Chapter 253: 258. Chapter 253: Nice: Smoke doesn't affect my pursuit of the enemy at all

258. Chapter 253: Nice: Smoke doesn't affect my pursuit of the enemy at all

The bus with the ENCE team logo drove through the streets of Shanghai. They had just departed from the hotel, and their final destination was the venue for the StarSeries playoffs—the Shanghai Baoshan Arena.

They originally thought there wouldn't be many spectators for this tournament, but after the rehearsal, they discovered that the stage at Baoshan Arena wasn't small.

In this sports center, there were 5,000 fixed seats, capable of accommodating up to 7,000 spectators, with a central hanging screen and four-sided surround screens. The overall layout was very compact, and whether it was the players or the audience, the feedback felt would be very strong.

Although the offline audience wasn't over 10,000, which made them feel a bit of a pity, ENCE felt it was already quite good.

"This is?"

On the moving bus, AleksiB looked at the video on Sergej's phone and asked somewhat uncertainly.

"Oh, it's the silent A1 drop technique Nice posted yesterday." Speaking of this, a doting smile appeared on Sergej's face. "My brother sent it to me."

"What do you say, let your brother come play professionally in two years." AleksiB bumped Sergej's shoulder. "By then we'll still be in our prime, and we can take your brother to kill on the field and establish a legend for our Finland!"

Sometimes, CSGO talent really has some family genes in it.

Sergej was a genius teenager with a hot state on the professional stage, and his brother was also a high-ranking Faceit player. AleksiB had played with them a few times and felt Sergej's brother was a piece of moldable material.

"We'll see." Sergej laughed. "If he's willing to walk this path in the future, I'll definitely play brother-CS with him, okay."

While the two were joking, Sergej clicked play, and Nice's silent A1 drop technique played slowly before their eyes.

Watching Nice's skillful operation on the screen, Sergej said: "How does this Nice always research these strange techniques?"

"The guy has high aspirations." AleksiB said with a smile. "If we say we're here to work, this guy is planning to take a postgraduate entrance exam in CSGO. His interest in this game is very strong."

Whether it was Xu Beifang's match style or the new techniques he came up with from time to time, they left a deep impression on AleksiB regarding the player Nice.

On the map Mirage, Nice's research was too outstanding, making it hard for them not to notice.

Fast VIP smoke, the fake-attack smoke from T-spawn to B2, and now he's come up with some silent A1 drop technique.

As an IGL, AleksiB was the brain of a team and really liked players like Nice who liked to explore tactical depth.

Previously, in a dream team interview, he had included Nice in his roster.

But AleksiB was just thinking about it; he might never have the experience of working with Nice.

He was an IGL with a strong desire for control and had high requirements for team members.

He basically wouldn't give team members too much freedom, letting teammates operate within his tactical requirements.

But he had studied many of Nice's recordings and found that Nice wasn't the "brute" rumored to like hard-grabbing timing.

Nice's playstyle was very smart and agile.

Whether it was now or during his VP period, Nice's freedom within the team was extremely high, and even many times the team's tactics were developed around him.

This was completely contrary to AleksiB's philosophy.

Plus, although Nice spoke English, he might transfer to other teams later.

But if possible, AleksiB still wanted to keep playing at ENCE.

"You're overestimating him a bit too much." Allu's voice came from the front of the bus. "Nice's playstyle is indeed fierce, but it's also very easy to be targeted. Back in Katowice, wasn't he still taken down by us?"

He believed Nice's level was just so-so, and they were putting too much weight on internet rumors.

Nice was indeed playing quite well, but there was also some hype involved.

Just like after Katowice, when the defeated Nice was called the "World's Number One" by netizens, Allu was stunned.

ENCE's state had also been very outstanding over the past month, and he believed today's match wouldn't be difficult.

They could defeat Vitality once, and they could defeat them a second time.

"Nice's performance has been so outstanding recently, how am I overestimating him?" AleksiB smiled and stopped talking.

He and Allu had always had some small conflicts.

In terms of playstyle, as the team's IGL, AleksiB had always belonged to the aggressive faction.

And as the team's big brother, Allu tended toward a lurker playstyle.

Allu's previous playstyle was to let the team exert force, disrupt the opponent's rhythm, and he, as the member covering the rear, would come to collect kills and provide feedback to the team.

And AleksiB's default "do-or-die" playstyle made the team's results better, but Allu played very uncomfortably.

AleksiB believed that for the sake of team results, sacrificing personal style was no problem.

But Allu believed that if personal style was gone, how was he different from going to work?

For this, the two had argued many times.

But fortunately, now that the results were outstanding, the arguments between them rarely happened.

AleksiB looked ahead. As the bus arrived near the arena, various CSGO elements appeared on the pedestrians.

Last year's StarSeries S6, ENCE lifted the trophy, making the fans go crazy.

This time, their goal was to lift the cup again!

Whether it was NaVi, Fnatic, or Vitality, they would gradually just be scenery on the road to the championship!

April 5, 2019, 4:00 PM.

With a quarter of an hour until the match officially started, the Vitality members left the lounge early and, according to the previous rehearsal layout, came to the player tunnel to wait.

"NaVi!!!" "Vitality!!!" "FaZe Clan!!"

In the dim player tunnel, Vitality and the others listened to the passionate shouts of the audience vaguely coming from the arena, and couldn't help but feel their hearts racing.

Jackz rubbed his hands and kept jumping on the spot, looking just like a boxer warming up.

"Nervous?" Xu Beifang noticed Jackz's movements were clearly different from usual.

Jackz didn't hide his emotions either, nodding with a smile: "Feeling a bit of pressure."

Shox smiled and put his arm around his shoulder: "Just treat this as a football match."

"With our good coordination, the Finns' defense is vulnerable, we easily break through and score, and then the whole stadium is cheering for us, and even excited fans break through the security guards' obstruction to come and hug you..."

That kind of scene appeared in Jackz's mind, but it was quickly interrupted ruthlessly by Xu Beifang:

"What are you thinking? The door to the battle room is locked, fans can't rush in."

Shox looked at Xu Beifang with disgust: "You guy who can't play football, you don't understand what football culture is. This is called immersion!!"

"If you have the ability, play table tennis with me, I'll let you know what table tennis culture is."

Shox rolled his eyes at Xu Beifang.

Playing table tennis with Xu Beifang, isn't that looking for abuse?

For the French, there will never be a better sport than football.

But for CSGO professional players, table tennis is absolutely the most suitable sport.

After training for a few hours and getting tired, they play a few games in the room next door. Everyone can move around a bit, and it can also exercise hand-eye coordination. Why not?

But Shox also had to admit that although Xu Beifang couldn't even juggle a football.

But in terms of table tennis, he could easily crush the entire Vitality team.

The few joked with each other and looked at the arena, where four huge screens above were playing everyone's wonderful performances from the group stage.

In just a blink, Xu Beifang saw his 1v4 and the 1v3 that Zywoo had pulled off.

Promotional videos for several teams in the playoffs began to appear on the screen, everyone posing and acting cool, letting the audience recognize the faces of the players.

Finally, the arena lights came on, and all the white light focused on the center of the stage, on that shining trophy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2019 StarSeries S7 match venue!"

The host, wearing a wide suit with a slightly heavy broadcast voice, walked out from the darkness.

"After 6 days of fierce competition, quite a few teams have been eliminated, and only eight teams remain to compete for the final championship. Today, the quarter-finals will unfold..."

"Let's welcome both teams to the stage!!"

The lights on the right side of the arena came on, and the classic song "EZ4ENCE" played at the venue.

This song "EZ4ENCE," accompanied by ENCE's good results at the Katowice Major, had already become a minor hit in the entire circle, and many people knew there was such a team support song.

But a week ago, on March 29th.

The "lazy vacation company" (Valve) finally had a small CSGO update.

The main update content was the release of the "EZ4ENCE" music kit and the Beast Series stickers.

(Beast Series Stickers)

And announced that Vertigo would officially replace Cache, moving from the reserve map pool to the active duty map pool.

This triggered a lot of discussion. Teams like NaVi and Vitality that didn't play Nuke were of course happy, because the addition of a new map would definitely trigger a change in strength on the professional stage.

But for the audience, they cared more about the "EZ4ENCE" music kit.

This pleasant music, now playing as the round ended, made even more people have a deeper impression of the ENCE team.

So the moment ENCE appeared, many people shouted excitedly.

After ENCE walked onto the stage, the host raised the microphone again: "Next, let's welcome Vitality!!"

The lights in front of the player tunnel came on, and amidst the cheers of the entire arena, the Vitality members walked out of the player tunnel.

The moment they walked out of the tunnel, it was as if they had arrived in another space, and various sounds rushed into Xu Beifang's ears.

What met his eyes were the excited faces of various CSGO enthusiasts.

He saw a fan on the left holding a huge Qiezi.

A bit further away, there were fans wearing black samurai masks, but unfortunately, that black samurai hadn't killed his way out of hell yet.

On the right side of the tunnel, there were people holding light boards that said "Wanjiqi vs. Yaorenmao," "Ma Liangwan, exert your power!", "Suggest Xiao Xu win the championship," and so on.

The offline atmosphere was directly maxed out.

Xu Beifang showed a smile on his face, "Sure enough, offline CSGO matches are still interesting!"

"What did you say!!" Jackz turned his head to ask. The sound of the audience in the arena was too loud, and he only heard his teammate muttering something behind him.

"I said with this atmosphere today, we have to crush ENCE no matter what." Xu Beifang leaned close to Jackz's head and shouted loudly, then he stretched out his hands and high-fived the fans next to him one by one.

Amidst the shouts of the audience, Vitality finally walked to the center of the stage.

The host also simply stirred up the fire, adjusting the atmosphere of the scene, and ENCE and Vitality each entered their battle rooms to start warming up and preparing.

In the 6657 live stream room.

Wanjiqi looked at the fans holding the "Wanjiqi vs. Yaorenmao" light board at the scene, his face turning black.

A clip of a dance he watched when he was young and green had been teased by fans until now.

Adjusting his emotions slightly, Wanjiqi greeted:

"Welcome to the 2019 StarSeries S7 quarter-finals match venue. I am the commentator for this match, Wanjiqi."

Because he didn't have work at the scene today, Wanjiqi returned to the live stream room to commentate.

But he didn't slack off just because he wasn't at the scene, still wanting to present a better commentary effect to the audience in the live stream room, his spirit very full.

"Today's match between Vitality and ENCE, I think everyone is very much looking forward to it." Wanjiqi said. "At the IEM Katowice Major, ENCE was the strongest dark horse, eventually getting a good result as the runner-up... Unfortunately, Vitality was eliminated by ENCE."

"And now that they are facing each other again, ENCE and Vitality can be said to be enemies meeting, their eyes turning red. Everyone wants to enter the next stage to compete for that championship trophy, but there is only one winner!"

At this time, the director at the scene gave the data comparison of both sides.

"ENCE played a total of 8 maps in the group stage, with an average rating of 1.06." Wanjiqi looked at Vitality. "And Vitality played 13 maps, but the average rating was 1.10."

In terms of strength, ENCE was definitely more sufficient. After all, ENCE advanced directly with a 3-0 score this time, and the strength shown was evident.

But Vitality here wasn't without a chance of winning.

In the group stage, they played a total of 13 maps, almost filling them up.

Although the state fluctuated, the feel was clearly hotter.

Furthermore, coming to the comparison of star players on both sides.

As ENCE's star player, Sergej played an average rating of 1.16.

But what about Vitality here?

Zywoo's average rating was 1.23, and Nice's average rating was 1.22.

The performance of the two was clearly better than ENCE's players.

So if Nice and Zywoo could perform, it wasn't without hope of winning.

The only worrying place was perhaps the map pool.

Although Cache was announced to be removed from the map pool, it had nothing to do with this tournament.

This meant that Vitality's maps still had flaws. If ENCE had hidden something, then Vitality might suffer this time.

The camera gave to the Vitality player seats.

Xu Beifang punched Jackz on the side, the two laughing and talking, their expressions quite relaxed.

This scene made Wanjiqi relax as well.

The players didn't have a state of facing a great enemy before the match, which was a good thing.

He also remembered the "Ma Liangwan" incident the day before yesterday, knowing that Vitality's resilience was strong now, and the worry in his heart lessened a bit.

The BP (Ban/Pick) session of the match officially started.

xtqzzz, as Vitality's head coach, came to the middle of the stage to guess the coin toss with ENCE's head coach Twista.

He chose the side with the word, and ENCE's head coach chose the side without the word.

But unfortunately, the side without the word wasn't very good today, and ENCE had to hand over the first-pick right to Vitality.

"Vitality came up and banned Train. This is a conventional ban, but ENCE must be quite troubled." Wanjiqi looked at the data on the side. "They played Train twice in this StarSeries, with a 100% win rate. This map being banned by Vitality, they are still quite uncomfortable."

"Ban Nuke or ban Inferno?" AleksiB asked for his teammates' thoughts.

Allu said: "Ban Inferno, everyone hasn't been playing Inferno well recently."

And there was one thing he didn't say: Vitality's Inferno could be called a specialty.

Although he believed Nice's level was overestimated, he still recognized this guy's level on Inferno very much.

Both sides banned conventional maps, removing the opponent's strongest map, which was also relatively normal.

"Coming to Vitality's first pick, they directly locked in Mirage."

"ENCE locked in Nuke here."

The bald coach stood behind the players, his expression relaxed.

In his view, as long as they weren't playing Train, other maps were acceptable.

Coming to the second round of picks.

Vitality removed Nuke, leaving Overpass and Dust II for ENCE to choose from.

Although there was a "six-track sniper god" in the team, ENCE's performance on Dust II wasn't very good, so they finally removed Dust II.

The three maps for this BO3 had all appeared: Mirage, Nuke, and Overpass.

It was relatively rare for a BO3 to have two unpopular maps.

The BP session ended, and the players, under the referee's notification, started to enter the server for Map 1.

xtqzzz fist-bumped the players one by one: "Don't have pressure, we can operate on these three maps, and ENCE's state recently isn't very good either."

"Today, let ENCE taste the bitterness of failure!"

Both sides' ten players officially entered the server for Map 1.

Vitality vs. ENCE

Map: Mirage

T: Zywoo, Nice, Shox, Apex, Jackz

CT: Allu, AleksiB, Sergej, Aerial, Xseven

Amidst the cheers of the audience, the match officially started!

Apex explained the playstyle for this round: "Jackz, we'll buy utility, we'll throw a connector smoke and a jungle smoke later, then send flashes to A1 and A2."

The playstyle wasn't complicated, and even a ladder match could replicate this pistol round tactic.

But Apex didn't need a complicated playstyle. He knew Vitality's strength was individual ability, and he knew that as long as they used utility to coordinate with teammates and bring out their gunplay advantage, it would be enough.

"Vitality comes up with a conventional A-site explosive bomb attack, two smoke grenades sealing off the vision on the right, and then using flashbangs to rush the bomb site and CT spawn."

"Aerial at CT spawn is very smart, not rushing to duel, but retreating to the second point to save his life."

"But Allu at the archway caught the gap in the connector smoke and killed Jackz with one shot!"

Giving up the first kill at the start, but the good news was that they successfully planted the bomb at Long Box.

And Xu Beifang also took the opportunity to occupy CT spawn, confirming no one was at the close point of CT spawn.

After Apex planted the bomb, he said: "Don't rush, we'll just hold CT spawn and play. We have to get control of one side."

In this way, their formation was slightly stretched.

Shox was hiding inside A1, and the other three were all in the CT spawn area.

"Vitality is very smart, they want to hold control of CT spawn, so they can slowly play this clutch."

"But ENCE's playstyle is very steady, they chose to group up and retake from CT spawn. AleksiB threw a flashbang, sending someone to peek!"

The Vitality trio communicated and knew the opponent might push toward CT spawn.

Xu Beifang, standing at the close point, kept turning his head to dodge the flash to deal with the possible blow.

"Opponent is throwing a flash!" Xu Beifang heard the sound of utility being thrown, immediately shouted in the voice chat, and turned his head to dodge.

Zywoo also hurriedly dodged, turned his head back, and then outputted.

But the opponent didn't give him a chance to operate. The moment he turned his head back, a bullet hit his skull.

【Aerial used USP to headshot and kill Zywoo】

Zywoo was the first to be killed, but Xu Beifang, who had dodged the flash in advance, also started to act!

The moment he turned his head, he saw the "fly-head" (Aerial) firing with a USP, and Xu Beifang's crosshair quickly pulled to his head.

"Pop!"

【Nice used Glock to headshot and kill Aerial】

The opponent engaged in a close-range firefight, but instead, it came into Xu Beifang's kill range, directly headshotting and finishing the opponent with one shot.

But Apex was a bit anxious. Seeing Xu Beifang get the kill, he took the initiative to move to the left.

"There are two more at CT spawn!" Although he got the information, he was also headshot and killed by the opponent.

Xu Beifang shook out with a small body again. The good headshot line made him not even need to adjust his crosshair, directly firing.

"Pop!"

【Nice used Glock to headshot and kill AleksiB】

"There's still one at CT spawn!!" Happy shouted loudly to remind him.

Xu Beifang, however, wasn't in a hurry for the time being. Having gotten consecutive kills, his position had been locked.

If the opponent shook out from a long distance, having no cover beside him would make him very uncomfortable.

After considering it, Xu Beifang retreated to the Ropz position.

"The number exchange at CT spawn became 2 for 2, but Vitality still needs to face this 2v3 clutch."

"Nice has already jumped back to the front, Shox is helping him watch CT spawn, but they don't seem to know that Xseven has already touched T-spawn!"

Sergej and the other, retaking from CT spawn, cautiously pushed forward. Although they couldn't catch Nice, they were still actively releasing footsteps.

The information was deliberately released to make the opponent focus all their attention here.

In a 3v2 clutch, as long as the teammate at A1 could kill one, and they followed up to trade the other, this pistol round would be won.

They actively came out to get information, and Shox at the A1 headshot position also kept shaking and firing.

"CT spawn headshot... one dead at CT spawn, and another one is heavily wounded!!" Shox frantically fed information to Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang, standing at Long Box, didn't rush to trade, because he kept hearing two sets of footsteps at CT spawn, so the information on one person was unknown.

What he worried about most was that the moment he turned his head to prepare to trade, someone would stick their head out from the archway and trade him.

But before he could act, he heard his teammates shouting in the voice chat: "A1! A1!"

Xu Beifang turned his head quickly; Shox had already been killed by Xseven, who was pushing A1.

After turning his head back, he withstood Xseven's bullets and fired quickly.

"Nice is still looking for the last person's position, but Xseven has already stolen Shox, and is frantically tapping at him!"

"Nice turns his head and taps with the Glock. His aiming is very calm, Xseven instead panicked and messed up this wave!!"

"This wave Xseven was counter-killed and became the team's sinner. Now Sergej at CT spawn only has one HP left, he still has one chance for a shot!"

"Sergej touched out from Long Box and was also headshot and taken away by Nice!"

Wanjiqi summarized: "There's nothing much to say about this round. ENCE's handling was quite good, but Nice used four headshots to tear apart the opponent's A-site retake. Of course, Shox also played a key kill at A1, killing one with a Glock and wounding one, also breaking the synchronization at CT spawn."

"Good gun!!" Apex laughed at Xu Beifang. "The opponent was a true lurker this wave, fighting in the front for so long, and the one in the back refused to come out."

"It's just a pity that the gunplay had some mistakes, otherwise I would have really been caught." Xu Beifang said.

Shox said: "If he had fired a second earlier, I would have killed everyone at CT spawn. I tapped three heads in a row with the Glock..."

He was a bit speechless. Originally, this wave was his own reversal of the situation, but he was always stealing backs, and today his own back was stolen. He was a bit helpless.

However, the round was won, and he didn't have much of a mindset fluctuation.

After losing the pistol round, ENCE chose to buy two P250s, and the others were all "naked" USPs.

Vitality directly relied on gun suppression, and no accidents happened, not even losing much blood.

The score came to 2:0.

The first full-buy round started.

"The opponent should all have half-armor AUGs, Allu might buy an AWP, but overall there isn't much utility." Xu Beifang told Apex the economy he had calculated.

Happy extracted several useful pieces of information from these words.

"Half-armor," "Not much utility."

Plus the MAC-10 and CZ-75 that hadn't been replaced in his hand, the tactics at this time were also very clear.

When in doubt, just rush B!

But the final result of this rush B wasn't very good.

Because ENCE's playstyle was very strange. At the start, they stood a 3-B defense.

And unlike the conventional 3-B, Allu's unarmored AWP's first place to go was B-small.

Vitality's speed-up to B-site just happened to hit the muzzle of the gun.

Xseven at B-site just gave a site smoke, which slowed down Vitality's speed-up rhythm.

Jackz found an opportunity and forcibly killed Xseven at the site.

Xu Beifang took the opportunity and hurriedly wanted to plant the bomb, but ENCE's retake speed was far faster than they imagined. He was about to plant the bomb, but the CT who rushed out from the outside of the site killed him.

Both sides kept fighting, finally leaving a 1v3 clutch for Shox.

Shox operated and forcibly killed two, but finally failed to win this point.

"Nice try..." Vitality members fist-bumped each other. This point was truly a pity.

They really didn't expect ENCE to do a double B-small position at the start, which caught them off guard.

And ENCE's B-site defense handling was indeed good, directly giving a site-expansion smoke, dragging down their offensive rhythm.

"However, their economy won't be very high for this point, we still have a chance to operate."

Although they lost a point, Vitality could still piece together a full-buy round.

It's just that the subsequent confrontation wasn't as smooth as they thought.

Allu found his state today, looking a bit like he was evolving into "God Allu."

And his AWP playstyle was somewhat different from other players on the market. This guy's AWP chose some second-position holding points.

Vitality was caught off guard during the push, often suddenly losing one person.

After ENCE's economy got better, except for Allu, there were 4 AUGs, and Vitality's offense began to be severely hindered.

The score also came to 2:5.

Apex asked: "There are two choices now. One is for me to buy a Hero AK, and let Nice and Zywoo operate."

"The second is for everyone to half-buy and save money, and play a full-buy round next point."

Xu Beifang exhaled: "Half-buy and save money. My feel is not good. And this bunch of guys all have AUGs, not easy to fight."

Mirage is a relatively balanced map. Most of this map is mid-range dueling, and the AUG's advantage can be maximized.

The current AUG is too strong. Without a headshot, the AK's damage is about the same as the AUG.

But the AUG can scope in at mid-range, which is better than the AK47 at times.

Under these circumstances, the difficulty of just using an AK to find opportunities is still very large.

And ENCE watched A1 very tightly, not giving Xu Beifang any chance to silently dry-touch.

Tried twice before, once directly held to death, once successfully broke through, but was traded later.

So it's better to enter the full-buy round and honestly unfold according to Happy's tactics.

He also needed to briefly sort out his thoughts.

Apex nodded: "Then let's get some information first, 2-1-2 unfold, don't rush to throw the utility in your hands."

Xu Beifang nodded. The countdown ended, and he directly came to A1 to quietly collect information.

The opponent's A1 fire was thrown from the bomb site, and someone near the connector added an A2 smoke.

He reported the information to Happy.

Happy also got the information that there were two people at B-site.

"Shox, you stay at B2 to harass, Jackz, you cooperate with me to try to take the middle."

After Apex got the information, ideas gradually built up in his mind.

"I'll throw a VIP smoke first, then Zywoo or Nice, you throw a jungle smoke at the second time, see if we can eat the person at the connector by grouping up."

After saying that, he returned to the spawn point and gave a VIP smoke, intending to seal the opponent's vision.

"Allu in VIP directly pushed back an archway smoke, and Sergej at B-small gave a B-small smoke. You want to grab the middle at the second time, the pressure here is directly maxed out."

Happy frowned. Just as he wanted to have some action in the middle, the opponent threw two smoke grenades back.

This point they were half-buying, the guns in their hands weren't very good. At this time, if the opponent played a one-way or something, that would be rushing out to die.

After considering it, he still took Jackz back to the outside of A-site.

Xu Beifang saw the team leader's actions and reminded: "If you want to go out A1, you must be equipped with flashbangs. The opponent's discipline is very strong."

Happy nodded: "Okay, Jackz, you help him grab an A-site high flash, I'll throw a jungle smoke, you see the situation to go for this opportunity."

Jackz had already grabbed the flashbang and said: "Just say it if you want a flash."

Xu Beifang didn't rush to ask for a flash from the team.

The score had already been led by ENCE. They were behind by 3 points. The more it reached this time, the less he could rush.

Taking a few deep breaths, letting his mood calm down, then aiming bit by bit.

A1 connector, under the sandwich, under the connector...

Move to the right again, the platform to the right of connector A1, pre-aiming to the right of Long Box.

Still no one.

"Give flash!"

The teammate's flashbang had been thrown, and Xu Beifang had also pre-aimed at CT spawn, directly pulling out horizontally.

The moment the flash exploded, Xu Beifang saw a "fly-head" carrying a fire-stick under the CT spawn box.

"Bang!"

【Nice used Desert Eagle to headshot and kill Allu】

"A1 out!!" Allu shouted quickly in the voice chat.

Vitality's coordination this wave was smooth. A lamp-post flash affected his vision for a moment, and Nice, who pulled out from A1, killed him in seconds.

Fortunately, he wasn't the only one defending A-site.

"Good gun!" The team's unanimous praise sounded in the headphones, and vague exclamations from the audience came from outside.

Consecutive round losses, everyone wanted to win a point. At this moment, seeing Xu Beifang get the first kill, they were naturally full of praise.

Xu Beifang wasn't disturbed by emotions. Pistol vs. long gun, although he got a kill, he couldn't replenish the gun, and his combat power couldn't be improved.

Wanting to make a comeback, the difficulty was still very large.

"Nice executed the AWP at CT spawn with a Desert Eagle, ENCE's line was directly torn open!" Wanjiqi accelerated his speech. "Aerial at the connector heard footsteps and actively pulled out to intercept the terrorists."

"Jackz, walking in the second position, was instantly headshot and taken out, but Zywoo, holding an A2 floor Desert Eagle, provided rapid cover fire and took Aerial out with a single shot."

"This trade kill at A2 is very critical! The jungle smoke also exploded. This wave Vitality has taken control of the A bomb site! It seems there is a chance to make a comeback!" Wanjiqi said, looking at the mini-map.

The commentator wasn't talking nonsense.

Wanjiqi's analysis was reasonable and well-founded.

ENCE was attracted by the harassment in the middle at the second time, becoming a 2-1-2 position.

But these two people at A-site, Allu at CT spawn was killed by the Desert Eagle in seconds.

Aerial's trade kill only killed one before being traded by Zywoo. This A-site was instantly taken by Vitality.

The fastest retaker, Sergej, was blocked by a jungle smoke that had been sealed in advance.

And Xu Beifang had picked up the long gun dropped at the connector. This wave was really hard to say!

After Xu Beifang picked up the AUG dropped at the connector, he quickly moved to the bomb site, wanting to stand at CT spawn and let Happy plant the bomb.

"Now the terrorists have stood at the bomb site, but what!" Wanjiqi was stunned. "This Sergej directly mixed Happy, who was passing by, to death from the smoke grenade."

"The rhythm was instantly dragged down, then the subsequent result is uncertain."

The originally good confrontation was affected by Sergej's operation, instantly becoming confusing.

Shox's voice came from the voice chat: "Don't be too anxious! I'm already at the supermarket."

Saying that, Shox said the information he got: "One went to CT spawn just now, there should be two people at jungle, can wait for me to flank."

The brothers in the front were exerting force, and he wasn't hiding as a lurker.

Actually, Shox had always looked down on those netizens' remarks.

Where was he a lurker? He hadn't been able to steal anyone at G2 before, that was because the frontal firepower wasn't enough.

The lurker position is very hard to play. If the team can't get kills in the front, it's hard for them to get results when covering the rear.

Xu Beifang looked at the mini-map and said: "Shushu, can you help me watch CT spawn? I'll help Shox as a hook."

"Okay, but I don't guarantee I can kill CT spawn." Zywoo peeked out from A2, his Desert Eagle directly aiming at CT spawn.

Xu Beifang saw this and also started spraying at the jungle.

The first wave of defense at A-site didn't go smoothly, and Sergej could only try to mix a wave while holding the time.

Originally didn't have expectations, but saw the kill information in the upper right corner.

Plus the opponent hadn't made the sound of planting the bomb, which made ENCE feel the arrival of an opportunity.

AleksiB had already retaken to CT spawn. He said to his teammates: "Don't be anxious, I'll handle the AWP at CT spawn. If Vitality wants to rotate, we'll group up and retake from the supermarket."

They were just waiting for the opponent to plant the bomb before considering slowly pushing forward to play this clutch.

Just then, Sergej at jungle saw bullets shooting over from beside the connector.

Sergej immediately counter-mixed, trying to kill the opponent.

Xu Beifang fired the first few bullets and hurriedly moved his position.

He had never given up practicing the technique of "mixing smoke."

Firing a spray and then moving his position had already become an instinct.

Seeing the bullets spraying out from the jungle smoke, Xu Beifang, who had been prepared for a long time, sprayed directly along the trajectory of the tracer bullets.

"Da da da..."

The AUG's bullets passed through the smoke grenade, accurately hitting Sergej, who was still happily mixing smoke, on the head.

【Nice used AUG to headshot and kill Sergej】

There was an exclamation in the arena.

【This can be mixed to death??】

【Cheating?】

【Did you buy a smoke helmet?】

【This point was really turned around!】

【...】

Regarding "smoke-mixing kills," offline audiences had always been very surprised.

Smoke-mixing in ladder matches mostly relied on luck.

So they found it hard to understand how professional players could be so accurate in smoke-mixing.

"Shox has touched the supermarket and is rushing to VIP, but Xseven is counter-holding here, he is guarding against the black room and the supermarket path. This lurker might be blocked."

"Frontally, Nice is trying hard to hook for him, firing to mix the jungle. Sergej is no weaker than others, also spraying and mixing." Wanjiqi shouted: "But Sergej still didn't win. Is your perspective locked on?"

"Sergej was instantly killed. Xseven, who was still watching the black room, could only turn his head to look at the front... But the moment he turned his head, Shox touched out from the dog hole. What kind of timing is this!"

"The Desert Eagle directly killed him with one shot. The 3v3 clutch became 3v1, only AleksiB is left."

AleksiB at CT spawn held an AUG, leisurely holding the pass, waiting for the opponent to plant the bomb.

But in the blink of an eye, the two teammates at the jungle had already died.

What's the situation?

How were they all torn apart by hand?

Seeming to feel AleksiB's confusion, Xseven explained: "Shox touched over from the supermarket, I held for 10,000 years, the moment I turned my head he came out. Vitality is really a bunch of timing masters."

As a B-site defender, because he often encountered lurkers following behind, Xseven's vigilance was very high.

But he had been guarding for a long time, yet didn't expect Shox to come out the moment he turned his head. He was very speechless in his heart.

There were 30 seconds left on the clock.

Now he could only expect AleksiB to create a miracle.

Footsteps came from near Long Box, and AleksiB actively touched out.

"Bang!"

HP -42

A Desert Eagle from A2 directly took away nearly half of AleksiB's health.

He immediately scoped in with the AUG, and the moment the opponent repeeked, he killed him.

But after killing Zywoo, the opponent had already picked up the bomb and was planting the archway bomb.

He held the AUG and sprayed at the Long Box bomb for a while, the opponent had no feedback.

AleksiB could only bite the bullet and peek out to find him, but the moment he passed, he was hit twice by Shox, instantly leaving him with single-digit health.

The footsteps in front made him feel bad.

Sure enough, Nice directly pre-fired and sprayed out.

【NiceZywoo used AUG to kill AleksiB】

The moment the kill appeared, the cheers in the arena exploded.

This ability to find opportunities is really strong... AleksiB was a bit speechless.

... ===== CHAPTER 254 =====