Chapter 476: 31COL's Vertigo doesn't need to be watched

From the second half of the Inferno match, one could feel the gap in the state of the two sides from COL's extremely rational playstyle in the pistol round.

After swapping to the offensive side, COL's state obviously improved, while G2 was somewhat withered.

This thought was soon verified in the gun round; Xu Beifang's "full-insurance semi-trailer" easily smashed G2 to pieces on Banana.

At that moment, the audience at the scene still erupted in quite a few cheers.

Honestly, many players have played outstanding scenes at the Banana position, but only this guy Nice has such explosive power. Xu Beifang's brilliant operations also made them offer cheers from the heart time and time again.

For G2, the only good news was that they didn't have much margin for error, so they didn't have to listen to the audience cheering for COL all the time.

When the score was locked at 13:4, COL successfully took Inferno and secured one map in this BO3 confrontation.

Xu Beifang took off his headset and celebrated with his teammates. He even actively comforted Danking: "Tie Dan, look, although you don't have as many female fans as m0nesy, these cheers are much louder."

Danking silently became NIKO-shaped and rolled his eyes directly: "Is it too late for me to quit the team now?"

However, what made him even more uncomfortable was that he looked over and saw many audience members in the venue holding support items.

There were audience members wearing Xu Beifang's Vitality-era jersey, and also audience members wearing NIKO's FaZe-era jersey.

Even more so, some were holding up standees of Xu Beifang and NIKO.

Among them, the number of Xu Beifang's female fans wasn't large, but there were some.

But he scanned over, and there were quite a few holding his own support items.

But he just didn't see any female fans. Well, he did see one wearing Xiaoqiqiu's Lao K.

Seeing Danking's autistic expression, the others smiled faintly.

Coach Xiaoxiao chose the right time to brush up his presence. He clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention: "Map 1 was played quite well, everyone's performance was commendable, it's just that Elige and JKS, you need to be a little more careful. There was an ANTI-ECO round where you shouldn't have entered A2."

"At that time, we thought the opponents were on an economy round..." JKS explained his thoughts at the time, and then added, "But it was indeed our lack of consideration."

Coach Xiaoxiao's words weren't heavy, allowing them to explain their thoughts.

"It's not a big problem, just pay attention to it later." Coach Xiaoxiao didn't dwell on this, "But for the next map, everyone must be 120% focused."

"Before the match, I actually discussed with Nice whether to let Vertigo through."

When he mentioned Vertigo, his eyes looked at NIKO and Danking: "Actually, I personally didn't want to let this map through. You all know that our performance on Vertigo last time was very poor."

NIKO and Danking fell into silence.

That time on Vertigo was indeed very frustrating for them, but now neither of them had the ability to refute it.

NIKO wasn't adapted to the map Vertigo, and Danking's sniper rifle also found it hard to play a big role on this map.

Even after a series of adjustments by Xu Beifang, their confidence in this map wasn't very high.

But Coach Xiaoxiao didn't say this to disrupt their mindset: "But your captain believes that we are destined to become the team that the world looks up to. He thinks this is just a small problem."

Everyone couldn't help but look at the captain. In their gaze, Xu Beifang just smiled faintly, admitting that this was his intention.

His gaze swept across the room, making eye contact with his teammates one by one.

"Maps shouldn't become a factor that binds us. We are currently a 5-map team, but we are destined to move toward being the strongest, becoming a 6-map team, and even a 7-map team."

He looked at NIKO and Danking: "NIKO playing this map poorly is actually more because he doesn't like playing it. NIKO's attitude toward this map is like how he doesn't like playing Valorant."

"But I understand, you are one of the most outstanding professional players in the world. There is basically nothing you want to do that you can't do, and this is just a map."

NIKO didn't speak, but he admitted that what Xu Beifang said was the truth.

Except in training matches, otherwise, if he encountered the map Vertigo, he would basically ban it. He didn't want to play this map with a structure that was too simple.

But after chatting with Xu Beifang before, and also because of some influence brought by donk, his practice on the map Vertigo became very frequent.

Under the circumstance of actively engaging with it, his performance on this map became a bit better, at least he had quite a few new methods.

"Danking, you don't have to worry either. You're just uncomfortable dealing with that kind of systematic team. At least when facing G2, you won't be eaten so dead." Xu Beifang stated the facts as he saw them to provide confidence to his teammates.

"This is also the reason why I actively chose Vertigo. This hurdle is one we need to overcome eventually..."

"Now that we've taken Map 1, everyone, let's work hard, strive to take the opponents down in one go, and then we can enter the finals!"

Hearing Xu Beifang's words, all the players except him were stunned for a moment.

Because at this moment, they realized that COL had unknowingly become one of the few remaining teams in this IEM Chengdu station.

They only needed to take one more map, and they could stand on the stage of the finals tomorrow to compete for that championship trophy.

Although this wasn't a Major, nor was it Katowice or Cologne.

But for this group of people, the significance was somewhat special.

This was the first official major tournament for the new COL lineup.

For Elige, JKS, Danking, and even NIKO, they hadn't entered the stage of a major tournament final for a long time.

Let alone missing by a hair, even the qualification to become the biggest loser in esports was something they hadn't obtained for a long time.

Except for their captain, this group of people could be said to be the most famous losers in CSGO.

Except for that period in Liquid in 2019, Elige's results at other times were extremely poor.

Although JKS had a few honors as a firefighter, he hadn't achieved any success in a team. Even when he was in G2, he clearly performed well, but in the end, he got the result of being benched.

NIKO was even more famous as a "Grand Runner-up" player; he had received so many runner-up trophies that his hands were soft.

Danking's results were even worse than this group of people; he didn't even have a single honor he could show off until now.

So the term "champion" appearing instantly gave them a somewhat unreal feeling.

You have to know that COL is still in the gelling period now.

Just one match away, and they could rush into the finals?

Although it felt a bit unreal, their eyes also became firm.

Even Xu Beifang himself began to look forward to it.

Finals, that scene was something he hadn't experienced for a long time.

COL was enjoying the scenery ahead, while G2's pressure was relatively greater.

The Inferno match, which was supposed to be a sure win, was easily smashed by COL, which affected their mindset.

Fortunately, the halftime break was quite long, giving them time to adjust back.

dupreeh saw that the team's atmosphere was low and was still comforting his teammates: "It's not that we didn't play well in Map 1; naturally, there were places where we made mistakes, but it was more because the opponents played too damn well on the map Inferno!"

In professional CS competition, you have to believe in your own level and have confidence in yourself.

But when it comes to top-tier confrontations, you also need to admit that the opponent's performance is indeed outstanding.

This point was indeed indisputable, and the mindset of dupreeh and others improved a bit.

Their Inferno had actually been played very well recently, losing only one out of 11 matches, which is evident.

But they had been in such excellent form on Inferno recently, only to be beaten up by COL, so there was nothing more to say.

In the match, they also truly felt that Nice was a top-tier specialist on this map.

At the Banana position, there were too many things Nice could do.

He wasn't unrestrictable; G2 did indeed use utility to restrict him in several rounds, and even exchanged numbers with him in the early stages.

But if they couldn't trade him, it would become very troublesome later.

You invested a lot of resources in the early stages, so even if Nice was at the bomb site, he could still play a big role.

This was the most annoying point.

So dupreeh said the opponents played very well, and they didn't refute it.

After all, the post-match stats could also be seen.

That guy Nice's stats didn't look exaggerated, only 22/10.

But they knew that Nice had made too many critical kills!

Not to mention that guy was also an IGL!

Simply perverted!

dupreeh made a small joke to liven up the atmosphere: "Understand, after all, he's the guy who overturned the dynasty I was once in. That guy is a monster."

"You have to know, donk has always lived in his shadow."

Hearing this, hunter and others also seemed to be persuaded.

Nice had had less contact in the past two years, but donk had appeared in the public eye too frequently recently.

A guy who broke the cognition of CS2 players with his own strength.

But even such a powerful player was still living in Nice's shadow.

donk's countless outstanding performances were still only barely approaching the records set by Nice.

So their mindset was still considered okay.

After all, a 22/10 performance for Nice wasn't even firing on all cylinders yet.

dupreeh also liked this old guy dupreeh more and more.

Although he was older, he was experienced and very slick in the match.

But under the circumstance of being experienced, he could still do many things.

Outside the match, he was even a fun-loving person who could liven up the atmosphere for the team.

Although he was a bit worse than NIKO in firepower, he was also quite good.

Only G2's star player, and now the team's core, m0nesy, still had some unwillingness in his eyes.

As a genius teenager who appeared in the public eye at the age of 14, m0nesy had high talent, and this kind of youthful vigor naturally became a part of his personality.

Nice's overly aggressive performance in Map 1 made him somewhat unable to adapt, and he was indeed convinced.

But being convinced didn't mean he had admitted defeat.

Although Map 1 was lost, there was still Vertigo to play next.

He still wanted to find his way back on Vertigo and let his former idol see his ability.

Although the team wasn't particularly good at this map, as one of the most outstanding players of the new generation, m0nesy was quite good at all maps.

dupreeh was comforting his teammates: "We aren't particularly good at the map Vertigo, but we also know the situation of the confrontation a few days ago. COL could even lose to VP on Vertigo, so those who know, know. We still have a great chance of winning."

hunter heard this and suddenly couldn't hold it in. He remembered the reason why COL lost Vertigo was because his brother's Yellow Cloth was completely sanctioned by God.

In this strange atmosphere, the players of both sides were ready again.

The map was Vertigo.

The preparation was that COL actively chose the map, and G2 chose to be the defensive side.

"Okay, welcome to watch COL vs G2 Map 2 Vertigo, I am the commentator Ma Xixi."

"I am the commentator CaptainMO!"

"I am the assistant Mingrixing."

After a simple opening, Ma Xixi also began to analyze the configuration of both sides in the pistol round.

"G2 only has one person with utility here, but COL has two sets of utility. Are they preparing to hit B directly?"

"Danking jumped to scout at B1 and was just discovered by dupreeh. Alright, the offense stopped directly."

"COL chose to rotate silently in the second wave. G2's defense at A site this round is all holding angles at the back of the bomb site. COL touched the A slope silently the whole way. In that case, the defense is a bit hard to play."

"COL started an explosive bomb attack head-on. They hung two people at the A-small corner and used a flash to counter-peek in the second timing. How many can they kill this wave?"

"hunter killed one, but NIKO exerted force at A-small. He collected two heads in a row with a Glock!"

"On the front battlefield, Elige also took out dupreeh. Then this A-site collapsed instantly!"

Xu Beifang looked at the three kill messages in the upper right corner and immediately exclaimed: "Good shooting, brothers!"

Immediately after, he began to issue orders: "Plant the bomb directly at A slope, and then we'll play by holding A-small and A slope. Don't give the opponents a chance."

He directly sought stability in his thinking. This contraction of the formation also made dupreeh and nexa quite uncomfortable.

But perhaps having absorbed dupreeh's Astralis philosophy, after trying once and failing to find an opportunity, dupreeh and nexa directly saved their guns.

The pistol round was successfully taken, and Xu Beifang happily bumped fists with his teammates.

It could be seen that the motivation he gave during the halftime break made his teammates play quite cautiously.

However, he still reminded them of the situation where the opponents might force buy, so they couldn't relax next.

Fortunately, a force buy on this map isn't that easy to turn around.

Knowing that the opponents might have a chance to force buy, Xu Beifang directly placed the battlefield at the A area.

Because the distance at the A slope position is long enough, they can fully exert the role of the AK47 and Galil.

In Xu Beifang's plan, they use utility to clear the A-small position, not giving G2 a chance to operate with short guns at all.

In the end, G2's force buy this wave also failed.

In the following economy round, m0nesy relied on a Desert Eagle to get two and a half kills, but COL's discipline didn't give m0nesy a chance to pick up a gun to replenish combat effectiveness, and they took this round without any surprises.

Relying on the dividends brought by the pistol round and the steady pushing rhythm, COL successfully took the opening 3 rounds.

Now the score has reached 3:0, and both sides are about to enter the first gun round of Vertigo.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 477 =====