On the eve of the IEM Cologne Entry Tournament.

After the Vitality group came to the scene in Cologne, Germany, they still had a short training camp, and prepared for the first meeting with the Tyloo team with a little casualness.

The resort's designers were surprisingly diligent and released a brief balance patch for BLAST in mid-June: reducing the M4A1's silencing magazine to 20 rounds and expanding the reserve from 75 to 80 rounds.

The firearm that dominated CSGO for nine months has finally ushered in the first wave of nerfs after a massive boost.

However, the weakening of M4A1 is much more acceptable to people than the previous changes to UMP-45, AUG and SG-553.

It only reduces the clip capacity, and does not make a major cut in terms of rate of fire, damage, and trajectory.

In a sense, this seemingly fatal weakening will still not affect the M4A1 to continue to be a popular choice for CT.

Whether it's slightly more damage than the M4A4 or a lower price than the M4A4, the vast majority of pros will continue to favor this cheap and reliable firearm.

In Vitality, ZywOo has always used M4A4 without mentioning it, and the rest of the team still uses M4A1 as their choice.

If there is one that has been most affected, it is probably those players who have collected a lot of M4A1 skins.

Almost not long after the balance patch was updated, the price of the M4A1 gun skin on major markets and trading platforms began to usher in a wave of large-scale collapse.

……

July 5th.

The opening match of the IEM Cologne Play-in Tournament starts at 5 p.m.

Three matches started at the same time, namely Heroiouz, who was joined by jabbi, and Spirit, who was departed by paier, and COL, led by Junior.

Of course, more than that, most Chinese viewers are more focused on the third-round match between Tyloo and Vitality.

Even though the two teams still have a lot of time to play, the barrage and rhythm are already flooding the live stream on the main stage.

[Hit the little bees? Then can I open "Rong" in advance? 】

[I suggest that Tyloo still find some domestic youngsters, it's time for the Indonesian big brother to go.] 】

[Four years, is it so difficult to learn Chinese? ] Don't you even have the most basic attitude when you come to Tyloo? If you look at Doinb next door, after three years of learning Chinese, he has already reached the level of "Chinese Level 10". 】

[Don't be embarrassed, the eldest brother mainly wants his teammates to learn English, so that he can adapt to the environment of going abroad to play in the future, and he understands but doesn't understand. 】

[Direct "Rong" or go through the process? ] 】

[Should I support Aether or Tyloo now, I'm in a hurry, online, etc.] 】

……

On the other side, shortly before the game, in the training room of Team Vitality.

Zonic looked at ZywOo, who was a little pale, and couldn't help but be a little worried.

Shortly after the rest of the team arrived in Cologne, Germany, the star of the team was not in great shape.

According to the doctor, at least during the entire period of IEM Cologne, ZywOo's state will be affected to a greater or lesser extent.

"Aether, this tournament may be a lot more difficult than the previous BLAST." Zonic paced around the training room for a long time, and finally came to Qin Feng's back and patted him on the shoulder.

The psychological construction of the players is undoubtedly a very crucial part off the field.

Even though Vitality has a professional counselor on the team, Zonic still wants to give the talented sniper who has just joined the team a full dose of vaccinations in advance.

The higher a player is praised, the worse he will be fallen.

Even the geniuses ZywOo and s1mple are still nicknamed "FywOo" and "people".

Qin Feng smiled shyly, as if he was not under much psychological pressure.

"Don't worry, Coach."

"The requirements of Huaguo's sailors are not so strict."

"And I don't pay attention to comments that are too negative."

Zonic nodded, "It's best if you think so, at least we have a lot of opportunities to adjust before the main event of the IEM starts." ”

……

It was early eight o'clock in the evening.

In the 6657 live broadcast room, the adults who played with the machine finally helped the sailors open the last weapon box, and ended hastily with the tragic record of blue sky and white clouds.

"Ahem, brothers, let's cut to the pure stream screen and wait for the next game."

"I'm very nervous right now, and I'm not in the mood to continue helping my brothers open boxes."

"Let's take a look at the BP of these two teams first."

"Tianlu's head BAN nuclear crisis, the little bee's head BAN ancient ruins, there's nothing to say."

"Tyloo second BAN gave Purgatory Town. Time has passed, and there was a time when this picture was called the town of Tyloo. ”

"The little bee watched Tyloo's previous fight with MIBR on Sha Er, did you directly BAN drop Sha Er?"

"Then Tianlu BAN the building, and the little bee BAN the desert maze."

"In the end, the choice of the picture was decided at the amusement park of death."

"This BP seems a little weird."

"You must know that in the previous BLAST finals, Aether played a lot of wonderful operations on Shaji and rice garbage."

[If Tyloo can get five points, I won't brush "Rong"! ] 】

Who are we, brothers? We are born to be a proud family! 】

[How about I brush 10 planes for the anchor if I win?] 】

[If you don't want to brush, you can not brush, it's not necessary.] 】

[Fast forward to Guanshan and difficult to cross. 】

[Give up illusions and prepare for Kairong!] 】

[Tyloo is still glorious even if he loses, and he has been invincible in advance. 】

……

IEM Cologne play-in in the offline studio.

Qin Feng in the player's seat rubbed his shoulders, and when the preparation time of the pistol bureau was over, he manipulated the characters in his game to walk towards the A small point in the amusement park.

"Three A and two B front top reconnaissance is enough, there is no need to retreat to the back to defend Tyloo, if Aether doesn't see anyone, go around the back directly." apEX didn't have any special tactics in place.

Qin Feng did not make a mistake, and walked from A to the balloon position to set up the position of the bandit's mouth.

The attacker was in the first DANK1NG, and he just moved his head to Qin Feng's crosshairs.

"Smack." There was a crisp sound from USP.

[Kills Tyloo with a USP headshot.DANK1NG]

"There should be more bandits."

After Qin Feng finished speaking, he jumped off the balloon position and came to the toilet door to continue to stand the fountain.

"How to say, here God A observes one second first, retreats to the door of the toilet and continues to set up the exit point of the fountain position."

"The bandit planned to go to God A for the second time, and knocked on the head to make God A run away."

"But ZywOo and Adu's big forward press took away the Summer of the amusement park."

"In a 3-on-5 situation, put B to see the back road, and let Cabbage and SLOWLY go to find Aether who was knocked on the head."

"But B didn't break it, and the cabbage didn't fire a shot, and was killed by the bloody Aether headshot."

"It's over, only SLOWLY with a small toilet take-out bag left."

"Vitality is caught on three sides, and SLOWLY is in a dilemma."

"SLOWLY has three directions to see, the toilet outlet, the back road, and the B area package."

"apEX has returned from Area B to Area A, and has given SLOWLY a shot directly to the head."

"The game has just started thirty seconds, and the five Tianlu people on the attacking side were directly annihilated!"

Vitality easily won the pistol game, and the score came to 1-0.