Time flies, and it's July.

Two days before the start of the game, Li Pu and his brothers were pulled by the tournament team to do a simple interview, makeup photos, and of course, a pre-match makeup video.

The teams from Cologne had also arrived the week before, and it was a pity that none of the teams from China were able to stand out in the play-in qualifiers, with the Asia-Pacific region being awarded to the baseball team and the RNG Australian Cowboys.

As one of the two most famous e-sports events in the world, Cologne is also a gathering of strong teams, in addition to their prickly heat, Liquid, Natural Winner, Team A, Little Bee, EG, ENCE, are all menacing, not to mention the other teams below waiting to become dark horses and pull down the strong teams above.

It is worth mentioning that Liquid chose to make a substitution before the game, and the sniper emperor melon ignition line returned, and his substitute - the banana man who did not listen to the command and coach, and loved to pressure his teammates, kicked away, and the liquid also successfully became a complete body at this time.

Prickly Crane was divided into Group A, among which there are natural winners, liquid and EG, and mice, not that the rivals do not get together, when Li Pu saw the grouping situation, he felt that the event side was doing a big job, Li Pu and liquid, a chicken and a mountain cannon, Niko against the mouse, Li Pu against EG, melon point against the prickly heat, all of which can be regarded as some grievances.

If Liquid wins the trophy in Cologne, they will surpass Liquid and raise the team's points to the top of the world, while if it is the other way around, it will be Liquid who will rewrite their myth and bring the progress of the two teams to the same starting point in the Grand Slam.

"The Point Guard Is Here"

Especially the two snipers who have swapped clubs, Li Pu and Guadian, this kind of picture of a comet hitting the earth is so beautiful that not only fans of the two teams, but also fans of the entire CSGO circle are looking forward to stepping on their heads to win the championship.

As for whether the two teams can get past their opponents in the first round of BO1 and the second round of BO3, they have been ignored.

Fans have imagined Lipp or Melonpoint shaking hands with each other after a game and saying "your teammates are so good", which is no less important for someone with a particular hobby than telling another man that his ex-wife is really good.

This is also the moment that Lip is looking forward to, as he will prove who is the better sniper of the two, whether it is in liquid or in Crane Heat, Lip will win.

And although the appearance of the natural winners here is a bit abrupt, they are already ranked 13th in the world before the substitution, and they are not even as good as their opponents on the first day, the German club Mouz led by their big cousin Kerrigan, but due to the presence of the world's No. 1 players of the year, Spicy Mountain Cannon and Cyber Girl, no one dares to underestimate them.

AS FOR GROUP B, THEY WERE LED BY SWEDISH PYJAMA NINJAS AND FNC, DANISH STAR ASTRAILS, FRENCH BEES AND FINNISH SKATE ENCE.

Sure enough, the day before the game, Lip, Niko, and the rain god were pulled in for another interview, this time supposedly in the middle of the field.

But it's still a cliché, and at most a whole link has been added, and Li Pu was asked what the lineup in his mind would be.

In the current situation of only active players, Li Pu said with a smile, "Divais, Niko, Sen Po, me and Zaiwu. ”

"So who's going to be in command?"

"Me." Li Pu is the best, if he can really achieve this lineup, he is confident that he will bring out a real result that has never been seen before or since.

"It seems that Neo's job is not guaranteed, and you still have the idea of being a conductor."

The host Mae looked at the joke, judging from the self-made vlog of the Prickly Kran team and the disclosed team voice, Prickly Kran is more like a team with two conductors, in addition to Neo, Lipp will also say a few words, plus the Bosnian interjects from time to time, the two people add up to one conductor.

"Why not pick a traditional conductor? Like Grevu, like Neo, like Kerrigan, and so on. The moderator continued to dig into Lipp's answer.

"Because in my career plan, there is a stage to be a conductor, but not now. All of the above people are successful people, they have all realized their value in this field, and I want to stand side by side with them, so this choice is to brag about myself. Well, it's simple, that's right. ”

After the interview, Lipp and the other two brothers returned to the hotel exhausted, in fact, it could be more tiring for them than a match.

……

The next day, at around 10 a.m., Lip and his brothers arrived at the studio set up offline, and like other ESL events, the group stage was like this, and only when they reached the actual knockout stage would they go to the LANXESS Arena in Cologne to feel the atmosphere of the scene.

However, the admiring fans still surrounded the entrance of the hotel studio in the group stage, even if they couldn't enter the venue to cheer on their favorite players.

After Li Pu signed the last Chinese fan studying in Germany, he walked into the computer room separated by a board, and heard the excited Maozi shouting, it was the voice of the mountain cannon and Yakenda, and this was the loudest among them.

It seemed that he had won, and Lipp put his things in place, picked up his phone and looked at the results, and sure enough, the natural winner won the full thirty rounds with a score of sixteen to fourteen to defeat the mouse on the train.

Even though Frozen, Woxic and De Jong played well, the rats were still a little bit of luck and personal ability in the face of the all-out soldiers, as well as the natural winner who cut down the 1.53 rating and trained the spicy mountain cannon of the cadet Estonian boxer Ropz.

"Niko! Olaf! Rain God! Are you all right..."

Everyone was wearing peripherals, and there was a melon dot with a greasy hairstyle and a little fat in front of him, wearing a team uniform that had been prepared for him by liquid and sold on the official website for two months, and came to say hello to his old teammates, smiling, it seems that the team has just won the first round of BO1.

Guagua, in a liquid team uniform? This really gave Lipp a bizarre feeling, and under the butterfly effect, he didn't even get his own natural winner of the CIS Palace, and went straight to North America, which is considered the ultimate retirement home by most European pros.

"Brother Pu! Wuhu! Come on! Goodbye in the upper bracket finals. The hairstylist also came to say hello, he was followed by a chicken, both of them looked proud, it seemed that as teammates, Guagua's thick accented English did not cause them much trouble.

"So eating the Dingshan cannon?" Their opponent in the next round of BO3 is the CIS team that has a lot of noise just now, Li Pu can't help but doubt it, after all, the natural winner at this point in the previous life was the fat ball booml4 to participate, and the effect was average, and now it is the Latvian madman Yakenda, and the performance of this BO1 guy just now is worse than that of the twin stars.

Hearing this, a chicken laughed unkindly, "There's no reason to lose, it's always us who win them." Lipp, win the showdown, and hopefully the final battle will be between our two teams. ”

"Yes, but don't we really need to ask the other teams if they agree? Hahaha~" Lip's eyes were blazing, and the position of one of the parties had been locked by him, no matter who the opponent was, he and Crane would go to the final stage.

It was only after the greetings had gone that Lip and his brothers began to debug the machine that would be used for the game at one o'clock in the afternoon.

"Try the computer and go have a meal." Neo said that he didn't feel much about these junior players, and as a remnant of the old era, it was not easy to be able to board a galactic battleship like Prickly Crane in the new era, and he just wanted to fight.

In order to ensure that they did not get sleepy during the game, Li Pu and his brothers ate almost exactly the same amount for lunch, some fruit salad and a small piece of bread.

Soon, Lipu, who had abused so many professional players at the indoor table tennis table, was told that their game would start in half an hour.

"Let you go first, and we'll continue to play when I come back."

The blood was surging, the sweat was slightly dripping from the skin, Li Pu wiped it with a towel, the cells in his whole body were mobilized in the exercise just now, and now he was ready to calm down and go to the game.

"Welcome to the first round of Group A at ESLONE Cologne, which consists of Crane the Prickly and the Cowboys, and I'm commentator Masisi."

"I'm the commentator MO!"

"I'm assistant Tomorrow Sunny."

"The map is the desert maze mirage, and the prickly crane starts with the defender first."

"In the pistol bureau, Niko and Lipp are so bold in the middle of the lane? Area A was handed over to the rain god to guard alone. ”

"But the bandits are fighting in Area B, and flashbangs and people go out directly! There is no sheep attack and other deceptions, it is just hard fighting, typical Australian CS style. ”

[NEO killed JKS with a USP silenced headshot]

"B Neo started the first kill, fighting and retreating, but here Olaf has been posted on the periphery of the bag point, and the attacker has not fully deployed, will this point still be searched?"

[olofmeister killed Gratisfa with a USP silenced headshot]

[olofmeister killed jkaem with a USP silenced headshot]

"Generous Crab! The people who searched the point were shot, and the people next to the bandits who were under the bag were also shaken to death, Olaf! ”

[xe killed AZR with USP silenced headshot]

Lip, who rushed out with Neo from B Small, also shook his hand, shook his head with the crosshair, and took away an enemy, which was easy to write.

[Liazz killed olofmeister with a Glock headshot]

"Riaz killed one person, but there should be no follow-up, the back road on the second floor of Niko is already in place, and Harry Potter is difficult to fly~"

[rain killed Liazz with a USP silenced headshot]

"One to zero, in addition to the reason why the cowboy is too simple, there is also the fact that the marksmanship on the side of the prickly crane is too accurate."

About half an hour later.

"Let's congratulate Crane on winning 16-10 and advancing to the next round."

Packing up what belonged to him on the table, Lip shook hands with his teammates one by one, and he and Niko were firing on fire, with explosions of 1.37 and 1.41 respectively.

The first day of the game was over, and Lipp put the peripherals and miscellaneous items in his backpack and looked at the captain Neo who was walking towards the players' passage, "Neo, shall we go, or shall we stay here and watch for a while?" ”

"Hold on a little longer, who's going to win next door?" Neo thought for a moment and said, he just got the phone back and hadn't turned it on yet, so he didn't know what was going on, and he could only judge the situation on their side by the roar of the Brazilians just now.

"EG won, small score crushing, just like us. No, faster than us. The Bosnian said while surfing, "Are Sek and Tariq so good?" And Blazer, how do you lose with three points and five ratings? ”

"That's true." Olaf and the rain god also came together.

Then, everyone sat in the common lounge hall and watched the game on the big screen for about two hours.

The winners of the first round of Group B were Team A, the Swedish duo and the heroic of the Big Blame F, but the surprise was the defeat of the Bees and the Finnish team ENCE.

But Lipp, who watched the game the whole time, just wanted to say that it was not for nothing that ENCE lost to heroic, except for Aru and conductor Alexpi, the rest of the three brothers played very poorly.

As for the little bees, the loss of the state of the load is the reason for their loss, and without one of them, how can the team win when a player of this level can only cut 1.

This may have something to do with the British conductor, who cut down the 1.28-rating ALEX, but who knows?

Lip prefers to believe that it is the former.

However, the reason why Pajama Ninja was able to win was also because of Lock and the explosion of the elderly twin stars Kerry.

After a while, the team contacted the car and sent everyone back to the hotel where they were staying, and after studying the opponents of the knockout round, the most important thing was to study their opponent tomorrow - the evil genius EG.

Now their squad is promising, and Lipp does not dare to underestimate them, even if he always wins against them.

"Now to page 93 of the Tactics Manual...", in the training room, the analyst began to teach Lipp and his brothers what he had researched, about the regular and unconventional tactics of the EG, as well as about their specific positions and various item packages.

Even though this is something that Li Pu was exposed to during the training camp, it still feels a bit redundant, because the text always can't reflect that kind of picture sense well, but there is no way, this is the preparation to be done before the game.

Now to prepare more so that you can suffer less during the game, no one understands this truth.

Of course, Lip also had some running chart training with his brothers in the evening.

On match day, their training match is to find the rat who fell out of the lower bracket, because the big cousin has a good relationship with Prickly Kran, and because the two teams have no direct interest at present, the German club readily agreed, they are extremely eager to play at the home stadium of the LANXESS Stadium, and for this goal, it is also good for them to agree to play a training match with the current No. 1 hard power favorite.