When the game between FG and AE was coming to an end, footsteps were heard outside the lounge. S1mple led the team and everyone from the second team gathered in the lounge.
"I remember that your opponent today is not very strong." Broky glanced at the time on his phone and said doubtfully, "Why is the opponent a dark horse?"
S1mple casually grabbed a bottle of water on the table and took a sip before explaining: "No way, it's not as intense as our training matches."
"Then why do you get it so late?"
The match between the second team and the first team started at the same time, and the second team had already finished a BO3. If the match had not been difficult, the first team would have ended as early as them.
"The opponent's computer broke down three times, and S1mple's computer broke down once. This game gave us all a headache." The director blurted out the answer before S1mple could answer.
"We played this BO3 very easily. If the frequent pauses didn't affect the feel, I feel like we could have allowed the opponent to score in single digits on both maps."
Everyone in the second team in the lounge was dumbfounded.
I didn't expect that today's game would unfold like this for the first team.
Logically speaking, one technical timeout in a game is reasonable. One team played four technical timeouts in this game. For the winning team, if they are forced to enter a timeout just after scoring two points, the feel will definitely be affected.
of.
"There are really very few people who are really strong and have a good mentality." S1mple said, "If tomorrow was the HLTV selection, I would fill in his name as the star of tomorrow today."
"Let's try to win one map in the match against AE."
The rest room became quiet, and everyone began to listen carefully to gla1ve's analysis.
Everyone applauded, with expressions of surprise on their faces.
In such a beautiful mood, I even ordered a few more dishes.
It can be seen that everyone in the team is very surprised.
"Where are you?"
Faced with S1mple's question, Meng De took the initiative and said: "They took away AKA 2-0."
After the training match, everyone in the first team spoke highly of this newcomer.
In this BO3 training match, the second team ended with a record of 1 win and 2 losses. The win was due to the explosive performance of Zaiwu, Broky, and Xiaoju, but it was still very difficult.
Stumbling.
S1mple finally recovered from his dry mouth, looked at gla1ve, and asked: "Just talking about us, how was your game against AKA today? How did they feel after the formation change?"
[Skill: Aiming God! (Awakened)
Skill description: When NIKO is in dire straits, his status will be increased to 120%, which can last for 5 rounds. Each subsequent round of victory can delay the status.
"For example, flash coordination, props coordination, etc., we are still very unfamiliar compared to these top teams."
Just compare it with a team of your own. It is impossible for Lao Wang to achieve this kind of data in his life. If the kid is lucky, he can achieve it once or twice a year. Director, NIKO, and S1mple, these three guys, even in a large event, it depends on their status.
, it depends on luck to have the chance to perform at this level.
gla1ve had expected the result and had a pretty good attitude.
Just like today's game, the final rating of the MVP director was only 1.34.
gla1ve tapped his fingers on the armrest of the sofa, pondered for a few seconds and then said, "How should I put it, although we took away AKA 2-0 today, their strength is actually not as bad as imagined. Their substitutions this time,
I can only say that there are pros and cons.”
Awakening mission: Win the Major championship, break through yourself, and complete the awakening!
"I'll go and you won't open the third picture?"
After laughing, gla1ve's face was still bitter, although he also wanted to say that he was confident that he could lead the team to win AE.
He was proud of his ability to seize opportunities in front of a team. He only had the advantage in the first few times in front of a team. In the rest of the game, he was targeted and was given nothing, and he could not play his due role at all. So when he was beaten
After being beaten all the way, my mentality was affected, and even in the last game, I didn't perform as well as I should.
Mengde knows the answer to this question best.
Once he finds his touch, it will be easier to continue this fiery touch. This should not be too exaggerated for a top gun man.
After a full meal, everyone lay comfortably on the chairs in the restaurant, chatting about the personnel changes in each team after the offseason, and inferring the changes in their strength through their own opinions.
This is enough to explain the problem.
After winning the championship, the various values of NIKO panels have greatly improved.
"Sure, Sweet Potato"
After the newcomer came up in the offseason, he finally gained some confidence in the first game. If he is given a certain amount of time, he does have the confidence to make the team work better and be able to play tricks with AE. But this team is offline in the main game.
It was just a fight, and there were still some flaws in the operations of these two guys.
If the previous NIKO was a top gunman who could lift a second-tier team into a first-tier competition, then the current NIKO has not only greatly improved in terms of overall quality, but has also been greatly enhanced in terms of consecutive kill capabilities.
Mengde mainly focuses on the second team. There are many problems and they need to be solved bit by bit.
"If you train him well, the upper limit of his carrying capacity will not necessarily be lower than that of kennyS. Even his character may be much easier to use than kennyS."
"ah!"
After dinner, the local time in Cologne was not too late for these night owls, so Mengde took the initiative to arrange a BO3 training match for the first team and the second team to compete.
"Is it so fierce?"
The second team that came out early did have the opportunity to watch the first team's game, but most of them focused on the FG game and did not pay too much attention to the first team's game.
After finishing dinner, Meng De also turned on his mobile phone and logged into the IEM official website to check the next day's schedule. Listening to the laughter of gla1ve and Lao Wang over there, he interrupted, "gla1ve, I think we should not get too excited.
Relax, tomorrow's opponents are under a lot of pressure. In the second round of the group stage, the second team's opponent is the AE team, one of the biggest favorites to win this IEM. It's not easy."
From the qualifiers to the first game of the main match, Team A’s matches were dominated by victory. Now after playing a training match with the first team, it’s like a slap in the face.
In fact, they didn't think one team would lose this game either.
Both the players themselves and the entire team are constantly improving through review.
Zaiwu's crisp answer directly destroyed gla1ve's calm atmosphere. Everyone was so happy that the restaurant was full of laughter.
As for the current strength of the first team?
DD's head is now big, and he also knows where the ceiling level of today's profession is.
"Real or false, 1.83??"
And let’s not talk about the values seen from the system. After winning the Major championship, this group of young guys’ confidence in the game and their understanding of the game have improved.
Although the VC first team and AE have different styles, their overall strength is similar.
"Actually, I don't feel there is a big gap in terms of personal ability alone." During the review, Zaiwu also took the initiative to explain his thoughts, "The main reason is that there are many problems in the details, which made us not play so smoothly."
Facing gla1ve's murderous gaze, Broky turned his head as if nothing had happened and muttered: "Why are you staring at me? I'm not wrong."
The rest of the people are a little dull, especially DD.
With a smile on his face, Lao Wang said with satisfaction: "But everyone is in good condition. They are basically crushing them all the way with their gun skills, and there is not much room for me to show off."
The state of the entire first team can be considered terrifying, which is also an important reason why Mengde dared to let the first team go.
With a silly smile on his face, Zaiwu rubbed his head and explained: "It's all because of my teammates who played well. They gave me a lot of output space, otherwise I wouldn't have won." He understood very well that although his performance in this game was not good enough,
He deserves a lot of credit during the game, but as the conductor gla1ve really gave him a lot of freedom to engage in firefights, and in many cases let him do the right thing.
After the match, the two teams each began their review of the training match.
They lost two games, but they had no ability to resist at all, and only scored single-digit scores in both games.
After hearing this, gla1ve was stunned for a moment, "You're fighting a big BOSS just after leaving the novice village? Which game would design such an outrageous plot?"
Meng De was quite satisfied with the performance of the players today. Both the first team and the second team won.
They still care very much about this former big brother.
He obviously doesn't know how much his bitchy character deserves to be beaten.
Meng De expected the expression of the first team, "Don't underestimate the second team. Although kennyS and Tig are no longer here, Zaiwu and DD can also adapt to the needs of this position. You heard me right, they are both able to play in this position."
They have performed relatively stably in the first-line competition. Although they may have had the blessing of their rookie period, their performance today was basically impeccable. Zaiwu even scored a luxurious rating of 1.83 on two maps to support Zaiwu.
Applause for the successful victory in Wu’s first official match.”
It is worth mentioning that even though Zaiwei, who was the best performer in the second team, lost the training match, he still did not show too much mental fluctuations.
Mission status: Completed!】
The silly son of the landowner shook his head naively at this moment, "Can't fight, can't fight..."
Meng De didn't say much about gla1ve's seemingly lack of fighting spirit.
"2-0??"
He really rarely plays so comfortably in a game.
And the dusty skills were successfully awakened.
"Yes, yes...why not?" gla1ve asked the question to Zaiwu, "Zaiwu is here, just pick it up tomorrow."
In fact, they are also more concerned about the current status of the second team. Although they have played a lot of training matches before the start of the game, Team A has been adjusting the lineup and playing very awkwardly, so the winning rate against the previous team in the training matches is very low.
, now seeing that the second team has finally determined their position, and the two newcomers have gradually adapted to the rhythm of the game, they are also sincerely happy for the brothers of the second team.
"1.83, Zaiwu, are you going to fry fish?"
First of all, his opponent is a little-known second-tier team. Although it has appeared in their field of vision before, the number of times is too few. Moreover, it can be understood from the opponent's historical record before the game that the strength of that second-tier team is not very good.
powerful.
It seems that the confidence they finally gained will be crushed by AE tomorrow.
The first team and the second team are playing at the same time, and it is impossible to check each other's results.
"However, if you want to say that their strength has completely declined, it is not necessarily true. With the two newcomers coming up, they will at least have stronger frontal firepower. If it weren't for the explosive performance of the carrier today, we might have had a harder time.
."
The group of people had almost finished chatting. In order to ensure their concentration, they did not eat before the game. A few hours later, they were already grunting with hunger. After the game, they chatted for a few words.
He quickly asked Meng De to take them to dinner.
But that's AE. Even though they just lost to a team in the Major, they are still a phenomenal team in the first echelon of the profession.
A rating value of this level in BO3 is really exaggerated.
In the hands of the VC team, they basically have no ability to resist. Compared with AE, you can imagine the situation in the game, so gla1ve's self-deprecating speech is just a clear understanding of his own strength and AE's combat power, and he knows that he is in a
What state.
"ropz helped the second team find a big treasure this time."
The players were all chatting away, and almost had some drinks.
"So how do you feel about AKA's new formation?" After the internal praise, Lao Wang asked again.
"Icarus is the signature commander of the CIS. If I replace him, AKA will definitely be a lot worse in decision-making. In today's battle with them, some of my turnaround tactics were not complicated.
But the other party still didn't react...the change in command position means their new command experience is definitely insufficient."
"If Fear is allowed to accumulate some competition experience, AKA may really be able to improve."
"Hey, don't mention it, we can look forward to the future..."
He is a rare person who can perform stably and continuously in this training match.
Meng De said jokingly: "Do you have any information to crush them tomorrow?"
There was thunderous applause in the lounge, and everyone was very cooperative with this small request.
After winning the Copenhagen Major, the condition of everyone in the first team has improved. The most obvious one is NIKO who likes to take selfies in the elevator.
"Yes, soul-based games like this kind of plot. As soon as they let you go through a novice tutorial, they will make you feel like you are dying." Broky interjected from the side.
gla1ve nodded and understood this deeply: "Especially DD, you are still too reckless in playing. Many times there is no need to take the initiative to touch the place, you just touch it, otherwise I will throw a flash... Even if there is a flash,
Exposing information is not a big problem. Once you are blocked, subsequent defensive gaps will be opened."
"And there's also the issue of attacking positions. Before we all attack, we have to explain in advance who will set up where. Otherwise, a wave of explosive bombs will come in and everything will be messed up. Every side will be stolen. It will be difficult to withstand it later."
When Meng De saw this scene, a smile appeared on his face and comforted him: "It's a good thing to have problems. Now we are a brand new lineup. It's normal to have problems. Tacit understanding and discipline are just words."
When it comes out, you have to review it again and again to correct it slowly..."
"We are taking our time to do this. There will be a long time ahead..."