CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

After Ike helped set up the live streaming equipment and activate the HX platform live streaming account, Han Tian clicked the live streaming button.

It has to be said that the captain's move was really brilliant, because back in 20, CS cheats had not yet evolved to be as seamless as they are now.

Even some highly skilled players who already have excellent basic skills can use micro-locks and DMA, coupled with realistic acting, making it difficult for high-level players to tell that it's a cheat.

However, even the most advanced custom-made cheats can be identified by top-ranked players who can analyze the details of a player's hand movements and demos to determine whether they are using cheats.

"HX Live Room 6658, everyone is welcome to join us."

During the paused game, this sentence suddenly appeared on the public chat.

Beihai: "??? What do you mean?"

His mind went blank for two seconds before he suddenly realized something was wrong, but there was nothing he could do to stop it. The number of viewers in the live stream dropped drastically, clearly because they had all gone to Han Tian's live stream to watch "Cheater" start his broadcast.

"Brothers, don't believe that! Report it to the official channels. Streaming with cheats violates the rules of the HX platform!"

As he spoke, he used another computer to view the live stream page provided by Han Tian. On the screen was their match and—a slender, fair hand dragging the mouse back and forth.

I glanced up at the headline: "Live Stream with Cameraman - Making Slanderers Pay the Price."

Bei Hai's fleshy face twitched, and his brows furrowed: "If you can stir up trouble for me just by doing a live stream, then all these years of live streaming have been for nothing?"

Immediately afterwards, he started sending messages to his small circle of streamers—more than a dozen CS streamers—asking them to support him and insist that Han Tian and his companion were cheaters.

These streamers vary in size, but they have one thing in common—they were all brought up by Beihai's popularity. They also form a small circle, so they won't refuse to help Beihai with his requests if they can.

"Things have come to this point, we can only take it one step at a time."

"So what?" Bei Hai sneered. "Even if you really aren't cheating, so what? Prove it yourself offline in professional youth training? Dream on!"

"I know people at every well-known professional club. You weren't even born when I was in the CS scene!"

"In this industry, power and connections matter. It's easy to keep the two of you stuck in this circle and prevent you from ever getting ahead."

After Han Tian started his broadcast, the game resumed after the pause ended, accompanied by a barrage of insults in the chat.

Switching to the CT side, Han Tian immediately defended B site with half armor and a USP. Relying on his professional-level positioning and maneuvering around the bomb site, he easily secured a triple kill, dragging the game out until Zhang Zhen returned to defend, and thus winning the point.

After switching to the CT side, Han Tian and his partner had a much easier time, because there were no more disgusting things like teammates planting the bomb only to have the enemy defuse it, and they had many more opportunities for fair gunfights.

In a 2v5 situation, Han Tian and Zhang Zhen managed to drag the score to 9:15, but with the T team's five players flanking point A for the last point, they were already outnumbered, and their teammates even threw fireballs to burn their own gun positions and throw smoke for the enemy.

Han Tian and Zhang Zhen still lost this point.

Although Han Tian ultimately lost the game, the comments in his live stream changed, no longer consisting of one-sided insults.

"Can someone who uses cheat codes even start a live stream?"

"Get out of here, you officials! Don't pollute the platform environment!"

"No, what rank are you guys at? The streamer clearly has great skills; his positioning, body control, and peek are all very good."

"I came from the Beihai live stream. I'm a Diamond S30 star. I think the streamer and his teammates' perspectives are pretty good. You can tell that the streamer's positioning and recoil control skills are very strong."

"I played on Faceit for a while, and I feel like this streamer's aim is comparable to that of FPL pro players."

"The streamer's positioning is so weird, how can they even set up a gun from such an absurd spot?"

"This positioning strategy? Are you perhaps a MOUZ Ropz?"

Han Tian was engrossed in reading the comments when suddenly, a friend request came from someone on his team, who was in blue. Han Tian was puzzled, so he clicked "accept" to see what this person wanted.

In the chat box, the CT player from the previous game, "Qianqiancaocao" in blue, wrote: "Actually... I'm sorry, bro, after watching so many games, I don't think you guys are really cheaters. What I did this game was pretty disgusting, so I apologize to you guys."

Han Tian didn't take it to heart at first, because he knew who the culprit was: "It's okay, we're all buddies, and if there's a free AK Red Line, why not take it?"

"However, next time you encounter something like this, I hope you can use your own judgment more. Come to my live stream later and send me a fan badge, and this matter will be over."

"No problem, bro, I'll send you five!"

It seems there are always some people who still have a conscience.

On the other side, Beihai, the streamer who was overjoyed with his victory, was reading the chat comments in the live stream, but a few annoying noises gradually appeared:

"Could the streamer have really misjudged? The other person even turned on their camera and showed their hands."

"I sent the demo to Leon Kai, and he said it can't be determined whether it's a cheat or not."

Seeing the barrage of comments no longer overwhelmingly supporting him, Bei Hai felt as uncomfortable as if a rat dropping had been mixed into his eight-treasure porridge.

After making up an excuse to end the broadcast, Beihai's expression turned somewhat gloomy.

He strolled into the luxuriously decorated living room, sat down on the sofa, and gently stroked the jade thumb ring with his fingers. After a long while, he slowly picked up the phone from the tea table in front of him. "Hey, mynah, it's like this..."

.....

In the city of Yuan, torrential rain poured down, and the windows of residential houses creaked loudly in the strong wind.

Inside the room, Zhang Zhen lay on the bed, his hands behind his head, staring blankly upwards at the ceiling where water dripped down. After a long while, he picked up his phone. The screen was still open, displaying a WeChat chat window: "The Electric Snake Cup is in ten days. There's a team from Beihai participating. Are you coming?"

Looking further down, there was a picture of a high-speed rail ticket from Weifang to Jinan, along with a specific address: No. xxx, Building xxx, Chiguiyuan, Huayuan Road, Jinan. Han Tian had bought the ticket for him and given him the address of the team's training hall.

Zhang Zhen got up and looked out the window into the yard. A plastic bucket was upside down next to the well, and the bottom of the bucket was being hit by rainwater with a "pitter-patter" sound. Suddenly, the upside-down plastic bucket was blown over by a strong wind, and the rainwater falling from the sky slanted into the horizontal mouth of the bucket.

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

Zhang Zhen turned off his phone, put it back in his pocket, and outside the window, the rain continued to pour down.

Haidong Province is geographically located by the sea, so the sweltering heat is often accompanied by typhoons and torrential rains.

In Jinan, the torrential rain continued for five days before finally subsiding.

On the second floor of the Orange Team's training hall, harsh reprimands were being shouted.

"Ekko! How many times have I told you? Don't push forward without permission, don't push forward without permission!! How many map rights have we lost by so easily giving them away?"

Holding a thick stack of A4 papers, Du Sinian abandoned his usual gentle and scholarly demeanor and launched into a tirade against Ike, who was huddled in a corner seat.

"I...I just wanted to find an opportunity to get the first kill, I came here through breakthrough..."

Although he had known Boss Du for a long time, he still wasn't used to Boss Du's strict version of Ekko. He sat in his gaming chair with his legs crossed and weakly tried to defend himself.

"You've gone mad from playing ranked matches! Don't touch ranked matches before a tournament!"

"Next!"

Han Tian turned his head slightly; it was his turn to be educated.

"Your choice of location is very skillful, it looks like you've put in a lot of effort. However, Xiao Han, your map pool is too shallow. Even a Gold S in the simplest three maps can throw items better than you."

Facing Han Tian, ​​this incredible prospective brother, Du Sinian's tone softened slightly.

"That's all for now, Captain. I'll be practicing my props intensively for the next few days!"

Han Tian immediately raised his hand in agreement: being obedient would at least reduce the amount of scolding he would receive, unlike Ike who was stubborn.

Regarding items, it has indeed been one of Han Tian's biggest weaknesses recently. In his previous life, he only played the third map, and it's already quite good that he can still remember some simple items after transmigrating.

However, Du Sinian required them to be familiar with at least five diagrams and proficient in three.

According to Du Sinian's team strategy: their Orange team's strongest map is Mirage, and their second strongest map is Town. As for Dust2, a map heavily reliant on snipers, their team lacks a stable sniper, only having Zhao Qingcheng, whom Du Sinian signed with TyLoo last week and hasn't started training with yet, so it can only be played on a pseudo-strong map. Other maps like Nuke and Train, which have more complex tactics, are best banned for a team of ranked high-level players who haven't had much training. The remaining maps, Death Tower and Death Park, need to be practiced intensively in the next few days.

This 16-year-old is a formidable figure in the ranked ladder, achieving a 1.5 rating and ranking first on both the Perfect World 5E and dual-platform. It is said that in the 5Epl, he once beat the current TyLoo sniper danking so badly that he broke down and shouted on his live stream: "XCC was my dad in the past, Kaze is my dad now, and Battel (Zhao Qingcheng's ID) is going to be my future dad!!" This caused a burst of laughter from the audience.

No one doubts that Zhao Qingcheng will definitely have a place in the future of Chinese CS.

Du Sinian was one of the people who helped Zhao Qingcheng embark on his professional career a few years ago, so he was able to use his connections to get Zhao to fill in for him in these small Aladdin tournaments. Of course, if you ask Du Sinian if he's envious now, he's definitely green with envy. "Such a fierce young sniper, I really shouldn't have contacted Tianlu for him back then. If we had waited two more years for the Orange team to successfully register..."

Of course, the slightly chubby young man, decked out in head-to-toe trendy brand logos, had no idea what was going on. He casually spun around in his gaming chair.

Anyone could see that he was rather indifferent to this kind of small-scale event.

He was only playing in the Karami tournament to repay a favor to Brother Du. For Zhao Qingcheng, who has always aspired to be a professional player, it was just an insignificant grain of sand on his road to future fame.

Han Tian and Zhang Zhen didn't particularly like this arrogant young player who didn't communicate much during training matches, but neither of them said much, because he was just a replacement player.

Just when Han Tian thought Du Sinian would also let it go easily, Du Sinian suddenly spoke to Zhao Qingcheng in front of him. One sentence was enough to break Zhao Qingcheng's nonchalant attitude: "Little Fatty, I hope you don't get matched up against Su Dong's 'gen' too many times."

"Crunch, crunch, crunch..."

The swivel gaming chair suddenly stopped, and Zhao Qingcheng, who was smiling as he scrolled through short videos, froze, his chubby face blank: "Huh? Brother Du thinks I can't beat them?"

Star Gaming and Su Dong are two second-tier CS clubs in China. Star Gaming (SG) is a small, recently established club specializing in CS.

Sudong Club is a large club under Sudong Shopping Platform, which ranks among the top in China. Whether it is DOTA2, LOL or Overwatch, their name can be seen in all kinds of competitions. Although the CS division, which was established two years ago, is currently only second-tier, no one will underestimate its future development.

The reason is simple: the capital behind them is simply too abundant. In an era where even Tianlu, the top CS player in China, has to tighten its belt to make ends meet, the CS division of Sudong, backed by a money tree, even plans to sign professional players from Europe who are ranked in the top 20 of the HLTV rankings and bring them to China at high prices.

The sniper Gen mentioned by Du Sinian is a prodigy cultivated by the SD (Sudong) CS division. Du Sinian has seen Gen's demo, and he is steady and excellent at holding positions. His style is very similar to sh1ro of the Independent National Association team Red Star. As a conservative sniper, his 1.18 rating may not make him stand out among second-tier snipers, but Du Sinian believes that Gen will be a strong obstacle in this competition.

"It's possible in the ladder, but not necessarily in a competition. Your coach, Rongye, once told me: It's okay to lose a competition, but never leave yourself with regrets."

Putting down the document in his hand, Du Sinian spoke calmly to Zhao Qingcheng.

"No! I was wrong, brother. Don't tell Master Rong!"

Upon hearing the name "Master Rong," the fat man Zhao Qingcheng temporarily calmed down, clasped his hands together in supplication, and hurriedly ran back to his seat to start running the map. Whether he was actually training seriously or not remains to be seen.

"Zhang Zhen, do you know what your biggest weakness is?"

Du Sinian raised his hand and gently patted Zhang Zhen on the shoulder.

"Aim or choose a position?"

"Neither."

"You're too perfect."

"what?"