Chapter 369: The crazy upset Legends Stage members

August 31, 2019, Saturday.

Suitable: Marriage, sacrifice, prayer, upset...

The Major Legends Stage match has reached the fourth day, and with the appearance of various unexpected situations, the quota for qualifying has become increasingly confusing.

Because today's match is a BO3 confrontation, Team Vitality also arrived at the venue early to prepare.

Their match is arranged in the second match of the sub-stage, so the time is still quite ample.

The Team Vitality group discussed tactics and BP, and then entered the free activity time.

However, there is nothing to do in the lounge, they are just playing with their phones.

Only apEX, because he didn't sleep well last night, is now lying on the sofa to catch up on sleep.

Xu Beifang also has time to look at the discussions on the internet.

【I followed Machine to make the guess, now it's almost dead, Machine, do you even understand CSGO!】

Because ENCE's team style is relatively special, other teams' playstyles generally start with default, and then open the situation through information reconnaissance or active attacks.

A few minutes after he posted, he received a group of netizens' replies:

【The damn G2 was beaten like that by Team Vitality at the start, and then slapped Faze to death with two slaps】

Some relatively impatient teams really have no good way to deal with them.

Below there are nearly 200 replies:

【Don't open champagne in the middle of the game, there are so many precedents for upsets, besides, ENCE's state has been quite good recently, they can even step on VP to come up, which is quite exaggerated】

【The match is about to start, and you are still here watering the dynamic】

【Don't NIP anymore, it has become the tears of the era, their state today seems to be going away directly】

Facing ENCE in the third round, Xu Beifang felt quite a lot of pressure.

Before, there was an ECNE match that left a very deep impression on Xu Beifang.

【NIP hasn't won a single match yet, I understand it even less】

With the start of the Major, everyone recognized the power of this team, VP.

But ENCE could suppress VP in the BO1 confrontation, which is really rare.

After sending it away, Aleksib actively called a timeout. From the director's perspective, Xu Beifang could clearly see Aleksib not speaking, just drinking water; obviously, that timeout wasn't for discussing tactics.

Although the match looks boring, the overall strength is really strong.

【My 0-3 beat my qualifying team, heart tired】

【Little Xu, come on, my homework depends on Team Vitality, most of them are going to be gone】

【Still okay, today Team Vitality plays ENCE, the overall pressure isn't that high】

From the posts, one can see the mental state of the poster: "What about the Tier-1 strong team? What about the fun-loving team? How come this guess is different from what you said! Hahahaha, the teams I chose to qualify are already fighting, damn!"

This was far beyond the audience's expectations. In their impression, Faze, Liquid, and NAVI were all among the strongest teams in the current version, but they were all upset and defeated in the third day's match, which really stunned people.

After thinking about it, Xu Beifang sent a dynamic on his Bilibili:

"Sure enough, Machine is a philosopher, gold is more valuable than diamonds!"

【You can say Faze lost to Team Vitality, but how could Faze lose to G2!】

【This guess is not something humans can play, damn】

Sure enough, what everyone said was quite right, the more you understand CSGO, the less you understand CSGO.

Just brushing casually, his gaze was attracted by a topic post:

【It's hard to imagine that the homework that was tenable yesterday is already hanging by a thread today】

According to common sense, calling a timeout in a CSGO professional match is to discuss new tactics and pursue tactical variations.

【Hope Team Vitality can successfully qualify today, then my homework will at least have hope】

Regarding the content of the Legends Stage guess, it has become the hottest topic in the forum.

Yesterday's confrontation was too chaotic, G2 upset Faze, Liquid was played by VP, Mouz defeated NAVI.

【Damn, a live Little Xu!】

But ENCE is very good at using default to gain advantages for themselves, and Aleksib is the leader of default.

ENCE, in the case of unfavorable offense, conducted an economy round. That round they stayed at home and hung up for 20 seconds, and finally, under Aleksib's command, they went to find someone to send away in one wave.

【So when will the stickers come out, I can't wait to buy Little Xu's new stickers】

Netizens are interesting; even if he didn't have any response, they were chatting under the dynamic on their own.

【Seeing Little Xu's homework is also going to be gone, my mood is much better】

Xu Beifang didn't reply, just watching the netizens' feedback one by one.

Most of the guesses for this Legends Stage are about the same, but several teams that should have been stable have instantly entered the edge of being eliminated, which makes them very worried about the results of this round of guessing.

Yesterday's outrageous match situation also made his Legends Stage guess precarious.

However, Xu Beifang didn't sympathize with the netizens' encounter because his own Legends Stage guess homework was almost collapsed.

【Right, Vitality, stop pulling any more stunts. If Vitality chokes at the end, I'm really going to have a mental breakdown.】

But after the timeout, ENCE came with another default.

The opponent thought that after the ENCE timeout, they would play some unconventional moves, so they actively pushed forward, but didn't expect ENCE to still be default, directly holding several people to death, and instantly won a round.

ENCE's default level, although not as exaggerated as VP, is more flexible overall.

It is easy to destroy the commander's confidence.

After all, after being played by that kind of default for several rounds, the opponent won't be very confident in decision-making.

Facing ENCE, if Team Vitality doesn't arrange too aggressive tactics and purely based on default map control, it will be very difficult for Xu Beifang to get an opening kill.

ENCE's strongest ability is that when they successfully get the rhythm, their stable scoring ability, you don't see any big problems, it's very solid.

Moreover, Team Vitality didn't practice with ENCE after arriving in Berlin, and could only see some tactical changes of ENCE through matches.

Fortunately, this is a BO3 confrontation, and the strong map pool allows them to have a certain upper hand in BP.

So Xu Beifang just said there was pressure.

Xu Beifang was thinking about the confrontation with ENCE, when he suddenly heard an exclamation from the side.

"WTF!" JackZ noticed apEX was resting, and immediately lowered his voice, but he still couldn't help but share, "This Astralis can be defeated by NRG in the first match, won't they also be upset?"

Xu Beifang listened and immediately leaned over, only to see that the match on JackZ's phone had ended, and the UI showed that NRG had won the first map.

He was a bit curious about how NRG could take down Astralis. However, seeing apEX resting, he pointed outside the door and whispered: "Why don't we go out and talk?"

JackZ nodded; having just watched the whole match, he was still in surprise.

Xu Beifang informed XTQZZZ that they were heading straight to the stage area, then walked out with JackZ.

Because of the special position of the Legends Stage, players acting as audience in the stands in advance this year is already a relatively popular activity among these professional players.

Xu Beifang and JackZ also accompanied each other to the stands.

When walking out of the player tunnel, they found that there were quite a few people.

Even several teams' players winked at Xu Beifang, and everyone's meaning was about the same: "You are also here to watch Astralis"?

After sitting down, Xu Beifang started to ask: "How did this lose? Astralis can't even beat NRG now?"

He had also been in contact with NRG for a long time. In his cognition, NRG was a team that was not enough to be at the top but more than enough to be at the bottom.

NRG playing weak teams basically wouldn't have any big twists and turns, and would win very smoothly.

But playing those top strong teams, the winning rate was also ridiculously low, making people feel that they were always a breath away from being a true T1-level team.

In this situation, they could actually defeat Astralis, which was really unimaginable.

"Astralis's resilience is still very strong." JackZ explained to Xu Beifang, "The first map, Train, is also one of Astralis's signature strong maps, but they didn't play well when defending, and directly started 1:7."

"Metaphysical score start? Then there is a bit of a saying."

JackZ nodded: "There is indeed a bit of a saying. After this metaphysical score, Astralis started to chase points, but NRG's state was also very good, and both sides entered overtime very smoothly, but at this time Astralis and NRG had already played into a state, completely a battle of you one point and me one point."

"And then?"

"Played quite a few overtimes..." JackZ fell into memory, "Until the 50-something round? It should be when both sides were 28:28, NRG relied on Brehze and CeRq, two people, and started to actively exert force. For several consecutive rounds, Brehze came out to kill two or three, and CeRq hit key kills to break the situation. Astralis still couldn't hold that breath in the end, playing an ultimate long pain."

"Damn, this is too uncomfortable!" Xu Beifang brought himself into Astralis's perspective and felt he couldn't stand it.

On the map of Train, the two teams played nearly 60 rounds, and the match time was almost two hours.

Not to mention anything else, his butt was sitting in pain.

This was originally the first map of BO3, plus entering super long overtime, the impact on morale was huge, so both sides desperately wanted to win this map.

Astralis didn't hold that last breath and lost this confrontation. Using netizens' teasing, it was dreaming at night saying: "I shouldn't have played that wave like that."

He also understood why JackZ said this wave really had a chance to turn around.

The blow to Astralis's momentum from this super long overtime was huge.

Although the long battle was also very painful for NRG, they at least won.

And now knowing that they could beat Astralis, their self-confidence was definitely abnormally high, and 80 points of skill might be played as 120 points of strength.

There were quite a few who could understand this point.

This book, a group of professional players around came to eat melons.

They had been stepped on by Astralis and beaten for several years, so they were very excited to see Astralis being hammered.

Everyone wanted to see the former king being pulled off the horse!

"Astralis won't really be turned around today." TACO was two rows in front of Xu Beifang, saying to FalleN.

FalleN had a smile on his face, but finally shook his head: "Don't underestimate Astralis."

Their relationship with the Danes was ridiculously bad, but because of this, they took Astralis's strength very seriously, and he felt that Astralis still had a great chance to adjust back.

"Besides, the second map is Nuke chosen by Astralis themselves."

This kind of tactical map is equivalent to coming to Astralis's home court; as long as they adjust their state, there is still a chance to drag the BO3 match into the third map.

Although they were all here to watch Astralis's joke, the players' ideas were still different.

In their expectant gaze, the second map of Astralis and NRG officially started.

However, after the match started, Xu Beifang gave an evaluation: "Astralis should be gone."

FalleN turned to look at Xu Beifang, somewhat surprised: "How did you make the judgment?"

Xu Beifang smiled: "You just need to look at the state of both sides."

FalleN did as he was told.

Perhaps because Tarik was the commander on the team, the atmosphere of the entire team was relatively relaxed, and even after the pistol round started, the players still had smiles on their faces.

He turned to look at the other side again and almost couldn't maintain his persona.

Astralis's atmosphere was dead silent, only gla1ve as the commander was trying hard to issue orders.

But perhaps because the first map had consumed a lot of energy, gla1ve's thinking was no longer so clear, and even several Astralis members were already in red heat.

(gla1ve is in red heat, confirmed!)

The gap in the state of the two sides for the match was too large; one side had no psychological pressure, while the other side was under full pressure.

As long as there were no particularly exaggerated variables in the match, the outcome of this match was indeed easy to see.

Some players thought that if Astralis could win a few points later, maybe the state would be different.

It's just a pity that Astralis's performance disappointed them.

Even Astralis, who had three Major trophies in their hands, didn't have as exaggerated state adjustment as imagined.

Even if Nuke was the map they chose themselves, even if on this map, the world's number one clutch master xyp9x played a very wonderful 1V4, it still couldn't stop the fact that Astralis was flattened by NRG.

If the first map Train was a long pain of difficult confrontation.

Then the second map Nuke was completely crushed by NRG's gunplay because the state was too poor, and the final score was fixed at 16:4.

"You really said it right." FalleN watched the match end and turned to look at Xu Beifang somewhat unexpectedly, "The second map was completely a crushing match, Astralis almost didn't organize any effective offense and defense, their touch was completely gone."

TACO on the side smiled darkly: "This time many netizens will be miserable again, I remember quite a few people chose Astralis 3-0."

Ruling the professional scene for more than a year, the champion fans Astralis had outside the match were very terrifying, so in the eyes of some of Astralis's fanatical fans, Astralis had the strength to qualify for the top eight with 3-0, so they could leave a seat for other teams that qualified.

But now Astralis lost a match, which made many players' homework have twists and turns.

TACO felt he could eat a big melon.

"Don't say it as if your guess is very good." JackZ felt that his round of guessing should also be gone, and complained after hearing TACO's melon-eating tone.

Unexpectedly, TACO was waiting for this sentence. He immediately smiled evilly. "This wave I am in the atmosphere layer, I felt that this Major difficulty is very high, I didn't buy any guesses at all!"

Leaving Xu Beifang and JackZ stunned on the spot.

FalleN shook his head: "Don't listen to his nonsense, this guy's guess is just random, he even put you guys on 3-0, it's purely for fun."

"However, there are indeed quite a few upsets in the Legends Stage these two days." FalleN looked at Xu Beifang and smiled, "I hope your match later won't also have upsets."

Astralis's match ended, and it was their turn to play next.

Xu Beifang had already seen his teammates waving at him at the entrance of the player tunnel: "Then I'll borrow your auspicious words!"

Bidding farewell to FalleN, he and JackZ returned to the main force.

This wave of watching Astralis lose the match was very good, but FalleN's words really reminded him.

Entering the Major, NRG could upset Astralis, so what else is impossible.

Being able to come to the Legends Stage, everyone's strength is not bad, and under state fluctuations, winning or losing can happen.

If a long pain confrontation like Astralis happens, they might really be upset and eliminated.

Xu Beifang told his teammates the good news that Astralis was 2-0, and soon received a series of shocks from his teammates.

"2-0?"

"Crushed on a strong map?"

"Astralis won't be eating vegetables..."

"Astralis won't be possessed by Tyloo."

XTQZZZ touched his bald head: "Can only say this is CSGO, there is no eternal winner."

"So, we have to adjust our state, even if we lose a long overtime in the match, we can't explode our mentality, we have to think about taking this BO3."

JackZ raised his eyebrows: "Don't worry about this, our mentality is relatively good, if it doesn't work, let Dou Dou start shouting!"

Speaking of this, they couldn't help but recall the time they won the championship in the StarSeries. At that time, facing NRG, Dou Dou dared to stand up and shout in the face of a big headwind. That scene still made them unable to forget.

"Think about the days we've come along, and then more active communication in the match, because it's normal to have psychological fluctuations in the match, we don't have to deliberately keep calm like VP, but thinking about your final goal is enough." XTQZZZ added a sentence, and then led the players to the player bench.

apEX turned to Xu Beifang and said: "Chicken soup is said a lot, but I think a more important point, Beifang, you have to remember our ideas during the review, today you have to wander more, and because of the BO3 reason, today there should be an opportunity to pull out Inferno, when the time comes you have to go to the A area to lead the rhythm, this is the first time to change to a big area to play, I need more information feedback from you to correct the B area playstyle."

Xu Beifang nodded, then put on his headphones, started to enter the aimbotz map to practice gunplay, and warmed up his state.

... ===== CHAPTER 370 =====