CSGO E-sports Manager

Chapter 405 Is It Really Just Marketing?

Ting's speech gave a correct interpretation of VC's new lineup, and there were a lot less comments about Meng De's mess in the forum.

And many people who learned about this style of play also began to look forward to whether Meng De really came up with such a six-man lineup, or if it was just a gimmick for the club to attract traffic.

Of course, not everyone has expectations for VC's six-man lineup.

There are other first-line professional teams who think that Meng De spent a lot of money and energy to build a six-man lineup this time, which is completely worth the candle.

Although in the offseason, neither of them realized that the six-man lineup could be successfully run.

I was surprised when I heard that VC organized this lineup, but after calming down, I thought about it and found the difficulty and pain points of this lineup.

This offseason is different than before. The addition of new maps has caused huge changes in the entire CSGO.

On this map, most teams have to put in a lot of effort.

VC's six-man lineup requires a lot of energy and time to perfect, and for the new season, everyone's time is eager to divide it into two.

There is simply not enough time.

Therefore, the tactical update and the new lineup were not handled well, and the two teams of VC started this season, and their level may even decline.

However, this is also a guess of some professional players about the current situation of VC based on their own circumstances.

Whether the situation will happen in this direction will have to be checked in the subsequent offline games.

With the end of the offseason, some small games have started one after another.

As the first biggest event of the year, IEM Cologne has already announced the list of participating teams.

As an important part of the Intel Grand Slam, IEM Cologne is also a well-known S-level first-line event among CSGO players, and its importance to the CSGO career is self-evident.

The currently invited teams are basically ranked in order of points.

Among them, the world's top three AE, HC, and VC will directly participate in the main event of IEM Cologne, that is, the first game will start directly from the group stage; at the same time, GG, GOD, and AKA in the European division will also receive invitations from the organizers. Invitation, the last place to participate is reserved for Sea God and Wild Lion in North America.

In addition to the eight teams that directly participated in the IEM Cologne group stage, there are 16 teams participating in the qualifiers. ESL officials also announced the list:

Among them, the teams in the qualifiers are led by YSG and BIKG, and well-known teams such as FG, VC, LL, SSS, and Angry Bear will participate in the event.

The overall intensity was immediately full, and because this was the first offline competition after the offseason, most of the audience attracted their attention.

It can be said that this game is extremely high in intensity and attention.

VC here.

Both teams got tickets to IEM Cologne, which Mengde is very happy about.

And because the first team is invited to participate in the game, the time is relatively late, which allows them to focus more on the second team.

A week before the start of the qualifiers, all VC members set aside time and set off together to the Cologne offline.

After a brief adjustment.

On February 2th, the first qualifiers belonging to IEM officially started.

This time, the ESL competition group is relatively strict. They have absorbed the lessons learned by the Xy team during the Blast Autumn Split by cheating in the online competition, and directly placed the qualifiers for the main competition offline.

This setting seems to be somewhat unreasonable.

After all, there are only 8 teams in the qualifiers that can advance to the main match.

In other words, eight teams will fly to Cologne offline for a two-day competition before being eliminated.

The members and players of these teams need to pay more time and energy.

However, in order to avoid cheating and give people a more professional feeling, ESL events can only do so.

But what's interesting is that they set up a participating general so that the eliminated teams don't have to worry about the pressure of travel expenses, which is very humane.

Although for first-tier clubs, this award is a bit indifferent.

But not every team is supported by clubs behind them. CSGO players still have feelings, just like this time, among the participating teams, there is a team named bop who is the pure passerby player. Participation awards are a big deal for them.

Meng De followed the players to the offline battle room, waiting for the start of the game.

Their first opponent today is the FG team from France, which is also the old club of kennyS.

Among them, the star player Xiaojiao has a lot of experience in fighting against the first team, and his strength is quite good.

The qualifiers are double-elimination matches, the first game is BO1, and the rest are BO3.

After the BP ended, Mengde chose to focus on stability, and went to Tig, letting Brother Electronics accompany him to eat melons behind.

He didn't have much hope for this game. After all, although FG is not ranked as a whole in the first line, the overall strength of the second team is still weaker.

Unless there is no one else who can stand up to FG except Pepper, then VC.A probably can win without too much effort.

The map was determined to be a death amusement park. The start relied on tactical arrangements and the use of props researched by gla1ve. They successfully scored 5 points in the bandits.

But as Little Pepper used bird sniper to hit three headshot kills in the strong start game and successfully turned Team A, they began to fall into the rhythm of FG.

During the period, kennyS completed a wave of firefights on the construction site. With an extremely fast sniper rifle, he successfully ignited the barrage in the live broadcast room, and also helped VC.A to regain the game situation.

But the good times don't last long. As FG's strong picture, Team A is still a bit worse in terms of overall details.

In the end, on this big bandit map, they only scored 7 points as the offensive side.

In the pistol round in the second half, Team A made a special arrangement in the sewer, and put a full three people in it.

This wave of pistol rounds successfully waited for the opponent to arrive, but Xiaojiao made two consecutive headshots, opening more than half of the defense line of the sewer. Although he was shot down by kennyS afterward, kennyS alone could not withstand the pressure at all.

After defeating kennyS, FG made a quick push from A and easily entered the bunker.

The early rhythm was taken by FG. In this big bandit map, Broky and kennyS struggled for a few rounds, but they still failed to make a comeback, and finally lost the game with most of the disadvantages.

"This amusement park is really not built." Recalling the pressure during the game, gla1ve sighed sincerely.

In this game, FG was much better than them in terms of overall anti-Qing rhythm and map information.

This is also an important reason why they are limited everywhere.

"It's okay, just gain experience from FG's strong picture." Meng De stood behind everyone, recording things on tactical paper with a pen.

In fact, everyone in Team A had expected the answer in their hearts. After all, from the beginning of the map selection, they deliberately put it out of the amusement park, in order to fight against FG on the strongest map and gain experience from them.

Although Team A has entered the top [-] rankings, its overall strength is actually a bit worse.

According to Meng De, they are now at the point between the first line and the second line.

It is more than enough to play the second line, but if you want to win the first line, you have to spend a lot of effort.

However, after losing a game, team A is only temporarily offline. After half an hour, they still have a BO3 in the loser's bracket, which needs to be played. experienced.

……

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Meng De led the team into the battle room again.

This time their opponent is BIKG from Group B.

As members of Group A, they were just defeated by FG ​​and entered the loser's bracket, while BIKG was also defeated and entered into the loser's bracket. The opponent who defeated them was YSG, an old friend of VC.

This season, YSG made a small reinforcement and chose to recruit a rifleman from the youth training below to replace the veteran in the team, although they are still struggling a bit.

But compared to BIKG, which was bought by the big brother, their overall strength is not very good. After all, the opponent is weakened, which is strengthening for them.

After the short BO1 ended, the audience in the live broadcast room obviously couldn't get enough of it. Not only did the overall popularity of the qualifiers not decrease, but it showed an upward trend.

[I feel that Meng De is really playing a gimmick. He bought a new team member, but he didn’t make it at all, so he simply watched the game with him]

[One thing to say, I feel that it won't help much. After all, it is FG, and Xiaojiao is the leader, and the strength is quite good]

【So what's the use of Cao Zei's six-man lineup (doubts)】

[I feel that there is still hope for this game. If you win BO3, you still have a chance to advance.]

[Hasn't this been eliminated yet?don't worry guys]

Because VC lost a bit decisively in the last game, this caused some rhythm in the live broadcast room.

After all, there was a lot of discussion about VC's six-man lineup a few days ago, but why did they lose a game just after the tournament started?

"Welcome to the live broadcast room of the IEM Cologne qualifiers. I am the commentator Nobita."

"I'm explaining wrong views."

Seeing that the game was about to start, the two classic commentary partners ended their small talk one after another and began to analyze the situation of the game.

"The next game is VC.A against BIKG from the Commonwealth of Independent States. During the offseason, both sides have made some changes in lineups. This is also one of the highlights of this game." Nobita I have done a lot of homework.

Xiejian nodded and answered: "Yes, but this is just one of the highlights, but because this IEM Cologne adopts a double-elimination elimination system, the current record of their two teams is 0-1, so the two sides in this game It's a game of life and death, and we can't lose any more."

"I think they will start to work hard, without reservation."

Nobita wanted to continue talking along the topic, but he saw that BP had already started.

In the BO3 match, Meng De helped the second team get the advantage of Ban.

When they came up to gla1ve, they gave Ban Lost City directly, and they didn't plan to let it play this map for the time being.

Then came to the opponent's banned map, and saw that BIKG had given the Death Building to Ban. They didn't understand this map well during the offseason.

"Don't give it a chance." kennyS smiled when he saw the opponent's first banned map. They had been preparing for this map for a long time. If they could win it, the winning rate would be at least [-]% higher.

"It can't be helped, the opponent is not allowed to play." Meng De shrugged, and then began to determine the first selection map: Burning Sand City.

BIKG also immediately determined its own map selection, which is also a classic purgatory town.

In the end, the two sides banned a map from each other, leaving a death amusement park.

The poor performance of VC.A in the Death Amusement Park last time made BIKG think that they may have an opportunity, although they hope that they can win the game in the first two maps.

However, due attention should still be given.

"The BP of the game has been determined, let us look forward to now, will Cao thief put newcomers on it?" Xie Jian stared at the screen, always looking forward to the follow-up list.

In the training room, Meng De opened his mouth to confirm the players.

"Sha Er will go up with Tig, and then Electronic Brother will play the next two cards."

Although it was Meng De who determined and reported the players, in fact, which map and who will appear on the field has already been determined in VC's lineup.

Due to time constraints, Brother Electronics and the teammates of the second team only practiced a few maps for the time being: Purgatory Town, Death Building, and Nuclear Crisis.

Tig will appear on several other maps.

All VC members began to form a group, and Meng De also began to give his final instructions before the game:
"According to the tactics we discussed before, plan slowly, gla1ve, you remember to control the general direction of the whole, and kennyS, don't be greedy for meritorious deeds, play calmly, if you are too aggressive, you will easily die suddenly."

"Broky, if you don't lose the item, don't lose it. If you want to lose it, aim carefully, and don't throw it away."

After finishing these instructions, Mengde patted the shoulders of the team members and shouted, and everyone returned to their positions, ready to enter the game.

……

Map: Burning Sand City

T: Tig, gla1ve, kennyS, Broky, jamyoung
CT: YGO, library, qiyu, ji3, mnc
Seeing that everyone on the other side entered the server and there was no newcomer's name, qiyu as the conductor felt a little pity: "Why don't the newcomers fight with us, is it really marketing?"

But he was just joking, because we all know that newcomers need time, and if they really win newcomers in this kind of life-and-death situation, they will not take their grades seriously at all.

Although they themselves found a rookie YGO from the second line, there was nothing they could do. Steady was poached by AKA, which was completely beyond their expectations, and there was no time to find another big brother player.

You can only find gold from the garbage dump, and find a guy who is at the top of the CIS and plays well in the second-tier league of the CIS.

They are helpless, after all, there is one less person in the team, and they have to find a new person to fill the vacancy.

But VC.A is different, the original members are still here, if newcomers are added rashly, then BIKG will really be overjoyed.

Because winning this game like that will definitely not be difficult.

It's a pity... Qiyu shook his head and focused on the competition.

……

　After that, VC.A will be referred to as Team A for short.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)