After promotion, the intensive training and the game videos that must be watched every day are not so much. Everything around me has changed from busy to leisurely and developed into the rhythm of daily training.
After VC won Samba, they finally advanced to the knockout round with a 3-1 result, which caused a lot of discussion on the Internet. For VC, more and more people began to affirm their strength. After winning three games,
Let no one in the forum say how bad their strength is. Even the black fans may just say from the side that with their current strength, they are still a little short of winning. In these few games, although VC has had a low point, but
It was more of a positive performance. Many people were quite satisfied with their performance. After all, they won three games, and most of them were by big margins.
This can be considered a good answer for most fans.
What's more interesting is that the day after the victory, Meng De still got up early to watch a few games, but he met the team members who also got up early.
Meng De was a little surprised by the team members' efforts to improve themselves, but it didn't matter much. In his opinion, this was a good thing after all.
S1mple and others trained for a while, about an hour and a half before NIKO suddenly shouted in the training room: "Aren't we having a rest today?"
Holding on to his surprised look, Meng De gave an affirmative answer: "We won the game yesterday, and today is indeed a day off."
NIKO and several other people in the first team were stunned at that time, recalling the time over and over again, as if they couldn't believe that they had remembered the wrong date.
“Why did I get up so early on this day off!!”
"Isn't that what NIKO shouted? He said he was training."
"He gets up when he talks about you. Why don't you give in if he wants to command you?"
Meng De also finally understood that these people were not striving for self-improvement, they just forgot that today was a holiday in the morning.
gla1ve couldn't help but burst out laughing while listening.
"You are really talented."
After this episode, everyone in NIKO stopped arguing. Instead, they sat in the training room and started discussing the second question:
"Are we still going to train here?"
"It's all here."
"But training on rest days always feels like a loss."
"But I woke up a long time ago, and I really don't feel sleepy at all."
NIKO has always had no opinion, so he quickly asked the question to Meng De, who was watching the game video: "Coach, do you think we should train or rest?"
"Go and have a rest. If your hands are itchy, just hit them a few times." Although Meng De hopes that they will work hard to improve themselves, today is indeed their own earned rest day, and it is a bit too depressing to let them train. NIKO point
He nodded: "I will abide by the coach's decision."
"Let's go have a meal." Meng De stood up with a smile, paused the game video, "Let's have breakfast together, and then we can go our separate ways."
Meng De's suggestion was echoed by a group of people, and they followed him to the hotel restaurant.
Although it was said to be breakfast, the time was actually already around nine o'clock or ten o'clock. Everyone was casually eating some toast and milk while looking at the streets of Denmark through the window. The spring morning was still a little moist.
The mist in the air has just dissipated, office workers are starting to go out one after another, the number of vehicles is slowly increasing, and a new day is slowly beginning.
For Mengde, the mood at the beginning of the day was quite good.
After staying in the hotel training room for a few days, as the quotas for the knockout rounds of this Copenhagen Major were gradually announced, the atmosphere inside and outside the stadium became more and more heated.
Among them, domestic LL has received a lot of attention from Meng De and others in VC. They all hope that LL will achieve a relatively good result in this Major.
It's just a pity that in Major-level competitions, only the truly strong can stand firm.
This time in the main event of the Major, LL did not perform well in Group A. Except for winning against MG once, they were completely defeated and there was no room for them to fight back.
After being eliminated, everyone from the LL team still came to the training room.
It's just that they didn't come here for training. After being eliminated, their training room had been taken away.
The training rooms of all teams are on two similar floors, and they come here to find VC.
When I saw LL's coach full of dreams again, his eyes were no longer as impetuous as when they first met.
"Hello, Coach Meng." Coach Zhang Yu came up and said hello to him.
"Hello, Coach Zhang."
Players may be chatting in the training room, but the content of their chats is mostly the same, about the game and their opponents.
As coaches, most of what they talk about is just about the players' status and how to adjust their emotions.
"The teams in this Major are all perverts." Coach Zhang Yu complained to Meng De.
As a coach, he can only be regarded as quite satisfactory. Playing in domestic and even Asian competitions is not stressful, but he is quite satisfactory.
But after entering this kind of Major-level event, the pressure faced by the team has intensified, and it is difficult for the systematic playing methods he is good at to be effective.
"That's all?" Meng De just smiled when he heard this.
"Of course it's more than that. It's just that there are a lot of differences in all aspects. I don't know where to start." Zhang Yu put his hand on his forehead and said helplessly, "We are far behind in map proficiency. LL doesn't have one."
A truly strong picture.”
Meng De nodded, this is the truth.
LL's stuff is pretty good in China and even in Asia, but when it comes to international competitions, it's not good enough.
"I really don't know how these perverts fought..." Zhang Yu had no intention of finding answers from Meng De, he just complained to relieve the depression in his heart.
But he soon realized that the guy in front of him seemed to be one of the most perverted people in this Major.
It's such an exaggeration for one person to lead two strong teams with different systems into the knockout rounds of the Major.
"Are you going back to China directly or staying to watch the game?" After complaining, Meng De asked about LL's next plans.
Zhang Yu smiled: "Of course I am going to watch the game in Denmark. Who doesn't love traveling at public expense?"
"Okay, then it's up to us." Meng De also responded with a smile.
"Then you have to work hard. We will definitely be the ones in the audience who applaud you the most when the time comes."
Then Zhang Yu said in a sinister tone: "Be sure not to start a civil war then, then I will laugh, haha..."
In addition to real-life blessings, after the Major group stage ended, there was also a lot of discussion on the Internet.
Because the two teams he led both entered the knockout group, this time both VC and VC.A received relatively positive comments on the Internet.
This is during the Major schedule, and discussions about various teams and games on the forum are quite heated.
When Meng De opened the forum at random, he could see that there were densely packed posts.
[It’s Chinese New Year again, brothers, there are already at least two top eight in China! 】
[In the group stage, VC started to feel very weak. How did he feel okay after playing hard? 】
[Honestly, brothers, how are you doing with your homework?]
[Already sent it, I thought VC would not work this time, but it ended up killing me]
[It’s outrageous to put VC down now. Although VC’s strength fluctuates, at least its ranking is still within the top 10.]
[The director's performance in this group stage is the first in the player list. You are taking away VC in such a strong state. This...]
[Cry loudly...gold is more valuable than diamonds]
Regarding the discussions on the Internet, Meng De only glanced at them casually. After all, unlike Broky and S1mple, he was not keen on surfing the Internet.
In contrast, he is more willing to pay attention to the other six teams that have advanced.
On the third day of the group stage, the two teams that advanced to the top of the group were VC.A and the French team FG.
On the fourth day of the group stage, the teams that advanced were VC, AE and GOD.
Although AE met the French on the first day of this group stage and was frustrated by FG, they still adjusted very quickly. The next three games went smoothly, and they also ended up with 3-1.
advanced to the knockout rounds.
Although there were some fluctuations in their level, they still showed their dominant performance in the next three games.
On the fourth day of the group stage, GOD competed with SSS from the UK for a qualification.
Before the start of this game, it was generally believed that there was not much suspense. Recently, GOD's state is far better than SSS.
But in this game, the SSS team's snipers broke out and played an outstanding 46 in the GOD selection of Figure 1 and Sha2, and forcibly won Figure 1.
This directly put the pressure on GOD. Fortunately, the blue horse knight in picture 2 finally woke up, showed the true strength of TOP2, and finally entered the game into picture 3 without any danger.
In Figure 3, in addition to map proficiency and technical tactics, the two sides are competing more for their toughness.
After SSS entered Figure 3, it was inexplicably discouraged and began to make frequent mistakes, constantly being scored by GOD.
Although they managed to catch up for several rounds at the last minute, it was too late.
It’s the fifth day of the group stage, which is the last match day. The competition has been going on for four days, and the teams that have survived to this point are all teams with two wins and two losses.
They have no choice but to try their best to compete for the three precious places on this last day.
The fighting on this day was also extremely bloody. All the teams let go and tried their best to get even one more score.
Among them, GG had two wins at the beginning and two losses immediately afterwards, which simply sent the fans' hearts on a roller coaster.
In this match with Samba, they also had three draws, and it was not until the final overtime battle in Figure 3 that they won the victory thanks to MUWO's performance.
The remaining two winning teams were YSG and HC. Although their game on the last day was stumbling, it was not as thrilling as GG's game.
Two days after the group stage ended, although the knockout rounds had not yet begun, Mengde had already begun to get the players back into the game.
The data was huge, and this time Mengde did not calculate who their possible opponents would be next.
For the possible 6 opponents, Meng De's first concern is AE.
As the big devil at home in Denmark, it is difficult for the AE team not to be noticed.
Although the AE team lost one game in the group stage, they still performed very well. In the following games, SAMA was sent as the conductor, winning three games in a row, and the most anxious game was just won by the opponent.
With 10 scores, the strength can be considered terrifying.
If the two VC teams want to win the championship, AE will definitely be unable to overcome a hurdle.
They must take AE seriously.
And after Meng De finished watching these three games, his frown deepened.
"It feels like this AE hasn't used its full strength yet..."
"The game was too routine and there was no useful information." gla1ve was chewing on an apple and echoed, "In this case, it will be difficult for us to see too many new things from their game videos."
In the group stage, the opponents AE encountered were too weak. In addition to being beaten by FG, other teams could not even show their true strength.
AE only needs to play the most conventional system and eat the opponent slowly.
"If this were our first encounter, the problem might be a bit big." Meng De felt a lot of pressure.
They had too little information about AE, and it was completely dark when they met in the first knockout round.
By then the disadvantage will be too great.
Moreover, the knockout round is based on BO3 points, but there is no room for error in the group stage.
But now that they can't research much, they can only focus on the training in front of them.
Because both VC and VC.A have entered the knockout stage, gla1ve took the initiative to apply to stop the team's practice.
Meng De also agreed.
In the next game, the first team and the second team will also compete against each other.
They want to expose their tactics and playing style to their opponents as much as possible, even if the opponent is also a teammate.
"Then who should we train with next?" S1mple asked after the team training was cancelled.
Looking around, the teams in the training room are all opponents. The teams that have been eliminated cannot find a suitable training venue, and other teams may not come to help them.
Meng De also felt that this was a difficult problem, but soon he thought of Team LL and his team.
Perhaps they are the only team members we are familiar with now who still remain in Copenhagen.
However, the other party may not be willing to help them train. After all, they have been eliminated and most of the players are on vacation.
So Meng De just asked Zhang Yu for some questions.
Because he was already on vacation, Zhang Yu couldn't say much and could only ask the team members for their opinions.
LL people are not willing to come back to train again, but the opportunity to train extensively with VC is rare.
After a long discussion, they decided to spare two days to train with VC.
After receiving this news, everyone at VC was very excited.
Although the team's ranking training and map training can still maintain their condition, it has little significance to them now.
What they need more is training subjects to simulate some playing styles so that they can test tactics.
There are only two days, time is precious.
The two teams of the VC Club quickly devoted themselves to high-intensity training and seized the hard-won opportunities.