CS: I became Top 1 by grinding my skill level

Three days later, at nine o'clock in the morning, in the team's training room.

"Orange Team? Isn't that a bit too kindergarten-level?"

Ekko hovered in front of Boss Du, expressing his dissatisfaction with the team's name.

"My sister started it; she's also partly a funder."

Du Sinian, holding a stack of documents, sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation.

"Shouldn't the English name be OG Team? Or Orange Gaming?"

Han Tian, ​​who was sitting in a chair eating an apple, discovered the key point.

"Yes, it shares the same name as a European professional team. What do you think? Isn't it classy?"

"Ugh~"

Ignoring Ike's funny face, Du Sinian asked Han Tian, ​​"Speaking of which, how's the progress on the expert you said you were going to recruit a few days ago? The competition is in ten days. Even though it's a small competition, we should still allow for a week of training time, right?"

After listening, Han Tian smiled wryly and said, "I've asked you several times, but you haven't given me a straight answer. Give me two more days. If that doesn't work, I'll have to ask you, Captain, to hire mercenaries."

“Ding Di—”

Han Tian's phone rang with WeChat. He opened the chat and saw a message from Zhang Zhen asking if he wanted to duo queue for 5E. The season was coming to an end, and the rule was that the top 5 players would qualify for the PL tournament.

5EPL, or 5E platform's FPL league modeled after the European CS platform Faceit, is a super elite league. The participants are all top CS players, including well-known streamers, pub stars, youth training talents, and even professional players. It is highly prestigious in the Chinese amateur CS scene. Players who rank high in this competition can not only receive prize money from the platform, but also have the opportunity to try out for professional club youth training programs.

Han Tian felt that he and Zhang Zhen should have no problem qualifying for the PL (Player Pro League) in duo queue, because in the past few days, their win rate in the ranked ladder had reached an astonishing 90%. The two of them swept through the Perfect World top ranked ladder with Han Tian's amazing shooting skills and Zhang Zhen's excellent awareness.

This is both why Zhang Zhen was willing to duo queue with Han Tian and why Han Tian insisted on bringing Zhang Zhen to the Orange team.

"Zhang Zhen and I are going to team up for 5E. Do you guys want to come and watch so you can see for yourselves how good this guy is?"

Du Sinian nodded, and Ike brought over two small stools. The two of them sat down behind Han Tian to watch the battle.

"I've encountered this Zoku before. His marksmanship and awareness are extremely strong. I also suspected that he might be cheating, but after reviewing the demo, I didn't think so."

On the small stool behind him, Ike, who had just sat down, gave his opinion while eating sunflower seeds.

Soon after Zhang Zhen entered the room, Han Tian started the matchmaking process.

"Finally, I'm not a user anymore." Looking at Han Tian's new Steam ID, "zero", Du Sinian smiled slightly. He liked this simple yet formal English name very much. This was the format that a professional player's name should use.

......

Seafood live streaming platform, CSGO section.

Popular streamer Beihai started his live stream for the day with an eye-catching title: "If I don't reach 3000 points this season, I'll bite a lighter on stream!" He then opened the 5E platform and started his first match of the day.

"Beep beep—" Match successful. Beihai covered the camera with a tissue, secretly lit a mosquito coil, and picked up his phone to check the comments.

A line of colored comments floated by; it was from a long-time fan who had sent many gifts.

"Beizi, there's a cheater across from you, a guy named Long. You reviewed his demo before, and he said he wanted to find you to prove himself and even asked you for travel expenses."

Beihai didn't bother to wipe away the cigarette ash on the table; he quickly and carefully opened the document to examine it.

Sure enough, the "cheater" he mentioned was right opposite him, and it even showed that they were duo-queueing.

"Does anyone know this guy named Zero, who's duo-queuing with this cheater?"

Taking a deep drag of his cigarette, Beihai asked his viewers.

"I encountered this in a high-elo game, he was a lock-on player, his accuracy was ridiculously high." A comment appeared in the chat within seconds.

"He's incredibly accurate; he's taken points from me in several rounds."

"I've seen his perspective; he can pull the gun all the way to the head in one frame, so it must be a headshot cheat."

Many viewers echoed this sentiment in the comments.

Beihai clicked on Han Tian's Steam homepage.

"Less than 200 hours of gameplay??"

"Perfect platform Demon King S70 stars? Rating 1.8?"

"Not a single item in stock? Guys, this is ridiculous, I'll just eat it all!"

Bei Hai was relieved, after all, Han Tian's stats and game time were too outrageous, even more so than Zhang Zhen's, which seemed like cheating.

"So I ran into two big cheaters duo-queuing in a 5E top-ranked game, huh?" Bei Hai thought to himself. Duo-queuing with cheaters, even if you're wrongly accused, you deserve it! He immediately stubbed out his cigarette and realized in an instant that this was God sending him traffic.

As a part-time CS commentator, his live stream is among the top in the CS section, but because he often curses and puts pressure on his teammates in the game, and his commentary skills are also mediocre, he has lost a lot of fans in today's world where the player base is getting younger and CS tournaments are becoming increasingly popular.

Therefore, he recently had to increase his efforts in identifying and appraising products and to open up new avenues for his business.

For him, whether the two people named Zero and Long are cheaters or not is unimportant. What matters most is making the audience think they are cheaters, creating hype, and getting traffic.

Even if I made a mistake, I can just say later that I was thinking about the CS environment in China.

"If I handle this wave of traffic well, I can solidify my status as the number one in the appraiser section," Beihai thought to himself.

Soon, the game began, on the map: Desert City.

Beihai directly changed the title of his live stream to: "Watch the streamer torture two cheaters."

During the warm-up, Beihai typed directly in the public chat: "You two, yellow long and green zero, you cheaters, do you even deserve to duo queue and top the rankings?"

"You can play in official matches, but you want to play in a 5E match with perfect cheats, huh? How much did you pay for your custom-made high-end cheats? Dare to play in a 2800-point match?"

Soon, the team's voice chat in Beihai exploded.

"Really?! How can we play if the other team is cheating??"

"By the way, bro, your voice sounds like that streamer Beihai."

"I'm Beihai, the streamer. My channel is xxxx. Brothers, please follow me!"

After finishing typing, Bei Yangyang felt quite pleased with himself, thinking that he was indeed quite well-known.

"Two of you are involved in this scheme. If you run into me, you're in for a world of trouble. I've already contacted the authorities, and you'll be banned immediately. I'll ban every single account you create!"

Beihai sent Han Tian and Zhang Zhen's IDs directly to the platform's official reporting group for streamers, hoping to see if the platform could ban these two cheaters.

Although Beihai knew the platform was unlikely to be shut down, this was just a smokescreen, a prelude to set the stage for dealing with these two cheaters later. The real show was just beginning.

Orange Team Training Room.

Du Sinian frowned. Are all cheat detection streamers so arbitrary these days? They just accuse others of cheating without any explanation?

"Should I call the platform officials and talk to them? After all, you're an official member of our team."

Du Sinian's family has extensive connections, and he knows several of the shareholders and executives of these two well-known CS platforms.

"Hey, no need. I'll prove myself in the offline competition in a few days. He's just trying to stir up trouble online, so he should be prepared to be the clown."

Han Tian didn't care much. These kinds of streamers were just trying to gain views. He could just shut them up with his skills, since he was going to be a professional player in the future.

"That streamer who called you a cheater before, could it be him?"

Han Tian suddenly realized that the name "Beihai" sounded familiar, and then he remembered that Zhang Zhen had told him before that he had been identified as a cheater by this streamer, and was harassed by many of his fans.

"It's him." Zhang Zhen's voice was very low in the YY voice chat, as if he had remembered something bad.

Soon, the warm-up phase ended, and the map was Desert City. The average score for 5E was 2800.

The pistol round begins.

At the T-side spawn point, Han Tian turned on voice chat: "Brothers, how do we play this game?"

A teammate quickly replied, "T side, blue chin, don't give up": "Is what Beihai said true? Are you two cheating?"

T-side Orange said eight times in one day: "Hmph, how am I supposed to play? You guys can see through the walls, why do you care how we play? Just finish this already so I can get some easy points, okay?"

T-shaped purple figure: "How much did you buy it for? Do you have a website?"

Okay, it seems the teammates all believed that streamer and think that Han Tian and Zhang Zhen must have been cheating.

Han Tian immediately muted his microphone and only communicated with Zhang Zhen in YY.

Because he knew that no matter how he explained it now, it wouldn't be convincing.

After comforting Zhang Zhen over the voice chat, Han Tian checked his distance from the middle lane and point B, and decisively asked Zhang Zhen for a P250.

As the countdown ended, Han Tian strode towards bomb site B.

At this moment, the CT team's anchor Beihai took advantage of his position and arrived at the B white car position early to use his USP to get a headshot. From this position, he could see the opponent's head as soon as they came out.

......

Han Tian took the P250 and had Zhang Zhen follow him quietly with the bag. The two of them quietly walked to the kitchen on the second floor of Building B.

The teammates were still exchanging fire in the middle lane, without communicating.

Beihai, who had been holding the white car at point B for a long time, saw that no one had come, so he stood up and jumped to take a look.

They happened to run into Han Tian, ​​who was being pulled out.

The crisp sound of a P250 gun firing rang out.

"puff--"

T "Zero" used a P250 to headshot and kill CT "hxTVxxxxBeihai".

"Fuck..." Bei Hai, who was about to unleash a torrent of C language code in a fit of rage, suddenly turned his eyes around and shouted into the microphone, "See that, brothers? I wasn't lying to you. This is pure headshot lock, no acting involved."

The chat in the live stream was clearly starting to get swayed by Beihai:

"If you're so accurate, why don't you go pro? Don't you like fame and money?"

"Don't go pro, or we'll have a Forsaken in Chinese CS."

"When these two arrived at the competition venue, they heard that professional matches don't allow USB drives, so they retired on the spot, hahaha."

......

In the match, after losing the pistol round, the CT team set up a pistol position in the middle during the eco round, which was wiped out in just over ten seconds by Han Tian and Zhang Zhen. In the first rifle round, Zhang Zhen took advantage of his first position at point A to break through and get the first kill. Han Tian followed up with a double kill. With their superior gun skills, they easily forced the CT team to save their weapons at point B, successfully bringing the score to 3-0.

"Did you have a past conflict with this streamer?"

Having played so many duo queue games and witnessed Ropz's various VAC-level plays in the [Master Class], Han Tian naturally knew that Zhang Zhen couldn't possibly be cheating.

"He said I was the one who cheated, so I went to him and asked him to prove my innocence."

"But I really don't have much money; I can't even afford the fare to go to the capital."

"I thought he was a big streamer and a public figure, so I sent him pictures of my ID card and household registration book, just asking him to give me 500 yuan for the bus fare."

"But he didn't respond to me...and he even published all my personal information..."

"I'm sorry... I've dragged you into this..."

Zhang Zhen's voice was low and trembling slightly as he spoke, indicating that this experience had been a significant blow to a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.