The comfortable nap time passed, and Meng De got up from the hotel bed. The dim light from the window shone on the table, letting the tactics sheet that he had folded countless times shine out.
Meng De looked a little distracted for a moment. It had been almost a year since he became the coach.
They started from a small third-tier team and seized every opportunity to climb up.
Step by step, the team becomes bigger and stronger, and slowly moves towards glory.
Now, they have reached the threshold of being a super first-line team.
In terms of strength, Meng De believes that VC must have it, but it's a bit embarrassing to say that they haven't been able to win a championship in the competition.
This point alone has caused VC fans to lose many arguments in forums. As the parties involved, they are naturally quite embarrassed.
The team doesn't have a serious trophy, and it can't win in front of other teams.
In the offline stage of st, there are only two bo3 games before winning the championship trophy.
They will move towards a new starting point.
ropz walked in, holding some analyzed data in his hand, and handed it to Meng De.
"This is something I learned from watching the hc game yesterday. Their tactics are also updated very quickly."
Meng De stood up, took off the windbreaker from the hanger next to him, and put it on.
Although there must be air conditioning in the venue to help prevent them from shivering.
But the autumn wind in Sydney is bleak, and he is not like a teenage boy who likes to pretend that he is frost-resistant.
There is still a slight temperature difference outside in Sydney, so catching a cold accidentally is not a good thing.
Meng De took the tactical paper from ropz, which was densely packed with analyzed data.
For them, the next most important opponent is this Finnish skate - hc.
In the group stage before, although I won a bo3 with my good performance.
But in the group stage, it is an online game.
Online competitions and offline competitions are completely different in nature, especially when the hc guys are all veterans.
The combat effectiveness they can possess offline may be several times that online.
This is also very common for professional teams.
Furthermore, they have played against hc twice now, with one win and one loss, which is not something to be proud of.
Although ysg has not played against hc yet, the final result has not yet appeared.
But anyone with a discerning eye can see that ysg is no match for hc.
Compared to hc which has a complete system, solid play style and tacit cooperation.
ysg, who is still looking for problems within the team, obviously doesn't care enough.
On the other side of fg, unless the vovo guys can still break out in that state, they will not threaten the ability of vc.
Moreover, we have already experimented this morning, and s1mple was able to find a foothold even when the other party was targeting itself.
Meng De took out his cell phone from the side and asked ropz to shout in the next room to wake up everyone else.
He himself began to pack his things and prepare to set off with the team members immediately.
Although tonight's game starts at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the competition team has notified that a rehearsal for the entrance ceremony must be done in advance.
Even if they are the second game of bo3, they have to leave early.
Meng De packed his things, while the guys next door had just gotten up with yawns.
Seeing Meng De coming, the group of people began to speed up, put on their clothes and put on their backpacks.
Everyone packed up their peripherals and belongings and put them in their backpacks, then took the elevator and prepared to go downstairs.
As soon as their elevator reached the first floor of the hotel, they saw a group of people coming out of the elevator next door. They were the Poseidon people who were eliminated yesterday.
"Good afternoon, brothers." Aloha, the star player of Team Poseidon, took the initiative to say hello. He was wearing a jacket today, and with those few millimeters of short inches, he looked very capable.
Everyone in vc greeted each other. Although they were opponents during the game, they could become good friends after the game.
Poseidon has had quite a few training matches with them, and the relationship is quite familiar.
"What are you doing here?" Niko asked. The expression on his face almost said, "Weren't you eliminated?"
Aloha saw Niko's confusion and took the initiative to say: "We lost the game yesterday, and blast can't resurrect us, so naturally we will go offline today."
"It's not easy to come to Sydney. You still have to experience blast's offline atmosphere."
As he spoke, he felt a little stunned. He laughed at himself and said, "It's really like traveling across the ocean to be an audience."
For fans and csgo enthusiasts, it is the wish of many people to be able to go to large-scale events and experience the atmosphere of offline competitions one day.
But for professional players, it is full of regrets.
After all, if they participate in the competition and win all the way to the championship, they don't have to be spectators offline.
"Why are you so early?" Aloha was a little surprised. Poseidon and the others were going out now to have some fun in the area before entering through the contestants' tunnel.
Why are you leaving so early?
Where do you plan to go to relax before the game?
"BLAST is rehearsing offline, let's go early." The director replied from the side. As both players from North America, he is relatively close to Poseidon.
"Come on, help us kill fg. We lost so much yesterday."
"Then you all have to cheer for us in the audience." Meng De said with a smile.
"sure."
After chatting for a while, the two teams said goodbye in the underground garage and then drove away.
The hotel is not far from the venue, and it only takes ten minutes in a rented commercial vehicle.
Entering the venue, Meng De took the pass issued by the competition team and entered through the player channel.
Not far from them, there was already a long queue of fans.
Some sharp-eyed fans saw the VC crowd here and shouted their names one after another.
The VC people were pressed for time, so they only waved slightly and entered the venue.
It turns out that the schedule of the competition group was too early.
The four teams arrived at the venue on time, and it only took about half an hour to complete the entrance rehearsal.
"Why don't you do this?" s1mple began to complain after returning to the lounge, "Which clever person came up with an entrance ceremony where every team drives up?"
Yes, for this year’s entrance ceremony, each team needs to start preparations in the underground parking lot and get into the commercial vehicle prepared by the event team.
Under the leadership of the on-site staff, we slowly entered the venue, then walked through a red carpet, and finally arrived at the big stage.
"It's great if it can end so quickly. Don't complain." The director had no requirements for this entrance ceremony. Instead, he was very happy that the rehearsal could end so quickly.
"Next, when we showed off our power, it felt like driving here was like we were late for the game." Niko also complained about the behavior of the competition team.
"Okay, stop saying a few words. Those who want to catch up on their sleep, and others should stop talking." Meng De stifled the sounds in the lounge.
He looked through fg's information and carefully checked the flaws they found. After making sure there were no loopholes, he closed his eyes to catch up on his sleep.
For professional workers in the competition, as long as they are a little angry, it is difficult to get enough sleep.
Everyone will seize precious time to make themselves more energetic.
Since I arrived at the venue early today, it might take too much time to go back and forth, so it is better to recuperate in the lounge for a short time.
ropz acted as an assistant beside him. He helped everyone deliver the peripherals that needed to be tested to the event staff. Then he started wearing headphones, took out his homework from his schoolbag, and wrote furiously on the side.
…
Not long after, everyone in VC was woken up by the noise in the venue.
"Is this the first game about to start?" Meng De said and turned on the TV in the lounge to show the live broadcast of ST.
I saw that the game between hc and ysg had just begun, and the bp session had ended.
"Sure enough, the atmosphere on the big stage is different." Wang Yuning pointed at ysg's conductor, the Danish Ogre, "This guy almost wants to eat hc alive."
The cheers and cheers from the audience in my ears really made people's hearts surge. Even if they were just watching the live broadcast, everyone was still infected by it.
The helpless people in the lounge were inexplicably nervous.
But it's not because of fear, but because of expectations for the next game.
"To eat hc raw, ysg also needs to be able to do that." After a while, s1mple, who had just woken up from his dream, said blankly.
Both teams have played against each other before.
Although the most recent experience is that I lost to ysg and won against hc.
If we simply rank them based on their performance, it can be explained that ysg)hc.
But is this really the case?
On the contrary, as a strong team killer, ysg won that game, but it was also because of vc's poor state.
Although they won the match against hc, the pressure they faced was completely different.
The answer to today's game was quickly given on the TV in the lounge.
Although ysg recently won two bo3 games in a row, their strength is still not enough compared to the current second place in the world.
A bo3 match was easily resolved within two hours.
Everyone in vc also stood up, took their peripherals, and began to prepare to go on stage.
The staff quickly came and knocked on the door, and Meng De led the players to the underground garage and took the car to the venue.
…
"Congratulations to hc for winning today's winner's bracket game with a score of 2:0 and entering the finals ahead of schedule." Henry summarized the just-concluded game, "But fans of ysg don't have to worry, because ysg still has a chance.
They will have another chance to compete in the loser's bracket tomorrow. If they can make it out of the loser's bracket tomorrow, they can still enter the finals to take revenge on hc."
"As for their opponents in the lower bracket, they were born in today's confrontation in the lower bracket." Johnny next to him continued following the conversation.
In the live broadcast, the director showed the camera to the entrance of the venue.
I saw a vehicle with a blue and white team logo on it, slowly driving towards the red carpet.
As the car door opened, s1mple jumped out of the car with a smile on his face.
Violent cheers immediately came from all around to welcome the VC players.
Several people got out of the car, opened their arms, clapped with the audience, and walked towards the stage.
Although both s1mple and Niko complained about this old way of playing before the game, judging from the results, they still had a lot of fun.
After they arrived at the big stage, FG's cars also started coming.
Until both teams stood on the main stage, the host warmed up the whole place, then raised the microphone and walked towards fg, and conducted a brief pre-game interview, which was also a trash talk session.
The host raised the microphone to Pepper: "As far as I know, you haven't had a game with VC for a long time. Do you have any thoughts about VC, which has been winning continuously recently?"
During the 'friendly' trash talk session, even Pepper was in a good mood. He took over the host's microphone: "I just want to say that we have found a way to deal with VC. We have been studying them for a long time.
VC will be in great pain today."
When the FG fans in the audience heard this, they started cheering and shouting even though they knew it was trash talk.
"It seems that Little Pepper is full of confidence." The host took over, but expressed dissatisfaction with the level of his trash talk. The purity was still not high enough.
He turned to VC and asked: "FG said that he will make you suffer terribly. What is your response to this?"
The microphone was handed over, and everyone in VC discussed it for a while before handing it over to Niko.
Niko smiled wickedly, raised the microphone and said, "We don't want to ridicule fg, we just want to give him a suggestion."
Niko's words immediately made the audience curious. Is VC so kind and gentle in the trash talk session?
Then they heard Niko's suggestion:
"I hope there will be no pressure on Little Pepper, because if you don't perform, your team will go far."
Suddenly everyone present laughed, this was simply murderous and heartbreaking.
Vovo even laughed out loud.
【Hahahahaha】
【Young Dean】
[I can only say that Little Pepper is so miserable, he can’t bring FG with 30 kills]
[Sometimes it’s useless even if you use it, it will still cause g]
[Look at how happy Vovo is smiling]
[If this rubbish is not spoken, it will be too lethal if it is spoken]
The audience in the live broadcast room was delighted.
But it turns out that smiles don't come out of thin air, they just transfer.
When the little pepper on the field heard Niko's suggestion, he immediately made a disapproving face.
At this moment, he just wanted to transform into Foego.
…
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
There are still two chapters left today. This chapter is to make up for yesterday’s. I feel like I’ve hit a writing block recently and I have to find a way to get through it.
To add, this drive-in ceremony also appeared in a competition in 2018. This chapter has been completed!