CSGO E-sports Manager

Chapter 585 The desire for victory is the best stimulant

Day two of the IEM group stage.

Mengde's biological clock woke him up early.Before the team members got up, he planned to go out to exercise, but the sound of "pattering" rain came from his ears, which disrupted his plan.

He could only move around in the hotel for a while, and then while eating the breakfast prepared by the hotel, he turned on the computer and prepared to find a game to watch.

After taking a bite of bread, he swiped onto the forum without knowing it because he wanted to watch the game.

It's not time for work in the morning, and he's playing time, so it doesn't matter if he takes advantage of the opportunity to read the discussions of netizens in the forum.

The first day of the IEM Cologne group stage has just ended. In addition to discussions about accessories and cheats in the forum, the rest is disputes over the performance of each team in this event.

The offseason has just ended, and many teams have strengthened or renewed their rosters. Regarding these new lineups, the audience still has a lot of freshness, so the discussion is much hotter than usual .

"There is one thing to say, Icarus retired AKA is there nothing to play, even the A team can't beat it."

"The rookies in VC are indeed monsters. The performance of Zaiwu yesterday made it difficult for me to fry fish. AKA it's not unfair to lose."

"Yesterday's VC game was too messed up, it kept pausing and put me to sleep."

"Still watching the VC game now? Come on, it's another big victory when you wake up..."

"My 40-meter knife has reached 39 meters..."

"The Danes are still strong. Even if FG adds a K-God, they still can't beat them. How do you feel that the Danes are stronger now than they were during the Major?"

In the forum, there are many discussions about each team. He pays more attention to some discussions of his own team. The content is not as good as he expected, and the talents are overflowing. Anyone with a discerning eye can see how exaggerated the strength of this little fat man is. .

In fact, there are not a few newcomers who entered the competition for the first time at IEM Cologne this time, such as AKA's Fear and Cola, and GG's conductor...

Among these newcomers, Zaiwu seemed like a dimensionality reduction blow, and his performance on the first day of the game was extremely dazzling.

However, everyone is not optimistic about the game on the second day of the group stage.

In fact, even Meng De and everyone in the second team who had woken up while he was surfing the forum did not have much confidence.

When Meng De took the team to watch the video of AE's game yesterday, perhaps because of the sound of the rain, DD was very absent-minded.

Meng De frowned, "DD, what's the matter with you?"

"It's nothing." DD was silent for a while, and then said helplessly, "I just don't understand. Do we have to be so serious about a game that is destined to lose?"

His desire to win in the competition is very strong, and DD's competitive spirit is among the top players in the entire VC club.

Perhaps it is because of his strong competitive spirit that it is difficult for him to deal with the failure in the game.

If he still had some thoughts about the match against AE before, after the training match last night, the unrealistic expectations in his heart disappeared.For the next game, he was a little bit unmotivated.

It's like going to work in a company, you get a little money if you work hard, and you get a little money if you don't work hard.

DD knew that his attitude was wrong, but his thoughts entered a dead end, and it was difficult to communicate for a while.

Meng De's expression was normal, "The coach is very happy that you can take the initiative to express your thoughts. But the coach doesn't like your idea just now."

"The second team was first established with gla1ve. At that time, their strength was not outstanding. They have been in the second-tier arena for a long time. They have experienced too many failures. They knew that they would definitely win. Under the opponent?"

gla1ve and the others also turned their attention to DD. To be honest, they had thought of DD before, but now they are gradually coming out of this alley one by one.

In fact, this is also an important hurdle for ordinary passers-by to go to work.

Before entering the profession, he was only competing with passers-by on the ladder, and the talented DD would definitely be able to stand out from the crowd.

But what about after entering the profession?The opponents competing with him are all talented youngsters who have also stood out from the ladder with him. At this time, the pressure they need to face is not at the same level.

The sense of gap between the ladder and the career before is very disappointing.

Many gifted teenagers have fallen into this level of mentality.

Everyone in the training room was looking at DD, and for a while there was only the sound of raindrops hitting the windows.

"I definitely don't know." DD answered honestly.

Meng De asked again: "Then there is no need to play the game? It's like a team. Did they win the Major championship directly from their debut? The failure in the Foggy Major, the failure in Cato... I won't count them one by one. , there is no star player who has not experienced failure in the past, but the attitude of facing these failures will create a different person."

"Those guys like the first team will be unhappy and complain after failure. But they will go to a lot of replays to find out the reasons for the failure, and make themselves stronger little by little, so that they will not be in the same team in the future. Fell twice in the middle of the mistake."

"A lot of players who used to shine in the circle, sometimes they didn't play well in a few games, and somehow disappeared from the public's sight. Why is that?"

"It was because of failure that they defeated them! Yes, sometimes failure is inevitable, but before, the experience of fighting against AE was very precious to us. Your thinking is fundamentally wrong. "

"It's like today, there are so many teams making training matches with the first team that you can't count, and there are many second-tier teams among them. Don't they know that they can't beat them? But why do they still come to be beaten? They just want to train from here. The experience learned in the competition, and then integrated to become my own nutrition..."

This morning, Meng De said a lot to DD.

In the end, his mouth was dry, and DD walked out of the room in silence, smoking a cigarette on the balcony against the cold rain.

After returning, it seems that the state has recovered.

"I don't know whether he listened to it, or a cigarette made him figure it out." Seeing DD's state, Meng De could only judge that he really listened to it.

After such an episode, there was not much time left in the morning, so Meng De simply omitted the video of the game, and simply explained to them the idea of ​​today's game: "Today and AE are still BO3, if this BO3, AE's strong picture we Just ignore it, release it for training, and then use all kinds of tactics as needed."

"We still choose a small town for ourselves, and see what the specific situation will be when we see the last map."

"Show your style and enjoy the happiness that CSGO brings us."

Finally, he looked at DD who was in normal condition, patted him on the shoulder, leaned over and said, "I just said so much, I don't know if you really understand or pretend to understand. Just remember, for victory Desire is the best stimulant."

……

On the second day of the IEM Cologne group stage, the heat has slowly increased.

Among today's game groups, the most anticipated is the match between VC.A and AE.

It is worth mentioning that, on the first day of the group stage, except for Team A, the other teams that had changed their formations were basically defeated.

Team A is the only winning team among them, so they are also known as one of the best rookie teams in Cologne in the forum.

Their opponent is AE who still maintains the original lineup.

Is AE strong?

You can tell from the three stars below their ID.

The strengths of the two sides are not equal, but the enthusiasm is considered good. Before the start of the game, many viewers have already started discussions in the live broadcast room.

"What are the chances of Team A winning?"

"There is a problem. Today most people come to watch Zaiwu play."

"Loading? Can he do it?"

"I don't know, so let's see if he can withstand the pressure in front of a team of AE level?"

"Yesterday's performance was good, but AKA is also a changing team, and the reference value is not high"

"kennyS played really well yesterday. I thought he was here to save FG, but I didn't expect to go to jail with Xiaojiao"

"This group AE basically won a game for nothing, and it's so cool."

"The strength gap is indeed a bit of a bully. Team A's lineup feels very impressive, but there is still a gap between the top teams. After all, the opponent is AE."

The audience had a heated discussion in the live broadcast room, and their predictions for Team A's overall record were not too exaggerated.If it was when kennyS was around, they still believed that Team A would have a slight chance of winning.Now that kennyS has gone to FG, the replacement of the main players will greatly fluctuate the strength of a team.

Like the other teams that changed their formations, their strength in this competition was greatly reduced. It will take time to judge whether they can return to the previous level.

In the anticipation of the audience, the BP link of this game finally started.

As the representative of Team A, Meng De won the coin guessing and got the right to be the first class.

Because the thinking has been sorted out before, the time for BP is quite fast.

Figure [-]: Purgatory town.

Figure [-]: Lost City in the Desert

Figure [-]: Hot Sand City

Facing the wind in the town, the competition in Figure [-] officially begins!
The pistol round begins with Team A starting as the offensive side.

gla1ve directed his teammates to call a wave of tactics, and did not play the default as usual.

By default, they are already familiar enough. Since the chance of handing over mobile phones is rare, some tactics need to be practiced.

So the countdown ended, and all members of Team A rushed towards Area A.

After everyone was seated, Xiaoju on the second floor gave a smoke bomb from the grass cart.A motorcycle partition was also given on the middle side, and the attack was launched directly.

Xiaoju's smoke bomb exploded under the grass cart. Its function is to block the field of vision of A1 from the large and small pits, so that several people from A1 can charge directly to the bunker.

The three people in A1 handle the bunkers, and the two people on the second floor handle the big and small holes. Team A's long-prepared tactics can easily divide the defensive area of ​​A.

The battlefield was divided by smoke bombs, and Team A used to fight more and less with CT at the close point to exchange fire.

As the gunfire slowly slowed down, the final result was that they got control of the A site at the cost of 1 for 3.

Putting down the thunder bag, in the endgame of the advantage, he did not relax his vigilance, but played steadily and kept the bag. The opponent did not have the desire to take over the endgame, and the pistol round was successfully won.

In the second round, gla1ve predicted that the opponent would make a strong attack, so he chose to continue to play a wave of explosive bombs in the A area.

Different rounds, same script.Xiaoju threw the smoke bomb under the grass cart again. With the advantages of guns and numbers, the firefight in Area A went smoothly.

Although AE's return to defense was timely this time, under the suppression of guns, they still failed to complete the feat of comeback.

When the long gun round came, gla1ve had a very clear mind. His understanding of AE made him choose to lead his teammates to shift speeds to the A area for a fast attack in the first long gun round.

This round of AE did exactly as he expected, starting with a 3B2A position, and the wave of acceleration led by gla1ve directly caused them to launch a wave of 5v2 local firefights.

After a wave of exciting firefights, although Lucky from Dakeng played bravely and completely replaced two and a half, the rest of AE also seized the opportunity to turn the endgame into a 1V1 bullfight.

But Xiaoju made a wave of top-level moves around the link, and he was beaten upside down.

The score came all the way to 5:0, and the second long gun round with full armor and full ammunition arrived.

gla1ve judged that the opponent would start to strengthen the defense of Area A, and was also forced to slow down the pace, and started the game by default.

It's just that they want to play slowly, AE doesn't have such a good temper and makes them play so comfortably, losing 5 points in a row, they are already very upset.

So after the end of the first wave of map control on Banana Road, they directly chose to fight against the clear with two players.

The electronic brother who walked in the first place did not get any props this time, and his condition is actually not bad.

But the opponent's flash bomb was too deadly, so he was forced to perform a back flash.

The flash of loading came half a beat later, which sent him out for the first kill.

Broky didn't want to just let Brother Electronics give it away for nothing, let Zaizhu continue to throw a second flash, and then directly mix in the output from the gangster smoke.

He shifted with a wave of shooting, and forced Brother Electronic to avenge him, but the other party made up for him the next time.

gla1ve also came up with an idea. He knew that the gangster cigarette was about to disperse, so he came to the gangster cigarette, and was ready to seize the opportunity to replenish the cigarette on the opposite side.

But he forgot that the other party was also an evil Dane.

The moment the smoke was given, he fired immediately, and gla1ve was shot and killed before he could show up.

Xiaoju on the A2 floor didn't find a good opportunity either, and was hanged to death directly.

The remaining carrier is powerless to face a 1v4 endgame.

5:1, AE finally got their first point.

The Hanged Man was very excited after getting the first score, and the sound of shouting "NICE" in the battle room was transmitted to Team A.

This round also had a huge impact on the situation. In the clips after the first half, the audience could only see the scene of Team A's attack and struggle. Among them is the kill shot.

Continuous offensive failures and continuous early-stage drops made it difficult for them to organize a complete wave of bomb attacks.

And today's electronic brother is very unlucky. According to the data cut out by the director, he suffered nearly 400 damage from props alone in the first half.

In the end, the score of the first half was fixed in the classic posture of 6:9.

This score is not unbeatable, but for the good start of 5:1, it is obviously not worth satisfying everyone in Team A.

During the intermission, everyone encouraged each other, hoping to reverse the situation in the second half of the game.

But the defeat in the pistol round caused them to lose their early rhythm.

AE scored three points in a row, further widening the gap.

Although they also found a lot of places in the long gun round, they did not score consecutively in AE.

The score between the two sides was spiraling upwards, and the situation gradually became fiercer.It's just the loss in the first half that kept them from coming back.

The final score was fixed at 10:16, Team A fell behind by 6 points and lost in Figure [-].

(End of this chapter)