Chapter 64: The Desert Eagle and the Nice Nerve-Racking Gun

VP versus Tyloo

Map: Train

T: pashabiceps, neo, michu, byali, nice

CT: mo, xccurate, bntet, dd, somebody

Both sides enter the 20-second preparation time, and pasha summarizes the tactical plan he laid out earlier:

"neo, you buy a Smoke Grenade and a Flashbang. Once we reach the vicinity of Green Corridor, you throw a CT Mid smoke directly."

"byali, you also buy a set of utility, one Incendiary Grenade and two Flashbangs. Later, throw an Incendiary Grenade at the Sniper Position from T Spawn first to restrict their movement on the Bomb Site, then grab a Flashbang. I'll ask you for a Green Corridor flash when the time comes."

This tactic is not complex; one could even say it is simple and brutal.

A pincer attack from Green Corridor and T Spawn.

The countdown ends, and Xu Beifang, having the best positioning, takes the lead and charges directly toward Green Corridor.

"The Terrorists here have two people with utility. As for the CTs, only mo bought a Smoke Grenade and a Defuse Kit. He is hanging out in Green Corridor alone, while the other four are near CT Mid. Judging from the situation on both sides, they are deciding how to retake. This playstyle from Tyloo is characterized by being steady," the veteran player alex explained his thoughts.

"Yes," Xiao Bo nodded, but added, "This kind of playstyle has a very high fault tolerance, but it also has many drawbacks. They have given up the forward positions, so the overall outcome depends on the firefight after the retake."

Less than 1 minute and 40 seconds in, byali at T Spawn throws an Incendiary Grenade toward the Sniper Position, which makes Tyloo realize VP's upcoming play.

However, VP makes no attempt to hide it; byali immediately throws a Flashbang toward the back of Six Tracks to assist his teammates in rushing out of Green Corridor.

mo is forced back to the Dark Area by the flash, takes a shot at the person coming out of Green Corridor, and then quickly runs away.

He was just there to buy utility for this round, so his combat capability is not strong, let alone in a one-versus-many situation.

Xu Beifang sees the CT in the Dark Area retreating quickly and has no intention of chasing, instead charging directly toward the Bomb Site with his gun raised.

In the Pistol Round, his task is to tear open the opponent's defense; as for the information between Five-Six Paths on the side, his teammates will handle it.

The front is his battlefield.

xcc trades a shot with pasha at the side of the Car and, seeing the aggressive approach, quickly retreats to his position, arriving at the other end of the Car to try and catch the timing.

But footsteps come from the front, and he knows the situation is bad.

Xu Beifang jumps directly onto the Car, steps on top of xcc's head, and fires a burst of rapid shots at him.

【nice used a Glock Pistol to get a headshot kill on xccurate】

mo rushes over from the Dark Area to cover the Car, sees Xu Beifang's side exposed from atop the Car, and begins to tap-fire.

"Puff... puff..."

But he only fired two shots, neither of which hit the opponent's head, and instead allowed the opponent to react, turn around, and kill him in two shots.

"On the Car!! On the Car!!" mo shouts loudly in voice chat, forgetting even to chew his betel nut.

Xu Beifang secures two kills in a row and quickly jumps down from the Car, no longer acting as a traffic controller.

"nice with a wave of face-rushing, directly getting a double kill. This young player is too accurate!" the veteran alex praised.

Xiao Bo comments without changing his expression: "Indeed, he has half the style I had when I was young."

The veteran CS players in the audience all let out friendly laughter in unison.

The match continues; Xu Beifang opened the round with a 2-for-0 trade, Tyloo's A Site formation was torn apart, and the CT Mid smoke blocked them, making it impossible for them to retake easily.

Dage and dd can only come from the spawn point to the Dark Area and consider the next step.

bntet is worthy of being called "Dage" by Tyloo; as soon as he reached the Dark Area, he shot and killed neo, who had peeked out to start firing, helping the team secure a kill back.

Xiaogui is hiding in the CT Mid smoke, wanting to take this opportunity to sneak out and grab a chance, but pasha has been guarding this area the whole time. Almost the moment Xiaogui came out, he was headshot by a Glock.

With Xiaogui dead, bntet also knows this clutch is likely doomed.

Their positions are locked down; although they can pick up the Defuse Kit, the chances remain slim.

The result is as expected; after one attempt, they are picked off one by one by the enemies in front of them.

VP easily takes the Pistol Round, and the score reaches 1:0.

"nice brothers!" After winning the Pistol Round, pasha shouts as usual.

Winning this Pistol Round didn't have much pressure, but it is of great significance to the overall situation.

Because after the Pistol Round, as long as there are no accidents against the subsequent Force Buy, they can secure 3 points.

As the attacking side on Train, the main task for the first half is already more than halfway done.

"Let's be steady; we can play a bit more delicately. Tyloo is still a very strong team," Xu Beifang reminds them.

Although the future Tyloo has already become the successor of "Rong" domestically, it is currently 2018, the very point when Tyloo is reaching its peak.

If VP has the ability to win the championship at this IEM Shanghai, then their biggest opponents are Tyloo and NRG.

However, Xu Beifang will not think that VP can win the championship just by winning two BO3s.

One knows one's own affairs; compared to NRG in Group A, the two BO3s they played yesterday were a bit like playing house.

pasha nods to show he understands, then arranges the team's weaponry and carries out a force buy, transitioning from Green Corridor to the Dark Area.

With Long Guns against short guns, Xu Beifang easily completes the breakthrough of Green Corridor.

But the Desert Eagle from the interview performed beautifully, taking out both neo and byali with two bullets, putting VP in a dangerous situation during the Force Buy round.

Fortunately, Xu Beifang's coordination with pasha at the end was good, not letting Xiaogui find a chance to reset.

Tyloo enters an eco round, and pasha directly transforms into a special forces soldier, starting to rack up his performance.

The score reaches 3:0, and the first Full Buy Round of the first half is about to begin.

Inside Tyloo's match room, mo is chewing betel nut, but his brows are not relaxed at all: "This Tingquan Xiaoge's aim is very accurate!"

"If he didn't have some skill, why would VP want him?" bntet says.

Just like him and xcc, if they didn't have some skill, how could Tyloo have recruited them?

When they first watched the demo, they only knew that Xu Beifang played very well; after all, the data was there.

As for how strong Xu Beifang is? They didn't have a concept in their minds.

Their impression stopped at that former Ladder random player.

But when they actually met in the match, they discovered that the opponent's Gunplay was not just at a casual player's level.

"Let's play more cautiously from now on." mo looked at the numbers above and said with some worry, "We need to start catching up on the score."

A 3:0 start put pressure directly on them.

……

"We'll execute a three-angle pincer attack. Nice, you go solo Outside and play your own game. neo and michu, go to Red Stairs to control B. michu, come over and be my bodyguard first; I'll use the AWP to look for an opportunity."

Following pasha's instructions, Xu Beifang headed straight for Outside as soon as the countdown ended.

But he did not go directly to the Green Corridor close point; instead, he hid in the Recess outside the Green Corridor for a while.

After waiting for over ten seconds and confirming that no one Outside was coordinating a counter-push, he began to slowly creep forward.

No one understood the process of playing solo better than him in VP; he had to be extra careful about lurkers or counter-pushes, but his playstyle also needed to be bold.

"At the second timing, Tyloo chose a double-player setup at Red Stairs! xcc also rotated from Dark to Bomb Site; they've directly abandoned Green Corridor!"

"xcc even abandoned Bomb Site and rotated to Electric Box. Is this a plan to decide the outcome against VP directly at the close point?" alex's eyes lit up at this move by Tyloo.

But at the same time, the solo-playing Xu Beifang ignored mo's Smoke Grenade and crept right out of the Green Corridor smoke.

He knew mo's personality; it leaned toward a team-oriented playstyle, preferring to use utility to peek and scout, with relatively less direct holding.

The facts proved that his gamble this time was correct!

Xu Beifang crept all the way to Dark and reported the information that Dark was empty.

"Don't rush, neo, throw a molly outside Red Stairs, clear out the inside of Red Stairs. We'll apply pressure from the front to help Nice bait them out!!"

pasha's idea was simple; Nice had caught a remarkable timing.

Now they had to help him bait, striving to let him gain more information, or even take down a few more.

The IGL gave the order, and neo, who was at Red Stairs, immediately threw grenades and launched an attack in coordination with T Spawn.

"neo threw a fire at the entrance of Red Stairs, but this fire was botched!! Will this become a foreshadowing for this round?"

"T Spawn also launched an attack directly. Xiaogui was holding T Spawn from inside Red Stairs and sprayed down michu!"

"neo came down from Red Stairs and was also taken down directly by mo."

"xcc's no-armor AWP also took down pasha with one shot!!"

The arena was filled with howling; everyone was cheering excitedly for Tyloo's brilliant mid-round handling.

Xiao Bo exclaimed, "Tyloo's decision to engage at the close point was excellent, but I didn't expect a veteran powerhouse like VP to make such a simple mistake as a botched utility throw."

"Yes, if that fire hadn't been a mistake, then the synchronization between T Spawn and Red Stairs would have been impossible for Tyloo to hold; they wouldn't even have had a place to stand."

With his teammates dying one after another, byali in T Spawn seized the opportunity to find a side angle and took xcc out with one burst.

byali continued to peek toward Red Stairs, looking for an angle.

Xiaogui was standing in the middle of the road in an unconventional spot holding an angle, but he was still headshot and instantly killed by byali, who reacted faster. byali pushed the disadvantage in weaponry to the extreme.

However, mo's quick Trade Kill still let the Tyloo members breathe a sigh of relief.

"Now only Nice, who crept to Dark, is left. Originally, his position was very mysterious, but with his teammates dying one after another at T Spawn and Red Stairs, Nice's position has also been guessed."

His teammates had thrown a Smoke Grenade at the end of Six Tracks during this attack. Xu Beifang pondered the opponent's positioning in his mind and mixed directly into the Smoke Grenade, waiting for the smoke to dissipate.

There were 23 seconds left; it was actually already a bit too late.

But Xu Beifang had no choice; he could only try his best to fight the opponent and strive to take down a few more CT weapons.

Anyway, they could afford to buy weapons next round; there was no need to save.

The Smoke Grenade gradually dissipated, and Xu Beifang did not see any enemies at first glance.

But he moved one step to the left and saw a CT constantly peeking from behind the Electric Box.

He flicked his Crosshair directly over and sprayed a burst.

【Nice killed captainmo with an AK47】

dd, who was holding Dark from behind the Car, saw this situation and hurriedly pulled out to Trade Kill.

The opponent's bomb was still at T Spawn, and there was no time to plant it anyway, which was why he was so reckless.

Seeing the opponent appear in his field of vision, Xu Beifang, who was still moving, performed a Counter-strafing the moment he took damage and pulled his crosshair over.

The bullets hit dd's head cleanly and decisively; they could all clearly see the sparks from the collision between the bulletproof helmet and the AK bullets.

"Whoa!!!"

Both commentators on the stage and the thousands of spectators at the scene were shocked by this AK47 Flick.

Dage, who was at CT Mid, saw this scene and didn't stop his footsteps, heading straight to Bomb Site B to find cover.

Although this Clutch still couldn't be won, these two kills by Nice still amazed them.

Xiao Bo shouted in surprise on stage: "What was that thing that just flashed by???"

"Is this VP's top-tier newcomer? As expected, just like Ma Xixi said, he's a monster!"

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(End of chapter)