While Qin Feng was still eating hot pot and singing songs in China, the prelude to the BLAST autumn competition had quietly begun.
Among the twelve teams, the top six will qualify for the BLAST Autumn Finals.
The bottom six fell into Showdown, competing with Tianlu and Eternal Fire for the only spot to enter the autumn finals.
Snax, who has just joined the team, is under a lot of pressure.
Unlike Magisk and dupreeh who just returned home, the Polish veteran who replaced Qin Feng actually felt a bit of pressure.
At the age of 28, it can be said that he has reached the end of his career.
If you can't seize this last opportunity to shine in the first-line arena, I'm afraid I can only retire with regrets like many CSGO veterans.
But if he performs well, maybe he can be selected by a first-line team like jks, so that he can use his last remaining energy at the end of his career.
…
At 12:40 noon, under the guidance of the staff, the OG and Vitality players left the hotel with their own equipment and came to the offline studio in Copenhagen.
In terms of maps, OG BAN lost Nuclear Crisis, Scorching Sand City, and Death Mansion.
Little Bee BAN dropped Ancient Ruins, Purgatory Town and Lost Desert City.
The last remaining map is Overpass, the amusement park of death.
The reason why apEX chose to keep Overpass during BP is also very simple. Overpass only requires one sniper, which can completely allow ZywOo to take over Qin Feng's position, and Snax can take on the responsibilities that ZywOo once had.
ZywOo's sniper rifle is not inferior to Qin Feng.
Snax may be a little worse than ZywOo, but it won't have a big impact on the team as a whole.
At least apEX thinks so.
Of course, the only worry may be the state of everyone.
After two consecutive championships, the players have become more or less slack.
Mo Nan and Adu even returned to Denmark early to reward themselves with a long vacation.
On the other hand, OG, who was joined by Pat Bear Degster, is full of fighting spirit.
The game starts on time at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Those viewers who were vaguely worried about Vitality finally felt relieved after watching the first pistol round.
Relying on accurate USP headshots, the Danish duo completed a beautiful double five-kill.
It seems to be in good condition.
The next ten minutes of the game further strengthened the audience's suspicions.
Even if Qin Feng is not here, relying solely on ZywOo, Vitality still has the potential to be among the top players in the world.
The offensive OG looked a little confused and couldn't find a gap in the Bees' defense.
6:0
7:0
…
11:0
12:0
In the live broadcast room playing with machines,
Those Little Bee fans who were anxious because Qin Feng was resting finally felt relieved looking at the 12-point score difference in the first half.
【12 to 0? Let me tell you the number, 16 to 0!】
[Just came in, 12 to 0? God A is not there? Is this still the little bee I was familiar with? 】
【Doudou finally stood up!Vitality UP UP!】
[Snax: God A, don’t worry about the team.]
[apEX's forward pressure, I think this is a kind of confidence. You always say that apEX's forward pressure is a gift. I couldn't help laughing at that time. This is because people don't understand Vitality and jump to conclusions. As for the current problem, it is
Is Vitality a medium win, a big win, or a huge win?】
【Vitality! I am crazy about him in this life!】
There were even Little Bee fans in the competition area between OG and Vitality, who helped Vitality P prepare pictures of their victory celebrations in advance.
With a score of 12-0, in the map of Death Amusement Park, it seems that no team has ever made a comeback in an offline competition.
apEX has taken off, as if its strength has gone back seven years, back to 2015 when it was fighting side by side with Happy and kennyS.
But perhaps because of some slackness, Magisk and duopreeh in the team also followed Doudou and pressed forward.
With this pressure, the waiting degster finally seized the opportunity. After sniping away apEX and Demon Man who were pressing forward, he led his teammates into Vitality's B area package point.
However, in the eyes of most people, this is just OG's death struggle.
At the end of the first half, the score on the field was 13 to 2.
But in the second half, Vitality quickly fell into a quagmire.
When the team attacks, Magisk is often the first to go. It turns out that even if he doesn't kill anyone, he can open the line of fire for ZywOo and Aether.
However, without the firepower of Aether, Vitality's ability to replenish shots has dropped by a level visibly to the naked eye.
This also made Vitality's offense difficult.
At the same time, there is another extremely fatal thing.
That is on-the-spot decision-making and command.
It turns out that when Qin Feng was here, apEX was often responsible for overall command, while Qin Feng provided his own opinions in the endgame.
Snax replaced Qin Feng, and apEX could only make decisions in the endgame, but apEX seemed not to be up to Qin Feng's level in handling the endgame.
This also leads to the fact that either Vitality cannot enter the package point, or Vitality is at a disadvantage after entering the endgame of installing packages.
Even though ZywOo's shocking 1V3 game managed to restore morale, Vitality still struggled to score the game-killing point.
The score was chased by OG all the way to 15-15.
"It's okay, just relax."
"Even if it goes to overtime, we won't necessarily lose."
"Our snipers are still much stronger than those on the other side."
"The main reason is that Nexa has been right too many times, otherwise we wouldn't have been so difficult to beat."
Before overtime, zonic was still trying to comfort the players.
However, it is obvious that the Little Bee players who were continuously chasing points were greatly affected, both in terms of gun feel and mentality.
Snax was a little confused.
We agreed to hold ZywOo's thigh, but why is it so difficult to play OG?
His statistics are also quite satisfactory, and there are no criminal signs overall.
But even so, Vitality's offense was still unable to overcome OG's steely defense.
The game was dragged into overtime, and apEX knew that someone must step up at this moment.
He patted ZywOo on the shoulder and gave Shushu a meaningful look.
But……
Even if Shushu really performed well and took the lead in sniping two people, Vitality once again lost the five-on-three game.
The score came to 15 to 16.
ZywOo let out a long sigh.
Is Snax at fault?
correct.
If there is really a mistake, the fault lies in that he is not Aether.
The "endless joy" ended here, replaced by the gloom of the Bastille.
In the end, OG relied on the strong performance of Pat Bear degster and several accurate betting points of nexa to defeat Vitality, currently ranked No. 1 in the world, with a score of 19 to 17.
However, more painful than the Vitality players may have been the Vitality fans who watched the entire game.
After all, in a sense, Vitality has made history in reverse.
The score is 12-0. In previous offline competitions, there has never been a precedent for such a score comeback in the amusement park.
13 to 2, 14 to 4, 15 to 7, 15 to 15. I am afraid that only the previous G2 could achieve this kind of score.
…
【RNM, refund your money!】
【What a disappointment! Can you handle us? 】
[Can’t lose 12-0? This shouldn’t give them a little Vitality shock? 】
[Brothers, I’d better not watch the Vitality game until God A comes back, right? I’m really going to have cerebral congestion!]
[I think I can win if I change the command. RUSH B in the 15th game, should I be able to get three points, right? 】
【Vitality? I am crazy about him in this life! I am crazy about him in this life!】
[zonic: apEX is a team leader. Compared to a leader like Electronic Brother who relies on personal ability, he is more willing to leave the opportunity to kill to his teammates. 】
【ZywOo: Aether, the team is in danger, return quickly! 】
Anyone can realize that without Qin Feng, Vitality has completely lost its former edge.
Group stage, double elimination, long format, Aether's absence, long vacation... fans of Little Bee naturally know the various problems faced by Vitality.
They can accept failure, but what they can't accept is that Vitality failed in such an abstract way.
…
At the same time, the game between NIP and Astralis next door also ended at the same time.
Relying on the wonderful performance of √9 and God REZ, Ninjas in Pajamas killed the game without bloodshed.
Just after watching the Vitality game, I cut to the "No. 3 Black" playing machine on the BLAST sub-stage and gritted my teeth while looking at the data of es3tag 27-8.
"Congratulations to NIP, congratulations to p...congratulations to Third Master."
"Then in the next game, Vitality, who fell into the loser group of the group stage, will face Astralis in the next round."
"The winners of the two teams will advance to the lower bracket finals of the group stage, while the losers will start from the lower bracket of the knockout stage."
"..."
An hour later, I watched the game between Vitality and Astralis on the machine, and humorously explained the game in front of the audience.
Since the end of Fnatic's dynasty, he considers himself no longer a fan of any CSGO team.
It is precisely because of this mentality that he can explain every game with an objective view and become an excellent commentator.
The score on the court has reached 17 to 18, leaving Farlig with a one-on-one game with dupreeh.
"In the one-on-one endgame, the mine bag is about to explode. Farlig can only touch the bag bit by bit."
"Did you see it? You saw Adu!"
"The enemy is in the clear and I am in the clear. It depends on the marksmanship."
"What? Brother Fa Li defeated Adu with his USP!"
"I have pliers on me, so I have enough time to unpack it!"
"The only real god in this game - Brother Fali, he is so accurate in this game, the ultimate self-salvation!"
"Who says he can't win by killing Team A?"
"Congratulations to Team A, too, for defeating Vitality with a score of 19 to 17 and advancing to the lower bracket finals of the group stage."
"..."
In the two games, Snax was under great pressure.
Playing as a substitute for Qin Feng, he performed well and did not seem to show any ability to end the game.
A rating of 0.87 cannot be said to be bad, but it is definitely not good.
ZywOo is used to this feeling.
Anyway, before Qin Feng joined Vitality, the team was always like this.
After years of hard work, do you still care about two months?
The only one with a solemn expression was apEX.
He suddenly felt that the pre-planned tactics were no longer useful.
What was the original strategy?
Hit A, Qin Feng's sniper gun control map, break point, and a wave of explosive bombs.
When playing B, Qin Feng sniper gun control map, breaking point, and a wave of explosive bombs.
Hit the middle road, Qin Feng sniper gun control map.
It feels quite simple to implement.
What now?
Without Qin Feng's firepower, ZywOo was alone and Vitality was struggling.
It seems that some special tactics will be deployed.
"In a small town, five people fly to the second floor."
"Sha Er's attack slows down, let's make a one-and-a-half-minute acquiescence first."
"Snipe ZywOo and let ZywOo break."
"..."
apEX slowly wrote down the tactics he had reworked in his mind one by one in his tactics book.