The iEM Imperial City competition has come to an end, and the competition team and players have also ushered in the most important game of this event, the finals!
Although today is Monday, as it approaches 6 p.m., the stands of Teito University Student Gymnasium are already overcrowded.
Many of them had just finished class or had just gotten off work. They hurried to the venue without even eating dinner, for fear of missing this important game.
The derivative culture of domestic e-sports is not as popular as traditional sports competitions, so you can see a variety of professional attires at the scene, including office workers in suits and ties, sports teenagers in loose suits, and even some people wearing a uniform from the Imperial Capital.
Middle school students in middle school uniforms.
In comparison, they don't seem so professional as fans.
But after everyone took their seats, they still took out small flags from their belongings, one after another to support the players of Team A. There were also some spectators who were not too prepared and chose to take out their mobile phones when the camera came over.
The logo of Team A is displayed on it, which is enough to indicate which side they will support in this final.
Although all kinds of support are very simple, it can make people feel their love for this team.
Today's final bo5 will officially start at 6.30 pm, but the audience at the scene can't wait.
Some csgo bloggers also invited by the tournament team officials took advantage of the fact that the game had not yet started, randomly arresting people in the venue and in the stands, and began to interview the audience.
Li Tu, a well-known domestic csgo reporter, also became one of the invited guests at the IEM Imperial City Station. After entering through the staff channel, he adjusted the equipment and started randomly grabbing people in the stands for interviews.
When asked about which side he was more optimistic about in this game, the college student shouted without a doubt: "". Before Li Tu could ask the next question, he found that the urgent answer here caused a stir in other areas.
In response, shouts of "" were heard one after another on the scene.
As expected, Team A's opponent in this game is God, the favorite to win the championship, led by the Blue Horse Cavaliers. From the analysis of paper strength, it is definitely not easy for Team A to win this game, but the audience is still chanting
The name of Team A can imagine their expectations for Team A.
It is true that team a is not outstanding in terms of recent results, but the final result is that team a and god also entered the finals. It is impossible to say that team a has no chance of winning the championship. What's more, after team a enters the knockout stage
, taking away their opponents with a score of 2-0 in both bo3 games, which is enough to illustrate their recent hot state.
Now that we have the home court advantage, everyone in Team A feels hot, and the main thing is that I have the first-hand advantage!
Although many people can't imagine how Team A will win this Bo5 game, most domestic fans still have full confidence in them and believe that this will be Team A's first championship after reorganization.
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"I'll go, the place is very exciting!
"
Broky felt the shouts in the venue and was a little bit infected.
With the arrival of the finals, as players, they can obviously feel that the audience is more enthusiastic.
Because after this game, the entire event will end, and the final winner will be decided between them and god, and the audience will release their last passion.
"It seems like our names are being called out at the scene." Xiao Ju said with some surprise.
"Really?"
"I listen."
The lounge suddenly became quiet, and everyone was listening carefully to the sounds coming from the venue.
"I didn't hear it."
"Xiao Ju, did you hear wrongly?"
From the lounge, everyone could only hear the chaotic sounds of the scene.
"Okay, where can I hear the sound of the whole scene in the lounge? Everyone thinks they are clairvoyants." Meng De looked at his teammates stretching their necks one by one and felt funny. After thinking about it, he burst out to everyone again.
Personally, "It's actually easy to make the audience cheer for you. Yesterday kenny and I
S has talked about it, he will become the cheerleader of Team A today, and as long as you shine, he will take the lead and shout from the stands."
Meng De raised his eyebrows, and his words were full of temptation: "So whether you can make your name resound in the venue depends on your performance today."
"hiss……"
Everyone in the lounge felt goosebumps on their hands just thinking about the tens of thousands of people shouting their IDs.
Although I understand that the coach may have drawn the cake to motivate them, this cake is so delicious!
Isn’t it just to make a name for yourself when you enter the professional arena?
None of them could resist that image.
For a while, the lounge was filled with something called fighting spirit. Now Meng De signaled them to go find God to play offline games. It is estimated that they will go directly to take action.
"Okay, everyone has adjusted. We just received a notice telling us to get ready and we are about to go on stage."
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Li Tu interviewed several interesting fans one after another, and felt that there was enough material for making a video, so he went to the front row of the stands, where there was a seat specially reserved for "staff" like them.
"Hey, Li Tu!"
As soon as he sat down, he heard shouting not far away. When he heard the sound, he looked around and saw Kennys sitting on the right back, saying hello to him.
"How come you have time to come over and watch the game?" Li Tu nodded to indicate.
"Otherwise, what can I do? I was eliminated just yesterday, can I still play through the back door today?" Kennys was speechless by Li Tu's words, but said softly, "But it seems that we are not just here to watch the game today.
"
"What did you say?" The noisy scene made Li Tu unable to hear clearly for a while.
Just as he was about to ask a few more questions, the lights in the venue suddenly went dark, plunging the entire venue into darkness.
The audience also understood that the opening ceremony was coming and began to wait quietly.
This time there was no countdown to the opening ceremony, but the video started playing directly. Judging from the camera, it was a video of the players outside the court. Li Tu's eyes lit up because he saw that it was actually Lao Wang and Su Xing.
A video of.
Following Awakening's key kill, the members in the video were excited and shouting in the room.
This was followed by various kill highlights. It was easy to tell from the scenes in the camera that these were the highlight moments of the players in IEM competitions over the years. Coupled with the passion of the English commentary, it aroused the emotions of the audience.
Faces from the past appeared in the middle of the screen, which made many old viewers miss it deeply.
As the years went by, they could see the changes in the different players on the screen, but as the music turned, pictures of the match between Team A and God appeared on the screen one after another with their final makeup.
The emotions of the audience were gradually aroused.
As the music changed again, the lights came on, and the host in a suit slowly walked out from the left side of the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the IEM Imperial City Finals competition site!"
The host had a beard, but it didn't look too rough. Instead, it made people feel comfortable because it was trimmed properly. He walked all the way to the center of the stage, where there was the trophy that all the contestants in this event wanted to win!
"There are a total of 16 teams in this IEM Imperial City station. After fierce competition, two teams in the finals were left!" The host's voice was loud, "And today, they will decide the final winner and win this championship."
A trophy for the champion!"
Looking around at the eyes of the audience, the host showed a decent smile: "These two teams, God and God, will definitely evict the winner today. Without further ado, let us give God a round of applause!"
God was a little surprised by the enthusiasm of the audience. Coach God led the team onto the red carpet, with the team flag draped behind him, and high-fived the audience in the player aisle, all the way to the stage.
The host saw God taking his place one after another and said again: "Next, let's invite another team from this final!!
"
The cheer sticks given out for free during ticket check-in were waved and flew up at this moment.
Cheers, shouts!
Exclamations, screams!
At this moment, one after another formed the sound of fans welcoming Team A.
1ve took the lead on the red carpet and walked all the way from the end of the venue to the stage.
People around them kept reaching out to give them high fives, and many people picked up their phones to take pictures and record this beautiful moment.
Walking all the way to the front of the stage, two fans wearing Team A uniforms were holding their team flags, and everyone in Team A passed through the team flags one by one and stepped onto the stage that belonged to them.
When the host saw both players taking their seats, he formally finished his last words before the game.
He took a deep breath, mobilized his inner emotions, and said loudly: "Both teams are ready. In today's final, whether Team A will win the championship locally, or God will be crowned the king, let us wait and see!
"
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"Good evening, audience friends, and welcome to the Imperial University Student Gym! The players from both sides have already taken their seats, and the BP session of the competition is about to begin!"
After the host quit, Coke, who was the commentator of the scene, became one of the main "talkers" on the scene.
His partner in this match is still the classic combination Taro Yuan.
"It's unimaginable that after the lineup reorganization, it only took Team A less than half a year to return to the big stage of the S-level finals..." Taro Yuan was amazed at Team A's adaptability.
"Actually, in the previous IEM Cologne, Team A had good results, but in the end they lost the game due to poor performance." Coke changed his words, "But this time, I think they are well prepared.
We can see from the last two bo3 games that their form is so good, I think they have a high chance of winning the championship."
Taro Yuan smiled ghostly and said, "Personally, I still think that the level of Team A fluctuates greatly, and we still have to keep questioning it."
Hearing this, Coke suddenly realized: "Indeed, we all have to remain skeptical until the final result comes out. Without further ado, let us enter the BP part of this game."
At the referee's reminder, Mengde went to the middle of the stage to guess the coin and choose the side.
This time he chose the side of the suit, but he didn't expect that Wu Zi's side was so powerful that God took the initiative.
Damn wordless!
As the bp screen appeared, the two commentators suddenly looked serious.
"Okay, the game has officially entered the BP stage. This IEM Imperial City finals uses a bo5 competition system. In the first round, both sides only need to ban one map each, and then they will start to choose maps." Coke briefly explained the map selection process.
rule.
"God got priority in selecting sides before the game. They banned the Death Building first, and Team A took the train away."
"Let's see what the first map of this bo5 game will be..." Coke was a little surprised, "The first map is actually a nuclear crisis?"
This choice is a little surprising. Although Team A has a relatively low selection rate on the map of Nuclear Crisis recently, they are not weak on this map.
Judging from the paper data, God's winning rate in the nuclear crisis is actually one percentage point lower than that of Team A.
It’s not that you can’t choose a map with a lower winning rate, but as the first map of bo5, you should logically choose a stronger map of your own side, such as Chariot’s Sha 2, which is more suitable for this situation.
Selected.
According to Team A's analysis, God's first map should be Lost City.
"It seems that the first map won't be easy." Meng De frowned, "Let's choose a small town. Let's choose a strong map first."
Since the opponent dares to play like this, they must be confident. They want to defend for a while but don't know how to defend. They can only wait until they enter the game to see the tricks.
"Small town?" This choice of Coke is not surprising, "In this iem imperial capital station
, Team A’s Purgatory Town has never lost a game, God did not ban this map, it may become one of the foreshadowings of this bo5.”
"But if you can get the Purgatory Town in Figure 2, this bo5 sequence will be quite good." According to Taro Yuan's understanding, Team A's Purgatory Town will basically not have any problems, so even if they lose in Figure 1, the follow-up
You can also adjust your mentality back by taking picture 2.
Brother P, the sniper of Team God, saw Team A's choice and smiled at his teammates: "Everything is going according to our script. If Purgatory Town is really chosen, then there won't be much of a problem next."
Coach God nodded, everything was going in the direction they envisioned, which made people feel very comfortable: "Let's win the amusement park."
"Amusement park?" Meng De's frown deepened. In the first three choices of this bo5, they chose three strong pictures. How could people not doubt this.
He was worried, but on the outside he didn't have much expression other than a frown.
"Take down Sha Er, save the Lost City until the end." Meng De said to 1ve.
The final bp is officially over.
Figure 1: Nuclear crisis
Figure 2: Purgatory Town
Figure 3: Death Amusement Park
Figure 4: Scorching Sand City
Figure 5: Lost City in the Desert
The game was about to begin. Meng De called the players to their feet, hugged them into a ball, and began the final pre-game training.
"In Picture 1, let DD go first, and Brother Electronics will accompany me behind. The selection of the map on the opposite side should have done a lot of research on us, so in the next Picture 1 and Picture 3... and even Picture 2, we may be affected by it.
Seriously, in the first half of this game, I hope you can always maintain a good attitude!" Meng De looked around at everyone, "Calm down is the most important weapon in CSGO. As long as we stay calm and play to the level we deserve, this game
The championship of the competition must be ours."
"We have to believe in ourselves. Since we are ready to win the championship, some failures in the game are just twists and turns in the story!"
"Believe in yourself and don't let down the audience who came to support us."
"In this bo5, we want them to shout our names without any burden!"
Seeing that the atmosphere was about the same, 1ve took the initiative and shouted: "Then tell them now that we are!"