Chapter 323: Broke the screen with one shot?
"The match has entered the match point. After a wave of personnel exchange at A Site, only blameF is left to face this 1v4 clutch."
In the 6657 live broadcast room, Wanjiqi's voice mobilized the audience's emotions, letting everyone look forward to the final scene of this round.
There is not much time left until the end of Map 1 Mirage. In the 4 vs 1 clutch, the Vitality crowd is also full of discipline. Even apEX, who is usually the most prone to illness, didn't go looking for people. It is easy to imagine the result of the confrontation.
The audience recalled the whole process of this confrontation, the scenes of mutual taunting, at this moment when Map 1 was about to end, they all excitedly sent barrages in the live broadcast room:
【Nice: Like to shout, come on, continue!】
【Hahaha, Dazhuang, you continue to save the gun!】
【Dazhuang is a pure clown today】
【Something big happened, hahaha】
【An episode full of program effects】
【This Dazhuang is not good either】
Wanjiqi didn't care about the discussion in the barrage, he was still paying attention to the content of the match, "It's the last round, blamef can't continue to save the gun, he can only bite the bullet and force this 1v4 clutch."
"The trash can smoke dissipated, Dazhuang peeked and looked, but Beifang didn't give him any chance at all, one headshot directly took Dazhuang away!"
Wanjiqi's voice was incomparably impassioned, "Then let us congratulate Vitality for winning Map 1 Mirage with a score of 16:6, taking the first city in this bo3 confrontation!"
The Vitality crowd under the lens took off their headsets, and smiles hung on their faces.
"Successfully took Map 1, this feeling is simply too cool!" apEX shouted excitedly.
Lost to Heroic on the first day of the group stage and was mocked in various ways on the Internet. He originally had anger in his heart.
But losing is losing, whether it's because of the first time facing Heroic's competition style, or because Vitality hasn't officially entered the state.
They can find many reasons, but losing is a fact.
apEX has never complained to anyone, more is spending time watching recordings, trying to find ways to defeat Heroic in the next confrontation.
Then after watching a lot of recordings, they really met in the last round of the group stage, and successfully defeated Heroic in Map 1.
This feeling is like spending time reviewing some content before the monthly exam, and the result is that the exam really tested these contents, simply too cool!
Plus blamef taunted Xu Beifang in the match, making apEX hold his breath.
jackz laughed: "If I remember correctly, since blamef started taunting, we haven't lost a single point."
shox got a banana from the coach to replenish energy, then patted Xu Beifang on the shoulder, praising, "Deserving of coming out of vp, ruthless enough."
VP's one ounce of fatherly love is too famous, but today they didn't even give Heroic one ounce of fatherly love, directly slapping Heroic in the face from the front.
The slap was so loud.
"Who is to blame for this?" Xu Beifang shrugged, "It's blamef who started applying for interaction himself, I'm just being a little serious, okay."
shox swallowed the banana in one bite, and gave Xu Beifang a thumbs up when he heard this: "Well said, next round I'm going to turn on the monitor."
Jackz also echoed: "Well said, next round I'm going to plug in the network cable."
Looking at the happy atmosphere of the Vitality crowd under the lens, Wanjiqi summarized the confrontation of Map 1:
"It can be seen that Heroic has made a lot of preparations on this map. Their small cooperation at B Site many times is very eye-catching, such as three explosive grenades synchronously bombing the double-boost position, using incendiary grenades to burn shox at the start, and the long pipe cooperating with synchronization... Heroic is still very eye-catching overall."
"However, Vitality is still more experienced, and their front-line defense is also played really well. Vitality basically starts with heavy defense at B Site, but this double A, or even single A, can drag down Heroic's offense, or even trade for advantage kills."
"After switching to the second half, Beifang's breakthrough is also very fierce, Heroic can't even maintain the basic state of front-line dueling... there is still a gap in personal ability."
Today's confrontation, Wanjiqi was still brightened. Vitality's Mirage level has always been mediocre.
Previously at the StarSeries, they played a match with VG, and it took a long time to win.
Truly facing a first-line team, it feels very unstable.
Today's confrontation, Vitality actually took it with a big score, which was very unexpected.
Although the sample size is not large, seeing the team you support make progress is a good thing.
After all, according to his understanding, the development speed of CSGO today is too fast. If a team is standing still, it is regressing.
Xu Beifang's outstanding performance makes Wanjiqi have high expectations for the future. He really hopes to see the scene of holding the cup with one hand on the major stage in the future.
Although Vitality has shown a trend of taking off in the past few months, he is very worried that it will be a flash in the pan like Tyloo.
Now seeing Vitality's results steadily improving, and various shortcomings slowly being supplemented, he feels very satisfied.
There is a kind of happiness of cultivation.
During the halftime break, the Heroic crowd was not particularly happy, but overall they adjusted.
At least their faces were not as stiff as they were during the match.
As the "culprit", BlameF showed a relieved expression after Map 1 ended.
After thinking for several minutes, Dazhuang began to comfort his teammates, "I really shouldn't have shouted at the opponent in Map 1, I have some problems... but I don't think we have no chance to beat Vitality."
As a young man, stavn had all his psychological activities on his face, and he responded muffledly: "Map 2 Inferno, Vitality's strongest map, how can this be played?"
The most reasonable script Heroic predicted before the match was that they would win Map 1 first, Vitality would take Inferno, and finally drag the match into Map 3.
Actually, there were better BP choices, but they were still a bit greedy, wanting to win the match and wanting to spar with Vitality on Inferno.
Then after the rout in Map 1, the pressure came up instantly.
Although they studied a bit of the opponent's Inferno, you must know that Vitality is one of the strongest Inferno teams today, having already won more than a dozen consecutive victories, which is terrifying.
After they finished Map 1, their morale and feel were extremely poor. stavn couldn't imagine how to win this game.
blameF laughed while looking at the screen while listening to stavn's words.
Friberg looked at the scoreboard on the screen, Nice's data was 28/2/13, Zywoo's data was 22/2/12, he didn't know how BlameF could laugh at this kind of data.
"Mainly because Vitality's playstyle has some problems." Dazhuang explained, "Nice's state actually fluctuates greatly, do you guys know this?"
Fluctuates greatly? He is almost one of the most stable riflers, and you tell me it fluctuates greatly?
stavn felt that Dazhuang was talking nonsense. If it weren't for the fact that the opponent's forearm was thicker than his own thigh, he would have wanted to go up and give Dazhuang two punches.
Dazhuang continued: "I have observed Vitality before, Nice is particularly special, he basically C's once, and then his state will decline slightly."
"Plus Map 1 Mirage, actually you guys also felt it, Vitality's playstyle is very aggressive, Nice often rushes out alone to output, he is desperately pushing forward, very eager to get kills."
"Don't talk about the problem that their Inferno is strong." Dazhuang guessed what his teammates wanted to say, and blocked them with one sentence, "It has come to this, we can only consider how to win this map."
Friberg also fell into deep thought: "I said how come I felt that every time we played against Vitality, their rhythm was so strange..."
Most teams in Europe, especially their Danish teams, are more following Astralis to play discipline and compete for bottom ability.
But Vitality's system playstyle is completely different from the European mainstream. Their pursuit of personal ability is too high.
"If we can limit Nice, or we just lock Nice at the back point of Banana Road, so that he can't get so much information, Vitality won't be so easy to play."
Vitality's success in defense is largely based on Xu Beifang being able to scout a lot of information.
They can feed this information back and then play a second-timing game.
Plus Xu Beifang's personal ability is very good, even if apEX sometimes makes the wrong decision, he can cover for him.
Only then did Vitality's front-line ability become so exaggerated, and the rotation speed also became very rapid.
"I think Dazhuang's words have no problems. As long as we can limit this guy Nice, Vitality's rhythm point will be stuck, and it will be difficult to revive later, whether it is offense or defense." es3tag paused for two seconds, "At least... our winning percentage in Map 2 will be higher."
After a discussion, Heroic regained their fighting spirit.
Dazhuang can be considered to have a beginning and an end. It was because of him that the team's morale fell to the bottom, and now it was also him who took the initiative to stand up and pull the team back on track.
But Dazhuang also understood in his heart.
The next Inferno.
First, they have to withstand Vitality's offense.
Vitality vs Heroic
Map: Inferno
This is the map Vitality actively chose, and they started as the offensive side.
Vitality chose to mute and touch the link in the second timing, but blameF, holding a CZ in the boiler room, just happened to catch a remarkable timing. A wave of CZ light-tap recoil control directly traded for three members of Vitality.
The bad start made it extremely difficult for them to handle later, and this pistol round was also lost hastily.
Heroic won the pistol round and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Taking the pistol round at least counts as finding the state back, and the feel is not so ice-cold.
They couldn't help but think at this time, if they could get points in the second half of Map 1, would they still be in a fierce battle now.
But the confrontation of Map 1 had already ended, and no matter how much they thought, it had no meaning.
Didn't plant the bomb, Vitality chose to force buy.
In this round, Heroic also followed the logic they discussed at halftime, suppressing Banana Road and not giving Xu Beifang room to operate.
But in this round, Vitality chose to hit A in the second timing. blameF, who was at the link at the start, aimed and killed apEX with a FAMAS, but didn't be happy for a few seconds before being instantly headshot and killed by Xu Beifang's SSG 08.
After taking Dazhuang out, Vitality directly launched a wave of fast attacks.
But Friberg at the pit was not old, and in this round, he sprayed and transferred, catching three people at the link.
Zywoo, who rushed out from A1, completed the follow-up shooting, but the opponent's rotation had already arrived.
"Pity." Xu Beifang bumped fists with the teammates next to him, "We didn't play the link well, otherwise there would be a chance to turn the tables in this round."
Zywoo smiled: "The CT at the pit just performed, besides, taking out three of the opponent's guns is already very profitable."
In the next round, Vitality also directly used Desert Eagles without armor to adjust the economy.
And in this round, Xu Beifang hit one, and Zywoo hit two.
Their kills made the professional players next to the studio call it outrageous.
"The gap in personal ability is too big."
"Mainly because Vitality's personal ability is more outstanding, Heroic's economy simply can't be saved."
"Yeah, don't look at them winning the first three rounds, they keep dropping guns. If they lose one round in the long gun round, the economy will collapse."
This group of professional brothers talked to each other, and it seemed they could already see the situation of the subsequent long gun rounds.
It seems Heroic took three points in a row, but the economy never came up, and their lead was really limited.
Coming to the fourth round, Vitality was fully armed, and Xu Beifang directly took out a full-armor SG553.
"es3tag hasn't died much, the first long gun round might take out a sniper rifle, so don't grab Banana Road in the early stage." apEX gave instructions, "Let's grab A2 floor quickly first, and then go back to clear Banana Road in the second timing."
Xu Beifang's position was not very good, so this round was mainly to cover behind the main force.
apEX went to play Banana Road by himself.
"es3tag took out a defensive sniper, came up to look at the terrorist entrance at A1 for a while, heard a lot of footsteps at the side path, and only then took the initiative to smoke and retreat to the back point."
"This Banana Road is a 3B start. Their desire to control Banana Road is very strong. They burned the middle section and bombed the tree position. The utility is enough."
Wanjiqi said, "This is them preparing to go head-to-head with you, but apEX was sprayed down to low health while lurking in the smoke at T Spawn, and then he was killed by two grenades thrown into T Spawn. They gave up the first kill right at the start of the round; this play from apEX wasn't particularly rational."
The opponent's early actions at A Site were very strange, Xu Beifang felt something was wrong, so he called his teammates to push forward together to try.
But just after getting control of the middle, he saw Dou Dou give away the first kill, which was a bit awkward.
If Dou Dou hadn't died, no matter how much movement they made in the middle, it would be part of the game.
But once Dou Dou died, most of their positions were determined. It was no longer appropriate to force A, and the opponent might have already supplemented the defense.
"My problem." apEX said self-reproachfully, "I didn't expect to be mixed twice, and then stuffed with a grenade in this position."
Old Jack said: "The opponent is Danish, don't underestimate them!"
Jack's little joke made the atmosphere within the team active again.
However, the problems in the match still existed, 4 vs 5 clutch, have to reorganize the offense.
"Let's turn back and clear out Banana," Xu Beifang suggested. "If we force an A hit, we'll get held up for a moment, and by then the flankers will have arrived. It's too hard to play that way."
"No problem."
After a brief communication, several people began to cooperate.
Xu Beifang stuck to the near point of Banana Road, and then asked his teammates for a flashbang.
Then he shook his body and looked.
"Da da da!"
HP-42
A CT at the tree position was covering his eyes and firing wildly.
Xu Beifang didn't rush, waited for the gunfire to disappear and then peeked to the left.
This wave he didn't pre-aim the tree position, but was aiming at the barrel in the distance.
No one stood at the barrel at first, but in the dark, he just felt that there must be someone behind the barrel.
With blameF's playstyle, he must be standing in the second shooting position, waiting for teammates to engage before pulling out to follow up.
"Don't rush, you just stay at the tree position." blameF said, "If you hear the sound of fire, say it immediately, I will extinguish the fire for you, normal play is at a disadvantage."
After the opponent shrank back to the tree position, there was no movement.
Zywoo asked: "Do you want to burn the fire directly?"
Xu Beifang thought about it and suggested: "There should be another one near the stone slab. Shushu, can you cooperate with me to push forward together, one person watching one point, and eat them all."
Although not sure if there is really an enemy at the stone slab, sometimes confrontation needs to have an imaginary enemy.
If there is only one person on Banana Road in this wave, then there is no problem with their one-hit-one-follow-up.
And if the stone slab really has a Dazhuang standing there as he expected, then they can clear Banana Road directly.
Zywoo said "um", and then followed Xu Beifang.
Then Wanjiqi and the audience in the live broadcast room saw a very strange scene.
In the case of sufficient utility, Vitality's twins were pushing forward in a crab-walking posture.
"Vitality actually chose to pull and find people, and they seem to realize that there is someone behind. Heroic doesn't intend to supplement smoke, just wants to bite the bullet and fight Vitality!"
"Zywoo is about to face NaTosaphiX, knowing that there is someone hiding at the tree position, actively big-pull!"
"Da da da!"
In the case of determining the position, the bullets hit out by big-pull are no different from pre-fire.
NaTosaphiX was still shaking in place, just saw the opponent pull out, and then "bang" and lay down directly.
"The opponent is in, follow up!" He shouted immediately after being killed.
Dazhuang also had no hesitation. He thought the opponent was looking at the tree position now, and he just happened to go out and catch a perfect side.
But pulling to the right, he saw a terrorist squatting against the wall at the corner of the tree position.
"Bang!"
【Nice used SG553 headshot to kill BlameF】
"Top-tier two-person cooperation, although no utility was used, they directly helped each other to set up guns to handle it, helping teammates cover all the sides."
"Two members were directly taken out at Banana Road, Vitality didn't have any hesitation, directly accelerated and exploded!"
"Heroic directly launched a rotation defense, Friberg sneaked out from A2 floor, but there is a shox waiting for you at the corner!"
"shox took Friberg out, this makes Heroic very awkward, because they are basically in a state of being surrounded, and their positions are completely locked."
Successfully planted the bomb at B Site, confirmed that Heroic didn't intend to play this clutch, they followed apEX's instructions and started to actively find people, starting the great cause of gun-collecting!
Because in the previous few rounds, they took out a lot of Heroic's economy every round, which led to Heroic's economy being very poor now.
If they could take out Heroic's remaining two long guns, then the CT would only have half-armor pistols to play in the next round.
In their aggressive offensive, they finally took out Heroic's two long guns at the cost of 2 for 2.
The score reached 1:3.
Vitality started to get the first round of Map 2.
But immediately after, the screen entered a technical timeout.
shox asked on the public screen: What's the matter?
Friberg: blameF broke the screen with one shot from Nice
Xu Beifang: o_0?
After inspection by ESL technical personnel, it was soon discovered that the equipment was not broken.
It was just that Dazhuang was frightened when he was headshot by Xu Beifang just now, and subconsciously patted the table, patting the monitor's cable off.
The sudden timeout made Vitality's feel a little cold.
But Heroic still had no way to deal with Vitality. After all, under the suppression of firearms, they couldn't play any role with short guns.
The problem of economy made them spend two rounds to adjust.
The score was directly tied.
Watching the rhythm return to Vitality's hands, BlameF thought for a while and gave instructions: "Let's still start with 3B, control Banana Road directly at the first time, don't let Nice get too much information."
"However, after controlling this point, we can jump and scout at the stone slab, don't be so aggressive."
The opponent's personal ability forced him to make adjustments.
They were ready, the countdown ended, three people rushed to B Site, and laid a rain of utility on Banana Road.
Immediately after, they heard the teammates shouting desperately in the voice chat: "A2 floor speed up!! Rotate back quickly!!!"
Dazhuang only reacted then. He put all his defensive focus on Banana Road, ignoring apEX's characteristic of liking to fly to the second floor in long gun rounds.
He immediately shouted for people to rotate back, but only saw the kill information drifting across the upper right corner.
【JackZ+apEX flashbang used SG553 headshot to kill Friberg】
【es3tag used M4A4 to kill JackZ】
【Nice used SG553 headshot to kill es3tag】
At this moment, Dazhuang, who rotated back the fastest, had only reached the long corridor.
The three looked at each other, and could only choose to save the gun, Vitality took another point.
However, in the following rounds, stavn slowly found his feel, and played a big role in several defenses at A Site.
It's just that Vitality's overall offensive rhythm still gave them too much pressure.
Perhaps because they had too much utility on Banana Road, Vitality didn't come to touch this wall much, more was controlling the map in the second timing.
But even if they came to control the map in the second timing, Xu Beifang's silky pre-aiming and timing still made them feel extremely strong pressure.
The new generation of Banana Road King is not just talk.
The restriction of utility is helpless.
But if Heroic's utility is given too fast, then the second-timing Banana Road is Xu Beifang's comfort zone. He even had two rounds where he touched through B Site alone, making Dazhuang complain that Xu Beifang is a timing master.
Vitality's rhythm is smooth.
On this map, Heroic didn't show much.
At least from their point of view, there is nothing particularly eye-catching.
Dazhuang's command was also exploded by apEX today, which made Xu Beifang play very comfortably. They could always attack the minefield with fewer people, there was no pressure on the front, and they could take it very easily.
In the end, the first half ended, and the score was locked at 10:5.
Although Dazhuang had some expectations for Vitality's offense, he didn't expect that there would be a huge gap of 5 rounds in the end, and this was on the premise that they won the pistol round.
Inferno is a relatively balanced map. They are 5 rounds behind, so the offense in the second half is very difficult to play.
If they lose the pistol round, the score will directly become 13:5, a gap of 8 rounds.
blameF felt great pressure.
He could only hope that after switching sides, the "North-avoidance" tactic he thought of before could have an effect.
... ===== CHAPTER 324 =====
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