Chapter 61

Paris, France.

In the training base of Vitality.

Apex stretched, he had just finished today's last training task.

The training task is not much, because it is just to maintain the state.

After G2's palace fight and departure, Apex became one of the outcasts.

Apex, who had no team to go to, helplessly pulled Happy, NBK-, and RPK to re-establish a new team—Vitality.

This new team is still in preparation, but the problems have already been exposed.

Their group of old guys' status is gradually declining, it is difficult to get good results, and they are even short of people.

Vitality's management has found the French teenager ZywOo, who is the first in FPL this year, to join their team.

However, ZywOo needs to wait for him to finish his final studies, which will take a few months.

Their four old men started to look forward to the stars and the moon waiting for ZywOo's joining.

During these few months, old friends shone in G2. They didn't even gather people, and there would inevitably be a gap in their hearts.

However, no one questioned ZywOo's personal ability.

Whether from the performance in FPL or the performance in second-tier matches.

They all think that their wait is worth it.

But Happy is getting older, his level is declining very seriously, and he has clearly told him that he is just here to help, so Apex and the management have to continue to recruit someone to join.

Apex had a headache when he heard this. French CSGO talent generation is seriously broken. Where can I find a newcomer in a short while!

Unless Viltality is turned into an international lineup.

Thinking of this, that ladder match with VP appeared in his mind again.

Thinking this way, he sat on the sofa and swiped his phone unconsciously.

A piece of news on HLTV caught his attention—

"IEM Shanghai Group Stage: VP newcomer's debut is a great success, VP lightly cuts 5Power and HR, successfully advancing to the semi-finals."

VP advanced to the finals, and that newcomer Morelz is fierce again?... Apex was a bit puzzled, but also interested.

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"In the IEM Shanghai group stage, when VP used the original lineup, the first day's battle was not good, and they lost by 3 points on their strong map Cache."

Entering the loser's bracket match, they made a bold decision. In this IEM Shanghai station, they used the newcomer Nice from Huaxia for the first time, which makes us very suspicious of whether VP has started to change from a pure Polish lineup to an international lineup..."

Apex:???

What is this? Nice??

Is it the Nice I know?

Apex has always had some impressions of that ladder high-ping warrior who gave him a good feeling, and even now he has his friend in his Faceit account, just to leave a thought. If Happy really retires later, he can invite him to try it.

But he didn't expect that this person would be dug away by VP first!!

Apex doesn't think it's an ID with the same name. After all, the ID is the same, the nationality is the same, and he is even mixed with VP.

With so many elements together, it can't be a coincidence.

"... In the two BO3s where the newcomer played, he showed extremely powerful tension. In the two BO3 scores, he played a rating of 1.57 and 1.31 respectively, and the performance was quite good."

"My god, whose data is so fierce?" NBK didn't know when he sat next to him, also looking at the data chart in Apex's hand.

"VP's newcomer Nice." Apex answered somewhat melancholically.

The success of those old brothers in G2 made him feel even more uncomfortable, let alone an opponent like VP?

"I just said, how could VP's status suddenly warm up, they should also step down from the historical stage." NBK took a bite of a banana and said vaguely.

The more NBK said this, the more uncomfortable Apex felt.

"This could have been a member of our Vitality!"

Recalling the exaggerated data just now, he was even more lost.

Such a dazzling gun man, how did he become a teammate of those muscle sticks in VP?

If I had spoken earlier, would Nice be a member of Vitality now?

"How to say?" NBK was very surprised by this. After all, the other party is a Huaxia person, how could he become their teammate?

"At that time, I matched with him on Facite. The opposite side was the VP four-man group. I and him beat Pasha and those guys up. Originally, I thought about looking at Happy's status first. If the problem was too big, I would invite him."

"As a result, those damn muscle sticks in VP are really fast!!"

Apex was so angry that his back molars were about to break.

"Ah!!" NBK didn't expect such a thing.

"I seem to have swiped your ladder clip, don't be angry, people are Pasha fans, joining VP is very normal." NBK comforted Apex a few words.

"So why doesn't he join Tyloo directly, and run to foreign countries to play professionally?" RPK also asked from the side.

Tyloo's strength is not weak, why go to a foreign country to play matches?

"I know!" Happy raised his hand and answered, "I just asked a Huaxia fan, and he told me that Nice had been to Tyloo for a trial, but he wanted to go to the main team, and Tyloo's main team had no position, so it was left unsettled."

"At that time, he had already reached the top position on the 5E platform, and someone suggested him to play Faceit, so he came up to rank up and find a team."

This made Apex even more painful. He originally had a fantasy in his heart.

Nice made it clear that he was a Pasha fan, and he originally thought it was because he liked Pasha that he went to VP.

Now it seems that this is not a fan at all.

It was just a casual tease.

If he could invite him at that time, even if it was just an online trial, he might have worn the Vitality jersey today!

Apex's heart felt as if it was inexplicably pressed by a big stone. What is this!!

Tyloo, are you okay? You can't even watch the players in your own division, making people have to go abroad to find a team!!

SOMEBODY, what are you doing!!

Sad about missing such a genius teenager, Apex even became dissatisfied with Tyloo.

Only those who have lost can know that when regret occupies the heart, you will blame some things that seem to be connected but have no big relationship.

"VP killed out from the loser's bracket with a 2-0 record and is about to compete with Tyloo for the qualification for the finals in the subsequent semi-finals."

Seeing this information, Apex decisively opened Twitter, started editing text, and sent it:

"Tomorrow IEM Shanghai VP vs Tyloo, Nice keep it up, must beat SOMEBODY!!"

After playing in Shanghai for a day, the VP group finally returned to the hotel room a bit tired.

But they still couldn't rest. After a day of entertainment, they had to enter the working state next.

"Yesterday I let you rest, today we will review yesterday's match recordings together and pick out the problems." Coach Kuben signaled everyone to look at his computer, scanning round by round, explaining according to his perspective, and then communicating with the players to twist their slightly wrong ideas back.

The entire review took nearly 3 hours. After it ended, the eyes of the VP group revealed fatigue, and the coach also explained with a dry mouth.

Xu Beifang felt the knowledge floating in his mind, his eyes slightly confused.

Long-term review thinking, this intensity made him a bit unable to hold on.

However, he keenly discovered the difference between the coach's demo explanation and yesterday's Machine explanation.

As a coach, Kuben's work is actually not small.

Arranging training every day, recording their training status, communicating with other teams' training matches, and communicating with the competition group, preparing for the next itinerary, and studying the opponent's match recordings.

His daily working hours are not less than the VP players.

So this kind of explaining demos, he will not explain them in detail, and will not pick small problems in operation from everyone.

He only starts from the overall situation, looks for it from the tactics of this point, sees who has a misunderstanding of the tactics, and then points out the direction.

He picks mistakes from the match, looking at problems from the overall perspective.

While Machine helps him review from the individual.

The two have different focuses, but it must be said that Kuben is more professional.

In his review, there is no correct answer in operation and playstyle, more is the effective playstyle made according to the opponent's playstyle.

For example, when defending teams that like to fake and like to play one-wave flow, the player's operation ideas definitely need to change.

Kuben will pick mistakes for the VP group according to the opponent's style.

3 hours of review, let Xu Beifang's overall view of the game improve a lot.

But he still needs to think more and summarize it later.

"That's it for today. Tomorrow we play BO3 against Tyloo. Their strength should not be underestimated recently. Don't be careless. Go to sleep early and keep a good rest to cope with tomorrow's match."

As soon as Kuben said this, the players in the VP training room suddenly fled like birds and beasts.

Looking at the players in this appearance, Kuben sighed. These old guys are less and less fond of training.

Turning his head to see the newcomer playing Deathmatch in front of the computer, a smile appeared on his face again.

At least there is still one who learns well.

Now the timeline Vitality has not been founded, it is in preparation. After the London Major is officially finished and ZywOo joins, Vitality officially appears in the public view. Apex is the IGL, Alex joined in 2019 and snatched the command power.

PS: Alex is the guy who let ZywOo pull the gun line.

(End of chapter)