CSGO: This player is too persuasive!

Chapter 495 55. God's Attention

As the tall man packed up his peripherals, the sound of keyboard typing and communication not far away indicated that the game was not over yet.

At least today's game isn't over yet.

There are still many teams making great efforts to avoid being eliminated, and the excited or disappointed voices coming from our ears show their unwillingness.

In fact, their competition had just ended. In the third day's competition, VP narrowly defeated The Mongolz and successfully advanced to the next round of competition.

"Speaking of which, CS is now rising in Asia. The Mongolz is quite strong. We almost failed. What do you think, Jame?" Brother Electronic was packing up his peripherals while chatting with God.

"It's really impressive, but there's a limit to it," Jame replied.

Be it Jame or Brother Electronic, they have seen so many teams. The Mongolians' performance was indeed outstanding, which even surprised them that they were so strong. But after all, it is a systematic team with limited ceiling, so it is difficult to surprise them.

"In fact, among the Asian players, only Nice can really make me feel pressured. But I remember the game between COL and VP during IEM Chengdu, their performance was quite abstract." Brother Electronic watched the video of that game at that time and was still impressed.

Even though COL won the IEM Chengdu Championship, many netizens joked that "VP's value is still rising."

"Nice actually played well." Jame recalled that game. At that time, Nice's performance was actually quite good, but it was limited by the poor performance of other members of the team, which led to a serious overall collapse. Then he smiled, "But if they still play that way, we can easily defeat them."

VP's strong discipline gives it a very high bottom line, and it is easy for them to catch the timing of their opponents' mistakes.

If COL performs the same as they did in IEM Chengdu, it will not be difficult for them to win once the two teams face off.

"But they are also seeking change." Electronics brother carefully put the keyboard into the peripheral bag. "Group D is not very stressful. They have been practicing the new map for the past two days."

"It seems like we are playing NAVI today?" Brother Electronic was a little unsure.

Although he was paying attention to the COL team, he was not in charge at the moment and just took a quick look.

Fame, nicknamed Archangel, had already taken his phone back from the staff. Hearing their conversation, he came over and replied, "Yes, their opponent today is NAVI. And you would never have thought that NAVI lost to COL this time!"

Brother Electronic and God looked at each other and knew that something must have happened.

As one of the four T4 teams in the current competition, NAVI was actually defeated by COL at this point, which really surprised them.

And judging from Fame's confused expression, things are definitely not that simple.

"Just now I saw a group of NIP people walking towards the player channel. They were talking about COL, but the atmosphere was a bit weird..."

"Tell me carefully..."

Fame added as he looked at his phone: "COL was shut out by NAVI. NAVI didn't even get a single map..."

"COL aren't you going to practice the new map anymore?" Brother Electronic interrupted Fame with some surprise.

COL has big ambitions and plans to use this league for training through competition.

Using the league to practice is something that the old Dengs have done more or less, so it is not surprising.

But he practiced the map in the first two days, but stopped practicing when he met a team with a higher level later. If this is the case, Brother Electronics is speechless about COL.

"No, they are still practicing the new map. The second map is Anubis, which they chose themselves. But they just gave NAVI a lot of pain on this map!" Fame had a look of dismay on his face.

Audiences all over the world like the emergence of dark horses.

Watching the stronger side lose is something that many people besides the fans are happy to see.

"I found the comments here quite interesting. It seems that after entering the second map, NAVI was in the lead, but every time they got the rhythm, someone from COL burst out. Even COL won the first round because Nice stepped on fire and burst out..."

"Olaf has made a big change in COL!" Fame was very happy when he saw the post-match comments on HLTV.

It’s not that any scene was particularly funny, it’s just that he felt very happy when he saw NAVI being smashed by COL.

This is normal. As a team in the CIS region, few people like NAVI.

They don't hate the players of the current NAVI team, but they hate this Ukrainian club that does 'zzzq'.

Not to mention that VP was almost unable to play in the game because of the NAVI club.

So Fame is the type who wishes NAVI to die.

"This is a bit too exaggerated." Brother Electronic took a breath, "He took out a practice map and blew up NAVI?"

"Do you want to be so exaggerated?"

As a well-known unlucky guy in the circle, he once served as a commander, so he has some understanding of things like practicing maps.

In a CS2 match, if a map is used for practice and the opponent is a top team, getting 8 points is already very good, and 10 points is excellent.

But this COL was actually defeated by NAVI during the map practice!
What is the concept?
You have to know that NAVI has not only practiced this map many times, they also have a lot of records in the competition.

Jame came over to take a look at the post-match data and found that Nice had an average rating of 1.77 in the two maps. Elige's rating was second, with an average of 1.34 in the two maps, followed by NIKO with a rating of 1.22.

Now he understood.

As an academic commander, he had a deep understanding of the style of the player Nice, so when he saw this data, he roughly understood the situation of the game.

"It's not that anyone on their team performed exceptionally well on this map, but COL's overall performance was better than NAVI's in this BO3." God expressed his opinion calmly.

Fame smiled and gave Jame a thumbs up. "Seeing the essence through the phenomenon is amazing! It is indeed true. I took a quick look at the battle report and found that the COL players had many more highlights than NAVI. The explosive power of the COL team is too strong!"

Jame's lips curled slightly, "It seems that the team with the most firepower in the future will probably be COL."

"Now, when it comes to teams that rely on firepower, Vitality relies too much on the performance of the carrier, G2 obviously lacks firepower and needs to update its lineup, Faze has temporarily lost its fighting spirit and is in a slump. Only COL seems to be firing on all cylinders."

Then Jame looked at Fame and said, "But why are you so happy? COL will be our opponent next. It is very likely that we will play against COL next..."

Hearing this, Fame immediately reacted: "Yeah, it seems like we're going to play COL later!"

Then, as if to convince himself, he smiled and said, "But it's okay. We beat them at IEM Chengdu before, so it won't be a big problem this time."

Listening to the Archangel's answer, Jame did not reply, but had a strong idea.

From IEM Chengdu to now, the entire COL team may have changed a lot.

Is their building still at that level?
Are there any major changes in their formation?
Do they have any new tactics?

Jame suddenly wanted to meet COL in the next game.

……

Xu Beifang returned to the hotel to rest after the game.

As usual, they reviewed the game first. Although they were very happy that Anubis won the second picture, there were still many problems in their understanding that needed to be corrected.

Moreover, Xu Beifang also had a lot of thoughts about the NAVI cigarette, which he also brought up and recorded during the review.

Thanks to having just defeated NAVI and successfully advanced in the competition, everyone was very interested at this time and was learning very enthusiastically.

After the review, they all felt a little confused.

Whether many things can work and how much we have learned from this review, we still have to test them in competitions and feel them through our own feedback.

After the review, they all sat in the training room to do simple exercises while waiting for KFC takeout.

Coach Xiaoxi then explained some follow-up arrangements.

"The third day of competition is officially over. There are seven other teams entering the knockout stage like us, namely G2, Mouz, VP, Astralis, Liquid, Vitality and Faze."

NIKO was practicing shooting without headphones. Hearing this, he joked, "They are all familiar faces. There is no dark horse."

“Actually, we are considered the dark horse,” Danking joked.

If they failed to defeat NAVI, the confrontation on the first day of the knockout stage would really be between the old acquaintances.

They appeared in the netizens' field of vision for a short time and were still relatively niche.

Coach Xiaoxi added: "I just took a look at the group table for the first day of the knockout stage. In the same group, our opponents are VP, G2, and Mouz."

"But on the first day we played against VP, but for the semi-finals, I hope everyone will treat Mouz as an imaginary enemy..."

"Why not G2?" NIKO asked curiously. Although he had left G2, he felt that G2 was not that weak.

With my cousin and hunter here, our fighting power is pretty strong.

Coach Xiaoxi shook his head: "The Mouz team is still very strong now. They have won several championships this year. Except for being suppressed by Faze bloodline, their combat effectiveness is actually top-notch."

"G2, on the other hand, is a little too dependent on their form, I think you can understand that."

Although Mouz has always been suppressed by the Faze bloodline.

But Coach Xiaoxi did not underestimate them. After all, Mouz had achieved many good results this year, the team's performance was there, and commander siuhy was the most outstanding young commander of the new generation, with unlimited future.

On the other hand, COL is still in the process of training through competitions, and they may collapse in any game.

So Coach Xiaoxi will look further ahead.

As for the VPs that are closer, there is no need to treat them as imaginary enemies. The VPs are tomorrow's opponents.

They just need to prepare well and have a real fight in the game tomorrow.

Even after entering the knockout stage, they still felt a bit rushed overall.

But it must be said that today's victory over NAVI during practice gave him a lot of hope.

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

As long as they play at their best level, they will be able to beat most of the first-tier teams.

By bringing out the team's potential, they will be able to compete with the best teams in the world.

However, as a COL coach, he had seen too many disappointing scenes, so he had to be cautious.

After practicing for a while, the KFC takeaway finally arrived.

Xu Beifang also stopped temporarily and started to enjoy dinner.

Danking came over at this time and asked quietly: "Northern, are we going to practice the map next?"

"Well...if there's a chance, I'll take the initiative to practice, but I won't force you to practice." Xu Beifang took a piece of plain chicken from the takeaway box and looked up at Danking: "Why, do you feel reluctant to give up the bonus?"

The prize money for the EPL S19 event is quite generous, with the prize money alone being around 17 US dollars. In addition, this event can also accumulate the Intel Grand Slam, so the gold content is actually not low.

Danking shook his head: "The prize money is indeed a lot, but I also make a lot of money every month. The point is not the prize money, but that we seem to have a chance to win the championship now!"

He doesn't particularly care about the prize money, but he really cares about whether he can win the championship.

He still misses the championship he won at the IEM Chengdu last time. It was such a great feeling that all other teams were defeated by you and everyone could only watch you take the trophy.

Now that they have made it to the knockout stage once again, Danking is thinking about playing hard as long as he has the chance.

You don’t have to win the championship, but at least try your best so that you won’t regret it.

After Xu Beifang simply responded to Danking, he started thinking about this matter while eating fried chicken.

This is indeed a very difficult question.

Thinking in the long run, there will be plenty of opportunities to practice in these top-level competitions. One map competition is equivalent to more than ten hours of training matches.

In training matches, everyone basically holds back and rarely releases anything truly influential.

This results in many teams being shot down one by one in training matches, and not knowing who they are two minutes into the game.

However, we finally made it to the knockout stage. It would be a pity if we were unfortunately eliminated later because of the problem of using competition as training.

Moreover, compared to map practice, Xu Beifang feels that the most important thing is to build championship confidence for his teammates.

Sometimes, winning a major championship can bring about a qualitative change in a player.

Even if there is no qualitative change, as long as winning more makes them more confident, the subtle change can play a big role.

In the end, he chose to pursue the championship rather than training through competition.

The ceiling of his teammates is actually very high, and today's game proves a lot.

Let them build up their confidence slowly, and it will become much easier to practice maps or adjust their playing styles later on.

But, are we going to play VP tomorrow?
They had lost to VP once before at IEM Chengdu, so this time they wanted revenge.

However, the previous VP lacked firepower, but this time after Electronic Brother joined, things seem to have improved.

In that case, he really wanted to see what it would be like when VP, with its enhanced firepower, faced them.

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(End of this chapter)