Chapter 283: New Generation Banana Road King! (10,000-word big chapter)

"ropz has already taken out 3 in this round, but in a 1V5 clutch, 3 kills are far from enough!"

"The bomb-planting sound has already rung out. ropz doesn't dare to gamble. He can only peek out from A2 floor to look for opportunities, but Nice is standing in the middle of the big road holding his gun. ropz didn't expect it at all and was instantly headshot!"

"Time is sufficient, Zywoo still has a defuse kit in his hand, easily completing the defuse."

"The match is over!" Wanjiqi shouted in the live stream room, "Let us congratulate Vitality for ultimately defeating Mouz with a large score of 16:4, ending this Inferno confrontation in a crushing situation!"

On the Mouz player bench.

ropz watched the final losing screen and took a deep breath.

This Inferno match played a total of 20 rounds, and he got 19 kills. His performance could already be considered eye-catching.

But in the end, they only got 4 points.

Coldzera's face was a bit distressed: "As expected of Nice, this Banana Road is played too well."

ropz, as an A Site defender, rarely encountered Xu Beifang frontally, but as a main B member.

He had more frontal exchanges with Xu Beifang on Banana Road.

His evaluation of Xu Beifang was that he was a pure pervert.

He believed that his gunplay was definitely not worse than Xu Beifang's, but the problem was how to exert his gunplay, which was also a difficult problem.

Xu Beifang was always able to pop up in unexpected ways.

Double-boosting from behind the Stone Slab, holding the crossing point from the Tree Position wood pile, peeking out horizontally with a flashbang, or throwing a flash himself and then having a teammate throw an instant-flash behind him—this kind of combo package.

Various small tricks emerged one after another, not to mention Xu Beifang's use of utility.

That really disgusted them.

Often controlling the map at the near point, they were already at half health before seeing anyone.

Opening the first half with a 3:1, they thought it was a good start, but didn't expect that it was a "father's love" point for the first half, and later their Banana Road was beaten numb.

Especially after Device's formulaic playstyle was cracked by Xu Beifang, they didn't know how to play B Site.

Later, it was basically throwing a set of utility at the start, and then retreating directly into the B bomb site to use utility to drag out the defense.

This playstyle indeed made the B Site lose people less quickly, but the problem was that retreating from Banana Road too quickly led to huge pressure on A Site defense.

Furthermore, this was a match between Vitality and Mouz, not their offensive and defensive drill.

They temporarily found a way to deal with Xu Beifang, but Zywoo started operating on A Site again.

They also had many opportunities to score, but losing many clutches that shouldn't have been lost led to the score being fixed at 14:1 when the first half ended.

In the second half, relying on a triple kill from ropz, they managed to win the pistol round by the skin of their teeth.

Relying on the dividends brought by the pistol round victory, they successfully pushed the score to 14:4.

A wave of winning streaks made their morale warm up slightly, and Coldzera even had thoughts of a comeback.

It's just that,

After entering the full-buy round, the situation took a turn for the worse.

With long guns and utility, they couldn't handle Vitality's frontal defense on the defensive side.

Even if Vitality didn't actively push forward on B Site, they wasted too much time in utility exchanges.

The answer to the final hasty attack would only be failure.

After entering match point, Mouz's economy was insufficient, and ropz wandered on A2 floor, trying hard to steal 3 people.

But in the exchange of numbers, facing that 1V2 clutch on A Site, he still couldn't operate.

Ultimately, on this Vitality strong map, they were taken down by Vitality in a crushing situation.

After losing the match, Karrigan looked at the final score and organized his emotions: "The gap between us and truly first-line strong teams is still very large."

The score can explain certain problems, but more so, it was the huge pressure they felt overall during the confrontation.

Vitality didn't play any special tricks in this confrontation, just basic map control, applying pressure, plus a small amount of Fake.

The overall playstyle wasn't complicated, but the problem was that Mouz always fell into a numerical disadvantage while playing.

Their understanding of this map, at least, had already been pulled apart from Vitality.

He looked at his teammates who were a bit low in spirits and comforted them: "Don't have too much pressure. I actively let Inferno out just to let you see what the current strongest Inferno state is like, and let you know what the ceiling level is at the current stage."

As the current captain of Mouz, Karrigan's thinking is very clear.

The current Mouz is inclined toward youth, and many things still need him to guide them. They are still in a period of high-speed growth.

There is no need to show their ambition at this stage; they just need to keep learning and understand and adapt to first-line playstyles, which is enough.

"Isn't the current number one Inferno supposed to be Astralis?" Coldzera felt a bit surprised by Karrigan's words.

As the current phenomenal team, Astralis is famous for its excellent tactics and extremely strong discipline. The Danes show terrifying strength on the map Inferno. Although it hasn't been discussed specifically, most people in the circle believe that Astralis is the world's number one Inferno.

"Astralis's playstyle is relatively formulaic, with discipline pulled to the max, but I believe players are always superior to systems." Karrigan is the kind of IGL who takes players as the core.

Whether it was in Astralis, FaZe, or now Mouz, most of his tactical construction is built based on the habits of the players.

Because in his heart, players are the true core members of a team, and you have to follow the ideas of a player.

It's just that when he was in FaZe before, he gave the players too much space.

Now Vitality gives him a very good feeling. Star players have enough space, and several role players are willing to do the dirty work.

And the main thing is that Xu Beifang plays really well frontally on the map Inferno.

The suppression on Banana Road is very strong, and one person can often achieve the effect of several people.

Plus there is an all-around sniper like Zywoo in the back to provide a bottom line, JackZ and shox's firepower isn't bad, and apEX as an IGL can sometimes find his state and carry. The frontal firepower of this team is not lacking at all.

He personally prefers and is more inclined toward Vitality having a higher ceiling.

"These guys feel like they are about to take off." Karrigan muttered.

The group took their peripherals and headed back toward the lounge.

Head coach XTQZZZ walked in the middle of the team, looking at the match analysis table on his phone.

As a coach, he is always serious, but outside of matches, XTQZZZ occasionally wears a smile, and the pressure he gives the players isn't great.

"Successfully won against Mouz, so wait in the lounge for a while. There is still one BO3 to play today. After playing, we can go back to the hotel. Everyone should be able to sleep in the lounge. If you are hungry later, you can eat some bananas or something; I've already asked someone to buy them."

After arranging the follow-up itinerary, the big bald coach turned to look at the players and couldn't help but laugh again. Having just lifted the first trophy in Shanghai, they all held great expectations for the follow-up matches. But the big bald coach still didn't expect that the first match today would be so smooth.

"Selected Inferno, Beifang is always like this, the frontal side is too scary."

He carefully checked Vitality's record in the past year.

On HLTV, it shows that since Vitality was built, they have played 29 times in official matches recorded by HLTV, with a victory rate of 79.3%, which is their map with the highest win rate. And as one of the team's cores, Xu Beifang's average rating on this map is 1.27. He flipped through it slightly and found that S1mple's average rating on this map was only 1.24. Xu Beifang, as the new generation Banana Road King, is indeed well-deserved.

"Of course, Shushu is also very good. He actually got 28 kills today, very great." XTQZZZ gave Zywoo a thumbs up.

Zywoo's face revealed a smile, "As long as we win, it doesn't matter how many I kill."

XTQZZZ was quite satisfied with this kind of answer from Zywoo.

Perhaps it was because the power struggles in French CSGO were too intense in the past, God bestowed upon them a humble top-tier genius.

Although Xu Beifang's personality is easygoing, one can understand from his playstyle that his inner thoughts are aggressive, and he actually has high requirements for himself.

If the second star player in the team also has an aggressive personality and is in a period of rising results, then everything is fine.

But if the results decline, it will evolve into a new round of palace fighting.

It's very good like this now. Everyone is in the team, and although there are occasional small frictions, most of the time they get along comfortably.

Walking into the player tunnel, Xu Beifang looked back. In the built studio, the NIP group was still struggling to fight. Perhaps it was because of some brilliant operation, the "dog-headed" veteran shouted loudly, encouraging the team's morale. On the other side of the studio was an unknown small team. They perhaps lost a good game, and several players showed expressions of unwillingness. Everyone's mind was moved because of this match.

"Let's go, we still have to prepare for the next match."

JackZ's voice came from the player tunnel, and Xu Beifang also followed his pace.

"Why did you dare to rush so fiercely on Banana Road? We didn't give less utility either."

In the Mouz lounge, Coldzera asked Xu Beifang, who was wandering around after the match, very puzzled.

But the chats between professional players are often concentrated on the match. At this time, the content of the chat will evolve into a post-match review.

However, except for some particularly detailed tactics, post-match reviews between different teams, although relatively rare, actually exist.

In the story where "Demon Man" whipped VP's corpse, North was turned over by VP with a "father's love" point, causing the underage Demon Man to be abandoned in the lounge crying, and later comforted and encouraged by VP.

It was the old VP who went to find the North group to review the match after the match, thinking about discussing the content of the match to improve themselves.

But didn't expect North not to act like humans, directly throwing the underage Demon Man in the lounge. In the end, it was a group of old brothers from VP who paid for the air ticket to send Demon Man home.

Most teams actually don't refuse this kind of post-match review discussion.

Of course, except for Astralis.

Xu Beifang was mainly bored. The schedule of IEM Sydney was too dense.

On the first day, a total of 8 BO1s and 4 BO3s needed to be played.

Even if the main stage and the secondary stage start at the same time, it takes a lot of effort to wait for today's BO3 to start.

Xu Beifang lay down for a while, but couldn't sleep.

He went out to watch the match for a while, and then wandered into Mouz's lounge.

Regarding Coldzera's question, Xu Beifang shrugged: "What can be done? I'm just playing Banana Road... It's impossible that you guys give utility and I have to run away." He is Vitality's entry fragger, responsible for opening up the situation. If he always runs, the team will have problems.

ropz smiled lightly, and then asked the key question: "Then how do you play Banana Road so well? I mean, different teams have different Banana Road playstyles. What is your offensive logic?"

"If it's inconvenient, you don't have to say it."

"There's nothing that can't be said. After all, there are no secrets in CSGO; everything is hidden in the match recordings." Xu Beifang didn't have the idea of covering up. "First of all, it's still playing in this position more. Just like you, ropz, you have played in A2 floor for so many years, and various detail tricks and techniques have piled up."

ropz nodded. As a top-tier lurker, he also made a name for himself in positions like A2 floor and side paths, and fans gave him the nickname "A2 Floor Building Owner."

In the position of A2 floor, he is also quite confident.

"Your professional career is less than a year." Karrigan reminded him intimately.

Xu Beifang smiled, "It's mainly playing more in the Banana Road position. As for the offensive logic ropz mentioned, it mainly depends on the map control of the opponent in the first few rounds. Catch the opponent's habits, and then judge what kind of playstyle the opponent will use next based on your own experience, and then perform targeted operations."

Hearing this explanation, Karrigan and ropz nodded, probably understanding.

Coldzera was very surprised to see their expressions, "You guys understood? Why do I feel like I didn't understand anything?"

He originally thought that Xu Beifang came to visit today, and he could learn something from this post-match review, but in the end, it was still the damn match experience.

What kind of person is Karrigan? Seeing Coldzera's expression, he naturally understood his thoughts and turned his head to explain: "Because Nice's outstanding performance on Banana Road is based on his endless small tricks, plus his grasp of the timing of offense and defense."

"For example, when to stand at the Tree Position to hold the Stone Slab headshot position, when to stand in the recess, when you absolutely cannot enter Banana Road—these are all intuitive judgments he built based on past match experience."

ropz added: "As for why he can achieve this kind of result in just one year, ask him how many POV recordings of professional players' Banana Road offense and defense he has watched."

Xu Beifang smiled and didn't answer. Can you remember how many small cookies you have eaten?

A large amount of match recordings, plus in-depth research, now he understands the operational habits and playstyles of first-line riflemen on the market very well. If any professional player suddenly has something to do and can't play, and lets Xu Beifang be a substitute, he feels he can impersonate and perfectly copy the other party's playstyle.

He patted Coldzera on the shoulder: "Don't be anxious, experience is something that can't be rushed. You are mainly building a foundation now. Wait a few years, when you are around 20 years old, you will already be a veteran in the first-line arena. I dare not imagine how strong you will be."

"The future is ultimately yours."

Coldzera was a bit embarrassed to hear Xu Beifang's praise.

Karrigan shook his head. The current Mouz can indeed only look forward to the future.

Although the overall strength of the lineup is sufficient, ropz's current playstyle is still very "cancerous." Perhaps because Mouz's previous lineup was too weak, it developed ropz's habit of relying on his own playstyle. As a lurker, his overall position is relatively far back.

Coldzera lacks experience and hasn't fully grasped his position in the team.

Device is okay against weak teams, but against those first-line strong teams, that kind of old-fashioned playstyle can no longer keep up with the times.

woxic doesn't have big problems here, but as a sniper, his unstable performance is the biggest problem.

The whole team doesn't have big problems now, but has a pile of small problems.

Can't it only be changed slowly?

This IEM Sydney tournament uses the classic double-elimination system. Except for the first match which is a BO1 confrontation, all other matches in the group stage are BO3.

Vitality, Mouz, Renegades, and Korea's MVP team are in the same division.

Vitality successfully won against Mouz, and Renegades also started the match against MVP.

After a round of BP, the final map selection for this BO1 also came to Inferno.

Renegades' current world ranking is 6th, while MVP's ranking is 45th. The paper strength of both sides looks relatively disparate.

But what everyone didn't expect was that in this match, both sides could actually play back and forth.

In the end, if JKS hadn't won a 1V2 in the key round, MVP might have even caused an upset!

However, Renegades' foundation is still very sufficient. Finally, they won with a score of 16:13, advancing to the second round of the group stage confrontation, and are about to collide with Vitality.

Before this IEM Sydney started, there were Renegades fans looking forward to them meeting again.

From their perspective, Renegades falling in the top four in the StarSeries was extremely regrettable.

Because if they had defeated Vitality, Renegades would have been very likely to win the StarSeries championship.

If they could meet again and Renegades successfully avenged themselves against Vitality, what a beautiful scene that would be.

It's just that when the pre-match expectations became reality.

Their mood wasn't so beautiful.

Although Vitality and Mouz were both 1-0, Vitality was 16:4, while Renegades' record was 16:13, and they almost let MVP turn the tables.

After Renegades won, JKS, as the big brother in the team, had a red record.

In this state, against Vitality, they only felt one word—"hanging" (risky)!

After all, they were looking forward to Renegades achieving results, not without brains.

They still recognized Vitality's strength very much.

Now that the two teams have met, they can only cheer for Renegades in front of the screen.

But the unfolding of this match ultimately disappointed Renegades fans.

After the BO3 BP map selection, Vitality's strongest map, Inferno, was not released this time.

After the BP session, the first map was Overpass. On this Vitality map selection, Nice let them see what the power of a top-tier rifleman is on the offensive side.

In the first 7 rounds, he achieved a data of 10/1/1.

Making Renegades fans couldn't help but complain in the live stream room: "How long can this B play with one life?"

Some thoughtful Vitality fans answered: "This B can play until the game hall has a power outage."

From Xu Beifang's data, one can see the good offensive state of Vitality overall. With such an outrageous KD ratio for an entry fragger, the frontal battlefield couldn't be smoother.

However, Xu Beifang ultimately couldn't play until the game hall had a power outage. In a wave of B Site offense and defense, Vitality's offensive number exchange was smooth, and in the final 3-person bomb-guarding clutch, only JKS was left on the opposite side.

But the score was too far behind, causing JKS to take the initiative to operate.

JKS, relying on his "three steps and one look back" playstyle, instantly headshot two people in this clutch, and in the state of having a defuse kit, sealed the smoke to force a defuse.

Zywoo was still playing games with JKS, but the bomb had already been defused.

Renegades finally found some rhythm.

The score spiraled upward, and finally, the first half ended, with the score fixed at 9:6.

For Vitality, getting 9 points on the offensive side had already exceeded expectations.

But Renegades felt they could also play.

After all, Vitality could get 9 points on the offensive side, why couldn't they?

But after changing sides, their offense wasn't ideal.

Several pushes on A Site were caught by Xu Beifang in the Toilet or A Long. Every time, he could trade several kills. Often, before the offensive was built, they were already at a numerical disadvantage.

Ultimately, only 1 point was obtained in the second half, ending this Overpass confrontation.

After Map 1 ended, only Jkaem had a green rating in Renegades, and the other four people's data were all red.

Renegades fans could only look forward to entering Renegades' map selection, hoping they could find their rhythm back.

The opening of Map 2 was very smooth. After Renegades won the pistol round, they successfully pushed the score to 3:0.

But after the match entered the full-buy round, Zywoo got three kills for three consecutive rounds, directly disrupting Renegades' rhythm.

Later, JKS and Harry Potter finally found their lost state on this map, but by then it was already too late.

Ultimately, Zywoo went crazy and got 29 kills on this map, successfully ending this confrontation with a score of 16:11.

Vitality successfully defeated Mouz and Renegades on the first day of IEM Sydney, winning two matches.

However, after winning against Renegades, Xu Beifang didn't chat with Renegades too much.

Mainly because the IEM series of tournaments are set up unreasonably. Half of the time this day was spent in the venue. Even if they could rest in the lounge, the overall mood was tense.

So after the match ended, everyone felt a bit tired.

After a hasty handshake, they drove back to the hotel.

As the vehicle drove on the road, Xu Beifang flipped through his phone when he had nothing to do and found that after the first day of IEM matches ended, netizens were also discussing the match situation:

【IEM series is quite interesting, it's just that there are too many matches in one day today】

【Most of them are acquaintances. 10 of the top 20 teams came, and the teams behind also have VG, Grayhound, MVP and this group of people】

【VG's luck is not very good. They met NRG on the first day and were beaten up completely, only getting 4 points. It feels like they are going out for a round trip】

【VG's luck is not good? Then what about my FaZe? NIKO is gone!】

【Hope VG wins the next match anyway, otherwise it's too disappointing】

【To be honest, what's the situation with Renegades? Why are they so "slack" after not seeing them for a few days? Almost lost to MVP】

【It seems their state started to decline after the StarSeries】

【However, Vitality is quite surprising. This opening was actually so smooth】

In the past, when Vitality participated in various tournaments, the first few matches were never particularly smooth.

Although not as exaggerated as NAVI, there is indeed a "slow-heating" attribute. This time, the opening directly hit a 2-0, which is indeed eye-catching.

【Hope Vitality can strike while the iron is hot and rush into the playoffs 3-0】

【It's not that easy. Next, you have to win a BO3 against Liquid】

Xu Beifang also understood that in the last match of the group stage, Liquid would be their formidable rival.

Although Vitality's world ranking is second, one place higher than Liquid's world ranking.

But in HLTV's team rankings, except for Astralis ranked first, the strength of the top 10 teams is not much different.

And Liquid's explosive power is really strong. As the most capable team in North America now, they also have great pressure when facing them.

However, because the first day of the match was smooth, they had a day to rest and adjust.

On the second day of the IEM Sydney group stage, you can enjoy everyone's fighting in the match to your heart's content.

Domestic viewers have expectations for VG because the outstanding performance in the StarSeries made domestic CSGO viewers look forward to VG becoming the next 18-Tyloo-like team.

But VG still disappointed everyone. In the loser's bracket confrontation, they lost to an unknown American team and left the IEM Sydney stage with a score of 2-1.

Time came to May 2nd.

The third day of the IEM group stage.

Vitality appeared again. This was their last BO3 in the group stage. If this match is successfully taken, according to the match rules, they can lock in the top four seats in advance.

Whether it is Vitality or Liquid, they don't want to play another round in the playoffs, because that is destined to have more variables.

Then this BO3 that determines fate must be taken!

The first two matches were both loser's bracket competitions. Although FaZe existed among them, in this IEM Sydney, NIKO missed the IEM Sydney match due to visa problems.

Although FaZe activated the "Coach is Warming Up" skill, YNK failed to lead them to victory. FaZe lacked a firepower point and even lost to Grayhound.

But no one blamed FaZe. After all, they were missing a formal player.

So they all placed their expectations on this match between Vitality and Liquid.

This match determined the seats for the subsequent playoffs, and the recent state of both sides also guaranteed the quality of the duel.

CSBOY live stream room.

Ma Xixi watched the Vitality members appear on the match screen, "Alright, there's a picture, brothers, the match you are looking forward to is about to start!"

Just after Ma Xixi finished speaking, MO added from the side:

"Today, as long as you win this match, you can successfully advance to the semi-finals, so this BO3 is still very critical."

The two were still chatting, the camera turned, and the BP screen officially appeared.

After flipping the coin, Vitality got the Ban map right for this match.

"Vitality should still be conventional... sigh!" Ma Xixi was a bit surprised, "Vitality actually released Train?"

"Could it be that Vitality practiced Train during the new map replacement?"

MO immediately made up for it from the side: "You are thinking too much. Vitality releasing Train is mainly because they don't want to waste a Ban position."

Vitality and Liquid's "no-pick map" is the same; it's Train.

If Vitality banned Train at the start, then this Ban would be purely wasted.

"Banned Mirage." nitr0 looked and fell into deep thought.

This hand disgusted him a little.

Mirage is Liquid's strongest map. From the beginning of the year to now, their Mirage win rate has been maintained at around 75%.

On this relatively balanced map, it is suitable for a gunner team like Liquid, and their individual ability can also be fully exerted.

"What should we ban? How about banning Vitality's Inferno?" Twistzz picked his hairstyle that he had spent half an hour grabbing with his fingers and said casually.

nitr0 shook his head, and he also had the answer in his heart.

"Liquid actually removed Vertigo. This is still quite surprising." MO raised his eyebrows.

In his view, with the replacement of active-duty maps, all teams with weak map pools would definitely practice the new map.

A team like Liquid that originally didn't play one map would definitely spend some effort on this, but coming up and banning the new map is truly incomprehensible.

It was Vitality's turn to pick. With Inferno not being banned, they naturally locked in Inferno.

After thinking, Liquid locked in Overpass.

This is also one of Liquid's strongest maps this year. Overpass also has a win rate as high as 70%, and this is the map they have played the most this year.

Both sides went through another round of banning, and finally, this third map was locked on Dust II.

The players of both sides accelerated their warm-up speed. When the preparation time ended, they started to enter the server for Map 1 and officially started the match.

"Alright, welcome everyone to watch the third day of the IEM Sydney group stage, the match between Vitality and Liquid."

"I am the commentator for this match, Ma Xixi."

"I am CaptainMO."

"Who are you guys?"

【I am Wanjiqi!】

【I am Danking】

【I am Da Ma Hou!】

【Nice, rush, rush, rush!!】

While the audience in the live stream room was creating content, Ma Xixi glanced at the match screen and continued:

"Map 1 is Inferno, Vitality's own map selection, so they start as the offensive side."

"I see someone saying Vitality is stable. Let me add here: although this is Vitality's strongest map, as the current world number three, Liquid not only has things on this map, but they have many things!"

"Their Inferno win rate is around 71%, so for this map, it still depends on the specific performance of both sides."

When Ma Xixi and the barrage audience were chatting, the match had officially started.

apEX gave the tactic: "Liquid likes to push out from Mid on Inferno. Let's try to play a wave from the side toward A2 floor."

"Look, you still say you don't like flying to the second floor!" shox acted as if he had caught his friend's handle and instantly winked at him.

apEX ignored him. He wanted to fly to the second floor, and the tactic needing to fly to the second floor were completely different concepts, okay!

He continued to arrange tactics: "JackZ has the best positioning. Later, you jump directly into Banana Road. Pull and drag with the opponent at the Tree Position or recess."

"Nice, I'll give you a P250. Later, you get information in Mid and pull and drag the people pushing forward."

JackZ asked: "What if Liquid doesn't push forward?"

Xu Beifang added: "They should push forward. Liquid has been very fond of this playstyle in the past few months. At the start, they directly coordinate to push forward to take control of Mid and cut off the connection of the terrorists."

The preparation time started counting down. Xu Beifang looked at the tactical paper and signature pen beside him and started painting and writing on the blank space of the paper.

"Giving you a tactical notebook, what kind of tricks is Beizige creating again?" Ma Xixi said curiously.

The director's camera gave it over, and the audience in the live stream room was also very curious about what Xu Beifang was writing.

Xu Beifang finished writing quickly and didn't cover it up, directly showing the content on the tactical paper to the audience.

I saw it written in English on the tactical paper: @kennyS Fly to the Second Floor!

【Genius!】

【kennyS, you didn't steal it wrong, Vitality's tactic is really flying to the second floor!】

【Vitality knows how to interact】

Ma Xixi knows English and couldn't help but laugh when he saw this: "This is Vitality's tactic, right? It's really top-tier."

After Xu Beifang showed it to the camera, he carried the P250 to the T Spawn to help scout Mid information.

"apEX has a smoke and a flash in his hand, the main force is pushing forward from the side. This round is really flying to the second floor!" Ma Xixi originally thought it was teasing, but didn't expect Xu Beifang to be so honest.

But before he had time to laugh, he saw that Liquid on the mini-map was a bit wrong.

"Liquid seems to be doing something unconventional again! Twistzz is helping to hold the gun in Mid, and NAF and Stewie2K are directly pressing forward against the wall on the right side of Mid."

"2K is dueling with JackZ on the Stone Slab of Banana Road and has locked JackZ's position. Mid is also still pushing forward."

"Can Xu catch it? He is completely hooked by the back-point Twistzz. He didn't aim well at the first time, which allowed Stewie2K and NAF to push to the near point of Mid. JackZ is completely locked!"

Stewie2K had done enough hooking on the Stone Slab. Seeing his teammates in position near the sewers in Mid, he directly stuck to the right side of Banana Road, wanting to take JackZ out and get a numerical advantage first.

But JackZ heard Xu Beifang's report. Knowing that he couldn't be saved in this position, he already had an idea for the follow-up playstyle.

He only saw half of Stewie2K's body at the first peek. In the wall-sticking state, his angle was indeed not easy to hit.

So he immediately pulled to the right, found an angle, and pulled the trigger at Stewie2K.

"Pa!"

【JackZ used Glock to headshot Stewie2K】

"JackZ pulled out horizontally and forcibly killed Stewie2K! Stewie2K's trade kill was fast, but it was just a 1-for-1!" Ma Xixi looked at the mini-map and analyzed quickly, "And on the other side, apEX took the main force and flew down from A2 floor, occupying A bomb site. Liquid's 1-for-1 is completely not profitable!"

Liquid's unconventional playstyle, at the start, was to give up the advantage of the bomb site and plan to find Vitality to duel, catching them off guard.

But Vitality's "flying to the second floor" explosive grenades were completely staggered from their Mid push.

If they had obtained a numerical advantage, it would be fine; then the retake with more players could still be played.

But JackZ forcibly killed Stewie2K, so they lost blood this wave.

Twistzz shouted in the voice chat: "There is still a P250 at T Spawn, kill that guy at T Spawn first!"

He had been pulled and dragged by Xu Beifang, but that P250 in the opponent's hand had already beaten him to a pulp. He didn't dare to have too much action.

But in this situation, they also had to catch Xu Beifang at T Spawn.

But just as the words left his mouth, a shiny forehead popped out at T Spawn, and a P250 bullet crossed Mid and hit Twistzz in the head.

【Nice used P250 to headshot Twistzz】

"The utility on A Site has been laid out. Liquid has been disgusted by Xu now. Now the bomb site is lost, there is a numerical advantage, and there is Xu hooking them from the back."

"They must solve Xu before they have a chance to deal with this clutch frontally."

Xu Beifang listened to the footsteps getting closer. He wasn't anxious, directly switched to a knife, performed a spin jump, and returned to the inside of T Spawn.

Now that he had obtained a numerical advantage and his teammates had planted the bomb at A Site, his role had changed.

Xu Beifang shouted in the voice chat: "Think about what BlameF would do!"

Xu Beifang's sentence instantly made his teammates laugh out loud.

Stewie2K and NAF were very anxious now. The two of them were chasing over with big steps.

The further away from the bomb, the longer they were delayed by Xu Beifang, the smaller their chance of winning this clutch.

Stewie2K took the initiative to peek out, but only saw a terrorist standing on the railing holding a gun.

Xu Beifang's crosshair was firmly holding the position where the opponent would pull out. Stewie2K peeked out and directly appeared within his crosshair.

He only needed to pull the trigger lightly.

"Pa!"

NAF rushed out to trade.

"Pa!"

"Nice is acting as a hook at T Spawn. He has actually completed the task this round. Even if he is killed now, it's too late for them to play this clutch."

"Nice is still operating!" Ma Xixi shouted, "P250 instantly kills one, NAF pulls out to trade, and is also headshot by one!!"

"This positioning is a bit outrageous!"

Because the focus was all on T Spawn, the director's camera was always on Xu Beifang.

They saw these two shots from Xu Beifang accurately.

Even some high-level players saw Xu Beifang squatting to avoid NAF's headshot line during the two shots.

It's outrageous.

Looking at the kill information in the upper right corner, nitr0 was silent. He had already returned to the connection, but turned and walked toward B Site.

No way, in a 1V4 clutch, how could he operate with an armorless USP.

It's better to save the 700 dollars of utility and stay for the next round to operate.

Successfully winning the first pistol round, apEX's face revealed a smile. He glared at shox: "See, the A2 floor tactic is no problem, it's just you blackening me every day!"

shox smiled disdainfully: "Isn't it the credit of Nice and JackZ?"

In their bickering, they quickly arrived at the second round.

Liquid chose to force buy in the second round as expected.

In this round, Twistzz directly headshot two people with a Desert Eagle in B Site at the start, once putting Vitality on the edge of danger.

But Xu Beifang and apEX held the pressure in the middle stage, touched a wave of connection in the second time, and successfully ate A Site from the connection.

In the end, they won this round by the skin of their teeth.

Liquid entered the economy round directly in the third round, with only Twistzz having an armorless Desert Eagle.

But this armorless Desert Eagle didn't continue the feel of the previous round and didn't get any kills.

The score successfully reached 3:0.

The first key round of the first half is about to start!

I don't know if this transition method is okay. I slightly abbreviated some unimportant matches. ===== CHAPTER 284 =====