Chapter 227

231. Chapter 227: After the Legends Stage

Wednesday, February 26, 2019.

The Legends Stage matches had all ended yesterday; Xu Beifang rested simply for two days and entered the training state again.

Early in the morning, he pulled DaNGKING to play FPL.

"I really suspect you're acting against me." After a passionate FPL ended, DaNGKING complained in the voice chat, "Why are you like a war god when matched against me, but give it away every round when matched together?"

Xu Beifang explained: "What can I do? NiKo was on the team last round; I thought NiKo would exert force, so I thought about lying down for a round, but NiKo killed a single digit, what can be done?"

In FPL matches, when several of them, top-tier FPL players, are matched together, they often wait for each other to exert force, but in the end, they all give up, and the match explodes directly.

While bragging with DaNGKING, Xu Beifang saw the barrage asking:

【Did Beifang see this year's stickers?】

Xu Beifang nodded and responded: "I saw the stickers; everyone's imagination isn't rich this year, it's quite mediocre compared to last year."

Last year's Major stickers, whether it was the 'Believe' brother, Pasha's 'myfriend', or NiKo's Cthulhu-style, were all quite interesting; everyone focused on art.

But this year's stickers were relatively regular, with no special highlights.

Xu Beifang's signature with Chinese elements triggered quite a bit of discussion in the domestic community.

In comparison, DaNGKING's sticker was relatively mediocre.

This point could be seen from the price of their two gold stickers.

DaNGKING stuck four gold stickers on his Redline, spending 1000 yuan.

And Xu Beifang stuck four, spending nearly 3000 yuan in total.

Xu Beifang's sticker had a higher discussion rate.

Secondly, domestic 'guide dogs' really like to make a fuss about this kind of thing, directly igniting it!

Who says CNCS isn't passionate?

The Buff market makes you passionate!

Xu Beifang was no longer a college student who would feel heartache for a long time just to buy a computer; with ample funds on hand, he still bought four from the Steam market to build a four-sticker Redline to motivate himself.

He still really wanted to use his achievements to tell everyone the next sentence of this sticker.

At this time, the game showed a successful match, and they were very lucky to be matched together again.

This time Xu Beifang didn't pit DaNGKING, but turned on serious mode; in the pistol round, he used a triple-kill to break A Site, successfully taking the early rhythm.

DaNGKING enjoyed the pleasure of lying down to win.

But as this FPL entered the mid-game, DaNGKING gradually became irritable.

The match was still going smoothly, but DaNGKING was about to be disgusted by broky.

"VIP smoke is thrown, you go directly to Mid to find his trouble!"

Listening to broky's sincere statement in the voice chat, Tie Dan carried his four-sticker Redline and started walking toward the Mid sandbags.

But when he pulled out from T Spawn, he discovered that the smoke grenade that should have landed on VIP had landed in the sewer!

He hurriedly started to fight back, but the opponent's 'Sun God' wouldn't let this mistake go, and the sniper took him out with one shot.

"broky! Why did you throw a sewer smoke again?" DaNGKING roared hoarsely in the voice chat.

broky's calm voice came from the voice chat: "Did I throw it wrong? That might be a problem with ropz's fast VIP smoke research; I threw it according to his video!"

"You used this excuse last round."

"Then it might be that the opponent jumped to B Small and just happened to kick my smoke crooked..."

"You used that the round before last."

Listening to Xu Beifang's translation, the audience in the live broadcast room all laughed until they were numb.

【How exactly did this broky get to FPL number one? Purely relying on gunplay?】

【This ladder program effect is maxed out; I can say my level is the same as a professional brother】

【Just utility level, right? Laughed】

Xu Beifang said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "I also don't understand what Tie Dan is thinking; it's not the first time broky's VIP smoke has been thrown wrong, yet he is still willing to give broky a chance every time—he's really stubborn."

Xu Beifang was glad that he mainly attacked A1 and wouldn't be affected by broky's sewer smoke.

Otherwise, the one with maxed-out blood pressure right now might be himself.

Even though broky's utility usage was abstract, their offense was still very smooth.

Xu Beifang and broky's gunplay performance made the opponent's hand-feel cold, and they ultimately won this FPL match with a score of 16:8.

After the match ended, DaNGKING sent a message to Xu Beifang.

"Beifang, what do you say? You guys shouldn't have any training today, let's go out and play together? I don't want to be matched with broky again."

Tie Dan had already been disgusted by broky's operation in this match; the opponent's kind of utility made him feel it wasn't even as good as playing a 5EA match.

broky's utility really can be thrown wrong, as if he had never learned it.

There was even a wave where DaNGKING was fighting fiercely with the opponent and asked broky for a pop-flash to help.

As a result, he was hit in the face by a HE grenade from broky—damn it, he didn't get the flash assist, and he was blown away half his health by his teammate.

broky, are you supervising the battle from behind!

He almost couldn't hold it and started to apply pressure in the voice chat; it was still Xu Beifang who explained that broky's utility talent was like this.

DaNGKING's mood finally felt a little better.

Even so, he was still slandering endlessly; broky's utility talent must have been all pointed in the wrong direction.

(broky: I was still very handsome at that time)

Xu Beifang laughed uncontrollably: "You just don't let broky throw utility items; you're just idle and want to probe the depth of Broccoli's utility, right."

broky's utility is more abstract than a big Silver player.

The utility is thrown very freely, looking like it's the real deal, but it often cannot play a big role in the battle situation, and can even destroy one's own offensive tactics.

It is the most classic example among CS: GO professional brothers.

"This guy's utility level, if he doesn't work hard to practice, he really can't play professionally." DaNGKING complained.

Xu Beifang shook his head: "You really shouldn't say that... this guy is an active professional brother, transitioning in a team called Epsilon."

"Epsilon? Never heard of it, must be a non-mainstream team."

Xu Beifang shook his head: "Actually, it's not; this team still has some fame in Europe."

The Epsilon team isn't famous in Asia because they appear in the public eye very, very rarely.

But in Europe, they appear relatively frequently in some open qualifiers.

Although this team isn't as famous as FaZe's youth training Mouz, they have also cultivated a huge amount of talent.

In the early days of this team, flusha and JW stayed in it.

After '16.

The two Swedes known for their god-and-ghost duality, Rez and 'Young Master', also walked out of this team.

The genius sniper Smooya of the Great British Empire also started from this team.

The Danish muscle man blameF was also in this team last year.

Today's Epsilon also has two people Xu Beifang is familiar with, namely broky and k1to, these two players destined to shine brightly in matches in the future. However, CS: GO professional clubs operating until now, only HR and Mouz have made some name for themselves as youth teams.

The number of other youth teams is actually quite large, but they rarely can rely on players to charge into big tournaments.

More players use them as a springboard.

However, Xu Beifang didn't think broky would be limited by his utility level.

A very simple example, just like Tyloo's DD.

His use of utility is also a pile of shit; most of his attacks use dry-peeking, relying on gunplay.

Once he really needs to use smoke grenades and flashes, it's just a right-click throw, directly a pop-flash or pop-smoke.

But DD, relying on his gunplay, also became one of the top gunners in the Asian region and achieved results with Tyloo.

The level of utility can only be considered the icing on the cake; it can improve a player's upper limit, but he knew broky's level, and he would definitely be able to charge onto the professional stage in the future.

"So, go for a stroll?" Tie Dan initiated a fencing invitation to his good brother again.

"After finishing the Major, I should have about a month of vacation; let's gather together again when I return home." Xu Beifang said, "It's only a few days until the Champions Stage, I still want to work hard to maintain my form."

Tie Dan's 'pain mask' was hung up again.

He thought Xu Beifang would readily agree to him, and then they would look at Polish beauties on the streets of Katowice together to improve their international aesthetics.

Unexpectedly, Xu Beifang rejected him with a "still need to work hard."

Recalling the match in the Challengers Stage, Nice whispered in his ear that the future was his.

The imaginative Tie Dan had already thought of the future scene.

"Beifang, you've already won the Major championship, let's go out and play."

"Can't, although I won the championship, I haven't surpassed Astralis yet, and I haven't won the Grand Slam yet, I still need to work hard..."

As soon as Tie Dan thought of that scene, he felt it was too painful!

"No!" DaNGKING shouted like he was going crazy in the training room, "I can't be this decadent anymore, I want to work hard to practice gunplay, improve my level, and enter the Major Champions Stage!"

Leading this bunch of stinky fish and rotten shrimp of Tyloo, entering the Major offline in a one-drag-four posture.

At that time, the audience below the stage would shout:

"DaNGKING!! DaNGKING!!"

Xiaogui walked in from outside the training room with a bottle of Coca-Cola and saw Tie Dan with a lewd smile on his face, twisting on the gaming chair like a maggot.

"Why are you laughing like a retard?" The 'down-headed' man Xiaogui directly maxed out the mockery.

"You don't understand! I want to work hard to enter the Champions Stage and use my strength to smash Little Xu in the future."

Xiaogui looked at DaNGKING with sorrow: "This kind of talk, just fool the brothers, don't fool yourself. It's nothing if the brothers are fooled, just laugh it off; you should think carefully about who else besides the brothers would believe you."

DaNGKING thought for a moment; in order to enjoy that kind of cheering, he would definitely be able to put in the effort:

Day 1: Don't bully the poor youth!

Day 2: Reward yourself for a day first

Day 3: Reward yourself

Day 4: DaNGKING, oh DaNGKING, how can you be so decadent?

Day 5: Reward yourself!

Damn!

Looking at Tie Dan's expression that hadn't even persisted for 3 minutes, Xiaogui, as a teammate, still walked up and comforted him intimately: "It's okay, we can't compare with heaven-favored children like Beifang, but you, Tie Dan, have your own strengths."

"What strength?" DaNGKING was somewhat surprised that he could actually hear good words from the 'down-headed' man's mouth.

"Although Xu Beifang's CS: GO level is good, his appearance is just an average guy..."

Hearing this, DaNGKING's mouth curled up, and his chest puffed out.

He didn't expect that from a teammate's perspective, he could actually receive such praise!

"... but you are different. If they act as clowns, they need to keep pondering, carefully thinking, repeatedly practicing, and controlling the details... and you, my friend, you only need to open your eyes to be the peak they can't reach!"

"Xiaogui, are you looking to die!"

Listening to the conversation coming from the other end of the voice chat, Xu Beifang had long been unable to hold it, laughing until he almost choked.

He didn't expect that Xiaogui, who was usually serious, was actually a funny guy behind his back.

However, he suddenly started adding training, not because he wanted to be some 'roll king'.

It was because the results of the subsequent Legends Stage matches made him feel pressure.

Besides Vitality, the other seven teams that advanced were:

The North American number one Liquid, with the reputation of being an aim-bot team.

MIBR led by Coldzera and the Godfather.

The Australian Renegades led by Gratisfaction and JKS.

The Galaxy Battleship driven by NiKo.

AleksiB and his Finnish friends.

The Born to Win led by s1mple.

And finally, the Great Demon King that everyone wants to avoid, the Danish legion with extreme oppressiveness.

FaZe, NaVi, Astralis, and Liquid, whom they had defeated once, were all favorites to win this Major, and their strength couldn't be underestimated.

And some other teams that were slightly less favored weren't as weak as imagined either.

For example, MIBR—in the Challengers Stage, they even lost to Xu Beifang's former teammate VP in an upset, but as they played, they forcibly made it into the Champions Stage.

ENCE and Renegades were also dark horses this year; in the third day of the Legends Stage, Renegades even took a map in a best-of-three against Astralis.

Even though they couldn't win, being able to bite a piece of meat off Astralis was already very terrifying!

ENCE, whom they had played against, although it seemed like they won and lost, Allu had been in 'God Allu' form recently, becoming a true top-tier sniper.

Every step of entering the offline stage next would be very difficult to walk.

Xu Beifang didn't want to recall the fragments of the Major one day after the match ended and regretfully say things like "I should have worked harder."

Once he had entered the schedule, he would put in all his effort.

And, the first match of the Champions Stage next, they were going to face the Galaxy Battleship FaZe.

They only had experience playing against FaZe in training matches and knew very little about the style of this international column.

They could only rely on FaZe's recent match demos to conduct research, so more time was spent on self-training; this was also why Xu Beifang didn't accept DaNGKING's invitation.

He wanted to adjust his form to the end; otherwise, encountering this team full of star players, if his form was slightly off, the impact on the situation might be huge!

However, he was very much looking forward to playing against NiKo.

It's just that he felt somewhat sorry for FaZe's current state.

NiKo transitioned to become an IGL; although he still had a rating above 1.1, he could definitely be called the strongest gun-leader.

But he didn't escape the saying that has spread widely in FPS games: "The IGL is the graveyard of gunners."

After NiKo became the IGL, his form was still considerable, but it wasn't as terrifying as in his prime.

One day, Xu Beifang hoped NiKo could still find an excellent IGL.

Letting him play against a NiKo with maxed-out form—that would definitely be interesting.