Chapter 259: Who is carrying in Katowice?

Waking up from a dream, his eyes were still a bit sour. Xu Beifang opened his phone and looked at the time.

April 6, 2019, Saturday, 8:15 AM.

Xu Beifang propped himself up on the bed. Even if he was still sleepy, he liked to play with his phone or be in a daze for a while when he woke up.

This was like a ritual to wake himself up.

Opening his phone, Xu Beifang saw two friends sending him messages on WeChat.

Classmate Xiao Ming: Beifang, stop sleeping. Old Ma and I have come to Shanghai to cheer for you. Get up quickly and eat breakfast!

Below was the address of a Shanghai breakfast shop, only less than 5 kilometers away from his hotel.

Xu Beifang smiled and typed on his phone: Who are you fooling? You must be eating mixed noodles at the school gate now.

But the next second, Xiao Ming sent a photo. Xu Beifang looked closely and was really suspicious.

Because the various delicacies on the table were really in the style of Shanghai.

Pan-fried buns, pot stickers, sugar cakes, and a bowl of fermented bean curd.

It's not that you can't find this kind of thing in Jiangxi, but just for fermented bean curd, it's extremely difficult to find a shop that has this kind of thing.

In Jiangxi breakfast, it's basically pot soup with mixed noodles, at most adding fried dough sticks or other snacks.

He retreated to the home page, looked at Ma Dong's message, and found that Ma Dong also gave him the same address.

He put on his clothes, went to the toilet, closed the door, and called Xiao Ming.

The call was connected in less than a minute, and the familiar cheap voice of Xiao Ming came from the other end: "Hello, Beishen, what's the matter?"

"No, you guys really came to Shanghai!" Xu Beifang asked.

Xiao Ming retorted: "What kind of talk is this, what kind of talk! Is it that we can't come to Shanghai?"

Ma Dong added on the side: "If it's convenient, we can go out for breakfast. If there are task arrangements or it's too far, forget it."

He considered that Xu Beifang still needed to deal with the upcoming game. If it affected his competitive state just to have a small gathering for breakfast, it would be a loss.

Xu Beifang smiled lightly: "No, I'll take the subway there, it's only a ten-minute thing."

"That won't delay your training, right?"

"My teammates are still sleeping. They slept at two o'clock last night. Today, they won't start working until after lunch," Xu Beifang laughed. "That's it, I'll go over now, you guys just order some things for me."

Xu Beifang was really happy. He didn't expect two roommates to come to cheer for him on their own initiative.

He also knew that the economy of college students was not well-off, and the expenses of coming to Shanghai were enough for their living expenses for several days.

Xu Beifang hurriedly put on his clothes. Having not seen his two roommates for a long time, he was still quite excited.

Twenty minutes later, Xu Beifang arrived at the breakfast shop through three methods: bicycle, subway, and walking.

But after arriving at the destination, he found that it was not just two roommates, but a group of his junior schoolmates.

"Holy shit! Brother Bei, a living Brother Bei!"

"Nice, I'm your fan, no... you are my fan!"

"Is Xu-ge really the vice president of our association?"

"Suggest Xu-ge take me to S!!"

"Can Xu-ge give me an autograph?"

Everyone in the breakfast shop started talking at once, attracting surprised looks from many passersby, thinking it was another star they met.

Noticing the looks of the passersby, Xu Beifang hurriedly said: "Sit down and eat breakfast, let's not disturb others."

Hearing this, they also noticed the direction of the breakfast shop, and one by one apologized to others with their hands together.

Not far away, an old man saw this scene and smiled: "Where did this group of college students come from."

After everyone sat down, Xu Beifang took the breakfast handed by Xiao Ming and bit a pan-fried bun carefully: "What's the situation? How come so many people came?"

He originally thought that only Xiao Ming and Ma Dong came, but found that there were more than a dozen people.

Ma Dong explained: "They are all your junior schoolmates, and also members of our Xijiang University CS club..."

Through Ma Dong's explanation, Xu Beifang quickly understood the ins and outs.

After watching the game at IEM Shanghai last time, Ma Dong and Xiao Ming became addicted to this offline atmosphere of CSGO.

Then after the StarSeries started, they bought two tickets, intending to come offline to play.

"So it's not specifically to cheer for me!" Xu Beifang laughed. He thought his two roommates ran over specifically to cheer for him.

Xiao Ming shrugged, helplessly saying: "Big brother, do you think it's still IEM Shanghai last year? You can buy tickets if you want. Several CSGO games held in China recently are hard to get."

In their view, although the previous IEM Shanghai station was the beginning of Xu Beifang's career, at that time CSGO was really not popular in China. Holding such large-scale competitions was all held in an exhibition.

At that time, thousands of people were sitting on small stools. Whether it was the viewing experience or the environment, it was very poor.

And now the large-scale events held are directly renting gymnasiums.

The popularity of CSGO can also be seen from the fact that tickets are hard to get.

In order to buy tickets for this StarSeries, they grabbed tickets at night, and Xiao Ming even asked other roommates who didn't play CSGO to help him grab them.

Ma Dong also nodded and said: "If we knew you were participating, we would come to buy tickets, then maybe we could only cheer for you at the door today."

Xu Beifang took a sip of the pan-fried bun soup, and then signaled to the few people at the other table: "What about them? What's the situation?"

"Members of our school's CS club," Xiao Ming said. "Considering that the semi-finals and finals of the StarSeries are just on the weekend, we bought tickets together to watch the game."

"Did you all buy tickets?" Xu Beifang asked.

At this time, a boy who looked weak and wore black half-frame glasses said: "I didn't buy it, but I have to buy it from a scalper later."

Xiao Ming shook his head: "Scalper tickets have to add 700 yuan, it's ridiculous."

Xu Beifang laughed: "With me here, why buy scalper tickets? After breakfast, Xiao Ming, go back to the hotel with me, I'll get you tickets."

As a professional player, each team has a certain number of internal tickets.

Vitality is unfamiliar here, and no one else has a family group that needs to participate.

Xu Beifang had asked his brother Xu Nanfang if he wanted to watch the game, but Xu Nanfang was busy with the e-sports internet cafe recently and had no time to get it.

So Vitality's family tickets were not sent out at all.

"This is a bit embarrassing." The weak-looking boy had a trace of joy on his face.

"Small matter, I, the vice president, have to do something for everyone." Xu Beifang solved this matter and turned to reminisce with his two old friends.

He looked at Ma Dong's slightly horizontally developed body and teased: "Ma-ge, what's the situation? You've been slacking off recently, why do you feel like you've gained a circle?"

He was very surprised, because in his previous life, Ma Dong had always been in very good muscle condition until he graduated from university and entered an internship. He had never seen this kind of rich physique.

Ma Dong patted the fat on his stomach and said helplessly: "No way, I've had full classes recently, and aren't I also an UP master on Bilibili? I've been thinking about how to get some teaching videos out recently." 【

Today's Electronic, except for not having won any honors in various major events, is already a winner in life.

Every time Electronic explodes in the game, netizens will tease it as "wanting to get off work and video chat with his daughter."

However, Ropz disagrees with the Cold King's words: "Although S1mple and Electronic's recent state are very outstanding, but look..." He points to the records of Zeus and Edward on the phone, which are two 1-6s.

"Esports is cruel, Zeus and Edward's state is too poor. With them, NaVi still wants to return to the peak, it's basically a fantasy." Ropz has a deep feeling about this.

Just like Mouz before the off-season, it was just him supporting it alone, and he was numb from sitting in prison every day.

Sometimes clearly his data is very good, but still lost the game, really not reconciled.

Playing this kind of game too much is also very damaging to the player's confidence.

"Wanting to walk to the peak, you have to be like today's Astralis and Liquid, not to mention all five are very strong, at least no one will drag the team down." Ropz says his thoughts, "They want to walk to the peak, they must experience several roster changes later."

NaVi is still not decisive enough.

After the 18 London Major, clearly Zeus and Edward were already showing fatigue, but there has been no movement to change people.

Like Vitality here, it is very crisp and neat.

Just played a Major, clearly felt the weakness of the team, and quickly changed personnel.

Although things are a bit dishonest, the club always has to look forward, and it can be understood.

Thinking of Vitality, Ropz asks: "Vitality's game also started today, how is the situation?"

"2-1, Nice is perverted as always, played a penta-kill, a quad-kill in this BO3, um... if it weren't for that old six Shox, it should be two penta-kills." The Cold King suddenly remembers that Nice played a very good movement technique in the game, which should be liked by Ropz, so he says: "Nice played a very good escape with movement technique in the game, you can take a look."

Saying this, the Cold King finds Map 1 Mirage, then pulls all the way to the last round. He is not in a hurry, just plays it for Ropz from the last round.

They watch Vitality's five no-armor USPs slowly find opportunities, Nice sneaks through A1 without info in the second timing, then knifes the person at A2, and eats the enemy under A2.

Immediately after facing a desperate situation, Nice uses a wave of movement technique to dodge Xseven's spray pursuit.

"Really amazing, Nice's experience is too rich, he should have thought of the opponent's opening action, judged that this is a pincer at the Archway to A, so he pushed forward in the second timing." The Cold King sighs, "Really don't know why he can play so bravely."

Ropz smiles: "You go ask him yourself."

The Cold King is a bit embarrassed, and a bit moved: "This is not very good, this kind of pushing forward might be Nice's unique skill, what if he refuses, how embarrassing."

As a first-line newcomer who has just started, the Cold King's idols are NiKo and Nice.

NiKo is like the benchmark for riflemen, that textbook-like pre-aim, calm and rational playstyle makes all riflemen feel physically and mentally comfortable.

And Nice represents the blood and passion in the bones of riflemen. His radical positioning is like questioning the opponent's aiming ability, telling the opposite side that only one can survive this duel today!

In the hearts of these professional players, Nice's pushing forward thinking is more difficult to learn than NiKo's pre-aim playstyle.

"It's okay." Ropz pats the Cold King's shoulder, signaling him to rest assured, "Nice is very easy to talk to. Although he is teased as a Danish guest, he is not a Dane after all. If you ask him for advice when you have time, he will be very happy."

"And you don't know, a month ago, Nice also asked me to teach him to practice movement technique." Ropz is also very proud when talking about this. To some extent, he can be considered Nice's movement technique teacher.

The Cold King turns to look at Ropz: "So, if you teach me, it only takes a month to practice to this level?"

Ropz, who was still a bit proud, is a bit panicked when hearing this: "No, people are different..."

"Ropz, please teach me how to practice to this level in a month!" The Cold King shouts excitedly, "When I practice it, I will jump and jump to break through!"

Ropz calms down and finds it's not impossible. What if the Cold King is also a movement technique genius?

Thirty minutes later...

"Don't say that your movement technique was taught by me when you go out in the future."

The painful voice of Ropz came from the Mouz training room.

"Nuke outside doesn't have to be played so aggressively..."

In the hotel training room, the bald coach eats a hamburger while discussing rationally.

Apex, as the IGL, looks at the situation in the God's-eye view and shakes his head, "Although Nice's offensive outside is more frequent, many times the point of losing points is not outside."

Xu Beifang says: "I actually think our Nuke outside map control has entered a bottleneck period."

"How to say?"

Xu Beifang explains: "I can often get the first-timing map control outside. Teams willing to play Nuke with us should have learned about my playstyle... You know, my playstyle is special. As long as you watch it once, you will leave an impression."

"Although there is control outside, as long as you avoid the early time point, it is very difficult for me to have a chance to fight, which leads to always being in retake. On the defensive side, I can only rely on normal firefights, or let Zywoo's AWP go to the Iron Plate or inside to counter-push."

XTQZZZ shakes his head: "Your idea is wrong from the root. Such a large area outside cannot be taken down purely by one person."

Thinking about it, XTQZZZ gives an example: "For example, the last round of Overpass today, Nice, you defended A alone, and the other four people pushed out actively at B. This actually has a feeling of ENCE's playstyle, but the effect is actually very good."

ENCE's playstyle on the defensive side is like this, relying on numbers to group up and trade kills.

But CSGO players have always had an advantage, that is, they are willing to learn.

Vitality is even more so. Since ENCE's things are easy to use, just take them and use them.

Apex adds: "So in the second timing outside, we can have more people cooperate with Nice for outside control, right?"

XTQZZZ nods: "After he grabs the outside early, there is no utility later. Even if he wants to operate, there is no way. He must cooperate with him to act... This can also be planned. If you want to control the outside, then the number of people placed near the Main Entrance early must be large. For example, if Zywoo buys an AWP, let him play at the Iron Plate alone, and then Nice grabs out outside early, and three people can be left inside to watch. Once there is movement outside, the Main Entrance can come over to help apply pressure, or directly use utility to help Nice push further in the second timing."

Talking to here, their Nuke defensive default problems are basically solved.

But it is also today's problem solved, and after experiencing a confrontation later, new problems might arise, and they have to summarize the review again to make their details better.

CSGO is such a "roll king" game, needing to constantly pile up details so that the basic skills can become more solid.

Then this review, most of their content is also actively analyzing and learning some of ENCE's tactical ideas.

Since their own tactical library is not rich now, and the opponent does play well, then learn from the opponent, at most make some changes according to their own playstyle.

Finally, reviewing Map 3 is the time when there are the most problems.

"There is no problem with the default on this map, but for some sudden small combo routines, we still lack some," XTQZZZ says.

In this game, starting from the defensive side, they played too conventionally.

The way of winning basically relies on getting info—thinking game—clutch game to win.

Head-on, it relies more on aim performance.

Although aim performance can also score points, in the process of reviewing the game, they have to consider removing the aim factor.

"Like ENCE's routine of blowing the Sewer door to counter-push the Sewer, we can actively learn it," Head Coach XTQZZZ says: "We must try to get a headcount advantage early."

Hearing this, Xu Beifang on the side touches his chin and falls into deep thought.

Noticing this, XTQZZZ asks: "Do you have any ideas again?"

Nice's tactical IQ, he has always recognized it very much.

"Nothing much," Xu Beifang says: "Just thought, in fact, blowing the door can also cooperate with the B2 sniper rifle for suppression, so you don't have to put people in the Sewer, just an attempt at a specific time."

"Then, I also thought of a technique to steal the first kill on the offensive side, doing a four-man stack at B..."

"Four-man stack!!!"

Before Xu Beifang finished speaking, he was interrupted by the surprised voices of his teammates.

Because of Olofmeister's classic operation, Overpass is destined to be inseparable from multi-person stacking.

Shox asks: "Is it that four-man stack at T-Spawn?"

Xu Beifang waves his hand: "Not that one, it's a four-man stack at a B-site entrance."

That four-man stack at the Overpass T-Spawn is definitely one of the most classic techniques in CSGO.

Speaking of which, Xu Beifang even witnessed the Overpass T-Spawn four-man stack with his own eyes, because this technique first appeared in the game, which was in last year's Hong Kong ZOTAC Cup, in a confrontation between Team Kinguin and Ghost Gaming.

And his four-man stack was also inspired by a confrontation between MIBR and NRG on Overpass in the StarSeries group stage.

At that time, MIBR chose to do a five-man stack at T-Spawn. Coldzera finally jumped up, but was killed by Brehze with one shot.

Now this position is a bit conventional, and the effect of using it is not as great as imagined.

Xu Beifang thought about some countermeasures, as well as an improved measure.

"It's in this area, we use this oil drum at the Overpass entrance to build a human ladder for a four-man stack."

While speaking, Xu Beifang directs everyone to operate one by one, and he quickly arrives at the top of the four-man stack, getting an open field of vision. Shox's eyes light up, because it is closer to B-site, the vision of this four-man stack is much larger than T-Spawn.

The previous T-Spawn four-man stack could only see the info of B2, basically just catching a crossing at B2.

But this four-man stack at the B-site entrance is a bit different. Here you can see some info at Construction, as well as the double-peek at B, and even some vision inside B.

Zywoo says: "If it's a rotation back in the mid-game, if the action is fast, you can also make this kind of attempt. This four-man stack is much stronger than T-Spawn."

The faces of other members are also pleasantly surprised. If this technique is used at the right time, it will definitely be a big move.

Only Apex is a bit worried. As an older generation player, he once experienced the notorious Olofmeister three-man stack incident, and also knows how much controversy this kind of slightly buggy technique will bring.

"Won't we be mocked by everyone after taking it out..."

Shox shakes his head: "How is it possible, compared to Olofmeister's three-man stack, the gap is still very large."

The four-man stack Xu Beifang came up with is slightly limited in getting info, and it requires the opponent to take the initiative to expose.

Olofmeister's former three-man stack lies in the fact that they could get the specific info of the Terrorist offensive side early, which completely made the Terrorists unable to play.

Hearing this, Apex also dispelled his concerns.

Everyone continued to have some discussions and completely reviewed this BO3 game.

The game was played for three hours, and their review took almost three hours. The state of everyone at this moment can only be described by one idiom—physically and mentally exhausted.

Although they agreed to go out for a late-night snack, in the end, no one was willing to move.

Fortunately, takeout in Huaxia is very convenient, allowing them to enjoy food delivered to their door while staying in the hotel.

Xu Beifang ordered a few bowls of stir-fried rice noodles and a pile of barbecue on Meituan, preparing to deal with his stomach.

Looking at the time, it was already 11 o'clock at night, but the takeout would take at least 40 minutes, and they had to rest for a while after eating. Today, it seems they will have to sleep at one or two in the morning.

So after considering for a while, Xu Beifang took a title of "Big Sweet Potato Feeding Plan" and opened the live broadcast room.

Although the time is close to midnight, for CSGO players, nightlife has just begun.

NaVi's game entered the intense stage of 1-1. During the short break, they saw Xu Beifang in the follow list start broadcasting.

The idle audience poured into the live broadcast room:

【Here!】

【Beishen is diligent, started broadcasting just after the game】

【Nice's BO3 is too strong, purely fishing!】

【Shox is really an old six today, deliberately grabbed Beifang's penta-kill, laughing to death】

【Today's game against ENCE made me feel so good, successfully completed the revenge, thinking of Xseven's look, I want to laugh!】

【Is this Vitality's training room? Everyone is here】

The barrage in the live broadcast room discussed today's game one after another. The confrontation between Vitality and ENCE didn't end long ago, and they were very clear about many of the contents inside, and couldn't wait to express their thoughts after watching the game in the live broadcast room.

Xu Beifang has a smile on his face. This game, except for the mediocre performance on Map 2, he played very good data on Map 1 and Map 3.

And looking at that barrage saying they want to laugh after winning ENCE, he can also understand.

Before in the Katowice Major, ENCE, as a dark horse, smashed Vitality and NaVi, leaving them with regrets.

The ENCE at that time was high-spirited, and the smile was also slightly flamboyant.

For Vitality's fans, this kind of smile is naturally a bit dazzling.

Now Vitality successfully avenged ENCE, and everyone called it refreshing.

Of course, Xu Beifang himself is also very happy to be able to avenge ENCE. At this moment, the speed of Deathmatch kills has accelerated.

The smooth kills made many water friends who just became his fans very confused.

【Seeing this exaggerated aiming ability, I can't imagine that a year ago, he was still walking and aiming at the ground.】

【This aiming is indeed silky, it's ridiculous】

【If I had one-tenth of this aiming ability, why worry about not being able to climb up】

【The anchor must be cheating, suggest taking me to climb to S, try the level】

【Your Yan country map is too short】

Good aiming level makes many players who have not really started feel pleasing to the eye.

But there are also some audiences asking questions in the live broadcast room:

【Nice, how can I become stronger?】

Xu Beifang saw this barrage and answered smoothly: "If you want to become stronger, you can go to see my column. There are methods for how I grew up practicing aim all the way."

Because of his special experience, he almost became a benchmark for many CSGO players on the road to becoming stronger.

Look—even that big silver has climbed to the professional road through step-by-step efforts, why can't we?

Xu Beifang broadcasts, often there will be such barrages asking.

At this time, another bold barrage came into his eyes:

【Danking: Anchor anchor, practicing aim is too boring, what should I do? Are there any aim practice methods that are more entertaining?】

"You kid!" Xu Beifang laughs.

Danking, this guy, is messing around in his live broadcast room every day.

On another floor of the hotel, Danking eats yellow-braised chicken, looking at Xu Beifang's slightly frustrated face in the live camera, and can't help but laugh.

Then he heard Xu Beifang in the screen suddenly think of something and say to the camera: "You really don't say... there really is an entertaining aim practice method that isn't boring!"

CSGO's deliberate practice is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Basically, if you want to become stronger, there are a bunch of videos in the community teaching you how to throw utility, how to practice positioning, how to do pre-aim, headshot line...