Chapter 429: 100T: Played middle for two minutes and didn't know who they were

Vitality vs 100T

Map: Mirage

T: jkeam, Gratisfaction, jks, AZR, liazz

CT: apEX, ZywOo, shox, JackZ, Nice

The pistol round officially started.

After considering, apEX made a setup leaning towards A site: "JackZ, issue two dualies, then jump in the CT spawn to scout information. Beifang, you and Zywoo take the dualies and set up a crossfire above and below A2."

JackZ nodded. They had tried this setup in training, and the effect was quite good.

He threw out two dualies, and bought a flashbang with the remaining economy. If there were people at A1, he could open fire to support at any time.

Nowadays, in the defense's opening, they were using dualies more and more frequently.

Because of Xu Beifang's preference for this weapon, everyone in the circle knew how powerful dualies were.

It was just that before, the price of dualies was 400, which was still relatively expensive, so not many people chose them.

But a very small update before adjusted the price of dualies to 300, and the cost-performance ratio was pulled up.

Xu Beifang picked up the dualies issued by JackZ, and after the countdown ended, he went straight to the bottom of A2.

Watching the match screen appear on the screen in front of him, Huang Xu Dong also stopped analyzing with his temporary partner and started to lead the rhythm:

"Okay, the match has started. Welcome to watch the Intel Extreme Masters, IEM Beijing station semi-final Vitality vs 100T match. I am the commentator Huang Xu Dong."

"I am commentator Wanjiqi."

"I am CaptainMO."

The three made a simple opening and greeted everyone.

Huang Xu Dong glanced at the match UI and obtained a lot of information: "The terrorists have prepared two sets of props, so it is very likely that they will play an explosive bomb next. However, they are not in a hurry at the first time, but are doing defaults to prevent CT from pressing forward."

Wanjiqi took over the conversation: "Yes, but Vitality didn't press forward from the middle so boldly in this pistol round, and even played a gamble of letting go of the middle?"

"The dog hole isn't even open, and over here at A2, there are two dual-wielders holding a vertical angle; this play is really something."

Wanjiqi took a breath and carefully analyzed Vitality's configuration and positioning: "On the map Mirage, the defense of A site is generally based on the CT spawn as a fulcrum, because the bomb site and the bottom of the second floor are not easy to defend, and usp has no advantage in close-range fire with Glock, so most teams' positioning in the pistol round will lean towards B site, which is to exert the advantage of usp and fire at a long distance."

Huang Xu Dong nodded: "But they took out two dualies, so they are not afraid of 100T's close-range fire, and even this, in turn, they became the side with the close-range weapon advantage."

The dual Berettas weapon has many bullets, the close-range firing speed upper limit is very high, and the damage is also higher than Glock.

Even facing the flying building of A site's explosive bomb, they are completely fearless.

"They've also done some work over at B; apEX has been boosted directly into the 'old six' spot on top of the site box, while shox is standing in your favorite position." Ma Xixi watched Wanjiqi, who was winking and making faces, knowing full well that this spot is called the 'Wanjiqi spot' domestically.

Wanjiqi didn't take this conversation and continued: "These two positions can't cooperate. If the terrorists want to hit B, they can also trade some heads. Vitality's positioning in this pistol round is obviously carefully designed."

MO, who had been silent, brought himself into 100T's perspective and analyzed: "Actually, 100T still has a chance. If they push up from the archway in one wave, then Vitality's weapon advantage will not be exerted at all."

Now it depends on where 100T intends to launch the attack.

The opponent was slow to launch an attack, and always acting with stillness was not their habit.

Xu Beifang at the bottom of A2 asked: "What's the situation at A1?"

JackZ replied: "Haven't seen anyone."

The time had reached 50 seconds. If 100T wanted to launch an attack, it was estimated that they were already in preparation time.

Xu Beifang immediately suggested: "Zywoo, let's touch into A2 together, get some information first."

Zywoo nodded, and then started walking into A2 silently.

Even if he was worried about A1 leaking timing, he still waited for Xu Beifang to come up, have enough space to trade kills, and then took the initiative to peek inside A2.

"Da da da da da!"

The moment he pulled horizontally, Zywoo immediately saw a terrorist standing on the sofa on the right window sill.

Zywoo immediately started running and firing.

In close-range fire, a big advantage of dualies is that there are many bullets, and the accuracy of firing is very high.

So in the pistol round confrontation, you can use movement to trick the opponent's pre-aiming, and then aim.

Although there were many thoughts in Zywoo's mind, in fact, within the two seconds of meeting, he had already killed jks who was covering the rear in A2.

"A2 pressed forward, a pair of dualies!" JKS was stunned by this sudden press forward and immediately started reporting points in the voice.

They were clamping A from the archway, and now his fulcrum in A2 was dead. Once A2 was controlled by Vitality, even if they planted the bomb, there would be no gun position for them to defend.

So his teammates in the archway must speed up!

Zywoo successfully got the first kill, which also let them know that the opponent's attack intention was to hit A.

After all, at this time point of the pistol round, if the opponent wanted to hit B, they wouldn't leave people in A2.

Detouring takes too long.

At this time, Xu Beifang and Zywoo had some small differences in their thoughts.

Zywoo got a kill, and in his mind, he thought about stabilizing first, going to the bomb site to help JackZ provide support and enhance frontal firepower.

And Xu Beifang thought about getting more information, directly pushing out from the top of A2, and clearing A1.

Two figures crossed in A2, but Zywoo found that the archway in the distance had already rushed up. He was slowed down by the hit, holding dualies and firing wildly, but only wounded the opponent.

"JKS was killed by dualies, but the archway side directly surged up. Zywoo wanted to retreat to the bomb site but was caught and directly killed."

"JackZ wanted to come over to help but was also killed by Harry Potter with a P250! Only Beifang is left at A site!" Huang Xu Dong's tone was quite worried.

Exclamations arose in the venue because of these sudden kills.

"Hando and shox are rotating back quickly, and a smoke has already been dropped on B-Small. They intend to give up the archway site; as long as they can hold the archway and jungle in the second timing, 100T has a high chance of winning this round."

Wanjiqi's words were a bit pessimistic, because he saw clearly that Vitality didn't have smoke grenades and defuse kits in this round.

That meant there wasn't much room for operation in the clutch, plus the dog hole wasn't opened. As long as the opponent planted the bomb and stood in a good position, and the archway and jungle positions were stood, then for CT, it was just easy to play!

But immediately after, his tone changed, because he noticed a detail: "Beifang seems to be very mysterious in A2, he seems to have never appeared!"

"Has he realized this?"

"This might be the only possibility of turning the tables in this round!"

The moment Zywoo was killed, because of the distance problem, Xu Beifang didn't follow up to trade kills.

He also realized that this might be a rare opportunity.

Because Zywoo's first wave of gunplay was very fierce, he didn't have a chance to trade kills at all, so it was very likely that his position was still unknown in 100T's eyes.

Coupled with Zywoo, who had killed people in A2, being killed, now in the opponent's field of vision, the position of A2 might be safe.

So, the opportunity was in his hands.

Xu Beifang was waiting for the opportunity at the exit of A2.

"Beep~"

Hearing the bomb planting sound, he rushed out with big steps.

The moment he rushed out, he saw a Terrorist on the jump platform holding an angle on CT spawn, another Terrorist moving toward jungle, and the bomb-planter planting the bomb.

However, the jump platform terrorist's body control was not done well, perhaps he also felt that A2 was temporarily safe and didn't care about this side.

This gave him an opportunity.

Xu Beifang didn't care about the bomb planter planting the bomb and the jungle one, first solving the easiest one to solve.

He instantly pulled the crosshair to the forehead of the jump platform terrorist, and then quickly single-clicked.

"Da! Da! Da!"

【Nice+ZywOo used dual Berettas headshot to kill Liazz】

The moment he killed the jump platform terrorist, Xu Beifang aimed the muzzle at the bomb planter. The bomb planter also realized his existence and immediately turned his head, wanting to forcibly plant the bomb, but Xu Beifang didn't pursue headshots anymore, he directly opened his ultimate move—Baptism of the Holy Gun!

Du du du du du du~!

"Beifang seized the opportunity to rush out, no one noticed there was still someone in A2, Beifang's dualies started outputting!"

"Killed one!" Wanjiqi's tone started to get higher, "The bomb planter was directly covered by his firepower, Little Mustache turned his head in the jungle wanting to trade kills, but he didn't beat him either!!"

"This guy started a machine gun in the pistol round!"

The excited cheers in the venue rushed in from outside the headphones, feeling the enthusiasm of the audience, and then looking at the kill information of Xu Beifang brushing the screen in the upper right corner.

AZR pursed his lips.

Originally a 4-on-3 clutch, it suddenly became 3-on-1, and the bomb hadn't been planted yet, which was a bit difficult to handle.

He guarded against B small, but B small didn't leave anyone, he could only turn to actively look for the dualies in A2, after all, there wasn't much time left for him to operate.

He adjusted his pre-aiming and looked at A2, and suddenly heard the sound of dualies in the short box, and he immediately pulled the muzzle over.

But in his peripheral vision, another person swayed out from the ropz position.

"Pa!"

【shox used usp headshot to kill AZR】

"Good cooperation!" shox stretched out his fist towards Xu Beifang.

apEX praised: "Beifang played well, otherwise I feel this pistol round would be gone."

Xu Beifang and shox touched in the air, and then said: "Mainly because the opponent moved too fast, the timing was a bit off. If Zywoo retreated to the bomb site, and there was a flashbang on the front to fight back, there would be no pressure, otherwise it wouldn't be so thrilling."

Zywoo smiled: "It's okay, it's good to win."

Being caught timing is something that can't be helped. Delicate operations can reduce the number of times being caught timing, but it will always happen.

Entering the second round, Xu Beifang analyzed: "The opponent shouldn't have money this point, I'm going to the middle to brush some economy."

His economy was relatively good. If he could get a few kills with MP9 this point, then he could directly throw a big sniper to Zywoo in the long gun round.

This round was also as he expected, the terrorists directly chose to run naked with Glock, and came in a wave in the middle using runboost and dry pulling.

However, the opponent's timing was very good, just when Zywoo was swaying, they missed the timing, leading to the overall formation unfolding.

shox at B site hurried over from B small to help, and finally wiped out the middle.

But when the middle battle ended, a group of them were stunned, because they saw the countdown on their heads become the appearance of C4.

"They're holding everything in mid, but mid is just a feint. The Terrorists' real goal is to use the movement in mid to help bait, and jkaem has dropped directly into B site to steal the bomb—the details!" Ma Xixi's eyes lit up as he watched.

This economy round 100T could be said to have played quite beautifully.

The terrorists didn't plant the bomb in the pistol round, originally even if this point was running naked, the economy for the long gun round wouldn't be enough.

But relying on Jkaem's small strategy of mobilization, they successfully planted the bomb, then the terrorist's long gun round was fully equipped.

This economy round terrorist's task was completed!

Third round.

The match entered the first long gun round. Vitality considered it and didn't change their weapons.

After all, no long guns were killed in the second round, and the economy in hand was also good. If they didn't win, they could continue to change later.

Then, they miscalculated.

apEX originally thought that after being fully equipped, 100T would slowly control the map and exert the role of those props.

But this 100T directly played a speed-up B site.

Because there were many short guns, Vitality's defensive focus in this point was more on A1 and A2, and only shox was defending at B site.

shox forced a one-for-one trade with his FAMAS, and the rest of the team had no way to continue the retake.

They tried to find angles to break the guns, but 100T retreated from the B2 floor direction.

Huang Xu Dong commented: "We all know that 100T's style is like this, they will come to you with a rough move."

"Like flying to the second floor, three people pulling A2, a wave of explosive B, they like to play this kind of one-wave speed attack."

Wanjiqi nodded: "This point is mainly because Vitality's defensive focus was wrong, next it depends on how they adjust."

With C4 exploding at B site, the score reached 2:1.

shox exhaled, and then opened his mouth to Xu Beifang: "Beifang, why don't you let me play with MP9, you guys still have to operate with big guns."

Xu Beifang looked at his position and shook his head: "I'll throw you an M4, I feel 100T's next attack focus might still be at B site, I'll use MP9 to jump to the sewer to play later."

Submachine guns always have advantages in close-range fire. As long as he trades one in the sewer, it's a steady profit.

In the current Vitality team, Xu Beifang would provide playstyles based on his position and thoughts, and others would cooperate with him.

If the position was not good, apEX would give a rough idea.

So this point, Vitality's idea was to release Xu Beifang, let him play in the sewer by himself, and others followed the default.

Mainly because Xu Beifang was in the sewer, it was not easy for others to cooperate with him.

After the countdown ended, Xu Beifang jumped into the sewer with smooth movement.

At the same time, Zywoo, who drilled into the dog hole, considered it and threw a fire into the VIP.

He wanted to release a signal to the terrorists—CT threw a VIP fire, wanting to drag down their middle promotion speed.

That way, the terrorists might not attach so much importance to the sewer position.

Xu Beifang arrived at the sewer all the way. He didn't rush to peek at the upper layer of the sewer, but stood at the corner and swayed, and was ready to turn his back to the flashbang at any time.

Because most professional players' default map control is quite formulaic.

Formulaic map control of the sewer, the first wave must be following the flashbang.

And he used an MP9. If he took the initiative to fight this kind of medium-range fire, he would also die quite miserably.

But immediately after, he realized something was wrong, because footsteps came from overhead.

Xu Beifang shouted in the voice: "No, brothers, hurry to B! The opponent is going to speed up B again!"

shox heard this and immediately threw an explosive bomb towards B2 floor. Sure enough, the next second he was completely blinded by a flashbang.

Xu Beifang reminded him in time, and he immediately threw a smoke grenade, then drilled into the smoke grenade to protect himself.

Xu Beifang didn't idle in the sewer either. After getting the opponent's information, he immediately moved and rushed up with big steps.

AZR, who was throwing props at the very back of the team, didn't expect anyone to come to the sewer at this time point and was directly ridden and shot by Xu Beifang.

MP9 swept and killed AZR, and Xu Beifang immediately sucked up the AK from the ground.

It was just that the terrorists had strong discipline. They knew that they had to gain an advantage in the front, otherwise all attacks would fall short!

"Vitality's retake speed is quite fast; they're immediately throwing flashes onto the site. shox just needs to stall for time, but JKS realized something and sprayed shox down through the smoke!"

"However, Zywoo seized the opportunity and jumped out from the supermarket window, catching Gratisfaction at the B-Small archway with his FAMAS! Harry Potter, who was outside the site trying to trade, was also held and killed by Zywoo with two headshots!"

"apEX was killed by Jkeam in the sofa, but Zywoo also handled him after getting the information. Now only JKS is left in the second floor bomb position facing this 1V3 clutch."

100T fans were incomparably painful watching this clutch on the internet.

Vitality's coordination was too fast. After Xu Beifang obtained the information, he stalled for enough time on the B-site front to let Zywoo arrive and start performing. A local 4-on-1 situation was forcefully wiped out by the opponent's retake.

Now only JKS was left, and Vitality surrounded him from three angles: supermarket, B2 floor, and B small.

They couldn't see any logical loopholes in this clutch from the God's perspective, they could only look forward to Vitality making mistakes.

But Vitality played too cautiously in the front, dripping water without leaking, not giving any chance at all.

In the end, JKS made a positioning error and was also held and killed by Zywoo.

The audience at the scene gave applause for Zywoo's wonderful four kills.

"Zywoo's gunplay is as stable as his weight." Huang Xu Dong praised, "This wave of Beifang jumping into the sewer is too critical, he directly took all the information of the terrorists, allowing the front to make a response, although shox was mixed to death, Zywoo still made up for it with gunplay."

The Vitality members bumped fists. Everyone played this round without any issues, whether it was Xu Beifang's handling after getting the information, shox's stalling in B site, the timely strikes from Zywoo and apEX, or the subsequent encirclement by Jack's retake route—everyone handled it quite well.

After winning this round, they also directly changed from bird guns to cannons, supplementing three AK47s.

And on the opposite side of the stage, 100T was quite painful.

Jkaem asked AZR: "What's the situation behind you, why did you suddenly die?"

AZR looked innocent: "I don't understand either, you all watched the sewer, but that guy Nice rushed to my face when I was throwing props."

JKS shrugged: "Your opening instruction let us play speed up, so I didn't delay time to clear the sewer."

He had only held the sewer angle in the early stages.

This really couldn't blame the teammates, but Jkaem felt it was a bit difficult to handle.

Because he chose this map today, he specifically watched a lot of Vitality's recordings before the match. These few waves of constant explosive bombs towards B site were intended to deliberately avoid Xu Beifang's middle control.

After all, Xu Beifang's middle map control was a bit too crazy, he didn't want to clash with this kind of unstable factor.

But now Xu Beifang's adjustment speed was very fast, and he immediately started controlling the sewer, which was quite difficult to handle.

If they wanted to continue to speed up B, the sewer came too fast, their B site speed up would become back-and-forth, quite troublesome.

After considering for a while, he said: "Next, let's control the middle first, don't let Nice press forward so comfortably."

Nice was originally the kind of player who ran wildly on the map. If he really let him run in various places, it would be really troublesome.

"The key point is here, brothers, it depends on how 100T operates this point." Huang Xu Dong said, "If this point is lost, then Vitality will pull the score apart."

One win and one loss led to 100T's losing streak bonus not being very good, but thanks to winning 4 long guns in the previous long gun round, the economy was still okay now.

"Vitality also changed from bird guns to cannons this point, three AK47s, Zywoo got a big sniper, if shox also has an AK, then it's a world-class full match."

"Beifang is still in the first position this point." Looking at Xu Beifang drilling into the VIP, Wanjiqi speculated, "Are you going to continue jumping into the sewer this point?"

"No, Beifang directly jumped to B small with skillful movement!"

Wanjiqi's eyes lit up. B small at the opening is a safe position for terrorists. Xu Beifang jumped to this position with movement, which might be a heavy hammer at this time point.

Xu Beifang jumped to B small, looking at the opponent giving a middle crossing smoke, he immediately opened his mouth: "Zywoo, I'm ready to hide in the smoke."

Zywoo jumped down immediately as well. He had originally intended to hold with a sniper rifle at the archway, but upon hearing Xu Beifang say that, he immediately threw an incendiary grenade behind the sandbags.

Then he took out the smoke to extinguish the fire thrown by the opponent, found a rough reference in the smoke, "This flash needs you to turn your head back, throw it!"

"Boom~"

The sound of extinguishing the fire in the archway attracted the attention of several people at the terrorist entrance, but immediately after, a flashbang exploded.

Xu Beifang drilled out of the smoke grenade and saw two terrorists covering their eyes, as well as footsteps coming from behind.

He couldn't care about the ones behind for now, Xu Beifang immediately swept and transferred fire towards the two crying boys at the terrorist entrance with AK47.

"Da da da!"

【Nice+ZywOo flashbang used AK47 headshot to kill Jkeam】

【Nice+ZywOo flashbang used AK47 to kill AZR】

After two kills, Xu Beifang instantly turned his head and swept towards the sandbag direction.

But the 180-degree turn was a bit too hasty, not to mention the opponent fired and swept first.

【Liazz used AK47 to kill Nice】

"The middle was strongly pressed to find an opportunity, a wonderful cooperation between the twin stars, Beifang directly killed two and a half!"

"Zywoo also stepped outside the archway smoke, Harry Potter didn't know it at all, and was directly killed by the big sniper!"

Looking at the kill information constantly passing by in the upper right corner, JKS, who was doing defaults in the sewer, pulled his face.

This 1 minute 30 seconds into the opening, they entered a 2-on-4 clutch, and the bomb fell in the middle, how to play this?

They successfully seized the initiative at the start, but Vitality wasn't in a rush to go and guard the bomb, remaining in place to hold their angles steadily.

The last two members of 100T each looked for opportunities, but were held and killed one by one.

The score reached 4:1.

Sixth round, 100T, whose economy had problems, could only force buy. This point, relying on Jkeam and JKS's performance, they got three kills, but finally failed to complete the turnaround.

Seventh round, 100T successfully entered the economy round. This time they didn't even kill any of Vitality's weapons and were scored again by Vitality.

After finally saving money to enter the long gun round, 100T went up and started to move roughly directly in the middle.

It's just that, moving roughly in an area that doesn't belong to them, the play is also unaccustomed.

In the sewer, apEX and Xu Beifang performed a double boost, using a single M4A1 to pick off three 100T members, forcing them once again into a difficult-to-manage clutch situation right from the start.

100T finally realized that the situation was not good and took the initiative to call a tactical timeout.

Really no way.

Nice's middle play made them feel painful. At first, they thought about playing games with him in the middle, but after a few rounds of confrontation, they were all beaten by Xu Beifang until they didn't know who they were.

Xu Beifang's pressure in the middle of Mirage was too strong, they entered the middle in the early stage, and really felt that people would pop up everywhere.

Completely unable to fight.

At this time, if you don't call a timeout, you will really be gone.

They called two tactical timeouts in a row to discuss, and then after the timeout, they performed a half-buy Desert Eagle operation.

In desperation, JKS finally broke out. At a key time point, he used a Desert Eagle to get three kills within 10 seconds, helping the team reverse the situation.

Perhaps JKS's highlight this round stimulated morale, or perhaps they had already figured it out, they directly gave up the middle and started to attack wildly on both sides.

Attacking from both sides was not smooth sailing, but compared to the crazy loss of people in the early stage in the middle, it was already a good thing for 100T.

Finally, the first half ended, with the score fixed at 10:5.

The first half played a gap of 5 rounds, but for 100T, this was already an acceptable ending.

After all, Mirage is a small CT map, coupled with Xu Beifang's performance in the middle being indeed monstrous, they could get 5 rounds under the opponent's performance, which was already considered okay.

In this way, switching to the second half, if they could take the pistol round, there would still be room for operation.

... ===== CHAPTER 430 =====