"Have you been free recently? Okay, okay, can we make an appointment this afternoon? Then let's just say that you let the players reserve their time."
Li Tu received Meng De's telephone feedback and received a positive reply. He was in a very good mood and even hummed a song.
In the blink of an eye, VC has become the only team in the CSGO professional circle. Looking back carefully, it seems like it was the other day.
He clearly remembers that when VC played the Fog City Major for the first time, he was the one who did the interview after winning the first game.
At that time, the entire VC team was very green. Unexpectedly, in just two years, they had gone from that unknown small team to become the number one team in the world today, and they had even begun to build their dynasty.
Li Tu packed up his interview equipment, took the interview draft he had already typed, and booked a high-speed rail ticket on a travel app on his mobile phone.
Looking at the time, it only takes less than 4 hours. The main focus is convenience.
VC has now slowly entered the world. In addition to Li Tu feeling that the popularity of CSGO in China is constantly increasing, the most intuitive feeling is that it is easier for him to interview these top players. After all, VC is based in Hangzhou.
The high-speed rail ticket has arrived.
As a domestic reporter who prefers to interview players, his interviews usually only have the opportunity to start during the Major period. The reason is very simple-poor!
CSGO is a cup competition. Unlike League of Legends, where the main competition area is in China, CSGO competitions take place in far and wide places on the earth. Although Li Tu’s income is not bad, he cannot afford to fly to various parts of the world every day.
Therefore, only during the annual Major period can we go offline to catch players for interviews, giving the audience another bridge to communicate with the players.
However, as the strength of VC continues to increase and its international influence becomes greater and greater, as a practitioner in the industry, Li Tu has gradually felt the benefits.
First of all, there are a group of top players in China, so there is no need to go abroad for interviews.
Secondly, because the performance of domestic CSGO is getting better and better and the popularity of the game continues to increase, major event officials have gradually focused on the Chinese market. Just this year, four large-scale events were held in China.
Whether the audience goes to watch the game offline or he goes to the venue to catch top players for interviews, the cost is lower.
Li Tu can imagine that the popularity of domestic CSGO will only get higher and higher in the future.
As a CSGO industry practitioner and loyal fan, he is very much looking forward to that scene.
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After the afternoon training, the director followed the coach to the club's gym. Now he is no longer the young boy with bangs hanging on his forehead two years ago, and his gradually opening face has become the second face of the VC Club.
After the director finished stretching training with Meng De, he heard Broky's voice from the door of the gym:
"Director, the bald man is here to interview you." After saying this, he seemed to be afraid of being beaten and ran away quickly.
The director heard the news and went out. The man standing at the door was wearing a black hoodie and his slightly sparse white hair highlighted his personality.
The hair style is quite bold, but the volume is a little short... The moment he saw Li Tu, the director gave him a mental rating for his hair style.
The director took the water cup and other personal belongings and greeted him.
"I thought you weren't coming back today?" The director shrugged and smiled helplessly.
Although he did have an appointment with Li Tu today, it was almost dinner time, so he naturally thought that Li Tu had something to do and missed him.
"Hey, don't mention it." Li Tu said with a wry smile, "The high-speed train was delayed, and then it hit the evening rush hour when we arrived in Hangzhou, and everyone was jammed."
"Then I'll go back and change clothes, and then we'll find a place to start?" The director made a long story short. After the interview, he planned to continue exercising.
Li Tu took a look at VC's gym, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said to the director: "How about I don't delay your fitness, we will shoot it in the form of a VLOG, while you are exercising, and then I will interview you casually.
"
Listening to Li Tu's plan, the director raised his handsome eyebrows and questioned: "Is this feasible? Is it too casual?"
"On the contrary." Meng De had just finished a set of deadlifts and was slightly panting.
After drinking some water and taking a deep breath to calm down, he explained: "Actually, fans still want to see something about us outside of the game, just like the GG team. Although their strength is not top-notch, the fans are very loyal.
They are very sexual, because they like to be active and interact with fans on the Internet."
In this regard, VC is somewhat inferior. In contrast, Meng De focuses more on specific work, such as the development of tactics, the recent status of players, and whether there are any good prospects in the VAC league recently.
Under the influence of his style of doing things, most of the players in the VC Club also focus on hard work. In addition to training all day long, exercising in the club's gym is a rare relaxation time for them.
There is really too little communication between them and their fans.
Nowadays, the number of fans of VC Club around the world is exaggerated. Although CSGO fans are not like fandom fans who want players to come out for business every day, they also like to see their favorite players outside of the game.
What state is it.
"But do I have to change my clothes?" The director tugged at the black vest he was wearing. It seemed a bit unsightly to wear this during the interview.
With a smirk on his face, Li Tu looked at the director's muscular arms: "You are worrying too much, fans will be eager for this."
The director also said that it didn't matter. Changing clothes would have taken up time. Li Tu was still tinkering with the camera, so he found the equipment and started today's training.
After flexing his joints, the director walked to Meng De's side, waited for Meng De's deadlift to end, adjusted his posture, and started the deadlift.
Li Tu has adjusted the camera and started recording the beginning of a video.
After making a simple opening statement, he pointed the camera at Meng De and the director:
"You two, say hello to everyone."
Meng De waved his hand towards the camera. The director was deadlifting and had no time to pay attention to him for the moment.
After a set of deadlifts was over, the director sat on the bench next to him to rest between sets, and Li Tu also began a formal interview:
"Hello Director, first of all, congratulations on your final victory in the IEM Cologne finals just now. Because of your good personal performance, you also won the MVP medal. It has been a few days since the game ended. How do you feel about the entire IEM Cologne?
How about it?"
The director took a sip of water, organized his words, and said: "The final result is definitely satisfactory. After all, I won the championship, and I have been in good condition throughout the schedule... But this is the first time we have met in a BO5 game.
, the final effect was not very good.”
"The effect is not good yet. I think you are a little modest." Li Tu only thought that this was the director's self-effacement. Now the effect is not good and he has already ranked first in the world. Then the effect is good.
Doesn't it mean that other teams have no way to survive?
"How do you think your teammates played?"
"My teammates all played very well, and everyone acted as a unit in the final. It was very comfortable to play in this kind of game. Even though we were inexperienced in the BO5, we still worked hard to find a way to overcome the difficulties."
"Does AE put a lot of pressure on you? It stands to reason that we just met them at the Major..." Li Tu was confused.
"The gap between us and them is not very big," the director said.
Li Tu thought that the director was too modest. He said in a somewhat exaggerated tone: "You have defeated them twice in the top events in a row. Isn't the gap obvious? The difference in the score in the Major was very small, but this time it was 3
-1 lead, two maps ahead."
The director recalled that dream, shook his head and retorted: "It seems to be 3-1, but the result may be much smaller than we imagined."
Li Tu felt that he might not be at the right level and it was difficult to understand all the details, so he simply moved on to the next question:
"This is a personal question for me. After you win the Major championship, will you suddenly lose your goals?"
This is a question that he is very curious about personally. Just like Li Tu worked hard for a long time and finally got an S rank on the Ranger platform. After a few days of simply posting on Moments to show off, he suddenly lost the motivation to continue to increase his score.
.
After all, in this game, he has already entered the easiest level, and if he goes up, it will be the professional level - he has self-awareness.
Comparing it to professional players, he thought the situation might be similar. The Major is the highest level honor in CSGO. After the players finally got this honor after going through all kinds of hardships, he was very curious about whether they would suddenly lose their direction.
The director sighed and didn't answer for a few seconds. He turned around and said with a smile: "Of course. After we just won the Major championship, our entire team began to take a vacation... During the vacation, in addition to watching the game, I
Looking at the medals on my personal account, I haven’t played any games, and I spent the entire holiday playing Horizon 2.”
"Isn't the holiday just for fun?" Li Tu was puzzled. He had also learned about CSGO players' holidays before. Holidays are purely for rest. How come it has become different when you get to the director?
"CSGO is a very special game, and the change in feel is very metaphysical. Maintaining a certain amount of training every day can maximize the lower limit of your performance." Meng De explained on the side, "So during normal vacations, I will remind him to play every day.
Two games, at least keep the feel."
The director nodded: "Except for the vacation after this Major, and the previous vacations, while we were resting, we would also maintain training for 4-5 hours every day to avoid big changes in the feel."
"Are you trying so hard?"
"If you don't have enough strength, you have to use time to make it up. After one Major, our entire club didn't even take a vacation and kept training until the start of the new tournament. It seems that it was at that time that the strength of our entire team improved by leaps and bounds, and we made a qualitative leap.
"
"Most of the outside world's evaluations of you are that you are a gunman and have a strange talent. Now that I hear your sharing, my perception has changed a bit."
Seeing Meng De finish one group, the director lifted a 5Kg dumbbell up and down, and continued to start the second group of training.
"...12,13,14,25,37,68."
Seeing the director becoming more playful, Meng De exposed him mercilessly: "The sixth one!"
Li Tu was also very happy to be there.
Not long after, the second team also ended their training, and gla1ve entered the gym with Dafanshu and his team.
Looking at Dafanshu's figure, Li Tu asked Meng De: "After kennyS left, Zaiwu filled the vacancy of the second team's sniper. This time at IEM Cologne, as a newcomer, his performance was also quite good.
Yes, I want to hear your evaluation of him, coach."
"Want to hear the truth or lies?"
Of course it's the truth, no one likes to hear lies.
Watching Shushu competing in a table tennis match with gla1ve, Meng De said from the bottom of his heart: "He seems to be born for CSGO. This guy's talent is the highest I have ever seen."
"In the entire professional circle, I have never seen anyone with such exaggerated talent when they debuted."
Each player has different talents. Some may have slightly inferior marksmanship, but their understanding of the game is extremely high.
However, some people have extremely exaggerated marksmanship when they first debut, but their understanding of the game is not good. It often takes several years of polishing before they can realize their talents.
What about the cargo?
This guy's talents have been maxed out since his debut. Whether it's marksmanship or game understanding, etc., he is already among the top group.
As long as he slightly adapts to the playing style and rhythm of the first-line arena, he will be able to shine.
"Such a high evaluation?" Meng De's statement basically denies the talents of all talented young people in the professional circle. If this is posted, there will definitely be a wave of debate among fans of different players on the Internet.
"Even if S1mple's talent is not as good as his, you should understand by describing it this way. This guy is a monster. Although he has just joined the second team, he has already greatly damaged the self-confidence of the second team. He is really like
It’s like a reasonable monster.”
Meng De understood that this piece of gold would eventually shine in the professional arena.
"The coach said this, which makes me look forward to Zaowu's next performance."
"Although I praise him so much, the entire second team still has a long way to go. They are still in a running-in period and will need some time to become familiar with their teammates' playing styles."
Li Tu smiled and said: "This is not a big problem. I believe in your ability as a coach and look forward to the moment when Zaiwu will shine in the competition in the future."
"Last question, we just won the IEM Cologne championship. The team is only two championships away from winning the Grand Slam. What are your plans for the next games?"
"The first team will focus on maintaining their form and strive to participate in higher-quality large-scale events, and the pace will slow down slightly. As for the second team, I will let them actively participate in various A-level and above events and strive to accumulate game experience.