

But Xu Beifang still knew the essential difference. The difficulty of the previous task was purely a matching difficulty. Playing against DD should have been 3 stars at most.

But encountering Art, this guy who came to quit internet addiction.

How to deal with him, for a while, really made Xu Beifang a bit difficult.

After simple training in the afternoon, Vitality drove to the venue.

Today's game, whether it was the participating teams or the viewers watching the game, was very tense.

For the participating teams, from today, teams would be eliminated one after another. Every game might have teams eliminated, and an invisible bloody smell spread among the players.

And for the viewers, every subsequent game would affect their guessing.

Although gold is more valuable than diamond, everyone still hopes to see the brilliant radiance of the diamond coin.

Today's official commentary for CSGO national server is CSBoy.

Today's CSBoy has changed from the original duo of Ma Xixi and Old Handsome to the tricycle of Ma Xixi, Old Handsome, and Mo.

Before the game started, the live broadcast screen was already densely packed with barrage:

"Brothers, the BO3 game is very critical. Can Vitality withstand FURIA's charge? The pressure is all on Nice."

"Don't talk nonsense, Little Xu won't withstand FURIA's charge, because he is also pressing himself, haha"

"Mainly, the veterans shouldn't drag their feet. If Apex and NBK drag their feet, this game will be quite difficult to play"

"Hope to win smoothly, Little Xu, charge charge charge, otherwise Vitality's map pool will be really hard to play in the later BO3."

"VG is very fierce this year, Old Driver A-Zhong is rushing around."

"Tyloo is also barely okay. Originally had high hopes, but found that among the three teams, Tyloo is the one dragging their feet the most."

"Little Xu, come on, Zywoo, charge charge charge!"

There are many cheers in the live broadcast room, but there is never a lack of questioning, especially with the increase in CSGO's popularity, many cloud players who like to point fingers appeared unconsciously.

They always like to express their views from their own perspective.

Because of previous results, everyone generally had expectations for Tyloo, VG, and Vitality, but didn't have too high expectations.

After all, this is a Major. They have seen many games where they won the championship in the previous Major and had their heads beaten in the next Major.

For them, as long as these teams break into the Legends Stage and can play stickers based on their own strength, it is considered a success.

The improvement of strength is not achieved overnight. Watching them slowly compete with strong teams in various major competitions is already very satisfying.

When the camera was given to the player booth, Ma Xixi took the lead in making an opening statement:

"Okay, the analysis and nonsense end here. Let's look at the game. Vitality vs FURIA. Both sides are in the 2-1 group. As long as Vitality can win this game, they can directly advance to the Legends Stage."

"If they unfortunately lose, they will enter the 2-2 group and then decide the winner in tomorrow's BO3."

Mo added on the side: "The player pressure is still quite big."

Old Handsome noticed the screen and shouted loudly:

"Okay, let's see the BP session of the game and see the final game map of this BO3 today."

"FURIA chose first. They removed Train as soon as they came up. Vitality removed Cache, still the same old way."

FURIA's first pick, they directly locked in Nuke. This is the result Vitality least wants to see.

After all, the scene of being beaten by NRG on Nuke is still fresh in memory, but the map pool is too shallow, which is destined to face their weak map—Tyloo had a deep feeling about this last year.

Last year, Tyloo made a name for themselves on Inferno, not because they played Inferno so brilliantly, but because Tyloo only knew how to play Inferno.

"It's okay, compared to NRG, our overall gap on Nuke is indeed too big." Apex actively encouraged his teammates' mentality, "But against a team like FURIA that tends to be second-tier, our Nuke isn't necessarily a weakness."

Xu Beifang also echoed: "Don't worry, we aren't that fragile. Whether we can play or not, we have to fight for real."

"Besides, maybe today, Dou Dou, you dream back to 2015."

Apex listened with some nostalgia. In 2015, he was the strongest rifleman in the world, none other.

Now after a few years, he has moved from the position of entry fragger and become the brain of a team.

He used to be able to end the game just by relying on gunplay, but now he needs to rack his brains to win. Apex inevitably felt a bit lost.

But his emotions didn't stay in his mind for too long, and he immediately cooperated with Xu Beifang and said:

"That's the truth. Our Nuke level isn't low either. Believe in yourself!"

Immediately after, they followed the discussion before the game and took their strong map, Inferno.

FURIA removed Overpass.

Vitality chose Dust II between Dust II and Mirage.

"The BO3 maps for this game are all confirmed. Map 1 Nuke, Map 2 Inferno, Map 3 is the remaining Dust II." Ma Xixi analyzed, "Then this game is likely to see the final winner in Map 3."

Old Handsome shook his head: "Not necessarily. Vitality's Nuke isn't that bad, and FURIA isn't as dominant on this map as Astralis. As long as Nice and Zywoo play as they should, there is still a chance to win."

Between their chatting, the ten players on both sides had already started to enter the Map 1 server.

The game is about to start!

There will be a big chapter later. I try not to split the game.