Chapter 120: How can hegemony last forever? The throne will eventually decay.
"Is three points enough?" Masisi quickly gave his answer as if he was asking himself a question, "Is three points not enough? You must know that the opponent is Vitality."
"Even if the Nuclear Crisis is a big CT map, three points is indeed a bit less." Mo took over the topic, "Team A can still play in the second half of the pistol round if they get it. If they lose in the pistol round, they will definitely send it."
It is true that even if the map Nuclear Crisis is the map with the highest win rate for CT teams, three points is not a passing score.
If Astralis' opponent is Tyloo, there might be room for improvement, but the problem is... Astralis' opponent is not a loser, but Vitality, who has been in the limelight recently.
What's more, Vitality must have carefully studied Astralis' defensive style before the game. Even if the Astralis defender wants to resist Vitality's offense, it will not be easy.
"The Sword Comes"
[As I said a long time ago, you don’t need to watch Vitality’s game, it will definitely be another victory when you wake up.]
[Where is 3000? Mr. Ma, please save ROLL 3000. Maybe ROLL 3000 can be turned over.]
[ROLL 3000? The ROLL dragon sniper can't beat this game, how can the flying dragon face lose? 】
[Unfortunately, this is a main stage game. Even if Little Bee beats the game at the speed of light, the game between NAVI and FAZE will not be advanced. It will still be uncomfortable to stay up late to watch it. 】
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at the same time.
Main stage, on the Astralis player bench.
blameF looked at the A4 paper randomly placed on the table with the tactics of each map written on it, took a deep breath, and tried to find a way to break the game in the second half.
Most of the map of Nuclear Crisis is inside buildings, which naturally separates the defensive CTs, making it difficult for CTs to support each other with props. Therefore, the personal ability requirements for the defender are even slightly higher than those of other maps.
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Sniper rifles are also particularly critical for map control.
And more importantly, once the defender loses first at the start, there will inevitably be spots on the map that CT has no time to take care of, making the overall defense even more difficult.
This is definitely not good news for Astralis.
After pondering for a moment, blameF looked at Farlig, the main sniper in the team, and said: "Actually, it is not difficult to arrange a defensive formation against Vitality's offense. After all, Vitality has played many maps since the introduction of Aether. The difficult thing is
How do we prevent the opponent from relying on personal abilities to prevent Vitality from unfolding."
After a pause, blameF patted Farlig on the shoulder, "This game may require you to stand up with your sniper rifle."
blameF's words made Brother Fali smile helplessly.
Occasionally exerting strength but often feeling weak can be said to be a reflection of Farlig's true state recently.
Astralis' teammates will not blame him, but will often encourage him. This is what makes him most likely to blame himself.
The moment he put on the Astralis jersey, criticism and responsibility came one after another, and all Farlig could do was try his best to ignore them.
It feels bad to hurt the team because of individual mistakes, but unfortunately, Farlig keeps making the same mistakes almost every game.
However, Astralis gave him the opportunity to redeem himself time and time again.
But how many chances for redemption are there?
Lucky is the best example.
"Don't worry, I will try my best to control the map with a sniper rifle."
Farlig took a deep breath and said slowly.
"Maybe I'm not as strong as Aether or ZywOo in offensive sniping, but I can still compete with defensive sniping."
"Didn't our previous match against BIG just result in a comeback on Nuke's map? I believe that everyone can work together to push the game into the third map."
gla1ve glanced at the countdown on the monitor and said in a deep voice: "Time is running out, brothers. We have not changed much compared to the previous system in the nuclear crisis. Everyone just plays their own position. Many people think
We're not the same Astralis team since dev1agisk and dupreeh left, but we still have a chance to prove ourselves."
"If Vitality can be reversed today, I believe the dynasty belonging to Team A will come again!"
"Just today!"
"come on!"
"come on!"
As each player encouraged each other, the players from both sides entered the second half of the pistol round.
"Okay, let's watch the second half."
"In the transition between offense and defense, Team A will do CT. They can't afford bomb defusers or flash bombs. They just rely on marksmanship."
"If we can't beat Vitality in the pistol round in the second half, we will basically take away Team A 2-0."
As Masisi finished speaking, Vitality seemed to clarify its offensive tactics in the second half of the pistol round.
By sealing the smoke bomb at the point where the red room and K1 pass, use flash bombs to complete a wave of K1 blitzes.
Qin Feng did not ask his teammates for any firearms, but instead used a body armor to carry out a K1 attack with his teammates.
This tactic is often referred to by Masisi as "bouncing around."
The excessive smoke bombs were not enough to block the entire view below the third floor, but unfortunately, Farlig did not gain any numerical advantage for Astralis.
After hearing Farlig's announcement, gla1ve got off the pipe, holding two guns, ready to coordinate with k0nfig who had been waiting underground for a pincer attack.
However, apEX, who was in first place, jumped through the pipe mouth, which obviously exceeded gla1ve's expectations. As a result, the two guns only hit apEX's body a few times, but did not inflict fatal headshot damage.
It’s over!
gla1ve realized that he was about to be pulled away from him by the bandits who had passed him and the bandits behind him. He quickly called for help from polite k0nfig in his voice, trying to get another underground CT to cover for his elder brother.
But it's too late.
The Death Star began to shine above gla1ve's head from the moment apEX jumped over.
Qin Feng turned his PEEK slightly and completely opened gla1ve's gun line. At the same time, apEX pointed the gun in the direction of the pipe.
"Pah, pah, pah, pah." The bullet penetrated gla1ve's body, and also penetrated Astralis' defense line on the map of Nuclear Crisis.
K0nfig outside the subway gate is almost equivalent to triggering isolation.
k0nfig knew that he could not sit still and took the initiative to seek opportunities to make up for the numerical disadvantage. However, dupreeh, who was at the end and held the gun, completely shattered Team A's last hope.
[Vitality.dupreeh kills 0nfig with a headshot using Glock-18]
Astralis has completely lost control of its lower layers and pipelines, and it will be extremely difficult to get back on defense.
Qin Feng, apEX, and dupreeh are all under half health, but it doesn't matter.
Having gained control of the package points, Vitality has an advantage in position selection. As long as they don't actively look for people, there is not much difference between residual health and full health.
What's more, most USPs are kills through headshots, and not many professional players deliberately choose to shoot the body.
In this endgame, the remaining three members of Team A returned to the defense together. However, they only killed one Magisk and then selected their positions and eliminated all the attacking team members.
The coach Trace, who was watching the game behind the players' table, had a look of helplessness on his face. Their carefully prepared positions seemed to be simply destroyed by Vitality's jumping around.
Farlig failed to pass the lottery, and the crossfire between gla1ve and k0nfig was also beaten to a pulp. This really made this 1.6 veteran freshman feel helpless.
You can't beat it, you can't beat it no matter what, right?
Everyone in Vitality burst into laughter after winning the pistol round, but everyone in the Astralis player bench looked numb.
Everyone feels like a war criminal.
Even the editor of a certain APP thought of the title of the event briefing in advance after the pistol round.
"How can hegemony last forever? The throne will eventually decay. Vitality defeated Astralis 2-0 to advance to the IEM Cologne finals."
After the ECO round, the spear round was Astralis's last resistance.
After struggling to hold on to the game with the advantage of five MA41s, Astralis was quickly overwhelmed by Vitality's infield speed boost.
15-4, Astralis has no money.
In the last round, looking at the dwindling number of people in his team, blameF sighed helplessly.
For Astralis, the IEM Cologne tour in the summer of 2022 has come to an end.
The red sea of stars came to an end, leaving the audience with the BO5 battle between Vitality, Faze and NAVI.