Chapter 104: The God of the Losers' Bracket

The arrival of Erin and his party seemed to dispel the shadow of MDK's first defeat in an instant, but in the United States, the MDK club suddenly put a huge pressure on it.

The first to attack was naturally the news media.

CNN-led media in the central and eastern regions are bombarding the MDK club.

The reason is simple, the other two giants of the United States who went to France, 3D and coL, performed very well.

Especially in 3D, he beat the Swedish powerhouse Nordic Division in the first round.

This is a strong team under the command of the famous German e-sports organization e-d, which is also known as esu, after the dissolution of the NIP, the tactician Vesslan wandered in this team in early 02, with his appeal, five Swedish superstars Scream, brunk, ahl, Notorius and sniper Sift formed the main lineup at this ESC.

But in the first round, they were confronted by the No. 1 seed, 3D, who swept them away with a sea of attacks.

3D's new golden lineup is also the first time to appear in the World Series, maybe it was silent for too long some time ago, and it was blamed by the media so that it couldn't raise its head, 3D broke out crazy as soon as the war started, everyone is a monster, all of them are transformed Super Saiyans, ND Even if they use European-style tactics to contain them, the demons of 3D are too terrifying.

There are two games in Desert 2, and Moto played 1V5 twice as soon as Sand Eagle, and it was Sand Eagle vs. AK vs. AP, which shows the fierceness of 3D's personal strength, which is enough to disrupt all tactics.

After kicking ND into the lower bracket in 3D, they met and bumped into the fifth seed Russian national team M19, which is actually familiar to Chinese players, because the biggest feature of this team is Chinese characteristics: amazing marksmanship.

But 3D also smashed everything that stood in their way with a score of 12:2.

After this strong opponent was removed, 3D did not face a particularly tough team again, and even if they cut all the way, they would not meet the third seed SK in the upper bracket semi-finals.

3D has also given the people of the whole country the hope of the rise of the United States.

3D is crazy, coL is not bad, after losing the famous XetqR, Lake once again used the money to recruit troops, gathered tr1p and these people, and swept over the Matrix team with the young player Span under all kinds of pressure, and then met the second seed Germany's big brother team mT.

coL gives people the feeling that it is not strong, but that the dollar is strong, and you can't accept it if you don't accept it.

This time in the ESC, the European aristocrats planted their heads in the first two rounds, but the Americans took the limelight.

But compared with the two giants, MDK lost extremely aggrieved in the first game, and was dragged to death by 4K and fell into the loser's group.

MDK is really lucky, after dropping the group, it didn't run into the big head, all unknown squads, first met a strange team TVCC in Saudi Arabia, and then met the old wrongdoers of the Chinese - Malaysia's student team Clan4, and then bumped into the JCCT of small Japan, the place where the media questioned is here, MDK won these battles, but won four draws and eight stables, there is no rich temperament at all, the record is all 12:8, 12:7, and Monkey, Ray have no special performance, On the contrary, the newcomers Yin Xinxuan and Luo Danlun always make some mistakes.

Maybe others will think that as long as you win, it's OK.

Of course, a normal team can understand it in this way, but MDK can't.

The sponsors behind MDK are too fierce, and the congressional administration and President George W. Bush are quite face-saving, paying special attention to the performance of the American team in Paris, and counting the previous MDK's blockbuster in the CAL league, the public and public opinion classify MDK as a giant.

The big team pays special attention to the record, even if you lose once, you will be criticized, this is also a criticism of commercialization and professionalism, you can lose once and lose twice in the game, but it involves the interests of sponsors and advertisers, they can't give you so many opportunities to lose, which is the most fundamental reason for the disintegration of X3 before.

After the media bombarded indiscriminately, the people of Aberdeen demanded that Lu Fei play more and more, because Lu Fei really calculated, he had not played since MDKVScoL, Huo Jingde's ACTV ratings plummeted, and many customers in Blatter's Nordsström branches said that they were not familiar with Lu Fei on the billboard.

These intangible commercial interests of the sponsors were damaged, and the pressure on the shoulders of Green and Huo Xixian was great, Huo Jingde asked Lu Fei to play as soon as possible, this request Huo Xixian was easy to accept, but Blatter's requirements were even higher, he wanted MDK to play a game that became world-famous as soon as possible, and if he won the battle.

For this kind of request of the two bosses, Green can only smile bitterly.

On the one hand, he negotiated with the two bosses, but on the other hand, he did not call Lu Fei, he knew that Lu Fei needed to be cautious at this time, and he firmly believed that Lu Fei had his own reasons not to play.

The layman commands the insider, but the situation is a mess.

Bosses like Blatter may not yet understand the brutality of the lower bracket of the ESC, and as the upper bracket progresses, the pressure on the lower bracket increases, and there are far more games to play than the upper bracket.

But businessmen have businessmen's ideas, and players also have players' ideas, and only managers like Green and Huo Xixian are uncomfortable in the middle. They didn't dare to rush, and they didn't want to go against the will of the management, but they were more worried that MDK would encounter a super strong team that fell from the upper bracket.

On the morning of April 16, Paris time, the third day of the competition, the super battle at this ESC finally broke out.

The No. 3 seeded team, the tough SK narrowly defeated the German rookie Mouz with a score of 12:10 in the winner, and so far, the three German carriages "mT, TAMM, and Mouz" have all fallen into the lower bracket.

In the CS world, Germany is a traditional powerhouse, and the rigorous style, iron will, and tough playing style of German players have left a deep impression on audiences all over the world.

Germany's e-sports system is very different from that of the United States, which adopts a CAL league + private grading system, with a fair and transparent competition system and a detailed upgrade system.

However, Germany is carried out in the form of e-sports organizations + national and regional competitions, such as esu online, HLO online and other organizations, which are affiliated with large companies like Siemens, and often have several teams at the same time, and then rely on participating in large-scale competitions to improve, such as the famous European Cup, the National Cup (NationalCup), etc., to promote exchanges between teams, of course, commercial transfer and trading must exist, careful Chinese audiences may find, European teams, except for a few giants, are fixed, and the transfer of players from other teams is commonplace.

After half a year, it is not surprising that a player has transferred four or five times.

Germany's e-sports system is not bad, but in the first half of 02, German CS is still going downhill, mainly because commercial transactions are too frequent, like mT and TAMM, the strength of these two teams is of course first-class in Europe, but the problem is that the player's buying and selling is too fast and too frequent, sometimes the blood is too fast, a team loses its style and characteristics, and becomes a nondescript miscellaneous army.

Of course, you can say that the later "international column" NOA is also a large group of miscellaneous army combinations, but if you look closely, there are still several superstars in it whose main positions are fixed.

Therefore, among the three German carriages, only Mouz, the German rookie, did not change frequently in this regard in the first half of the year.

Mouz's lineup: Roman, Bilzzard, Papst, Gore, !

This lineup can't be regarded as a first-class team in 02, but there is a king-level figure with a super-first-class level, to be precise, it should be a god——!

A CS player, then he can't be considered a real player.

This "sniper god" can be said to have influenced an entire generation, especially in 0102 China, and the god in the minds of countless CS lovers is this sniper god.

There is no sniper in the world who can hold up an otherwise mediocre team and hold up a sky with a sniper rifle, including 3DMiller and zExDkt, and even idol superstars such as SKFisker, foRd, Dsn, etc.

Yes, from the nameless squad n! Faculty, to mT, to Mouz, the sniper rifles glow magically.

It sounds a bit unrealistic, but it does.

The characteristics of this sniper rifle are that it is too fast, it is too accurate, the AP hit rate is 99.7%, the human reaction time is 0.023 seconds, his strength lies in ignoring any tactics, being able to disrupt any tactics, no other sniper in the world can reach this god-like height, not only not now, but also impossible in the future, this is a legendary figure in the history of CS.

Especially in China, he is a deified character, HeatoN and Miller are not as popular as him, and there are thousands of people fighting with his ID everywhere in CS servers across the country, although it is difficult for outsiders to understand what the source of this crazy worship is, everyone is happy, and the feeling of fighting together, and this can undoubtedly bring strong self-confidence to Chinese players who are still very young in technology.

Today, some of these people have hung up their guns, and some continue to fight in the world of CS and become masters who are respected by those who come after them, but as long as you dig through the depths of your memory, you will definitely be able to experience the pleasure of youth again.

There is a special kind of affection, that is, the most simple feelings between fans and idols.

Many years later, his retirement made countless Chinese people sad for him, and China experienced Mouz's product promotion meetings for many years in the future, visited China, and gave Chinese fans CS equipment that accompanied him for many years.

Perhaps it is a great happiness for China CSER to have such an idol.

The news came on the evening of the 16th, because MDK's current overall record is one loss and three wins, which is on par with Mouz, and the two teams are in the lower bracket, at 15 o'clock in the afternoon of Paris time on the 17th, MDKVSMouz, the format is 12 rounds to win first, and the single picture is eliminated, and the winner will enter the top 8 of the lower group, and after the top 8, a three-map double elimination system will be carried out.

When the news spread, it was not the United States that caused the first sensation, but China.

Chinese players are basically divided into two factions, yes, and the other faction supports MDK, for the simple reason that the only Chinese in MDK is Lu Fei.

This mood is quite contradictory, on the one hand, no one wants to see their idol defeated, the image of the god in their minds collapses, on the other hand, the domestic situation of Chinese CS at this time is very dark, and people are too eager for the birth of a hero to reawaken the hope of countless people for a better tomorrow for CS.

The well-known domestic media CCSK, CGA, and PCGAME released the front page of the game on their official websites overnight, including the analysis of the strength of the two teams, and the previous demo replay of the players of the two teams, but the eye-catching is still this line of big words:

Lu Fei VS Sniper God!