There is nearly a week between the group stage and the knockout stage, but Mengde actually gave the team only two days of rest.
After simply relaxing, they need to return to "working status", and the first step is to start training again.
"I feel that the intensity of this knockout round will not be very low."
Sitting in the hotel room, the team members were entering into the morning warm-up training. Mengde also took this opportunity to watch all the games in the group stage, and he also made an assessment of the strength of his opponents in the knockout rounds.
"GOD and AE are both difficult to crack, not to mention kennyS's FG, and some explosive dark horses. Especially as we get closer to the knockout rounds, we can see that everyone's condition is getting better and better, and their level is getting higher and higher.
, GOD and AE were able to overwhelm them with just their hard power, and the tactics were quite simple..." Wu Qiang, who was at the other end of the video, was also a little worried, "The status of gla1ve guys has fluctuated greatly.
If you don’t perform as well as you should on the first day, then..."
He didn't say the next words, but Meng De also knew what he meant.
It has entered the knockout stage, and there is only one chance for BO3. If you fail to win the game, you will directly announce your preparation for the next event in advance.
"If the top eight meet GOD when they come up, they will probably be eliminated in the first round..." Wu Qiang looked worried.
"Don't talk nonsense." Meng De was also worried about this happening. "We haven't even divided into groups yet, so you are saying such depressing words."
If you want to win the championship, you must have the confidence to win all the opponents in this tournament. But you have to ask whether Team A is confident enough to win against GOD now.
Of course... I have no confidence.
Just kidding, GOD is the most victorious general of the first-line team recently and is in a honeymoon period of highly improved strength. In the group stage, the two teams played a BO1. Team A was crushed without much struggle. This is to a certain extent.
The problem has been explained above.
However, if the grouping situation is good and they meet GOD as late as possible, then Mengde can research something to improve the team's strength.
Meng De glanced at the time on the lower right side of the screen: "I talked with the tournament yesterday, and it is estimated that the grouping situation will be announced this morning. It won't be long before we die in the first game, or we can continue to struggle for a while."
"That's right, you can't rush this thing." As he spoke, Wu Qiang suddenly laughed, "But, Meng Jiao, didn't you go give a hint to the competition team?"
What does it imply? Naturally, it is a group situation. At IEM Capital Station, there are many Chinese people in the tournament group. If Meng De takes the initiative to say something, the tournament group may also take the initiative to take action.
"What are you thinking about?" Meng De was a little speechless about the thoughts of this old subordinate. "It doesn't matter whether I have the face to ask them to cooperate. Even if I do, there is no need. If you can win, then fight. If you can't, then prepare for the next game.
If we use these little tricks that don’t make it to the top, then our team will definitely not be able to do it in the future.”
"Hehe, that's what I just said." In fact, Wu Qiang knew the result, he was just teasing Menzi.
Looking at the coach over there who didn't give him a good look, Wu Qiang took the initiative to explain the recent training situation of the first team.
The first team has no games to play in the near future, and the overall state is a little slack. But because the level has reached a certain level, a lot of training is meaningless except to maintain the state. Under the leadership of Wang Yuning, the first team began various
Filling in the gaps and formulating tactics around certain ideas of the team, ropz from the youth training team played a big role in it.
The overall performance is quite good. In addition to basic training every day, NIKO and others also do additional training, which is very rare.
Listening to Wu Qiang explaining the current situation of the first team bit by bit, Meng De's expression finally softened a little.
The work report was almost done. Wu Qiang looked back at the brothel in the training room and continued: "All members of the first team are up and can prepare for the training match at any time. Do you want me to call them into the server now?"
Meng De refreshed the official account of IEM Imperial City Station and thought for a while: "Let's wait a little longer. I'm not in a hurry for this game anyway. I still want to see who my opponent is in the first game."
Compared with other teams, VC's biggest advantage is that it can have qualified training status in most cases.
Now that we have entered the offline elimination phase, the remaining teams are worried about exposing their tactics. They hide their tactics in training matches and basically just play the game by default. Some teams will even deliberately play randomly to disrupt your view.
This makes training matches useless.
The VC is different. If they are not in the same game, the two teams can enter the training match anytime and anywhere. Even if one team is abroad, the other team can play the training match despite delays.
That's what both teams bring to the table.
There was no need for training for the time being, so Meng De and Wu Qiang continued to chat for a few words before hanging up the phone.
gla1ve and others were still playing happily while returning to the defense server. Meng De had nothing to do and opened the system after a long time. Looking at the 7-digit points in it, he nodded with satisfaction. Thinking about when he just owned the system,
After finally drawing an S1mple, I spent all my money. Now my balance is full, but there is no place to use it.
Yes, there is not much space available.
Since winning the Major championship, Mengde's attitude towards the system is not as enthusiastic as before.
Because he has been in this industry for a while, he already understands that the system is just a help, and the most important thing is the people.
With such a large number of points, it shouldn't be difficult for him to draw five more S-level players, but even if he draws them, will he be able to achieve good results by forming a team?
Does not.
CSGO is a team game, and a group of right people is more important than a group of good people.
This is also the reason why Mengde hasn't selected many players in the future. Even if he enters the system, he only sees the ups and downs of the players' status.
When entering the system this time, Meng De still did not intend to include new players, but planned to randomly select some tactics to give himself some new ideas.
With a thought, the random drawing officially begins:
[Purgatory Town: Dismantling of the bandit's tree position goat jumping skills...]
[Desert City: Jungle cigarettes are thrown at the sewer entrance...]
[Hot Sand City: Spirit Pistol Bureau’s Door Smoke Tactics...]
[Purgatory Town: The middle road is so far away that the bandit bridge is on fire...]
[Desert City: Mine in front of the sewer...]
[Nuclear Crisis: The point where the pipeline passes through Area B...]
[Scorching Sand City: Origin point, Gate B...]
[Desert City: Complete Collection of Silent Techniques...]
【……】
Feeling that the extraction was almost done, Meng De stopped as soon as his thoughts moved.
Then he looked at each item one by one.
The first is a goat jumping technique in Purgatory Town. The content of this technique is very simple. At the beginning, two bandits enter the banana road, and then perform a double stand on the tree pile. The main purpose is to capture the enemy on the yellow wall.
Meng De prefers to call this kind of thing a routine, but in fact, there are several ways to play this little trick of stealing people.
For example, whether to push the cigarette or the fire at the first time, or even throw the cigarette in the middle to protect yourself, and then play this cool operation.
As for the jungle cigarettes thrown at the sewer entrance of the second maze, this is actually relatively common. Neither the ideas nor the specific props can provide any help to Meng De.
Then there is the Shaer gun game tactics played by this team called Spirit.
It has to be said that the tactics in the system always come up with wonderful ideas that would amaze Meng De.
Up to now, there have been several mainstream throwing methods for Sha Er hanging cigarettes on the door, namely: fake door of gangster's house, medium and far L position, and direct throw at the near point of the middle door.
But in this tactic, the cigarette hanging on the door is actually thrown from door A, which is a bit interesting.
Giving the door smoke from door A can give the opponent wrong information to a certain extent and mislead the opponent. If a small fire from A is added, CT can completely lose control of the middle lane in the mid-term.
Then there is the super long-distance gang fight in the middle of this town. When he first watched it, Meng De laughed because of this prop.
Because this fire was thrown from the middle of the CT, and its landing point was on the Bandit Bridge. This powerful prop that can produce miracles seems to have no effect at first glance.
But when I thought about it carefully, I found that my thinking was somewhat rigid.
This prop is not meaningless. If you encounter bandits who like to control the bandits' bridge crossing points, you can use it with the side flash to counter the clearing.
In this way, even if the VIP anti-Qing members are killed, the fire will still be able to kill the bandits standing on the bandit bridge.
Therefore, there are no useless props, it just depends on whether the props are appropriate.
The subsequent resurgence of Sha Er to light the B smoke, as well as the difficult-to-shoot mine in front of the sewers of the maze, also made his eyes shine.
But in terms of skills, the biggest gain this time is the point where the nuclear crisis zone B passes through the pipe and the complete collection of silent skills in the maze.
VC has learned a lot about silent techniques. The first thing he learned about was silent VIP disembarkation. The subsequent silent disembarkation of white cars was also developed by Meng De himself.
But this time, it was all the silent techniques of Lost City, including several techniques that even Meng De had not thought of.
For example, descending from A1 silently, descending from a dark room to VIP silently, jumping from VIP to sewer silently, and even descending silently from a police phone box.
These techniques are ridiculous and can be of great use at critical moments.
A poor concept of information can sometimes affect the outcome of the entire team.
Meng De did not think that these skills were unimportant just because they were small skills. He recorded each skill one by one and prepared to send it to Wu Qiang so that he could teach it to the members of the first team.
But after thinking about it, it seems that video operation would be better for things like skills.
Meng De came to the computer, opened the screen recording software, entered the Lost City map, and then operated and explained the techniques one by one.
After all the skills were performed, Meng De looked back again, re-recorded the skills that he said wrongly, and sent them to the VC event group.
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S1mple just finished a ladder match and saw the coach in the group @all staff.
Open WeChat and download the specific content.
You don’t know this by looking at it, but it’s really shocking when you look at it.
"Let me go, coach, has he researched so many new things?"
The two youth training boys who were training with the team were also reading the contents. ropz was not surprised. As a prop researcher, he often came up with new tricks, so naturally he was not surprised.
But these new techniques are still of great use to them in many specific situations.
"This silent A1 is too scary." m0nesy looked a little stunned.
He put aside his own situation and thought that if he was the defender of Lost City, his teammates could kill A2 with this shot. He hit A1 directly with a big sniper.
After the first round of counting, his attention will only be focused on the left side of A1.
If someone uses this silent technique to get to A1, he will completely enter m0nesy's information blind zone. Unless his reaction is overwhelming, otherwise the opponent will pull out and he will most likely be chased to death with an empty gun.
As a defender in Area B, Xiao Gui paid more attention to the police phone booth's skill of silently descending.
Because in the endgame of returning to defense, especially the 1V1 bullfighting endgame, he often needs to choose some special positions in order to gain a faster reaction time.
Go back to area A, jump on the phone booth and stand high to see far, so you can get more information.
Being silent can avoid exposing information and save time.
As for the silent VIP, because the aiming point is a bit complicated, the symbolic meaning is greater, and it is not as practical as these silent techniques.
For these young people who have turned their careers into jobs, new skills can always ignite their enthusiasm.
Meng De did not urge, but a group of people took the initiative to practice. After a while, everyone had practiced these few tricks proficiently. After that, they only needed to review more and they could easily use them in competitions.
Not long after everyone in VC learned new skills, the official account of IEM Imperial City announced the upcoming schedule.
Looking at the grouping in the first half, Mengde breathed a sigh of relief.
I have to say that the organizer of IEM Capital dropped a bomb right away.
The two favorites to win this tournament, GOD and AE, faced off on the first day of the knockout rounds. The encounter between these two teams has greatly reduced the pressure on other teams.
In the second game of the top half, BIKG from the Commonwealth of Independent States faced off against a Spanish team OCO. Although this Spanish team is not well-known, there are many veterans who have been in the profession for several years. They are not pure
The leader of the new team is loxi, who was kicked out by GG.
Speaking of which, this time is also very interesting. GG showed a very high level after changing the formation, but in the end they still failed to advance.
However, Loxi, who was kicked out, led a group of second-tier veteran players to successfully advance. GG was already an internet celebrity team. This interesting result appeared, and the forum was filled with excitement for a while.
Turning our attention to the second half, the first name is VC.A. As for the opponent below, it is TG, one of the dark horses in this IEM Imperial City.
The TG team is basically composed of pure newcomers. Only one member has been working as a firefighter on the front line for several months, and all of them are not well-known.
Mengde was relieved when he saw this result. He had predicted the strength of all the opponents in the group stage.
Among them, this TG is the weakest one. To be able to enter the knockout stage, luck is stronger than strength.
This is definitely good news for them, at least GOD and AE will have to come up with some real things.