Chapter 40 Facing the Big Brother of the CIS Head-on
In the Group A match on the third day of the group stage, it was similar to most people’s predictions. The strength of the two teams vc and ngg was very different. vc easily crushed nkg and successfully advanced to the knockout rounds.
The confrontation between Group A and Group B was stress-free, while the match between Group C and Group D was intense.
This game is an old classic, and it was played in the finals of the Fog City major just now.
The CIS Kings aka faced off against the Danish dynasty team AE.
Picture 1: In the town of Purgatory, ae used their cooperation and details to win with an advantage of 5 points.
In Figure 2, Ikaros, who was already in the twilight of his career, returned to his peak. He scored 36 kills on his own and helped his teammates win Figure 2.
When we arrived at the train station in Figure 3.
The ten people on the field were already very excited, especially aka.
In this big CT map, as the offensive side, they scored 7 points in the first half.
Although it seems that they are only one point behind, you need to know that the passing score of the train stop map is 10 points.
AE only scored 8 points, and the pressure was immediately stretched.
But in the second half, ae started their detailed attack.
The score on the court was chased by ae to 14 points, only one step away from the match point.
At this critical moment, Ting, a young player in the aka team, played an amazing 1v3 in the end game, which brought back aka's low morale.
At the same time, the economy was restored, and aka began their journey of chasing points at this time.
They started scoring consecutively and successfully got the match point.
But the problem is that they failed to hold on to this crucial last score.
AE relied on a wave of unconventional turning points to successfully drag the game into overtime.
At the beginning of overtime, the two sides started to be on the same starting line again.
After that, the two top teams in the world played four consecutive overtimes before Ting's mistakes ended the game.
The VC players watched with great interest off the field and had to admire the strength of these two top teams in the world.
But when they thought about how they would play against such a strong team in the future, they were not so happy.
They want to win the game no matter what. Although they can strengthen themselves by playing against these strong teams, losing is not very satisfying.
But this is all a few days later.
After the third day of the group stage, vc had a two-day holiday.
During these two days of vacation, Meng De did not force the players to increase their training volume.
He only asked the players to maintain basic training so that they could maintain their own feel, which was enough.
After winning the first place in the group during a tight schedule, I can relax my mental state during these two days of vacation.
For them, this is a very good adjustment time.
However, in the afternoon of the second day, Mengde began to let the players practice the tactics he drew that day.
Their preparations before the game were all in order.
But at this time, they learned about their grouping in the quarterfinals.
Opponent on the first day.
Their old friend - aka from the CIS.
The VC team members discussed today's game. Xigua, Snaji and Xiaogui didn't have much confidence in today's game.
You know, during the Fog Major, their training match win rate against aka was 37.
This is when they are in good form. When they are in bad form, they can even play for an entire afternoon without winning a game.
So, the pressure tomorrow will be really great.
Inside vc’s temporary hotel.
Meng De checked the status of the team members on one side and reminded them one by one to start taking a rest.
"There will be a game tomorrow afternoon. Everyone should go to bed early and maintain their condition."
"We still have warm-up training in the morning, so don't let me stay in bed."
After hearing Meng De's instructions, the team members also began to leave the computer, wash up and rest.
The boy's thoughts come and go quickly.
Although they are worried about tomorrow's game, the game is approaching, and they can only face it bravely.
Besides, they don't think they have no hope at all.
Even in the previous foggy city, didn't they still have a 30% winning rate?
What's more, they have been constantly updating their tactics, and their strength has improved significantly during the Fog Major.
They are all young people who have just entered the profession. For Mengde, each of them has a different personality, which makes management a bit troublesome.
But they are young and frivolous. They are all young at this moment, how can they not be frivolous.
Rather than facing the failure of a strong team, what they would rather see is the moment when they overthrow a strong team!
Meng De analyzed today's game video again and recorded some important points.
By the time he returned to the room, Kennys and the director were already sleeping soundly.
They all know the importance of tomorrow's game.
After the quarterfinals, the knockout stage has begun.
The team that loses each game will be eliminated directly.
So they didn't want to lose the game due to their own reasons, so they let themselves fall asleep early.
VC has no way out, and every subsequent game will be a match point.
Meng De looked out the window. The moonlight was bright but extremely soft at the moment.
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In November in the imperial capital, there is already a hint of chill in the air.
However, the atmosphere in the Imperial Capital International Stadium today was unexpectedly lively.
The iem-Emperor City competition has reached the knockout stage. Today’s offline audience is at least one-third more than those in the group stage.
Looking at the ticket checking line, you can feel the huge number of people.
Especially today’s first game is vc versus aka.
As the second-largest team in the world today, aka has an extremely deep foundation and has the largest number of fans at home and abroad among all teams.
Even VC, which has the largest number of fans in China, would not dare to say today that its supporters exceed aka.
At almost three o'clock in the afternoon, ten players from the two teams began to take the field with the cheers of tens of thousands of spectators.
Before the start of this game, iem also specially started a guess about the two teams in the live broadcast room.
There is no doubt about the result, aka is far ahead with a support rate of nearly 75%.
This is the result of vc getting the emotional vote, which is conceivable.
Most viewers do not have confidence in VC, even though they have won two strong teams, SSS and FG before this.
But aka is different, aka is now ranked 2nd in the world.
The game against ae a few days ago also proved that they are in good condition. If they didn't win ae, it was just a short shot.
Although he can't beat the current number one in the world, there should be no pressure against VC.
"Welcome to the quarter-finals of iem-Emperor City. I am the commentator for this game." Nobita made the same opening remarks.
"I am explaining the evil view." The evil view next to him answered.
"This game will pit our home team VC against the old and strong team aka from the CIS. Players from both sides have entered the debugging stage and the game will start soon." Nobita turned to Xejian and said, "Although from this game on
Judging from the record, VC won the first place in the group, but aka is still very strong."
"Yes."
"So Xijian, which team do you like better today?" Nobita asked.
Xie Jian immediately replied: "Of course I am optimistic about aka. After all, the fact that the established and strong team did not win the first place in the group has something to do with their terrifying grouping."
"After all, my opponent is AE. This is a terrifying strength in any group."
"So, the top spot in this group does not accurately indicate the strength of these two teams."
Nobita next to him smiled: "Then I will support VC. Although they look a little weaker, they have played very well in recent games. I will vote for them."
Nobita glanced at the screen and continued: "Okay, the players have finished debugging, and the game has reached the BP stage."
"Because VC entered the knockout round 3-0 first, they didn't have to guess the game and got the right to ban the map first."
"We see that VC still banned the Mystery of the Dead City, which it is not good at."
Xie Jian answered: "This map has not been played even once since Cao Cao came to power, so it was naturally banned without mercy."
Nobita sighed: "This is also a helpless move. Our csgo started too late. If we want to achieve results, we must make choices. This map was abandoned."
However, he thinks this is not a big problem, because no matter what the game is, they have the right to ban the map, and they can choose not to play this map.
When they arrived at aka and started banning, they chose to send the amusement park away first.
VC's endless tricks in the amusement park a few days ago surprised them, and their own amusement park was not doing well, so they banned them very decisively.
When we came to VC to choose a picture, VC chose Sha Er, who is not often played.
Because Meng De knows that aka will definitely choose Lost City.
In some ways, this is a conspiracy.
You can let them play one more picture they want to play.
As Meng De expected, aka chose Lost City in the Desert.
They knew what Meng De's plot was, but they didn't care.
Because they don't think that their strong plan will fail in the hands of VC.
Lost City is the most powerful map in VC, but for aka.