Chapter 268: 273. Chapter 267: Electronic

273. Chapter 267: Electronic: "Is my head made of magnets?"

From the moment the pistol round of the finals officially began, every spectacular kill drew excited cheers from the live audience. They were using their own way to support the two teams on stage.

Even though the live audience wasn't booing them—in fact, many were cheering for NaVi—they still felt immense pressure.

Even as veteran players who weren't participating in an offline major for the first time, they still felt their teeth itching, and under the cheers amidst the highlights, their adrenaline was surging.

Fortunately, the performance of his teammates allowed Zeus to breathe a sigh of relief.

s1mple and Electronic were true "offline maniacs"; they didn't have their operations distorted by these shouts, but instead became even more excited and agitated.

In this state, NaVi very smoothly seized the early rhythm. Only during the first full-buy round did nice land a triple kill in the outside area, interrupting their rhythm once.

However, Zeus had anticipated this.

They had studied Vitality on this map before the match and understood that nice liked to control the outside area early on. Therefore, for the following few rounds, they tried their best to group up for trade kills, or simply used utility to avoid head-on duels with nice, crushing them through a collective approach.

They subsequently secured two more rounds, crushing Vitality's economy once.

Looking at it now, the effect was still very good.

Ma Xixi spoke up from the commentary desk: "From NaVi's perspective, leading by 4 rounds at the start is definitely a perfect beginning. Even if they lose this round, Vitality will be completely broke, and the score advantage will expand even further... nice and ZywOo have already played several retake rounds; NaVi's preparation is truly thorough."

Based on Ma Xixi's understanding of NaVi, they had definitely made many targeted preparations for this map.

The next few rounds confirmed Ma Xixi's conjecture.

In the past, NaVi always liked to play defaults, relying on individual ability to coordinate attacks. But in these few waves of NaVi's attacks, except for the first full-buy round where they chose to probe in their respective defaults, the other rounds were direct, collective tactical deployments.

After discovering that Xu Beifang was in excellent form, they began to use grouped attacks in the outside area to trade kills.

In this situation, Xu Beifang in the outside area still relied on a wave of "shabby position" - kill - then counter-flash operations.

If they didn't push up in the outside area, NaVi would even go directly for a silent move down to K1.

In Vitality's defensive system, the B site was initially undefended; this kind of confrontation without information was generally handled by retakes.

Zeus was truly too bold; other teams going down K1 would often start clearing points with flashbangs inside K1.

Zeus, however, had his teammates move silently the entire time. In one round, they even saw most of NaVi cutting to their knives while moving down, completely unafraid of anyone inside K1, which made even Ma Xixi gasp.

In this situation, Vitality was forced to face post-plant scenarios.

But the results of several consecutive post-plant scenarios were not very good.

There was a 2v3 where the "Gemini" stars operated and forcibly killed everyone.

But due to economic issues, they weren't equipped with that many defuse kits, and in the end, this round failed to defuse by a fraction of a second.

Immediately after, Vitality lost several post-plant scenarios by a hair's breadth, which made the fans off-stage very anxious.

However, they could also understand; although flamie was slumping as usual, the form of s1mple and Electronic was surprisingly good.

The Gemini stars' post-plant play was excellent, but they still had to abide by the basic laws.

The score, unknowingly, reached 2:8.

Wanjiqi watched the live stream, looking at the Vitality members discussing under the camera, and comforted the fans: "The good news is that Vitality has money again, ZywOo has also picked up a big sniper, and there's still a chance to operate."

"NaVi!! Boom boom boom!!"

"NaVi!! Boom boom boom!!"

The faint shouting from inside the headphones made Xu Beifang frown. The shouts of the yellow-and-black army seemed to turn into a tangible wave of sound, as if to swallow them completely.

However, on the other side of the stands, he saw his roommate waving a Vitality flag, also shouting loudly for him.

Withdrawing his gaze, Xu Beifang took a long breath, suppressing the somewhat terrible emotions in his heart.

NaVi's playstyle in this match didn't follow the rules, and their overall approach was very cautious, leaving him unable to gain an advantage in conventional outside defense. Coupled with losing several post-plant scenarios, it was inevitable that he would feel some pressure.

For example, in the previous full-buy round, he gave enough pressure in the outside area at the first opportunity, and then roamed near the main entrance.

NaVi's playstyle was very cautious; they used utility at the second opportunity to clear the area under the water tank and the close point by the red box. Xu Beifang seized the opportunity to pick one off, but NaVi quickly gave an outside line smoke.

Xu Beifang originally thought they would sneak into K1, but NaVi gave a line smoke and turned to hit the iron plate instead.

"Let's be more proactive in the early game; nice and ZywOo can go find opportunities." apex knew NaVi had started playing tactical one-wave flows, so he thought about making the outside playstyle more aggressive.

"Then I'll push to the forward point in the outside area and try to catch them."

So when the countdown ended, Xu Beifang took ZywOo and walked toward the outside area.

He proactively pushed forward in the outside area, while ZywOo used his sniper rifle to help him hold the area above the outside water tank.

NaVi was still the same as before; they gave an outside red box line smoke directly, and then gave a red box crossing smoke to avoid being seen by the CT's sniper rifle.

Electronic, as the first position for the attacking side, charged directly toward the outside area at the first opportunity.

Even though there was fire in front of him and he had been bled a little by the opponent's HE grenade, he was still pushing forward very bravely.

They cleared the outside area at the second opportunity in the previous round, so they naturally had to be more proactive in this round.

In professional confrontation, one needs to constantly change speeds so that the opponent cannot fathom one's playstyle.

And with s1mple backing him up behind him, he could play a bit more boldly without worry.

Relying on the suppression of utility, Xu Beifang keenly heard the sound of someone being burned by fire, and it rang continuously several times. Xu Beifang immediately sprayed through the smoke grenade toward the source of the sound.

"Da da da..."

The bullets passed through the smoke grenade and hit the low-health Electronic.

A-Dian didn't even react before he paid tribute to Olofmeister, falling into the pervasive flames.

【nice used an Incendiary Grenade to kill electronic】

"Electronic played very aggressively here, but he didn't know that nice had already sneaked to the close point, slowed him down with a spray, and the unlucky guy was burned to death alive!" Ma Xixi gave a quick commentary, and seeing Xu Beifang make a retreating motion, he also slowed down the rhythm. "After getting the first kill, nice moved directly to the back point; this decision is flawless... but what is this!"

"s1mple shot and killed nice blindly through the smoke grenade!"

The live audience gasped. Because the director's camera switch was very on-point, the moment Xu Beifang moved backward, they saw s1mple aim at the crossing smoke and then pull the trigger.

That big sniper bullet accurately hit Xu Beifang's chest.

【s1mple used an AWP to kill nice through the smoke】

But before everyone could be surprised, they heard the sound of a sniper rifle in the outside area ring out again.

【ZywOo used an AWP to headshot kill s1mple through the smoke】

This one was even more heavyweight!

Danking off-stage opened his mouth wide, asking with a face full of confusion: "Do top-tier pro players play the game like this now?"

At the start, nice directly sprayed and killed Electronic through the smoke; this could be understood because he heard the sound information.

s1mple had fire in front of him affecting information gathering, but the previous shot allowed him to get the position, so a pre-judgment could also be understood.

But what is this ZywOo thing!

Do you have vision?

Do you have information?

Information was indeed there, after all, s1mple fired a shot and exposed the gunshot sound.

But at this distance, can a sniper rifle roughly guess a shot and hit it??

Danking felt he didn't know how to play this game anymore.

Xiaogui shrugged: "Why are you asking me? If I knew, I'd already be on stage playing the match."

The round hadn't ended yet, and Ma Xixi's voice came from the venue's speakers:

"What kind of god-tier fighting is this in the outside area?? nice shoots one, s1mple returns one, but ZywOo thinks 'you hit my brother, that won't do,' and shoots s1mple dead through the smoke too!"

"In the final round of exchanges, the only one injured is Electronic!"

"Zeus knows this outside area is already hard to play, so he directly pulls his teammates to the inside area for a speed boost. apex held one and was traded, ZywOo covered the main entrance, pushed out through the smoke directly, the big sniper killed another, Edward planted the bomb, but the position was already locked, and there was no room to operate."

"Edward actively strafed, ZywOo didn't give him a chance, Vitality takes another point!"

"Good shot!!" apex turned his head and bumped fists with ZywOo. "This timing is too beautiful!"

Xu Beifang also broke into a cold sweat; ZywOo's timing for pushing through the smoke was very clever.

But if he hadn't traded someone, it would have been a pure throw.

After winning, xtqzzz proactively called a timeout because he saw some problems now.

"We need to run on this map. If nice can gain control of the outside area, then naturally no one needs to go to K1." xtqzzz explained his thoughts. "But if we can't gain information and control of the outside area, then jackz has to go down early to cover."

Then xtqzzz turned his head and said to Xu Beifang: "nice, don't feel pressured either. If you have ideas, you can say them directly. At times like this, you can play more boldly."

Xu Beifang nodded, and then he discovered that ZywOo was in the first position for this round, so he said to ZywOo: "Shushu, let's use the big sniper to coordinate and control the outside area. I'll jump directly to the non-pre-aim position in the warehouse to hold the water tank later, and you push forward from below."

On the map Nuke, the sniper rifle is always a swing position, needing to constantly run around the entire map.

On this map, the outside area has never been a single-person operation.

In most cases, he needs teammates to coordinate with him to a certain extent.

Hearing this, apex added: "Then I'll just guard the inside area. If the opponent speeds up, I'll protect the third floor."

The entire team's distribution was relatively scattered; he alone in the inside area couldn't manage both the yellow room and the iron door at the same time.

When the countdown ended, Xu Beifang followed ZywOo's footsteps and pushed forward.

He still gave the fire to the outside sniper position as usual, and then threw a flashbang to confuse the opponent.

He had already pushed up once; Electronic should already be vigilant. At this time, letting ZywOo's big sniper play might have a miraculous effect.

ZywOo's big sniper rushed forward, while Xu Beifang used the several boxes near the main entrance to jump quickly to the top of the warehouse, crouching to hold the outside water tank directly.

This was a very rampant position; if he couldn't kill the opponent in the first wave of duels, he basically couldn't run away.

However, non-pre-aim positions are mostly like this; occasionally taking them out to use for a wave might have a miraculous effect.

"Vitality's setup in the outside area is a bit interesting!" Wanjiqi's eyes lit up. Generally speaking, if a sniper rifle and a rifle coordinate, the sniper rifle holds from a distance while the rifle pushes to the forward point to engage.

But Vitality reversed it directly.

However, what they found regrettable was that after Vitality's Gemini stars held for a long time, NaVi had no intention of coming out.

No one appeared on the water tank, and Xu Beifang felt that even if the opponent wanted to hit the outside area, they would walk a solo probe at the second opportunity.

So after consideration, he came down from the main entrance: "Shushu, I'll silently sneak to under the water tank, and you roam to other positions."

ZywOo nodded; the pressure in the outside area wasn't high, and two people were redundant.

Xu Beifang took his position, and ZywOo began to move toward the main entrance.

But in the last second before leaving the outside area, ZywOo ate a pop-flash, and then someone from the sniper position peeked out directly.

"NaVi's counter-flash timing is very good. They strafed out and sprayed, instantly killing ZywOo who was retreating. nice's trade kill was fast, but there was another Electronic following behind. Can nice handle Electronic this wave?"

ZywOo, who had already been killed, pursed his lips; this wave of being killed could probably explain their situation in the previous few rounds.

NaVi's counter-flash or explosive grenade timing was too clever; often while they were still in the process of rotating, NaVi's offensive would already be pressing up.

Electronic knew there was one person at the close point; he wanted to kill Xu Beifang so that the outside area would be broken through in one wave.

But Xu Beifang proactively sought him out first.

Between the two, a round of exchange broke out.

Xu Beifang proactively peeked out to get information, discovered Electronic's figure, and directly sprayed. But because of the influence of the boxes in the sniper position, he didn't spray Electronic to death in one go.

"This is too fierce!" While Electronic was still in the process of preparing, he was suddenly shot to low health by Xu Beifang who had strafed out, scaring him into quickly pulling back.

Xu Beifang failed to pin Electronic to death in the first wave and also lost his gun position, somewhat worried that Electronic would counter-hold him, so he was stuck in place instead.

Just at this moment, an exchange broke out in the iron plate direction. Amidst the distant gunshots, the kill information in the upper right corner also popped up frantically.

【flamie used an AK47 to headshot kill jackz】

【flamie used an AK47 to kill shox】

For flamie, this wave of doing a good pre-aim and then strafing out to kill two people felt so good; he finally experienced NiKo's happiness.

After getting the kills, he said excitedly in the voice chat: "The iron plate has been broken through by me, brothers, hit B with me!"

For him, returning to the iron plate was like returning home; he was too familiar with every pre-aim position here!

Zeus, who had already turned into a "fountain commander," immediately shouted in the voice chat: "Go go go, they've already pushed to here in the outside area, directly rotate to the iron plate and sneak in together, there's at most one person in the B site!"

In a 4v2 post-plant, it was already confirmed there was one in the outside area, and this guy's marksmanship was indeed very hard, so don't be bored and go find trouble with him for now.

Zeus was afraid that if they counter-flashed down, they would be finished off by this guy's spray.

In a 4v2 post-plant, just play the iron plate step by step.

Seeing that the iron plate had already fallen, Xu Beifang wanted to find trouble with Electronic and deal with him.

But a smoke grenade exploded in front of him, and Electronic threw the smoke directly to protect himself, also blocking Xu Beifang's path forward.

He chose to cut to his knife and move silently back to the main entrance, picked up ZywOo's big sniper, and proactively pushed forward to try a wave.

If he could find an opportunity and kill one, then in a 2v3 post-plant, there would still be a chance.

But if he didn't catch anyone, then he would only be able to save ZywOo's big sniper.

The iron door had been blown open early, and Xu Beifang moved silently forward with the big sniper.

Just at this moment, he heard footsteps coming from the terrorist spawn.

"A 2v4 post-plant, but the round hasn't ended yet. nice still wants to find an opportunity, the big sniper proactively pushes forward. Edward just happened to bring the bomb over from the terrorist spawn. Is there any saying for this shot?"

"nice landed a quick-scope and directly knocked the bomb off!!"

After knocking the bomb off, Xu Beifang immediately retreated a few steps and found a relatively safe position.

"Dou Dou, watch the main entrance for me, I knocked the bomb off!"

After knocking the opponent's bomb off, Xu Beifang's brows were still tightly locked. His attention was highly concentrated, his crosshair holding the crossing point of the bomb, ready to fire at any time.

s1mple's face also didn't look too good.

flamie finally pulled off a spectacular breakthrough, and he thought they could smoothly rotate and complete the tactic, taking this point in an orderly manner.

Who could have thought that this nice would knock the bomb off with another shot.

Although the bomb's position was inside the terrorist hall, he knew nice must be holding the point with a big sniper.

Although nice was a rifleman, he had also brushed past many highlight reels of his sniper rifle; he wouldn't bet on nice missing the shot in this situation.

So he could only play a little trick—

After consideration, he switched to his butterfly knife, came near nice's field of vision, controlled his position, and did a spin jump.

Xu Beifang's attention was highly concentrated; seeing someone appear within his field of vision, he fired subconsciously.

The sniper rifle's bullet flew out of the muzzle, brushed past s1mple who was jumping in the air, and passed through the rolling shutter door inside the terrorist hall without losing its potential energy.

【nice used an AWP to wall-bang headshot kill...】

The moment the kill appeared in the upper right corner, Xu Beifang froze for a second.

He didn't even understand what was going on with that shot; did the bullet turn a corner?

But just in that moment of distraction, someone peeked out from the right side of his field of vision, holding a big sniper in their hands.

—Bang!

【s1mple used an AWP to blind-shot kill nice】

Only then did Xu Beifang see the entire kill ID clearly.

【nice used an AWP to wall-bang headshot kill electronic】

This was also the reason he froze; he clearly felt he hadn't hit s1mple, yet the kill still appeared.

"s1mple is heading to the iron plate with the bomb." After Xu Beifang reported the position simply, he didn't speak anymore.

In a 1v2 post-plant, even if they had ideas, they still had to respect their teammate's train of thought.

A 1v2 post-plant was not easy to play.

Especially since s1mple's health was still in a healthy state.

The voice chat was silent, and everyone was nervously watching apEX's operation.

He wasn't a player who excelled at post-plant scenarios, but now he could only believe in apEX.

apEX moved silently to the iron plate and arrived early at a slightly "shabby" position.

Footsteps soon came from the B-tunnel, but they became quiet again when they reached the close point.

"B-tunnel! B-tunnel!!" several people in Vitality's voice chat shouted quickly, fearing apEX wouldn't hear.

Soon, he saw s1mple holding a big sniper, moving to the left while looking toward the direction under the third floor.

apEX held his MP9 and directly sprayed!

s1mple thought apEX might be under the third floor, but he didn't expect him to have already reached the right side of the iron plate. He was so scared that his whole body shook, and relying on muscle memory, he flicked a shot—naturally, it missed.

【apEX used an MP9 to headshot kill s1mple】

Huge cheers erupted at the scene; the constantly fluctuating post-plant scenario made everyone nervous.

And in Vitality's voice chat, shox couldn't care about disturbing his teammate's train of thought and directly shouted: "flamie is right under the B site, Dou Dou, just throw a smoke grenade into the middle of the road, then slip away directly, this point is guaranteed to be won!"

Even though the former post-plant master had started to develop in the direction of a "rat," apEX was still willing to believe his old teammate and directly acted according to his movements.

"There are 20 seconds left, flamie's thinking has already gone wrong. He's worried that apEX is holding him at the crossing point and is still probing forward, but we can see that apEX has already slipped to the terrorist hall."

"flamie just discovered there was no one around the smoke grenade, but there wasn't enough time left!"

"The score has reached 4:8, Vitality seems to have found their rhythm again in one wave!"

The spectacular kills of the round were being replayed on the screen, and everyone saw Xu Beifang roam from the outside area to the inside area, a wave of triple kills forcibly giving apEX room to operate.

"You two were fighting, how did nice shoot and kill me through the wall?"

Electronic spread his hands directly; perhaps having looked at Vitality before the match, he borrowed shox's "pain mask."

Hearing Electronic say this, s1mple pursed his lips, trying hard not to laugh out loud.

Electronic was truly speechless. After being shot to low health in the outside area, he had been holding the crossing point, guarding against nice coming out to catch him.

The bomb was knocked off, and he still proactively rushed back wanting to help.

But who could have thought that on the way back to retake, he would be shot dead by a sniper rifle bullet.

And it was a headshot, damn it.

The director also understood CS: GO; when replaying the spectacular kills, he even gave a close-up of this kill.

Then the live audience clearly saw s1mple do a spin jump, tricking nice's pre-aim.

But that bullet hit Electronic's head outside the terrorist hall accurately and without error.

【In the past there was Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows with straw boats, now there is Electronic accurately catching bullets】

【Hahahaha, this is Electronic Girl】

【Truly the old unlucky guy】

【One hundred ways for Electronic to give away for free】

The scene was filled with laughter, and the audience in the live stream also complained about Electronic's unlucky constitution one by one.

Electronic's bad luck made Vitality unable to help but laugh, and their moods all became quite good.

But in the subsequent confrontation, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

NaVi, with a poor economy, chose to group up and rush the iron plate at the second opportunity.

The two guys on the iron plate had a good feel, and under the pressure of flashbangs, they traded 3.9 people.

But immediately after, s1mple used a Desert Eagle, rushing out from the B-tunnel with three bullets and two heads, instantly killing jackz and apEX who was covering under the third floor.

The originally hot atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Vitality chose to play it safe next, not proactively seeking people, but playing around the A site.

But s1mple, who had picked up a gun, completed the bomb plant in the B site and, utilizing the advantage of his pre-selected position, killed both Xu Beifang and ZywOo who were retaking.

Finally, amidst the cheers of the whole arena, he completed this 1v4 feat.

"With all his teammates dead, even with only 1 HP, s1mple still stood up!!" the English stream commentator shouted frantically. "This is the top 1. s1mple's form today is too exaggerated. Even though Vitality is very steady and doesn't want to give opportunities, he is just able to find that sliver of impossibility from a desperate situation!"

After losing this post-plant scenario, Vitality's previously hot feel seemed to disappear suddenly.

They failed to get a single point in the rest of the first half, and the final score was fixed at 4:11.

They adjusted their mindset and entered the confrontation of the second half.

But in the pistol round, flamie directly used a quadruple kill to get NaVi's momentum going again.

NaVi quickly reached match point.

However, after entering match point, jackz used a triple kill in the A site to ignite Vitality's form again.

In the following rounds, Xu Beifang and ZywOo began to exert force in turns, and their kills began to drift across the upper right corner constantly.

Vitality's score was also constantly changing:

5 points

8 points

11 points!

But in the end, their winning rhythm still died in a speed boost to the A site, and died in Electronic's spray transfer.

In the end, the score for map one of this BO5 was fixed at 11:16.

Danking off-stage took one last look at Xu Beifang's data and almost couldn't hold it together.

nice: 30/4/19

ADR: 109.5

Rating: 1.54

"Brother, you're sweating, aren't you!"

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