Chapter 364: Question Jame, understand Jame, become Jame

After being hit by a 2v5 from Vitality's twins on the outside, G2's overall morale was very low.

Playing as the T-side in the first half, they were already being suppressed by Vitality the whole time and could be considered to have no power to fight back.

They actively called a timeout and thought of a good tactical play, only to be crushed by the individual ability of Vitality's two "daddies." This blow was truly a bit too big.

The final score of the first half was locked at 13:2.

Nuke is a big CT map, but only getting two points could hardly be considered passing.

G2 also understood in their hearts that the opponent's advantage was a bit too large.

After switching sides, both sides came to the pistol round.

Vitality chose a fast-paced explosion on A, a very conventional and ordinary tactic.

However, in the first wave of contact, kennyS on the third floor one-tapped Xu Beifang, who was rushing out of the Iron Door.

Don't know if it was the motivation brought by the ID, but kennyS's form exploded directly. He got a 3-kill with one USP magazine, making the group of professional players in the stands unable to help but gasp at the "Frenchman's pistol."

He carefully picked up the bomb, then circled around the T Hall and touched into the vent.

"Onii-chan, you failed my expectations..." NIKO snorted disdainfully.

However, Vitality should be one of the teams with the best chance to win the championship this year.

On G2's player bench, the players' expressions were incomparably painful, especially kennyS.

As soon as he said this, the few people in the stands were slightly silent.

"Now it depends on how ZywOo handles this 1v2. The hatch is open, the dead door is closed, but G2 seems to want to double-peek!"

In the first half, Xu Beifang got a 5-kill in the pistol round; in the second half, ZywOo got a 5-kill in the pistol round.

"ZywOo's timing is good, but this 1v2 is still not easy to operate. After hearing the bomb-planting sound, nexa and Lucky already stopped their footsteps and jumped down from the vent, directly showing their cards, telling you we are here."

"Whoa!! This is ZywOo!!"

The situation that was originally saved turned back into a 1v2, which was a bit tricky.

This match should be ending soon too... rain turned his head to look at the big screen.

"You're still cosplaying Uchiha, aren't you?" rain rolled his eyes speechlessly. "You guys are truly worthy of being good brothers."

He had also comforted himself before, saying next time would be better.

They successfully pushed the score to match point.

Although they were both French teams, Vitality didn't have G2's outrageous corporate culture.

Xu Beifang reminded: "There is one ID that hasn't appeared yet, responsible for guarding the Iron Plate. You judge it yourself."

But the following scene made the "Frenchman" they were talking about change protagonists.

"The hatch moves first, but ZywOo one-taps the hatch directly, then turns to look at the dead door. The dead door just happens to open, and it's another bullet!!"

"ZywOo rushes out of the Yellow Room, one-taps kennyS who was at low health on the third floor, then turns to hit the one on the Yellow Room. This distance is already the Glock's execution range, and AmaNEK is also directly one-tapped!"

ZywOo said "Mm," indicating he knew.

After all, C9 had truly stepped on their heads to win the Major championship.

Xu Beifang also felt a headache watching it; nexa's play this wave was too exaggerated.

After entering match point, Xu Beifang jiggled away kennyS's big sniper on the outside at the start and successfully chased and killed him.

"hunter at the Main entrance and apEX are trying hard to duel, but ZywOo is not only killing people, he is also helping to trade. Karrigan was also killed by ZywOo!"

Came all the way silently and planted the bomb at B.

Although G2 was also barely exchanging numbers later, they were already in a numerical disadvantage and couldn't withstand the pressure as Vitality "swarmed" them.

Vitality's frontal push didn't go well, but ZywOo in the middle of the team exploded. A Glock was almost spinning and tapping people inside.

Although ZywOo fired a shot, it didn't hit nexa's head.

rain sighed. That match... until now, it was still his nightmare. He didn't dare to recall it, didn't dare to review it.

How is anyone supposed to play against this!

He did have the idea of lifting the trophy in his heart, but he also clearly understood that whether Faze's current form could even make it into the top eight was a problem.

NIKO, who came to join the fun in the stands, understood in his heart. Karrigan killed three in the pistol round, and he originally thought it was a sure thing. After all, he had already killed that guy Xu Beifang, and everyone thought it was a sure thing.

"kennyS got a multi-kill and killed three people, leaving only ZywOo and his mouth. What do you say about this wave?"

Men are all children; in some very small matters, they are always very vengeful.

NIKO shook his head: "This isn't a problem of being good brothers. The strength gap was already too big. If G2 could beat Vitality, I wouldn't doubt for a second that C9 could lift the Major championship again."

Following the team's constant lineup changes, Astralis's dominance in top-tier events meant they were getting further and further away from that goal.

With two consecutive kills, apEX immediately ordered a tactic of pretending to explode A, but actually sandwiching K1 and the inside.

"apEX comes directly to plant the bomb. He doesn't know that nexa has also reinforced the front, and he's planting a Main entrance bomb! But ZywOo is holding the Main entrance directly... but nexa strafes over and one-taps apEX, and after killing the planter, he directly retreats. This Gambler God's nerve shot is a bit outrageous!!"

But who could have thought that Xu Beifang died, but there was still a ZywOo!

ZywOo's form exploded, helping Vitality win the second-half pistol round.

At the same time, ZywOo also used an AK to hold and kill hunter, who was walking carelessly in front, through the gap in the Iron Door.

"16:2, the confrontation on Nuke has come to an end. Vitality successfully won the first victory of the Legends Stage!" Wanjiqi stretched comfortably. "It seems Karrigan failed NIKO's expectations and didn't complete the main task of killing Nice."

Xu Beifang took off his headset with a smile on his face.

Today was the first match of the Legends Stage. Compared to winning or losing, what they wanted to see more was their own form.

Now it seemed that everyone's form was quite good.

Anyway, in the match confrontation, there was no scene where Xu Beifang or ZywOo needed to frequently come out to crazily play clutches.

Everyone could trade numbers as they should in their own positions. For most of the games, they only needed to defend step-by-step, and that was enough.

Plus apEX's form was good. Today, they played a "rational" game, basically reading G2 like a book.

This led to him still feeling a bit unfulfilled after the match ended.

He originally thought that the Legends Stage match would be deserted without an audience, but after standing up, Xu Beifang saw a group of professional players in the stands jeering and waving in their direction.

"Nice is too perverted!!"

"Karrigan, are you useless?"

"Nice, go easy on us next time we meet. I'll leave a room for you tonight..."

"Can't you just wish not to meet Vitality?"

"Seems like that's right too..."

After making eye contact with Xu Beifang, that group of unserious professional players also teased him with one sentence after another.

The content of the chat made Xu Beifang's smile turn into speechlessness.

One by one, they were idle.

In the 6657 stream, the atmosphere of the chat discussion was very heated.

【16:2, is the gap in the French derby this big?】

【Completely no room to fight back. My Karrigan big sniper didn't even play two rounds before it ended】

【It's okay, G2's Nuke has always been quite abstract】

【G2 is abstract, isn't Vitality abstract too?】

【Can only say I've never seen such a wonderful start, please cheer for Vitality!!】

【The individual ability gap is a bit big. Beifang had a 5-kill in the first half, ZywOo had a 5-kill in the second half. G2 has no way to play】

【I don't think the two pistol round 5-kills are anything, that wave of anti-aircraft guns on the outside was the outrageous one, 2v5 and caught all of G2】

After the match, amidst XTQZZZ's praise, they began to cross the stage to shake hands on the opposite side.

When they crossed the stage, Wanjiqi had already skillfully opened the HLTV official website and found the post-match data for this match.

"Although ZywOo's data in the second half was very good, in the end, he was still not as good as Beifang, who was performing the whole time. Beifang led by a wide margin with 26 kills and 11 deaths, while ZywOo only got 17 kills. The gap is still quite large."

Wanjiqi then moved the mouse pointer to apEX: "And here is a 'lying-down winner.' In the situation where the whole team exploded, he only got 9 kills. This apEX is truly sitting in the boss's seat."

"However, Beifang truly carried this match. While being first in kills, Beifang's damage per round was a full 120. This Nuke directly had a Legion Boss appear. How is G2 supposed to play?"

"Let's look at Beifang's specific rating. His data for this match is 2.11. After Cologne ended, I really didn't expect this guy's data to still be so exaggerated..."

However, Wanjiqi could also understand that in such a lopsided match, the data would definitely be relatively higher.

If it were that kind of intense match, and he could still put up this kind of data, that would be truly exaggerated.

hunter's complexion wasn't good. Even without looking at his phone, he could still imagine what the stream chat was talking about at this moment.

NIKO told him to solve Nice, but where was he a guy he could solve?

In today's match, in his impression, he only traded with Nice once in frontal duels.

And the number of times he was killed, he couldn't remember.

Especially that time the runboost was launched, it really broke his mentality.

In the air, he saw Xu Beifang pushing forward along the Main entrance and was already shouting to report the position to his teammates.

At that moment, the scene of him landing and surrounding Nice with his teammates had already appeared in his mind, but he didn't expect that AK muzzle to flash, and he enjoyed a sleep like a baby.

Is this the frontal gunplay of a phenomenal player?

It's comparable to NIKO's form in 2018. How is anyone supposed to play against this?

Although a group of trolls on Twitter were teasing and creating drama before the match, making G2 very panicked.

But the smooth performance in the Challengers Stage still gave them a glimmer of unrealistic fantasy, thinking they had a chance of survival.

But Vitality's performance broke this fantasy.

Now not only him, but the whole team was quite depressed.

They completely didn't expect that the strength gap between the Challengers Stage and the Legends Stage opponents could be so large.

Xu Beifang had a smile on his face and shook hands with Karrigan simply: "I feel like you guys aren't in form today."

Karrigan smiled a bit awkwardly: "We practiced this map less, and made quite a few mistakes we shouldn't have."

He was telling the truth. G2 was originally a new lineup, in a rising and grinding period.

The team's map proficiency and map pool depth were a bit lacking. When meeting teams at the same medium level, they could rely on more outstanding individual ability to take the lead.

But against a team like Vitality, which had no loopholes in all aspects and had very outstanding individual ability, they were almost completely crushed in all aspects.

Karrigan also understood in this confrontation why Xu Beifang was called the world's number one rifler by so many people, even surpassing NIKO.

Because his influence in the match was too great.

So although they lost this match, he was convinced.

Xu Beifang and Karrigan were two nice guys here. Not far away, AmaNEK directly launched a sneak attack on apEX while shaking hands.

"Fox borrowing the tiger's power, right!" AmaNEK gave apEX two punches to the chest. "Keep shouting, keep shouting!"

"What do you mean fox borrowing the tiger's power!" apEX said he didn't recognize it.

"If it weren't for Nice and ZywOo performing, you'd still want to win this round? Your data is at the bottom!"

"Just tell me if you won or not?" apEX was very smug, his face already transformed into a "crooked-mouth war god." "Killing a lot is useless, you have to find a way to win!"

AmaNEK directly went up, chasing apEX and constantly elbowing him.

Xu Beifang and Karrigan were also speechless watching. The relationship between this group of French players was quite good. Although they weren't on the same team, apEX always liked to pull the old G2 to lose points together, so they could be considered good friends.

"If you're bad, practice more. What's the use of lying down to win?" AmaNEK shouted. "Wait until we get back to the hotel to duel, don't shout!"

apEX directly used Xu Beifang as a shield: "Who said lying down to win is useless? Just tell me if you won or not! You say I have no level, I say you don't know how to win!"

Speaking to the end, apEX even stuck out his tongue disgustingly.

It made Xu Beifang look disgusted, and he really wanted to hang apEX on a certain fish platform:

"Male college student self-used French IGL, 99% new, selling price 250..."

If it weren't for Xu Beifang pulling them, these two elementary school students, apEX and AmaNEK, could have shouted for a few more hours.

Leading apEX back to the player bench, they packed up their peripherals.

Xu Beifang saw the female host of the match point walking over with a photographer.

"Nice, you really did as you said and took it out on hunter. How are you feeling now?" the female host asked routinely.

"It still feels better to beat the younger brother." Xu Beifang smiled instantly after finishing, then added, "But to be honest, G2's overall performance was still quite good, it's just that they played a bit chaotically. If they can adjust their thinking, they should be able to have a better performance."

As French teams, they had a good relationship with G2.

Pre-match interview jeering was fine, but if they still said some ridiculing words after the match, it would be a bit like firing shots.

Completely unnecessary.

Of course, Xu Beifang still couldn't help but bring up NIKO, after all, this was the drama that guy NIKO had started.

"In today's match, your performance was as stable as ever, but what I want to ask is, there was a round where you air-shot hunter who flew out of the runboost with an AK47 on the outside. How did you do it?" the female host asked a question that many viewers were curious about.

After all, that round was too outrageous.

The runboost dual-person movement technique has acceleration, and it suddenly appeared in the air, which definitely wasn't on the same horizontal plane as Xu Beifang's pre-aim.

So the difficulty of that kind of shot was truly exaggerated.

If it were played by an ordinary player, the QR code on the tombstone after death would be the footage of that air-shot.

Xu Beifang smiled and said: "Nothing, it was purely a reaction and positioning. After seeing him fly out, I subconsciously flicked the crosshair over, and then it just happened to lock on."

After exaggerated practice, his reaction speed was now quite fast.

Combined with excellent positioning ability, he finally completed that shot.

"Truly humble."

"The way he said that makes it seem like I could do it too."

"Then can you do it if you go up?"

"Not even a little bit..."

The professional players in the stands, listening to Xu Beifang's post-match interview, all had a strong urge to complain.

As professional players, they were the top batch of players in the world, but they also deeply understood the difficulty of Xu Beifang's shot.

That shot definitely had a "nerve shot" element in it, but behind the nerve shot, if there wasn't excellent positioning ability and dynamic vision, it could never be achieved.

However, some people were still curious: "This G2 didn't study Vitality at all. I didn't see any targeting."

Today on Nuke, what Vitality showed was completely the old set of tactics, and there weren't even many tactics, all were default thinking and playstyles.

If they had spent a little effort on Vitality, they would definitely have been able to make a targeting plan.

But G2 was playing their own stuff the whole time. Can only say they were brave enough.

Today, so many professional players came to watch this match. The teasing drama on Twitter before the match was one aspect, and on the other hand, it was because they all wanted to see if Xu Beifang's form had changed and if Vitality could be targeted.

As a result, G2 didn't carry out any targeting at all, making their thoughts fall through.

Xu Beifang's form was as stable as ever.

So today, many of them left disappointed.

However, G2 not giving any targeting means was, for them, one of the few consolations.

If they happened to meet Vitality in the subsequent matches, the targeting means they prepared themselves could be used.

After accepting the post-match interview, Vitality's members came to the stands and joined the crowd of onlookers.

Because they successfully advanced in the first round, they had no more matches today.

The time left was still quite ample.

However, the subsequent matches, compared to theirs, were all relatively intense.

The first match that followed was the confrontation between MIBR and NIP, the confrontation between two old powerhouse teams, which was particularly exciting.

Unlike Vitality, many of the things they showed in the match were semi-finished products, and there were many places where mistakes occurred.

But this was still an exciting confrontation, without a doubt.

It's just that the final result would make NIP fans feel a bit heartbroken.

The second match that followed was the relatively heavyweight one.

Renegades vs VP.

Seeing the team name, NIKO couldn't help but yawn.

"Hey!" Xu Beifang couldn't help but shout, "Don't be so outrageous, okay."

NIKO also laughed: "Sorry, I'm used to it. I often used VP's matches as bedtime reading before. Seeing this team logo makes me want to sleep."

"Is it that exaggerated?" Xu Beifang said with some confusion. "Although VP's matches are indeed played slowly, I think they are quite good to watch."

Hearing this, many professional players beside him looked at Xu Beifang with surprise.

"Sure enough, he's a pervert."

"Is liking to watch VP matches the key to becoming a top player?"

"It's truly outrageous enough."

"Is this the habit of the strong that is different from ordinary people?"

A group of people around him said one after another.

Xu Beifang shook his head: "That's purely because you didn't understand VP's matches."

"How about this, let Teacher Nice take you to watch VP's match in a moment, let you feel the joy of Jame."

He didn't like watching VP's matches at first either. After all, always Jametime was indeed very boring.

But if you could enter VP's perspective to watch and try to understand Jame's thinking, it was quite interesting.

Others heard this and also got excited.

NAF shook his head and said: "Joy? I feel like I'll be asleep in a moment..."

ZywOo patted Xu Beifang on the shoulder: "So, Nice-brand commentator, let them see your understanding of VP!"

【Beep!】

【Suggestion received. By commentating on the match, make the professional players around you feel the fun of VP's match. Suggestion difficulty 5 stars. After completion, you can get a C-grade treasure chest...】

Xu Beifang raised his eyebrows, and now he was even more excited.

After waiting for a while, the BP for VP vs Renegades ended, and the match officially started.

"Why did they pick Vertigo?" Xu Beifang took a sip of water. "This map actually isn't very suitable for VP to perform."

NIKO transformed into a qualified "straight man": "How so?"

"Jame is the absolute core of VP now. Most of the tactics and core systems are built around this guy, so they are more suitable for playing on some big sniper maps. You should all understand that the influence of sniper rifles on this map isn't as big as imagined. If they finally picked Dust II or Overpass or something, their performance should be like a fish in water."

The members of Liquid and Faze beside them all nodded. This point was easy to understand.

After all, Jame's sniper rifle was truly stable and had a strong deterrent force.

On a map like Vertigo, you couldn't exert the full strength of a sniper.

If it were on a map like Dust II or Train, it would be completely different.

On those maps, even if Xu Beifang faced a powerful sniper, the pressure was quite large.

Some terrain was too open, or there were too many corners that needed to be cleared, which made it easy for the sniper rifle to collect tolls.

"The match has started. Just follow your thinking. How to watch VP's match so it won't be boring?" Liquid's IGL nitr0 was truly curious.

As an IGL, he basically watched the recordings of first-tier matches. Occasionally seeing a VP match truly made him sleepy.

After all, there was truly too much time spent saving weapons.

In front of so many professional players, he believed Xu Beifang wouldn't talk nonsense, so now he was very curious about what logic Xu Beifang could use to make a very boring match interesting.

"VP's pistol round doesn't have any big features besides playing slowly. Let's just watch it as a normal match."

Watching VP's pistol round from the perspective of an ordinary player, there wasn't anything particularly outstanding.

Because VP's pistol round was mainly based on tactical bomb explosions, it wasn't particularly novel.

However, it could be seen that VP's form was quite good. With a wave of A-site bomb explosions, they easily won the pistol round at the cost of 1 for 5.

Coming to the second round, Xu Beifang smiled: "Alright, next everyone can enter VP's perspective and think about how to win this point in the most reasonable way."

The director was still cutting the screen, and nitr0 subconsciously said: "If it were me, I should let the team buy more long guns, and then carry out a wave of bomb pushes on the A-slope."

Because the team's gunplay was excellent, nitr0, as an IGL, liked to fight hard. Compared to the fault tolerance of submachine guns, he felt that long guns could maximize the team's advantages.

At this time, the screen had already appeared. VP bought two AK47s and three submachine guns.

NEO watched and nodded: "Jame's choice of configuration in the force-buy is similar to mine. With two long guns to cover, and then using submachine guns to brush up the economy... but if it were me, I wouldn't choose two AKs, but one AK plus one Galil, and get more utility."

Different styles of teams have very different choices for purchasing firearms.

Xu Beifang said at this time: "And this round, please remember the words 'reasonable' and 'steady'. Jame should still be hitting A this point, because in this kind of ANTI-ECO confrontation, A-Long can better exert the advantages of the AK47..."

Sloth watched the three submachine guns in the VP team and said with some suspicion: "There should also be a possibility of hitting B."

VP launched a wave of probing actions towards the middle at this time, but it wasn't very smooth. Da Jin Ya, who touched into the middle from the elevator room, was tapped on the head by Renegades' mustache with a CZ and almost died.

This scene caused NAF to think: "Look, they still wanted to hit the middle in the early stage..."

"Just probing." NIKO also saw some clues. "Look, he only put one person on the B1 layer at the start, and there was no intention to push at all."

Xu Beifang nodded: "Every step Jame chooses has a reason. Since he let the team buy two AK47s, he must want to exert the role of these two AKs. And have you noticed a detail? These two AK47s have always been in the center of the team."

This sentence instantly shocked a group of professional players, and then they watched the match screen with this thinking and found it was indeed true.

"Is this Jame directly using the AK47 as a big sniper? Did he think about it from the start, and maybe he wants to save these two AKs later?" rain hadn't expressed his opinion before, and he also felt VP's matches were quite boring.

But being guided by Xu Beifang, he found that VP's matches seemed quite interesting.

"Right, this guy Jame is truly a genius. In his system, the other four teammates are his tools, and even he himself is just serving the team." Xu Beifang explained the content he saw on VP. "Look at their positioning. Because they don't know if the opponent will force-buy, they put a submachine gun in front to get information. Once the submachine gun doesn't win, their rifles at the original point can immediately trade. This kind of positioning can allow the role of these two AKs to be exerted to the extreme."

"Even if the AK47 also makes a mistake, the two guys with submachine guns behind can pick up the AK and directly enhance combat power. This kind of positioning can allow the role of these two AKs to be exerted to the extreme."

Once this point of view came out, a group of people in the stands instantly had new thinking.

"Damn, it can be like this?"

"Is this VP originally so detailed? I originally thought VP was just dead in default and didn't dare to attack casually."

"Is this God? It feels a bit outrageous."

To be honest, there have been three teams that have appeared on the professional stage in the past two years that have subverted everyone's cognition.

First is the 18-year VP. At that time, Xu Beifang's appearance led to an extreme 4-protect-1 playstyle on the field. They were seeing for the first time that there were professional players who could almost have no economy rounds.

Then there is Heroic. Dazhuang's appearance also gave everyone a new understanding of the lurker role.

Finally, it is the current VP. VP's crazy weapon-saving playstyle even became a Jametime meme in the community.

They originally all felt that Jame, as an IGL, was relatively toxic, always letting teammates drop guns, and saving weapons in slightly adverse situations, which was completely unreasonable.

Now it seems that Jame's understanding of the game might even be beyond the version.

This force-buy round was also exactly as Xu Beifang said. VP exerted the firearm advantage to the extreme.

"This VP has already exploded, and they didn't rush to retreat, just waiting for Renegades to make a mistake and peek, using AKs to kill people. Was Jame originally this smart?"

"People who play tactics have dirty hearts!"

apEX was furious: "Who are you scolding!"

nitr0 smiled without saying a word.

They watched VP use game understanding and firearm advantage to not lose a single long gun in this round, steadily winning this round.

And it wasn't just this point. In the subsequent face-off against Renegades' economy round, they still didn't lose any firearms.

The match began to enter the first full-buy round.

"Sigh, why did they change guns at this time." apEX said with some strangeness.

He felt that Jame liked economy management so much, the next full-buy round could use those three submachine guns to hit B for a speed-up, exerting the advantage of the submachine guns.

But Jame wasn't greedy at all. When the first full-buy round arrived, he directly changed the three submachine guns, and Jame himself even took out a big sniper.

This action was too decisive and truly exceeded their expectations.

"You have to understand one point, Jame's economy management is for winning, not for being greedy for economy." Xu Beifang reminded. "The early stage went very smoothly. Their current economy is enough to lose two consecutive full-buy rounds, so there is no need to be greedy for those three submachine guns."

"The damage of submachine guns in the full-buy round is insufficient, which sometimes can become a foreshadowing."

Many people beside him nodded. Many of them had experienced full-buy rounds where they took a submachine gun to fight, but it was just a little bit short of damage.

It even became a foreshadowing, leading to the key to a comeback.

"However, VP played quite decisively today. I didn't see much of the scene where they were in default for a long time. Renegades played very steadily." NEO explained his view.

Xu Beifang said: "Actually, the best-looking stage of VP is when their economy isn't enough. However, when their economy is always very good, you can pay attention to VP's bomb explosions."

nitr0 took the conversation: "I know this. The bomb explosion thinking of this group of VP people is very different from our mainstream teams."

"How so?" NIKO asked without shame.

"The mainstream bomb explosion thinking is to treat smoke grenades as walls and split the battlefield to let the main force plant the bomb smoothly." nitr0 looked at the screen and smiled. "But the bomb explosion thinking of this VP is to use utility to split the bomb site, eat the bomb site first, and even disrupt the default formation of your certain area, making you unable to link."

One is for planting the bomb, the other is for killing people.

The different purposes of the two lead to huge differences in the order of utility and the timing of the team's attack.

A group of gunners then began to pay attention to VP's bomb explosions and found that it was indeed as nitr0 said, the difference between the understanding of this VP team and the mainstream thinking.

It looked like their playstyle was lukewarm, but in the thinking of bomb explosion attacks, the killing intent was heavier than anyone else's.

Then a group of people remembered what Xu Beifang said, that the truly exciting part of this VP team was when the economy wasn't much, and they also began to look forward to it for a while.

However, they didn't see that kind of scene in the first half. VP's offensive was truly very ferocious. However, even if Renegades gained momentum in the second half, the overall suppression on them still wasn't large.

But in the process, VP's economy management still made this group of professional players marvel.

The final score of the first half was locked at 8:7. In the case of a small gap, VP only played two economy rounds.

Two economy rounds, plus an opening pistol round, they played a total of 13 full-buy rounds in the first half. In the case of a balanced confrontation between the two sides, the proportion of this full-buy round was simply astonishing.

It wasn't until the second half, when VP switched sides and lost consecutively.

Xu Beifang saw VP force-buy, and Jame's special economy, and smiled: "Brothers, the interesting point of VP is here! Look at this Jame, the teammates have all spent it, he alone kept 1500 in economy."

JackZ didn't understand: "What can keeping 1500 do?"

He felt uncomfortable seeing this scene. He had met many toxic players in matchmaking, that is, you ECO he buys a gun, you buy a gun he wants to ECO, which is quite painful.

Other VP people all bought guns, and Jame alone got a no-armor CZ, keeping 1500.

"Don't worry about this point, just look at VP's gun configuration in the next point." Xu Beifang said with a smile.

Then this round, VP played some fame on the defensive end, and the half-armor short gun killed a few short guns of Renegades.

In the case of others dying, Jame found an opportunity to save an AK47.

Seeing this, although knowing this was the most reasonable choice, a group of people still smiled relievedly.

Jame is always like this, not forgetting his original intention.

But after waiting for the next point, Jame began his magic show.

He directly threw the picked-up AK47 to his teammate, and then he himself took out a no-armor big sniper!

The other three teammates also directly force-bought, equipped with MP9 and Desert Eagle, and then supplemented with some utility.

You must know that Renegades' economy wasn't managed well either, because three long guns were killed in the last round, and this point only had three long guns plus two short guns.

At first glance, there really wasn't much gap in firearms between the two sides.

It can be called outrageous!

"WTF! Is this VP's economy management?"

"Teacher Jame, I am convinced!!"

"Instantly turning the situation around, who the hell can understand this."

"Renegades are going to be tricked!!"

Sure enough, in the case where Renegades liked to probe the middle and A-slope before, Jame chose to arrange these two long guns on the A-slope and the middle.

Then, relying on the unconventional position of the double-boost in the middle and the mutual trading, they successfully got a kill.

On the A-slope side, the big sniper that suddenly appeared also caught Renegades off guard.

Within an extreme time at the start, VP got two kills. Later, in the case where Renegades didn't have an explosion of individual ability, the balance of victory naturally tilted towards VP.

They marveled at Jame's outrageous economy management, but after turning back, they also recognized Xu Beifang's game understanding more clearly.

Watching the same match, they only saw default, constipation, saving weapons, boring...

But Xu Beifang saw so much content. They had reason to believe that if Xu Beifang wanted to, he could use this set of VP's playstyle.

NIKO patted Xu Beifang on the shoulder: "Brother, wait for two years when you can't play anymore, kick apEX, I'll go play breakthrough for you. I feel like you must be quite good as an IGL... you can definitely break the gunner's curse."

He had also been an IGL, and considered himself to have an understanding of IGL.

But after watching a match, he found that the gap between himself and Xu Beifang in understanding the game from the overall situation was quite large.

It wasn't to say that he couldn't see the content Xu Beifang saw.

It's just that the reaction speed was too different. Xu Beifang was too sensitive to many things in the game.

And they also had to admit that this guy Xu Beifang was truly hardworking.

A perfectly good breakthrough player, studying other people's thinking and system all day, not letting people play.

"Exactly, exactly." Zonic also responded. "I'll come too, please remote control me to your heart's content."

Hearing NIKO and Zonic's words, apEX couldn't take it.

He was like an old hen, protecting Xu Beifang behind him: "What are you all talking about? I'm still here!"

"It's okay, we wouldn't dare to talk if you weren't here, haha."

There was a burst of laughter in the stands.

Xu Beifang also smiled: "Seriously, VP's rational playstyle is very worth learning for all of us. In the future, CSGO should learn the strengths of each team, and Jame's economy management science must be among them."

"It's not that exaggerated, right." NIKO was truly surprised now.

Because this evaluation was truly huge. The playstyles and tactics worth learning for their teams at this stage, besides Astralis's discipline and utility, were Vitality's resource tilt, but Xu Beifang actually put Jame's economy management up.

"You don't think it's exaggerated because Jame's system hasn't reached perfection yet. Now their lineup should still have some problems."

"Is the firepower not enough?" NEO took a sentence.

He truly felt that VP's frontal firepower was a bit lacking.

Xu Beifang shook his head: "The firepower is a bit lacking, but more is discipline and execution. These two things they lack quite a lot now."

"VP's current playstyle hasn't reached the most perfect time, but once it takes shape, I think they have the possibility of competing for the Major championship."

VP subsequently didn't exceed their expectations, successfully winning this Vertigo with a small score and advancing to the next round.

Don't know if it was because of some touch by what Xu Beifang said, or if they were tired from watching the match.

The several teams in the stands chose to leave one after another.

Vitality also returned to the hotel after VP's match ended.

Coach XTQZZZ took them to review the match just now, but because they won smoothly, it didn't take much time.

After it ended, XTQZZZ leaned against the table and fell into deep thought. After a long time, he opened his mouth and asked: "Beifang, was the content you said before a joke, or did you really think so?"

"What content?" Xu Beifang had just prepared to pick up his phone, hearing the sudden inquiry, he was a bit confused.

"Just what you said about VP's economy management, that it will be one of the elements that all teams will learn in the future."

"It definitely will be." Xu Beifang answered. "This VP team is very special, but even if many people hate them, they have to admit they are very strong. But where exactly they are strong, you have to work hard to think and summarize."

"Economy management, special game understanding, these two things are the key... game understanding is not easy to learn, economy management can be learned."

XTQZZZ deliberated for several seconds: "Then do you think we have the necessity at this stage to try to integrate VP's economy management into our system?"

He trusted Xu Beifang very much.

As one of the phenomenal players today, Xu Beifang had brought too many miracles in the past half year.

And his understanding of the game was also recognized by the Vitality group.

Although they hadn't tried it specifically, XTQZZZ felt that Xu Beifang's idea today might be the direction they needed to move forward in the future.

"Hiss..." Xu Beifang didn't answer immediately, considering for a long while. "Mainly VP's playstyle requires too strong execution."

"You must already have a planning idea, say it out and see."

Xu Beifang looked at apEX: "Actually, it's similar to a proposal apEX had before. When on the offensive side, occasionally let one person not buy a long gun and save a wave of economy."

"But apEX's idea before was to let this person come out to bait the crosshair and help me and ZywOo get information. But I think a teammate is definitely more valuable than a flashbang. If this method is used later, you can use a half-armor or full-armor Tec-9, letting him play as a bomb-explosion position behind the team."

"This way, if the front is slightly intense, he can pick up a long gun, and it's directly a full-armor AK."

"Even if there is no chance to pick up a gun, he has a Tec-9, and also has a certain combat power."

shox said: "But saving a long gun, the role for the follow-up shouldn't be that big..."

Xu Beifang waved his finger at shox: "In general, it's not one, but two!"

"Hmm?"

Xu Beifang came to the tactical blackboard and began to write and draw with a marker: "For example, this is Inferno. We are on the offensive side. The opponent defends the area incorrectly. After a round of frontal firefight, it finally becomes a 4v4 situation. The opponent tries a wave and decides to start saving weapons."

"The teammate with the Tec-9 not only saved the economy of a long gun, but can also pick up a long gun. Isn't this equivalent to saving two long guns?"

Shushu raised his hand to speak: "And under specific circumstances, this method can also save up a big sniper."

"Then this playstyle is definitely a good thing, why do you have concerns." shox asked with confusion.

"Because someone needs to be this green leaf. This playstyle definitely needs someone to become this economic white hole, and the sacrifice for the data will be very large." apEX also understood.

Xu Beifang also nodded.

The room fell into a short silence.

The thinking overall is indeed not bad, but it hasn't been tested, and someone needs to be forced to become a green leaf.

VP's playstyle, no one realized it?

Someone must have realized it. The problem lies in that not all teams will try it.

Because CSGO is ultimately composed of people, most players ultimately still want to stand on the stage and Carry.

"That..." JackZ had a friendly smile on his face. "How about I take this task."

"I am originally the team's bomber, this task is just right. What shox said before was very good, as long as we can win, who cares about data."

JackZ looked at the slightly stunned expressions of his teammates and laughed happily: "I just thought about it, if Beifang can have a long gun to use every round, our winning rate will definitely be much higher."

XTQZZZ's eyes were a bit complicated, then he walked to JackZ's side: "You have to think clearly, this playstyle, the data might be very bad, and you will receive a lot of criticism."

CSGO is very realistic. As long as you don't perform well, the drama on the internet will be much scarier than imagined.

"I have already prepared to take the Tec-9 short gun as my main weapon." JackZ's smile was quite handsome.

Xu Beifang came over and hugged JackZ: "Brother, greatness needs no words. I'll let you eat the first bite of barbecue in the future."

ZywOo shouted: "Order a cup of milk tea for him."

apEX: "I'll let you eat the first bite of the baguette."

shox: "I'll remind you more when I want to sell you..."

Vitality group: "You old six!!"

Under JackZ's great decision, Vitality began to incorporate this economic management link into their training.

Because there were Xu Beifang and analyst swani, plus deliberate efforts, they basically figured out a few important economic nodes in one night.

Later, they only needed to put them on the tactical paper, and then test this playstyle in training matches and matches, and slowly become familiar with it.

But because the interest was up, Xu Beifang and swani worked on these tasks until late at night.

Leading to Xu Beifang only having time to eat breakfast with his family the next morning.

In a breakfast shop in Berlin.

Xu Beifang couldn't help but complain: "I don't understand why you guys came abroad. 13 euros for a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup, you couple truly understand tourism."

"Isn't it because your sister-in-law said she wanted to eat something soupy in the morning." Xu Nanfang smiled awkwardly. After getting married, what he wanted to eat wasn't something he could decide. Although his wife rarely cooked, she truly mastered his stomach.

"By the way, I just saw a post praising you in the 5E comment section..." Xu Nanfang took his phone and quickly changed the topic.

As a senior brother-complex, after his brother started playing matches, he especially liked to watch others blow Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang took the phone and looked, finding it was indeed not bad.

Because of the drama NIKO brought before the match, the attention of this match was originally quite good.

Plus there was a part of the audience who really wanted to see if Xu Beifang would become mediocre, so after the match ended, although it was a lopsided game, the discussion was quite high.

【How to evaluate Brother Beizi's performance on the first day of the Legends Stage!】

【I give it 97 points, the remaining 3 points are used to water experience】

【Actually feel like there is no such strong dominance, it's just that G2 is more abstract】

【Rating broke 2, how come it's not good in your mouth】

【Seriously, that wave of 2v5 cooperation on the outside made me stand up】

【Don't be proud, the targeting of other first-tier powerhouse teams hasn't started yet!】

For this last sentence, Xu Beifang didn't know if it was truly his hater or a troll.

But G2's match yesterday truly didn't show much targeting, which is a fact.

Later they would definitely receive targeting strikes, but Vitality also guarded against this hand, early changing Xu Beifang to a defensive area.

Xu Beifang truly wanted to know, later when meeting that group of old bastards, when they released the targeting tactics they prepared perfectly, and found that Xu Beifang directly changed the defensive area, what kind of thought it would be.

"The first round of the Legends Stage should have finished, right." Xu Nanfang ate some vermicelli and asked casually.

Xu Beifang nodded: "Not only finished, the second round has already started halfway."

Every match of the Major is close to crazy.

Basically, it's playing half of the first round on the first day, then finishing the first round on the second day, and the second round also starts playing half, and continuing on the third day.

In a very short time, they will finish all three rounds of confrontation in the Swiss system.

And the current Major is not like the 18 London period, only playing BO3 when being eliminated. Playing to the third and fourth day, almost the whole process is BO3 matches.

Xu Beifang thought about it and felt very tired.

Under his brother's reminder, Xu Beifang scanned the forum again.

Besides his own match, the discussion of other matches wasn't low either.

In the first round of confrontation, besides NIP and Renegades, other old legends all won the first round of victory.

In the first half of the second round, NIP and Renegades in the 0-1 group still couldn't withstand the pressure, entering the 0-2 group, already on the edge of elimination.

Making people can't help but sigh. Xu Beifang still remembered Renegades' high spirits in the first half of the year.

At that time, Vitality even teased those 18-year-old-and-several-hundred-months-old genius teenagers of NIP, but today the genius teenagers ultimately had to fall.

His mood was a bit complicated for a while. Once at VP, NIP also hammered him without any temper, but now they couldn't even beat a net cafe team, which made people a bit hard to accept.

Once brilliant top-tier geniuses, now fallen to this point.

Xu Beifang was also a bit lost for a while.

Because of the mood problem, he didn't eat much breakfast and returned to the hotel.

But returning to the training room, he found the time was too early, and his teammates hadn't woken up yet.

The mood was too bad, he also didn't want to open the computer for the time being, dressed well, and planned to go outside the hotel to run and vent.

He originally planned to run casually by himself, but after taking the elevator downstairs, he saw the opposite elevator open at the same time, followed by two familiar figures walking out.

"Byali! Why did you come to Berlin!!" Xu Beifang saw the figure walking out of the elevator and said with some surprise.

Byali had a smile on his face, but his brows frowned: "What are you saying?"

"Oh oh, just spoke French, didn't switch over." Xu Beifang mixed with French teammates every day, subconsciously speaking French.

pasha slapped him directly: "Hey hey hey, I'm here too, don't ignore me, kid!"

Xu Beifang rolled his eyes at pasha: "Saw you in Cologne at the beginning of the month, you act like we haven't seen each other for a long time."

pasha looked at the equipment on Xu Beifang: "This is preparing to go running? Then let's go together!"

The three people warmed up slightly at the hotel entrance, and then started jogging along the streets of Berlin together.

"You haven't answered me, why did you come to Berlin?" Xu Beifang asked Byali beside him while running.

In the trio, Byali was a qualified esports person. Not even 1 kilometer, he was already panting, facing Xu Beifang's inquiry, he waved his hands repeatedly.

"So weak..." pasha snorted disdainfully, and then answered Xu Beifang's question. "Because your performance in Cologne was too perverted, these two guys prepared to come to the scene to see your match. They feel you have a chance to win the championship this time, and want to cheer for you below."

"Then what about you."

pasha looked speechless: "They all came, if I don't come, what do you think it looks like?"

"NEO that guy definitely has no hope. By then, the four of us will all be cheering for you below the stage, you better play well."

Xu Beifang wanted to respond immediately, but NIP's journey made him hesitate.

pasha turned his head and looked at Xu Beifang, his brows suddenly frowned, and then he pulled Byali to stop.

"What's wrong?" Xu Beifang was a bit confused.

pasha pulled Xu Beifang and sat down directly on the lawn beside: "What's wrong, I should ask you what's wrong?"

"How come you've entered the match, and still have so many worries? Hurry up and say it, we'll help you solve it."

Xu Beifang said what he saw about NIP's recent fall, and also said that his mood was a bit affected.

Hearing this, pasha stood up immediately, looking at Xu Beifang with a look of "hating iron for not becoming steel": "Just because of this, you even had the thought of retiring for a few seconds?"

pasha's appearance was slightly scary, Xu Beifang stammered: "No, just thought about it."

"Byali, don't stop me, let me beat him up and wake him up!"

Hearing this, Byali hurriedly got up and hugged pasha.

The two people singing and acting, Xu Beifang still couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

Xu Beifang laughed, and pasha and the other couldn't hold back either.

After pasha laughed, he patted Xu Beifang's head with his hand and said gently: "You, you, if NEO were here, he would definitely say you are pretentious."

"He is an old vegetable chicken, on the professional stage every day 0.8, 0.9, now he is still thick-skinned and won't come down. Why do you think, isn't it because he can't bear to leave this stage?"

"He can continue to be an IGL. My IGL level is originally poor, and worse teams don't want to stay, otherwise I would definitely find a team to rejuvenate. I know you have some confusion now, after all, you have played for more than a year, and now your view of the profession is definitely different from the beginning, and the Major has started, you seem to reach out and can lift that trophy, but it seems that in the next second, the trophy will be taken away by Astralis."

"You are now too worried about gains and losses." pasha's experience was rich, directly finding Xu Beifang's true thoughts in his heart.

He wasn't sad because of NIP's fall, but because of the weakness of the former king, he associated it with his possible failure in the Major.

Byali sat back beside Xu Beifang, hugging his shoulder and patting: "It's okay, having this emotion is normal. When we won the championship that year, you don't know how crazy pasha was at the beginning. He even wanted to go to the gym to practice for two hours before the match."

"You now, just don't think too much, steadily play every match well, focus on the current match, everything you want will be there."

Then Byali laughed again: "If NEO knew you had this thought, he might really beat you. Do you know how helpless he is about the decline of his level? You are still in the peak period now, just take advantage of your peak, play more with top-tier teams, don't wait until our age. Even if you let me go up to play now, I might not dare to go up, because I know I definitely can't beat them."

"So, take advantage of being young, launch a charge towards that Major trophy!"

"Even if it's for us, Astralis once snatched a Major championship from our hands, we have always been brooding about it."

Looking at the sincere smiles of the two big brothers, Xu Beifang felt his somewhat restless heart slowly settle down.

He also felt he was a bit pretentious.

Now his family, former old teammates, those fans were all paying attention to this match, hoping he could beat Astralis in the Major and lift the final trophy.

But he thought about this and that, it was indeed a brain fart.

"Okay, then even for our old VP, I will definitely take this Major championship back!"

pasha also sat down, muttering in his mouth: "But I hope more, it's for yourself."

... ===== CHAPTER 365 =====