The first round of the group stage of the IEM Cologne Play-in Tournament was finally completed at 9 p.m. China time.

Sixteen teams, eight games, and only Astralis against 00Nation was the only one that caused an upset.

00Nation, a Brazilian second-tier team led by Leng Shen, accidentally executed Team A with marksmanship in the Desert Maze.

Unlike the previous BLAST, which had eight teams participating, IEM Cologne had a full twenty-four teams participating, including the teams in the play-in.

The total prize of 1 million US dollars is a full 600,000 dollars higher than the total prize money of BLAST.

As for the team that wins the championship, it will win the championship prize of 400,000 dollars.

And it will be the last World Series before the long offseason.

Almost all the strong teams are already gearing up for this IEM Cologne competition, eager to try.

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It has only been half a month since the last international tournament BLAST, but because of Vitality's victory, the enthusiasm of domestic players for the competition is still rising.

Before the second round of the tournament began, players on the major community forums began to predict the form of promotion for the Play-In Tournament.

[The little bees should advance steadily, and then play the Spanish team, there is no big problem. 】

[What about Tianlu? In the next game, you will play the Brazilian team MIBR, and even if you win, you have to play the loser of MOUZ and Heroic, and you will be honored in advance! 】

[What's going on with Team A, why doesn't k0nfig kill people when they are polite? ] And this Farlig has become a weak brother again? 】

[Of the four ancient sniper gods, my A team has two exclusively, Lucky, Farlig, and they belong to the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks. 】

[The former king A team can't beat the second line of Brazil now, and people can't help but sigh that the throne will eventually decay. 】

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Vitality Training Room.

"When communicating, try to ditch French and Danish."

Zonic looked at the five team members in front of him who were warming up for the evening game, and spoke slowly.

Although the Bees have won all the way from BLAST Lisbon to the present, Zonic knows that there are still many problems to be solved in the team.

One of the most critical points is still the communication problem within the team.

Even though most of the players communicate in English, a small number of endgame players may still speak their native language.

The more complex and chaotic the situation, the greater the communication problems of the team members.

Thinking of this, Zonic emphasized again, "Whether it's apEX and ZywOo playing the endgame, or Adu and the demon boy playing the endgame, if you can use English, you must use English." ”

"Sticking to English makes communication smoother so that people don't get confused with each other, and that's a habit that has to be adjusted."

Qin Feng nodded approvingly.

A large part of the reason why the Tianlu team has not been run-in well for four years is that the language used by the team members to communicate is too mixed.

Four Chinese players and one Indonesian player will communicate in three different languages during each match:

Chinese, English, Tianlu.

Vitality can't afford to repeat the mistakes of Tianlu no matter what.

The rest of the team also nodded.

Only apEX, looking at the honest ZywOo beside him, sighed imperceptibly.

The international column, although the overall strength of Vitality has been greatly strengthened, has also made ZywOo, a genius who is good at collecting information and making judgments, fall into some kind of shackles.

The only thing to be thankful for is probably the change of ZywOo's position, and the person who eats the most information has changed from ZywOo to Qin Feng.

……

At 8:20 local time in Cologne, the group winners' bracket, Vitality and Movistar Riders, finally began.

When it comes to the MRS team, the most impressive thing for Chinese audiences is probably the picture of the team relying on overtime to eliminate Tyloo in the PGL Major at the end of 21.

However, as a professional team, Vitality naturally knows that the Spanish dark horse in front of him should not be underestimated.

In the just-concluded ESL challenger Valencia competition, MRS went all the way and beat the old powerhouse Outsiders to win the championship.

In the BP phase of the map, the two sides did not make any surprising choices.

The three maps are: the Death Mansion chosen by MRS, the Death Amusement Park chosen by Little Bees, and the Desert Maze with the reserved map.

And this game is much harder than all the fans who support Vitality imagined.

In the first picture, the Death Building, the little bee chose the defender to start, and in the first game, ZywOo and Qin Feng made four kills, easily winning the pistol game.

MRS's strong start failed, and the score came to 3-0.

However, in the first spear game, MRS completed the counterattack against the little bee, easily shredding the B area bag defended by Adu and the magic man, and completed the placement of the mine bag without dropping one person.

Qin Feng and ZywOo didn't have much chance to defend themselves, so they could only choose to come to the A area with apEX to keep the guns in their hands.

As for the next round, the two big snipers saved by Vitality played a role, directly blossoming at each point, instantly crushing MRS's default attack.

The score was then stretched all the way to 6-1 by Vitality.

After a pause, the MRS crowd adjusted their thinking and put the main direction of attack on the B area covered by the demon boy and Adu.

As several waves of MRS accelerated bombs made gains in the B area, the situation on the field became anxious for a while.

Vitality was unable to extend their first-half lead in the end.

10-5, Vitality went into the second half with a five-point advantage.

As for the second half, MRS finally showed their resilience as a defender.

Relying on SunPayus' brilliant sniping performance, the score was once chased to 14-14.

However, in the twenty-ninth round of the game, the offensive sniper rifle in Qin Feng's hand finally played again.

A wave of endgame three kills allowed the little bees to get a crucial point, and also completely collapsed the economy of MRS in the final round.

At 15-14, MRS called a timeout, and the director took advantage of the timeout to give the game replay screen.

The apEX in the shot actually took the initiative to pull the line of Qin Feng's sniper rifle.

[Ye Qingjie, before apEX pulled the gun for the big sweet potato, and now apEX pulls the gun for God A, is this still the little bee I know? 】

engulf

[You don't understand this, right?,apEX This wave of road has widened.,I know how to play this game thoroughly.] 】

[I really can't accept it, it seems that a few months ago, ZywOo used to take the curry by himself, and then his teammates used AK. 】

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At the end of the short timeout, MRS, who forced the mix, finally failed to withstand ZywOo's AK breakthrough, and unfortunately lost 14-16 to his own map selection and death building.

As for the second picture, Death Amusement Park, the play of the little bee attacker was not ideal.

The speed at which people are dropped by default still can't catch up with Qin Feng's speed of finding an opportunity to kill with a sniper rifle.

But fortunately, thanks to several waves of speed-up, Vitality still got a valuable five points in the first half.

In the second half, the Bees' double sniper defense was effective, even after losing the pistol game, it was still difficult to overtake the score.

In the MRS player seat, SunPayus, the sniper in the team, suddenly lost his mind.

Obviously, his sniper rifle is in good condition today, but a monster has emerged from the opposite side.

Aether, 24-13, is a perfect continuation of the amazing performance in the BLAST series.

What about the little bees who said that they didn't train before the game?

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.

Figure 2: MRS failed to take advantage of the advantage and eventually lost a 14-16 victory.

Qin Feng's data in this game can still only be described as terrifying.

The two pictures have 47 kills and 29 deaths, a KAST of 91.7, a Rating of 1.55, and an ADR of 99.6.

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As for the little bee won, shortly after the victory, on the morning of July 6, Huaguo time.

When the day was just white, Qin Feng's father, Qin Dong, got up early to drink a glass of water, and flipped through the battle report of Cologne on his mobile phone.

In the six months that Qin Feng took a leave of absence to play CSGO career, although Qin Dong almost never took the initiative to call and chat with Qin Feng, he actually paid attention to the news in the CSGO community every day.

I hope that my son will become a dragon, and I hope that my daughter will become a phoenix.

It should be the wish of every parent to hope that their children will make a difference and that their children will get ahead.

Qin Dong is naturally no exception.

The only pity is that most CSGO matches are played late at night in China due to the time difference, which makes Qin Dong rarely have the opportunity to watch the live broadcast of Vitality games.

However, looking at the title of "Champion Yu Wei is still there, Vitality2-0 MRS is difficult to win", Qin Dong still nodded with satisfaction.

Do you still need to watch Vitality's games? Wake up to another victory!

Of course, Qin Dong naturally watched a lot of his son's highlights on major video websites.

Netizens even sorted out a hexagonal panel according to the data according to the performance of the players in various competitions.

As for the players who don't play well, they are:

[Pay attention to the factory entry time panel]

【Beaten panel】

[Find a class panel]

【Passing Sailor Panel】

[Whose general's panel is this]

If it's the big brother in the team, that's:

【Platinum Star Panel】

【Hexagonal Warrior Panel】

【Where did the small generation panel come from】

As for the comments under Qin Feng's panel......

[All stand up!] 】

[The tip of the pyramid, the solution of the equation!] 】

[A god, the man who cleared the CSGO! ] 】

[The screen is too small to fit the panel!] 】

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