Chapter 63

August 4, 2018, Saturday.

Suitable for: Wealth, sacrifice, pest control, fierce battle...

The VP group arrived at the venue's lounge early to wait for the match to start, and later, under the notification of the on-site staff, they set off to the back of the stage, waiting for the host's call.

The stage of the IEM Shanghai match is actually very small, not even as big as a basketball court. Now domestic CSGO does not have such a large volume.

It is just a small project attached to the entire ChinaJoy exhibition, and there is no such large territory for them to hold this match.

But for CSGO enthusiasts, this is already quite good.

CSGO national server was only launched in the country in 2017. Now that they can hold this kind of international match, they are already very happy.

As the match time arrived, a slightly greasy host walked in the middle of the stage, holding a microphone and starting to liven up the atmosphere.

Xu Beifang stood behind the stage, feeling a bit embarrassed by the host's slightly exaggerated rhetoric.

MO on the opposite side took the initiative to greet him and praised him for playing well recently.

Xu Beifang responded with a smile, and both sides returned to their respective teams.

After all, this match is an opponent, so it's not good to talk too much.

"... Next, let's invite the teams of this semi-final—Tyloo and UP!!!"

The music on the stage also instantly became impassioned. Led by the Tyloo group, the VP group followed behind, walking forward from the back of the stage in an orderly manner.

Both sides walked to one side and came to wait in front of their own battle room.

This matter is common to the old VP group, but Xu Beifang felt it for the first time.

After all, in the two matches yesterday, he entered the battle room directly to start the match, and there was no link to face the audience directly.

There are too many audiences today than yesterday, but this environment is much worse than those big matches seen in later generations.

The audience only has a small boss chair to sit on, and even because there are too many people visiting the CJ exhibition, many audiences have to stand on the side to watch the match.

Those thousands of eyes under the stage, with curiosity, questioning, expectation, dislike, and other expressions, were sizing him up.

These eyes are like invisible tentacles, gently brushing over the fine fluff on his face, making his goosebumps rise.

As an audience, perhaps watching these people under the stage in front of the camera doesn't feel anything, but as the protagonist of the line of sight, Xu Beifang truly felt the pressure for a while.

"Nervous?"

Pasha seemed to see the discomfort of the little brother and leaned over to ask in a low voice.

"A little." Xu Beifang nodded, without lying, because lying has no effect in this situation.

"You just treat the feeling below as the thing you are most familiar with, whether it is a baguette or a dumbbell, as long as it can relieve your tension, you can try to think about it." NEO, as a top-level old guy, also gave some suggestions.

"I'll try." Xu Beifang responded.

The thing you are most familiar with?

That should be a bot. In his recent life, there should be no robot more familiar than others.

Thinking this way, he inexplicably felt that he had come to the aimbot map, with a group of fly heads standing below, and his eyes were unconsciously staring at those heads...

"How do you feel?"

"My hands are already itchy." Xu Beifang answered.

And some audiences under the stage who were staring at Xu Beifang suddenly felt a murderous aura coming from the player's eyes, and unconsciously began to shift their eyes.

"Beifang, keep it up!!" At this time, Xu Beifang saw a group of people shouting on the left side of the stands.

DANKING, who is a room manager, finally did not abuse his power to ban little black fans, but turned into a cheerleader to cheer for Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang, standing on the stage, gave him a thumbs up when he heard this, and this response again caused the friends to cheer.

"Tie Dan, to be honest, you came to cheer for Beifang, aren't you afraid that Tyloo will find trouble with you?" A friend put his hand on DANKING's shoulder and leaned over to ask.

"It's okay!" DANKING pulled the clothes on his body, "Today I am wearing private clothes, I represent only an ordinary passerby, live broadcast room audience, do you agree!!"

"I have taken off Tyloo's clothes, they won't go to MO's side to bring rhythm, saying that I hope the main team loses, and then let DANKING play, it won't, right..."

【Did you damn say your inner thoughts?】

【Okay, I will go to MO's Weibo to leave a message now】

【DANKING, you are the one who brings rhythm, haha】

【Why don't you let Xiao Xu be the room manager in the future, DANKING was born to be a live broadcast material】

【...】

The first wave of atmosphere was finished, and the host called Pasha and MO over.

It is worth mentioning that MO's leg was not fully healed, and it was his teammates who helped him over.

The host pulled the two to interact with the audience, and during the period, he also asked MO to make a sentence with his ID.

He smiled and said: "Desert Eagle."

Both sides officially returned to the battle room, started warming up, and prepared to enter the BP link.

"Hello audience friends, welcome to the semi-final match site of IEM Shanghai, I am commentator Alex."

"I am commentator Skula Wu Runbo."

The two on-site commentators greeted the audience and began to analyze today's BP situation.

"This match VP bans the map first. They came up and banned Overpass. They basically don't play this map, and we rarely see VP choose this map in matches." Old handsome Alex opened his mouth to make an analysis.

Xiao Bo nodded and just wanted to respond a few words, then saw Tyloo's Bantu had appeared.

"Sure enough, Tyloo banned Nuke again." Xiao Bo said this with some regret. During the time he was on the stage, Nuke was a strong map of CNCS.

But since their batch retired, the country has not paid much attention to this map with a relatively complex tactical structure, but has set its sights on some simple structure maps that pay more attention to gunplay and small cooperation.

"What map to choose for the first map? Train or Mirage?" Pasha asked for the opinions of his teammates.

byali answered: "Train, Train was played quite comfortably yesterday."

That Train match yesterday, after the first half, there was basically no pressure. HR struggled for a while before being taken down by them. The victory on Train yesterday also brought them a lot of confidence.

They just confirmed, Tyloo's actions were also very fast.

"Sure enough, this Tyloo still takes Inferno." NEO looked at the result and smiled.

This is the same as the two maps they speculated. Tyloo is very good at this map, and even has the name of Tyloo Town in the Asian region.

This kind of strong map VP didn't ban, they couldn't not choose.

The remaining three maps are Dust II, Mirage, and Cache.

VP took Dust II away, leaving Mirage and Train for Tyloo to choose.

Tyloo finally put Map 3 on Cache. Domestic teams play this map quite well, no need to forcibly choose Mirage.

Moreover, VP's last Cache match was not played well, and they also had a bit of targeted processing.

BP ended, the selection of BO3 was all determined:

Map 1: Train

Map 2: Inferno

Map 3: Cache

10 minutes before the match, the ten players grabbed time to warm up, avoiding problems with gunplay in the match.

SOMEBODY was playing bots, and Apex's tweet from yesterday appeared in his mind again, inexplicably feeling a bit unhappy.

Damn Dou Dou, did I provoke you?

Good inexplicable sarcasm to come to sarcasm me, isn't this idle and nothing to do.

SOMEBODY and Apex have a very good relationship. They can make father-son jokes on weekdays, and they often double-rank together on Faceit, which can be regarded as good friends in the professional circle.

Precisely because of this, he was not very angry, but he was a bit unhappy about being stabbed by a bad friend.

Although Nice's strength is good, Xiaogui thinks that compared to that kind of newcomer who just debuted, he, this genius teenager who has already emerged, is obviously more fierce.

Today, let you see SOMEBODY's real strength!

The ten-minute warm-up time ended, both sides entered Map 1, and the match officially started!

Tyloo played too well yesterday! Don't misunderstand, I mean those old guys in the 18 Tyloo...

(End of chapter)