Chapter 624: Bold words before the game, during the game...
Author: Goblin Coffee
Chapter 624: Bold words before the game, during the game...
Li Tu's interview with VC after IEM Cologne caused a lot of discussion on the Internet.
Most of the audience expressed curiosity about scenes outside of VC competitions, and this interview can satisfy their strong curiosity.
Then as expected, Meng De's views on the talent of carrying things have caused a lot of criticism on the Internet.
Every player has a player they think is the strongest in their heart, and naturally the genius boys in their hearts cannot all be the same. Every year, the forums can get very noisy about the selection of the HLTV player list.
There is endless debate about the actual strength and record of the performance.
Now that this kind of talent that is difficult to visualize is brought forward, it has added a lot of criticism to Zaiwu.
However, he didn't care about these criticisms. After IEM Cologne, he focused more on training and competition.
As the initiator, Meng De didn't care at all about these comments on the Internet, because he understood that facts speak louder than words, and Zaiwu would tell them the answer with his performance in the game.
In the following months, Zaowu lived up to his expectations. In two S-level events and one A-level event, he recorded excellent data of 1.46, 1.27, and 1.55 respectively.
In these games, the overall performance of the second team has obviously gradually improved, and they have successfully entered the knockout stage in several competitions.
But in the end, it seemed that he was just short of reaching the finals. Broky often teased Zaiwu, maybe it was a curse in the French blood, and he was destined to go to jail.
Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
The performance of the second team has steadily improved, but the recent performance of the first team is not particularly ideal.
After IEM Cologne, everyone thought that VC would show its dominance and win the championship in all subsequent events.
After IEM Cologne, the first major event the team participated in was the Blast Spring Finals.
In this competition, although the process was a bit bumpy, we finally made it to the finals.
It was still the final meeting with its old rival AE, but this time VC made a different move, and finally lost the final with a score of 1-2, and only finished second.
In the second event, they met the GOD team, which was in very good shape recently, in the semi-finals. After GOD's two youth training brothers came to the front line, the strength of the entire GOD changed qualitatively.
As the top 2 Cavaliers of the year, he finally no longer had to drag four players. When his two youth training teammates stepped up to resist the pressure, they also completely liberated him.
In this competition for the top four, the Blue Horse Knight even set a new record for Sha Er's highest kills and defeated them forcefully.
Everyone within the first team was not satisfied with the results of these two competitions, but in the subsequent ESL S16 competition, they finally regained some form. Although they stumbled along the way, they finally won the championship.
Now one team only needs to win one more game to get to the Intel Grand Slam!
Knowing this result, the entire first team was very motivated and eager to start the next competition immediately. However, after the entire ESL S16 ended, they actually felt that they were lacking.
Too frequent games make it difficult for them to really have time to absorb some new knowledge emerging in the professional circle. If they continue to play like this, sooner or later they will not be able to keep up with the rhythm of the first-tier teams.
So after discussion, Mengde chose to let them temporarily slow down the pace of the game to give the team more time to "recharge" themselves.
Meng De also happened to throw some of the tactics he had recently extracted and researched from the system to Wang Yuning and asked him to lead a team for training.
The current state of the first team requires more self-adjustment and review to correct some detailed errors.
The state of the second team is exactly the opposite. Zaiwu and other members of the second team have gradually adapted to the game and are in a honeymoon period. The strength of the entire team is improving rapidly. Now it is time to compete to verify various inner thoughts.
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"NICE!!!"
During the training match, watching Zaiwu once again complete the 1V2 endgame with a sniper rifle, gla1ve laughed and shouted from the side: "Zaiwu, you are indeed a monster."
They have been working together for several months now, but Zaiwu can still give them varying degrees of shock in training and competitions.
After fully understanding Zaiwu's strength, gla1ve's tactics in the game began to become more varied. In the past, Icarus' famous stunts began to be used, and now he can try to use them.
After all, as soon as the loaded sniper went off, the opponent had already started running away.
"Broky, you have to stand up now, why are you standing behind and shopping every day?" gla1ve turned to the other side, and the sharp words made Broccoli feel hurt.
Broccoli touched his heart and shouted with a look of pain: "How did your 38-degree mouth say such cold words? Grevo, you have such double standards!!"
Xiaoju pressed TAB and added: "What's the double standard? Zaiwu kills 15 more heads than you. It's good that gla1ve doesn't spray you."
"There's nothing I can do." Broky shrugged, "If you break through, you'll always die more often. This one pushed Ah Dian too far back. I'll always need to do the dirty work."
"I feel like you're inside me..." Brother Electronic said expressionlessly.
There was another burst of laughter in the team, and the training match soon came to an end.
Their recent form has been quite good, winning 14 of the last 20 training games.
By studying tactics, studying in depth, training again, reviewing after the end, studying, training again...
At this stage, the second team is constantly cycling in this set of gameplay, and their good results have given them a lot of positive feedback.
Naturally, you are very enthusiastic when training. After all, who doesn’t want to achieve better results?
And recently they have been gradually practicing what the coach calls dynamic defensive ideas.
What is dynamic defense? The simplest explanation is that through the advantage of numbers or props, you can get more information from the outside world, and then quickly move to another area to play a heavy defense role.
For example, in this game, Team A is the defender of Purgatory Town. At the beginning, gla1ve placed a 3B2A. If they follow their previous defensive habits, their A area will defend the back point, denying the opponent the possibility of getting information, and play conservatively.
Lord.
But now that they have started to try dynamic defense, there have been some changes in their playing style.
If it is 3B2A, then only one person will go to A at the first time, and the other person will be on standby at the police house.
Wait until the member in area A scans the information on the middle and side lanes, and then uses this information to choose whether to gamble or return to defense.
This style of play has been used by many teams in the professional arena, but most of them were just flashes of inspiration. This was the first time they had seen the specific style of play within the tactical system.
But the coach's tactical acumen has always made them choose to believe rather than question without hesitation.
When I first tried this style of play, my training was stumbling, and I suddenly changed my defensive mode on a large scale. The effect was definitely not as good as before.
During the process, they themselves even doubted whether this style of play was really feasible.
They have been working together until recently, and they have finally adapted to this defensive style. They are in good condition and have new tactical ideas. All members of the second team are very much looking forward to how effective this style of play will be in the game.
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With a lot of expectations, the last large-scale event before the Major - IEM Imperial City Station has officially started auditions.
The audition is an online event, mainly to compete for the qualifications for the IEM Imperial City Station.
The first team will not participate in major events before the Major, and only the second team of VC will participate in this audition.
On the first day of the game, their opponent was an old friend - the RC team.
The main members of the RC team are Xigua and SANJI, whom they are familiar with, as well as Pite, a talented boy who has been very popular in China recently.
Although RC has not had particularly good results in recent events, they have also appeared in the Copenhagen Major and still have a certain level of strength.
Xigua and SANJI have rich experience in competitions, and the strength of Pite, who is ranked first in the VAC league, is also quite exaggerated, so they cannot help but ignore it.
What's more, just because the opponents are old friends, they have to go all out.
After the game started, after a simple BP, the final map was determined to be on the town of Purgatory.
RC is very straightforward and knows where his strengths are. Although this strength is only given to himself, at least he has some confidence in his heart.
After choosing sides, RC will be on the offensive side, while VC will start on the defensive side.
During the warm-up session, SANJI and a group of people from Team A looked at each other and joked on the public screen, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.
Xigua, who was becoming more and more plump, noticed the nervousness of the young players in the team. He waved his hand and said with a somewhat heroic tone: "Don't worry, don't we always beat them in training matches? And I'm here, as long as you don't overload the CPU during the fight.
, there is still a chance this time.”
The game officially started. Xigua commanded a wave of synchronized flying to the second floor during the pistol round and successfully won the round.
He looked at Pite and his eyes lit up. He handed over his fist and continued to encourage him: "Just follow this rhythm and fight. The genius boy will fight the genius boy."
The team was immediately overjoyed, Pite was also very excited, and there was another burst of laughter in his voice.
After entering the long gun game, they found that the problem began to become serious. gla1ve was like having a God's perspective. No matter which area they played, they could encounter multiple heavy defenses.
"Are you gla1ve or Icarus~" Xigua was already talking nonsense.
Xigua worked hard to help the team break the game, but soon discovered that only by speeding up the attack could he gain an advantage during the attack.
But this speed-up style of play is not suitable for most rounds. There is no information-gathering attack. Whether they can get in depends entirely on scratching the lottery. Team A immediately defends that area, and they will not be able to get in. The defensive strength
If it is weak, they can get in.
Breaking in doesn't mean victory yet, you also have to worry about the strong personal abilities of the guys in Team A.
Especially that guy named Zaiwu, he is simply inhuman.
At the end of the first half, RC had only scored 3 points in total. At this time, Xigua comforted his teammates, but his voice was already silent.
He could only place his hope on being able to perform well in the early stages of the second half and bring back everyone's emotions.
But in the end, they only managed to hold on for one round on match point before being crushed and taken away by Team A.
After the game, Xigua comforted his teammates and felt quite emotional.
In the past, he was able to compete with gla1ve as a commanding officer. The decline in his level and the long period of low-quality games made him clearly feel the gap between him and gla1ve.
Everyone in Team A is very happy to be able to easily win against their old friends.
"This dynamic defense is really easy to use. RC's information is as transparent as it gets." Xiao Ju stretched and even wanted to continue playing. Obviously, this game was not enough for him.
In addition to some reckless attacks by Xigua in this Purgatory Town, in other defensive rounds, the opponent's information is the same as that of the Mirror in their eyes. Whether it is betting points or tactical pressure, they can handle it very well. This is why
The important reason why Team A was able to play so easily in today's game.
"However, we still made a few mistakes. For example, in the 7th and 11th rounds, the defensive information was exposed too early, which gave Xigua Game a chance." Meng De said the number of recorded rounds.
gla1ve also immediately opened the video of the game just now in the folder and cut him to those rounds.
I have to say that I have quite a lot of experience in the watermelon competition.
After he lost multiple rounds in a row, he realized that gla1ve was not playing point defense, because even Icarus couldn't be so accurate.
In one round, Xigua analyzed the props fed back by the electronic brothers in Area A and analyzed the information about the opponent's turn.
They planned to rush directly into the Banana Road with a wave of pivots, but found Xiaoju jumping on the stone slabs to investigate. After the information was exposed, Team A began to return to defense. However, Xigua then made a silent pivot to Area A.
This also allowed him to successfully capture Area A with a numerical advantage.
The first day of competition ended successfully, and the next day's qualifiers were BO3 matches.
The next day their opponent was Hii, a team from Indonesia. This team also included players that Meng De was familiar with. During VC's first Major qualifier, the biggest enemy in Asia was Snapping Turtle. At that time, there were
The best sniper in Indonesia, Brother Grease, is now in this team.
Two years ago, Meng De attached great importance to them and would even worry about whether the team could really win against their opponents.
But two years later, even the second team with worse results had no pressure against them.
This BO3 did not make any waves, and finally ended with big scores of 16-4 and 16-5 respectively.
On the third day of the game, their opponent was AO.
AO has performed well in recent large-scale competitions, and has defeated strong first-tier teams several times.
The lineup of this team is also considered luxurious in the country.
Led by Xantares, followed by Shroud, PP, and FTJ.
Although Xantares does not have much experience in major competitions, after all, he is a person who has won a Major championship, and his frontal ability is no less than that of Team A.
This game was relatively difficult. On AO's map selection, they won 16-11, but on VC's own map selection, it went into overtime, and finally won at 19:17.
The score won the game.
After three games, Team A qualified for the group stage by ranking first in the Asian region of IEM Imperial City!
The strength of Team A's dynamic defense has begun to take shape, and they can't wait to compete with those first-line teams!