Chapter 468: 23 Device backstabs Device!

The afternoon in Chengdu was incredibly sweltering, yet it could not dampen the enthusiasm of the CSGO players.

COL, with a half-home-field advantage, was scoring wildly thanks to their outstanding Banana Road offense and defense, but Astralis was not about to just surrender.

Xu Beifang watched as device defused the bomb at Site A; JKS had too little health left in the clutch and unfortunately lost.

But no one was sure if there was enough time, because device didn't have a Defuse Kit.

In this tense atmosphere, the arena was incredibly quiet, and the ticking of the C4 seemed to become their own heartbeats.

Yet, before the bomb exploded, that string of numbers finally appeared on the C4.

The middle of the screen also displayed the prompt for this round.

【MVP: device successfully defused the bomb】

【device defused the bomb with 0.001 seconds left before detonation】

The cheers at the scene stopped instantly. Everyone was surprised that device had actually managed to defuse this bomb, but soon they still offered rounds of applause for this thrilling play.

Although COL was playing at home, the domestic audience appreciated most teams; as long as they could put on an outstanding performance, the audience would not be stingy with their praise.

【He could defuse this?】

【Danish core technology, I suppose.】

【My Device has really become a legend; he has to kill four to win, what kind of nonsense is this!】

【Still my master Device.】

【Team A is really 'four dishes and one soup' today.】

【Killing 4 and still having to do a limit defuse, Device is really being tortured.】

【……】

Xu Beifang raised an eyebrow, also somewhat surprised by this result.

He turned his head to comfort his teammate: "It's a pity, but JKS, you tried your best; your health was just too low."

JKS smiled; the score advantage meant he didn't care too much: "But it would have been better if I had stalled a bit longer. I took the initiative to go out and fight at that time because I thought he didn't have enough time."

Hearing this, Xu Beifang immediately sat up straight and gave a thumbs up toward the opposite side of the stage.

"Boldness is the reward for the victor."

device indeed played this round beautifully; he really turned the tide at Site A.

However.

Just as JKS thought, the score advantage made this round less important.

Because they had played very smoothly in the early stages, device killing four and completing the defuse was just Team A getting their first point.

The score on the big screen was 7:1, and COL still had a 6-point lead.

To say something to comfort themselves, even if they didn't win a single round in the rest of the first half, they would still enter the second half with a lead.

So COL was playing quite relaxed now.

Watching device's brilliant performance, Wanjiqi felt refreshed all over.

He looked at the score overhead and began to stir the audience's attention: "The score has reached 7:1, Team A has finally gotten their first point."

"During the CSGO era, this score has seen too many miracles. Will Team A seize this opportunity?"

The audience at the scene listened to Wanjiqi's commentary and also brought more attention into the match.

As players who came to watch offline, they naturally hoped the match would be full of ups and downs and become more exciting.

Today, both sides were playing relatively simply and crudely; at least overall, there were no major tactical games, which fit their aesthetic very well.

The match continued.

Although they lost a point to Team A, COL's economy was still very good. Even after buying full armor and grenades, their average economy was still around 3000, enough for them to lose this point and still play another full-buy round.

The margin for error was maxed out.

On the other hand, Team A, although they won a round, couldn't save many weapons, and their economy was relatively poor, looking like they were getting poorer the more they played.

After Xu Beifang gave a thumbs up to the opposite side, he heard NIKO give the instructions for this round: "With this positioning, it will be troublesome to make a move at Site A, so let's focus on controlling Banana Road. Beifang's positioning isn't very good, so Danking, just the two of us will go control it."

"Beifang, you stay in the back and be ready to cooperate with us at any time, and then Ji Ge and JKS, you two take A2 as usual first."

NIKO gave the instructions, and after the countdown ended, the group moved quickly.

Knowing the opponent didn't have many grenades, NIKO and Danking played quite actively.

At the start, they threw a fire at the barrel to prevent a push, and then at the second timing, they threw a smoke to extinguish the fire in the middle, clearly telling the opponent that they were going to rush forward.

Xu Beifang was also helping to throw flashbangs from behind, assisting NIKO and Danking in taking the close points.

"NIKO and Danking have managed to take control of the close points on Banana Road. The two CTs in Site B don't have many grenades, so they didn't hold the close points hard, but this grenade from Ye Bang Ge is top-tier; it was thrown from the first box and exploded directly over the heads of the two."

"However, trading these health points for control of the close points is actually worth it," Wanjiqi analyzed.

Xu Beifang's position had been hanging behind NIKO and Danking the whole time. After they cleared the close points, he immediately added another flashbang, sending NIKO to clear the Yellow Wall.

"There's one in CT Spawn," Danking reported, his crosshair also locked onto CT Spawn.

Suddenly, CT Spawn threw a B-Tunnel smoke, wanting to stall for time to operate.

NIKO remembered the grenade over the head from the opponent earlier and the information Danking reported, feeling he had caught a great opportunity, and immediately shouted: "Beifang, do you have a flash? I'm going to touch through the smoke to catch the first box."

"No!" Xu Beifang responded urgently; he wanted to help the front, but both flashbangs were used up.

But NIKO couldn't stop either; sometimes the timing is fleeting, and one must seize the opportunity.

"NIKO ignores the smoke grenade and steps directly through the B-Tunnel smoke. Ye Bang Ge on the first box is still turning away from the flash, not knowing NIKO has already entered. NIKO happens to be pre-aiming the first box and takes Ye Bang Ge out directly!"

Seeing Ye Bang Ge killed, jabbi also knew that his peek was too small, causing him to miss the timing.

But his movements were fast; he immediately pulled out and pre-fired, taking NIKO out directly.

Hearing the sound of gunfire from CT Spawn, Danking immediately fired through the smoke at CT Spawn, but perhaps the angle was bad, and this burst didn't take out the CT in CT Spawn.

He immediately shrank back, switched to a grenade, and peeked again to throw it at CT Spawn.

But the moment the grenade left his hand, the bullets from CT Spawn kept hitting his body, taking him out directly.

"This damn timing!" Danking was so angry he wanted to smash the table.

But the next second, a kill notification unexpectedly appeared in the upper right corner.

【Danking used a grenade to kill jabbi】

He shouted excitedly: "Beifang, you can speed up! Both people at Site B are dead!"

The sudden situation instantly disrupted the battlefield's momentum.

device had been quite happy to see jabbi hold the pressure.

But seeing Danking's death grenade kill jabbi, he immediately called Bro away, returning to Site B with him to retake, leaving only stavn hanging on the shed to guard against sudden situations—after all, Site B was separated by B-Tunnel smoke, maybe COL wouldn't dare to rush through the smoke.

On the other side, Xu Beifang himself saw both sides trade 1-for-1, and his idea was to prepare to reinforce the middle and then launch a flying floor attack.

As a result, both sides at Site B traded, and if he turned back to speed up now, it would be a bit too late.

Elige and JKS were walking over, but Xu Beifang immediately stopped them: "Don't speed up B, play it steady, bet that they have no one at Site B and are retaking now. I'll add a coffin smoke and a CT Spawn smoke here, you guys cut off and see if anyone is retaking from the middle; if you get a kill, start the speed up immediately."

The two at Site A thought about it, and this was indeed a relatively safe choice.

Besides, it is currently a 3v3 clutch situation; taking it slow is actually an advantage for them.

Elige and JKS both stabilized and began to prepare to guard against CTs potentially pushing from the middle.

Xu Beifang threw a CT Spawn smoke directly, then picked up the smoke grenade Danking dropped and added a coffin smoke.

The moment he finished throwing this smoke, he heard the sound of someone jumping out from the long corridor.

"The opponent really retook, but don't rush on your side, my retake speed here is definitely faster than theirs, we have a local advantage." After saying that, Xu Beifang began to switch to his knife and walk back silently.

The more it gets to this point, the less you can be anxious.

At this time, if the opponent hears footsteps while retaking, Team A might be in trouble.

"COL didn't choose to speed up directly, but feinted at Site B, but their real purpose was to hit Site A at the second timing."

"Now there is only stavn hanging at Site A, COL's tactics seem to have succeeded!"

However, looking at the mini-map, device seemed to have realized something, letting Bro hang at CT Spawn, while he himself returned to near the spawn point, a position where he could support both sides at any time.

"However, stavn on this shed is a bit tricky, and because the terrorists feinted at Site B, it's not easy to throw a link smoke now, so they chose to do as the locals do and do a dry-peek CS!"

"Ji Ge and Beifang pulled out from the middle and the boiler room simultaneously, stavn caught two perfect backs, COL thought the opponent would leave one hanging at the link!"

"But what! stavn's spray transfer had a bit of a mistake, he sprayed everyone equally, and Beifang turned his head and one-tapped him!"

Wanjiqi couldn't believe stavn was a human on the shed.

These two big backs were given to him, a perfect opportunity was given to stavn.

But he sprayed both of them to low health, yet couldn't kill a single one.

This was too fatal.

In a CS match, outputting damage is important, but whether you can kill and reduce the opponent's numbers is even more important!

However, his favorite device was still experienced, and even without any movement in the middle, he had already retaken to the periphery of the bomb site, and was now directly holding an angle behind the first box.

"device's timing is very good, and he chose a two-way cover, the opponent has two low-health players, as long as he can take the two at A1, Team A still has a chance to win this point."

"A1 is coming, but device pre-fired A1 first, then shrank back to cover? Alas! Why did device jump up?"

stavn saw device take out the terrorist at A2, and immediately excitedly reported: "Two big low-health at A1."

In his view, device had a chance to take them all out directly.

But the next second, he heard device shout anxiously: "I'm lagging!"

stavn turned his head to look, device's screen flashed, and he already saw the opponent rush to his face and take him out.

stavn comforted himself, there was still Bro who could retake.

After all, the opponent had two low-health players, so a 1v2 was still possible.

But in a situation where the position is unknown, a 1v1 is very difficult, let alone a 1v2?

In the end, Bro still couldn't win this round.

The score reached 8:1.

The metaphysical score seems not to work in CS2.

The match entered a technical timeout, and the director directly gave the camera to device.

There were even staff members coming over to help adjust the 'equipment'.

But device's mentality had already collapsed a bit after this wave.

The previous round was won with difficulty, the team finally gathered a bit of morale, and this point also had a chance to win.

Even if he was traded by Elige or Nice, in a 1v1 clutch, Bro still had hope of winning.

Winning two clutches in a row, the team would have confidence, and there would be room for operation later.

But they lost because of this damn equipment.

Bad emotions piled up in his heart, and he made one of his very classic moves.

He raised his right hand and gave a heavy hammer directly to the monitor in front of him.

The monitor was almost knocked over by him, the staff member checking the equipment problem on the side was startled, and the scene gasped.

stavn and jabbi on the side lost this round, and their eyes toward device were very dissatisfied.

jabbi killed two at Site B, stavn dealt two big low-healths here.

They really performed well in this round, but because of the equipment problem, they lost this point.

They were very dissatisfied and inadvertently revealed 'backstabbing' eyes.

This scene was even given a close-up by the director, combined with what the snake-mouse brothers had done before, it instantly felt like a 'world-famous painting'.

And speaking of which, device is like cadian, main sniper, IGL, core, hyperthyroidism.

The elements were maxed out.

However, seeing device's punch almost knock the monitor off, they quickly restrained their eyes.

After all, there is no turning back once the 'palace' is opened.

……

After a few minutes of adjustment, the 'equipment' was finally adjusted.

In fact, it was highly likely a problem caused by CS2 optimization, but the lazy vacation agency didn't do the optimization well, and even the tournament group couldn't say anything.

No way, CS matches are like this, players just need to play, the vacation agency needs to consider more.

After adjusting the equipment, device's mentality seemed to have completely collapsed.

They were already trailing by a large score, Banana Road was beaten throughout, he was either retaking or saving guns every round, finally found two waves of feel when COL attacked Site A, but was ruined by this equipment.

He actually wanted to adjust back, but COL's frontal firepower was too fierce, and their guns became soft as they played.

There was only one round in the first half, which was scored by Ye Bang Ge's performance.

The results of the other rounds were relatively miserable.

The final score of the first half was fixed at 10:2.

This is an almost crushing score; if they couldn't win the pistol round in the second half, they would have no margin for error at all.

Then in the second half's pistol round, in a speed-up at Site B, Ye Bang Ge first killed NIKO, and then traded to kill Nice.

Although the snake-mouse brothers still died in Nice's hands, Nice was killed, so their psychological pressure was not that great.

And in the 3v3 clutch, they still had some hope in their hearts.

But after COL retook, JKS turned into an Australian big spinning top, almost killing everyone in a spinning way.

Listening to the excited cheers of the audience, only a helpless bitter smile remained on device's face.

The subsequent two rounds of the second half didn't have any surprises, COL easily pushed them flat in defense.

The score was fixed at 13:2.

In this COL map pick, Team A was beaten throughout!

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