CS: Demon King C, you said I was a genius?

December 2024, 4

Chengdu has had sunny days for several days in a row, but today the sun was blocked by clouds.

However, the outdoor temperature in mid-April gradually became hot, and the cloudy day just made people feel a little cool.

The Financial City Performing Arts Center, a venue that seats tens of thousands of people, became bustling again after a night of silence. The atmosphere inside the venue was even more exciting than yesterday.

Because today will be the last game of IEM Chengdu, the two teams, Faze and G2, will decide the final championship tonight.

This is also the first time that Su Zhe, as a Chinese player, has stepped onto the final stage of an S-level event. It can be said that he has created CNCS history.

If I could win the championship...

No matter what Su Zhe's future performance will be, as long as he can win the trophy tonight, domestic players will not be able to avoid his ID when talking about the history of CNCS.

Just like the old Tianlu from 18 years ago.

The climax of the cheers at the scene came in waves and never stopped since the contestants came on stage.

After going through the initial entry process, the G2 players on the stage have entered the player area and started warming up in preparation for the game.

After playing the training ground bot for a few minutes, Su Zhe looked up at the front of the stage and said with a smile:

"The championship trophy is actually about the same size as a plate. I thought it was the kind of trophy you get in Katowice."

The child sitting next to him couldn't help laughing when he heard this and said:
"The Chengdu tournament and Katowice are both considered part of the same series, but Katowice is a bit higher in level, so of course the trophies are different."

"Except for Katowice, all the second-tier tournament trophies in this series look like this, but they're pretty nice too."

Su Zhe nodded after hearing this. Although the plate-shaped trophy was not as domineering as the one in Katowice, it still looked so dazzling under the lights on the scene.

Taz behind him smiled and said, "It looks great, doesn't it? Don't worry, we'll be able to hold it in our hands in a little while. I believe you can do it!"

"..."

Su Zhe ignored his teammates' idle chatter and instead recalled the results of pulling out the five members of Faze to solo one by one in the [Training Simulator] before going to bed last night.

He does this the night before every game.

The opponent's current status and positive capabilities will also be labeled, thus being divided into three levels: ABC.

C-rank means [n. lack of touch, adj. poor frontal ability]

B-level means [n. slightly capable, adj. able to perform stably in competition]

As for A-level, it means [n. a hot state, adj. able to fight head-on].

Then Su Zhe discovered a very horrifying fact, except for the eldest cousin who was C-level, the other four members of Faze were all A-level!
This is completely different from the Faze evaluation results from the last time!

"Is this the Faze that made it to the finals?"

Su Zhe felt tremendous pressure, but after remembering what Niko said to him last night, his mentality gradually calmed down.

"The worst that can happen is a loss. If you win, you'll make a killing!"

Everyone was chatting and warming up when the referee soon came over to notify them to ban and select the map.

The two teams were able to make it all the way to the finals, and their pre-match preparations had actually been almost exposed.

You can basically see the tactical playing habits of the opposing team from the demo of the semi-finals.

Therefore, the subsequent BP process was also very quick.

In the first picture, Faze didn't even think twice and directly locked onto the Desert City.

Figure 2 shows Anubis, which was actively chosen by G.

As for the third map, it is located in the Purgatory Town where both sides have a good chance of winning.

Both sides were quite satisfied with the map selection results of this BO3.

G2's win rates on these three maps in the past three months are 19%, 70%, and 75% respectively.
Faze's rates are 75%, 20%, and 86% respectively.
There are also two high-win rate pictures of their own teams.

Following notification from the event organizers, players from both teams adjusted their status and prepared to enter the competition server shown in Figure 1.

"come on! Come on!"

“Let“s F**king GO!”

The G2 players fist-bumped each other to cheer each other on and give their all for the next game.

Map: Lost City in the Desert

Faze: ropz, frozen, broky, rain, karrigan
G2: Niko, huNter-, nexa, m0NESY, Arrow
As Faze's map pick, G2 chose to start on the defensive side.

"Fortunately, I was able to choose Anubis! Otherwise, today's game would be a bit suspenseful!" After the BP map ended, nexa said with lingering fear.

G2's strong maps actually overlap a lot with Faze's, like Small Town and Nuclear Crisis, where both teams have a high win rate.

If they hadn't chosen the Anubis map just now, the only other option they could have chosen would have been Nuclear Crisis.

So for Faze, all three maps are their high-win maps, so G2 will naturally suffer a big loss.

My cousin also laughed out loud: "I think Karrigan must be confused. We actually chose Anubis."

"They probably thought Arrow wouldn't have chosen this map if we were here."

Niko also laughed, then regained his composure and said, "Alright, the game is about to start. Be serious and win the game first before chatting."

"We'll start with a regular 3A2B defense. Arrow, you and your cousin can use a hook and a flashbang to counterattack and prevent the opponent from speeding up and rushing B."

"Kid, you should use dual guns and hold the position below A2. If the opponent wants to use explosive shells to hit A, you should try your best to take control of A2."

On the main commentary platform.

The commentators for today's final are still Masisi and Wan Jijian.

The main reason is that for a finals stage like this, there is no more suitable commentator than the two of them.

We can’t let the audience listen to “責贼” all the time.

After finishing their opening remarks, the two gradually entered the commentary state.

"Okay, let's look at a setup for a pistol round. Three of Faze's players will go to A1, two will go to B2, and C4 is leading to A1."

"Looks like they're planning to use the archway from the sewers for a second-time archway-A attack!"

"Then this round depends on NIKO in the arch. Faze will have A1 hook NIKO from the front, and then have the two people in the sewer steal NIKO's side."

"If he loses this point, G2 will be very difficult to defend..."

Faze's attack time was earlier than expected. Just as NIko arrived at the arch and was about to take a look at the information of the middle lane, two smoke bombs from the upper and lower parts of the alarm completely separated him from the battlefield.

"Two A1s! At least three!" After the police officer, Nexa, who was constantly peeking, got the information, he immediately shouted the information in the voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt his crosshairs shaking.

"Puff~"

Two consecutive bullets hit his head accurately.

[ropz+karrigan killed nexa with a headshot using Glock]

Just 30 seconds into the game, G2 was already at a numerical disadvantage.

The child was the first to hear A1's footsteps, but with two guns in hand, he did not pull out to fight immediately. Instead, he climbed directly onto A2 and pushed in.

After discovering that A2 was completely empty, the kid quickly called out on the microphone, "Watch out for the middle lane! The opponent might be double-teaming us!"

Although the kid is only 18 years old, several years of competition experience and tens of thousands of hours of gaming time have already made him a veteran in the professional arena.

After taking a look and seeing that there was no one on Building A2, he immediately analyzed Faze's offensive formation.

Niko did not panic because his teammates lost the point first. He glanced at the small map.

He heaved a sigh of relief when he found out that Su Zhe, the deputy B, had already started to return to defense and had passed the VIP window. "Be careful, the VIP might have been taken up."

After NIko gave a reminder, he started his own smoke mixing operation.

He rubbed the smoke bomb under the diving platform slowly along the wall behind him. When he arrived at the bench at the A bun site and saw the specific situation of the bun site through the edge of the smoke, he was also happy.

After defeating Nexa, Faze focused on rushing towards the bomb site and paid no attention to the smoke bomb at all.

So Niko calmed down and started to aim, and the first bullet took down ropz who was in the first position.

Seeing this, karrigan next to him reacted immediately and hurriedly adjusted the crosshairs to engage in a shooting match with NIko.

But his aiming ability was really poor. When he saw NIko crouching in the smoke, he fired several shots but failed to hit him. Instead, he was shot in the head and killed instantly.

However, NIko was exhausted the moment he got a double kill, and was shot down by the Rain God at the back point.

"That's Niko's personal ability! He forced a smoke screen and got a double kill despite being outnumbered!"

"It entered a 3v3 endgame. A1's Rain God, armed with his thunder pack, slowed down. It seemed he was waiting for Broccoli and the Cold King to start before collaborating with them and forming a double team."

Su Zhe originally wanted to go directly to the police's house, but the child came out from Building A2 and took a look at the information about the buns.

After finding that no one had entered the supermarket yet, he stayed at the police station for a while to guard the VIP window to prevent any bandits from suddenly going around the supermarket through the VIP window to rob his cousin.

The entire map suddenly became quiet again. Su Zhe saw that the VIP had not passed anyone and there was no one in the entire A site. He even suspected that the opponent wanted to attack B again.

After having this idea, he started moving towards the supermarket again. As soon as he reached the entrance of the supermarket, he heard someone in the VIP room hitting him from behind.

Su Zhe was also frightened and immediately jumped into the supermarket shelter to avoid the VIP's gunfire.

He heaved a sigh of relief after seeing that he had only lost 12 points of health, then turned back to peek out and fight with the bandits who were looking for the VIP.

"Hmm? No one's here?"

Su Zhe immediately realized that something was wrong and shouted hurriedly: "The opponent is attacking A!"

As he said that, he cut the knife and sped up to the police's house.

After hearing Su Zhe's warning, the child immediately retreated to the shelter of Building A2, observing the information on the small map, intending to fight the crossfire with Su Zhe.

Although his dual pistols were invincible at close range, they were a bit weak at long range, and were even worse than the Glock in the hands of the bandits.

After Su Zhe came to the police's location with a knife, he took out the USP again. Suddenly, when he saw a black dot flying towards him from above, he immediately turned his head and dodged.

Then I saw a bandit figure coming out.

Seeing this, Su Zhe quickly swung his crosshairs over.

"Puff~"

Arrow kills frozen with a headshot using USP

After getting the kill, Su Zhe stood still for two seconds, and only continued to move forward after finding that no one was shooting him again.

Before he could get out of the police shelter, he heard the sound of a bag dropping, and then saw a message in the upper right corner of the screen that the child and broccoli were exchanged for one.

Seeing this, Su Zhe did not delay any longer and immediately pulled out of the cover, just in time to see the back of the Rain God who had just been killed by the child on the second floor.

'Good opportunity!'
Su Zhe immediately began to adjust the crosshairs, but he seemed to have been infected by NIko, and failed to hit the head of Yu Shen with two consecutive shots.

It also allowed the Rain God to react, turning his head 180 degrees and firing several shots.

Finally, on the third shot, Su Zhe finally swung the crosshairs over.

"Pfft~"

Arrow kills Rain with a headshot using USP.

“NIce!!”

Cheers instantly erupted from the G2 player booth.

Su Zhe breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he only had more than 30 drops of blood left. He almost committed a crime.

In the second round, Faze also directly chose a pure E wave, and five Glocks rushed directly to the B2 floor.

But with his cousin guarding him, B2 didn't encounter any accidents. After hearing the sound of Glock's gunshot, he briefly transformed into Top0 and got a triple kill directly.

Su Zhe felt that his touch was already hot, but he only managed to get two kills from his cousin's men.

After the duo completed a pentakill, G2 temporarily brought the score to 2-0.

"Come on, come on! Get more points in the early stage! Try to win the first map directly!" Niko also seemed very excited, bumping his fists left and right to encourage.

But Su Zhe had a bad feeling after hearing it. Why did it feel like the original es3tag. It felt like it was full of flags.
After entering the spear round, Niko arranged a wave of anti-clearing tactics to control the middle lane, and with the help of his teammates' props, he sent himself to the front point of the bandit's entrance.

Afterwards, relying on the burst of personal ability, he got the head of Rain God who was also in the middle lane.

After getting the first kill, the G2 team relaxed and prepared to retreat to the back point to defend the point as usual.

But what they didn't expect was that after Yu Shen got the information that there were many CTs in the middle lane, ropz and Han Wang walked out quietly from A1!

G2 took a middle position in this round. In addition to NIko at the front of the bandit entrance, nexa and Xiaohai also stood at the VIP and police jump positions to assist the middle lane.

By the time they realized that bandits had sneaked into A1, it was too late.

First, the kid was forced to lose his shooting position by jungle fire, and the policeman nexa also did not disappoint, he died directly after failing to exchange gunfire.

With the loss of nexa, G2 also completely lost the information about the A bomb site.

In a 4 vs. 4 defense, Niko wanted to give it another try, but after Faze finished planting the bomb and stood firm, he didn't give them many chances. In the end, he couldn't even keep his gun.

In order to ensure a win when they were forced to start the game, they spent all their money on three M4s and a FAMAS. In the last round, they used the money to buy items. If they lost this round, they could only use E to save money.

After re-entering the spear game, NIko once again chose to use the advantage of props to control the middle lane, but this time he left nexa at the bottom of A2 as a fulcrum.

But Faze had already prepared for this. They set up Broccoli's sniper in the middle lane and took down NIko who was looking for an opportunity.

With Niko's loss, Faze successfully controlled the middle lane in the second time and launched another arch-shaped A.

Although the child's sniper was not killed after the VIP collected a toll, his movement was also restricted by the props.

Su Zhe from the small path also wanted to have a taste of the soup, but was forced by a small path fire to find no shooting position.

Nexa downstairs in A2 was in an awkward situation again, and was finally easily killed by the King of Cold who came up from the archway.

"Keep the gun," Niko said helplessly in the 3 vs. 4 defense situation.

Afterwards, the score between the two sides was widened again, and the three spears saved in the second round were of no use.

The atmosphere on the scene began to cool down as G2 continued to lose points.

If G2 didn't have Su Zhe, it wouldn't matter which team won the championship, after all, both teams have huge fan bases.

But now, they really hope that Su Zhe, as a Chinese, can win the cup once!

But the course of the game will not be affected by the will of the audience, and anyone who can understand the game a little bit knows it.

Faze's understanding of this map is far ahead of G2, and Nikos command was completely defeated by Big Cousin.

The gap widened again.

It was not until the score reached 2-5 that G2 scored a point with an unconventional A1 push after the timeout.

This was also the first point they got after entering the rifle round.

Although it was a crucial point and greatly helped G2's morale, the subsequent game rhythm was still controlled by the Faze team.

Until the end of the last round of the first half.

The score between the two sides was fixed at 4-8. (End of this chapter)