Wa: It’s broken, I’ve become a cutting monster!

The game entered the map ban and selection stage. Since FPX is the number one seed and th is the number three seed, according to the principle of "seed order priority", FPX will ban and select first!

Xia An first banned Sunset City, which was a map that FPX had been banning before, and th then moved out of the Refrigerator Forest Winter Port.

FPX made a very bold choice in the first map selection, giving it the new map "Deep Cave". This move is really bold. If FPX is confident in using this map in China because the teams are familiar with each other and have a general understanding of each other's tactics, then when facing TH, it is a complete gamble!

"FPX is very confident. They chose Deep Cave as their first choice. They want to overwhelm the opponent with their momentum first!"

"That's very bold, but I have to say that this has always been Coach Xia An's style. No matter how you play on this map, we are the best anyway, so let's get a guaranteed win first!"

And th’s first choice was to get the important town of Yuangong. For the last decisive map, th chose to release the Lotus Ancient City map to return the favor!

Didn't you FPX want to rely on the new map pack to get a point? I reversed and chose the final decisive map to your best map, the Lotus Ancient City! I heard that FPX's Lotus Ancient City is very strong? Coincidentally, I also claim to be not weak!

In fact, th's move shows that they have studied FPX. After all, they are the champion team of the Shanghai Masters. I believe every team will regard FPX as an imaginary enemy! Since FPX's lineup changed, their dominance in the Lotus Ancient City map has obviously declined.

The format of the group stage of the Seoul Championship is that the team that wins two games advances, and each game is a best-of-three format. It also feels like the "Swiss round" has already started in the group stage!

Most teams with seeding priority will choose to ban and select later. The reason is very simple. It allows the opponent to ban and select some maps first. If the banned map happens to be the one you also want to ban, then the team that selects later will save the right to ban a map!

The corresponding price is that the first map may not be the one you want. Xia An's move of banning first and choosing first was very smart. He knew that TH's map pool and FPX had a large overlap, so he directly asked for the first map. Sure enough, TH chose Lotus Ancient City as the winning map!

Soon both teams' lineups were ready, starting with th's lineup:

Miniboo, Riens, BOO, Benjyfishy, Woot!

Deep Caverns was played only once this season by TH in a duel with FUT, when they chose a dual vanguard lineup of Ryze Duel and Ironwall Hunter. This time the lineup changed again, with Miniboo returning to Jetwind and Hunter and Gaiko as the vanguard.

FPX is in the same situation as the last time they played against TE and EDG.

Black Dream (Ayang), Security (Autumn), Viper (Zhang He), Shadow (Life), Night Dew (Shan Anyang).

The system of a single night lane, plus a double control and single information lineup, is somewhat "retro" in today's version where double vanguards are rampant.

The new map Deep Cave is very similar to Breezy Island because they are both relatively large. So even though the new map has a lot of height differences, Ryze's performance is still very limited. The distance between a and b is really too far, and both attacking and defending have to walk a long way. In comparison, Ye Lu is very adaptable to this map.

For example, FNC also chose the Night Dew system to deal with the lineup in the new map, but again, not every duel will play Night Dew. Compared with the regular duel, Night Dew's role in the team is more like a prop position!

Professional players rarely put the teleport anchor directly inside the point, and then throw a tricky flash to tp directly into the point to pull the gun line. Instead, they will use tp to quickly transfer points or feint.

"We are about to enter the first Bo3 match of this Seoul Championship. This is also the first head-to-head match between the two teams after Shanghai!"

"The first map we came to was the new map Deep Caves, which was chosen by FPX, and th chose to start with defense!"

TH's position was that three people defended area A, including Jiefeng Liexiao and Geike. The remaining two people, Security Guard and Xingyan, were both defending area B, leaving the middle lane completely to the camera to obtain information.

On the FPX side, four players gathered in the B lane, while autumn, the security guard and justice player, walked alone in the middle lane.

Both sides started the game in silence, and the three players guarding A couldn't hold back and pressed forward collectively.

"Stay silent, I'll go and destroy the camera in the middle with autumn." Shan Anyang left a tp outside B and turned to walk towards the bandit's house. Because autumn reported that the camera was in the middle at the beginning, Shan Anyang guessed that TH had probably put it in the middle, but for the sake of safety, he chose to help autumn to remove the camera.

Just as Shan Anyang was hanging up the rope and trying to return to the bandit's platform, the three people who had come out of area A just happened to be pushed out of area A! As soon as Shan Anyang showed his head, he saw three people walking towards him!

Without hesitation, Shan Anyang immediately broke free from the rope and turned his view to the right, lowering his head and landing! He successfully avoided the first wave of bullets from Miniboo with a rope-hanging spin jump!

"Three people from area A push forward, speed up area B immediately!"

After getting the information, Shan Anyang took action immediately. Autumn had already relied on his experience to avoid the camera and touch the middle lane. At this time, Autumn was very mysterious. Shan Anyang did not stay here either. He directly tp back to the front battlefield outside B, giving TH the illusion that five FPX players were carrying B!

After returning to B, Shan Anyang released the dummy that had been placed in advance, and Zhang He immediately raised the smoke wall to isolate the B package. Everyone quickly followed Shan Anyang's steps to clean up the package.

The two TH players guarding B immediately withdrew from the site when they saw Zhang Heyan's wall, waiting for their teammates to double-team them. FPX successfully occupied the site and started to plant the bomb!

At the same time, the three people in the middle lane who were pressing forward in area A learned that FPX had entered the B group, and immediately began to defend from the middle lane and the bandit's home. But as soon as miniboo stepped onto the middle lane steps, he was waiting for two justice shots from autumn who had been hiding in the middle lane!

Boom!

Miniboo was killed instantly. At the same time, the Hunter Owl, who had been planning to go around the back, immediately turned around and rushed to the middle. Autumn fired several shots at the steps to preemptively fire. When he was about to hide behind a stone pillar to reload, Geko threw out Diudiu. Autumn moved to avoid Diudiu's sight, but the distance was too close. In addition, Geko was on the stage and Autumn was below, so even though Autumn was already far behind, he was still sprayed all over the screen!

Hearing the sound of autumn being hit, Geiko jumped up and shot autumn in the head with three consecutive shots from his standard pistol in the air!

But autumn's mission was accomplished. Not only did he delay the opponent's defense time, but he also killed Jiefeng! The rest was up to his teammates.

Looking back at the front battlefield, after the blaster was installed, Shan Anyang took the lead and jumped directly to the second floor. At this time, Xing Yan was hiding in the angle between Zhang He's smoke and the second floor, staring at Shan Anyang across the wall!

"There will be a 1v1 situation on the second floor. It depends on whether Dan Anyang will search this spot!"

“Yes, although Shan Anyang is using a standard pistol, the lethality of a standard pistol at this distance cannot be underestimated!”

The moment Zhang He's smoke cleared, Shan Anyang began to slowly search the second floor of the top floor. The blind spot on the second floor was a must-search spot, so how could Shan Anyang ignore it? The seedlings were raised in sections, and the pistol of Xinglin was seen first!

Adjust the pre-aiming and pull it out directly, the standard three-shot burst instantly nails the head! Dan Anyang killed BOO instantly without losing a drop of blood!

At the same time, Life also pushed a second floor black for Shan Anyang in the connection position. The security guard and the hunter were completely blacked out and did not kill Shan Anyang in the first time. When they wanted to clear the second floor again in the second time, they had already lost their advantageous gun position.

Riens is indeed an experienced player in the competition. He took out the lightning arrow and shot it directly to the second floor, hoping to use it to force Shan Anyang to return to the second floor. The arrow was shot in one go, and the next moment the security guard and the hunter pulled the arrow to the second floor at the same time!

But what they didn't expect was that Shan Anyang didn't retreat at all! This guy actually took the arrow without making a sound, and just stood there straight!

The security guard who was pulled out was killed instantly by Shan Anyang who replaced him with Ghost because he was moving forward. The Hunter who was only half a body length behind was not let go either. Shan Anyang quickly made a fine adjustment and wanted to pick up another person.

But the shot did not hit the hunting owl's head, only its body, and Dan Anyang was killed the next second.

"Dan Anyang actually took on another person on the second floor!"

"Yes, and he was carrying a lightning arrow, and his health was already half, but under this situation, Dan Anyang was able to kill one person and beat the hunting owl with a shot? Too scary!"

As the remaining Gai Ke threw Diudiu on the second floor, the remaining two positions of th were also locked. FPX surrounded one person, connected one person, and a person at the bottom of the B window, three people and three gun lines! It was almost impossible for th to turn the game around. In the end, FPX won the pistol round with 3 for 5!

"FPX's tactics were very successful. Although they did not choose to quickly attack the B area at the first time, but chose Anyang to go back to help autumn, after getting three people in the A area to press forward, FPX acted quickly and took control of the B point. At the same time, autumn also cut off miniboo in the middle, which was also crucial!"

"Yes, FPX's decision was correct this time. Because there was no one watching the middle lane, and three people came out from area A, there were only two people at point B at most. FPX's fast attack at point B was too much for the two people to handle in the first place. Of course, Shan Anyang's two interceptions on the second floor also brought the end earlier!"