Chapter 469: 24 Advance to the semi-finals!

"13:2, in the confrontation on Inferno, Team A was completely beaten by COL!" Wanjiqi shouted loudly, "Nice proved with his strength that even if the Inferno map is reset, he is still the most outstanding Banana Road player."

"In today's Banana Road confrontation, the snake-mouse were completely captured by him head-on!"

Wanjiqi specifically pointed out Xu Beifang's performance on Inferno.

The director's camera also gave to the left side of the stage—that was COL's player area, Xu Beifang took off his headphones with his left hand, leaned over to the right side and happily bumped fists with NIKO.

"Today, the world's number one brothers' firepower is maxed out. They never flinched on Banana Road, and Team A's players on Banana Road couldn't play against them at all." Wanjiqi subconsciously ignored the role of a certain 'Valorant player'.

His evaluation was still fair. Watching the 'world's number one' brothers bumping fists, the audience in the arena also cheered, offering rounds of applause for their outstanding performance in the town.

COL's fans released their emotions even more, one by one starting to cheer.

Astralis, as an old-school top-tier team, can even be said to be the 'national team' of Danish CS, and the number of fans they have around the world is still quite exaggerated.

But now Team A didn't receive much support, and the fans who still liked this team mostly missed the Team A of the past—expecting device to achieve good results.

But the snake-mouse brothers had that top-tier palace fight before, which directly made Team A's reputation a bit smelly now.

And COL's reputation was relatively good.

NIKO and Xu Beifang have a huge number of fans, and even this time the scalper tickets for IEM Chengdu were much higher because of Xu Beifang's appearance.

Those old fans who saw Xu Beifang return to the field all wanted to come offline to see Xu Beifang's performance.

As for the passerby fans, COL's passerby popularity is better than Team A's anyway.

So today's confrontation, COL really achieved home-field advantage.

Whenever they had an outstanding performance, the scene entered a carnival.

If Team A had an outstanding performance, they wouldn't be stingy with their praise either.

But the problem is that Team A's highlights in the town are few and far between.

At this time, the big screen at the scene gave the post-match data of Map 1.

COL:

Nice: 23/3/5 ADR: 166.6 Rating: 2.11

NIKO: 17/10/10 ADR: 133.9 Rating: 1.87

JKS: ……

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Once the data of Map 1 appeared, the audience in the live broadcast room immediately started discussing.

【Good guy, two fish-frying in this match】

【My NIKO fan tears, finally can win with a rating below 2.02!】

【Laugh to death, I remembered NIKO's legend scene again】

【Sure enough, this Banana Road still has to be Beifang, pleasing to the eye】

【The world's number one brothers' Banana Road is really fierce, smashing the snake-mouse brothers】

【Snake-mouse are too humorous, two people added up to only 9 kills】

【Where did these two star brothers of Team A come from, why are their guns so soft】

【Banana Road was beaten to the point of not daring to peek later】

【Sure enough, HLTV is a ditch-filled wild list, these two TOP20s are not as good as Danking's one root】

【Indeed, this Valorant streamer's cooperation is quite bright】

Seeming to feel the netizens' complaints, the director cut the camera to Team A's player area.

Unlike COL's happy atmosphere, Team A's side was incredibly oppressive, more like the atmosphere of a CIS team.

device no longer had his usual gentleness and calmness, his face slightly red due to bad mood.

Ye Bang Ge still couldn't see his expression as usual.

JKS's brother from another mother even hung disappointment on his face.

Only stavn and jabbi on the side dodged their eyes, not daring to have eye contact with their teammates.

This is actually normal.

Map 1 is said to be Team A's failure, it's better to say it's Banana Road's failure.

Their Banana Road was completely beaten by COL.

Yes, it was purely beaten!

Because device and Bro at Site A didn't even have much room to retake.

This Banana Road lost people too fast!

So fast that device didn't have time to arrange mid-term personnel adjustments, because often when information came from Site B, both brothers were dead.

Even if device gave resource tilt to a certain extent, it didn't work at all.

The two of them, one got 4 kills in the whole game, and one got 5 kills.

In this situation, they were already beaten to the point of being autistic.

And you have to know, although the kills are about the same, they still have a gap with others.

The three brothers at Site A didn't have a chance to face-to-face duel.

And the two of them were completely beaten in face-to-face duels.

Team A's few brothers didn't have many kills, actually they were influenced by them.

They have to take full responsibility for losing Map 1, so now they are trying their best to avoid communication with teammates, fearing that teammates will put pressure on them directly.

"COL took the first city, now the pressure is on Team A, they must gain an advantage on Map 2 Nuke, otherwise their playoff journey will end here."

Wanjiqi reminded the audience about the content of Map 2, and worried that others would say he was too neutral, adding: "However, Nuke is Team A's own map pick, they should be quite well prepared on this map."

In the camera, device, who was highly expected by him, seemed to have adjusted his state at this time, he even took the initiative to comfort his teammates: "COL played really outstandingly in the town, even if I go back to review, I will praise their performance."

Bro and Ye Bang Ge also subconsciously nodded, Bro didn't feel much.

But Ye Bang Ge had been to Banana Road a few times to help, and was in a state of being unable to start, the opposite 'double N combination' seemed to be competing from God's perspective, always knowing their thoughts and then countering.

Nice's Banana Road is indeed well-deserved, and now on the field, only ropz's A2 can compare.

device's face revealed a look of memory: "Nice and NIKO's state are both outstanding, but Nuke is our strong map, and both of them used to play outside, so there must be some conflicts in position."

"Nuke, this map, doesn't just rely on gunplay."

Nuke is one of the most famous tactical maps, gunplay is naturally important.

But on this map, communication, synchronization, default, tactics, every link is quite important.

"So as long as we can play the tactics we usually have, and communicate actively, Map 2 can still enter our rhythm."

"As long as we can win this Map 2, the next building." device paused, "You guys think about NIKO's Yellow Cloth."

The simple NIKO building joke made Team A's mentality much better.

Indeed, even a top-tier player like NIKO will make mistakes on maps he isn't proficient in.

They can naturally adjust back.

Seeing the changes in the teammates' expressions, device breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't have much time to transition to IGL, he still couldn't adapt to the change in responsibility, but seeing that his teammates seemed to have adjusted their mentality, he also had a glimmer of luxury for the upcoming Nuke.

But this Danish older IGL seemed to have forgotten.

COL's current paper lineup's gunplay is very fierce, but they are not just brainless gunners.

Nice, NIKO, Elige, these three firepower points are all players who are very good at this map.

Soon the match entered Nuke, because it was Team A's map pick, so COL started as the defensive side.

In the pistol round, Team A chose to speed up the iron plate at the second timing, and only JKS was defending the iron plate in this point.

But!

In the case of single defense, JKS showed the style of a fire man.

Team A's five people rushed to the face, JKS fought while running, when the terrorists jumped down from the iron plate, he took one, and when the opponent entered Site B, he took another one, and when the other side wanted to rush him from the hatch and control room, he took two more in an almost spinning form.

The whole arena cheered directly.

Although JKS was finally traded by Ye Bang Ge, he had already over-fulfilled the task.

Ye Bang Ge finally killed JKS, but for the pistol round, he was powerless.

The pistol round was finally won by COL.

Although Team A felt a bit of a pity, there was no way, after all, sometimes your opponent's feel is hot.

But they didn't expect that this pistol round almost became a microcosm of Map 2.

After Team A lost the pistol round, they chose to ECO directly to adjust the economy, although Ye Bang Ge caught a great timing and knocked out two with a Glock, no miracle appeared.

In the third round, the long gun round arrived early.

Team A chose to explode grenades outside and walk silently down K1, but NIKO was in K1 this round.

NIKO's K1 is quite meaningful.

He took an M4A1 and got a triple kill in one burst, Xu Beifang also caught a very good timing while mixing smoke outside, and took out the two people following outside.

In the first long gun round, COL got an ACE directly.

After losing the first long gun round, Team A chose to force buy Hero AK to try.

jabbi, holding Hero AK, successfully killed NIKO outside, but later outside was cleared by Xu Beifang directly, but Elige was caught by Ye Bang Ge at the Yellow Room, and he used TEC-9 to kill him, later he operated with M4A1, almost turning the game around.

Ye Bang Ge also seemed to find his feel in this round's operation.

Later, when Team A saved enough money to have long guns again, he helped Team A score twice with two triple kills, and Team A also got the rhythm of the match.

The score reached 6:3 unconsciously.

In the 10th round, with insufficient economy, COL chose ABGO—that is, pushing the terrorist hall directly from three angles: Yellow Room, Iron Plate, and Iron Door.

This is a very aggressive CT forward-push tactic, but it just happens to be suitable for use when the economy is not good.

Xu Beifang and JKS each killed two with fn57 in this round, cooperating with Ji Ge's one kill outside, successfully completing the comeback.

The rhythm was great later, Team A's members, except for Ye Bang Ge, seemed to have gone silent.

The final score of the first half was fixed at 9:3, COL had quite a lot of advantage in the score, but Team A could barely play after changing to the defensive side.

And in the second half's pistol round, relying on device and Bro's performance, they successfully won again.

But just when Team A thought the opportunity to catch up and turn the game around had come, COL forced bought Hero AK.

Xu Beifang, with the help of teammates pulling the gun line, used this Hero AK to hit three and a half, cooperating with teammates' trade kills, successfully completing the comeback.

Team A had just won the pistol round and hadn't accumulated economy, but was suddenly collapsed by this Hero AK, both economy and mentality were a bit explosive.

And the comeback of this round also brought a lot of chain reactions.

COL took advantage of the economic advantage and pushed the rhythm directly.

Xu Beifang also saw clearly that Team A's feel was not very good, so he arranged more tactics outside on the offensive end, relying on him and NIKO to lead the rhythm.

The second half's offense also proceeded smoothly according to his ideas, the score was quickly pushed to 12:4 by them, they took the match point first, and were only one round away from winning this game.

Seeing the opponent take the match point first, Team A seemed to wake up from a dream, and they successfully caught up a few rounds relying on Ye Bang Ge's performance.

However, the score gap in the early stage was too large, making them have no margin for error at all.

Finally, in a B-site melee-style clutch, Danking got the last kill.

The score was fixed at 13:7.

Map 2 was won by COL again, which also announced the end of this BO3.

COL won this quarter-final, took a step forward, and headed toward the semi-final stage.

And Team A's journey in this IEM Chengdu ended here.

COL's players stood up one by one to hug, celebrating the victory of this confrontation.

And Team A's players, although they also stood up to high-five, everyone could see that their movements were so powerless.

When coming to the post-match handshake, although device was a bit disappointed, he was not a person who couldn't afford to lose, and his iconic gentle smile appeared on his face again.

"You are more outstanding than me, you obviously play more clearly after transitioning to IGL."

Today's BO3, Team A was beaten quite miserably.

It's not an exaggeration to say it was a bloodbath, the two maps added together couldn't even get double digits, this is really a bit ugly.

Although more problems lie in the teammates' poor state, he feels that as an IGL, he didn't do well in strategy today, not as good as the old opponent in front of him.

Xu Beifang smiled and nudged NIKO on the side: "That guy helped me a lot in this."

device looked at Xu Beifang somewhat unexpectedly.

Xu Beifang's statement didn't make him look down on Xu Beifang's IGL ability, but rather felt that the guy in front of him was more rational.

"Daring to delegate power, this is not an easy thing." device's tone was a bit emotional, and a bit envious.

He envied Xu Beifang for finding trustworthy teammates again.

And what about the current Astralis?

Ignorant newcomers, star players who want to seize power, management with brain problems.

These made device feel very tired.

Xu Beifang vaguely felt that device was in a bad mood, but just patted his shoulder lightly.

Then he encouraged Ye Bang Ge, who looked like 39 but was actually only 19, a few words.

The young man who looked a bit anxious was obviously a bit happy when facing the encouragement of the old senior.

Then Xu Beifang saw Bro and JKS shaking hands with strange expressions.

This made the members of COL laugh.

After these were finished, Xu Beifang also symbolically shook hands with the snake-mouse brothers.

But he actually wanted to use an elbow strike.

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