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

Chapter 90 Four-Protecting-One Tactics
"Congratulations to NIP! They won the first round of the RMR group stage 13-2! They defeated FNC team with a crushing victory!" As the game ended, the player who played the machine also congratulated them on their victory.

There was excitement in his tone, mainly because he had watched CNCS games for a long time and had said "honor even in defeat" too many times. Now, when he saw NIP, where Su Zhe was, win every game, he would feel sincerely happy.

"To be honest, guys, I really didn't expect Arrow to perform so well after transforming into a slasher."

"Although he has only played one Katowice tournament since his debut, his gunplay and details are improving at a noticeable rate. As long as he can maintain this state, he will definitely have no problem leading NIP into the Major main tournament."

Nip's position change was truly brilliant! I was worried he'd become obsolete after being studied, as the libero position still relies heavily on experience and awareness.

[Alas, what a pity! Xiaozhe is really interesting when playing as a free man. He cleared the opponent's bread points while playing.]

[Now that I'm a breakthrough player, it's still the same. I keep pushing forward until there's no one left at the other side's corner.]

[Indeed! I feel like Xiaozhe is more suited to the role of intruder. When I watched him play in the ladder live stream before, he was playing the role of intruder.]

[Hahaha, it's still fun to be a bulldozer! And the team next door has a bulldozer too!]

[You mean Green Dragon's donk, right? I'm kind of looking forward to the two teams meeting! Now the core players of both teams are breakthrough players.]

[Again, when Senpo adapts to the new version of the sniper, Arrow and Donk will just be a bystander.]

[Your father can't even start on NAVI, and you're still being filial? ]

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Regarding Su Zhe's transformation into a breakthrough player, the audience in the live broadcast room were discussing it, and most of them were optimistic.

After all, CSGO has been around since the CS1.6 era, and domestic players' impression of this game is that it speaks volumes about gun skills.

As long as it's accurate! As long as it's fast! That's awesome! Don't bother talking about tactical coordination.

Under the director's camera, the NIP members have already started walking towards the FNC player's seat to prepare for the handshake.

Compared with the NIP players who were all smiling, the FNC players were more confused, not even unwilling.

We only got two points in the whole game and were almost shut out, so how could we feel unwilling?

Now they just want to return to their hotel rooms early and quietly heal the trauma they have suffered.

When REZ saw the depressed look on the bald man's face, he finally couldn't hold back his expression.

He probably used a little more force when shaking the bald man's hand, and said comfortingly: "There's no need to be so upset about losing. Go back and have a good rest. Your attitude is the most important thing."

The two have a good relationship privately, after all, they are both Swedes.

In the early years, the relationship between the two teams was very poor. Like most football clubs, there are few teams in the same city that have good relationships.

However, as both teams gradually became international teams, the conflicts between them naturally subsided.

After all, Swedish CS has become so desolate that it doesn't have the energy to engage in internal strife.

The bald man rolled his eyes at Rez and said, "Do I even need to tell you that? You look so smug. It's only because the new guys are doing well, otherwise the final result would be really uncertain."

When he talked about this, he felt an inexplicable sadness. The two teams were obviously of similar strength before, so how come there is such a huge difference between them now?

After shaking hands with Rez, he looked at Su Zhe walking towards him and couldn't help but complain: "NIP must have turned from bad to good. They are so lucky to have recruited a newcomer like you."

Su Zhe was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then smiled and said, "It's not that NIP was lucky to find me, it's that I was lucky to join NIP."

He was telling the truth. Although he disliked NIP's management, he was lucky to be able to join such a team with such a great atmosphere.

Sometimes the strength of teammates is not the criterion for evaluating whether a team is good or bad.

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This sentence left the bald man speechless. He didn't know how to respond for a long time and had to let go of Su Zhe's hand.

He looked at Su Zhe's back as he walked away, and had an inexplicable premonition in his heart.

He feels that this newcomer will go very far on the road to becoming a professional player.

After packing up their peripherals, the NIP team left the venue and boarded the bus back to the hotel.

After k0nfig got on the bus, he sat comfortably on the chair.

It can be said that he had a very comfortable time today. Since the team destroyed FNC head-on, he, as the team's free man, didn't get many opportunities to fight back.

After everyone got on the bus, he casually asked, "How was the first round today?"

Due to the tight schedule, the organizers arranged for all participating teams to complete the first round of matches on the first day, and theirs was the last match of the day.

Rez, who was checking his phone at the time, responded, "There were no upsets today. Teams like G2, VP, NAVI, FAZE, and Falcons all won the first round."

Coach djL couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, which meant that their schedule tomorrow would become very difficult.

Because of the Swiss round format, a team with a 1-0 record can only encounter opponents with a 1-0 record.

headtr1ck laughed and said, "Let's hope we meet NAVI and Falcon again. We beat them in Katowice before, so our chances of winning should be higher if we meet them again."

es3tag shook his head and said, "That was half a month ago. These teams must have trained recently. We can't look at them with the same perspective as before."

Rez put down his phone and nodded, "Indeed, NAVI and Falcon were in a similar position to us today. They both crushed us by a large margin. They both seemed to be in very good shape."

Esports still lags behind traditional sports, and a team's form significantly impacts their performance, otherwise upsets wouldn't happen so often. However, judging by the data from the first round, these strong teams are in incredibly good form, making them incredibly difficult to defeat in the next round.

After hearing this, headtr1ck made a praying gesture: "I hope we don't meet G2 again!"

After losing two BO2 games to G3 in a row, he is now a little scared when he thinks of Xiao Hai's sniper rifle.

Su Zhe smiled after hearing this. He didn't care about it. Instead, he quite hoped to meet G2.

The main purpose is to try if there will be a different result if I meet G2 again as a breakthrough player.

After getting off the car at the hotel, DJL said, "It's still early, so let's go to the training room and review the game. Our opponents will be out later, and we'll have time to do some research."

Everyone had no objections after hearing this. It was just a Bo1 game without any suspense, and it didn't consume much of their energy.

After they arrived at the training room, DJL first downloaded the demo of today's match against FNC from the official HLTV website, and then projected it onto the big screen.

"Arrow."

The coach paused the game at the second spear round, which was the wave when he sneaked into B and killed two CTs at B bomb site with a smoke screen.

"Hmm?" Su Zhe responded.

"I find that your awareness has improved a lot!" djL praised.

Take Su Zhe's action of sticking to the left wall to block the blind sight of the opposite coffin. This smoke is definitely not just a matter of luck.

"Awareness? I felt that the opponent's cigarette was a little too deep, and the opponent would definitely not choose to set up a gun at the police's position, so I wanted to give it a try." Su Zhe expressed his thoughts at the time.

es3tag nodded. "This is a great opportunity indeed. If I were here, I definitely wouldn't dare take the risk of getting this cigarette."

After saying that, he remembered something and said with a smile, "I still remember there were some comments about you in the player community before, saying that we in NIP hired a stupid gun man who only knew how to find people to fight with."

Everyone couldn't help laughing after hearing this, because this was also their stereotype of Su Zhe.

But I didn't expect that so many details in decision-making would be revealed in today's game against FNC.

Has his consciousness improved? After hearing this, Su Zhe really wanted to understand why he had these thoughts during the game.

It all depends on the [Endgame Simulator] over and over again!

Although I haven't been able to successfully challenge Anubis's 1v5 endgame yet, as the number of failures increases, I have learned how to look for opportunities reasonably, and my awareness has been growing rapidly imperceptibly.

It’s worthy of being an S-level reward!
Su Zhe silently gave the system a thumbs up in his heart.

DJL continued playing the demo, and then paused at the point where he lost two points in a row.

He turned around and asked Su Zhe: "Do you know why you gave away these two waves in vain?"

After thinking for a moment, Su Zhe replied, "Because I played too aggressively, and there were no teammates behind me to help me..."

DJL shook his head and said, "Wrong! You don't know how to demand cooperation from your teammates. Look, you wanted to control Banana Lane alone, but the opponent set up a three-man defense, and there's even someone in the back corner grabbing items, ready to counter-clear at any time."

"Even if you don't push forward, the opponent will take the initiative to catch you."

"But when you took the initiative to push, you only gave Rez one flash, and the opponent easily carried it away. What if you asked him for two flashes? Or for another sandbag fire?"

"With your frontal ability, you should be able to catch at least one of these waves, right? If you're lucky, you might even be able to catch two."

Su Zhe explained, "I'm mainly worried that if the team wants to explode the bomb next time, there won't be enough props."

In professional competitions, props are undoubtedly very important resources, and they are also very limited. Some teams will strictly control props.

For example, when on the defensive side, you are asked during what time period you can throw out defensive smoke, and when you need to use a sniper mount to save props.

Although their NIP is not so strict about prop management, it still has a certain degree of control.

es3tag shook his head and said to Su Zhe, "Don't worry about that. Just cooperate with what you need and follow your own ideas. If it's really unreasonable, I will remind you."

What he said was very clear, that is, he treated Su Zhe as the absolute big brother in the team, and his cooperation was almost unconditional.

To put it simply, it is the four-protect-one tactic.

When others heard this, they had no objections and instead thought that this was the most reasonable way to play.

Su Zhe nodded after hearing this: "I understand. I will pay attention to it during the next competition."

The subsequent review process continued, mainly due to the large-scale crushing, and there was not much to review. After less than an hour, they ended the review session.

Rez stretched and suddenly asked, "Has our schedule for tomorrow's game been released yet?"

es3tag checked the time and said, "He should be out. I'll go check it out."

After saying that, he opened his phone and started to check. Under everyone's gaze, his expression suddenly became strange.

k0nfig looked at es3tag's expression and said, "Who's our opponent for the second round? Stop keeping us in suspense! Tell us!"

“It’s Faze.”

(End of this chapter)