More than two months have passed since the end of IEM Cologne. The training of the second team is proceeding in an orderly manner, and there will basically not be any major problems now.
The second team also spent a lot of time trying to make adjustments to Electronic Brother. Meng De and gla1ve also discovered that there is a huge difference in the styles of Electronic Brother and gla1ve.
When Electronic Brother is a commander, he likes to simplify the tactics. Many times when he leads the team to attack, it is fast break and fast break.
If the opponent likes to play conservatively, then the electronic brother will quickly explode bombs after the first wave of map control and directly stud!
Although the play style is simple, the electronic brother's command is really talented.
In training matches with other teams, where Electronics acted as the conductor, although their winning rate was not as high as gla1ve's, it was still pretty good.
You know, this is because everyone else is adapting to Brother Electronic's commanding style.
And as a conductor, Electronic Brother is really good at shooting.
Not to mention the training matches, in a subsequent European Cup match, Electronic Brother had the record of commanding a single player to break points many times. This kind of accidental surprise has a great effect on the team.
However, gla1ve's role in the team is still irreplaceable. On some maps that are more tactical, gla1ve's winning rate as a commander is at least 10% higher than that of Electronic Brother.
This winning rate is already very impressive.
The second team participated in a total of two competitions after IEM Cologne.
They are the Kangaroo Cup and DreamHack Masters.
In these two games, the second team achieved the championship and semi-finals respectively.
This result makes Mengde quite satisfied. The adjustment of the team structure has been verified and the second team is on the right path.
Winning the semi-finals in the DreamHack Masters is just because I have never done AE.
After the IEM Cologne, the Danish team of kings did not fall as netizens talked about. After learning from the experience, they began to actively train. After the introduction of a sixth-man command, the team improved to another level.
They participated in three large-scale events after IEM Cologne. In these three events, the AE team won all the championships.
No team can really beat them.
Meng De really feels a headache for this team. How to defeat them in the future is really an important issue for him to consider.
But what gives Meng De more headaches is the fluctuation in the level of the first team in recent months.
After IEM Cologne, they participated in three tournaments.
It's not that Mengde favors one team over another and lets one team participate in more games.
The main reason is that the first team was eliminated early in these games, and the results they achieved were the top eight, the semi-finals, and in the last game, they even achieved a top 16 result for Meng De to see.
After the game that day, Meng De cursed everyone in the training room.
"I don't even know what you are fighting for!!"
"Have I always emphasized discipline? Didn't I wake you up even after several timeouts?"
"I know you are annoyed by various points being stolen from others, but you need to figure it out for yourself as to where these problems come from!!"
"In the quarter-finals, we could say that our opponent was AE and their skills were inferior to others. In the semi-finals, we could say that we didn't have enough training and were out of shape. But now you are eliminated in the top 16. Was I too gentle to you before?
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"Please be serious, we are playing a game, not playing house!!"
Everyone in the lounge was silent at that time. Each of them was responsible for the game being so bad.
S1mple retorted very unhappily at this time: "I can't help it. I've been targeted so much today that I can't perform at all. The opponent didn't give me a chance to shoot, so I kept putting my defense aside."
He originally thought that his helplessness in returning to defense would be forgiven by the coach.
But Mengde asked, "So what about communication?"
"I……"
Before S1mple could finish speaking, Meng De interrupted him and said angrily: "You are a team, what about your communication? What about countermeasures? You have been returning to defense, so I can't move you to another area.
go?"
"You were very proactive before, let's communicate!!" The tactical paper had been rolled into a ball, and Meng De held it in his hand and waved it.
"I gave you a lot of initiative, so that you can slowly adjust according to your own ideas, but what did you show me?"
"You are always making stupid mistakes, what are you doing?"
The atmosphere in the lounge was extremely solemn.
"The main reason is that I don't understand why the three of them are always at a disadvantage in area B. I play very passively, you know?" S1mple's face turned red. He still believed that he had not made any mistakes. "I have been returning to defense.
I can’t fight, you know?”
Meng De knew at that moment that S1mple was losing his mind and was a little confused.
He pulled S1mple out of the lounge alone and cursed in the corridor of the player tunnel:
"So why not look for opportunities? Area B has been under pressure, you can take the initiative to go there! You have been shrinking to your link to dump inventory!"
"I'm going."
"But when did you not draw a shot at the beginning, and then return to the link again?"
Meng De's rebuttal hit the nail on the head. Even though S1mple felt extremely unhappy, he couldn't find any reason to refute.
"The other party is targeting me, and my position is under great pressure."
"Are our opponents your fans?"
"No." Meng De's question puzzled S1mple.
"Then why do you expect them to stay in the game? There is only one winner in a game, and they will study us desperately for victory. If one day, in the Major finals, you are suppressed by the opponent and cannot
If you perform well and lose the game, can you tell me that it was because the opponent targeted you?"
This sentence blocked all the words S1mple wanted to refute, and he had nothing to say.
Indeed, if one day he is targeted in the Major finals, how should he deal with it?
Judging from the current situation, it seems that this incident of him being targeted will become a regular phenomenon in the first-line arena.
If his attitude is still as tough as this, then the path of his future career is already foreseeable.
When Meng De saw that S1mple finally lost his temper, he pulled him back into the lounge, and then began to conduct a targeted analysis of the problems of everyone in the VC.
Later, some tournament staff broke the news on the Internet that after the defeat in the top 16, the VC coach scolded the players in the lounge for more than 2 hours.
This failure also caused an uproar on the Internet.
VC was ranked at the top of the world before, but now it has only achieved this result, which makes those fans extremely disappointed.
As the sixth man, Xantares has become the focus of netizens' output.
Because there used to be a nickname called "Turkish ruthless people", but now they are called "Turkish batch people".
As the most famous Internet celebrity team, VC’s reputation in the community instantly became one-sided.
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After criticizing the first team in the dugout, Mengde temporarily stopped their game.
Because in his opinion, what's bad about the first team now is not the competition, but the attitude towards the profession.
Their previous rapid growth made their performance improve too quickly, but they lacked the professional attitude that a strong team should have.
Meng De took advantage of this time to let them have crazy training appointments with other teams in the base.
The results of the training match were good at the beginning, but as time went by, Meng De did not correct their mistakes or accompany them in training.
They played more and more disorganized, communication among the team members began to decrease, and various minor conflicts gradually emerged.
In the end, it was because of a flash of light that it exploded directly in the base.
During the training match, several members of the team had a quarrel, and Wang Yuning was forced to tell Poseidon that he couldn't play anymore.
Meng De still didn't care about them, and S1mple and others' plan of killing people was declared ineffective.
In the end, they couldn't stand it anymore and asked Xu Qingru for help before Meng De was willing to come back and train with them.
After seeing Meng Deken return to the team, everyone in the team felt relieved.
This time, their attitude has finally been corrected. Although small mistakes still occur frequently, basically as long as they are mentioned once or twice, they will not make them again in the future.
The turmoil in the first team has even made kennyS, a lazy guy, work hard to start training recently, which is simply a miracle.
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The sun was setting, and Xu Qingru and Meng De were walking on the street.
"Why did you refuse to go back and take them before? Is it really because of me?" Xu Qingru teased.
"Do you want to hear the truth or lies?"
"No need to tell the truth, just tell lies."
"Ha." Meng De didn't wait for Xu Qingru's agreement and began to explain his thoughts, "These guys were too smooth before, especially S1mple."
"There is nothing better than being successful at a young age. Although they lost the game before, they must be unconvinced. They will definitely think that it was their poor performance that caused this problem."
"Can't this be used as a reason for poor performance?" Xu Qingru asked strangely. When she feels good in the ladder, she can kill randomly; when she feels bad, she can also give randomly.
If you don't perform well, it doesn't seem to be a big problem.
"It's different." Meng De shook his head, "It's one thing that they didn't perform well, but in terms of team communication and discipline, they played too poorly."
"The whole team is like five professional guys playing on the ladder, playing very casually."
She seems to have experienced it a little bit, just like the teammates she encounters in the ladder who have no wheat and are autistic, each playing their own game and not knowing how to win.
"But didn't you train them for several hours that day? Why did you come back..."
Logically speaking, after a scolding, the coach and the players get back on good terms, which is normal development.
But after Mengde returned to China, he directly left the first team there.
This operation is indeed a bit strange.
The two of them were walking and chatting. Meng De ordered two cups of milk tea from the milk tea shop next to him, and then sat down in the milk tea shop.
Meng De explained: "I did scold them bloody that time, but do you think they will be convinced?"
"Hmm..." Xu Qingru thought about it and shook her head, "No."
"That's why I want them to feel a sense of urgency, knowing that if they continue to play this way, they will only get worse and worse. So I let them keep playing training games and don't correct their mistakes. Even if they play training games every day
, I am confused and playing there, I may have improved, but my attitude is already impetuous, how can I maintain the winning rate." Meng De took a sip of milk tea to moisten his throat.
There are not many people in a team who can think about tactics. Most of them prefer to perform on the spot, but they don't know that tactical training in training matches is an important step for them to gradually become stronger.
The first team is a team that uses the system as the framework and individual abilities as the guide, so their improvement is basically based on error correction.
In normal training matches, they just maintain their feel. The real improvement is actually the review explanation that Meng De gave them after the training match.
Without Meng De's follow-up analysis and planning from the team's perspective, they initially wanted to watch the game video by themselves, but everyone saw it from a different angle. When they watched it frequently, the team started to quarrel again.
"So you want them to lose in the training match first, make them more impetuous, and then come to you to admit their mistakes!" Xu Qingru finally understood everything.
Meng De nodded: "If they don't give in and don't know what the problem is, then even if they make a mistake next time, they will think that as long as they are scolded by the coach, they will be fine."
"I just want them to understand the importance of professional attitude. We can become stronger more slowly, but our attitude must be correct."
Judging from the results, his approach has received good feedback.
"Then have you ever thought about what if they don't give in?" Xu Qingru held her right cheek with her hand and looked at Meng De with a half-smile.
Meng De took a sip of milk tea and smiled, then the smile disappeared and he shook his head: "I never thought about it... maybe I didn't dare to think about it. I have been taking them with me and watching them all the way since I became the coach of this club.
From an unknown team, it has become one of the best in the world, but...if they really don't play professionally because of attitude issues, I will also..."
"Okay." Xu Qingru put her index finger on Meng De's mouth, indicating that he didn't need to say what happened next, and she quickly started the next topic:
"The storm has been resolved today, so do you have any plans for the next direction of work?"
Mengde thought for a while: "After the second team finishes the next Blast qualifiers, I will turn my focus to the Major."
"This Major seems to be held in Denmark, right?" Although Xu Qingru didn't pay much attention to the professional circle, she still took a glance at it.
After all, this is huge news for the CSGO professional community.
Denmark is one of the strongest CSGO countries in the world today.
Regardless of the quality or quantity of first-line players, Denmark is not inferior to other countries.
Moreover, the development of e-sports in Denmark is quite good, and e-sports has a high degree of acceptance in the country.
This time it was confirmed that the venue would be Denmark, which made everyone in the AE team very excited, and also put a lot of pressure on other members who wanted to compete for the Major championship, including the two teams of VC.
After all, this time they have to fight AE at their home stadium in Denmark.
"It's really difficult, but you have to fight for it." Meng De finished the last sip of milk tea and said, "As long as the first team maintains its current attitude, and I can improve their state in the future, it will be okay to enter the knockout rounds.
It’s a big problem, but it depends on their condition at the time.”
"The second team has no major problems, it just needs to work harder on tactics."
Xu Qingru looked at the person in front of him with a smile: "It seems that your task is very heavy."
Meng De smiled and then stood up: "Let's go, I will take you home. There is a training mission tomorrow."
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Today is the second coffee update!
There may be as many as a dozen CSGO first-tier competitions in a year, and it is impossible to write about them all. The focus of the follow-up will be around the Major, so I directly mentioned speeding up.