Chapter 501: 55 God

As the tall man packed his peripherals, the sound of keyboard tapping and communication not far away showed that the match hadn't ended yet.

At least today's match hadn't ended yet.

There were still many teams making a lot of efforts to avoid being eliminated, and the excited or lost voices coming from their ears showed their unwillingness even more.

Actually, their match had just ended; in the third day's confrontation, VP thrillingly defeated TheMongolz and successfully advanced to the next round of confrontation.

"Speaking of which, Asian CS has also risen now. This TheMongolz is a bit strong; we almost flipped over, what do you think, Jame?" Electronic was chatting with God while packing his peripherals.

"Indeed quite powerful, but the upper limit is just there." Jame replied.

Whether it's Jame or Electronic, they have seen too many teams. The performance of the Mongolians is indeed outstanding, and it will even make them surprised that they are so strong, but after all, they are a systematic team, and the upper limit is limited. It's very difficult to make them amazed.

"Actually, the Asian players who can truly make me feel pressure is only one, Nice. But I remember during IEM Chengdu, the match where COL played VP, their performance was quite abstract." Electronic watched the recording of that match at the time, and the impression was still quite deep.

Even though COL won the championship in the end at IEM Chengdu, many netizens teased that "VP's gold content is still rising."

"Nice actually didn't have any problems playing." Jame recalled that match; at that time, Nice's performance was actually relatively okay, but it was limited by the poor performance of others on the team, leading to a relatively serious overall collapse, and then he smiled, "But if they still use that playstyle to compete, we can easily eat them to death."

The super-strong discipline makes VP's lower limit very high, and it is easy to catch the opponent's timing of mistakes.

If COL's performance is still the same as during the IEM Chengdu period, once both sides meet, winning isn't a difficult thing for them.

"However, they are also seeking change." Electronic carefully put the keyboard into the peripheral bag, "Group D's grouping pressure isn't big, they have been practicing new maps for the past two days."

"Today seems to be playing NAVI?" Electronic was a bit unsure.

Although he paid attention to this team COL, he wasn't the commander now, just glanced at it roughly.

On the side, Fame, who had the nickname of Archangel, had already retrieved his mobile phone from the staff, and hearing their exchange, he leaned over and replied: "That's right, their opponent today is NAVI, and you definitely wouldn't expect that NAVI actually lost to COL this time!"

Electronic and God looked at each other, knowing that something must have happened.

As one of the 4 major T1 teams in the current arena, NAVI was defeated by COL at this node, which really surprised them.

And from Fame's gossiping expression, the matter definitely wasn't that simple.

"I just saw a group of NIP people walking to the player channel; they were chatting about COL, but the atmosphere was a bit strange..."

"Tell me in detail..."

Fame supplemented while looking at his phone: "COL shut out NAVI, didn't even let NAVI take a map..."

"COL stopped practicing new maps?" Electronic interrupted Fame somewhat surprised.

COL's ambition is very big, intending to use this league to practice through matches.

This kind of thing is actually something that old guys have done more or less, and it's not strange.

But practicing maps for the first two days, and then not practicing when encountering teams with high levels, if it were like this, Electronic would be speechless about COL.

"Not at all, they are still practicing new maps. Map 2 was Anubis they picked themselves, and as a result, they gave NAVI a long pain on this map!" Fame had a gossiping expression.

Audiences all over the world like to see dark horses appear.

Watching the stronger side lose, except for fans, more people are happy to see it.

"I looked at the comments here, the statement is quite interesting. It seems that after entering Map 2, NAVI was originally leading, but every time they just got the rhythm, someone on COL's side exploded, and even COL's first round was Nice stepping on fire and exploding to get..."

"Olof modified COL!" Fame looked at the post-match comments on HLTV and laughed happily.

It wasn't that any picture was too funny, mainly because seeing NAVI crushed by COL, he was very cool.

This is also normal; as a team in the CIS region, there aren't many who will like NAVI.

They aren't hating the players of this NAVI team now, but because they hate this Ukrainian club that engages in "zzzq."

Not to mention that VP was almost unable to compete by this club before.

So Fame is the kind who wishes NAVI would die.

"This is a bit too exaggerated." Electronic gasped, "Took out a map being practiced and beat NAVI to pieces?"

"Do you have to be this exaggerated?"

As a famous unlucky person in the circle, he has also served as a commander, so he still understands things like practicing maps.

In a CS2 match, a map taken out for practice, if the opponent is a top-tier team, getting 8 points is already quite good, and 10 points can be considered excellent.

But this COL, in the process of practicing the map, actually defeated NAVI!

What concept is this?

You know, on this map, NAVI has not only practiced many times, but they also have many records in matches.

Jame leaned over and glanced at the post-match data, finding that Nice had an average rating of 1.77 in two maps, Elige's rating was second, averaging 1.34 in two maps, followed by NIKO who also had a rating of 1.22.

This made him understand.

As an academic-style commander, he has deeply understood the style of this player Nice, so seeing this data, he roughly understood what the situation of the confrontation was.

"It's not that someone exploded on this map, but in this BO3, COL's overall performance was more outstanding than NAVI's." God calmly said his view.

Fame smiled and gave Jame a thumbs up: "Seeing the essence through the phenomenon, amazing! It is indeed like this. I roughly looked at the battle report, COL players' highlight performances were too many more than NAVI's, COL's explosive power is too strong!"

Jame's mouth hooked slightly, "It seems that the team with the first firepower in the future is afraid that it will be placed on COL."

"Now teams that focus on firepower, Vitality relies too much on Zywoo's performance, G2's lineup firepower is obviously insufficient and needs to update the lineup, Faze has temporarily lost its fighting spirit and fallen into a slump, it really is only this COL that has the meaning of full firepower."

Immediately after, Jame looked at Fame: "But what are you happy about? COL is our opponent next, it is very likely that we will hit COL next..."

Hearing this, Fame suddenly reacted: "Oh right, seems like we play COL next!"

Immediately after, it seemed to be convincing himself, he smiled and said: "But it's okay, we defeated them before at IEM Chengdu, this time it should be no problem."

Listening to the Archangel's answer, Jame didn't answer, but a strong thought arose.

COL has changed a lot from IEM Chengdu to now, the whole team might have changed a lot.

Is their building still at that level?

Has their formation changed a lot?

Have they appeared with any novel tactics?

Jame suddenly wanted to hit COL in the next match.

……

Xu Beifang returned to the hotel to rest after the match ended.

They first reviewed this match as usual.

Although they were happy to win Anubis in Map 2, there were still many understanding problems that needed to be corrected.

And Xu Beifang also had many thoughts about that NAVI smoke, which were also recorded together during the review.

Thanks to defeating NAVI and successfully advancing in the match just now, everyone's interest was still very strong, and they learned very vigorously.

After the review, they all felt their brains were still a bit confused.

How many things can actually work, and how much was learned in this review, still needs to be tested in the match, and felt through their own feedback.

After the review, they all sat in the training room for simple practice, also waiting for KFC takeout.

Coach Xiaoxi explained some follow-up arrangements.

"The third day's match is officially over, and there are seven teams that have entered the playoffs like us, namely G2, Mouz, VP, Astralis, Liquid, Vitality, and Faze."

NIKO wasn't wearing headphones and was practicing shooting, hearing this, he teased: "They are all acquaintances, actually no dark horse appeared."

"Actually we count as dark horses." Danking teased.

If they hadn't defeated NAVI, then the confrontation on the first day of the playoffs would really be first-tier old acquaintances.

Their time in the netizens' vision was relatively short, and they were still relatively niche.

Coach Xiaoxi added: "I just glanced at the grouping table for the first day of the playoffs. In the same group, our opponents are VP, G2, Mouz."

"However, the first day is VP, but for the semi-finals, I hope everyone treats Mouz as a hypothetical enemy..."

"Why not G2?" NIKO asked strangely, although he had already left G2, he felt G2 wasn't that weak.

With Karrigan, and hunter, the combat power was quite strong.

Coach Xiaoxi shook his head: "Mouz is still very powerful now. They won several championships this year. Except for being blood-suppressed by Faze, their combat power is actually top-tier."

"G2 is a bit too dependent on their status, I think you should be able to understand."

Although Mouz has always been blood-suppressed by Faze.

But Coach Xiaoxi didn't underestimate them; after all, Mouz has achieved many good results this year, the team results are there, and the commander siuhy is the most outstanding young commander of the new generation, with a limitless future.

Conversely, COL, they are still in the process of practicing through matches, and they might collapse in any match.

So Coach Xiaoxi would look further.

As for the closer VP, they don't need to be treated as hypothetical enemies anymore; VP is tomorrow's opponent.

They only need to prepare perfectly and fight a real battle in the match tomorrow.

Although after entering the playoffs, they still feel a bit rushed overall.

But it has to be said that defeating NAVI in the process of practicing today let him see quite a few hopes.

Now the upper and lower limits of this team are too high!

As long as they play their due level, they can defeat the vast majority of first-tier teams.

Exerting the upper limit of the team, they can compete with the world's most top-tier teams.

However, as COL's coach, he has seen too many disappointing pictures, so he has to be cautious.

Practiced for a while, KFC takeout finally arrived.

Xu Beifang also stopped temporarily and started to enjoy dinner.

Danking leaned over at this time and asked in a low voice: "Beifang, are we still practicing maps next?"

"Hmm... if there is an opportunity, take the initiative to practice, but don't force it." Xu Beifang took an original recipe chicken from the takeout box and looked up at Danking: "Why, feeling reluctant to part with the bonus?"

The bonus for this EPL tournament is quite generous, with a single bonus of about 170,000 US dollars, and this tournament can also accumulate Intel Grand Slam, so the gold content is actually not low.

Danking shook his head: "The bonus is indeed a lot, but I also make quite a bit every month, the point isn't the bonus, it's that we seem to have a chance to win the championship!"

He doesn't care much about the bonus, but he really cares about whether they can win the championship.

The championship trophy he held at IEM Chengdu last time still makes him nostalgic; that feeling that all other teams are your defeated opponents and everyone can only watch you take away the trophy is really too cool.

Now that he has entered the playoffs again, Danking is thinking about trying his best to fight back if there is a chance.

Not necessarily winning the championship, but only by trying his best will he not regret it.

After Xu Beifang simply responded to Danking, he gnawed on fried chicken and thought about this matter.

This is indeed a very difficult problem.

Thinking in the long run, the opportunity to practice maps in this kind of top-tier match is not small; a map confrontation is worth their dozen hours of training match confrontation.

In training matches, everyone is basically playing with restraint, and very few things that truly have influence will be released.

This leads to many teams playing one shot one kill in training matches, and not knowing who they are after two minutes in the match.

However, it was not easy to enter the playoffs; if they were unfortunately eliminated later due to the problem of practicing through matches, it would indeed be a pity.

And compared to map practice, Xu Beifang felt that establishing championship confidence for this group of teammates beside him was the most important.

Sometimes, a major championship can make a player undergo a qualitative change.

Even if there is no qualitative change in reaction, as long as they win more and become more confident, the subtle changes can also play a big role.

Finally, he chose to lean more towards chasing the championship, rather than comprehensive practice through matches.

The upper limit of this group of teammates is actually very high; today's match explained many things.

Let them play out confidence slowly, and later, whether it is practicing maps or adjusting playstyles, it will become easy.

However, are they playing VP tomorrow?

They lost to VP once before at IEM Chengdu, so this time it is revenge.

However, the previous VP lacked firepower, but this time after Electronic joined, it seems to have improved.

If that's the case, he really wants to see what it looks like when the enhanced firepower VP meets them.

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