This night may be called a sleepless night for many players in Cologne.
In a certain room where G2 was assigned, m0NESY looked at JACKZ staring at the night sky by the floor-to-ceiling window, with mixed feelings in his heart.
This 17-year-old Russian teenager felt the pain of leaving his teammates for the first time in a foreign country.
The journey of IEM has ended. m0NESY did not intend to continue analyzing the mistakes in the game. Instead, he picked up his notebook, turned to the last page, and sketched it out in Russian.
The "rustling" sound of the paper rubbing against the pen tip made JACKZ couldn't help but look back. They were a few lines of Russian in a regular format.
"It doesn't matter at IEM this time. You are only seventeen and you still have great potential." JACKZ came over and touched m0NESY's head, pretending to be relaxed and said, "If you lose today's game, you will lose, and there is no need to analyze it.
There are too many, I believe both G2 and you can go further in the future."
"come on."
m0NESY suddenly choked up, forced a smile and nodded, then looked melancholy at the few lines of Russian handwriting that JACKZ couldn't understand.
"On June 6th, go to Cologne Cathedral with JACKZ. The warmest place in the world is on the top of the cathedral tower."
“On June 7th, I went to visit LANXESS Arena with JACKZ. Someone is hosting the IEM Cologne finals there.”
"On June 8th, Mr. Ni was very angry and asked us to go to a nightclub to relax. Nightclubs are scary, but JACKZ is there, so it's not scary."
"JACKZ is the best."
"..."
At the same time, Team Vitality was in a room somewhere in the hotel.
zonic reviewed the previous two video clips of NAVI in the IEM group stage, holding his chin with his left hand and thinking deeply.
Since the introduction of SDY and Electronic Brother's transition to team leadership, NAVI's game style is slightly different from that of Fat Ball's previous leadership.
However, the personal habits of s1mple, the eldest brother in the team, have not changed much due to the arrival of sdy.
Since the key issue in how to defeat NAVI is how to target s1mple, zonic simply skipped most of the rounds that NAVI won, and instead looked at the rounds that NAVI lost, trying to find the secret to targeting s1mple.
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The next morning, Vitality began to gather in the training room at ten o'clock in the morning as usual. The training content in the morning did not include in-game skills, but exchanged team members' ideas in the form of a meeting.
Coach Zonic stood in front of the tactical board in the room, carefully looking at the NAVI defensive strategy analysis that was temporarily printed out yesterday.
When all the players arrived, Zonic cleared his throat and took the lead in speaking: "The NAVI game this afternoon may be our most difficult game in recent times, so the analysts and I have also made a lot of efforts for this.
Prepare."
"First of all, we have to make it clear that our basic goal is to play our own game well, but without disrupting the team's rhythm, we must try our best to develop strategies based on the enemy's offensive and defensive ideas."
"Compared to Heroic's dynamic defense and NIP's single-player touch, NAVI prefers default and slow attack and map control tactics."
"Let's start with their defensive side. s1mple is a player who likes to obtain information. Once he has a sniper rifle in his hand, s1mple will choose REPEEK to obtain information almost most of the time."
"In other words, even if we get map control in the early stage, if there is a rifle on the shelf, we may not be able to completely restrict s1mple."
Several Vitality players did not refute this point. After all, s1mple is a player known as the "REPEEK Emperor".
"So we have to learn Faze's playing style as much as possible and don't give s1mple too much room to fire."
"In NAVI, in some pictures, the defender's position is relatively fixed. We can use throwing objects to help Aether or ZywOo get to the gun position, and use the sniper rifle to counterattack and maybe pull out PEEK's s1mple." Zonic looked at it subconsciously.
Take a look at Qin Feng who is drinking a drink.
According to HLTV statistics, Qin Feng's average time from discovering the enemy to causing damage on both offense and defense is only about 370 milliseconds, even surpassing the 17-year-old m0NESY.
"In the last BLAST game, we actually didn't let Aether target s1mple too much, but this time we can try to target s1mple's sniper rifle."
"But in the games before the Rio Major, I would rather have ZywOo and Aether alternately use sniper rifles on the offensive side."
"Do you know why this is?" Zonic put down the small notebook in his hand and glanced at the team members around him with interest.
"To interfere with the opponent's judgment?" apEX glanced at zonic uncertainly.
"Yes, but not entirely."
"To avoid being targeted by opponents?" Qin Feng put Coca-Cola aside and said subconsciously, "After all, most teams have begun to conduct targeted research on my sniper rifle habits. If ZywOo and I alternately snipe as much as possible,
to avoid future attacks from opponents."
"That's right!" zonic nodded, with approval in his eyes, "Other teams may not do this, but Vitality has the capital to do so."
"ZywOo and Aether are among the best in the world in terms of rifles and sniper rifles. We can completely avoid our opponents' targeting through this method."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Of course, Aether should still be the main sniper in the Major."
"Then let's talk about NAVI's offensive side. In fact, in most offensive rounds, NAVI will choose the tactics of map control and a wave of explosive bombs. We can still make some special arrangements for NAVI's early process."
"Under these two tactics, once the early-stage drop process cannot be solved, it means that NAVI must rely on personal ability to stand up in order to win the round."
"So we have to speed up the pace of the game as much as possible. In this way, in addition to limiting the kill streak of the s1mple sniper rifle, it can also to some extent amplify the shortcomings of Electronic Brother's lack of command experience in the mid-term."
"Do you all understand?"
The team members nodded one after another, but Zonic still had a solemn look on his face.
No matter how well the tactics are formulated, they still rely on the players' on-the-spot performance and teamwork.
During the Astralis dynasty, they were targeted by countless opponents, but no team could ever unseat Astralis from the throne.
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At 4:30 pm Cologne time, the Group A winner's bracket final between Vitality and NAVI.
The official live stream of the domestic video platform has already shown the BP order of the maps of both sides.
NAVI disables the death building.
Vitality disables ancient ruins.
NAVI picks the death amusement park.
Vitality selects the hot sand city.
NAVI disables Lost City.
Vitality bans the town of Purgatory.
Keep the map until Nuclear Crisis.
As for the barrage, it is still a welcome moment for fans from both sides to express their opinions.
[Aether: I will not destroy s1mple, I will destroy the entire NAVI team.]
[It’s time to take revenge. s1mple was sniped by Aether in the last game. Can you bear this? 】
[The picture selection is outrageous enough. Vitality chose the OP by itself last time, but this time NAVI took the initiative? 】
[Brother Electronics is in command? After killing the people, just command and hand over the package. NAVI will be assigned to me!]
[Kill all the people? Forget it. If you don’t get blown up when you go out, it will be considered a success. 】
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Hmm... In terms of tactics, I naturally can't compare with professional players. I can only write based on my own understanding plus player analysis and interviews.