CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

Ma Xixi was so angry at the various unexpected behaviors of the SG during the game that she almost had a brain hemorrhage.

What's going on with SG? In the first half of the second picture, they started with a score of 5:10, but Longxiao reversed it to 16:7 and won.

All the way to the train stop in Figure 3, the same scenario as in Figure 2 played out once again.

Masisi didn't want to commentate anymore because he could tell that SG had no intention of winning.

Based on his years of commentary experience, when you see a team lose so many games in a row using such an unbelievable method, it's highly likely they've been defeated.

"Eating" refers to players throwing matches and then making huge profits from betting websites.

Some players bet on the opposing team to win, then deliberately perform poorly and lose the game to reap huge rewards.

There are also speculations that bookmakers bribe players or coaches to instigate their teams to throw matches.

Masisi felt it was hard to say exactly which people in SG ate spinach, but judging from the situation, it seemed like everyone did.

This is the dark side of Chinese CS, Ma Xixi shook her head helplessly.

In the game, the score was 11-4, with Longxiao dominating SG at the end of the first half.

As an honest commentator, Ma Xixi immediately turned off the video broadcast; there was no need to watch it, it was just a bunch of clowns putting on a show.

"Let's take a look at the Group A matches. I heard that SD Su Dong's team today is not weak either."

I'm not in the mood to read the barrage of comments saying "If it's delicious, eat more."

Ma Xixi switched directly to the match between SD Su Dong Youth Training and ESEA team.

At this point, the second group stage match of Group A had just begun.

After calming herself down, Masixi began to commentate on the pistol round in Inferno Town, map one.

"At the start of the game, we saw that CT and SG had a triple-A defense."

"Huh? SD's Ren Feiyu is pushing straight to the enemy spawn point from the mid lane right from the start? He's completely disregarding the enemy team."

"Wow! A double kill in the front, followed by a clean sweep of the T on the side, that was pure, precise execution."

"That Ren Feiyu is really fierce!"

Ren Feiyu, 18 years old, is a sniper in the SD Sudong Youth Training Team. His arrogant personality both in and out of the game, and his aggressive and sharp sniping style have earned him the nickname "Little Simple" since his debut.

According to HLTV's records, he debuted a year ago, played five games in the secondary league with the team, and has a career rating of 1.31 so far, making him undoubtedly the team's star player.

Top domestic clubs such as TyLoo, VG, and IG have all extended offers to him, but Su Dong insisted on keeping him in the team by offering a doubled salary and a promise to be promoted to the main team this year.

Although his arrogant personality is not likable, it must be admitted that he is currently the most dazzling rising star in the Chinese CS region.

"puff--"

In Banana Lane, the CT wielding dual pistols killed the last terrorist.

"Is the level of the top 30 in ESEA really that bad?"

Once in the players' seats, Ren Feiyu, with a slightly relaxed smile, exchanged fist bumps with the expressionless young man next to him.

"I don't know, back in North America I was matched with people like 2K, Tarik, and Autobots."

The expressionless SD player next to him is named Shi Yang, 21 years old. When he was studying at university in Vancouver, he formed a CS team with his classmates. They even narrowly lost to the strong American team NRG in the North American qualifiers of that year's Berlin Major minor, stopping in the top eight. They were also featured in the news on HLTV at the time, "Minor dark horse? A group of amazing Chinese students studying abroad".

As a free agent from the North American region, his playing style is very similar to NAF-FLY Sloth, pursuing extreme stability and known for his calm and collected positioning and a high win rate in endgame situations.

His career rating on HLTV is 1.19, making him a highly sought-after player for the free agent position, coveted by various Chinese teams.

However, a promise made by SD at the beginning of the year attracted Shi Yang.

That is, due to the poor performance of the SD home team throughout last year, the SD Sudong Club plans to disband the home team roster after the mid-year break.

At the same time, all five players from the SD youth training team will be directly promoted to the home team. With the deep pockets of the Sudong club, the team will be able to play more matches than other clubs.

"16:8, congratulations to SD Sudong Youth Training for winning the first map."

Ma Xixi sighed. The opposing team, ESEA, wasn't some weak, amateur team. Instead, it was a team composed of several high-scoring international students from North America who had achieved high scores on the ESEA platform, hence the name.

I heard that these random guys have won a few small offline tournaments in North America.

Ma Xixi thinks that the ESEA team can compete with SG Starry Sky, of course, assuming that SG Starry Sky doesn't play poorly.

Unexpectedly, ESEA easily defeated SD's youth training team on their chosen map, completely dominating in aiming and unable to execute many tactics.

Since entering this competition, the SD Sudong youth training team has almost crushed every game. Ma Xixi estimates that even if this team is promoted to the main team, they can still put up a good fight against first-tier teams such as TyLoo and LVG.

"It seems there's little suspense about who will win this entire tournament."

Ma Xixi could only think to himself that as a truly neutral commentator, he naturally couldn't instill his true judgment into the audience.

Although he was quite optimistic about the Orange team, the gap between professional and non-professional teams was too big, not to mention that there were too many unstable factors on Orange's side. Although Ekko had returned to form, their sniper Zhao Qingcheng had never been consistent.

Such an unprofessional team with such obvious weaknesses and strengths will find it difficult to withstand a strong, established team like SD Youth Training.

"I hope Orange can at least get second place."

Masi really admires Zero, this talented free agent, and really doesn't want his debut match to be overshadowed by Su Dong in SD.

........

The match ended, in the rest room of the Dragon Roar team.

Despite winning the game, Beihai couldn't be happy.

There's no other reason than that the victory in this match was too suspicious. In the first game, the opponent completely crushed them, and in the second and third games, it was as if the opponents had planned it all along, with someone deliberately sabotaging the game for every point.

"Damn it! They're eating my food!"

No matter what, he was a seasoned veteran who had competed for many years. After the Beihai match, when he bumped fists with his opponent, he saw the smiling expression on the other team member's face and instantly understood.

The opposing team didn't care about this match at all.

Beihai scrolled through his phone, looking up the match records of SG Youth Training over the past few days. Sure enough, no matter which team they played against, this team would almost always deliberately lose a map to the other side.

"These kids in youth training are already eating vegetables, damn it, they're really promising for the future."

Bei Hai sneered. At least he would do anything for traffic, but he never ate vegetables when he was a professional player.

Because no matter what, he was a member of that old MG team, a player who had won a world championship for the country, and naturally he didn't want to embarrass that old MG team, nor did he want to embarrass his captain...

"well--"

Thinking of this, Bei Hai sighed. He had a headache just thinking about how Chang Bo was so stubborn. His original intention in bringing Chang Bo and Lao Tang to the competition was actually good.

He knew that Lao Tang and Chang Bo had been living a very ordinary life since they retired.

Chang Bo only wanted to find a job as a coach for a third-tier team but struggled to find an introduction, while Lao Tang had been quietly making CS tutorial videos on video platforms, but his fans and attention were very low.

Beihai had originally planned to use his influence and network to help them after the competition.

I just didn't expect that Chang Bo still hasn't calmed down after all these years, and he still likes to get stuck on things just like he did back then.

"Sigh, let's talk about it later."

Beihai updated the group information in the official tournament group.

"Tomorrow's opponents...it's them after all..."

The sign above clearly reads: Group B Finals: OG Orange vs. DRG Dragon Roar.