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Chapter 330: This round's damage is even higher than Ma Xixi's height!

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"Congratulations to Vitality for ending this Mirage confrontation with a score of 16:7." The English stream commentator's voice was full and clear. "Winning this Mirage also signals that this BO3 confrontation has officially ended. Vitality defeated NAVI with a 2-0 scoreline and secured their ticket to the semi-finals!"

The audience in the arena waved their cheering sticks frantically, voicing their excitement for the conclusion of this match.

Ma Xixi also shouted in the live stream room: "To be honest, I didn't expect this BO3 today to be played so quickly."

As a professional commentator, Ma Xixi's understanding of the game wasn't as simple as the audience's. He had referenced the data from the two sides' recent confrontations, the recent form of both teams, and the players' performances.

Before the match, Ma Xixi thought the game would have many twists and turns. They would see a fierce battle where both sides fought hard to chase points, eventually reaching Map 3 and perhaps even needing overtime to decide the winner.

As it turned out, Vitality defeated NAVI with a 2-0 score. During the process of watching the live stream, they didn't even feel much pressure, which was quite interesting.

After NAVI changed to their new lineup, although they made some mistakes in the group stage, the change in their frontal firepower was clear to any audience who liked watching the games.

But in this confrontation, Vitality used their strength to tell them.

NAVI's firepower is fierce, but Vitality's firepower is even fiercer!

Ma Xixi said excitedly in the live stream room: "Xu Beifang's performance on Mirage was truly exaggerated, especially his performance on the offensive side in the first half. His breakthrough was like a mud truck; he gave you a bull rush the moment he saw you, directly knocking NAVI's defensive formation into a daze."

At the NAVI player bench, S1mple took off his headset, and the passionate commentary from the arena instantly drilled into his ears.

apEX was very surprised. Originally, when facing NAVI, he had already planned to release many tactics on Mirage to catch NAVI off guard.

NAVI's frontal firepower was indeed as they had analyzed; Edward's departure had increased NAVI's frontal firepower significantly.

Yet he hadn't expected Xu Beifang to have an explosive performance, completely crushing NAVI with just his aiming and breakthroughs.

Being crushed and beaten by the opponent in two confrontations, S1mple felt very unhappy inside, but he still didn't show his emotions.

The score gap in the first half of Mirage was too large simply because they couldn't hold the front line. Often, as soon as a firefight broke out, teammates in other defensive zones were already dead, and the man-count trades weren't good either. He was one step away from changing his ID to Jame.

Having successfully won against NAVI, the group's mood was quite good.

He accepted the praise from apEX with peace of mind.

After this pistol round was turned around, NAVI's mentality was somewhat shattered. Although S1mple and electronic performed well in the subsequent confrontations and got a few points, the problem was that the score gap was too large; by then, they had no room for error.

Xu Beifang took off his headset and turned his head: "Hmm?"

"You guys had too many instances where you couldn't trade kills and got insta-killed."

In reality, they had done quite a lot of preparation for this match, but many things didn't end up being used.

Xu Beifang didn't actually mean that, but upon hearing shox say this, he pretended that was exactly what he meant.

In a 4v1 clutch, if you were to say they actively looked for trouble, that would be one thing.

Yet he didn't expect Nice to use a USP to split this 4v1 into 1v1v1v1 while they were maintaining full discipline.

Xu Beifang listened to apEX's praise, a smile forming on his face, and joked: "For sure, the parameters were cranked to the max!"

This was truly dragging the team's legs too much.

Breaking them one by one.

The problem was that they were very cautious, setting up crossfires at various positions to scout, showing great respect for the ID 'Nice', just worrying about something going wrong.

"Alright, alright, how old are you guys, still acting like children." XTQZZZ looked at the teammates who were messing around and rolled his eyes.

If it weren't for the opponent's details being sufficiently on point, he would have thought he was playing against a Tier-2 team and smurfing.

Today's match, Dust II was actually fine.

"Today's match really wasn't played well." Zeus didn't cover up his mistakes. "We still need to work on our details. If the pressure in the game is higher, the problems with our operations all come out."

apEX's hand showed no mercy, his upper arm swinging directly backward.

Although Zeus had exaggerated muscles, he never used them to pressure his teammates.

S1mple felt very helpless.

"To be honest, did you cheat? How can you be so fierce!" apEX had a joyful look on his face. "Today on Map 2, we were completely carried to victory."

"Actually, Beifang meant that you're too trash." shox added fuel to the fire from the side. "If the parameters aren't maxed out, he can't carry you to win."

Once they got to Mirage, there were too many instances where their frontal individual ability was crushed. By the end, Zeus, who was at the bottom, only got 8 kills.

On Map 1, he was still trading blows with the opponent. On Map 2, his feel for the game arrived; he basically insta-killed anyone he saw, and his touch was quite hot.

S1mple heard the IGL's words, and his mood felt a bit better. He also explained the problem with that last round: "I really couldn't help it. I really wanted to go and help you guys, but the guy I was facing had very on-point details. It was hard for me to get kills based on positioning, and you guys collapsed too quickly. Many times, I didn't even have a chance to rotate back."

Still, Nice found the opportunity. The opponent predicted all their positions, and four bullets killed all four of them.

He thought he could rely on this momentum to successfully chase points, and if they got the rhythm later, there would still be a chance for a comeback.

"Beifang."

But the problem was, even if they did that.

Wrong is wrong.

Besides, that guy's state on the opposite side was absurd... S1mple looked to the other side of the stage, unable to stop himself from complaining in his heart.

Come on, elbow up!

shox felt the pain and immediately wanted to show apEX his real kung fu!

The group who were messing around stopped upon hearing this.

After switching to the second half, he finally managed to perform once thanks to electronic dropping him a P250, turning it into a 4v1.

Every round was either saving weapons or on the way to saving weapons; S1mple was playing truly stifled.

Shushu put his hand on Xu Beifang's shoulder, quietly waiting to eat melon.

Boombl4's performance definitely couldn't be compared to an aging breakthrough maniac.

However, CSGO professional matches aren't card games; it's not a simple replacement of paper strength that can cause a qualitative change in strength.

Boombl4 hadn't joined NAVI for long and was still in the process of meshing with the NAVI system.

Problems would still appear in their details, such as small issues in coordination and communication, and efficiency in trading kills.

Coupled with NAVI's persistent problem of being slow to warm up, and the CIS team atmosphere, they would be very passive when facing uphill battles.

At such times, they really needed a big brother to come out and lead the rhythm, opening up the situation.

But in today's match, S1mple's performance was very limited, which led to NAVI's overall atmosphere always being very oppressive. The negative emotions in their hearts grew more and more, and they couldn't be released, making it very hard to play later on.

The Vitality group, under the coach's reminder, began to head toward the opposite side of the stage.

While passing through the center of the stage, Xu Beifang looked sideways at the stands.

Just with that one look, amazing cheers erupted from the stands. Xu Beifang didn't anticipate this scene and was startled.

Seeing Xu Beifang's reaction, the audience below burst into laughter.

This man, who played aggressively and even somewhat crazily in the game, was actually somewhat cute outside of the game.

"It's worth mentioning that Nice's KD ratio in this match is quite explosive. In this Mirage game, he seems to have broken the ESL historical record."

While walking across the stage, Xu Beifang heard the English stream commentator's voice echoing in the arena.

"Broken the record?" Xu Beifang muttered in confusion.

He felt that although the data for this match was good, it wasn't that exaggerated, right?

"Could it be the rating?" Zywoo added.

Xu Beifang shook his head: "Probably not. I died over ten times this match; the rating shouldn't be at an exaggerated level."

Unable to see the data for the time being, they could only continue walking toward the opposite side of the stage amidst the cheers of the audience.

Xu Beifang couldn't see the data, but in reality, the data had already been placed on the screen by the director.

"I call this wave a wild car ride, little Xu is that supercar..." Ma Xixi was still chatting with the barrage when he suddenly saw Xu Beifang's post-match data and exclaimed directly:

"Holy crap, average damage per round is 150!!!"

In the camera, Ma Xixi's small eyes widened.

Xu Beifang's data was as follows:

ID: Nice

Kills/Deaths: 35/13

Average Damage per Round: 150.3

Non-Trade Rate: 82.6%

The director also thoughtfully added a piece of data below.

Headshot Rate: 85%

Seeing these exaggerated data points, the audience in the live stream room couldn't sit still and began spamming the screen one after another.

【KD ratio close to 3, come out and talk, Xu-haters!】

【He has 12 more kills than the top player on the opposite side, exaggerated.】

【This damage per round is a bit exaggerated, you have to know Beifang is an entry fragger!】

【85% headshot rate, he really is a lock!】

【He got 30 headshots this match, more than the kills of the three treasures on the opposite side combined.】

【I gradually understood everything; NAVI really didn't lose unjustly.】

【This is Beifang; it feels like the more fierce the opponent's gunplay is, the more excited he gets.】

【Exaggerated, feels like this damage per round is higher than Ma Xixi's height.】

Seeing the latest barrage, Ma Xixi's face turned dark.

What kind of talk is this, what kind of talk is this!

What do you mean higher than my height!

Am I 1.5 meters tall? That's Tie Dan's height!

Under Ma Xixi's angry mood, he saw Vitality had already arrived beside NAVI.

Under the photographer's lens, the players from both sides shook hands in the same frame.

Xu Beifang extended his right hand toward electronic, who had an autistic look on his face.

"To be honest, what exactly is your situation?" Xu Beifang asked in Russian, puzzled. "How can you be so unlucky? My utility feels like it's being sucked onto you."

Xu Beifang guaranteed that half of his utility damage today came from electronic.

He was very curious.

Hearing Xu Beifang speak Russian, electronic was stunned for a moment, then remembered this social terrorist famous in the circle.

He sighed and then spread his hands: "What can I do? I clearly felt my positioning and playstyle had no problems, but often I'd be low health before I even saw anyone."

"To be honest." electronic put on a pain mask. "I even feel like you guys are watching my demos every day to target me; otherwise, how could I be so unlucky."

Xu Beifang rolled his eyes; he also understood.

The one in front of him belonged to the type who was unlucky and didn't know it.

Innate Unlucky Saint Body, that's what electronic is.

electronic was also speechless. Today on two maps, he was killed by utility three times.

The first time was on Dust II when he rushed A Long and was beaten to low health by Xu Beifang before being finished off by a HE grenade.

The second time was when he had one HP left and was hit by Xu Beifang's flashbang, which killed his "little electronic".

The third time was on Mirage on the defensive side, where he was forced to channel Olofmeister by Vitality's flashbang combo plus incendiary grenade.

Apart from being slightly unlucky, his overall performance was actually quite good.

He got the kills he should have gotten, but unfortunately, it didn't really affect the situation.

As an entry fragger, his task was completed; today counted as being carried to a loss.

Immediately after, Xu Beifang walked forward and saw S1mple's face full of resentment.

"How many times have I torn you apart today?" Xu Beifang raised an eyebrow.

He and S1mple were also very familiar; both were FPL instructor-level figures and respected each other's strength very much.

To what extent did they respect each other?

As long as Xu Beifang saw S1mple on his team, he would start playing around.

S1mple seeing Xu Beifang could also play very casually.

Acknowledging the opponent's strength, that was the confidence for them to play wildly.

"I'm just not in form, and besides, you guys shouldn't hide from me when you play." S1mple complained somewhat indignantly.

Xu Beifang shrugged: "It sounds like you guys didn't target me. When I was CT, didn't you guys also hide from me every round?"

The start of the targeting tactics originated from Astralis's handling of NAVI at the London Major.

That set of tactics worked quite well at the time, leading everyone to learn it afterward.

Vitality had made preparations before this match, avoiding S1mple in the overall framework.

And NAVI was much the same, knowing Xu Beifang's touch was hot, they also hid from Xu Beifang.

"I actually hope there will be a time when both sides don't do any targeting and go at it with full firepower." S1mple said with some regret. "Unfortunately, it's destined that we won't see it."

Tactical development is always looking forward. As CSGO develops over time, the level of professional players will only get higher and higher.

Such targeting tactics will only become more and more absurd.

In professional gaming, limiting the opponent's performance is a very important part.

S1mple didn't think their confrontation would ever happen without restrictions.

The two had mutual appreciation.

Xu Beifang saw his former self in S1mple.

During his VP period, when facing strong enemies, he seemed to be just as helpless.

Now S1mple is still trapped in this stage, finding it hard to walk out.

Although S1mple's personality is relatively arrogant, he still highly recognized players with strength like Xu Beifang.

"If you guys lose to Astralis tomorrow, Nice, I'll grief you in FPL for three months."

Xu Beifang's face turned dark, but he quickly replied: "Then you just wait. When I match with you, I'll buy a Bizon every round and see who griefs who..."

"I'm serious."

"Then you just wait for my good news!"

Returning to his player bench, Xu Beifang glanced at the bottom of the stage.

Astralis was the first in Group B, and the playoffs started from the semi-finals, so they didn't need to participate in today's Round of 6.

But even so, the Danish red below the stage was still in patches.

This is the gold content of the current dynasty team, Astralis.

Xu Beifang is now known in the professional circle as the strongest spear, which is the strongest offense.

He can use countless tricks to get kills at the front line.

And the strongest shield is not a certain player, but the team Astralis.

Their entire team's thinking is as unified as one person.

On the defensive side, they can always use the most reasonable playstyle to solve problems.

It's as if the players have absolutely no personal emotions in the game, obeying orders and prohibitions, just like machines.

If you want to catch the mistakes in this team's defense, that's simply as hard as ascending to heaven.

Xu Beifang followed the team to pack up their peripherals and returned to the player tunnel amidst the cheers of the audience.

The moment he walked into the tunnel, the corners of Xu Beifang's mouth curled up.

A dynasty?

Then let me try and see if this dynasty still has the momentum of its peak!

...... ===== CHAPTER 331 =====

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