Chapter 213: 217. Chapter 213: s1mple

217. Chapter 213: s1mple: "Vitality still needs practice" (

February 21, 2019, Katowice weather cloudy to sunny.

Suitable for: Sacrifices, prayers, seeking children, Crazy Thursday...

"You guys played this match quite extremely!"

Outside the studio, Xu Beifang mercilessly mocked Byali.

The second day of the Legends Stage.

VP met the strongest team on paper in this Major, the Danish Demon King, Astralis.

The BO1 match had just ended, and it was tragic.

Apex teased from the side: "You guys gave Magisk a point of fatherly love before, and Magisk returned you two points this time; Magisk is a nice guy!"

As players of the older generation, Apex and the old VP didn't have a very good relationship, but they could take a joke.

"Shut up, you dead Apex."

Former teammates and current teammates were bickering, and Xu Beifang was having a great time on the side. Yesterday, they upset MIBR, and Byali, Michu, and the others were so excited, telling him in the chat software—the plan has changed, preparing to win the championship.

They thought that after entering the Major, their state suddenly became good, and everyone wasn't as strong as they imagined.

But when they met Astralis on the second day, the Danes used their strength to tell them that winning against MIBR yesterday was really just an accident.

The inflated Byali was deflated.

However, after the joke, Apex still asked: "Is Astralis really that strong?? Only letting you get two points, a bit exaggerated."

From a god's-eye view, VP's performance on the map Train was full of loopholes, constantly making mistakes and giving opportunities.

But as professional players, they understood very well that sometimes it wasn't that they wanted to make mistakes, but that the opponent's ability to seize opportunities was too strong.

"The pressure is very strong." Byali answered seriously, "The world No. 1 is still very fierce. The idea that the Danes don't communicate with other teams might be correct; this extends the vitality of their team."

Astralis, even in Europe, rarely played practice matches with other teams.

They mostly used matches as practice to avoid exposing too many tactics and being studied by other tier-one teams.

The conflict between the Brazilians and the Danes stemmed from this.

This approach was disliked by most professional players in the circle, but now it seemed to have made Astralis's dynasty more powerful.

Their control over the match rhythm, their crossfire, and their tactical execution were all T0 level.

The current Astralis was like an army that obeyed orders and prohibited actions; for other ragtag teams, it was a crushing combat power.

Thinking about the possibility of facing such a team next, Xu Beifang couldn't laugh either.

"Don't laugh at us; your second-round confrontation is also not easy to play." Michu said from the side.

Vitality's opponent in the second round of the Legends Stage was not Astralis, but the strongest team from the CIS—the Born to Win, NaVi!

Although they weren't facing the strongest team, NaVi's strength in the entire Legends Stage was also second to none.

Their current world ranking was 3rd, and the team possessed gunners of the level of s1mple and electronic; Vitality's pressure was maxed out.

And recently, flamie had a feeling of evolving into a "Fire Boy," which gave the current NaVi three output points.

Forums and major commentators all believed they would be favorites to win the championship.

But Vitality had discussed before the match that facing NaVi was actually okay—although this CIS team had terrifying individual strength, they also had a fatal shortcoming.

NaVi was very slow to warm up.

No matter what match they were in, they entered the state very slowly.

Playing against NaVi with a fast rhythm, if they could end the match quickly, there was still a chance to win.

But if s1mple and electronic got hot early, the difficulty would be a bit high.

"So you guys go for it, looking forward to your good news..." Byali smirked.

Apex had just mocked him like that, so naturally, he wanted to see Apex's show.

"Snax is already calling us; we're leaving!" After chatting for a few sentences, Byali waved to Xu Beifang.

Michu patted Xu Beifang on the shoulder: "Good luck in the match! Crush the top 1!!"

They were very happy that Xu Beifang could come to cheer them on, but it was a pity that VP wasn't strong enough and only got a mere two points.

"Let's go back to the lounge too, rest our spirits, review today's preparation later, and it's almost time to play."

Bidding farewell to the two VP teammates, Apex pulled Xu Beifang back to the lounge and started preparing for today's match.

Inside the NaVi lounge.

"Playing Vitality..."

As the coach, Kane frowned at the tactical paper in his hand.

After entering the Major, all teams wouldn't underestimate their opponents.

Even if they looked down on the strength of some teams in their hearts, VP's upset yesterday had already taught everyone participating what respect meant.

Moreover, NaVi's special style made it impossible for them to have any fluke mentality.

They needed to maintain respect for every team.

Once they entered the state too slowly, it was common to be taken away by the opponent in one wave.

This was also why s1mple kept emphasizing within the team: "Take every round seriously."

However, in the last month, s1mple, as the team's big brother, had been in a pretty good mood.

Because flamie's playstyle had become more and more confident recently, leading to his game understanding evolving.

He and electronic finally had helpers.

As the 2015 top 12, after Fire Boy's state warmed up, his performance was still quite considerable.

s1mple and electronic felt liberated; even though Zeus and Edward's state continued to decline, they played matches more easily.

For a time, s1mple even started to hope for the competition in the Champions Stage.

Last year, Fire Boy's state could only be considered average, and they lost to Astralis.

This year, he finally regained his confidence, and the team's frontal firepower was visibly improved; s1mple had some fantasies about that Major trophy.

As for Vitality in front of him.

s1mple acknowledged their strength but also deeply understood Vitality's current shortcomings—the map pool was too thin, player state fluctuated too much, and stability wasn't high enough.

In human terms: "Vitality still needs practice."

Katowice 4:40 PM.

Xu Beifang was already sitting in the battle room, starting to debug his peripherals.

xtqzzz's bald head was shining today; while everyone was warming up, he also cheered for his teammates:

"We have done a lot of preparation before the match; NaVi is a slow-paced team. As long as we disrupt their thinking and the match enters our rhythm, the chance of winning will be very high!"

Vitality's players felt their emotions fluctuate.

Xu Beifang's warm-up speed even accelerated a bit.

Back at the London Major, he clearly felt that the state of NaVi's electronic and s1mple hadn't been maxed out before the match ended.

In this match, he still hoped that the opponent could play at their proper level.

The warm-up time passed, and they entered the BP segment.

Vitality banned maps first.

They chose to remove Train and Nuke.

They weren't worried about Train being left outside because everyone knew that NaVi was a team that didn't play Train.

NaVi, as expected, chose to ban Train, Dust II, and Overpass.

Finally, Inferno and Mirage were left for Vitality to choose from.

After consideration, they chose to try Mirage.

After reviewing yesterday, they made simple adjustments; today's match was just right to see how the adjustment effect was.

As soon as Xu Beifang entered the server, he saw NaVi requesting interaction on the public screen.

s1mple: 【ツ】 Didn't practice aiming before the match, brothers, go easy.

electronic: Confirmed, I watched him using Negev to hit bots on the side.

nice: 0_o?

apex: It's okay, Zywoo doesn't practice aiming.

In a joyful atmosphere, both sides started to enter the match.

Vitality vs NaVi

Map: Mirage

T: nice, apex, zywoo, nbk, rpk

CT: s1mple, zeus, electronic, flamie, edward

The pistol round started; according to the tactics set before the match, Xu Beifang bought a smoke grenade and two flashbangs.

"After you guys are in position at B2, tell me."

"Hmm, you don't need to be too anxious."

After simple communication, Xu Beifang came to the periphery of A site to prepare for the bomb explosion, while the others arrived at the B2 area to get ready.

In this pistol round, they had already discussed it and prepared to play a fake A, real B.

Xu Beifang grabbed the props early; the time reached 1:35, and Xu Beifang received Apex's command.

The props started to be thrown directly.

A smoke grenade inside the archway, followed by two high flashes on A site.

A series of actions were like Vitality was really going to hit A.

After throwing the props, Xu Beifang carried the Glock and continued to push towards A1 with footsteps.

s1mple under A2 heard this information and hurriedly reminded in the voice chat: "Someone is coming to A1, Electronic, help me watch A1!"

Just as he finished speaking, Electronic engaged in a firefight with Xu Beifang, who had pulled out from A1.

Both sides fired a few shots at each other.

"Pop!"

【electronic used USP to headshot kill nice】

Electronic didn't live up to s1mple's expectations and headshot the opponent.

Zeus and Fire Boy saw this situation and also started to approach A site.

Suddenly there was no movement behind, making them feel a bit ominous.

They wanted to lean towards B site, but the kill information on the top right held them back.

After all, according to common sense, the area where Nice was located was Vitality's main attack direction.

"B site bomb explosion!! The opponent is hitting B!!"

Soon, Edward's shout came from the voice chat, followed by the kill information on the top right.

【rpk used Glock to headshot kill edward】

NaVi immediately started to rotate back to B, but in a 4v4 retake clutch, the situation wasn't particularly optimistic for them.

After Xu Beifang was killed, seeing his teammates successfully enter B site, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

This wave, Apex made a bold decision, letting him go to A site to die, using props and his ID to keep the opponent on A site.

The main force took B site and then played slowly with the opponent in the retake.

Facts proved that his tactic was quite good, successfully tricking NaVi into leaning towards A site.

After the offense and defense switched, even though the number was 4v4, Vitality's priority was obviously greater.

The teammates didn't live up to Xu Beifang's sacrifice on A site, winning the pistol round at the cost of 2 for 4 in this retake clutch.

"Good shooting, brothers!!" Xu Beifang extended his fist to bump with his teammates.

Apex laughed: "You dragged the time on A site long enough; we planted the bomb for a while before NaVi rotated back."

Successfully winning the pistol round was definitely a very good start.

NaVi was still quite surprised; they had studied Vitality's recent data and knew that Vitality liked to give archway smoke to hit A.

Zeus's 311 standing at the beginning was to prevent this playstyle of Vitality.

But he didn't expect the archway smoke was still given, but it was a fake attack.

He suddenly looked at Apex with admiration; this French new-generation IGL seemed to have some intuition.

However, a pistol round game obviously couldn't shake Zeus's defensive habits.

In the second round, he commanded the team to force buy directly, letting s1mple and electronic find opportunities.

But he didn't expect Vitality to launch a frontal bomb explosion on A site in this round, crushing them with weapon superiority.

Even if s1mple used Desert Eagle to kill two in a row, plus Edward killed one, in the end, they only killed 3 long guns, still failing to complete the comeback.

After losing the force buy, they entered the economic round, and he commanded the team to choose to gamble on a point.

The result was okay; although they didn't complete the comeback, they successfully killed the lurking Nice and saved an SG553.

Zeus expected this SG553 to become a foreshadowing in the full-buy round.

But his expectation fell through; as soon as the full-buy round started, Zywoo used a sniper rifle to wallbang Electronic in the archway.

After the numerical disadvantage, Zeus chose to gamble on a heavy defense of A site, but he still gambled wrong.

Continuous point loss made Zeus's brow wrinkle unconsciously.

The early stage of this Mirage was smoother than all Vitality members imagined.

They scored continuously at the beginning, directly winning 7 rounds.

By the 8th round, they were finally killed three times in a row by s1mple's Desert Eagle, combined with Electronic's CZ and the cooperation of Edward who came to retake, winning the first round.

NaVi finally opened successfully on the metaphysical score and hurriedly called a timeout.

"This point is a pity; s1mple is still quite perverted." Xu Beifang extended his fist to bump with RPK. "This Desert Eagle is really accurate!"

RPK said: "The current young players are getting more and more perverted; in our era, scenes like this Desert Eagle multi-kill were extremely rare."

CSGO players are getting stronger generation by generation as time passes.

This point can also be seen from the data. Xu Beifang played a 1.28 rating average rating last year; if this were placed in previous years, it would definitely be data within the top 3, even if his major match count was low and the sample size wasn't much, it should have gone into the top 5.

But last year? That monster on the opposite side played a 1.36 rating.

1.36 in normal matches can already be considered fish-frying data.

And s1mple's average 1.36 is equivalent to stable fish-frying in every match!

A player with such exaggerated data is a scene that RPK and their era dared not imagine.

"It's okay!" Apex said with a smile, "s1mple's state is outstanding, we also have two who don't act like humans; compared to s1mple and electronic, I think Zywoo and Nice are more outstanding players!"

Apex's words made people feel very comfortable.

Round 9 started.

Xu Beifang threw a somewhat special VIP smoke in the T spawn.

This was not a fast VIP smoke, but a relatively standard VIP smoke.

The reason for not giving a fast VIP smoke was because of s1mple's unique playstyle.

s1mple was still very aggressive, and his playstyle was very aggressive.

When he was on the defensive side, he used the characteristic of smoke grenades extinguishing fire to give a VIP fire in advance, destroying the landing point of the smoke grenade and forming a one-way smoke inside the VIP.

Vitality had been forced to give up control of the middle road for the first time in several rounds because of s1mple's playstyle. Fortunately, they weren't unprepared.

Xu Beifang threw an incendiary grenade, and RPK and Apex pushed forward in the middle road.

They weren't in a hurry at first, but waited quietly for the VIP smoke to explode.

This VIP smoke was relatively slow, and being in a hurry might cause big trouble.

But they stabilized for a hand, but they were hit by a full grenade, and instantly the two of them only had half their health left.

And s1mple in the VIP, although his vision was blocked, didn't do nothing; a fire behind the sandbags also blocked their path forward.

"Can you give a middle flash? There is still a place to stand behind the sandbags; his fire didn't burn well." Apex didn't intend to be delayed at the T spawn like this; his desire to attack was also very strong.

Xu Beifang took out a flashbang and threw it towards the middle road: "Given!"

As the flashbang exploded, Apex and RPK walked towards the sandbags.

But in the process of jumping towards the sandbags, he saw a policeman standing under the archway.

"Da da da..."

【flamie used M4A4 to kill apex】

Inside the CSBoy live stream.

Ma Xixi frowned watching this scene: "After the timeout ended, NaVi's desire to control the middle road was too strong. Although Apex asked his teammates for a flashbang, Fire Boy's position didn't eat the flash."

He watched the live stream screen and added: "Fortunately, Fire Boy's spray had some mistakes, and RPK still moved behind the sandbags."

As long as they could get to the sandbags in the middle road, the defensive side's reconnaissance of the middle road would be relatively passive.

Seeing RPK move behind the sandbags in the middle road, Xu Beifang hurriedly went to help.

Zywoo and NBK were both at B2, and this wave was originally prepared to play a B2 sandwich B.

But Apex died, and RPK, as the bomb planter, was a bit isolated and helpless, so Xu Beifang hurriedly came to help.

The first wave of control props in the middle road had ended, and RPK saw this and aimed at the antenna above the VIP behind the sandbags, threw a smoke grenade with a run-up—this was a full-seal VIP smoke.

After throwing the smoke grenade, he just wanted to ask Xu Beifang to come over and push together, when he heard the sound of a sniper rifle.

—Bang!

【s1mple used AWP to wallbang flamie to kill rpk】

RPK took his hands off the keyboard, his face full of confusion, but noticing the kill information on the top right was s1mple, he felt it was reasonable again.

"This s1mple monster thing started again." RPK said somewhat speechlessly.

At the beginning, he ate a full grenade, and later he was wallbanged by s1mple, and he died directly.

Xu Beifang wasn't in a hurry, waiting for the VIP smoke to slowly explode, only then did he push forward.

s1mple had just fired in the VIP, and according to his character of liking to repeek, it was highly likely that he was still holding the gun.

After hearing the sound of the smoke exploding, Xu Beifang only pushed towards the middle road bit by bit, and Zywoo and NBK were also pushing from the sewer.

In a 3v5 clutch, the possibility of being broken one by one if the numbers were dispersed was extremely high. Hugging together to find opportunities and playing numerical exchanges still gave a chance to enter the clutch situation.

The sewer was blocked by a fire, and Xu Beifang made the first move.

If it was about discipline, this wave of his could be considered a mistake. His teammates were in the sewer, and he should have waited for synchronization to be safer.

But Xu Beifang understood that when he wanted to synchronize, the opponent might have already stabilized.

Putting his attention on the archway, Xu Beifang aimed bit by bit, constantly adjusting the crosshair during the movement.

Someone on B Small was sticking to the corner and holding the middle road directly.

Xu Beifang didn't stop immediately when he saw it, but continued to move horizontally to the left.

"Da da da!"

Seeing someone peek out from the T spawn, Edward on B Small held the AUG and sprayed.

But Xu Beifang didn't stop his footsteps throughout, which was beyond his expectation; the first few shots only hit Xu Beifang once.

The feeling of a spray wasn't very good, and Edward was already a bit panicked.

Just then, he saw the terrorist in his vision stop and crouch, then fire.

"Da da da!"

【nice used SG553 to headshot kill edward】

Just a short burst, and he killed Edward instantly.

"One behind the sandbags in the middle road, I made a mistake." Edward quickly reported the point to his teammates in the voice chat.

He thought it was his own gunplay mistake, but Xu Beifang was full of tactical games in details.

CSGO's vision starts from the right eye of the character model; he pulled horizontally from the T spawn to the sandbags, which was naturally a disadvantage.

When he saw the B Small CT for the first time, he was already exposed to the opponent's vision, even if only for a very short time.

If he crouched in place and aimed to counterattack, the reaction speed definitely wouldn't keep up.

In this case, he had to trick the opponent's crosshair; whether it was shaking or a big pull, both were very good choices.

"Phew..." Moving to the sandbags to pick up the bomb, Xu Beifang breathed a sigh of relief.

The short middle road confrontation turned the 3v5 clutch into a 3v4.

The number was still at a disadvantage, but at least the pressure wasn't as great as before.

"Let's gather at A1 and play a wave; there aren't many props, let's play a silent contact." Apex gave the subsequent offensive plan.

The trio had no objections; this decision was reasonable.

If it was about position, they had already gained control of the middle road, and pushing towards the archway was definitely the most convenient.

But the archway position was hit from both sides, which wasn't suitable for single-angle breakthrough.

"In a 3v4 clutch, Vitality chose to return to A1, a reasonable choice."

"Now NaVi is in a 2A2B standing, they are 3v2 locally, still quite a chance."

Mo shook his head: "The chance is too small; NaVi's A site standing is jump platform and police home, police home is still jumping to scout, too stable, not many chances."

"And there are only 20 seconds left, no chance for them to lurk."

Xu Beifang had already arrived at A1, SG553 holding the police home, NBK pushing forward with the bomb.

Sure enough, someone jumped directly at the police home in the second time!

"Da da da..."

—Bang!

Xu Beifang and Zywoo's reactions were quite fast, but the time the police home CT appeared in the vision was too short, and they didn't kill the opponent.

"No time, NBK, you push smoke to the police home, plant the bomb directly!" Apex reminded quickly in the voice chat.

NBK also acted immediately, a police home smoke was pushed out, then quickly jumped behind the short box and started planting the bomb.

"Beep..."

Hearing the sound of the bomb planting, Electronic jumped directly onto the police home box, then stood up to see the position of the bomb planter.

Moving slightly to the right, he saw the bomb planter at the short box at the edge of the smoke, immediately pulled the crosshair over, and pulled the trigger to prepare to fire.

"Da da da..."

But before Electronic could fire, bullets swept over from the A1 direction, frantically hitting his body.

【nice used SG553 to wallbang kill electronic】

"A site information obtained, knowing that Vitality can't run, both sides engaged in a firefight."

"A site total attack started to decide the outcome, police home smoke sealed, NBK started to enter the bomb site to plant the bomb."

"Electronic stepped on the short box, got vision and wanted to kill the bomb planter, but Nice's trade kill was fast!!"

"But Fire Boy also pulled out from the jump platform directly, two headshots killed Nice instantly, and Zywoo's sniper rifle completed the trade kill again!!"

"A melee on A site, in the end, it formed a 2v2 situation?" Old Handsome was a bit surprised.

"This clutch seems to have room for operation again!"

The opponent's trade kill speed was too fast; Xu Beifang also had a flash of inspiration at the time, thinking that the CT at the police home might step on the box to force the bomb planter. So after getting the kill, there wasn't much time to adjust.

Fortunately, he helped NBK plant the bomb, at least giving them 40 seconds of time, and his task was considered completed.

In a 2v2 clutch, Zywoo and NBK still had something to say.

"s1mple and Zeus chose to hug together and retake from the police home; they knew this was a short box bomb, so they were pushing slowly."

"s1mple sniper rifle opened the scope, one of the Wong Kar-wai style clutches to the end, using the advantage of the sniper rifle to rub points, pushing all the way forward."

"NBK didn't know the opponent's retake speed; after planting the bomb, he didn't dare to move his position at all; this wave is finished!"

NBK fired instantly after seeing the police home CT, but the advantage of the sniper rifle over the rifle was too great; he only fired two bullets before being traded by s1mple.

However, at the moment of being killed, he still got important information.

"Police home is two!!"

What was left for Zywoo was a 1v2 clutch, and now they could only hope for Zywoo's performance.

Zywoo was expressionless, holding the sniper rifle and facing the wall at A1.

He recited the time in his heart and waited for a timing.

A smoke grenade exploded at the short box, and Zywoo peeked out directly.

The bomb defusing sound had already sounded, and no enemy appeared in the vision at first, but in the peripheral vision, he saw half an arm next to the short box.

Zywoo wasn't in a hurry, double-scoped to find the enemy and fire.

【zywoo used AWP to kill zues】

The beep sound had already sounded; Zywoo didn't know if the opponent had a defuse kit, so he walked towards the bomb site immediately.

Xu Beifang hurriedly shouted: "Don't be anxious!! That guy s1mple isn't really defusing!!"

He watched the demos of these people very often on weekdays and was very clear about the playstyle of these star players.

s1mple was quite confident in his own strength and often chose the decision to kill first and then defuse in a clutch.

It was rare to see s1mple hard-defusing the bomb.

Zywoo slowed down his pace; he chose to believe his good partner.

He silently jumped onto A2, the sniper rifle didn't open the scope and moved slowly towards the short box, and soon, in a moving angle, he saw s1mple holding the gun at the edge of the short box smoke.

s1mple obviously saw him too, and the angle turned over immediately.

—Bang!

【zywoo used AWP to kill s1mple】

But Zywoo's angle allowed him to react faster!!

"Niceeee!!!!!"

Everyone in the Vitality voice chat shouted loudly, and the bald coach was also excitedly clapping behind, celebrating the victory of this clutch.

This point was won quite difficultly; the early firefight was unfavorable, causing them to fall into a passive state, fortunately, Xu Beifang and Zywoo were powerful enough in the clutch.

Zywoo had a lingering fear expression: "3v5, this point is not easy; NaVi's frontal gun is so hard."

"s1mple's playstyle is also so bold; I almost lost because of anxiety." Zywoo looked at Xu Beifang, "Brother, your reminder was too critical."

Without Xu Beifang's reminder, he would have really run to the face to block the opponent from defusing.

That opened the footsteps, s1mple peeked out from the right, definitely hitting a pre-fire.

At this distance, he believed s1mple couldn't miss.

At this time, the score had reached 8:1, a score difference of 7 points, which could be called far ahead!

The huge score difference made them can't help but have some fantasies; could they directly beat NaVi by a large score today?

Vitality's scoring rhythm didn't continue.

In the next round, after a simple numerical exchange in the middle road at the beginning, Apex commanded them to sandwich A from the archway.

As a result, they encountered NaVi's 4A heavy defense gamble, and there were too many gun positions they had to deal with; in the end, the offense and defense of A site only traded one person before NaVi scored.

After getting this point, NaVi seemed to have found the rhythm of the match, and in the following matches of the first half, they played more smoothly.

However, Vitality's rhythm wasn't completely broken, and both sides entered a state of chasing each other.

Finally, the first half ended, and the score was fixed at 11:4.

"11:4, Vitality's state today is quite good." Ma Xixi praised in the live stream, summarizing the first half of the match.

"Not only Nice's hand is hot, Apex and Zywoo also killed frantically in the first half; although s1mple and Fire Boy were killing, Electronic was relatively sluggish today, and their frontal pressure couldn't hold up."

【Zywoo and s1mple's two sniper rifles are too fierce; how many clutches have they played?】

【The rifleman's lens is all on Nice; Fire Boy and Electronic can't hold up!】

【This match is too exciting; the AVANGAR next door is saving guns every round, which made me vomit.】

【These two teams are hard-hitting, not cowardly at all, just looking for you to fight, ten people in the middle road frantically melee.】

For most of the audience, matches like NaVi and Vitality fighting each other, with constant kills on both sides, would make them feel blood-boiling.

And AVANGAR's way of playing was too rational.

It was already tired enough to go to work, and now watching a match was like working, people were numb.

Old Handsome looked at the wonderful kills in the first half and said: "A difference of 7 points, it depends on the second half. If Vitality wins the pistol round, there is basically no suspense in the match."

Hearing this, Vitality fans in the live stream were looking forward to it, while NaVi fans were worried.

Halftime break.

The air pressure in the NaVi battle room was frighteningly low.

s1mple frowned, and the expressions of other members in the room were not optimistic.

Vitality was much stronger than they imagined; they had lost their relaxed state before the match.

Even knowing their own playstyle was slow to warm up, today was too slow.

Vitality's pressing playstyle gave them not much time for information processing and thinking.

Especially Zywoo and Nice on the opposite side, one restricted NaVi's frequent forward pushing, and the other could break through and score in their stable defense.

Plus an Apex who exerted force from time to time.

They felt the situation was getting a bit bad.

Only 4 points in the first half; if they lost the pistol round, there would basically be no fault tolerance for a few rounds.

Paying attention to everyone's expressions, Zeus comforted:

"Don't be so dejected one by one; we have played against more difficult teams. The first half was just a bad hand feel; you think about it, isn't it true that since we started scoring, Vitality's offense hasn't been that powerful?"

Seeing that their expressions seemed to have improved, Zeus continued to add: "After switching to the second half, we are on the offensive side, and the initiative of the match is in our hands."

"As long as we can defend against that Nice."

"I think I can beat Apex in the game of IGL; s1mple, do you think you are not as good as Zywoo?"

Even knowing that Zeus was using a simple radical method, in this emotional atmosphere.

s1mple's face was full of arrogance: "I think Zywoo is the player closest to my level, but to surpass me, he still needs to be polished."

"That's the confidence I want!!" Zeus struck while the iron was hot, "As long as we believe we can make a comeback, then this match is not difficult for us!"

"Think about those comebacks we created, recall that feeling!!" ===== CHAPTER 214 =====