Chapter 315

(Some content was modified in the previous chapter, the transition content was overturned by me, yesterday it was indeed written a bit hurriedly)

Successfully winning the ECS Season 8 league championship, the Vitality members were quite happy.

"The only regret is not being able to play against Astralis, it's a pity." Xu Beifang was packing his luggage and chatting with Zywoo on the side.

Zywoo thought for a while: "Actually, it's okay, with Astralis's state, you might not be willing to play."

He knew Xu Beifang, knew this guy was competitive, and preferred to play against teams with high levels.

In this ECS league, don't know if Astralis's state was bad, or if they were deliberately hiding things.

Anyway, the final level displayed was definitely unsatisfactory.

Even if they bumped into each other, Beifang definitely wouldn't be particularly happy.

"That's true." Xu Beifang nodded and quickly packed his luggage.

The more refreshing it is during vacation, the busier their work will be next.

Because they finally got the ranking of the Champions Stage at the Katowice Major last time, so this Berlin Major, they don't need to specifically pick time to play the open qualifiers and Challenger Stage matches.

But they still have to set off to Cologne without stopping to participate in the ESL One Cologne match.

This Cologne match is quite important for the subsequent Major.

If you sort by CSGO matches.

Then the Major is definitely well-deserved and will be ranked first.

First, the Major is a match officially authorized by Valve, and will even sell stickers, player trophies, and other honors in sync with the game, allowing players to remember your ID forever, remember that there was such a player who broke into the Major main event.

Second, the Major is a match with open qualifiers worldwide.

Like IEM series events or Blast series events, it is relatively difficult for some small teams to participate.

IEM series events are fine, one region has several spots.

And for Blast series events, it is very outrageous for unknown small teams to participate, you have to pass the open qualifiers, get 8 qualifying spots, and then break out of these 8 qualifying spots to enter the main event.

In comparison, the chances of these unknown small teams advancing in the Major are still greater.

The two Majors each year are T0-level matches.

And there are two T1-level matches.

One is Katowice before the Major in the first half of the year, this year is an exception, Katowice directly hosted the Major.

The second one is Cologne in the second half of the year.

Perhaps because the match started before the Major, everyone joked that these two matches are the first step to becoming a dynasty.

If you want to win the Major, you must first step over Katowice or Cologne.

And next, Vitality is going to participate in this ESL One Cologne, to compete with a group of top teams for that Cologne trophy!

JackZ had already packed his luggage and was admiring his outfit in the mirror at the moment, "By the way, did you guys see the update from the vacation agency today?"

"Not yet, what's wrong?" Xu Beifang folded a piece of clothing and asked with confusion.

"Then you guys missed a good show, the professional circle is going to be reshuffled next!!"

Xu Beifang shook his head: "You are always so fussed, what big news can the vacation agency make."

After saying that, he took out his phone and directly found Valve's official account on Twitter.

But he had just said Old Jack was fussed, and after seeing the information released by the vacation agency, he himself was the first to be silent.

He took a breath, looked at the information on his phone, and muttered to himself: "This is going to cut many teams to waste with this knife."

Valve is a game company that acts very slowly. As one of the best FPS games in the world, their updates are ridiculously slow.

But I have to say, they often make a sudden change that leaves players in the entire game environment at a loss.

In the update announcement, the vacation agency just issued a very concise statement:

【Update Announcement:

20th Anniversary:

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of CS, specially launched the Dust II retro version, now added to the casual mode map group, every two rounds will switch between CSGO version and CS version.

Chicken capsules can be purchased in the game.

Game Content:

Adjusted AUG to make its performance closer to other rifles

Slightly reduced the firing rate of AUG

Reduced the aiming accuracy of AUG when not scoped

Danger Zone

Fixed a bug where items could be repeatedly obtained by dropping equipment through other players

Players will be closer to teammates when spawning in warm-up

Players will be equipped with a random handgun when spawning in warm-up】

This update is only 73.5MB, but the content is very worth talking about.

At the beginning of 2019, Valve suddenly lowered the price of AUG and SG553, letting everyone see how high the fault tolerance of these two firearms is. Even if the price of AUG was increased later, it still couldn't stop everyone's love.

No way, this gun is really too easy to use.

The bullet rate is fast, the average damage per second is high, plus it can be used at close range and long range, and was even once used as an auto sniper, it is really a bit perverted.

In comparison, SG553 is considered a younger brother in front of it.

ENCE's rise is also rising with the rise of AUG.

Although Vitality had practiced AUG before, except for Xu Beifang and Zywoo, others didn't use it particularly well, and didn't eat much of the dividend.

Unlike ENCE, they are all young people, just relying on the rise of a firearm, raising the grade of the whole team.

Xu Beifang carefully looked at the content of the update.

Reduced the firing rate.

Also reduced the accuracy when not scoped, which means—the ability of close-range engagement and long-range engagement has been cut by a knife.

In the future on the professional stage, maybe you won't see the scene of AUG flooding.

"In the future on the professional stage, people who use AUG might become very few." JackZ said his view.

Actually, he quite likes using the AUG gun. In the case of close-range engagement, he can directly headshot with one shot, and at long range, he can card the position, which is very tricky.

But it's just liking, it hasn't reached the point where it must be used.

"Later in Faceit and FPL, the level of players should also be able to be pulled apart." Zywoo added.

He felt this point very clearly, a player with a low level, using AUG, can directly improve a grade, after all, with a scope, carding the gun is really too simple.

AUG's weakening this time will definitely make those players who only know how to play old man fun show their original shape.

Xu Beifang quickly flipped to see other players' reviews of the new AUG video, looking at the firing rate and bullet trajectory inside, couldn't help but laugh.

"This vacation agency is really, with this move, AUG is going to be wasted." Xu Beifang commented, "Besides messing with our professional circle, does it have any other effect?"

Strengthen AUG once, then weaken AUG once, equals I have updated the content twice this year.

Top-level fishing planner!

But actually Xu Beifang can also understand.

Although everyone jokes that Valve is a vacation agency, Valve's idea is very good.

They want to make every aspect of the game balanced.

In 2018, basically all players were using M4A4 and AK47, these two main battle weapons.

In professional confrontation, in the case of good economy, other choices can be close to none.

They want to make the confrontation of professional matches more vibrant through some small changes.

Raising AUG at the beginning of the year directly raised the selection rate of AUG to an exaggerated level, and even flooded in the match.

This obviously does not meet their ideas, so they tried to adjust the price, trying to use the price to make the selection rate of M4 and other firearms rise.

But 300 bucks can't buy the heart of AUG players, so they can only cut another knife.

Xu Beifang swiped Twitter.

Sure enough, this change in firearms made many people discuss this content.

NIKO: I like this update, I have been carded to death by AUG too many times in professional matches in the past six months!!

As a true rifleman, NIKO hates AUG and SG553, these guns with scopes.

In his view, M4A4 and AK47 are the real rifles, AUG and SG553 are proper heresies!

NIKO is a feeling type, he prefers that atmosphere in identity.

He feels that a rifleman should have the look of a rifleman, bringing a scope, what kind of rifleman is that, might as well take out an AWP to be a pure sniper.

Xu Beifang didn't care, he was a pure pragmatist, this gun is easy to use, then use it, if it's not easy to use, he won't force it.

Rain also tweeted: In the future, CT wants to use AUG to steadily collect heads, it is already impossible.

Although the vacation agency is very lazy, most players and professional brothers in the circle expressed that this update is quite good.

"Actually, the vacation agency should have taken action." swani said his idea, "If he doesn't take action, professional matches will lose vitality."

Immediately after, he gave a piece of data: "In the first half of the year, the average selection rate of AUG in major first-tier events was 25.3%, second only to the main battle weapon AK47, this data is too exaggerated."

"The defensive side got a main battle weapon that can be comparable, and even in many cases better than the offensive side, the match has lost balance, if it goes on like this, in TOP20, maybe there will be some teams good at defense."

The analyst gave an evaluation: "Next time this ESL Cologne, most professional players should return to M4, so next you have to adjust your thinking, don't subconsciously pick it up when you see AUG, the current weapon sorting should be AK > M4 > AUG."

"Later when we get to Cologne, we also have to practice M4 back."

"That's no problem." Xu Beifang was prepared for this long ago, "We have always been practicing M4, just to prevent Valve from doing this, now just need to practice a little, we can skillfully control M4."

When Xu Beifang joined Vitality, it was when AUG rose.

But the experience of the previous life let him know that AUG had such a period of weakening.

So he made preparations early.

And this preparation is indeed useful, practicing M4 more, so that they won't be too embarrassed on the professional stage.

Just like they met Faze, if ECO turned the tables, it must be capturing a bunch of M4s, at this time if they haven't practiced M4 for too long, leading to recoil control errors, then it's embarrassing.

swani also nodded.

Analysts are mostly responsible for pre-match, giving data, helping players arrange training.

As for the specific training quality, that is the content controlled by the coach.

JackZ had a bad smile on his face: "Then next, the most painful team must be ENCE, let's see if they can survive this difficulty."

ENCE this year, but was called "AUG Team", they received the dividend of AUG is too exaggerated.

AUG was weakened once in April, increasing the price by 300 bucks, but it didn't affect the strength of AUG, ENCE still exploded with very strong strength on the professional stage.

But this time is different, the last time the vacation agency's knife was called painless, this time it directly cut to the main artery, it is really hurting the muscles and bones.

Xu Beifang glanced at his phone, he also happened to swipe the discussion about ENCE:

【Don't know why, after this version update, I am looking forward to ENCE's match】

【Teams that only know how to play AUG, estimate that without AUG they will become waste】

【ENCE has the ability to use M4 to stabilize their ranking, then I really feel that ENCE this team is very strong】

【Do you understand what is EZ4ENCE!】

The resentment of fans of major teams is very deep.

Especially NAVI fans.

At the Katowice Major, S1mple single-handedly 1V4 and was finally shot down by ENCE using AUG, helplessly losing the clutch scene, which is a painful fragment of many NAVI fans' memory.

Now seeing the possibility of ENCE having problems, they immediately stood out to watch the show.

Xu Beifang touched his chin and muttered: "Speaking of which, this ESL Cologne, ENCE is also in the participating teams."

"Well, not only ENCE is there, Astralis you are thinking about is also there." swani said again, "By the way, this ESL Cologne, NAVI used a new lineup, Edward was demoted, NAVI promoted a little fat guy from CIS, that is the captain of Winstrike."

"Which one?" shox was confused, too few encounters with CIS, these second-tier teams are quite strange.

Xu Beifang took the conversation: "I know this Boomb14, when Fire Boy had 32 kills in the half, he was sitting in jail on the opposite side."

"Good guy, the opponent I beat up, became my teammate."

Analyst swani said: "In the previous team, he seemed to be the IGL, during his Winstrike period, the average rating was 1.10, as an IGL, this is a very good data."

"NAVI's ambition is very big!" Xu Beifang sighed, he understood in his heart that the strongest NAVI is gradually gathering their puzzle.

shox was sighing: "Edward and Zeus are at the age to retire."

"Should retire too." swani said, "Edward's data has been red for many consecutive events, if it goes on like this, there will be no sentiment."

As a player of the same era, seeing these former opponents walk toward retirement one by one, he inevitably felt a bit of rabbit dying and fox grieving.

He was just glad that after being kicked away by G2, his choice was very successful, now he also came to a good team, everything in the team also went on the right track, they felt the future is bright.

shox in the CSGO industry, is already considered an older player, he also clearly felt that the gap between himself and these young geniuses is getting bigger and bigger.

It's just that he also didn't know how long his state could last.

Xu Beifang was also interested, directly searching for the Cologne entry list on his phone.

Besides Vitality, Astralis, NAVI, and ENCE, the other teams participating this time are also acquaintances.

Just lifted a championship, now ranked second in the world Liquid, Fazeclan appearing in the public view with a brand new lineup, NRG ranked 6th in the world, the strongest star in these few months, FURIA ranked 7th in the world, then a group of teams ranked from 10th to 16th in the world.

The two worst teams, ranked 34th and 35th, are German tank Big and Korean MVP.

It can be said that except for MVP, the strength of other teams is top-notch.

Whoever lifts the championship is possible.

"Don't think about watching ENCE's show." XTQZZZ heard their discussion outside and walked in, "For us, the weakening of AUG is actually unfavorable."

Zywoo looked at the coach with confusion, his face already full of doubt.

XTQZZZ explained: "If you break it down, the construction of our whole team system is to let Zywoo exert force in the middle of the team, Beifang to lead the tempo, we are building the team's playstyle with players."

"The performance of Beifang and Zywoo will greatly affect our match results, you should all feel this point."

shox and Old Jack both nodded.

Just like this league, they didn't have much feeling, and they were already in the final.

Is it because the opponent is too weak?

That is definitely not right, mainly because Zywoo found his position and can also lead the tempo.

Both sides exert force at the same time, the opponent can't hold the pressure at all.

shox is directly an art of lying down and winning.

apEX also turned into a cheerleader captain, just shaking the flag and shouting in the back.

Two core big daddies in good state, making their overall situation much easier.

"This time AUG was weakened, but don't forget, SG553 is still active on the field, which is equivalent to increasing the defensive difficulty of the defensive side."

shox gasped, making an outstanding contribution to global warming.

He only remembered this point at this time.

AUG can only be purchased by the defensive side, the offensive side can at most pick it up and use it when killing the opponent.

But now it is just weakening the defensive side's gun with a scope, then the offensive side's gun with a scope is not weakened, the overall defensive difficulty rises linearly.

Xu Beifang didn't expect there were these ways, he originally thought the vacation agency just pulled the data back, but forgot that SG553 was also strengthened at the same time.

In the first half of the year, because AUG was too strong, the vacation agency directly cut the defensive side, making the offensive side more comfortable.

Valve has ideas!

"So looking at it clearly, they weakened ENCE, in fact, they still want to avoid the match from being unchanging." XTQZZZ smiled, "What they really want is to take a knife to Astralis."

As the recognized world number one on the field today.

The Danish dynasty left too heavy a stroke in CSGO history.

Their strength is too strong, so that many CSGO players have lost the desire to watch the match.

"No need to watch Astralis's match, wake up and it's another big victory."

This sentence is the evaluation of many CSGO players behind Astralis's match.

Astralis's militarized playstyle with full discipline makes people feel suffocated.

Too strong strength, even making the audience hope for another powerful team to appear, defeating them on the first-tier stage, otherwise the match is not exciting at all.

apEX said: "But the impact on Astralis overall is not big, right."

"Indeed, can only say slightly weakened their strength a little bit."

Astralis's defense is very strong, but this does not mean their offense is very weak.

Today's world number one IGL, gla1ve's influence on the offensive end is too exaggerated, he can accurately read the opponent's position like a perspective, this point is very outrageous.

"Enough." Xu Beifang wore a confident smile, "If we have to wait for Valve to constantly take heavy hands on Astralis, we can overthrow their rule on the field, then defeating them is not that interesting."

apEX and the others turned their heads and looked at each other, smiling at each other.

"Just like this fearless spirit of yours!"

The Vitality team quickly took a plane to Cologne, Germany.

Because they made preparations in advance, their time was not tight.

Because of the change in firearms, in the coming days, XTQZZZ also gave them a series of training tasks.

More is around SG553 and M4A4, these two firearms.

He wanted to use a lot of training to let the players find the feel of these firearms.

"Playing 10 ladder matches a day, coach, don't have to be so exaggerated?"

"Why does this teammate keep flashing me!!"

"Look at his ID, he is Broky!!"

In the temporary training room in Cologne, Vitality was full of complaints.

CSGO this game, originally needs to concentrate to play, if it is playing Faceit, it is purely relaxation and entertainment for them.

But XTQZZZ asked them to play FPL, which directly increased the intensity.

Xu Beifang was quite happy, he was originally a top instructor ranked in the forefront of FPL, a character who controls lightning in FPL top points.

Even if the coach didn't arrange this kind of training, he would play five or six games every day to put pressure on the students.

He is the kind of person who trains seriously when training, and rests well when resting.

Before vacation for more than a month, besides designing that map, and going to Tyloo to visit, he maintained the most basic training volume every day, and didn't touch CSGO much the rest of the time.

Now officially entering the match, he has to train seriously to cope with this Cologne.

……

Every year's Katowice and Cologne are highly anticipated by players.

This year's Cologne participating teams were released, causing a lot of discussion.

16 teams, 14 are TOP20 teams, even if the match hasn't started, everyone can see how fierce the competition in this Cologne will be.

【Feels like Vitality can get their fourth championship】

【Bold prediction, final Astralis plays Liquid】

【What era is it, still Astralis plays Liquid? Liquid already killed Astralis before】

【Astralis's state is indeed bad, this instead gave me the desire to watch the match】

【Indeed, seeing Astralis's match, I know they are prepared to play those few sets of things】

【But the problem is, you know he will play those few sets of anti-flash utility to delay, but your main team just can't beat it, are you angry?】

【FAZE new lineup, the first major event after NIKO stopped being IGL, hope they can play good results】

【Looking forward to the God of War exerting force!】

【NAVI fans are also full of tears, Edward finally stepped down】

【Cologne, whoever wins the championship, feels like the Major is already half won】

There are many discussions in the forum, perhaps because it is close to the Major, making the audience's enthusiasm for watching the match rise again.

And because Astralis was sluggish in the ECS Season 7 league, fans of other teams also had expectations for the final championship.

If Astralis is really as they expected, state declined, then this match will be a battle of heroes.

How strong is the frontal firepower of FAZE with NIKO returning to a pure rifleman, can NAVI, which is no longer two daddies bringing three treasures, break the curse.

Can Vitality continue their previous state and successfully win the fourth championship.

Whether Astralis's state will continue to be sluggish, are all things the audience is looking forward to seeing.

And Vitality in Cologne, also moved into the hotel provided by the event group shortly before the start of the match.

The other 15 teams also moved in one after another.

The hotel provided by ESL official comes with a gym, which made Xu Beifang feel very comfortable.

After training ended in the afternoon, Xu Beifang just finished exercising and saw ropz walk in wearing a sports suit.

"Ho, rare!" Xu Beifang teased, "This is the first time I've seen you exercising in the hotel gym."

ropz extended his fist and bumped with Xu Beifang, then explained: "I personally feel that spending so much time on exercise every day is a bit counterproductive, I personally don't like to practice into the too sturdy figure like you guys."

"Understandable."

Even if the European fitness culture is very hot, not everyone is a strong man.

Everyone is different.

"Then why come today?"

ropz said: "Although I don't exercise, I still run every day, do you think the weather outside is suitable for running?"

It rained a little outside Cologne today, giving people a feeling of depression.

Suddenly bumping into Xu Beifang, ropz was not in a hurry to run, he moved his wrists, "Tomorrow is when ESL releases the grouping, hope not to be divided with you guys, otherwise it's hard to get out of the group stage."

The double-elimination format match, the fault tolerance is originally very low.

Plus this Cologne, the participating lineup is indeed a bit exaggerated, ropz felt the pressure is really very big.

"Not afraid of bumping into Astralis?" Xu Beifang teased.

"That's definitely afraid." ropz shook his head, "But compared to Astralis, I am more worried about bumping into you guys in the first round."

The team has a very strong IGL, ropz believes that even if they bump into Astralis, they still have a certain space for operation.

But if they bumped into Vitality, then ropz felt it was basically unplayable.

Although his individual ability is very strong, he is ultimately a lurker.

Frozen as a rifleman has high talent, but his current experience and ability, the pressure against Xu Beifang is still too big.

ropz still can't forget, when he watched the IEM Sydney final, Xu Beifang hit Liquid with three five-kills.

That was three five-kills!

Directly beat Liquid into autism, he couldn't imagine what state he would be in if he were in that situation.

Astralis's rigorous tactics, he believes that relying on Karrigan's game, there is still some space for circling.

But bumping into Vitality, Xu Beifang and Zywoo use individual ability to break cleverness with force, that is unplayable at all.

Last year's ropz, appeared on the field as the best rookie, although he carried alone in Mouz, but unfortunately the position was not the big brother position, the data was very good, just couldn't win, he was also very helpless.

The results obtained in the whole of 18 are simply unwatchable.

Until the beginning of 19, the addition of Karrigan and Frozen let ropz see the dawn of jailbreak,

Now naturally the goal is set further, hoping to get some results, sweeping away the haze of the past.

The two of them were just chatting, when they saw NIKO wearing a small vest also walk in.

"Not training well and running out to play, right." NIKO was also quite familiar with them.

He and Xu Beifang have always been good friends who cherish each other, ropz is the player he once promoted.

When ropz was scolded by the whole network because of the cheating storm, it was NIKO who stood up, helped him communicate with Faceit and fought for a chance to try out at Faceit headquarters.

That was the time that cleared ropz's name as a cheater, and later joined Mouz, embarking on the road of Ni.

So he didn't need to worry about anything in front of the two.

Hearing NIKO's teasing, Xu Beifang directly rolled his eyes:

"Not training well, you think the three of us, if someone is not training well, who would it be?"

NIKO looked left and right: "Can't be me."

Xu Beifang rolled his eyes again, he was about to join the Hyuga clan.

ropz just laughed on the side.

He felt that the interaction mode between NIKO and Nice was very interesting.

Immediately after, NIKO slapped Xu Beifang's buttocks, "Don't let me meet you in the next match, otherwise you will have good fruit to eat?"

"What's wrong again?"

Xu Beifang immediately asked back, he couldn't eat a slap for no reason.

"You guy, do you know how I spent these two months?" NIKO's voice was full of resentment, "How much ecstasy soup did you feed NEO? After he came to Faze, he couldn't leave you in three sentences."

"One sentence Nice is good, another sentence Nice is great, you say you should be beaten?"

NIKO didn't know how Xu Beifang left such a good impression on NEO, clearly they had only been teammates for a few months.

But NEO came to the team, he had already heard NEO say many times that Nice's offensive thinking is great, he can play alone, be steady when he should be steady, be aggressive when he should be aggressive.

As a rifleman, NIKO inevitably compared himself with Xu Beifang in his heart.

"This has nothing to do with me!" Xu Beifang said, "This is called good popularity, do you understand!"

NIKO hummed, but felt a bit of emotion that things are different.

Last year Xu Beifang was still a confused newcomer, who knew, in a year's time, he had already reached the top of CSGO, lifted several trophies.

And Xu Beifang himself, is also one of the strongest players this year.

Now their team results are few, but Vitality has begun to add bricks and tiles to their honor.

This inevitably makes people feel a gap.

In terms of results, NIKO is definitely better than Xu Beifang, regardless of the number of championships or the position reached.

Because of the position, Xu Beifang's strength on the professional stage today is definitely more outstanding.

But NIKO's voice in the forum public opinion is not particularly good, the state gap in the 18 Boston final made many people criticize him as a final soft-footed shrimp.

Compared to Xu Beifang, who is overall on the rise, the information he received is not particularly good, naturally there will be a feeling of gap.

"Alright, if there is a chance to meet you guys, I will definitely take out 12000% strength, fiercely put pressure on you kid."

The three stood at the entrance of the gym chatting, and soon many players joined.

Xu Beifang was originally a social terrorist in the professional circle, chatting with everyone, for a time this gym entrance was overcrowded, and it had become their tea party.

Until Big's coach found Xantares back to eat, everyone left one after another.

And at 8 PM that night, ESL finally announced the grouping of the next match.

The teams in Group A are: Liquid, MVP, NAVI, Mouz, Faze, Renegades, MIBR, NRG.

The teams in Group B are: Astralis, BIG, FURIA, Fnatic, Vitality, NIP, Heroic, ENCE

And Vitality's first round opponent is the current Danish second brother—Heroic.

The first round match is a BO1 confrontation, and many teams had accidents in the first round.

This led to the match not starting yet, and the Vitality members were slightly nervous.

Heroic this team is not particularly famous, but they have also made their name on the professional stage in the past few months.

Veteran Friberg leads the team, plus young people like es3tag and stavn, the overall strength is very good.

Vitality came to the match room early, and when they took their seats, they also saw the Heroic players.

It's not that they paid special attention, it's just that BlameF's figure is too big!

"To be honest, if there is a conflict later and a fight breaks out, Nice, can you beat him?" JackZ asked, he knew Xu Beifang's figure hidden under his clothes was actually very exaggerated.

Xu Beifang hummed disdainfully: "Just one punch!"

"You can kill him with one punch?"

"Just one punch, he has to kneel down and beg me not to die?"

The sudden turn directly amused the Vitality members.

But when the match really started, their attitude was also very serious.

After a round of intrigue BP, the map was placed on Mirage.

This is one of Vitality's strong maps, so choosing it, they are also very confident.

After the knife round to choose sides, Vitality went first as the defensive side.

Just as the pistol round started, this exaggerated muscle man BlameF used his outrageous aiming to get a triple kill, disintegrated Vitality's B site, and helped their team get a round.

Entering the second round, BlameF also played very aggressively, Vitality once saw Xu Beifang's shadow on the opponent.

In the first three rounds, BlameF directly played data of 7/1/1, the explosive firepower of the opponent in the first few rounds made everyone in Vitality feel the pressure.

After entering the first long gun round, apEX commanded Xu Beifang to make a forward push, wanting to disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm through the first time forward push, thereby relying on gun fighting to get kills.

But after entering the long gun round, BlameF suddenly became steady, Vitality's forward push didn't get very useful information, but instead fell into an unfavorable situation.

Heroic got another point.

Until the fifth round, Xu Beifang had a good position, directly pushed forward to A2 for the first time, relying on excellent individual ability, counter-killed stavn, helped the team get the first kill, and liberated the A site.

apEX directly commanded the team to bet on the site, successfully helping the team get the first score.

Originally thought this round was a round of rhythm change, but Heroic directly started to change speed.

Several consecutive mid-game quick pushes, Heroic relied on the clutch to get scores.

In the middle, Vitality also called a tactical timeout, but he didn't understand very well: "Why can this person be such a lurker!"

Before the match, they knew that this guy with muscles all over his body had a lurker playstyle.

But when they really entered the match, they knew how disgusting this BlameF was.

As long as you retake and rotate, he will always hang behind you to steal your back.

You still can't catch him, this is the most disgusting thing.

Once it reaches the long gun round, this guy hides behind the team.

Then entering the force buy or pure E round, BlameF started to be aggressive again.

The opponent's playstyle disgusted apEX, and Vitality's overall rhythm also became a bit chaotic.

Xu Beifang, although he had performance on the A site, Heroic clearly avoided the A site and kept playing speed change to control the middle to play B.

Xu Beifang's individual ability is very strong, but he can't play every retake.

Finally, the first half score was fixed at 4:11, this score difference is slightly disparate.

And a wave of offense in the second half, the machine's favorite Friberg played a double kill and dragged down the retake.

After entering the long gun round, Xu Beifang boldly led a few rhythms, but I have to say this BlameF is really a lurker, many conventional logic ideas don't work on him at all, this guy sometimes even sells teammates to play.

When Xu Beifang tried, he was finally stolen by him.

Finally, the first day's match score was fixed at 10:16.

Xu Beifang's record was 22/18, average rating was 1.28.

This data actually doesn't have much problem, the problem is that the defense in the first half, a player with this style like BlameF, is indeed caught off guard when facing it for the first time.

This person's playstyle and Xu Beifang are two extremes.

After the match, apEX was silent for a long time, until after arriving at the lounge, he said: "I finally understand why BlameF practices so strongly."

"Why?"

"Because he is afraid that 9 people on the field will beat him together."

……

The poor state on the first day made Vitality have no fault tolerance, and the subsequent matches became very stressful.

In the loser's bracket on the second day, they met ENCE, who was beaten by NIP on the first day.

In the first day's match, REZ drew a god card in this BO1, played an exaggerated data of 30-15, ENCE was stunned by him.

The BO1 match is so easy to have upsets.

Some slow-heating teams haven't even entered the state, and the match is already over.

Fortunately, starting from the second day, all matches are in BO3 format.

Finally, after a quick BP, the map came to Overpass, Nuke, and the final Inferno.

Overpass is a map that Vitality actively practiced after this vacation, Nuke although there is no certainty of winning, but it is not as tied up as before.

Playing against ENCE in BO3, Vitality's pressure is actually not very big.

After all, they have won against ENCE several times before, plus AUG was cut by a knife recently, ENCE's strength is not very strong.

So from the paper strength, Vitality's winning chance is still greater.

However, the failure of the first round made them have no fault tolerance at all, if they lose any BO3 next, they will be directly eliminated.

Vitality's goal is finally to enter the final to compete for that trophy.

A one-round tour is definitely not the scene they want to see.

Yesterday's failure was mostly because they were disrupted by BlameF's strange way, making them feel like birds of prey every time they retook.

But today they met ENCE, and there were not so many tricks.

Map one is Overpass.

Having played against each other several times before, Xu Beifang was already familiar with ENCE's playstyle, after a few rounds of engagement at the beginning, he felt ENCE played relatively loosely overall, and directly started to put pressure.

On the Overpass map, Xu Beifang is generally responsible for A site probing.

In the first few rounds, it was played quite normally, both sides had back and forth, and the score was constantly pulling.

But after entering the long gun round, in the process of pushing, Xu Beifang tore allu's big sniper by hand several times, directly sending allu into the Botallu state.

allu was originally a very key firepower point of ENCE, after AUG was weakened, this big sniper became particularly important.

But this big sniper was torn by hand one after another, directly making Karrigan feel the economy was crazily deficit, the default is already unplayable.

Zywoo also slowly entered the state in the subsequent few rounds, Vitality began to exert force in an orderly manner, and the offense kept scoring.

After the first half ended, they got 9 rounds as the offensive side.

During the halftime break, Karrigan was already biting his fingers, brainstorming to think of countermeasures.

After the halftime break, ENCE chose a B site offensive wave.

Xu Beifang, who was hanging alone on the A site, just heard the sound of B site engagement, and asked "Do you want to retake".

Even without waiting for a reply, B site completed a 2-for-5, Zywoo and shox killed everyone.

After entering the second half, Vitality's rhythm was smooth all the way, they began to play that 4-1 opening playstyle, looking at the position needs, letting Xu Beifang or Zywoo play A alone, others directly bet on a 4-B play.

ENCE perhaps wanted to avoid Zywoo and Xu Beifang, kept attacking the B site, and the result was constant setbacks.

After a few rounds, he reacted, apEX started to play 3-2 default playstyle again.

Finally, this map one, they directly took it with a big score of 16:8.

Entering map two, Nuke chosen by ENCE.

This is a strong map of ENCE, Vitality still has some pressure to play.

The defense in the first half was not operated well, mainly because the game in the inner site was not played well, leading to poor personnel exchange in the early stage, and finally could only rely on retake to play.

Xu Beifang and Zywoo continued the state of map one, barely playing a score of 7:8.

After entering the second half, the score was also in a biting state at the beginning.

Until a clutch scene, Xu Beifang and Zywoo won a 2V4, ENCE's economy collapsed, and they gradually pulled away the score.

Finally, they fixed the score at 16:12 dangerously.

And ENCE was also directly eliminated by them in the group stage.

This match ended, the live broadcast room of Hamburger was full of bullet comments chatting about the match content:

【Thrilling! I thought it was going to overtime.】

【Mainly I didn't expect to lose to Heroic on the first day】

【Normal, watch more CSGO matches and you will understand, in the world of CSGO, anything is possible】

【The BO1 on the first day, several guys who exploded】

【Indeed, everyone returned to normal from the second day, basically the confrontations are in line with speculation】

"One thing to say, these two maps of Vitality are indeed played very beautifully." The waste brother Hamburger summarized in the live broadcast room, "These two maps, they didn't play particularly well before, especially the Overpass in map one, the rhythm was under Vitality's control from beginning to end."

"Map two clearly can see ENCE is more comfortable, but Vitality's performance later is still more outstanding, Beifang and Zywoo both stood out, played several very bright clutch scenes, this can see their changes."

The Berlin Major is not far away, the problem that Vitality fans worried about before is that the level of the two unpopular maps is not very high, really if they meet Astralis at the Major, they will default to losing a map without looking at the performance, which is very difficult to handle.

But now seeing them in Overpass, obviously more comfortable than before, Hamburger felt very relieved.

"A joy of raising games."

……

Vitality doesn't know how fans are discussing in the live broadcast room.

After the match ended, Xu Beifang shouted excitedly, and the expressions of others in the room were about the same.

They rushed to Cologne full of fighting spirit, if they really just took a one-round tour, it would be too discouraging.

apEX was also extremely excited, yesterday he was tortured by BlameF and the rhythm was all messed up, today he finally found the rhythm of the match and won a round smoothly.

Everyone packed up their emotions and came to ENCE's match room to shake hands after the match.

When shaking hands, the emotions of the ENCE group were not very good.

Xu Beifang brought into their perspective, actually can also understand.

Originally prepared for the match with peace of mind, and had great expectations for the subsequent matches, even can put his eyes on the championship position.

But half a month before the match, the game official suddenly gave you a knife, weakening your most powerful playstyle, and it was a knife cut to the main artery.

Who can hold this.

Karrigan looked at Xu Beifang walking over, didn't have too many expressions, just said "played well" as usual.

Their mood was completely affected by this update, too dependent on AUG, leading to discomfort after changing to M4, this feeling made them irritable, and then affected the mentality of the match.

It was completely a negative cycle.

Now directly a one-round tour, the mood is even worse.

However, Karrigan also understood that today's match could not be blamed on the state.

Map one Vitality's map choice, they still had some reasons to find.

But map two their own map choice, in the second half, Vitality's twin stars won several clutch scenes, too unreasonable.

"Go back and adjust well, we are also considered one of the earlier teams to prepare for the Major among the first-tier teams." Already eliminated, Karrigan can only find joy in bitterness now.

Vitality definitely doesn't want to try the idea of ENCE preparing for the Major in advance.

After they won against ENCE, they immediately returned to the hotel training room.

apEX started watching Heroic's recording.

Xu Beifang leaned on the sofa in the training room, holding his phone to check the specific situation of his little partners.

Yesterday's failure made their expressions in a tense state, and they didn't have time to check the Group A match.

This didn't look, and was really scared.

Group A on the first day, played three 16:14s in total, focusing on thrills.

Liquid played against Korean MVP, and almost lost, making people dumbfounded.

Xu Beifang roughly looked at the record, and found that they were still disciplinary problems, lost too many rounds that shouldn't be lost, and the overall data of the five people were positive.

Faze and Mouz here.

Mouz's opponent on the first day was NAVI's new lineup, after both sides BP, the final map was locked on Train.

The final score was fixed at 14:16, Mouz lost to NAVI by a very small gap.

Xu Beifang went to look at the record again, and found that Mouz didn't lose unfairly.

Mouz here, 4 people's records were around 18, just Frozen alone got 22 kills.

But NAVI there, S1mple focused on being far ahead, alone cut 32 kills, 10 more than Mouz's first, leading by a cliff.

Xu Beifang could actually understand, after all, Train is a big sniper map.

The sniper gap between these two teams is indeed a bit big, S1mple is the T0-level sniper on the professional stage today, and deko?

Maybe can only be considered T2-level, and even have to go down.

Karrigan has done very well in tactics, but the huge gap brought by map characteristics is what he can't erase.

ropz didn't play the performance he should have in this match, and there is really nothing to say.

FAZE here, the first day was also a 16:14.

NIKO fired on all cylinders on the first day, played a 1.4 rating, he played a four-kill in the archway in this match, letting the world know what is a true Archway King.

But in the second round of BO3 against NRG, Faze showed the world what is called all horses returning to the shed, five people were all invisible, the post-match data didn't even have a green one, making Faze fans complain "This can also be fun?".

Now this galaxy battleship is always like this, giving people hope and making people despair.

And in the third day's match, his two little partners will officially meet and play against each other.

Because they are in the loser's bracket, Mouz and Faze will definitely have one team leave.

Xu Beifang really wanted to play against them, but sometimes the match is always like this, it's not that you can meet if you want to meet.

But the fate of some teams is very clever.

In the upper half of Group B, FURIA met Astralis again.

This match is also the most watchable match on the second day.

Because in the last event, FURIA just beat Astralis in BO1 and BO3, and the audience is looking forward to whether FURIA can beat Astralis for the third time.

The result was Astralis as if saying to everyone: "Last time was just a small mistake."

In this BO3 confrontation, they easily killed FURIA with big scores of 16:2 and 16:7 respectively.

The process of this BO3 didn't even reach two hours.

Xu Beifang, who finished watching the whole process at 4x speed, could only sigh at how terrifying it was.

Astralis's pressure surrounded his heart again, but they don't need to worry about Astralis's problem for the time being.

Because they are in the loser's bracket, if they want to play against Astralis later, they have to kill their way out of the loser's bracket.

And their opponent in the loser's bracket on the third day—

Is FURIA!

……

Finally wrote it out, a bit sloppy, I'll get up and change it again……