Chapter 375: See all the Chang'an flowers in one day!

Xu Beifang and the ENCE team interacted passionately on Twitter, attracting the attention of many players.

Originally in the fierce battle period of the Major, CSGO received a lot of attention. Plus Xu Beifang's Versailles-style answer and Aleksib's subsequent broken-defense reply made the netizens happy.

This heat also attracted many CSGO bloggers to review that match. They reviewed that BO3.

Finally, a result was reached: ENCE's tactics in many rounds were no problem, more because they were crushed by Xu Beifang.

This result made many professional brothers and viewers smile with relief. The scene of personal ability crushing tactics appeared again. They could only say that it is worthy of being Nice.

And Xu Beifang, who was at the center of the topic, relaxed. As a benefit of the first team to advance, they entered the vacation in advance. Every day they only need to maintain daily gun feel, then run tactics, and organize the team to practice if there are new ideas and thoughts.

Most of the time is relatively free.

On the evening of the second day, he made an appointment with his old teammates to have dinner at a Berlin specialty restaurant nearby.

After all the dishes were served, Xu Beifang shouted, "Brothers, don't move your hands yet!"

Xu Beifang shook his head and said, "This configuration does have an upper limit, but the injury of GuardiaN is not suitable, NiKo and Rain are not in state, and Olofmeister is not as stable as in the peak period. As for you, the thinking is still there, but the frontal duel can't hold up anymore. Although this upper limit is high, the lower limit is also really low."

Michu looked at Xu Beifang with contempt, "You sit at the children's table yourself. Everyone is drinking, only you are drinking orange juice."

Pasha laughed heartily, "Michu, what's wrong with you, why are you bringing up things that shouldn't be brought up? Neo, didn't you laugh quite happily the day before yesterday? Why aren't you laughing?"

"I posted that picture on social media." Xu Beifang informed them, and then posted the photo on Bilibili.

Byali thought of some painful memories when he saw this action, and couldn't help complaining, "Beifang, you are already invincible. You will definitely be able to get along very harmoniously with your girlfriend in the future."

After several people laughed, Neo also said very helplessly, "I just saw Liquid fall down at the time and was gloating. But who could have thought that we would run into them in the loser's bracket, and they played so poorly in the first two rounds, how come they were like eating a big tonic when they played us!"

Xu Beifang comforted, "It's okay, the difficulty of your state wanting to rush into the champion stage is indeed too great. Winning one match is enough."

Byali and Michu also shared their recent situation. They are basically old oilers in second-tier teams now, with no special enterprising spirit, mainly leading the team.

Beautiful memories shattered instantly, Neo's face turned black.

Looking at the two teammates arguing at the dinner table, Neo had a smile on his face. He was also a bit trance-like for a while, feeling that time had returned to last year, when they were always like this.

Neo directly gave Pasha a tyrant elbow. Looking at Pasha's coughing appearance, his expression was as cold as a killer, "I was born not to love laughing."

In this way, the targeting of the opponent is all put on. Once Beifang is eaten, it will be very difficult for Vitality to get points later.

Xu Beifang can appear here today because Vitality advanced to the champion stage with 3-0 and started a vacation. And Neo can appear here because FaZe went out with a 1-3 record and started preparing for the next Major in advance.

Neo felt toothache listening, "I know this, but I think the upper limit of this FaZe lineup is still very high, and there is still a possibility of operation."

Pasha ate a piece of meat, and while chewing, answered, "Nothing stable. I was trying to build an esports training camp before, but after thinking about it, the situation of Polish CS now is not something that can be solved by this kind of training camp, and what level am I, so don't mislead people."

Michu turned his head and smiled evilly, "Neo, is that right."

Before when they were at VP, because they needed to support each other to move forward, they still had some scruples when speaking. But now that they are separated, there are no scruples when speaking, and the way of getting along is very casual.

"By the way, Pasha, what have you been doing in the last few months?" Xu Beifang asked. In the last few matches, he saw Pasha running around in various places, feeling that the rice seller was too free.

If you talk about the upper limit, the upper limit of the old VP must also be very high, but they are all old, the lower limit is not good, and it is difficult to achieve results.

Pasha looked at Byali in surprise, "Soulmate!!"

Neo said it simply, but they all understood that this guy must have done a lot of psychological construction in his heart.

Byali ate a bite of food and nodded, "Indeed, you can't just look at the upper limit, otherwise we wouldn't have persuaded Beifang to run away at that time."

"You still say me, you don't arrive until the champion stage opens." Xu Beifang also retorted. Michu is really slow, arrived in Berlin only early yesterday morning.

"If the quality arrives later, and the front is crazily exchanging numbers, look at whether the little fat man will exert force. Don't underestimate Zywoo, this player."

Xu Beifang said in surprise, "Big brother, you are playing for real!"

After the photo was sent, Xu Beifang shouted excitedly, "Alright, brothers, let's have a drink!"

"I took the time to watch your match against ENCE yesterday. Your overall state is no problem. It's just that if the team relies too much on your performance, your pressure will be too great later." Neo didn't quite understand. He felt that Vitality relied too much on his own little brother.

"Just say whether you come or not!" Michu quibbled, "And I didn't miss anything. Isn't it just right to have dinner when I arrive in Berlin?"

With their current level, it is just suitable for this job.

Neo expressed that he couldn't understand at all.

Neo shook his head, "I also understand, so try again. If the team's results still can't move forward in the next event, I will retire."

Xu Beifang nodded, "I think Zywoo will be the strongest sniper. When I joined Vitality, I was aiming for Zywoo. I know you don't want me to have too much pressure, but I also have a group of trustworthy teammates now."

Under the doubtful eyes of Pasha and others, Xu Beifang took out his phone, got up to find an angle, and took a group photo for them.

The topic soon returned to Xu Beifang. After all, a large group of them rushed over just to cheer for Xu Beifang.

"Most of the time is resting at home and accompanying family, and then a period of time ago, officially started training mixed martial arts. But that thing is very difficult. To truly board the MMA stage, it will take a long time."

Others had been holding back laughter. Seeing Neo like this, they couldn't help it. The whole room was full of happy laughter.

Pasha shook his head, "What are you thinking about? I found that you don't see as clearly as we old guys who retired. Vitality has always been dual-core. You look at them like 4-protect-1 because Beifang's state is good. He stands in front and can kill and gain an advantage. The number of times he is traded is not many. The little fat man just needs to hold a point with a sniper rifle in the back."

"Later, it mainly depends on the other teams that advanced. We will make some targeted adjustments. However, if there are no accidents, the final should be against Astralis."

"That's for sure." Pasha smiled.

After retiring, being able to stand on this stage again already took huge courage. Now, having to retire again, and ending in this way, always makes people a bit unwilling.

However, after a few seconds, Neo himself couldn't hold it and laughed.

Xu Beifang said this lightly, not because of arrogance, but because of confidence in Vitality and recognition of Astralis.

"Don't be careless. Think about how FaZe can lose to G2. Anything can happen in the Major. Don't be inflated in your heart, understand?" Pasha instructed like an old mother.

"By the way, how is the match today?"

Xu Beifang also remembered this, opened his phone and looked at the forum casually, and was instantly stunned.

"WFT! There really is a team that has played out its lineup upper limit!"

The screen is the confrontation between G2 and Astralis. The score is 1:1, and both sides have taken one map.

Although he was very optimistic about G2's upper limit, he still didn't expect G2 to be able to win a map in Astralis's hands.

Now the match has entered the third map, Vertigo, and G2 winning the pistol round is the leading side.

Noticing Pasha leaning over, Xu Beifang leaned his phone toward his direction.

"Neo, you don't have to be sad this time, because if G2 can beat Astralis, you can also say that FaZe can be comparable to Astralis."

Neo ignored the muscle stick's teasing and curiously asked, "What's the situation in the first two maps, how could Astralis be defeated by G2?"

Xu Beifang found a battle report on 5E: "Map one Inferno, Astralis didn't give any chance, 16:8 ended easily, the mayor didn't have any sound."

"But map two Dust 2, KennyS got excited. They played a total of 60 rounds, KennyS got 73 kills, a sky-high generation, making Astralis feel long-term pain."

Xu Beifang recalled, "This script is a bit like NRG playing Astralis a few days ago. It was also about 60 rounds, and later Astralis went down the drain."

"This G2 won't directly dry Astralis to death."

A group of old VP people looked over curiously. Although G2 and Astralis are both in the 2-1 group, even if they lose this match, they won't be eliminated.

But if they really enter 2-2, the situation is completely different. In that atmosphere, it is not strange to be eliminated.

Before the start of this Major until after the start, even if Astralis was upset and defeated once, no one thought they couldn't enter the champion stage.

And what kind of team is G2? When the Major started, they didn't even enter the HLTV top 20, and they couldn't even see their figures in the big tournaments in the last few months.

But if Astralis was finally upset and eliminated, it would be too humorous.

He is watching the live broadcast of the match now. Astralis fans are already uneasy, while G2 fans are all ecstatic.

Xu Beifang saw the clues: "This Magic Man is not in state today. These few rounds of confrontation, it feels like 9 people are performing, just Magic Man is sleepwalking, frontal duel can't hold up."

He looked at the record of the first two maps and found it was indeed so.

As one of the cores of Astralis, Magic Man performed third on map one and fourth on map two.

As a breakthrough and rifler, his average damage per round is not even as high as Gla1ve who is an IGL.

Neo saw a clue: "This Astralis seems to be practicing tactics. They are trying to move Magic Man's position backward."

"So bold?" Byali was a bit stunned.

Practicing by competition is not rare in professional matches, but using the Major to practice tactics is relatively rare.

After all, this is the Major. Everyone is worried about any mistake leading to elimination.

But the Danes used some matches to practice tactics, which is indeed very bold.

Pasha laughed, "This is also a problem they made themselves. Danes don't play training matches. If some things really want to be experimented with, they can only be used in matches."

Danes are establishing a dynasty and closing their channels of communication with the outside world, trying to make their dynasty peak period longer.

But the world of CSGO has no secrets. The learning speed of professional brothers is quite fast. When the level reaches a similar level, the impact of Astralis not training opponents appears.

"They might feel that G2's overall strength is not very good, so they want to take them to practice new things, but didn't expect KennyS and cousin's state to explode on map two." Xu Beifang thought of a possibility.

"Selfish, arrogant..." Michu hummed while eating.

In 2017, Astralis once took away a trophy from their hands, which became their regret.

You know, they successfully took map one at that time.

But map two and map three both ended at 16:14. NiKo's regret in Boston is hard to accept, and why aren't they?

They became the biggest losers in the true sense in that Major.

This is also why they all rushed over to cheer for their little brother this time.

They really wish Astralis would die.

"Don't know what Astralis is thinking, obviously Magic Man is such an excellent breakthrough, let him play backup." Pasha shook his head.

Neo turned to look at Xu Beifang, "Ultimately, it was influenced by this guy."

"Me?" Xu Beifang was a bit confused.

Neo nodded, "You might not be clear, but after you finished the Cologne match, other teams adjusted their tactics."

"Before, everyone was pursuing formulaic play, pursuing more stable performance, because before this Cologne, everyone thought that systematic play was the most outstanding."

"But you used personal ability to exert that level of influence in Cologne, which really changed everyone's concept. Personal ability is not worse than systematic tactics. I thought Astralis wouldn't move, but didn't expect them to change too."

Xu Beifang drank water, "Definitely, Astralis's learning ability is originally very strong. They won't be so stupid as to stick to the old ways."

"As time goes on, everyone's level will definitely increase. Once everyone understands how to play with a systematic approach, CSGO will enter an era of relying on big-name players. If we can develop a playstyle that focuses on individual ability now, it will definitely be useful, but it seems Astralis chose the wrong person."

In the Astralis team, Xu Beifang felt that Magisk and Device's personal ability could be developed.

Because these two guys are the kind of people whose playstyle is relatively flexible.

As for Magic Man... this guy is a bit too iron-headed and still belongs to the ranks of stupid gun men.

Magic Man consuming resources, the performance is too unstable.

Xu Beifang watched a few rounds and quickly gave the answer: "G2 is still not top enough, this map pool is ultimately a bit short."

"Please don't believe in G2's strength!" — Excerpt from "Believe in G2"

The viewers in the broadcast room felt that G2 really had a chance to dry Astralis, but Xu Beifang saw it clearly. G2 didn't have a few sets of explosive utility tactics on the map Vertigo.

And Astralis's explosive utility, counter-clear, and even small routines were very skilled.

After entering map three, they also started to twist the rope seriously, and the overall play was very rigorous.

Continuously defended for a few rounds, G2's originally hot morale was slowly worn away.

"KennyS, stand up!!" Michu didn't hide his support for G2 at all.

It's just a pity that on this map with low proficiency, KennyS is powerless.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see how big the gap is between the two sides on this map.

Even if G2's players' frontal state is good, their understanding of tactics and gun positions on this map is too much worse than Astralis.

However, the tactics Astralis showed on this map also made Xu Beifang fall into deep thought.

Astralis rarely releases this map in matches. They often leave the skyscraper to play map three, but the match often ends at 2-0, and the opponent's strength is not enough.

"Although I couldn't defeat Astralis, G2 at least tried out the things Astralis hid on the skyscraper. We also have to thank G2." Xu Beifang said with a smile, and then he reminded his teammates to watch this match in Vitality's battle group.

The skyscraper level shown by Astralis, they must attach importance to it.

After dinner, Xu Beifang returned to the hotel and entered the state of preparation again.

The things Astralis suddenly showed made them quickly unfold research.

It can be clearly seen that Astralis showed a lot of new things in this skyscraper, and various explosive utility ideas made them shine.

They need to familiarize themselves with these tactics in a short time, which is not a simple matter.

However, Xu Beifang directly started summoning the mother's family, pulled the old VP four-man group over as sparring partners, plus XTQZZZ to play, borrowing FaZe's training room, and the simulation training was successfully unfolded.

With the help of opponents to simulate tactics, Vitality's speed of training tactics became very fast.

During the time they worked hard to train, after fierce competition, the Major legend stage match officially ended, and finally only eight teams were left to advance to the champion stage.

They are:

Vitality with the only BOSS...

The Siren who wants to sing ez4ence again...

Australian Cowboys led by jks...

God and his four believers...

North America's last glory Liquid...

Danes trying to extend the dynasty...

Tarik and his black and white fat balls...

The born winner led by s1mple...

There are dark horses, but most of the teams are old acquaintances.

Thinking about it, it is normal. At the current stage, the level gap of CSGO is still quite obvious, and there is still a very obvious boundary between weak teams and strong teams.

Only VP is one of the dark horses.

And after the legend stage match ended, Vitality's training tasks were more, especially Xu Beifang.

He had to watch the recordings of these confrontations in the legend stage in addition to training every day.

As the core of the team, Xu Beifang had to familiarize himself with these opponents' moves in advance, so that when the opponent used them in the match, he still had some counter-means, not passively relying on on-the-spot decision-making to fight.

The heavy preparation work made Xu Beifang truly feel the intensity of the competition in the Major champion stage.

Teams that can enter the top eight, every team has a few things at the bottom of the box, which are very amazing.

Plus the discussion on the internet, the atmosphere had already been passed on to these professional players before the champion stage match started.

On the second day after the legend stage ended, the Vitality team rarely had time to be busy, came to the legend stage venue, and started communicating with the designer about the stickers of this Major.

Originally, this kind of sticker needed to be communicated after the Major challenger stage ended, and the members of the challenger stage and legend stage were designed together.

But this year, the vacation agency was crazy. After the challenger stage ended, it started designing the challenger stage capsule.

After the legend stage ended, it started designing the legend stage capsule.

So the Vitality crowd went to design stickers today.

When they arrived at the studio, they saw a group of Mouz already communicating with the designer.

"Ropz, why are you so stubborn? Isn't this design quite good?" From afar, Xu Beifang heard the designer complaining.

Ropz explained, "I just feel that this generally looks a bit wrong."

"Where is it wrong?" the designer asked back.

Ropz replied, "Can't say where it is wrong, just feel it doesn't look very pleasing to the eye. If it could be rounder, it would be better."

The designer adjusted slightly and drew a rough look on the iPad with a pen: "This style?"

"Too round..."

A familiar scene made Xu Beifang almost unable to hold it.

The designer heard the laughter and turned his head to look.

"Ouch!"

The familiar face made him feel a headache when he looked at it.

Here, Ropz hasn't solved it yet, and that heavyweight character has come again.

Xu Beifang didn't care about the designer, because Ropz was still communicating. His social terrorist attribute exerted power again, directly standing next to Karrigan and chatting: "How is the situation?"

Karrigan shrugged, "Ropz has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, always feels his signature is a bit lacking, waiting for ing..."

"However, we have nothing to do. We have already started enjoying the vacation these few days."

Karrigan's mindset is still very good. The main thing is that his goal for this Major is more to practice soldiers. This legend stage performance is quite good. Coldzera and Ropz are slowly on the right track.

So although there is some regret, they don't have much loss. After all, the goal has been completed.

Wanting to continue to move backward, they obviously couldn't complete it with their current state, so his attitude was very straightforward.

"What about you, are you ready for the next preparation?" Karrigan joked.

Xu Beifang smiled, "How can it be considered ready? Life is like this. It is impossible to wait for you to be ready for everything before doing things. You can only meet moves and dismantle moves."

Listening to this, Karrigan was silent for a long time, then nodded, "Yes, life cannot wait for you to be ready for everything, and sometimes you think you are ready for everything, but you will still be a move behind."

He thought of the painful memory of Boston again. At that time, they thought they were ready, but in the end, they still made wedding clothes for others.

"Looking at your state, I will put you in the champion after the champion stage homework." After adjusting his emotions, Karrigan also joked.

Shox hooked the corners of his mouth, "Then borrow your good words."

He chatted with Karrigan shallowly, and the chat between Ropz and the designer also came to an end.

Xu Beifang leaned forward to take a look, and saw many players' signatures this year from the designer's iPad.

For example, among the G2 players who almost defeated Astralis, KennyS's signature is very interesting.

Among them, Kenny is very small, and then that S is enlarged, and extended with the lower edge of y, combined into a huge crosshair. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is an AWP crosshair.

Then there is AdreN's signature, he designed the whole signature into the shape of a magic hat.

Art's signature is also straightforward, adding a Chinese character "God" after the English ID.

However, when seeing NiKo's signature, Xu Beifang was a bit speechless.

NiKo's signature is not much different from the previous one. The overall painting style is still like a curved tentacle, but at the last O, NiKo also whole a crosshair.

NiKo is still so fond of his broken fire stick.

It is worth mentioning that in the challenger stage, there is a team called GrayhoundGaming, and there is a player with the ID Dickstacy. Don't know if he is intentional or unintentional, he directly abbreviated the ID to Dick, which is really explosive.

Xu Beifang can imagine that after the Berlin Major ends, many players will stick a Big, and then stick a Dick.

Ropz finally ended there, and the designer breathed a long sigh of relief, relaxing.

But turning his head, he remembered there was a Xu Beifang, and he felt the pressure was full again.

"Nice, let's design your signature for Berlin this time first. What style do you want?" the designer said very uneasily.

For this signature, Xu Beifang had already thought about it in Katowice, so he said very straightforwardly, "It's similar to my Katowice signature style, but the Chinese characters below need to be changed. I will show you the general look."

Xu Beifang said while flipping through his phone. After the Katowice sticker was released, it caused a lot of discussion among domestic players.

There were also kind netizens who got "See all the Chang'an flowers in one day". Xu Beifang felt it was quite in line with his aesthetics at the time, so he saved it.

"Just like this, but these English letters of Nice, help me make the overall style sharper, that is, the kind of sharpness."

Listening to Xu Beifang's request, the experienced designer drew a rough look on the iPad in his hand.

"Change the dot on this i to a small flower, but if it is not suitable for the sharp style I want, you can delete it, and it is also okay to make the overall style softer." Xu Beifang was quite casual about this.

The whole conversation process was less than 10 minutes. Watching Xu Beifang's appearance of wanting to go back, the designer was a bit stunned: "Is this okay?"

He had already made up his mind to change more than ten versions, but this first version was done?

Are you really Nice? Not taken away by someone else?

"Otherwise? The requirements have been finished." Xu Beifang said in surprise.

"Don't change it again?"

"Since you said so, it seems there is really a place that can be more perfect."

Hearing this, the designer felt comfortable.

Sure enough, this is the familiar Nice!

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