Chapter 376: The confidence of the bald coach

Vitality's players had long planned their signatures, so they didn't spend too much time in the specific design stage.

However, they were still quite busy today. After the signature design ended, XTQZZZ communicated with the official shooting staff of the event, preparing to finish shooting the Major champion stage promotional video.

However, when they really entered the shooting stage, the shooting staff had a headache.

Because the painting style of Vitality's players is not in one category.

"Nice player, your expression should be restrained a bit. Your smile is too much like the villain boss in the movie."

"And Zywoo player, you can be fiercer!"

"ApEX player, be a bit more serious. We are not shooting a comedy."

According to the concept of the event group, the promotional video was specifically arranged outside the Mercedes-Benz Arena.

The overall promotional video is actually quite simple, that is, each player poses for a close-up, and then the whole team takes a group photo pose.

Because it wasn't that the Huya betting had any bug, but Ma Xixi's hand slipped, so this wave had to be responsible by themselves.

This time he didn't turn into a Soul Palace Elder, just crossed his hands on his chest and smiled faintly, but his eyes and actions were full of confidence.

It's just that Ma Xixi was also very funny later, directly shouting at friends in the circle to borrow money.

As for Shox and JackZ, it was purely handsome, no need to say more, directly raising the appearance value of the entire promotional video.

The promotional video director also nodded and gave a suggestion: "Everyone should restrain their style a bit."

Next, it attracted the director's repeated praise: "Nice! This is the style we want!"

Because the confrontation in this legend stage was too outrageous, many viewers hadn't determined the betting victory until the last match.

Shushu is cute~

Because Xu Beifang was too big, the feeling of appearing in the lens was different.

It's just that the state of each person in Vitality is very different.

Netizens were already impatient. The discussion and review of the legend stage matches in the forum were still there.

This led to the fact that when playing machine commented on the match, the barrage in the live broadcast room had evolved into a white-yellow war.

There are still two days before the champion stage match starts, and they still have two days of rest.

And NaVi and G2, these two teams, most people also chose one of them.

Directly came a wave of crowdfunding to pay back the money.

Finally, coach XTQZZZ couldn't watch it anymore and said, "It's almost enough to make trouble. After shooting, we still have to train when we go back."

Ma Xixi's hand slip directly settled 1 billion beans wrong, which is equivalent to 100,000 cash.

Next is Zywoo. Under the director's suggestion, he started to become fiercer, frowned, but in the eyes of Xu Beifang and others, there was no attack power at all.

NaVi took one point, and the barrage in the live broadcast room was "Little Yellow, come on, white, die for grandpa!"

G2 advanced, and another part of the people's betting could also be successful.

Plus his exaggerated muscles, supporting the white team uniform high, the feeling of the two arms was that the sleeves were about to be burst.

G2 took one point, and the live broadcast room became: "Little White, rush, rush, come for two more points!"

It is equivalent to him wrapping both sides of the bet alone. This wave of betting win or loss is considered his.

He clearly signed a contract with Huya, and he also understood these things about Huya betting.

Then apEX became a comedian, Zywoo had a harmless face, don't know if it was the promotional video of the zoo.

Fortunately, Ma Xixi was also responsible. Knowing that this wave was his own problem, he took full responsibility and settled the beans of the viewers later.

Which good person's laugh will make a "Jie Jie Jie" laugh!

Is there any normal person in Vitality!

NaVi's team logo is yellow, G2's team logo is white.

The promotional video director's idea is that the styles shown by the players should be as unified as possible, so that everyone can see the team's idea in the promotional video.

Next, it was a live broadcast clip of playing machine, which also caused a lot of discussion in the domestic forum.

Sitting in the car back to the hotel, Xu Beifang had no sleepiness, took out his phone and brushed the forum to pass the time.

However, the one who brought up the program effect this wave was not playing machine, but the barrage in playing machine's live broadcast room at that time.

At that time, it was the last match of the Major legend stage, the confrontation between NaVi and G2. Both teams had reached the 2-2 group. The winner of the BO3 match advanced, and the loser was eliminated.

As for Xu Beifang here, it was even more outrageous.

The Vitality crowd also came over to take a look at the finished film.

Under the coach's stern authority, Xu Beifang and the others reined themselves in a little.

Xu Beifang also brushed the matter of Ma Xixi settling the beans wrong when betting in the live broadcast.

Xu Beifang certainly understood that CSBOY definitely wouldn't have 10 deposits. This wave was more to make program effects. Can only say Ma Xixi is a live broadcast genius second only to Tie Dan.

First to appear is apEX. As an IGL, when he was close-up, he directly made a Kamehameha move toward the lens, can only say it is very in line with the person of the fun-maker outside the match.

After shooting ended, the Vitality crowd left satisfied.

This led to the fact that NaVi advanced, and a part of people's betting could successfully advance.

JackZ and Shox were okay. Both had faces of male model level, no matter what action they did, they were handsome and unified.

He could clearly feel the mood of the netizens at that time from the barrage. Looking down all the way, it was too interesting.

However, thinking that his legend stage bet also sent, Xu Beifang was not so happy.

Sure enough, gold is more valuable than diamonds!

Only hope that the champion stage bet is smooth, otherwise it is silver looking better than gold.

After driving back to the hotel, Xu Beifang started to review the match.

This morning, the Berlin Major event group officially announced the subsequent schedule.

Vitality was divided into the upper half, and the teams in the upper half also included NaVi, VP, and Cowboys.

After returning to the hotel to review the training match yesterday, the Vitality crowd focused their eyes on NaVi.

NaVi's performance in the legend stage was quite struggling, and it wasn't until the last round that they successfully advanced.

But this king of the CIS has always had the problem of slow heating, and Vitality will not have any contempt for them.

After the champion stage match, every BO3 is a single-elimination system, which is also quite cruel. A carelessness might lead to leaving, and they won't make this kind of low-level mistake.

Prepared for this Major for so long, spent so much time, if they lose the match because of their arrogance and arrogance in the end, it would be too painful.

The RNG next door showed them the consequences of underestimating the enemy last year. Xu Beifang still can't forget that contrast.

Xu Beifang has always been teased by netizens as a villain big BOSS, but he doesn't want to be like the villain in an esports novel who draws the protagonist team and makes a demented laugh.

Even if NaVi advanced very reluctantly, Vitality's coaching staff still crushed NaVi's match recording and told the players, not letting go of any opportunity to gain an advantage.

To tell the truth,

For the first half of the year, the former aiming maniac Edward was basically a consistent liability for NAVI.

Boombl4 joined their team, and although as a rookie, he initially played in a utility role, he couldn't unleash his true potential.

But even so, Boombl4 could still provide decent firepower in direct confrontations.

In the game of CSGO, from the ladder to professional matches, one can feel the importance of the team.

If Boombl4 can provide the team with more powerful firepower, then electronic and S1mple will face less pressure in direct confrontations, allowing them to perform brilliantly with more ease.

Therefore, in a good team, the players achieve success through each other.

"shox, pay attention here. Although electronic's positioning is rigid, he has a habit: when his teammates rotate to cover other areas and he is holding A alone, he will look for other positions to hold angles. This is different from his usual playstyle, so you need to be careful..."

XTQZZZ reminded them: "In the Legends Stage, S1mple's performance wasn't actually as exaggerated as imagined; instead, it was electronic who was firing on all cylinders. In the Legends Stage, his average rating was 1.29, second only to Beifang."

NAVI has always been a team that relies primarily on individual ability, so without exposing too many tactics, they were focusing more on the fine details.

NAVI is actually similar to them; both are dual-core teams. It's just that NAVI pursues details in individual ability more, which is one of the reasons their offense is very constipated. Vitality pursues teammate coordination and synchronization more, without obsessing over the details of individual ability.

"electronic playing like this is mainly because he trusts S1mple," Xu Beifang gave his perspective from his own angle. "He just tries to output as much damage as possible; if he can trade one more person, S1mple's pressure will be smaller."

Xu Beifang felt that this was actually a point they could exploit.

In the entire NAVI team, only S1mple has sufficient map freedom; he can constantly run between the A and B sites on the map.

Therefore, in matches, they often see S1mple fire a shot with his sniper rifle at A, and immediately run to B to pick people off.

Xu Beifang, however, knew that this was S1mple's last resort.

If he could, S1mple would actually love to just hold an angle at one spot and win the game easily.

But if he doesn't work hard to steal kills with the sniper rifle, NAVI's player trades are very hard to sustain.

Xu Beifang was wondering if he could exploit this playstyle of S1mple's.

So, after the team review ended, he watched NAVI's demos alone for a long time, and combined with the data provided by the analyst swani, he really found quite a few ways to solve the puzzle.

In situations where he had a sniper rifle.

Perhaps because he was very anxious to get the opening kill for the team, his frequency of running around the map was too high.

In situations where information was unclear, he wouldn't hold a position for too long.

But when S1mple was on a rifle, this guy was quite aggressive. His approach to playing with a rifle was extremely similar to Xu Beifang's.

He would actively look for teammates to coordinate with, and even if he lost some health early on, he wouldn't give up his position, but instead do the opposite, looking to catch a big play.

It's just that sometimes, due to operational errors, it would turn into a big mess.

Although electronic was the one in the best form for NAVI this time, Xu Beifang understood that S1mple was the true core; he was the one truly driving the tempo.

If they could lock down S1mple, as long as the "Flame Emperor" didn't revive, NAVI's performance would be very desperate.

With his thoughts gradually becoming clear in his mind, Xu Beifang understood that he already had a way to solve the puzzle for the upcoming quarter-finals.

Time spent preparing actively always passes quickly, and before he knew it, it was September 5th, the day the Champions Stage began.

Because of the pressure brought by the Champions Stage, the entire Vitality team was highly tense from top to bottom, and it wasn't until the match was about to start that they finally relaxed a little.

They were playing in the opening match tonight, but since the preparations were mostly done, there wasn't too much pressure to speak of.

After finishing his basic training in the morning, Xu Beifang leaned back on the sofa in the training room and started taking out his phone to browse the forums.

After a few days of fermentation, the domestic CSGO forums were already filled with pre-match discussions about the quarter-finals.

CSGO is a community game to begin with; netizens who like watching matches do so because they like CSGO and spontaneously come to watch.

This year, as Xu Beifang made a name for himself in CSGO, he brought a lot of traffic to the game domestically, and more and more ordinary players are turning into esports fans.

Moreover, many people who don't have time to play CSGO after starting work rely on watching matches to get their fix.

This led to a huge number of posts discussing the matches on the forums.

【Vitality vs NAVI, Astralis vs Liquid; both the upper and lower brackets have a match that's going to be intense!】

【Then Vitality is done for; once Astralis eats the Liquid "tonic pill," their form will directly explode.】

【The Liquid "tonic pill," whoever eats it knows.】

【What if they get a backlash from the tonic pill? Then it'll be the third round of Vitality vs Liquid. You really can't say that; Beifang explodes whenever he plays Liquid in the finals. In Sydney, he got three five-kills in a single match against Liquid, and in Cologne, his stats against Liquid didn't look human.】

【Don't talk about that; in the upper bracket, it's the "Prisoner" duel. Who can truly break out of prison, S1mple or Nice!】

【Forget the "Prisoner" duel; how many times has NAVI been captured by Vitality?】

【NAVI has already lost to Vitality four times in a row; today's wave is very likely the fifth capture of NAVI.】

【NAVI still has the possibility of standing up and counter-killing Vitality; their current lineup has plenty of explosive power.】

Xu Beifang browsed a few posts and found that most viewers still believed they would meet Astralis in the finals.

This was actually quite normal.

After all, Vitality qualified for the Legends Stage as the group leader.

In terms of results, their performance in the Legends Stage was the best; in terms of individual ability, although electronic's average rating in the Legends Stage was 1.29, Xu Beifang's average rating was a terrifying 1.69, a gap-leading figure.

In terms of team results and individual form, they were the leading side, so the audience would definitely lean towards Vitality.

It's just that the two of them, S1mple and electronic, being on the NAVI team made the match somewhat unpredictable.

The strong-versus-strong confrontation in the B-bracket had some talk.

Astralis and Liquid could be considered old rivals; they had played many matches against each other.

In past confrontations, Astralis would sometimes be confused at the beginning of the schedule, but once they beat Liquid once, it was like they had taken gunpowder; they would be unstoppable.

So netizens also jokingly referred to Liquid as Astralis's "tonic pill"—it works as soon as they eat it.

But the effect of this tonic pill is mutual.

Liquid's rise at the beginning of the year was also because they crushed Astralis once, and their form became unstoppable.

Many Liquid fans also hoped they could defeat Astralis on this stage and then sweep through to finally lift the championship trophy.

However, the main voices were still concentrated on Vitality and Astralis; everyone generally believed they were the teams to win the championship.

Most of the Vitality team also thought so.

But XTQZZZ was even more confident in them.

He believed that Astralis's current playstyle had already entered a bottleneck period.

This is understandable; after all, Astralis had dominated the competitive scene for over a year, and this systematic playstyle had pretty much been studied through.

In the last two months, Astralis being "exploded" on repeatedly already proved that their set of tactics was no longer as stable as before.

And now, Vitality, after absorbing Astralis's systematic playstyle, had transformed into a brand-new system based primarily on individual ability.

Astralis provided an excellent framework, and they had taken a big step forward from that framework.

Coupled with the version update before the Major and the appearance of the M4A1, it compensated for the instability of the team members' gunplay.

In CSGO, a highly competitive game, an FPS game in top-tier professional confrontations even has some MOBA flavor.

Both sides need to exchange resources, control the amount of resources in their hands, invest resources in map control, and emphasize the game of details.

Their team also had a top-tier entry fragger like Xu Beifang, who was leading the opponents by a gap in direct confrontations.

Facing him in a direct confrontation, the two sides would just make slight contact, and he would be able to get the opening kill, which caused the direct confrontation between the two sides to be completely unbalanced.

Just the exchange of resources was already outrageous enough, and Vitality was also able to get the opening kill as a norm, with 5-on-4 situations at the start of rounds not being rare—this was XTQZZZ's confidence!

And even if the opponent played in an extremely steady posture, the map control Xu Beifang gained in the early stages could also have an exaggerated effect.

Coupled with having a top-tier sniper like Zywoo on the team, he felt that as long as they maintained this state, they would be able to enter the finals smoothly and lift the trophy!

Listening to this analysis from XTQZZZ before the match made everyone on Vitality feel hot-blooded.

JackZ was even shouting excitedly in the training room, wishing he could rush into the Astralis training room right now and give them a few slaps.

But Xu Beifang knew that if they wanted to rush into the finals smoothly as XTQZZZ said, and then easily lift the trophy.

The prerequisite was that they had to rush into the finals first!

Seeing that the effect had been achieved, XTQZZZ nodded with satisfaction, and then they drove to the match venue.

Everything was ready; the next step was to see the real results in the match!