Chapter 257: Shox: I really didn't mean it!
The fierce BO3 confrontation officially ends. The Baoshan Gymnasium is bustling with noise. The early spring night still had some chill, but the atmosphere in the arena is incomparably hot. After Tyloo was eliminated in the group stage, CNCS fans who love the event have focused their attention on Vitality's match. At this moment, accompanied by Vitality's victory, fans under the stage are either waving cheering sticks or instinctively applauding to celebrate this victory.
And on the player bench on the left side of the stage, it is another scene.
Xu Beifang holds the AWP, this wave he is fighting back and forth around this box in the A-site, a quad-kill is already in hand, Jackz is already shouting for him: "The last one is at A-Long, get the penta-kill!!"
Xu Beifang also hurriedly goes over, opens the scope the moment he sees the person, and fires.
He even feels that the bullet has already been fired, and he has taken off half of his headphones, but sees that the kill ID in the top right corner is Shox's name.
Xu Beifang is stunned, looking at Shox quite incomprehensibly.
Shox directly spreads his hands: "If I didn't shoot him, he would have killed me."
Xu Beifang is so angry that his teeth itch, and he says to Shox through gritted teeth: "You old six!!"
Seeing this, Shox feels physically and mentally comfortable, and a pleasant smile hangs on his face.
Sometimes, backstabbing teammates is also an ultimate enjoyment.
Provided you can withstand the teammate's trash talk.
Apex looks at the healthy smile on Shox's face and gives his butt a slap: "You too, you were supposed to get the second penta-kill, why did you grab it for no reason?"
Shox isn't angry: "Habitual shooting, if I didn't shoot, I would have died."
Feeling the death stare coming from not far away, Shox lightly hammers Xu Beifang's shoulder with his fist: "Alright, don't be so stingy, next time I definitely won't grab your penta-kill... A cup of milk tea, can we let this matter pass?"
"A cup of milk tea, are you looking down on milk tea or looking down on a penta-kill?" Xu Beifang's brows instantly knit together, and his tone is rising, "At least two cups."
Shox was almost flashed by this sudden turn. Seeing the smile on Xu Beifang's face, he also knows that his anger is faked, and hammers Xu Beifang's shoulder again with his fist.
Xu Beifang is naturally not angry; his personality has always been easygoing.
As long as his bottom line is not touched, he is a fun-loving person in life.
Furthermore, Xu Beifang is not the kind of player like Dazhuang who values data particularly much.
Quad-kill or penta-kill, the ultimate goal is to win.
Although the penta-kill was grabbed by Shox, making him a little bit unhappy, but if you say he is angry, that's not the case.
And speaking of which, in this BO3 today, winning with a record of two wins and one loss and successfully avenging ENCE, his heart is still very happy.
Jackz walks over and high-fives Xu Beifang, saying unexpectedly: "How come your sniper rifle is played so well? The explosive power is even more powerful than KennyS."
Zywoo hears this and suddenly thinks of something fun: "Don't look at Nice as an entry fragger, but his sniper rifle highlight quality is the highest."
As a teammate who has come all the way, Zywoo has a deep impression of Xu Beifang's several sniper rifle performances.
Because the number of times he takes out the sniper rifle is very small, but after taking it out, many times he can play highlight clips.
"In the French forums, there are quite a few new players who have just entered the pit, and when discussing Nice, they always like to compare him with guys like Device and S1mple. Every time I see it, I'm happy."
Apex thinks about that picture, and the corners of his mouth can't help but curl up.
In professional games, highlight clips are very misleading.
Just like KennyS, even if his state declines, he can still contribute countless kill clips every year, but if you say how much his level is, he has long lost his dominance in the first-line arena, and is even gradually going down.
And traditional snipers similar to Godfather or Device, don't look at the few clips, but only after becoming his opponent do you know how disgusting this traditional sniper playstyle is.
Interestingly, identities like Xu Beifang and Coldzera who are riflemen and secondary snipers, use the sniper rifle to play more brilliant famous scenes.
Jackz pinches Zywoo's face with his hand: "Potato, you have to work hard in the future, otherwise you will be deprived of the right to use the sniper rifle by Nice."
Zywoo doesn't care: "I actually prefer playing rifles, haha."
Shox feels the atmosphere of the team, and a faint smile has been hanging on his face.
Today's Vitality still has big and small problems in map pool, team coordination, and overall strength.
But the atmosphere of the team members and their getting along with each other have no problems at all.
He was in G2 before, and on the surface, the atmosphere of the whole team was not bad. Everyone was a bunch of fun-loving people, and their daily getting along was also very harmonious.
KennyS thinks that a large amount of training is unnecessary, and talent is enough to fight in the game.
Others are also not particularly fond of the mode of training every day, which leads to the training of the whole G2 being a mess.
Basically, it is in a state where if there is a game, then there will be a training camp before the game.
If there is no game, everyone travels to relax, or does some live streaming.
Whether they can achieve results purely depends on the state of the players after entering the schedule.
In Shox's view, G2 lacks a champion's heart.
And after coming to Vitality, although the strength has not yet reached the requirements for competing for the championship, Vitality's attitude is nothing to say.
Basically, every morning when he just gets up and goes to the training room, he can see Nice already sitting there, not knowing how long he has started practicing.
In terms of talent, Shox thinks Zywoo's talent is higher than KennyS, this is a guy who practices with FPL professional players.
But even for a talented player of Zywoo's level, Vitality's large amount of training every day, he still has no intention of being absent.
Everyone is working hard for a goal.
This feeling is very good, anyway, Shox has gradually integrated into this team.
"Vitality defeats ENCE with a 2-1 score and successfully advances to the semi-finals." Wanjiqi's voice is clearly happy. "And ENCE has to be forced to leave our StarSeries S7 stage."
He doesn't hate the ENCE team, and he actually likes Aleksib in the ENCE team very much.
But on the other side is his good friend, so by comparison, he still hopes Vitality wins.
Wanjiqi looks at the screen, and the director's lens is given to the ENCE player bench.
Aleksib's fingers are grabbing a strand of hair, unconsciously making circles, and the high-spirited smile before the game is gone from his face.
In this confrontation, he thinks that his performance in the role of IGL has no problems, and even many times played particularly brilliant performances.
Looking at Vitality's overall playstyle, it can only be described as mediocre.
He has tried his best, but the game still lost.
How can this be reconciled??
But the cheers of the live audience also told him that the game is over.
They were eventually eliminated by Vitality.
Allu, known as the Sniper God of Six Tracks, let out a long sigh after this game ended.
Although he didn't count specifically, his kill count in the three maps of this game should not exceed 70.
Looking at the Vitality crowd walking toward them, especially noticing that special oriental face, Allu looks at the word "failure" on the screen and is silent.
Because of the disagreement with Aleksib's philosophy, he, like a child, also hated the players Aleksib likes.
Saying something like "Nice's level is just like that" before the game.
But in this BO3 confrontation, they were personally sent away by Nice.
Sergej, who has a very good relationship with him on his right, is silent after the game. As a high-spirited Finnish genius, although he regretfully lost in the Katowice Major, the strength of Astralis was too strong, and no one thought they could easily defeat Astralis.
He was disappointed at the time, but the teenager always puts his goal in the distance.
Sergej thinks that this StarSeries will be a stage for him to shine.
They will stand on the stage of the final to lift the cup and announce the arrival of ENCE to the world.
But he never thought that just after entering the playoffs stage, the exciting script had only written the first book, and it had already become the ending of ENCE in this event.
Xu Beifang shakes hands with the members of ENCE one by one.
To be honest, from the perspective of paper strength, ENCE is actually stronger.
As a member of the game, Xu Beifang can feel this point.
ENCE's technical and tactical skills are very fresh for the current professional teams. Various playstyles are also eye-catching.
However, this team is still a bit worse than Vitality's resilience.
They might have more momentum and have the spirit of not being afraid of anything.
It's just that the state of the whole team is not stable. With Aleksib present, they can maintain the lower limit, but the upper limit is very dependent on Allu and Sergej.
But the problem is, as a former FaZe sniper, Allu's upper limit has never been very high from beginning to end.
Finally, after entering Map 3, they were turned over by Vitality several times using individual ability, gradually lost their feel, and slowly lost that Overpass.
"Hey!" Sergej took the initiative to speak when shaking hands with Xu Beifang, "Next time we meet, I will definitely fight back."
As a star rifleman of the team, Sergej can't find any fault with Nice's performance in this BO3.
In Mirage, Nice beat him without any sound on the offensive end, and he almost became ENCE's breakthrough point.
Sergej is convinced of Nice's proficiency and various small tricks on that map.
The confrontation in Nuke, although they won, Nice didn't play very good data.
But in his view, facing their playstyle, Nice can maintain a stable trade, which is already quite good.
Map 3 goes without saying, Nice and Zywoo directly performed what is called "Iron-Blooded Defense" for them at A-site.
Xu Beifang hears the harsh words released by Sergej, a smile appears on his face, patting his shoulder: "Looking forward to you exploding me next time!"
Sergej also smiles, stretching out his fist and bumping it with Xu Beifang.
The Vitality crowd walks back to the stage, and the audience under the arena tries their best to offer their shouts belonging to the winner. Although Sergej is a bit envious, he believes that the future will eventually belong to him.
Looking at the teammates who are a bit low, he takes the initiative to say: "Let's go, go back to review the game."
"Losing this game today, no matter what, we have to find out how we lost."
"Walk slower! Walk slower!!" Jackz says, he really enjoys the sound of the audience shouting.
Before, playing well in the game, although he could hear everyone shouting, but the tens of thousands of yuan of noise-canceling earmuffs are not for display.
The sound they heard was extremely small, but that sound was like scratching their hearts quietly, making them look forward to bigger shouts.
Now that this confrontation is won, Jackz naturally wants to hear this intoxicating sound.
Shox rolls his eyes at him, very confidently raising his hand to signal to the audience under the stage. For a time, the shouts in the arena became louder, and he also walked slower.
As a legendary French veteran, he has also not felt the passion of this offline game for a long time.
After all, when he was in G2 before, many games were difficult to even get qualifications, and wanting to enter the offline playoffs stage was even harder than ascending to heaven.
Not to mention, as the former IGL of G2, he was still the object of liquidation.
At this moment, looking at those excited faces under the stage, Shox is also very enjoying it.
Amidst the cheers of the audience, they returned to their combat area proudly like generals who had won a battle.
While chatting and laughing, they packed up their peripherals.
At this time, the event group came to notify that Shox and Jackz needed to be interviewed later.
Although Shox's performance today is not the best of the whole BO3, the event group needs to consider one point: Vitality's interviews have always been inviting Zywoo and Xu Beifang, and the audience is a little tired of it, wanting to see something fresh.
Considering that after Vitality's new lineup, Shox and Jackz have not had any real communication with the outside world, so after this game, they took the initiative to call the two of them over.
When Shox and Jackz returned to the stage again, the live audience still offered them applause.
The host held the microphone and asked as usual: "Shox, you just won a difficult victory, how do you feel now?"
Shox held the microphone: "The mood is naturally good, after all, the ones enjoying the audience's cheers here are us, this is simply too good."
The host obviously expected this answer. He looked at Shox, a trace of bad smile on his face: "This is your first season in Vitality. Speaking of which, from G2 to Vitality, what is the biggest difference you feel?"
Shox deliberated, this is not easy to answer randomly.
Although G2 does have many, many problems, directly picking out the truth is very hateful.
"I think it's mainly passion. Nice and Zywoo are definitely fresh blood. They can always bring vitality to the team. I can feel the infinite positive feedback the team gives us. Everyone is playing very comfortably now."
The host smiles and continues to ask: "Then what do you think of your new teammates?"
Shox smiles, "For this, I can only say, Apex is really too noisy!"
【God, Apex is too noisy】
【Do you understand what passion is!!】
【Apex: Ah ah ah! (Passionate shouting), Shox: You are noisy to me!】
【ENCE's music kit is "EZ4ENCE", Vitality's music kit is "Apex"】
【...】
There were also bursts of laughter from the audience in the arena. Everyone's impression of this "hyperthyroid" IGL Apex is still very deep.
However, because of Xu Beifang, this medium, many netizens also know that Apex is just emotional, not really a pressure monster.
Apex in the lounge also couldn't help but curse: "This old six is slandering me outside again!! My reputation is going to be ruined by that group of old teammates!"
Xu Beifang and Zywoo looked at each other tacitly, the meaning is self-evident, what reputation does Apex have left to be ruined?
Shox on the screen is still talking eloquently:
"Jackz was brought by me, so I won't say much. For Nice and Zywoo, these two guys, I can only say they are too fucking strong!"
Shox thinks: "Strong to the point of being a bit weird, you know?"
This is his true inner words.
Other professional players might occasionally have a good state for a period of time and play wonderful performances.
But Nice and Zywoo, these two guys, are really as steady as old dogs!
Long-term state is online, this is too terrifying.
【Hahahaha】
【It seems that it is not just us who think these two guys are ridiculous】
【One bulldozer head-on, one full-map vision in the clutch, how can you not be confused?】
【Shox hasn't adapted to the feeling of being carried】
【In the game, I always feel that I haven't exerted my strength and won, laughing to death】
【The game is over while playing, victory or defeat has nothing to do with me, happy】
Xu Beifang in the lounge has a smile on his face.
Didn't expect Shox to recognize his strength so much behind his back.
The sound in the stream is still playing:
"Then let's talk about today's game, when you accidentally grabbed Nice's penta-kill..."
Shox interrupts the host, with a healthy smile on his face: "I did it on purpose!"
Xu Beifang in the lounge takes a deep breath.
Hard!
The fist is hard!
... ===== CHAPTER 258 =====
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