CSGO E-sports Manager

Chapter 663 Knockout is imminent

There was nearly a week between the group stage and the knockout stage, but Meng De actually gave the team only two days to rest.

After simply relaxing, they need to return to the "working state", and the first thing is to start training again.

"I feel that the intensity of this knockout round will not be very low."

Sitting in the hotel room, the players were entering the morning warm-up training. Mengde also took this opportunity to watch all the matches in the group stage, and had an assessment of the strength of the knockout opponents in his mind.

"GOD and AE are hard nuts to crack, not to mention the FG brought by kennyS, and some explosive dark horses, especially the closer to the knockout round, we can see that everyone's condition is getting better and better, and the level is getting higher and higher , GOD and AE were overwhelmed by just relying on hard power, and the tactics were quite simple..." Wu Qiang on the other end of the video was also a little worried, "The state of the gla1ve guys has fluctuated a lot. If you don't perform as well as you should on the first day, then..."

He didn't say anything later, but Meng De also knew what he meant.

Having entered the knockout stage, BO3 only has one chance, and if they fail to win the game, they directly announce that they will prepare for the next event in advance.

"If the top eight come up against GOD, it's probably a round trip..." Wu Qiang looked worried.

"Don't talk nonsense." Meng De was also worried about this happening, "You haven't grouped yet, so just say such frustrating words."

If you want to win the championship, you must have the confidence to win all the opponents in this competition.But you have to say whether Team A has the confidence to win against GOD now.

Of course... there is no self-confidence.

Just kidding, GOD is the recent victorious general of the first-line team. It is in a honeymoon period where its strength is highly improved. In the group stage, the two teams played a BO1. Team A was smashed without too much struggle. This is to a certain extent The problem has been explained above.

However, if the grouping situation is good, let them meet GOD as late as possible, then Mengde can research something to improve the strength of the team.

Meng De glanced at the time at the bottom right of the screen: "I chatted with the tournament party yesterday, and it is estimated that the grouping situation will be announced this morning. Whether they died in the first game or they can continue to struggle for a while, it won't be long."

"That's right, there's no rush for this thing." While talking, Wu Qiang suddenly chuckled, "However, Meng Jiao, didn't you give a hint to the competition team?"

implying what?Naturally, it is a grouping situation. IEM Imperial Capital Station has a lot of Chinese people in the competition group. If Meng De takes the initiative to speak up, the competition group may also take the initiative to operate.

"What are you thinking?" Meng De was a little speechless about the old subordinate's thoughts, "Not to mention whether I have the face to let them cooperate, even if I do, there is no need for it. If you can beat it, you can fight it, if you can't beat it, you can prepare for the next match. If you play these small tricks that can’t be on the stage, then our team will definitely not be on the stage in the future.”

"Hey, that's all I said." In fact, Wu Qiang knew the result, and he was just teasing.

Looking at the coach who didn't give him a good face over there, Wu Qiang took the initiative to explain the recent training situation of the first team.

The first team has no games to play recently, and the overall state is a little slack.But because the level has reached a certain level, a lot of training is meaningless except to maintain the state.Under the leadership of Wang Yuning, the first team began to fill in various gaps and formulate tactics around certain ideas of the team. The ropz of the youth training team played a very important role in it.

The overall performance is quite good. In addition to the basic training every day, NIKO and others will also do extra training, which is very rare.

Listening to Wu Qiang explaining the current situation of the first team little by little, Meng De's face finally eased a little.

The work report is almost over, Wu Qiang looked back at the brothel in the training room, and continued: "All the members of the first team are up, and they can prepare for the training match at any time. Do you want me to call them into the server now?"

Meng De refreshed the official account of the IEM Imperial City Station, and thought for a while: "Let's wait, anyway, I'm not in a hurry for this match, I still want to see who the opponent is in the first match."

Compared with other teams, one of the biggest advantages of VC is that it can have a qualified training state in most cases.

Now entering the offline elimination stage, the few remaining teams are worried about exposing their tactics. They hide their tactics in the training match and basically just play by default. Some teams will even deliberately play randomly to disturb your sight.

This makes the scrims useless.

But VC is different. If they are not in the same game, then the two teams can enter the training match anytime and anywhere. Even if one team is abroad, the other team can still play the training match against the delay.

That's the benefit of the two teams.

There is no need for training for now, Meng De and Wu Qiang continued to chat for a few words before hanging up the phone.

gla1ve and the others were still playing on the back-to-defense server. Meng De turned on the system after a long absence. Looking at the 7-digit points inside, he nodded quite satisfied. Thinking about when he just owned the system, After finally getting a S1mple, I emptied everything. Now the points are full, but there is no place to use them.

Yep, there's not much room for it.

Since winning the Major championship, Meng De's attitude towards the system is not as enthusiastic as before.

Because he has been in this industry for a while, and he already understands that the system is only for assistance, and the most important thing is people.

With such a large number of points, it shouldn't be difficult for him to draw five more S-level players, but even if he does, will he be able to achieve good results in forming a team?
Does not.

CS:GO is a team game, the right guys are more important than the good ones.

This is also the reason why Meng De didn't draw many players in the follow-up. Even if he entered the system, it was just to see the ups and downs of the players.

Entering the system this time, Meng De still didn't want to include new players, but planned to randomly select some tactics so that he could have some new ideas.

As soon as the thought moved, the random selection officially started:
[Purgatory Town: Bandit tree jumping goat skills dismantling...]

[Desert Lost City: Throwing jungle smoke at the entrance of the sewer...]

[Scorching Sand City: Spirit pistol round hanging smoke tactics...]

[Purgatory Town: The middle road is super far away and the bridge is on fire...]

[Desert Lost City: Thunderbolt in front of the sewer...]

[Nuclear Crisis: Area B's pipeline penetration point...]

[Scorching Sand City: Smoke from Gate B...]

[Desert Lost City: Complete Collection of Silent Skills...]

【…】

Feeling that the extraction was almost done, Meng De stopped as soon as he moved his mind.

Then he looked at them one by one.

The first is a jumping goat technique in a purgatory town. The content of this technique is very simple, that is, two bandits enter the banana road at the beginning, and then perform a double fight on the tree pile, mainly to catch the enemy on the yellow wall.

This kind of thing, Meng De prefers to call it a routine, but in fact, there are several ways to play this small routine of stealing people.

For example, the first time is to push the cigarette, or push the fire, or even throw the middle of the cigarette to protect yourself, and then play this coquettish operation.

As for throwing jungle cigarettes at the sewer entrance of the second Lost City, this is actually quite common. Neither ideas nor specific props can provide any help for Meng De.

Then there was the sandy second-hand gun round tactic played by the team called Spirit.

I have to say that the tactics in the system will always surprise Mengde with their ingenuity.

Up to now, there have been several mainstream throwing methods for Sha Er's door smoke, namely: bandit's fake door, COSCO L position, and middle door near-point straight throw.

But in this tactic, the door-hanging smoke is actually thrown from door A, which is a bit interesting.

Giving the door smoke from door A can give the opponent wrong information to a certain extent and mislead the opponent. If you add a small fire from A, it can make CT completely lose control of the middle lane in the mid-term.

Then there is the super-far gangster in the middle of this small town. When I first saw it, Meng De was laughed at by this prop.

Because this fire was thrown from the middle of CT, and its landing point was on the bandit bridge. This kind of prop that works miracles with great strength seems to have no effect at first glance.

But after thinking about it carefully, I found that my thinking was a little rigid.

This prop is not meaningless. If you encounter bandits who like to control bandit bridges, you can use it with side channel flashes to play a wave of anti-clearing.

In this way, even if the members of the VIP anti-Qing were killed, the fire would still be able to kill the bandits.

Therefore, there are no useless props, it just depends on whether the props are suitable or not.

The follow-up of Sha Er's resurrection to light door B cigarettes, and the thunderbolt in front of the maze sewer, which is very good at marksmanship, also made his eyes shine.

But in terms of skills, the biggest gain this time is the point where the nuclear crisis B area passed through the pipe and the Lost City Silent Skills Compendium.

Silent skills, VC has learned a lot about this aspect. The first time I learned about it was to get off the VIP silently, and the subsequent white car was also researched by Meng De himself.

But this time, it was all the silent skills of Lost Desert City, among which there were several skills that Meng De had never thought of.

For example, get off A1 silently, go down silently from the small dark room to VIP, jump silently from VIP to the sewer, and even get off silently from the police phone booth.

These skills are outrageous, and they can be of great use at critical times.

A poor concept of information can sometimes affect the outcome of the entire team.

Meng De didn't think that these skills were unimportant just because they were small skills. He recorded each skill one by one and prepared to send it to Wu Qiang for him to teach the members of the first team.

But after thinking about it, for things like skills, video operations seem to be better.

Meng De came to the computer, opened the screen recording software, entered the map of the Lost City in the Desert, and then began to operate and explain the skills one by one.

After performing all the tricks, Mengde looked back again, re-recorded the tricks that he said wrong, and sent them to the VC competition group.

……

S1mple just finished a ladder match, and saw the coach in the group @全球人员.

Open WeChat to take a look and download the specific content.

I don't know if I don't see it, but I was really shocked when I saw it.

"I'll go, the coach has researched so many new things?"

The two youth training boys who were training with a team at the side were also reading the content. Ropz was not surprised. As a prop researcher, he often came up with new tricks, so he was naturally not surprised.

But these new tricks, for them, are still of great use in many specific situations.

"This silent A1 is too scary." m0nesy looked a little speechless.

He put himself in the situation and thought, if he was the defender of Lost City, this teammate could kill Building A2, and he shot A1 with a big shot.

After the first round of counting, his attention will only be on the left side of A1.

If someone uses this silent technique to get down to A1, then he will completely enter m0nesy's information blind zone. Unless the reaction is overwhelming, otherwise the opponent will pull out, and he will most likely be chased to death with an empty gun.

As the defender of Area B, the kid paid more attention to the skill of the police phone booth in silence.

Because in the endgame of returning to defense, especially the 1V1 bullfighting endgame, he often needs to choose some special positions to grab a faster reaction time.

Go back to area A, jump on the phone booth and stand tall and look far, so you can get more information.

Being silent can avoid exposing information and save time.

As for the silent VIP, because the aiming point is a bit complicated, the symbolic meaning is greater, and it is not as practical as these silent techniques.

For these young people who have turned their careers into jobs, new skills can always make them enthusiastic.

Meng De didn't urge, but a group of people took the initiative to practice. After a while, everyone became proficient in practicing these little skills. After that, they only need to review more, and they can be easily used in the competition.

Not long after everyone in VC learned new skills, the official account of IEM Imperial City announced the upcoming schedule.

Looking at the grouping in the first half, Meng De breathed a sigh of relief.

It has to be said that the organizer of the IEM Imperial Capital station dropped a bomb.

The two favorites of this tournament, GOD and AE, faced each other on the first day of the knockout round. The meeting of these two teams relieved the pressure on other teams.

In the second game of the upper half, BIKG from the Commonwealth of Independent States played against the previous Spanish team OCO. Although this Spanish team is not well-known, there are many old fritters who have been in the profession for several years, and they are not pure The new team, in which the commander is loxi who was kicked out by GG.

Speaking of which, this time is also very interesting. GG showed a very high level after the team change, but in the end they still failed to advance.

But loxi, who was kicked out, led a group of second-tier old fritters to advance successfully. GG was originally an Internet celebrity team. This kind of interesting result appeared, and the rhythm of the forum was flying all over the sky for a while.

The eyes shifted to the second half. The first one was the name of VC.A. As for the next opponent, it was TG, one of the big dark horses in this IEM Imperial Capital Station.

TG's team is basically composed of pure rookies, only one member has been a firefighter on the front line for several months, and everyone is not well-known.

Seeing this result, Meng De also breathed a sigh of relief. He had estimated the strength of all the opponents in the group stage.

Among them, TG is the best one. To be able to enter the knockout stage, luck is stronger than strength.

This is definitely good news for them, at least GOD and AE will come out with some real things in the future.

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(End of this chapter)