CSGO professional player

Chapter 268

Vacation time flies by.

When the Heroic team members returned to the club, they found that the M4A4 had disappeared from everyone's firearm configuration roulette.

"Let me tell you, Clear, this A1 is a bit perverted now." Stavn was excited. "It doesn't matter if you hit someone with four shots, and you don't have to worry about being reversed if you are a smoker. It is simply invincible."

"It's a bit like AUG before." TeSeS nodded aside. "In FPL, most people have switched to A1."

"And CT's winning rate is ridiculously high. In the past, 5 points to guarantee a win and 3 points to guarantee a tie are outdated."

"V Agency has overcorrected in order to save A1's appearance rate in the competition, and it will be weakened sooner or later." Xizt walked over and said softly.

"According to V agency's consistent piss, as long as they are not sprayed to pieces, they will definitely look at the data in the game before making other plans."

"As long as it lasts, everyone will play games with the A1 first."

A long time ago, when the price of A1 and A4 were the same, A1 was inferior to A4 in terms of fire rate and battery life.

So V agency not only increased the magazine capacity and lowered the price, but it still couldn't save the poor play rate of A1.

But this time, it was a simple and rude increase in damage.

This makes A1's pressure gun after the burst fire also has a strong lethality.

It doesn't matter if the fire rate is slow, but the damage is high.

AK needs four shots to hit the body, and my CT A1 also needs four shots.

"I prefer the lower price of dual guns, 300 yuan, you can't afford to lose money, and you can't be fooled by buying them." Wang Che looked at his teammates and smiled.

The price was reduced from 400 to 300, which seems to be only 100 yuan.

But with the power and rate of fire of the double guns in the pistol round, even without the 100 yuan drop, many professional teams still choose to use this gun in the pistol round.

But now with double guns, you can also use two props, smoke and flash.

The value for money is immediately apparent.

Wang Che has already enjoyed the benefits brought about by the price reduction of the two guns in advance.

A few days ago, he and Brother Dianzi had a sweet double row.

In pistol rounds on the CT side, there are always two guns.

Offensive with P250, defensive with dual guns.

Just don't be too happy.

"It seems that everyone should have no objection to the issue of firearm configuration."

cadiaN clapped her palms and made a conclusion with a smile.

"But this time there are quite a lot of changes. In addition to firearms, there are also some changes on the map."

"The most important thing is the change that this item can be thrown out actively, which has a huge impact on tactics."

"Call everyone here in advance, that is, to study and familiarize yourself with new tactics for a few more days."

Xizt nodded: "That's right, in the upcoming IEM Cologne, all prop tactics will change. We not only need to be familiar with how to fight in advance, but also have to be aware of how the opponent may use props."

"Okay, guys, pack your things up, it's time to work."

……

7 month 4 day.

Wang Che and others flew from Copenhagen to Cologne, Germany in advance.

The mileage of more than 500 kilometers can be reached in less than two hours.

The city is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, the westernmost state of Germany, and is a secondary transportation hub city.

Until 2021, IEM Cologne has another name.

ESL One Cologne Grand Prix.

This series of events has been held for a total of seven times. Among these seven events, the title of Major can be added to the first three events.

As soon as he got off the plane, Xizt sighed: "Cologne is such a wonderful place."

In his expression and eyes, everyone can see something called pride.

Wang Che knew what was going on.

The first ESL One Cologne Major, held in 2014, was the third Major in CSGO history, and NiP won the championship.

Xizt was the conductor at the time.

"The only pity is that Cologne is not the Major now, otherwise you will have the chance to win the Major trophy this time." cadiaN looked at Xizt enviously.

At that time, Brother Dianzi watched NiP win the championship, and his memory is still fresh.

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's the championship trophy, it doesn't matter what it is." Xizt turned around and smiled. "And the Major is not far away, I believe in these boys."

With the reorganization of the Major by V Agency, ESL Cologne, ESL Katowice and other top events with a long history and high reputation will no longer be named Major.

But even so, it will not affect IEM Cologne to become one of the most competitive large-scale events every year.

E-sports and games are the business card of the city of Cologne. In addition to e-sports events, Gamescom Cologne is also a must-see feast for game lovers all over the world.

The venue for ESL ONE Cologne in 2014 was held at the Cologne Game Show that year.

And not only CSGO, other game competitions have also appeared at the Cologne Games Show.

Just like the first "DOTA2" International Invitational Tournament...

Except for cadiaN and Xizt, the others are coming to Cologne for the first time.

Sitting in the pick-up vehicle arranged by the competition, Wang Che immediately felt that this city was indeed significantly different from other places.

Among the pedestrians on both sides of the road, from time to time, figures of young people wearing various uniforms flashed by.

Slogans can be seen everywhere, and billboards of various colors are overwhelming.

They are all telling the uniqueness of Cologne.

"As expected of the holy land of CSGO, the game atmosphere in Cologne is really strong." Stavn couldn't help sighing when he saw another passerby wearing a BIG team uniform through the car window.

"That's natural. The success of any e-sports event is inseparable from the support of partners." cadiaN looked at the huge IEM Cologne event billboards on both sides of the road and said with a smile. "And the host of this IEM is the Cologne City Government..."

"No wonder..." Wang Che suddenly realized.

The vehicle just drove to the city center and turned a few more turns.

cadiaN suddenly spoke out, pointing to a huge stadium not far away and said: "This should be the venue for the knockout round."

Lanxess Arena, Lanxess Arena.

The German chemical giant Lanxess named it, another sponsor of the Cologne competition.

Therefore, the venues for offline competitions in previous years are all here.

Among the logos of many sponsors, Wang Che also saw a rather interesting name.

Warsteiner.

Woerstein, a German beer brand.

Wang Che couldn't help but lamented that it was a great competition, with such a variety of sponsors, and then looked at stavn: "I feel like you're going to be lucky..."

As we all know, stavn is the person who likes beer the most in Heroic. At a young age, he almost gets drunk with cadiaN every time.

Don't get drunk and don't return home is his creed in life.

"What do you mean?" Stavn looked confused.

When I arrived at the hotel where I was staying, I saw a huge beer barrel in the lobby of the hotel. Next to the barrel was a slogan "Drink for free with the entry certificate".

I understood everything immediately.

Stavn patted Wang Che's shoulder hard, and was so happy that he was about to jump up: "This is so cool, brother, the game will be played in a few days, do you want to have a few drinks tonight?"

Felicity frowned, and immediately reminded: "If you want to drink, wait until after all the games are over. You must not drink before then."

"But if you can't help it, just sneak in and drink it by yourself, don't drag Clear."

Before drinking the beer, I ate a big bowl of dog food first.

Stavn's face drooped suddenly.

"Give me all the documents, and I'll check you in." Felicity was still warning Stavn with her eyes.

"Don't worry, I will also supervise." Xizt laughed from the side.

After returning to the room and putting down their luggage, everyone didn't even have time to turn on their computers.

After all, coming to Cologne in advance is not only to adapt to the competitive environment in advance.

It is also necessary to cooperate with the arrangement of the competition party to conduct endless interviews and filming of promotional videos.

Heroic is the number one favorite to win the IEM Cologne this time, and he is in the limelight. Many media want to interview him.

But if there is no relationship and connection, it is not his turn at all.

After all, players still have to focus on the game.

Facing many interviews, Felicity and Xizt politely rejected most of them, leaving only some well-known media.

Like Hltv...

At the hotel where he stayed, Wang Che also met old acquaintances.

Joseph and Li Wenzhe.

The two became partners this time, sharing most of the interview assignments.

I haven't seen him for a few days, and Cerf hasn't changed much. He still looks slightly fat. When he saw Wang Che, the flesh on his face immediately squeezed together: "Clear, you are finally not alone this time."

Wang Che nodded.

In addition to him, Cologne also has a Huaguo team participating this time.

ViCi Gaming, they defeated Tianlu and other strong domestic teams, and struggled to get tickets to Cologne.

"I wish Ah Zhong and the others good results. I am waiting for them in the group stage."

Wang Che scratched his head, feeling that he might be a little arrogant to say that.

After all, the ViCi players are all his seniors, who have worked hard in China for many years.

But CSGO speaks with performance and strength, and the other two feel that there is nothing wrong with it.

"I'll tell you the story." Li Wenzhe said. "Also, when are you free, we want to give you an exclusive interview."

"After winning the summer split, we couldn't contact you at all. When we called Heroic, a girl answered the phone. When she heard that she was looking for you, she hung up the phone. It's really helpless."

"Is there such a thing?" As soon as Wang Che said it was a girl, he immediately understood that it was Felicity, but at this time he did not lose his expression. "When will you return to China? It may be difficult to be free in the early stage."

"If Heroic can enter the knockout rounds, we will stay until the finals." Cerf said.

"Then let's wait until the group stage is over. There will be a few days of media days after the group stage. It should be fine then." Wang Che counted the days carefully before saying.

"With such self-confidence, you will definitely be able to enter the knockout round?"

"That must be, our goal is only the championship."

"Unfortunately, there are no stickers in Cologne now, fuck the V Agency."

"Don't worry, the Stockholm Major is not far away."

……

On July 7, IEM Cologne kicks off.

Because the Major has been held before, the Cologne competition system follows the previous Major competition system.

It is divided into three stages: Play-in, group stage and knockout stage.

Play-in will be held from the 6th to the 8th, with [-] teams.

Among them, there are many veteran teams of HLTV TOP10 such as Little Bee, Faze, and NiP.

Then there is the group stage.

In addition to the eight teams that advanced from Play-in, there are also eight teams that are directly invited to the group stage based on EPT points waiting for them.

Heroic is one of them.

Therefore, Wang Che and others still have a few days to train and study their next opponents.

In the group stage, there are three knockout places in each group. No.1 will directly enter the semi-finals, and the second and third will need to participate in the tenth finals, that is, the top six will enter the top four.

In the first opener, NiP will face the French team, LDLC.

Now LDLC, which is a strong team with stickers, is not an opponent of NIP at all, and was directly beaten by a big score of 16:6.

Thanks to sufficient funds and venues, the games of other teams started in an orderly manner.

When it was ViCi's turn to play against COL, Wang Che took a look at the score after training.

16: 10.

ViCi lost its first game.

The next day, the second round of the game continued. ViCi faced EG, but still lost.

In the end, they lost 0:2 and left Cologne sadly without taking a picture.

Wang Che could only feel sorry for this.

Cologne is the last World Series before the long offseason.

Almost all strong teams are gearing up and eager to try.

For the current Huaguo team, it is quite difficult to break out of it.

After two days of competition.

Play-in finally came to an end.

Under the double-elimination knockout match, it is very difficult for strong teams to be eliminated, and there are basically no upsets.

In the end, the eight familiar faces of NiP, Vitality, BIG, FaZe Clan, Complexity, Renegades, Spirit, and mousesports successfully entered the group stage.

In the evening, the group stage grouping and the list of first-round matches were released.

At 7:9 p.m. on July 7th, Heroic will face the CIS team Spirit for the first time.

Face Heroic.

Spirit's command chopper did not dare to take it lightly.

In the training room of the hotel, with a stern face, he looked at his players: "Brothers, I never thought that our first group match would be the number one seed champion."

"Hmph, champion, don't panic, I've already studied Clear thoroughly." Degster, who was only 19 years old, looked at his bearded captain with some disdain. "They will not be our opponents."

He is young and confident.

He thinks he can be a player like s1mple.

So a few months ago, as soon as he came to Spirit, he put forward his request to the team.

He needs the unconditional support of the team.

It means that someone sends him AWP at any time.

But chopper ruthlessly rejected him, the reason is very simple: "You are still young, what you need is experience, s1mple is 19 years old in Navi, but he wants to shoot GuardiaN."

At this time, coach Certus frowned when he heard his teammates talking nonsense: "Don't underestimate him, ZywOo has already suffered countless losses from him."

"This Heroic, since Clear left, seems to have completely changed the team."

"The state of Clear has continued from EPL13 to now."

"As far as I know, he took the time to go home once, but whether it's rest or other things, it can't affect his state."

Chopper suddenly sighed.

once Upon a time.

Clear also asked in FPL if he could join Spirit.

At that time, Clear was just an unknown second-tier player.

He deeply regretted his ridicule at that time.

It would be great if I agreed directly at that time...

But nothing is if.

Chopper turned his head to look at the rebellious degster, and sneered, "Can you tell me how you studied Clear?"

"Hmph, look at this." Degster smiled contemptuously, turned around and opened the network disk on the computer.

The network disk is full of folders named after professional player IDs.

Degster clicked on the one named Clear, and said confidently.

"I knew that if I wanted to win the championship, I would meet him sooner or later."

"So I studied all his positions and habits early on."

"How can a rifleman fight a sniper head-on? I really don't believe in this evil."

Looking at this thorny head who often skips training, but has such ambition and attitude, Chopper suddenly regained his spirits.

The game starts tomorrow.

And it's the last one.

Spirit has full time to make tactical adjustments.

The goal of their trip is to enter the knockout rounds.

But if Heroic can win, it will bring a huge boost to the team's morale and confidence.

That's not just a simple matter of knockout!
Thinking of this, Chopper put down the anger and dissatisfaction in his heart, smiled at Degster and said, "Can we take a look at these things together?"

"We all want to win Heroic."

Degster raised his head lightly: "No problem!"

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