CSGO: This player is too obedient!

Chapter 446 7. Charm of the North

(Because of the chain reaction caused by the protagonist, the timeline has been fluctuated a bit to avoid distortion caused by the time being too close to reality...)

July 2, 2023, Sunday.

Suitable: getting married, getting a haircut, bathing, live streaming...

In a small apartment in Chengdu, the COL team is killing time in a temporary training room.

The IEM Chengdu auditions are about to begin. According to the rules, they can participate online.

However, considering that the online delay is a bit high, and they all feel that there is no pressure in this audition, they came to Chengdu offline in advance and auditioned in a low-latency environment.

The first COL audition will be this afternoon. Now they have completed their preparations and are chatting casually in the room.

Returning to their home court, it is quite comfortable for Xu Beifang and Danking.

Chengdu is also a very interesting place, with all kinds of delicious food, which makes them eat very comfortably.

His wife wanted to come and accompany Xu Beifang, but Xu Beifang still refused, only asking her to invite his brother and his family to come and play after the IEM Chengdu Station competition really started.

COL is now in training, and he is the commander with more say in the team. If he goes out to play, the team's atmosphere will go astray.

But it must be said that his wife's idea still makes Xu Beifang very happy. It is always reassuring to feel that someone cares about you.

This little episode has made Xu Beifang in a good mood recently.

This has also led to the good mood of the rest of the team.

Danking even turned on the live broadcast when he was free, intending to catch up with his fans.

[Fuck, the anchor finally started broadcasting]

[Have you broadcasted enough time this month? ]

[What's wrong with this hairstyle? ]

[Danking really thinks he can handle pink... ]

[Don't say it, Col is now a hairstyle group]

[Beizi's black medium-long hair, JKS's side-slicked hair, NIKO's 3:7 split, Elige's bald head and Danking's most abstract pink hair]

[I live in Bengbu, so is the coach the director? ]

"What do you mean I can't handle pink hair? I'm still very handsome, okay?" Danking argued, "It's just that the ultraviolet rays in North America are stronger, and I've been tanned these days!"

[Why didn't Danking broadcast these days? Does he need you to train? You just cheer for Beifang on the side! ]

Danking shook his head: "There's nothing I can do. If I don't train, Beifang will punish me with his iron fist of justice."

"Besides, you don't know how tired it is to be a fan, so please be considerate of the anchor."

At this point, Danking suddenly smiled evilly: "You always said I was bragging before, but this time I can really play in the Shanghai Major, so I want to ask you what you think?"

The corners of his mouth were almost grinning to his ears, and his face was full of complacency at the moment.

However, fans in Danking's live broadcast room did not buy his tricks.

[I give up, it's purely based on human relationships]

[No way, this live broadcast room is like this, there are smart, handsome, considerate, rich fans, and a most useless anchor]

[Can Danking roll something and roll your position in COL? Then I will be invincible with NIKO, Nice, Elige, and JKS! ]

[So can the room manager do something? Can you let Beifang start broadcasting? ]

Looking at the barrage of comments floating in front of him, Danking directly focused on the last one, and then tilted his head and shouted: "Beifang, fans are calling you to start broadcasting."

Hearing Danking's voice, Xu Beifang, who was complaining about the TV series with his wife, also came back to his senses.

He thought about it and realized that he had not interacted with fans for more than half a year, so he simply opened the live broadcast room.

As soon as he opened the live broadcast room, he heard Danking yelling: "Hey! Why are all the people in my live broadcast room running away!"

He was amazed at Xu Beifang's exaggerated charm.

Xu Beifang was surprised by the number of people pouring into the live broadcast room, but it was not the first time he encountered such a situation, and he quickly grasped the rhythm.

"Good morning, brothers."

Danking also ignored his live broadcast room and came to Xu Beifang's camera with a pink hair.

He noticed that the speed of the bullet screen in the live broadcast room on the right was a bit exaggerated.

He was once again amazed at Xu Beifang's influence. You know, Xu Beifang hasn't been broadcasting for a long time, but he has such popularity just after the broadcast, which is quite exaggerated.

[Beifang's post]

[I made a wish on the small broken station dynamic for a long time, Beifang finally came out]

[This is the power of persistence! 】

[I also participated in the audition this time, hoping to have a chance to snipe the anchor]

[The possibility is very small, Beizi brother's charm is too great, thousands of teams participated in the audition]

"Thousands of teams participated in the audition?" Xu Beifang was puzzled, "What's going on?"

But it is difficult to get the answer from the barrage, because there are too many water friends spamming the screen, and Danking, the room manager, is not very useful.

So Xu Beifang simply checked in the forum.

It is not complicated to check, mainly because a live streaming slice of CSBOY went viral.

At that time, Ma Xixi was chatting with the audience in the live broadcast room as a food show, and then suddenly found out that they were going to come to the Asian Division to play in the auditions, and was instantly stunned.

The audience in the subsequent live broadcast room even played a joke to ask Ma Xixi, "Will they win?"

Ma Xixi replied with a confused face: "They will die."

Ma Xixi's vivid expression and contrast directly made this slice popular in the CSGO section.

Ma Xixi understood that there must be a big gap between their strength and the current COL lineup, so he made that kind of wail.

But COL is preparing to come to the Asian Division to participate in the auditions, which has excited many passers-by and water friends.

Even if they team up to play COL, they will definitely not be able to beat them in theory.

But if they can collide with COL in the auditions, it will be interesting.

Directly collide with idols, and you can directly feel the level of top professional brothers.

Moreover, what if they win?

CSGO is an FPS competitive game. All players have that fluke in their hearts. If they really beat them, they can definitely brag about it for a year!

Even if they can't beat them, if they can kill NIKO or Nice once or twice, it's a big win!

The auditions for this IEM Chengdu station originally encouraged passerby teams to participate, so there were not many restrictions on qualifications during the audition stage.

As a result, when the auditions were closed, a total of more than 7,000 teams signed up for the auditions.

"More than 7,000 teams? Doesn't that mean more than 30,000 people will participate in this IEM Chengdu audition?" NIKO was a little stunned after listening to Xu Beifang's description.

What does it mean that more than 30,000 people participate in the auditions for a competition?

Three 10,000-level stadiums are full, and this group of people will compete for 2 qualifying places.

Although many people come here for fun, the difficulty of this audition can be called one in a million.

"Very interesting!" NIKO did not feel troubled by the increased difficulty, but was eager to try.

Xu Beifang and Danking continued to chat with the audience about some things.

It was not until noon that he closed the live broadcast room.

He was quite satisfied with this long-awaited broadcast.

But before eating, he also opened the long-sealed system and checked the system panel.

[Host: Xu Beifang]

[Age: 25]

[Team: COL]

[Role positioning: Commander/Breaker]

[Status: Hot]

[Mentality: 97]

[Gun Skill: 99]

[Awareness: 97]

[Reaction: 97]

[Gun Proficiency...]

[Listening to Advice Value...]

[Overall Evaluation: After settling down and returning again, your game concept has been impacted, but as a player, you have reached the peak of your body. PS: Data is just a manifestation of your status, and confidence is always the best weapon. ]

Looking at this data, Xu Beifang nodded with satisfaction.

The system's evaluation is actually not much different from his own feelings.

His overall data is actually not much different.

Although he has been resting for the past two years, he has kept the habits he had during his professional career. Unless he is traveling, he always plays CSGO at home. Even if he doesn't play the ladder, he will play BOT to get a feel for it.

So his gun sense is actually pretty good.

In addition, his body has indeed reached its peak. At the age of 25, a person's physical function is at its best, and it will slowly start to decline later.

So his various data have become more outstanding because his upper limit is higher.

But CS2 still has some impact on him.

Before, he could crush his opponents by positioning and aiming when he was just playing the ladder, but in the professional level confrontation, he is slowly adapting to the changes in positioning, gun feel, and peek methods.

But Xu Beifang thinks it is a good thing.

His current physical condition has a higher upper limit. Although he has not fully adapted to the game content of this version, after the arrival of CS2, due to the influence of the economic mechanism, snipers have been further weakened. In other words, riflemen actually have more room to play.

So if he can adapt to the game content of CS2, he will be stronger than in the CSGO period.

He also plans to take advantage of the last two years of his peak to achieve some more results in the competition.

However, there are not many shortcuts to adapt to the game content of CS2. Play more and think more.

Use experience to feel and get feedback in the game.

"What are you thinking about? So absorbed?" Danking's voice disrupted Xu Beifang's thoughts.

"I'm thinking about whether to practice more next time."

"No, buddy!" Danking laughed, "You practice 11 hours a day, and you still practice more!"

Xu Beifang said, "It's mainly because I feel that I don't play enough ladders, and I'm a little slow to adapt to the version rhythm."

Danking stopped talking. Although he knew that his brother was a training maniac before, he didn't know what pain was until he was in a team.

It's too damn hard!

Usually, he would fish for three days and hang out for two days on his live broadcast circle, but now he is stimulated to practice for 10 hours a day.

But in this situation, Xu Beifang still wants to practice more.

Danking gave Xu Beifang a thumbs up.

"?" Xu Beifang gave him a puzzled look.

Danking said, "It would be strange if a pervert like you didn't get a grade."

"Just think of it as a compliment." Xu Beifang said with a smile.

After that, his attention returned to the system.

Because of the previous live broadcast, he remembered that he might have a few recommended tasks to receive.

[Ding! ]

[Recommended task: Return to the professional arena, difficulty 4 stars...]

[Task completed, C-level treasure chests are being distributed. ]

[...]

[Ding! ]

[Recommended task: Team up with NIKO, difficulty 6 stars...]

[Task completed, A-level treasure chests are being distributed...]

[...]

I haven't paid attention to the system for a long time, and there are quite a few tasks to complete this wave.

He opened them all in one wave.

[C-level treasure chest is opening...]

[B-level treasure chest is opening...]

[A-level treasure chest is opening...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining...]

There are quite a lot of rewards from the recommended tasks, but this system has a kind of beauty that doesn't care about people's lives. It has entered the CS2 version and has not kept up with the times. It also gave a lot of things from the CSGO period.

Those skills and tactics are either known by Xu Beifang or have become the tears of the times.

But there are still many useful things, such as.

[Intermediate command skills: nafany's original friend economics, ropz's intermediate perception of the small town side road, and primary command skills: chopper's amusement park attack ideas]

Now he has become a commander, and he still values ​​some perceptions of command.

These three are also things that can be used in CS2 now, so he uses them one by one.

After using them, Xu Beifang seemed to have entered the sage moment.

Already enlightened!

Nafany's original friend economics is still quite interesting.

Nafany is one of the strongest commanders in the online era of CSGO. He is a very capable commander.

There are a lot of changes from CSGO to CS2, and the changes are not about economy.

However, the number of rounds has changed from 15 to 12, which has forced the game economy to become tight.

At this time, as a commander, how to spend every dollar is a very important knowledge.

Nafany's understanding of economy, the first concept is very interesting.

When attacking, the pistol round starts with 800 yuan.

If everyone does not start the gun at the beginning, find a way to put down the bomb.

Although the cost is to lose the pistol round, the bandit can have 800 deposits + 1900 defeat compensation + 800 yuan of bomb economy = 3500 in the second round.

Entering the second round, the bandit can directly start the full armor Galil 1000+1800, and there is 700 yuan of economy to equip them with props.

This means that if the bandit loses the pistol round, he can use a full-armored rifle + three or so items in the second round.

But in this round, the CT can only use a half-armored rifle or a full-armored MP9.

In terms of guns and configuration, the bandit directly crushes the CT.

"Hiss~" Xu Beifang took a breath. Although this is an idealized state, he has to admit that Nafany's understanding of the economy is something.

And even if the first round fails to complete the bomb.

In the second round, three Galil can be assembled.

Combined with Xu Beifang's previous hero AK play, this tactic has become completely feasible.

If the second round can be reversed, the CT's economy will explode directly, and the attacking side can take a big rhythm.

Xu Beifang feels that he has learned a lot from Nafany's understanding of the current economic mechanism.

Next is ropz's understanding of the small town side road.

Xu Beifang actually often watches ropz's pov. This guy's play is relatively rigorous, and there will always be something that makes you bright every once in a while.

So this time, the realization was just a different perspective for him.

Having just benefited a lot from nafany, Xu Beifang was looking forward to Chopper's amusement park attack ideas.

But after the real realization, the smile on his face disappeared.

He really didn't expect that this single-celled organism could be a commander?

Which commander can play 12 consecutive games in the B zone on the offensive end!

Pure game!

Xu Beifang could guess what the Green Dragon's voice was at that time.

"Brothers, let's go directly to B in the pistol round."

"We won the pistol round, and they have no money in the second round, so we use a hair dryer to go directly to B."

"The opponent is strong, this armorless usp, don't be afraid, keep hitting B."

"We hit B 3 times in a row, they definitely didn't expect us to hit B again."

"They must think we are going to turn this time, let's keep coming!"

"They defended in the last round, thinking we didn't dare to hit."

Is there only one hand to speed up B in your tactical library!

Xu Beifang originally thought that Doudou's love for flying to the second floor in a small town was the limit of his command, but he didn't expect that there was an expert!

Well, this realization gave Xu Beifang confidence.

After all, if this kind of command can work, why can't he?

With this feeling, the IEM Chengdu auditions finally started in the afternoon.

…

In Douyu live broadcast room 6657.

Playing the machine, who has evolved into a pig head, also opened today's live broadcast on time.

"Okay brothers, it's time for our niche treasure competition again." Playing the machine said here with a happy face.

He is still very passionate about commenting on competitions, but Douyu has too few CSGO competition copyrights, so he can only comment on those competitions in the corners.

Although today is the niche treasure competition, COL is in it, and there are all his old acquaintances.

For example, the strongest male college student Beifang in Xijiang, such as the host Wa of the enemy station, such as brothers, do you know? Let me tell you a funny story about NIKO...

Thinking of the content that may be commented on next, the smile on the corner of Playing the machine's mouth is a little difficult to clam.

When he was giggling, he saw the barrage reminding that the game had started. He quickly put away his smile and entered the game screen.

"The score has reached 1:0."

[It's right, the familiar 6657 didn't have a pistol round]

[How can he always miss the pistol round in strange ways]

[6657 is like this, the anchor only needs to explain the game, and the fans have more to consider]

[Hahaha]

Playing the machine is no longer that young man now, and facing the ridicule of the barrage, he will not say "I am wronged."

He changed the subject without changing his face and heart: "It's okay, if there is a pistol, it's a pistol round."

"Okay, welcome to watch the IEM Chengdu Asian Division Qualifier, COL vs. 'Brother Vanilla Mud' team."

Halfway through the opening remarks, Playing the machine frowned: "Wait, what is this, there is a difficult copper in the team!"

This strange team name made Playing the machine instantly understand that the opponent of COL is a group of college students!

Otherwise, he couldn't do such a thing.

He specially checked the record. Among the five brothers of the 'Brother Vanilla Mud' team, the highest-ranked brother is a perfect B, and the others are C+.

After thinking about it, he changed the title of the live broadcast room to "Perfect C+ vs. TOP1".

This kind of game is completely unpredictable, and his commentary is more entertainment-oriented. However, many people still pay attention to COL's first appearance.

The members of COL are quite relaxed. Although it is the first confrontation with the outside world in the true sense, after a few rounds of contact, they have already understood the level of their opponents.

Then, Xu Beifang didn't even need to command, and asked his teammates to make basic defaults, and the upper right corner began to float with kill information.

Later, Danking couldn't sit still, and he started to push forward and take the initiative to go out to find, otherwise he would have no soup to drink.

The voice of the "Brother Vanilla Mud" team also changed direction very quickly.

After they knew that they would face COL in the first round, they took the time to practice running maps for a few days.

As a result, after a few rounds, they were all beaten a little red and warm.

After all, many times they didn't even have the opportunity to shoot, which was really a blow to young people.

Their mentality also changed from "what if we win" to "get a few more points" to "get one point at least".

In the end, the second half of the pistol round ended in a 2V4 endgame between Xu Beifang and JKS.

COL's first game in the offseason was a 13:0, which was a good start!

After the game, the 'Brother Vanilla Mud' team released the video of the game. From the main perspective, the passerby players felt the gap between ordinary players and professional players.

This made them look forward to COL's subsequent performance.

However, it was a pity for them that in the first few rounds of the qualifiers, the passerby players did not put any substantial pressure on COL.

Even if they encountered a team composed of perfect top-scoring passersby, they only won 3 rounds in the end, and this was when COL played casually.

Now the audience is looking forward to how COL can perform against a truly skilled team.

For Xu Beifang, the only teams that really have a certain level in the entire qualifiers, or at least can serve as training teams for them, are the two Australian teams and Steel Helmets.

Steel Helmets is now composed of a group of anchors.

CaptainMO, DD, AE, xiaosage, 18ym.

Although these five people are anchors now, they were all members of professional teams.

Captain MO, DD, AE, these are all former members of Tianlu.

Xiaosage has been in a team called 5Power, and Xu Beifang's first stop after his debut was to play in this team.

As for 18ym, this guy has also been in several domestic teams.

So now Steel Helmets is actually a semi-professional team, and they are more experienced and can give them some pressure.

However, after the game really started, it turned out that he still overestimated Steel Helmets.

When they got serious, Steel Helmets played some effective tactics, but their experience was too rich.

Even in the game, several players of Steel Helmets played with passion and real fire.

But COL's current frontal shooting is too hard. Playing in this level of competition, NIKO has no psychological pressure at all, and he has fully played his level.

When he first entered COL, NIKO actually had a lot of psychological pressure. He kept adjusting the crosshairs and personal settings, but under Xu Beifang's psychological counseling, he gradually became confident, and now he has determined that he doesn't even plan to change.

In this case, NIKO is completely a bulldozer released by Xu Beifang. Facing a semi-professional team like Steel Helmet, his frontal gun win rate is extremely high.

And even if he is killed, there are Elige and Xu Beifang behind him.

But it is often not Xu Beifang's turn, because there is Brother Ji to make up the gun, and one area has been killed.

In the end, Steel Helmet only got 3 points, and the game ended easily.

After the game, Xu Beifang also had a full emotional intelligence. Facing Ma Xixi's connection, he directly said that he was able to get so many points mainly because he studied Steel Helmet's video until late at night and organized a wave of program effects with Ma Zong.

But this is ultimately a small episode for Xu Beifang today.

After defeating Steel Helmet, the most important thing is to get a place in the main competition of IEM Chengdu.

The next main competition is their goal.

Because it is a new lineup in the offseason, they still need time and running-in to deal with problems, so both Xu Beifang and Xiaoxi Coach have expressed that they do not have high requirements for the achievements of this event.

The main focus is to practice through competition.

However, NIKO and his team still have aspirations. They think that this lineup is now running-in harmoniously, and they must play to the offline knockout stage to enjoy it.

After the Asian qualification, the qualifiers of other regions will also end in a few days.

With the 16 teams already determined, COL also started discussing the next IEM Chengdu main competition.

"The first round of grouping of IEM Chengdu should be out." NIKO asked.

He is the kind of person who likes to make a lot of preparations in advance. Although Xu Beifang is the commander now, he always follows him to make suggestions.

If you meet a familiar team in this round, you have to make some targeted positions a few days in advance.

"In Group A, there are G2, IC, Black Panther, LVG, Tianlu and Mouz." Coach Xiaoxi looked down again, "We are in Zone B, and the situation in Group B is a bit worse."

"Except for us, Faze, Monte, Team A, C9, and VP are all in Group B, which will be more difficult."

Xu Beifang raised his eyebrows: "Didn't Green Dragon come?"

Coach Xiaoxi shook his head: "Green Dragon didn't participate in the auditions, they seem to have gone to the Villa Cup."

"That's a pity." He still wanted to play against Green Dragon's donk, but the CS events are quite intensive, and there are still many opportunities in the future.

However, even if Group B is not there, it will be very difficult for them to kill in.

Faze has not made any major changes to the lineup, so they can be said to be the team that has maintained the best state after the offseason, and one of the most combat-effective teams.

VP is always one of the most difficult teams in the world, and Jame's system and play are what all commanders don't want to encounter.

C9 is the former NAVI team, and it is also a very outstanding team.

Although there are a few other second-tier teams like Monte, the gap between the second-tier and the first-tier teams during the CS2 period is not that big.

So no matter which team they meet, they are under great pressure.

Team A is more interesting. After all, there was a big scandal between the two Danish teams during the offseason. Now the Snake and Rat brothers are both in Team A, and Device has also transformed into a commander. Whether he can save Team A is a question.

But thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head and ask JKS: "Isn't Bro in Team A really your brother?"

JKS saw Xu Beifang's serious face and thought he was going to say something important.

Hearing this, he was speechless: "I've said it several times, I don't know Bro at all."

There is a new player in Team A with an ID called Bro. He looks like JKS, and the two are like brothers.

Every time Xu Beifang sees BRO's appearance, he can't help but ask JKS once, which makes JKS very annoyed.

Elige added: "Why don't you call him Bro?"

The others in the room laughed immediately. Teasing JKS, who usually has a stern face, has almost become their source of happiness.

Xu Beifang didn't dwell on it.

The overall level of this event is not exaggerated.

There are four truly strong teams in CS2 now, namely Faze, Green Dragon, NAVI and Little Bee.

But Green Dragon missed it due to event conflicts, NAVI took a break for a major tournament after the Major, and Little Bee took a normal break, so only Faze came out to fight.

However, for them, if it were just these teams, they would really have a chance to play in the knockout stage.

Because these are teams with skills, but their skills are not exaggerated.

On paper, the only team that can really put them under pressure is Faze.

He asked: "Who will be our opponent in the first stop?"

Coach Xiaoxi no longer had a smile on his face. He shrugged helplessly: "Unfortunately, our opponent in the first round of the group stage is Faze."

Xu Beifang stretched his body: "Then let me see how good Faze is now!"

...

PS: This is a transition chapter. I was originally going to write about the confrontation with Steel Helmet, but after thinking about it carefully, I found that it was not necessary, so I just abbreviated it and officially entered the competition in the next chapter.