Chapter 263: Please list the unlucky players in CS:GO professional scene, and explain why it is Electronic

"In this intense confrontation, Nice has achieved it with his incredible gunplay and courage!"

"Renegades have been turned around by individual ability once again!!"

Inside the Baoshan Gymnasium, the voice of the English-language casters spread throughout the entire venue. The director finally didn't make a mistake this time; the massive awakening screen was replaying Nice's POV. In the footage, the members of Renegades died one by one under Nice's gun, once again inciting cheers from the audience and the disappointed wails of Renegades' supporters.

There were quite a few professional players in the venue to watch the match. For the NRG members, they were more inclined towards Renegades winning the victory. Although they were eliminated by Vitality in this tournament, they hadn't faced Vitality many times, and to be honest, they were a bit unconvinced by that comeback reversal—after all, it was only a one-point difference, and the result could have been different.

But truthfully, the NRG members didn't have that much animosity towards Vitality. Regardless, Vitality had defeated them and earned respect through their strength. In this match, Vitality played a trick during the BP, ultimately selecting one of Renegades' weak maps for Map 3.

Renegades struggled heavily in the first half of Map 3. It wasn't until JKS started to heat up and Renegades scored consecutively that they felt there was still suspense in this match.

But seeing the look in Xu Beifang's eyes in the footage, that crazy desire to win made them feel a chill down their spines. Finally, as he pushed back one by one from A Long, they realized that Renegades were ultimately destined to miss out on the finals today.

This clutch was played too decisively!

Nice was too confident!

Even just watching the match from the audience, they could easily put themselves in Renegades' shoes, feeling the tension rise as they were gradually picked off by the one remaining opponent while having the numbers advantage.

Come to think of it, Renegades had many opportunities to win this round.

Hiding completely was the simplest one.

But perhaps because they had still lost to Zywoo while hiding in the pistol round on Inferno, they chose to double-peek, hold crossing points, and crossfire.

Ultimately, these instead gave Nice the possibility to make a play. As the double-peeking Terrorists were instantly killed by a spray transfer, the situation was no longer under Renegades' control.

……

JKS, in his position, seemed to have no change in his expression even though the team was in a predicament.

It was only after Nice on the opposite side sat down that he withdrew his gaze, leaned his head back against the gaming chair, closed his eyes, and sighed slightly. Although the match wasn't over yet, the state of his teammates beside him let him know that his dream of the finals had become a bubble.

Being suddenly outplayed by Vitality in the BP naturally put them at a disadvantage, and this feeling was naturally very unpleasant. The team hadn't started the opening rounds well either; it wasn't until he got a five-kill that they regained their form, the situation was developing in a better direction, and his mood had improved.

But JKS hadn't expected that the score already in their hands would be snatched away by Nice using individual ability.

If Zywoo's 1v4 on Inferno was the ultimate positioning control, tearing their formation apart with simple gunplay and calm decision-making, then the 1v4 Nice just pulled off was bold and unconstrained, pushing straight to the bomb site with that AK-47. Although there was exquisite positioning control, it was more about gunplay that felt like a trigger-bot and aim-bot.

The fact that he didn't hold the crossing point and Nice instantly pulled back to kill him with a spray transfer clearly proved this point.

AZR, acting as the IGL, also remained silent for a long time. Finally, after adjusting himself, he spoke up to comfort his teammates.

But his comfort didn't have any effect.

In the following confrontations, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

After the first half, they couldn't manage to get a single point.

After switching sides in the second half.

In the pistol round, AZR got three kills in A Site, helping the team get a point.

But before Renegades could catch their breath, Vitality went for a force buy.

Zywoo and Nice, both with Hero Galils, competed for control of A Long with the help of their teammates' flashbangs. In the first wave of fire, Takanashi Rikka covered his eyes and was completely blinded by Nice.

But Zywoo still steadily took control of A Long. Following a wave of A Long explosive grenades, Renegades couldn't hold A Site at all, and their retake failed, allowing Vitality to successfully complete the comeback.

In the following rounds, Nice was no longer unlucky, and Renegades saw kills appearing crazily on A Long and A Short, and the prefix of the kill information always had Nice's presence.

The score went all the way to 15:5, and Vitality reached match point.

Just when everyone thought the match was over, Renegades defended 4 rounds in a row, making Li Wenzhe at the caster desk feel astonished: "Could it be that another ultimate comeback is coming?"

But facts proved that the four rounds recovered at match point were merely Renegades' final flash of brilliance.

Round 25.

With intense fighting in the middle, Shox seized the timing difference of Renegades' B Site CT going to help at the Sand Pit.

The Australian No-Backer hadn't yet reached his peak state and was caught by Shox in the game of awareness.

Shox killed the CT at the Sand Pit with one spray, and Vitality successfully occupied B Site.

Renegades, at a numerical disadvantage, didn't win this epic retake instance on Dust II B Site.

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"16:10! Congratulations to Vitality for completing the reverse sweep and winning this confrontation against Renegades!" Ma Xixi shouted at the caster desk.

The spotlights in the venue lit up, and the Vitality team logo appeared on the four massive circular screens, followed by the high-spirited promotional photos of the Vitality members.

The audience below cheered endlessly, sending their applause for this wonderful match.

Li Wenzhe was in a very joyful mood, the few strands of hair on his head fluttering with excitement: "Since the team was founded, this is the first time Vitality has reached the finals in an S-Tier Tournament. Regardless of the final result, these lovely players are adding bricks and tiles to their history."

"As the winning members, they staged a wonderful confrontation for us today. Zywoo, with thunder in his heart but a face like a calm lake, played extraordinary stats with unimaginable stability in this BO3."

"And as our home-grown child, Nice has released his passion and bloodiness without reservation."

The camera cut to the player seats. After the match ended, Xu Beifang took off his headset with a bright smile on his face.

The moment he stood up, a right hand was already reaching out to him: "Buddy, you played too well! We made it to the finals!"

Jackz shook Xu Beifang's hand and then jumped up, hanging onto Xu Beifang. One could hear the excitement in Jackz's voice.

"It's *we* who played very well!" Xu Beifang corrected Jackz's statement.

In this BO3 confrontation, although Jackz didn't pull off any particularly stunning plays.

But you can't expect every role player to perform at the level of a Weapon Master.

Not to mention that Jackz exists as a site defender in the current team.

Only those who have played this position know how miserable it is.

When the opponent comes with a wave of explosive grenades, as a site defender, he needs to stall the opponent's attack at the first moment, or even get a kill.

At such times, you can't expect them to have too eye-catching performances.

Jackz got down from Xu Beifang, turned his head to look at the people cheering excitedly below the stage, and still felt it was somewhat unbelievable.

The experiences of the past few days made him feel like he was in a dream.

Jackz knew that his previous life had always been quite a failure.

When he was very young, he developed a strong interest in football and chess. At the age of 14, his talent was revealed, and he ultimately joined a chess club.

In his youth, Jackz thought he was the center of the world.

He once defeated the French champion in the world of chess, but ultimately failed to make a name for himself in international competitions; that was a past he could not bear to look back on.

Feeling dejected in chess, Jackz poured all his heart into CS: GO.

He gradually discovered that he had talent in this game. Relying on reflexes comparable to an F1 driver, Jackz reached Faceit Level 10 in a very short time.

At this time, he had an idea—should he try to go professional?

At that time, Jackz was already 24 years old, which is an older player for both esports and traditional sports.

He chose to follow his heart and resolutely dedicated everything he had to CS: GO.

But not all genius growth is smooth sailing, especially since Jackz was already close to the age of an "old man" when he debuted in CS: GO.

After wandering in Tier 2 competitions for several years, he finally climbed into Tier 1 events.

It took several years for him to appear in the public eye, but he was already 28 years old.

Originally full of longing, G2 indeed lacked some competitiveness. Jackz even had those negative thoughts surface on countless nights:

"Is my career just going to be a flash in the pan like this?"

"Is it just going to end after reaching Tier 1?"

He wanted to go to a higher stage; he wanted to enjoy the cheers of the audience.

And after joining Vitality, all of this appeared before him.

But as memories surfaced, Jackz looked at his teammates celebrating beside him, his eyes slightly moist.

This journey was difficult, but he had finally made it through.

Watching his teammates hugging and celebrating, Jackz opened his arms and joined the hug.

Li Wenzhe saw the Vitality members hugging together, and a smile appeared on his face, "Vitality has taken down Renegades. Tomorrow, they will face the winner between NaVi and BIG on the stage of the finals!"

At this time, he noticed the Renegades members who were somewhat dejected on the other side of the stage.

JKS was curled up painfully in his gaming chair. Although he had a premonition long ago, he still couldn't hide the disappointment in his heart when the result of the match appeared.

His performance in this BO3 wasn't explosive, but he didn't flop on any map either.

But the match was over nonetheless.

He couldn't save the team, and Renegades' overall state recently was still a bit lacking.

Under the gaze of thousands of people, they were still reverse-swept by Vitality.

"This was a wonderful semi-final. It was not only a stage for the Vitality twins to show their power, but Renegades also showed their ingenuity. As the team's core, JKS maintained a stable performance throughout, from the early rotation on Inferno to the five-kill with gunplay on Dust II A Short, all of which demonstrate the strength of this player."

Ma Xixi glanced at the data sent from the backstage and said: "Three maps, a total of 75 rounds, JKS got 76 kills. As the losing side, this is already a remarkable statistic."

【Sigh, as a JKS fan, I really hope JKS transfers to another team. This Renegades is really just relying on JKS to carry alone.】

【The match was lost, but JKS didn't lose. The Canadian Headshot King is just shooting from behind with a sniper rifle.】

【No way, how can one big brother play against two big brothers?】

【Today, this Anti-Pressure Scapegoat is finally not working.】

【Last year, little Xu was alone against NRG; this year, he finally has Zywoo by his side.】

During the time the audience in the chat was discussing, Vitality had finished celebrating and crossed the stage to Renegades' player seats.

Xu Beifang shook hands with the Renegades players one by one until he reached JKS, and he said with a smile: "Hey, brother! That five-kill of yours earlier was too strong; it directly woke me up."

"Thanks." JKS gave a bitter smile, "I don't even know how to respond to that... it makes it sound like it was because of me that you were awakened."

"Your performance was also very outstanding. We really didn't play well in this match."

JKS's tone was very calm. Although he wasn't old, he was already an old man in the circle.

As a professional player, his formal start in playing matches dates back to when he was 9 years old. Back then, he sat in an internet cafe with his brother, his legs couldn't even reach the ground, and he started beating adults on the opposite side with his terrifying aim.

So after all these years, he has experienced many ups and downs, and now he can handle the emotions in his heart very quickly.

In today's confrontation, he really had nothing to say about Xu Beifang. On Inferno, because they were both playing Banana, he and Nice were basically playing a head-to-head game.

On that map, except for calling people to help control Banana a few times in the mid-game, Xu Beifang had a lot of tricks in the other rounds, and he really couldn't defend against them.

The main reason was that Xu Beifang was too daring.

Sometimes it wasn't that players like them couldn't find opportunities, but they often had to consider the gains, so they would miss many opportunities.

But Xu Beifang was different; he never feared the consequences of being killed; he only focused on the confrontation at hand.

Although this was the first time he had faced Nice in a match, they had known each other before on Faceit because of former Renegades member SPUNJ.

He had also been invited by Nice to play quite a few FPLs before, so he had been paying attention to Nice.

He discovered that after the off-season, although Vitality's start was bumpy and there were problems with poor synergy, after that comeback from ten match points down, the entire Vitality team's coordination seemed to have undergone a transformation.

And he had to admit that Nice's performance was truly stable.

In this series, his worst average rating was above 0.9.

"I want to ask how you keep your state so stable?" JKS also wanted to maintain this stable state so that Renegades' state wouldn't fluctuate, so he asked immediately.

Xu Beifang was a bit surprised by JKS's sudden question, but after thinking for a while, he answered seriously: "There doesn't seem to be any other shortcut; just keep up a large amount of training."

"A large amount of training can raise the entire range of your level fluctuations, but sometimes, you know, even the coach can't control the 'feel' of the game."

Next was Liazz, who was slightly unconvinced.

Xu Beifang smiled and didn't speak.

This was also very normal; the youthful arrogance of a genius teenager is quite understandable.

However, he looked down on Liazz a little bit.

Although there was no final summary of the stats, after this BO3, this genius teenager who looked like Harry Potter didn't leave much of a presence.

Since you didn't play well yourself and even dragged the team down, what are you being unconvinced about at a time like this!

But this was just a small interlude, and he quickly returned to his own player seats with the main group.

Walking across the stage, Xu Beifang waved to the audience below.

This was a wonderful confrontation, at least in the eyes of most of the audience on site, so seeing Xu Beifang's waving gesture, they immediately responded.

"Nice!! Nice!!"

"Nice!! Nice!!"

From the audience's perspective, this confrontation was pleasing to the eye.

Admittedly, Apex's IGLing would occasionally have "brain-fart" moments, but Vitality's overall offense and defense were played quite decisively, not to mention Xu Beifang, who would occasionally make astonishing plays to pull everyone's attention.

Compared to NaVi's constipation-like offense that makes people have a cerebral hemorrhage, Vitality's playstyle was more aesthetically pleasing.

Furthermore, they wouldn't be like Fnatic, where only tactics were effective, and individual ability was hard to sustain.

When they walked back to the player seats, AdreN quickly brought the cameraman over to the top spot, "Little Xu, help me say something; you and Zywoo need to accept an interview next."

Xu Beifang could only pull Shushu and say to the others: "Zywoo and I need to accept a post-match interview; you guys help pack up the peripherals."

Shox made an OK gesture towards this side upon hearing this.

The teammates returned to the battle room, while Xu Beifang and Zywoo were left on the stage.

The stands welcomed bursts of applause again. Xu Beifang even saw his roommates and juniors waving at him, because a group of them were wearing his team jersey, sitting together very conspicuously.

"Nice, Zywoo, hello. You have won another victory, bringing you one step closer. I am more curious, are you nervous thinking about tomorrow's match?" AdreN asked.

A translator on the side translated it into English in real-time.

"Tomorrow's finals, playing against NaVi?" Xu Beifang thought for a moment.

"Hey, hey, hey!" AdreN said quickly, "The opponent in Group A will be decided between NaVi and BIG; there's no result yet."

He was truly afraid that if Xu Beifang said something wrong, it would stir up trouble.

Many BIG fans below the stage had dark faces.

What kind of talk is that, what kind of talk is that!

Why wouldn't my German tank work?

"Alright, then I look forward to the confrontation between NaVi and BIG. However, I prefer NaVi; I like to see Electronic looking unlucky." Xu Beifang added.

……

"Hahahahahaha!!"

S1mple listened to the content of the post-match interview and laughed loudly as if no one else was around.

Electronic asked curiously from the side: "What did Nice say?"

Xu Beifang spoke in Chinese during the interview, and S1mple's university major happened to be Chinese, but because Chinese was too difficult to learn, his Chinese had to be followed by the word "dropout".

But because Xu Beifang had shown off his Chinese in FPL before, S1mple felt he could do it again, regained interest in Chinese, and had been studying hard recently, so he could understand roughly what Xu Beifang meant.

"He said... haha, he said he hopes we NaVi advance tomorrow..."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Electronic was a bit confused.

"Nice also said, mainly because he wants to see you looking unlucky, hahaha..."

Seeing Electronic's face instantly collapse, S1mple laughed until his stomach hurt.

……

【God, he really likes to see Electronic looking unlucky.】

【This little Xu is too mean, haha.】

【Please list the unlucky players in CS: GO professional scene, and explain why it is Electronic.】

【To be fair, Electronic is truly strong, but he is also truly unlucky.】

【He is the only professional player whose bad luck can make a highlight reel, laughing to death.】

【I saw one before, damn, 14 minutes long, more than many professional players' highlights.】

【Laughing to death.】

AdreN on the stage was at least professionally trained and finally suppressed the corners of his mouth that were curling up.

Then he continued to guide the questioning: "Then can you guess who the final MVP of today's BO3 will be?"

Zywoo answered: "Nice."

Before Xu Beifang could answer, he heard the gasps of the audience on site and hurriedly looked up.

Above was his handsome promotional photo.

On the right were the final stats of this match.

Kills/Assists/Deaths: 80/10/49

ADR: 99.2

Non-Trade Rate: 75.2%

Rating 2.0: 1.49

Because of Renegades' avoidance of fighting on Map 3, to a certain extent, Xu Beifang had fewer opportunities to engage, so the overall stats didn't look very exaggerated.

But as the core of the team, an average rating of 1.49 was already very outstanding.

The audience on site also started discussing noisily again.

"Your performance today was quite outstanding, but first we still want to ask Zywoo, in the pistol round of the second half on Inferno, when facing that 1v4 pistol round, how did you make the decision?" AdreN asked with a smile.

Zywoo listened to Xu Beifang's translation and answered in English, stumbling: "I didn't have many thoughts at the time; I just thought that keeping the armor wasn't of much significance, so it was better to actively try, find an opportunity to take down a few more, and then everyone saw it; I won the duels against them."

AdreN's English level was quite good, and upon hearing this, he translated it directly for the audience on site to hear.

【Very simple, I'll just kill all four of them.】

【Renegades is truly helpless; one by one they thought about not looking for trouble with you, but then this Zywoo came to the door and killed everyone.】

【If I met someone like this on the ladder, I'd report them directly.】

【Zywoo feels like he's playing better and better in recent matches. When Vitality was just founded, he felt like a nice little fatty, but in recent months, his state has become more and more exaggerated.】

AdreN threw the topic to Xu Beifang again: "Then ask little Xu again, in today's Dust II, you pulled off a 1v4 five-kill that made the whole venue cheer. What were your thoughts at the time? Why did you actively choose to play this clutch?"

Hearing this, many audience members were also curious.

Compared to Zywoo's clutch, they thought Xu Beifang's was even more outrageous.

After all, the gap between a pistol and a long gun is still quite large.

Xu Beifang took the microphone and recalled his thoughts at the time: "At that time, my teammates were being picked off one by one. I didn't want to make a play either, but Apex reminded me that I could pick up an AK inside A Door."

"With an AK, the situation was different. I could try to be more proactive. Even if I lost, our economy was still quite good for the next round, and we could continue to play a long gun round."

"At first, I had the mood of wanting to steal one, but the result was that there was a mistake in the first wave; instead, they double-peeked, which gave me an opportunity, and then you all saw what happened."

【Summary: I just rushed up and killed them all.】

【Simple and unadorned thoughts.】

【Simply called 'going head-on'.】

【I think so too, my teammates always scold me for being a silly treasure.】

【If only I could play like this all the time, watching the boss's second stage is really exciting.】

AdreN saw that the time was about right and asked one last question to wrap up:

"Then may I ask Nice, for tomorrow's finals, do you think you can win the championship?"

There was a chorus of booing from below; AdreN's question was a bit of a provocation.

This was equivalent to wanting Xu Beifang to set a flag before the finals even started, to build up the atmosphere before the match.

They were also very much looking forward to what kind of answer Xu Beifang would give.

Hearing this interview question, many, many images appeared in Xu Beifang's mind. Finally, he looked at the brilliant trophy in the middle of the stage, his eyes revealing a trace of determination:

"Tomorrow is my first time on the stage of an S-Tier Tournament final. Regardless of whether the final opponent is NaVi or BIG, they will be Vitality's formidable enemies. I will go all out for this match."

"If we can really win the championship, it must be the result of hard work."

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