After the match between Fnatic and Liuqid ended, it was already evening in Belgium.
After a hurried dinner and the end of the evening map training, every player in the team finally had their few rest time.
Qin Feng surprisingly did not choose to practice shooting or rest. Instead, he went to the top floor of the apartment hotel and looked at another starry sky above his head that was different from that of China.
The night view of Antwerp is beautiful and impressive.
Of course, the night view here is not beautiful because of the lights, but because of the night sky. What is bright is not the colorful neon lights, but the shining stars in the sky.
The endless loneliness and uncertain starry sky suddenly made Qin Feng feel a little lonely.
Maybe it's because I've been away from my hometown for too long, or maybe I have too few close friends here.
Qin Feng just stared at the starry sky above his head.
Perhaps this was the first time that the nineteen-year-old him experienced the feeling of "alone in a foreign land and a stranger" in a foreign country.
The teammates in the team have a good relationship with him, and the coach also takes good care of him in daily life, but Qin Feng still feels that their relationship is purely teammates.
Soon, Qin Feng's contract will expire after the Major.
Asking himself, after leaving Fnatic, Qin Feng believed that his heart would not be too disturbed.
It has to be said that among the CSGO giants, there are countless giants that have fallen due to the breakdown of relationships among their team members.
The most famous example may be the most legendary five-person group in history-VP Pictures.
pashabiceps, NEO, TaZ, byali, Snax.
There are many memes about VP:
In my competition, both losing and jumping off the building are guaranteed.
If it tastes good, eat more.
Pasha wants to be the best father in the world.
…
They never established a dynasty, but they could easily crush any dynasty.
But the reason why this legendary Polish Eagle was disbanded was simply because of the ownership issue of a Mercedes-Benz car awarded as an MPV.
The lineup that had lasted four years and five months fell apart overnight, which also made many CSGO players sigh with regret.
Thinking of this, he suddenly envied the relationship between the former Vitality members.
No matter how poorly Kyojin and shox perform in the team, the relationship between the players is still indelible.
Just when Kyojin and shox left the team, apEX, the French conductor with hyperthyroidism on the field, finally couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes at that moment and bid farewell to his former colleagues with tears.
How capable you are of being on the field, how sad it is when you say goodbye.
Maybe they have disputes and conflicts about their understanding of the game within the team, but privately their relationship is not affected at all.
Three years of friendship, thirty years of feelings.
Teammates kioShiMa, Happy, NBK-, kennyS, RpK... who had fought together left one by one. In the end, even shox left Liquid in North America.
The glory and glory of Titan in 2014 and EnVyUs in 2015 have all passed away with time, and the former teammates have become old photos in the history of HLTV.
All the familiar friends have left, and only apEX is left alone and lonely in the former French CS.
"call."
Thinking of this, Qin Feng suddenly exhaled a breath of turbid air, with a rare confusion in his eyes.
What kind of relationship does he have with the Fnatic players now?
teammate?
mercenary?
friend?
Can't this game be played without 4 teammates?
…
After thinking about it, Qin Feng suddenly felt a little tired, so he lay down and continued to admire the bright night sky in boredom.
The only thing Qin Feng is certain about now is that the reason why he joined Fnatic is to defeat all opponents.
Even though Fnatic is not a strong team now, Qin Feng has never had any intention of failing.
For a professional player, the purpose of playing a game is definitely not to be proud of losing, let alone to lose well and show off in style.
What he has to do now and the only thing he can do is to play well in the last few games at Fnatic without leaving any regrets.
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The Fnatic team was lucky. In the 1-1 Legend Group, Fnatic actually drew Outsiders as its opponent.
You know, in the legendary group stage, even if the team is 1-1, there are still many wealthy teams.
ENCE, G2, Heroic, Faze…
It can be said that if they encounter any of them, it will be a desperate battle for Fnatic.
The Outsiders team can be said to be the weakest team in the 1-1 group.
In the European qualifiers of the RMR group, if it weren't for Jame's wonderful performance of unpacking in 0.1 seconds, sAw might have advanced to the challenger group instead of Outsiders.
If Fnatic can defeat Outsiders this time, it can almost be said that they are only one step away from entering the championship.
In the Chinese community, many people are also talking about the match between Fnatic and Outsiders.
Tyloo has been eliminated, and almost all Chinese viewers are focusing on Qin Feng and Fnatic.
Many people hope that Aether can lead Fnatic to a few more rounds and let the world know that besides Tyloo, there are many other young people in China who are working hard.
Of course, there are also many people who are looking forward to Qin Feng's failure, so that they can post in the community to mock Qin Feng without thinking and attract everyone's attention.
Even before the game started, there were many discussions on the topic of Fnatic and Outsiders in the community posts.
[Can Fnatic hold on to Master Ye’s attack? With twenty years of skill in this spear, I ask you, can you block it? ! 】
[Fnatic has already encountered the weakest team. Outsiders was almost killed by sAw in the European qualifiers. So it is very reasonable for the legendary group to be defeated by Fnatic, right? 】
[The Outsiders are obviously not in good shape. Look at what state the seventh and eighth players are in. They only rely on Jame and Kuang Ge to support the situation. 】
[Jame: You only go so far, no more. 】
[When Outsiders won, I directly showed Brother Kuang’s photo to teach me... about the M4A1’s silencer. 】
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May 15th China time.
18 o'clock in the evening.
It’s CSBOY live broadcast room again.
"Welcome to the third round of the PGL Major Legend Group, Outsiders vs. Fnatic."
"I'm the commentator Masisi."
"I am the commentator CaptainMo."
"I am assistant Tomorrow Qing."
"Check the time..."
"The map still comes to the town of Purgatory, and the Fnatic team will be the offensive team first."
"The game has already started. Mezii still gave Aether a P250. With this Fnatic, the other four players took the banana lane, leaving Aether alone to investigate the information in the middle lane."
"What?! Jame in the middle was directly knocked out by Aether's P250."
"God A!"
"Wait a minute, Qikert knew that Aether was the only one in the middle, so he helped Jame pull out to replenish his shot."
"Aether still wants to fight, but has never tried."
"I was shot."
"The Outsiders are a triple-A defense right now, but you should know right away that the side lanes and the second floor are empty."
"The one guarding Area B is Master YEKINDAR's half-armor USP. Can he withstand it?"
"One for one, beautiful. The Fnatic offensive team members successfully controlled the bag points in area B. The players in area A who returned to defense are still on the banana lane and the police house."
Masisi's tone became slightly excited.
As a domestic CSGO commentator, you need to adopt an "objective and neutral" attitude to explain the game.
It plays the role of a sniper rifle, a numerical advantage, and a score lead.
As objective and neutral commentators, Masisi and CaptainMo naturally cannot be without any personal emotions as usual.
"What should I do if the package is released? Two of the Outsiders members who returned to defense took the banana path and the other went to the police house."
"But the poizon three boxes behind is holding the USP that YEKINDAR dropped after his death!"
"Pull out the biang and shoot?"
"The policeman's Qikert was killed, leaving only buster and FL1T behind the banana road."
"The bandits are all gone. Let us let you in for crossfire."
"The Outsiders still have to fight, and only one person, ALEX, has been replaced."
“Fnatic wins the pistol round”
"..."
After winning the pistol round, Qin Feng and everyone at Fnatic quickly felt the pressure from the world's top teams.
After experiencing a wave of all-deposit ECO, the Outsiders instantly played a wave of 1 for 5 in the long gun round in the third round, which perfectly accumulated the CT side's economy.
Qin Feng felt that if he hadn't won the pistol round, the Outsiders' financial accumulation would have reached an astonishing level.
There is no way, Fnatic has too few firepower points.
When Qin Feng is not using snipers, poizon and KRIMZ are often responsible for breaking points.
However, the performance of poizon and KRIMZ was not stable, and the Outsiders themselves are an extremely defensive team.
A few months ago, Outsiders was still one of the top teams in the world, playing in major competitions such as ESL ONE, IEM Katowice, IEM WINTER, and BLAST.
And what is Fnatic playing?
Second tier league.
Pin Cup, Funspark, Dreamhack, Elisa Autumn Tournament, Repub League...such competitions.
There is quite a difference in background.
The only reason why the team can reach the legendary group now is probably because of the performance of the Aether sniper rifle.
Therefore, according to the pre-game arrangements of coach Samuelsson and ALEX, their tactic is to use as many fast breaks as possible.
On the offensive end, if his personal strength is not as good as that of Outsiders, he makes up for it with his own momentum.
Exchange the number of players to occupy the pack points, and then rely on the advantage of guarding the pack to win the endgame. This is the plan that ALEX made before the game.
The game must not be allowed to enter the rhythm of "slow map control".
After all, the Outsiders are probably the team that knows how to play slow attack and likes to play slow attack the most.
And with Fnatic's several waves of speed increases, the situation on the field became anxious again.
The score went all the way to 5-5, but Outsiders seemed to have begun to adapt to Fnatic's offensive rhythm.
"Fnatic has something good, they played a few shifts."
"Outsiders probably didn't expect Fnatic to change their previous style."
"In previous Fnatic games, they relied on Aehter, a street sniper rifle, to control the map and set the pace."
"But in this round, Aether has not sniped even once, and has been on the fast attack."
"Wait a minute, do you still want to grab the banana lane and beat B?"
"Imitate Green Dragon and play Area B for fifteen rounds on OVERPASS?"
"But after hitting B too many times, the Outsiders are obviously on guard."
"Outsiders went straight to 3B, and James, the sniper rifle that was the main defense in area A, also went to area B."
"There are a lot of props, three fire and three thunder."
"Close fire, groove fire, three thunders in the tree position."
"Poizon was killed directly."
"ALEX is holding a cigarette to put out the fire. Didn't it burn over?"
"ALEX cut the gun, but the fire still spread."
"It's over. It's too late to cut the smoke and put out the fire."
"..."
The situation instantly turned against Fnatic.
The remaining three Fnatic blocked the bandit's mouth and lost control of most of the entire map.
And due to the constant exchange of numbers, Fnatic’s players’ finances are not good either.
Most of the team members have an economy of around 1,000.
Even if three AK47s are saved, the remaining two team members can only play full-armor TEC-9 or full-armor hair dryers with the 1,400 economic bonus.
"Should we save it?" ALEX silently calculated the economy in his mind, "We can still equip two submachine guns for the next one, and the explosive bullets will jump to the second floor of A."
"We played B too many times. They will definitely use 3B to defend B later, so we will directly raise A."
Qin Feng, who was holding the middle road in the sewer, took a look at his economy.
"Do you want me to try breaking off the gun?"
"The economy of the Outsiders is probably not good either. I still have some money. As long as we can kill the Outsiders with a gun, it won't be too much of a loss for us."
He still has 3200 in his economy, which is enough to equip him with full-armor AK ammunition in the next round.
"Okay." ALEX nodded, "KRIMZ and mezii can help Qin Feng check his back first. There is no need to go back to the gangster's house directly."
The current core player in the team is Qin Feng. If Qin Feng feels that he can get kills or help the team build an advantage through certain playing methods, then ALEX and the team will build a plan around Qin Feng's ideas.
"Okay." The remaining mezii and KRIMZ nodded.
Mezii held AK to block the exit point of Banana Road at the bandit's mouth, while KRIMZ moved towards the VIP area of Area A and the second floor.
Qin Feng thought for a moment and then quietly touched the connection.
If nothing else, the Outsiders should have returned to 3A2B defense at this time.
After thinking about it, Qin Feng walked closer to the connection and pushed a connected smoke bomb.
The commentary audience and even the teammates watching the game were a little nervous.
Ma Xixi even felt that Qin Feng might directly gain weight.
Once the FL1T connected back to defense hears the sound of Qin Feng throwing cigarettes and pulls out directly, Qin Feng who cannot return to the AK is destined to be taken away by the headshot of the FL1T MP9 connected closer.
But the players are naturally not from God’s perspective.
FL1T will naturally be worried about more than just the cigarette-throwing bandit in the middle.
Now except for his MP9 guarding the connection, the remaining two CTs at point A are guarding the package point.
If he attacks rashly and is intercepted by the bandits at the back, then Fnatic will be a partial 3-on-2 attack whether playing A or B.
After throwing away the cigarette, FL1T breathed a sigh of relief, "The cigarette is connected, be careful A1..."
However, before FL1T finished speaking, the figure of a bandit swayed directly out of the smoke bomb that had just exploded.
"despair."
[Fnatic.Aether used AK-47 to kill Outsiders.FL1T with a headshot]
FL1T's attention was focused on the fact that the bandits might have blocked the connection to attack A1, but they never thought that Aether would just block the smoke himself and come out unreasonably.
"Oh my god, what kind of operation is Aether doing? Is it possible to seal the cigarettes and sell them by yourself?"
"Was FL1T distracted? He didn't fire his gun at all."
"Now Fnatic has something to play with."
"KRIMZ has already emptied the second floor of A, and the gangster's mezii has also moved to area A with a mine bag from the middle."
"Could it be that?"
"Anything else to play?"
"..."
Outsiders' voice was somewhat confused.
Once the connected FL1T is lost, if Fnatic wants to play A, the remaining two CTs in area A will have to face a three-sided attack by the attacking bandits.
The connection, second floor, and A1 are all positions that defenders have to worry about.
The seventh and eighth sons of the Outsiders guarding area B - Qikert and buster.
After a brief exchange, Qikert stayed at the bag point, while Buster had already arrived at the big pit.
As for Fnatic, Qin Feng and mezii went to A1, while KRIMZ went to the second floor.
A partial 3-on-2 attack is about to begin.
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