CSGO E-sports Manager

After two days of qualifiers, the 16 teams for the IEM Cologne race have been confirmed.

All VC staff also got a short vacation, so that they can simply relax.

But the race is about to start, and they are not in the mood of leisure and entertainment. Except for the first day of the holiday, they went to the venue to shoot a set of promotional videos together, and they spent the rest of the time training in the hotel.

With the race approaching, they all seized the time to improve their strength.

According to the rules of the IEM Cologne group stage, there are a total of 16 teams in this group stage, which are divided into two groups of AB, with 8 teams in each group, competing for 6 seats in the knockout stage.

Fortunately for VC, the two teams were not divided into the same group, which also saved the possibility of "killing relatives with righteousness" in the future.

In the rules, the top three in each group can directly enter the knockout round.

Among them, the first group entered the semi-finals, and the second and third groups entered the quarter-finals respectively.

In the knockout rounds, except for the final, which adopts the BO5 best-of-five best-of-five rounds, the other games adopt the BO3 best-of-three best-of-three system.

After a few days of rest, the grouping of the 16 teams was also freshly released.

The moment he saw the matchup list, S1mple couldn't help but wailed: "What kind of hook-eight group is this! Should Group A be so exaggerated?"

The computer screen displays the team distribution of the two teams of AB.

Among them, the members of Group A are: VC, GOD, AE, SSS, HC, YSG and two unknown small teams.

"Aren't you full of confidence a few days ago?" Broky heard S1mple's complaint, and felt that the Americano in his hand tasted good.

Sure enough, happiness is transferred out.

"It's not the way to be full of confidence." Xantares also complained from the sidelines. This time he came up to the game and met some of the strongest teams in the world, and the pressure was full.

NIKO sighed: "Broky, it would be great if we changed the group."

gla1ve said a fair word beside him: "Our grouping is actually not as good as you imagined."

The members of Group B are: VC.A, FG, bop, AKA, Poseidon, Wild Lion, LL, and GG.

Although the overall level is not as exaggerated as in Group A, there are also top teams such as GG and AKA.

Especially for AKA, the overall strength has improved a lot after the reinforcement of personnel in this competition.

Leaving aside these top teams, they faced the FG team in the qualifiers and lost a game.

Therefore, in the battle of Group B, the second team was not as easy as S1mple and the others imagined.

Of course, compared to the first team in the death group A, they are more relaxed.

After all, the pressure faced is not that exaggerated.

"Stop complaining." Mengde finally put an end to the topic of complaints, "Our goal this time is to win the championship, so we should have the confidence to beat everyone."

"But the first match we met was AE." NIKO still didn't have much confidence in meeting these guys.

Looking at all the members of the entire IEM group stage, the AE team is definitely an opponent at the level of T1.

Looking at the training matches in the past, VC and AE teams lost more than they won in the training matches.

In the last 10 training games, they only won 3 games.

Against the AE team, except for the strong pictures of VC in the Lost City, it would be difficult for them to get the rhythm of the game.

The performance of the two C positions of Lucky and the Hanged Man is also a point of concern for them.

They don't know how this group of guys play. After a few months of rest, they returned after the offseason, and the overall level is still so strong.

"Resist the pressure, let's play slowly." Mengde acted as a rope twister at this time. "Since I became a coach last year, they have been one of the most powerful teams in the world."

"Now that we can go under the same screen with them, we have made great progress, so we don't have to be too impatient for the next game, just try our best to play out our preparations!"

……

The first day of the IEM Cologne group stage.

The first game of Group A has just ended, and the concerns of S1mple before the game are not unreasonable.

Meeting the AE team that has left the profession for a long time and still dominates the world's No. [-] team, they played a very difficult game.

The strength of the Triple Crown should not be underestimated.

In this game, after a simple BP, the map came to the hot sand city, the town of purgatory and the train station.

Picture 1 is the scorching sand city chosen by VC. On this map, S[-]mple is in a very good state. Relying on his terrifying performance in the early stage, he helped the team steadily win the early rhythm.

当比分来到了3：0的时候，S1mple的战绩已经是恐怖到6/1/1，ADR更是高213，非常夸张的数据。

But with the start of the long gun round, many problems were gradually exposed.

The VC of the first long gun round chose to let NIKO snatch the control of A big when he had a position, and tried to play a wave of A big speed push.

In the early stage, the control of A was taken, but AE's sniper Lucky played one-way smoke on the platform, and killed three of them.

Although it was replaced by S1mple in the follow-up, the gap in the number of players was too large, and S1mple was also powerless in the endgame.

In the next few rounds, there were mistakes in shooting from various angles, and a series of timing problems, which made the audience understand.

VC is still the slow VC, and their old problems still appear!

In the first half of the game, VC's overall play was quite confused. They failed to fight the gun, the timing was not good, and various problems piled up together, causing the overall offense to be very procrastinated.

Although S1mple called a timeout at critical moments twice in a row, it did not affect the overall game.

Should not get the score, or not get the score.

This situation lasted until 3:8, when NIKO used the Sand Eagle to play a wave of triple kills in the middle, which helped the team open the situation.

The overall momentum of VC is picking up with the naked eye, and they began to score frequently.

Until the end of the first half, the overall score became 6:9.
This wave of bipolar reversal also allowed the audience to see VC's terrifying personal ability.

In the second half of the game, all the sleeping players on both sides had begun to wake up slowly.

All the members started to play independently, and the two sides played back and forth. The fierce competition process made the audience breathless.

However, relying on stronger personal abilities, S1mple helped the team get the match point first.

It's just a pity that they didn't defend this match point. During a wave of offense and defense in zone B, the game entered overtime.

However, after entering overtime, NIKO got triple kills twice in a row at University A, which greatly boosted morale.

In the follow-up game, although AE scored a score, they still failed to turn the defeat into victory after switching sides. In the end, the overtime battle in Figure 19 ended with a score of 16:[-].

VC won the first picture!
The fiery touch and high momentum in the first picture made their start in the second picture very smooth.

Everything was happening as they expected, but Meng De couldn't continue watching.

He had to take the members of the second team to prepare for the next game.

Today their opponent is the GG team from the European Union, whose world ranking is much higher than VC.A.

But they are not really worried, because the strength of the GG team has always been a mystery in the entire CSGO circle.

"Welcome to the IEM Cologne group match between VC.A and GG. I am the commentator for this game."

"I'm explaining wrong views."

"The equipment of both sides has been adjusted, and the game has come to the BP link."

"VC.A started with the ban map, they directly removed the Lost Desert City, and the GG team reciprocated and removed the town of Purgatory."

"When it came to the choice between the two sides, VC.A thought for a while and chose nuke, which is what we call nuclear crisis."

"It's GG's turn to choose, alas! They actually won the Death Building, which is a bit interesting. I also watched the VC.A game a few days ago. Team A's proficiency on this map is very Quite high."

"Then if this is the case, it's really hard to predict the outcome of today's BO3."

"Both sides remove another map, leaving the last train stop, the BP link is officially over, and the pistol round in Figure [-] will begin immediately."

In the final stage of entering the server, everyone in Team A was still a little confused.

They didn't know what the meaning of the GG team was, so they put up two strong pictures of them in a row.

And since the death building was selected, does GG really think that he has a high level of tactical literacy?
This map selection made Team A a little overwhelmed.

But in this case, they naturally wish for it.

After Meng De's routine pre-match training, everyone officially entered the server.

Figure [-]: Nuclear Crisis

VC.A vs GG
T: gla1ve, electronic, kennyS, Broky, jamyoung
CT: MUWO, jiya, black, fox, loxi
……

The pistol round started, and gla1ve also began to arrange tactics.

"Xiao Ju, go to the outfield and make some noises. We will make a breakout on the iron plate in the second time."

"Do I need to be exposed first?" Xiaoju asked.

gla1ve nodded: "You need to take the initiative to expose, and help us pull it out."

At this moment, Xiaoju understood, bought a cigarette and flashed it, and then bought a P250 for himself.

In my heart, I even silently thought that I was the eldest brother.

At the beginning of the game, Xiaoju came to the outfield alone, simply turned around and found that no one was pressing forward, and directly threw a front door cigarette.

Then he walked around the red box in the outfield, and threw a flash towards the police.

"Oh!"

The moment the flash exploded, Xiaoju slowly searched for the location with the P250, previewing the location on the third floor.

Sure enough, there was someone on the third floor, Xiao Ju immediately shot him a few times.

Make enough information about yourself in the outfield.

"The opponent has a P250 in the outfield, and the center of gravity may be in the outfield." MUWO on the third floor reported the information.

The commander of the GG team said: "Adjust the center of gravity a little bit, pay attention to the main entrance."

Xiaoju saw that her seduction was almost done, so she retreated behind the red box and set up a pass in the warehouse.

On the other side of the map, seeing Xiaoju's mission completed, the bandit army began to let go of their pace and speed up.

"The four bandits speed up the iron plate, and the CT guarding the iron plate just went to repair the third floor. This completely turned the iron plate into an air defense state."

"Fox realized something was wrong after he realized that the situation was wrong, so he turned his head and tried to fight it. Can he catch the bandit who jumped off the iron plate?"

"One, two, three, four!! Oh my God, Fox didn't catch a single one, and let all the bandits go. The level of this USP is simply amazing."

Fox played a wave and laughed at the commentator.

But Fox didn't feel a lot of pressure, because they specially placed a person in the control room this round, he can delay a little time in area B and get some information.

"The bandits hopped into area B, and the jiya in the control room came through with an iron plate, but Brother Electronics shot him two consecutive headshots, and he was directly smashed to death. This CT is a bit bad, and all the control rights in area B are gone. Lost, their large forces are still gathering in the outfield, the situation is not optimistic."

After destroying the CT in the control room, Brother Electronics immediately picked up his gun and began to search around the pipeline. After confirming that there was no one there, he and Xiaoju, who had already arrived at K1, stood up at the entrance of K1.

Xiaoju heard the footsteps of the K1 spiral staircase, quickly fired a shot, and then retreated without hesitation.

He didn't buy any armor this round, so it's fine to focus on scouting now, and there are teammates behind him to cover him, so he doesn't have to worry.

"The four of CT gathered at K1 to launch an attack. The bandits stood on two low slopes and wanted to engage in a wave of crossfire."

"The position is locked. This has become a wave of positional warfare. It depends on the marksmanship of both sides. But in general, the bandits have the advantage of the position of the gun, so it is better to play better."

"gla1ve took the lead, the headshot line was previewed, and when he got up, he took Fox away with one shot."

"However, facing the opponent's protruding face, Xiaoju couldn't get away without armor, and was knocked out by MUWO with a headshot."

gla1ve sensed that something was wrong, immediately let go of the dead door, and slipped away to the bunker.

"Everyone is chasing after you, please help!" Xiaoju shouted after receiving the information.

Hearing this, Electronic Brother and Broky started to work from the lower slope of the trap.

Broky entered directly through the pipe and started walking in the direction of the dead door.

Brother Electronics was simpler and clearer. He pulled his body horizontally to the left, grabbed the back of a CT, and killed him with a headshot at Glock's instant kill distance.

After Electronic Brother got the kill, Broky in the pipeline was not in a hurry.

He swung around and shot two bursts of CT in the direction of the dead door, and came back immediately.

Now that the situation is 4 vs 2, they don't need to worry as the dominant side, just delaying time is enough.

The remaining two CTs and Brother Electronics exchanged a few shots, but they didn't get a kill.

The sound of C4 in their ears became more and more urgent, which made them feel irritable.

Now the arrow is on the string and has to be launched!
MUWO opened the dead door and went directly to the bunker to quickly search and arrest people.

kennyS at the gate of the iron plate shot continuously. MUWO captured the information and quickly positioned and aimed.

"But MUWO didn't notice that there was a gla1ve hiding on his right side."

"gla1ve successfully stole the back, and made up for MUWO with a headshot. The last CT didn't see gla1ve, and Glock continued to splash water on the side."

"Easy to win the pistol round!"

Nobita concluded: "The early tactics of Team A are relatively simple, but GG fell ill again for some reason, so he gave up the iron plate in the early stage. Once the defensive position is lost, it will be difficult to play in the follow-up."

"This area B fell too fast, and the difficulty of returning to defense is a bit exaggerated."

"..."