Chapter 441: No apologies, didn't let Nice-sama use his full strength

"These two rounds were won too smoothly; you guys played a bit too carelessly!" gla1ve looked at his teammates, his face a bit angry. "Even if it's the opponent's force buy round, our default in the early stage must still be done. We are not Vitality's playstyle; don't think about simply using gunplay to solve them. If that's the case, we will really go far."

The gunplay of these five people in Astralis is not bad. In the TOP selection of 2019, all five of them broke into the TOP20 sequence.

Even at the professional level, their gunplay is still not bad.

But this "not bad" also depends on who it is against.

Against truly same-level opponents, when they face Vitality, that gunplay is just worse than Vitality's.

This point is inevitable.

gla1ve knows clearly in his heart that the gunplay level of Nice and Zywoo is T0 level in the whole world, and they can only be considered T1.

So if it's just purely trading kills and dueling, then it really enters Vitality's rhythm.

device nodded: "This wave was indeed my problem. I was a bit taken for granted in the first wave."

If the early anti-rush was done well, it would be very difficult for Vitality to speed up and rush in.

But this first wave, his idea was to use a sniper rifle to hold people. He did hold a few, but it also gave Nice and Zywoo room to operate.

This wave was indeed undeserved. In this level of confrontation, if they want to win, they have to rely on gla1ve's mobilization and utility exchange to delay time, looking for some opportunities for them.

device's feedback was quick, and gla1ve's mood also improved a bit. He pressed TAB and roughly calculated the opponent's economy.

"We still have one full buy round, and the opponent is definitely full armor and full utility. This point cannot be lost, otherwise, the first half will have a meaning of going far."

"Let me think, we will still focus on default, but we can find a point to actively push forward."

Although the difficulty of coming from behind to win 3-2 is very great, gla1ve ultimately wants to try.

He doesn't want the dynasty he built with his own hands to collapse in his own hands.

The tactical timeout ended, and both sides entered the seventh round.

According to the thinking apEX explained before, they chose a fast map control mode this point.

But the A-slope position is not so easy to control quickly, especially at the start, the CT directly threw an A-slope smoke and a smoke under the yellow cloth.

These two smoke grenades directly lost Vitality all the vision of the A-slope and A-small.

Xu Beifang also considered playing hide-smoke counter-clear with teammates, but Jack and apEX had tried this move in a previous full buy round, and Astralis was holding the smoke with a flashbang in advance, so after discussion, they didn't carry out any too outrageous actions under the A-slope.

Xu Beifang did give a special "Nice smoke," wanting to play a one-way, but Astralis didn't give that chance.

They had no choice but to wait for the opponent's first wave of smoke to extinguish before coming to push.

Xu Beifang led the main force to push forward cautiously, and they calmly guarded against the possible second-wave counter-clearance from Astralis.

It's just that Astralis didn't carry out counter-clearance at the second time.

Only A-small supplemented a yellow cloth smoke, which slowed down their pushing speed.

Xu Beifang asked, "How about this wave?"

Both sides were still in the default probing link, but according to apEX's previous thinking, they could directly start explosive grenade speed-pushing.

apEX thought about it, "Don't wait for the A-small smoke to disperse, hold A-small, and then we directly start hitting on the front side. shox, you don't need to linger there anymore, directly reinforce toward A."

shox had been hanging in mid this point. After the default was done, he didn't see the opponent's mid-pressure figure, so he decisively chose to rush toward the A site from the elevator room.

"Sandbag fire is burned, confirming no one is in the sandbag, Vitality directly starts front-side explosive grenades!"

"Bomb site plant smoke, A connector smoke, sniper position and A-small corner fire, this is a textbook explosive grenade."

But Wanjiqi's praise was first raised and then suppressed, "Their explosive grenades have no particularly big problems, but Astralis relied on device's big sniper coordinating with dupreeh to take all the information under the B-slope at the second time. Everyone except dupreeh is on the A site this wave!"

"Astralis's reinforcement is already in place. Can this wave of explosive grenades really succeed?"

The team's front-side explosive grenades had already unfolded. Xu Beifang used an AK47 to hold A-small, preventing the opponent from suddenly rushing out from the A-small smoke and grabbing all his teammates' flanks.

And the others had already rushed out from the front side.

"Astralis has been reinforced in advance, but they didn't carry out counter-clearance this wave, because they are waiting for Vitality to enter the bomb site!"

"Zywoo brought the bomb to the default bomb position to plant, apEX was holding the gun beside, but suddenly two HE grenades flew to their faces, apEX and Zywoo directly took off!"

"Jack judged the trajectory of the HE grenades and immediately mixed back toward the A connector direction. However, gla1ve's Danish bloodline had already started, and he directly mixed Jack to death from the smoke!"

Xu Beifang was holding and holding, and suddenly saw the upper right corner frantically brushing the screen.

He was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Astralis might have prepared the utility long ago, just waiting for them to enter the bomb site to start throwing HE grenades.

They had tried this playstyle in the pistol round before, so they quickly judged it.

"Holy crap, B-slope is pressed, this timing master!!"

Misfortunes never come singly. The voice of shox's helplessness soon came from the voice channel.

At this moment, everything was understood.

They were preparing to hit a wave of fast explosive grenades on the A site this wave, and the control of the B-slope was not enough. It might be because of one or two timing problems, leading to the information being taken.

Astralis's counter-action came too fast... Xu Beifang frowned tightly.

Now the teammates have died one after another, and only he is left to be forced to face this 1v5 clutch.

If there was no one on the back road, he estimated he would directly take the AK and run.

But the problem is.

dupreeh cut off his back road.

He is now in a state of being surrounded by Astralis, with no escape route to speak of.

At this moment, he is isolated and helpless.

But, the teammates also helped him capture the opponent's information.

The audience in the venue gave applause for Astralis's bold attack this point.

But there are still many audiences looking forward to Xu Beifang, because that ID is called Nice, and he has created too many, too many miracles.

"Only Beifang is left on the slope. He can't save the gun in this position. How many can he trade?" Wanjiqi felt that it was highly likely that he would trade one or two before being taken down by the subsequent trade.

In fact, Astralis's overall formation was also moving forward. They also confirmed Xu Beifang's position, and they were actively moving forward to clear Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang didn't know Astralis's idea, he was just quietly holding the A-small yellow cloth, because the yellow cloth smoke was dissipating.

The moment the smoke grenade dissipated was the best timing for the opponent to act.

He was quietly holding the gun, but suddenly heard footsteps coming from the A bomb site direction behind him.

His attention was highly concentrated at this moment, and the moment he heard the footsteps, he immediately performed a 180-degree turn.

A CT peeked out from the A platform. Magisk didn't expect at all that Xu Beifang would be holding him at this timing.

"Da da!"

The precise headshot line allowed Xu Beifang to easily kill Magisk with only a two-shot burst.

After the bullet headshot Magisk, he didn't relax, but immediately turned his head again, holding the crosshair back to A-small.

This time he didn't hear footsteps. This was purely a judgment of game experience.

The opponent stepped out from the A platform, only one footstep, and didn't follow up with a trade at the first time, which highly likely meant the trade was behind.

xyp9x intended to synchronize with Magisk this wave. They locked Xu Beifang's position. This wave, the two synchronized out, and Xu Beifang would always expose a back to them.

But he didn't expect Magisk to die so quickly.

And when he peeked out, he only saw a terrorist already holding his position!

"Bang!"

【Nice used AK47 to headshot kill Magisk】

【Nice used AK47 to headshot kill xyp9x】

The audience in the venue exclaimed endlessly. Everyone gave Xu Beifang the cheers that this operation deserved. They almost watched Xu Beifang spin up.

While holding A-small, he instantly turned his head to kill Magisk, and then performed a 180-degree turn to pull back, killing Jiuye who wanted to trade the kill as well.

These two kills were even in an instant.

After Xu Beifang took down xyp9x, a flashbang exploded behind him.

At this moment, he also understood that Astralis was purely a bit anxious this wave. Magisk came out faster than the flashbang.

The front side had already taken down two people, but there should still be gla1ve and device.

As for device, he was a sniper rifle.

Xu Beifang's thoughts were clear. He walked to the right and arrived at the slope, then adjusted his pre-aim, made a preparatory action, and directly peeked to the right.

"Bang!"

device was holding the slope directly with a sniper rifle at the headshot position, and suddenly saw Xu Beifang walk up suddenly, and then with a "bang," he was already gone.

device's painful mask came out directly, but he also knew the importance, and immediately shouted: "He is on the slope!"

"Beifang instantly killed Magisk and xyp9x, and then used a big pull to tear device's big sniper apart. Up to now, he hasn't lost even a single drop of blood. He only needs to face a 1V2 clutch now!"

Wanjiqi didn't expect the plot to develop like this. Xu Beifang continuously headshot and took down three people in a very short time, which was quite outrageous.

Could it be that Xu Beifang really has a possibility of creating a miracle this point?

The audience at the scene obviously realized this problem, because Xu Beifang's HP is still quite healthy now, and the difficulty of a 1v2 clutch is not too great for him.

And many people know that this guy Xu Beifang is really the kind who plays more and more hi as he plays offline. The stronger the opponent, the fiercer this guy plays.

And before, in the Berlin Major, he once played an amazing 1v5 comeback feat. That kind of wonderful picture has already appeared as a map graffiti and has been printed at the entrance of the Inferno terrorist home.

That is to say, it is not impossible for Xu Beifang to create a miracle on this stage!

After this thought appeared, the audience started to look forward to it, all staring at the screen with wide eyes, looking forward to Xu Beifang's subsequent operations.

Vitality's members clenched their fists tightly. Xu Beifang's sudden wave of fast kills directly made them nervous too.

Only Zywoo calmly reminded Xu Beifang: "dupreeh is on your back road, gla1ve is at the bomb site."

"Even if dupreeh circled back after killing, he can't reach the bomb site now."

Xu Beifang didn't speak, but adjusted his pre-aim again and peeked at the bomb site.

And gla1ve was just holding the over-point behind the bomb site box.

Both sides briefly carried out a wave of dueling, but gla1ve seemed to be a bit scared. He hid behind the cover the first time he saw Xu Beifang and didn't dare to come out to duel with Xu Beifang.

gla1ve hid behind cover, and Xu Beifang didn't rush to face gla1ve for a duel.

He had to confirm one thing to make the clutch thinking clearer.

He retreated to the A-slope, then quickly peeked to the left, with all his attention on the A-slope sandbag wall side, because if dupreeh chose to push forward from the back road, then his route would roughly be pushing forward against the wall, avoiding being peeked and detected by Xu Beifang in the middle of the road.

Pushing forward against the wall is the most rational way to push.

Xu Beifang's prediction was correct, so both sides quickly started exchanging fire.

"Da da da!"

【Nice used AK47 to kill dupreeh】

After a wave of dueling, Xu Beifang, who actively peeked, won the victory of the duel.

"dupreeh, who circled back, was also caught by him. The clutch became 1v1, but the bomb is still at the bomb site, but Beifang knows gla1ve is at the bomb site! This wave is already on the table!" Ma Xixi said excitedly.

"Beifang charges toward the bomb site with big steps, picks up a smoke grenade, and directly throws it toward the bomb site direction. gla1ve changes position and arrives in the sniper room. Is he fake-defusing to trick you out?"

"Beifang fake-defuses to trick you out, but gla1ve didn't come out, he is still quietly holding the gun behind the smoke."

Wanjiqi also quickly took over the conversation: "gla1ve still has an incendiary grenade in his hand, but he doesn't dare to use it, worried about exposing his position."

"Beifang defuses for the second time, this time it's directly real!"

"He planted a bomb that can be seen from A-small and the slope, and then Beifang retreated all the way to behind the Sandbags. Beifang's health isn't high, so he needs a headshot kill. He needs this headshot!"

"gla1ve is still wandering on the edge of the smoke grenade. His judgment was wrong. He threw an A-Link fire, and then actively pushed through the smoke. He thought Xu Beifang had mixed into the smoke and entered A-Link!"

Xu Beifang's smoke grenade was not thrown randomly. He intentionally let gla1ve misjudge.

gla1ve, as a commander, has strong consciousness, but the price of commanding is that it is easy to think too much.

He needed gla1ve to think about many things, so that his clutch would have room to operate.

Xu Beifang waited quietly behind the sandbag for the timing. The C4 ticked at the bomb site, but it knocked on the heart of every audience at the scene.

The next second, the bomb-defusing sound rang out at the bomb site.

Xu Beifang didn't wait for a few seconds and directly pulled to the right.

His pre-aim had already been done, just waiting for gla1ve to defuse.

gla1ve didn't stand at the position he predicted to defuse, but the problem was not big.

He just needed to do what he was best at, and make some small corrections to the crosshair.

"—Bang!"

【Nice used AK47 to headshot kill gla1ve】

"Beifang, he needs a headshot kill, and he successfully hit a headshot kill!!" Wanjiqi cheered excitedly on the commentary desk, "Is this guy really invincible?"

"To be honest, this clutch, he had absolutely no back, and all the duels on the front side, Astralis just couldn't beat him!!"

"You know he wants to find you to duel, but you just can't beat him!!"

Ma Xixi also cheered on the side: "This 1v5 was successfully done by him!! This is 1v5, brothers! This is definitely a famous scene! The most important thing is that the bomb wasn't on him, but he forcibly killed the opponent one by one!"

"This man's individual ability is really a bit excessive!"

And the man in Ma Xixi's mouth, after taking the last headshot kill, directly took off his headphones and stood up, his face calm, opening his arms, as if he was waiting for something.

The next second, the cheers, shouts, support, and cheering sounds at the scene struck like a storm, and the whole venue was like a suddenly erupting volcano.

That man was already enjoying this match!

The members of Vitality, after Xu Beifang took this round, also had expressions of being stunned.

XTQZZZ even looked at Xu Beifang in disbelief, covering his face with his hands in a very girlish way.

Seeing this scene in the official IEM live broadcast room, the audience laughed, because it was too bald.

Under such circumstances, apEX just transformed into an atmosphere group, cheering together with the audience at the scene.

He didn't stand up to mock the opponent, because the scene was the moment for Xu Beifang to enjoy the stage.

And, in the case of 1v5, all mockery is virtual.

1v5 is already the biggest mockery.

"Nice!! Nice!!"

"Nice!! Nice!!"

The excited cheers of the audience at the scene had ignored the noise-canceling earmuffs, and those shouts rushed into their ears.

They looked at Xu Beifang, who opened his arms on the opposite side, as if embracing this stage, and felt powerless in their hearts.

Vitality's force buy in the previous round, their failure was because they were disrupted in rhythm by this guy.

This point, relying on gla1ve's early layout, they gained a great advantage, and even played a 5v1 clutch.

But this damn Nice forcibly tore them all apart with individual ability.

The clutch itself puts great psychological pressure on the players, not to mention this kind of 5v1 clutch that looks like a sure win.

Until now, they still couldn't accept that the clutch would be lost.

Zonic also didn't understand, so he called several timeouts in a row, wanting to adjust the mentality of the players.

But the audience at the scene was cheering crazily, and the emotions couldn't come down.

Coupled with being turned around by such consecutive waves, the economy was not good, and the morale was also quite low.

After the timeout, they were almost unilaterally slaughtered.

Everyone could see that Astralis's gunplay was deformed, and it wasn't until the last two rounds of the first half that they relied on gla1ve's four-kill and three-kill.

The final score was fixed at 11:4.

As the defensive side, Astralis only got a mere 4 rounds, which is obviously not a passing score.

But this is actually quite normal, because Astralis's playstyle is actually most afraid of that kind of top-level gunner team.

CSGO's ultimate core is gunplay after all. Utility, positioning, technique, tactics, everything is to better let gunplay play out.

Astralis's tactical playstyle is quite good, but if they can't play effective numerical exchanges on the front side, it's quite torturous.

And after consecutive mistakes, they often doubt whether their decision-making has problems, forming a vicious circle.

So many people say that Vitality's system restrains Astralis, which is actually no problem.

Now Astralis only got 4 rounds in the first half. Whether there is a chance to fight back in the second half depends on the win or loss of the pistol round.

Second half pistol round.

Astralis chose a wave of speed-up A-slope.

At the start, device used a P250 to take down Xu Beifang and apEX who peeked out from the A-slope.

Astralis immediately unfolded the speed-up.

However, the most inconspicuous Jack started to perform.

He performed wildly with a USP on A-small, directly playing a four-kill, and coordinated with the reinforcing Zywoo and shox, even cutting a five-kill.

By this point, Astralis's heart was almost dead.

After this pistol round ended, Magisk shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Vitality pushed all the way, and the score quickly reached 15:4.

Watching the match enter the match point, Xu Beifang sighed and said, "I feel this final is a bit boring, Astralis is a bit self-abandoning."

They had a few key nodes of performance, which beat Astralis out of confidence. Now the offense is a mess.

He even felt a bit unfinished.

apEX heard this and hurriedly said, "Don't, don't, don't, brother, it's not over yet."

"Brothers, we are still one round away, and we are the Grand Slam. This point should be stable, don't give the opponent too many chances!"

"Stable, stable." Jack also echoed.

Zywoo giggled, "It's a pity that the opponent didn't let Beifang use his full strength."

shox thought about it, "I remember the opponent has no money this point, right?"

Xu Beifang smiled, "Match point, my good brother, the opponent will force buy every round next, they definitely have long guns, so be careful."

shox chuckled, "Take this point, our second half of the year will be perfectly ended."

Everyone said it in a jumble, and then quickly entered the confrontation of the round.

Because they knew Astralis's economy was not good this point, they directly used utility to bully people. Although their gunplay was very good, they didn't just have gunplay.

Relying on the advantage of firearms and utility, they successfully took control of the A-slope.

Xu Beifang and Zywoo used utility to send apEX to the position against the wall under the yellow cloth, and then Zywoo's big sniper helped hold the gun, and Xu Beifang directly slipped to the B site.

In the second timing, apEX's position was pre-fired by xyp9x and killed, but Zywoo quickly traded the kill successfully.

Zywoo also discovered that there was only this one person operating under the A-slope, and immediately reminded the main force on the B site.

"Zywoo is hanging alone on the B site, and others are gathering in mid and the B site. Beifang and shox are both inside the B site. shox is scouting at the front point, Beifang is counter-holding the jump platform at the electric box."

"shox shakes his body to observe, and sees a bunch of people on the opponent's side at once! He still wants to delay and call teammates for help, but the opponent locks his position. Fortunately, shox forcibly traded one."

"Beifang is standing on the bomb site box. This is a relatively dangerous position. He wants to use the height difference to play the first wave."

"Astralis gives a flash, Beifang instantly lowers his head to dodge the flash, and then turns around to spray. Magisk and dupreeh are all taken down, and device is also beaten to one HP. Beifang's mission has been completed!"

"Jack's HE grenade also came over, just exploding under device's feet. It's hard for us to imagine the despair in device's heart at this moment!"

With the explosion of the HE grenade, device fell down with a boom.

The match screen froze, and the score stopped at 16:4.

gla1ve took off his headphones and looked a bit lost at the audience in the venue who were cheering for their opponents.

He suddenly realized.

Their era has really become a thing of the past.

... ===== CHAPTER 442 =====