Chapter 270: Sit in the middle, both sides!

"After a difficult confrontation, Vitality finally took Inferno with a score of 16:5, and also brought the big score to a 1-1 tie."

Wanjiqi's tone was also very excited: "Vitality successfully chased back one map, and both sides returned to the same starting line again. On this map, Vitality showed us their terrifying explosive power!"

Hearing Ma Xixi's voice at the commentary desk, many viewers laughed out loud directly.

Barrage in the live stream:

Difficult confrontation?

You call 16:5 difficult?

You have to know this is winning the match with an 11-point lead; where does it look difficult?

But many viewers recalled this match and found that in the first half of Inferno, it was indeed quite difficult.

Both sides fought and couldn't pull the score apart, until the key round in the first half, when Xu Beifang used a way everyone couldn't understand to produce an epic 1v5 highlight scene!

NaVi scored later, but anyone with eyes could see that the morale on this map had already been suppressed by Vitality, and they were basically beaten up for the rest of the time.

But inside the CS: GO national server live stream, it had long been an ocean of joy.

【This map two Nice was truly pure explosive killing】

【s1mple's big sniper was torn apart by Little Xu several times, haha】

【Today's 1v5 was too exaggerated, I got goosebumps watching it, already turned from a passerby to a fan】

【Nice's form in today's final is truly exaggerated. He got 30 kills on map one, and he was also killing wildly in this match. NaVi simply can't target him】

【Do you understand what the "Small Town Mafia" is!】

Of course, there were also many NaVi fans who felt unhappy in the live stream because of this joyful scene, completely forgetting what posture they were in when NaVi won map one.

The NaVi players didn't know that fans were fighting for them on the internet.

Even if they knew, they didn't have time to manage it.

The collapse on map two made their emotions very low.

Vitality's team style is that everyone competes harmoniously during the match; whatever happens, it needs to be discussed in detail during the post-match review, which is also the way most professional teams handle it.

But NaVi's team style is special; they belong to the kind where if there is a problem, the team's commander and big brother must say it face-to-face, and if a mistake is made, it should be sprayed.

This Inferno match, no matter how you look at it, they didn't play outstandingly.

So s1mple pointed out the problems he saw without any politeness:

"Don't act like you're afraid of that Nice on the opposite side, don't act like cowards, you all played too timidly on the defensive side!"

"Where?" flamie retorted. "We were all killed in head-on gunfights. It feels like that Nice is always hitting pre-shots, dying the moment we meet, how can we play this?"

He wasn't being stubborn, but speaking his true feelings.

However, in reality, the situation inside the Banana Road was more complex, not just a simple problem of gunfights.

As a member holding B, he clearly felt Nice's suppression in the Banana Road.

Early on, Zeus heavily defended the B site, starting with HE grenades in the B site or various counter-flashes, and they played quite comfortably in the Banana Road.

But until Nice directly dry-pulled and produced a spectacular breakthrough, Zeus was forced to play conventional defense. The Banana Road returned to a normal state, and Nice's suppression in the Banana Road was revealed.

Nice is an opponent who isn't afraid of you getting his information; he often proactively releases footsteps to clear points, but the problem is he is always able to use utility to provide himself with better gunfight links, limiting the performance of flamie and Zeus to a certain extent.

After playing like that a few times, flamie lost his confidence, and even some kills he should have gotten, he couldn't get anymore.

It directly made him autistic.

"Still being stubborn!" s1mple turned his head and sprayed directly. "If we could trade one more kill in the B site, the defensive end wouldn't be like this. You all hold the back point and can't even trade, every time I retake, Vitality has already set up gun positions, how can I operate? It's really not as good as a Bot."

"At least a Bot will stand in place and hold the gun, you all keep shrinking back and still get killed. I want to help you but have no way."

"If we play like this, what is the meaning of us stepping onto this stage?"

"This match, I really felt like I was playing FPL, do you understand? I didn't feel your ideas at all."

He didn't blame the 1v5 post-plant scenario, because until now he was very surprised how Nice got to his right side; Nice used individual ability to produce highlights.

Wiping out the team alone meant the whole team had problems.

But the key was still that after that 1v5 by Nice, flamie and Edward were a bit afraid to fight, shrinking back in head-on combat.

He finally enjoyed the treatment Nice and ZywOo had in the last match; he killed many people, but just couldn't win.

He was like a firefighter, frantically roaming in various areas of the map, but the team's defense was leaking everywhere.

Zeus was silent for a while and shouted:

"This map really wasn't played well, everyone don't lose confidence just because the opponent produced a few highlights."

"We should proactively go out to fight, we still have to fight, don't let s1mple stand in front alone. His sniper rifle can indeed get the first kill for the team, but he can't hold up like this forever."

Hearing the big brother come out to speak, s1mple finally calmed down a bit.

He personally thought that Nice was indeed strong in head-on combat, giving others great pressure, but NaVi shouldn't be limited to this.

16:5!

They were led by 11 points; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were beaten up by Vitality.

NaVi's members were all relatively low in mood.

On the other side of the stage, it was a scene of joy.

"This Inferno match was played too well! Nice, tell me secretly, did you take stimulants before the match! 1v5, sigh!!" apEX's whole face was an exclamation mark. "I've never played this in my life, this is too exaggerated."

1v5 is an operation that is extremely difficult to produce. Because apEX's playstyle is relatively rough, he hadn't been able to produce this level of performance in his entire career.

He had produced 1v4 a few times in the past, but this 1v5 was truly unfamiliar.

jackz said with a grin: "Now we have successfully turned the BO5 into a BO3."

Today's confrontation, he perfectly performed his duties as a role player.

Occasionally he could produce a few eye-catching performances, but overall he just needed to coordinate with tactical execution.

The teammate's form was terrifying, and he was happy to be a tool man, throwing some utility, getting some information, and the match was won.

It really couldn't be more refreshing!

shox added on the side: "Don't be afraid, although the next one is Dust II, we have a 'big move'... Nice, get ready to show NaVi the power of the 'postgraduate entrance exam party'!"

"You only know how to tease me every day." Xu Beifang rolled his eyes at him.

apEX looked at ZywOo's silly smile and shouted: "Shushu, you should also exert force. On the next map, Nice's smoke grenade has already restricted s1mple in advance, next it's your turn to perform."

He sat in the middle and praised both sides, wanting to adjust ZywOo, whose form was slightly worse, back.

"Let Nice hold the front, I'm enjoying the feeling of lying down and winning." ZywOo said with a smile.

His data on the first two maps wasn't outstanding, even a bit mediocre.

On the map they lost, as a sniper, he was always on the way to retake and basically couldn't get any kills.

And on the map they won, Inferno, Nice played too fiercely. He held a sniper rifle, and except for playing a role in a few key rounds, he couldn't even drink soup when Nice ate meat, so the overall data naturally wouldn't be outstanding.

However, ZywOo didn't care about this. In his concept, the team's victory was always greater than individual data.

For example, if you produce a 2.02 rating but still lose in the end, you are still a loser in the match.

But if you win, even if the rating is negative, it is still a victory.

The time in the second-tier team made ZywOo understand that victory was the most important thing; data during the match didn't matter that much.

However, he also understood very well that he still had to stand out and perform.

Was he going to let Nice carry the whole BO5?

Xu Beifang teased with a smile: "Exactly, I exploded and killed on the small town for one round, the 'peerless' was already opened, next I need to save the energy bar."

When he said this, he was just teasing.

In reality, he felt his form was quite good.

Today's final confrontation, whether it was the quality of the opponent or the passion of the live audience, kept him in an active state.

Not to mention the 1v5 before, which directly made him high.

Now his whole person was full of confidence!

Even if Astralis came, Xu Beifang felt he could fight and could directly knock them over.

In the live stream screen, the MVP screen of this match appeared just right.

Xu Beifang on the screen had his hands crossed, the muscle lines under his short sleeves were very obvious, and after fitness, his facial lines were hard, now he was actually a bit handsome.

Below was Xu Beifang's match data on Inferno.

Kills/Assists/Deaths: 34/2/13

Non-give-away rate: 90.2%

Average damage per round: 119.2

Rating: 2.32

Headshot rate: 79%

Immediately after, the other members didn't have this treatment; the data appeared together, but it also allowed the audience to see it more intuitively.

【Nice was sitting in jail last round, s1mple is sitting in jail this round, this match is truly interesting】

【This data is a bit too outrageous】

【Nice lost with 1.54 on map one, why do you think s1mple can win with 1.32】

【Nice truly took gun medicine today, the performance on these two maps is outrageous】

【ZywOo is still stable, both maps have a rating of around 1.2】

【Actually NaVi is also quite stable, even if they won map one, there are two people with stable negative ratings】

【Laughed】

What is the concept of 34 kills in 21 rounds.

Getting 1.6 kills per round on average, you have to know Xu Beifang is still a rifleman, doing breakthroughs.

Basically, it can be said that Xu Beifang directly blew up NaVi's defense from the front.

After that 1v5 round, NaVi was even more out of feel, and was pushed away in one wave.

Truly a professional "pass-through generation."

"This Nice is truly fierce." Coldzera looked at the data and felt Nice was a non-human.

"Karrigan, what do you think of NaVi?" ropz thought NaVi's performance on this map was too poor, but felt his view might be a bit one-sided, so he wanted to ask Karrigan's thoughts.

"Actually, the overall play wasn't bad." Karrigan pushed his glasses with his index finger. ropz was very worried that the next second would be that "heart-machine frog is always touching your stomach," but facts proved Karrigan was still very serious.

"NaVi actually made a lot of targeted preparations today. For example, map one, Nuke, that was a very pure targeting from the overall layout. Zeus should have spent a lot of effort. But entering Inferno, because Vitality has quite a lot of things on this map, they didn't have that much time and energy to make too many targeted preparations..."

ropz had already learned to answer in advance: "So NaVi chose to target Nice's point to play?"

Coldzera echoed on the side: "Indeed, the first few rounds were direct utility bombing, I saw Nice didn't even dare to enter the Banana Road."

"NaVi's idea is good." Karrigan said with a smile. "But the number of utility bombings was too many. This is just like Zeus's playstyle, pure gambling on points too much."

For the skills of a commander, he personally thought it should be more balanced.

Things like gambling on points shouldn't be too frequent; instead, it might make oneself fall into an unfavorable situation.

NaVi's targeting was wanting to gain control of the Banana Road early, but NaVi's playstyle didn't like deep control, just holding the close point of the Banana Road, so the overall map control significance wasn't big.

And 3B opening was too frequent. Nice reacted very quickly and immediately turned his head to hit a wave in the middle.

All of Zeus's early arrangements were directly disintegrated, and he could only play according to the default habits from before.

At this time, the spectacular kill replay of Inferno appeared on the screen, among which Xu Beifang's exaggerated 1v5 still drew the attention of the three people watching the match.

"Nice's guts are truly big, how dare he proactively reload to lure Zeus over." Coldzera watched the live stream for the first time, and he also subconsciously thought Nice had "reloading cancer."

After all, even for pro players, these small problems are many.

For example, the two teammates beside him had many small problems.

ropz's terrifying chicken kill count, Karrigan's flash-white teammates count that stably ranks in the top 5 in every tournament.

Or for example, the "knife cancer" of those players in VG.

Nice having a bit of reloading cancer, in his view, could be understood.

Sometimes it's not that he wants to do it, it's just subconscious muscle memory.

But he truly didn't expect that this reload was just to lure Zeus out to cover.

How could he be sure Zeus would definitely come out to cover?

Switching to the Desert Eagle in advance was a predictive operation.

"Too calm." Karrigan said.

He was somewhat amazed at Nice's on-the-spot processing ability. If he remembered correctly, Nice's processing of post-plant scenarios when he was in VP basically relied on aiming ability to solve them.

Now the overall ability was much stronger than before. Before, he was a standard "brainless gun man," using marksmanship to solve everything.

But now, various details were piled up, using various fake information and small techniques to gain advantages.

This isn't to say that a brainless gun man is bad, it's just that by comparison, the ceiling of this playstyle is lower.

Take this post-plant scenario as an example. If Xu Beifang chose to find trouble with the opponent one by one from the front, even if NaVi constantly traded blood, they would be able to grind him to death.

But Nice used techniques to dismantle the opponent and slowly brought this post-plant scenario to life.

Then they saw the screen of Xu Beifang silently sneaking down the VIP and then catching s1mple in the middle.

ropz couldn't help but complain: "How many strange techniques does he have?"

Before, he felt the silent A1 drop in Mirage was already outrageous enough, how could a place like VIP also be dropped silently?

ropz felt he couldn't keep up with the changes of the times.

Instead, the final "onetap," under the cover of the previous two kills, appeared exceptionally normal.

Karrigan patted ropz on the shoulder: "This is Vitality's preparation, various small routines and small techniques. Inferno is their strong map, they are very confident, many preparations are based on adjustments to the original tactics, so it doesn't look as obvious as NaVi. In this BO5 confrontation, Vitality might still have trump cards."

The camera in the live stream gave the entire venue, and Karrigan's gaze couldn't help but look at the two teams on stage.

Both sides had secured one map each and were now tied.

Then, would the next Dust II be your trump card?

The word count today is relatively small, because I spent a lot of time modifying the content of map one this afternoon. If you are interested, you can go take a look and then come back to give feedback.

Coffee's body has also gotten better, but everyone still needs to pay attention to keeping warm. I heard there is some cold wave on the 15th of this month, it feels terrifying... ===== CHAPTER 271 =====

The word count today is relatively low because I spent quite a lot of time this afternoon making some modifications to the content of Map 1. Those interested can go take a look and then provide some feedback.

My health has improved a bit, but everyone still needs to be careful to stay warm. I heard there's another cold wave coming on the 15th of this month; it feels terrifyingly intense...