CS: You are only 16 years old, and you want me to make a comeback?

Chapter 250 Taz: "I also have the potential to become a top commander!"

The relaxing time during the offseason always makes people lazy, but the vacation is just to prevent the tight string from breaking.

Even for Jiang Yang and his group of young people, the amount of training before Antwerp and during the competition schedule was too much.

Rest is quite necessary at this time.

According to Pasha, their level (muscles) at this stage has reached its limit, and they need more rest to allow their bodies to adapt to this level.

Only by maintaining a stable level can we have the possibility of further progress.

As the Major champion, GL can have more rest privileges, but other teams are not so easy.

At the end of May, the IEM Dallas competition officially started.

The IEM series of cup events has always been one of the important events in CSGO.

Even though the prize money for Dallas this time is only 25 US dollars, which is not very high overall, it is an opportunity to prove themselves for teams that changed their lineup after losing the Major, teams that were unable to participate in the Major due to special reasons, and teams that want to avenge their previous shame.

There is a short offseason after the Major, and this is also the first event after the offseason, attracting the attention of many viewers.

2 strong teams including Faze, G9, Furia, C16, Vitality, Astralis, Liquid and others participated in this IEM Dallas.

Netizens felt it was a pity that GL failed to participate, but the participating teams in this event are still numerous strong teams and the quality of the competition is quite good.

It’s just that the Entropiq and Navi teams were unable to participate due to visa issues, so Big and MR served as substitutes.

Even so, Galaxie, who experienced a second regret after the Major, G2, who are struggling, Inspur, who are rebuilding their international lineup, and C9, which is still in the process of adjustments, are all teams to look forward to.

Among them, Faze, G2, Little Bees and Team A are among the favorites to win the championship.

"But who could have thought that C9 would win the championship in the end?" Siuhy was deeply moved when he saw C9 holding the trophy under the golden rain.

"This IEM Dallas is really a bit magical. At first, everyone thought the final would be between Faze and C9. Who could have thought that it would be between C and ENCE?"

siuhy really feels that this game is becoming more and more incomprehensible.

They had just returned from a one or two day vacation, and had been adjusting to the jet lag and doing recovery training during those two days. A group of them just happened to watch the IEM Dallas finals.

I never expected the final to have such a result.

"Although the overall quality of this event is not that high, C9 has indeed returned to the state of a T1-level team like before in Red Star." IM feels that C9 has returned to its peak.

He looked at Jiang Yang and smiled, "Are you inspired by this guy? Ah Le scored a rating of 1.36 in this competition."

As a breakthrough player for Red Star, Ale has a rating of 1.36 in all tournaments, which is already a very strong statistic.

You have to know that the breakthrough player is responsible for opening up the situation. If he can produce such data, the other four players of C9 can easily take over the tasks in the mid-game or endgame.

There were even some special rounds where Ale basically just rushed in and killed everyone, leaving opponents in other areas no room to return to defend.

If the team still cannot get good results even with a breakthrough player like this, it only means that the mid- and late-stage abilities of the other players are really too poor.

"Ale has always been pretty strong." Jiang Yang said, "There was a period of time before when fans were asking Ale and NIKO to compete for the title of the world's best on the forum."

"That's a bit exaggerated." Ultraman, who was eating a small cake, also joined the microphone, "With NIKO's level, basically no one can shake his position as the world's number one rifleman now."

He thinks the five best players in the world right now are Yang, Zai, Sen, Ni and Che.

Among them, Jiang Yang, Zaiwu and Senpo are all-round players and do not participate in the competition for riflemen.

Ropz is a unique free agent, and his strength lies more in his thinking.

As a pure rifleman, he felt that NIKO was incredibly strong.

If riflemen have a hexagonal ability chart, then NIKO has reached the top in almost every item, and his pre-aim is off the charts.

Ultraman was a sniper before, and he just thought NIKO's rifle was very powerful. But after transforming into a rifleman in the past few months, he really realized how exaggerated NIKO's skills were.

He then looked at the guy next to him who was eating rice crust.

Well, this guy is scarier.

If it hadn't become a professional, I would just wonder how Jiang Yang could kill so well.

But once you become a professional, you will find it even more difficult to understand Jiang Yang's exaggerated details and how he could think and process to that extent.

After the Antwerp Major ended, GL actually communicated with Ultraman, saying that several teams wanted to buy him and asked for his opinion.

Even when he proposed to be a sniper, several teams agreed and were willing to let him come for a trial.

But Ultraman did not give a definite answer, because he suddenly thought:
If he changed teams, with his current sniper rifle skills against Jiang Yang, what chances would he have of winning?
All he could think of was adding himself to the "Collection of Professional Players Who Were Made Funny by Young".

Even if he just thought about and simulated the game in his mind, he could feel the pressure coming towards him.

So he finally decided to think about it again.

If you follow Jiang Yang, your future results will definitely be good.

But he is also young, and he also wants to enjoy the honor of Jiang Yang, and he also wants to become stronger.

At least, I won’t be the worst person in my memory.

The GL members didn't know what Ultraman was thinking at the moment, and their topic was more about the IEM Dallas game.

"Ale was really strong during the online period, but he never adapted to the offline period." IM recalled, "It was mainly because of his injuries. Didn't you notice that Ale has gained a lot of weight recently? It seems to be due to his liver disease."

"I thought the food got better after joining C9." Ultraman sighed, "I hope we can all stay healthy and avoid injuries."

Siuhy turned the topic to NIKO again: "Speaking of which, G2 was really interesting this time. They played very abstractly throughout the entire IEM Dallas."

"As expected of G2, haha."

Jiang Yang was speechless when thinking about G2's performance in this tournament: "G2 did learn from the lessons of the Major and made some overall adjustments."

"But the problem is that Choke has too many problems."

"I laughed when we played against ENCE. The score was 14:16 in both maps. It was so choking."

Sometimes Jiang Yang really wondered if there was something wrong with the feng shui of the G2 team.

Other teams may also experience choke situations. After all, sometimes morale in a game is extremely important. If the opponent gets the rhythm, it is inevitable to feel pressure and fall into a negative cycle.

But G2 chokes too often.

"We didn't expect that he couldn't even beat the weakened ENCE." The current head coach Ash also laughed.

G2 had played quite well in the first few rounds, and just when G2 fans were full of expectations for them, waiting for G2 to make a strong comeback in the offline stage.

G2 pulled a big one on them.

The ENCE team, a gun man team, actually had one less person in Dallas this time after spinX was demoted.

"What do you mean we can't even beat ENCE?" Pasha was unhappy. "Aren't our old teammates strong?"

"That's definitely not the case. We made it to the semi-finals. How can we not be strong?" Ash replied.

There's also something about Pasha and Snax involved.

When ENCE was in Dallas, they were short of players and had no substitute, so they found Pasha and asked him to recommend an experienced old Deng as a substitute.

Pasha recommended his former commander NEO to ENCE.

NEO was once a famous god of war in CSGO and the commander of VP at that time.

The old VP players have kept in touch after retiring. NEO saw Pasha and Snax enjoying a second spring in the arena and also expressed the desire to come back.

Pasha took this opportunity to bring NEO back into the circle.

Although NEO's personal ability is a bit weak, he does have sufficient experience.

This time he was forced to be a substitute at ENCE. Neither ENCE nor the old VP expected that they could achieve anything with this weakened team.

But they didn't expect that in the end, this remaining team would actually make it to the semi-finals.

This immediately led netizens to discuss the old VP group.

Now everyone has started to make fun of whether VP's orthodoxy is in GL or ENCE.

Even Taz, the protagonist of the "Mercedes-Benz incident", an old teammate of theirs, began to ask Pasha if they had other opportunities and whether they could recommend him.

All of Taz's former teammates have started to make a comeback, and his Mercedes-Benz is getting old. Now he feels that he is capable enough, so he plans to return to the court to earn a new one.

However, he also knew that his personal ability was not very good, but he felt that he had a good understanding of the game and had the potential to become a good general, so he asked Pasha and Snax to help keep an eye out for any command work.

It’s just that we don’t know how much gas is left in Taz’s Mercedes tank, and Pasha and Snax haven’t recommended a job to him yet.

"ENCE's performance this time is a pleasant surprise, but NEO is just a substitute this time. They will probably find a coaching job later." Pasha said.

"Otherwise, he can go to G2 to be the commander, after all, he was the commander in NEO before." Pasha murmured, "I just don't know if NEO has any idea of ​​going back to be the commander." "Leo is going to be kicked out?" IM was a little confused.

Pasha shook his head: "But considering G2's current state, I feel it's only a matter of time before Leo gets kicked out. I feel like there's something wrong with Leo's command."

He is not a person who likes to believe in the community's comments, but after leaving ENCE, Leo has been in several teams but has not achieved any outstanding results.

Before, it could be said that the team lacked firepower, but now with G2 and the Kovic brothers on the team, the firepower is quite sufficient.

Under such circumstances, G2's performance was quite unstable, and even their performance in the game was not outstanding.

There is no tactics, no firepower, and even the choke problem exists.

It's really hard not to doubt Leo's command ability.

IM also added: "I think it won't be long before someone from G2 comes out and says 'Leonardo will just let us do the default'."

This sentence is also a meme.

Being in a commanding position, most of the time one actually wants to have everything under control.

Mid-term decision-making is also the part that best demonstrates command ability. When there are not so many established tactics, the default is the most reasonable way to play.

But after Leo left his previous team, he was always revealed that he liked to let his teammates follow his will and that they all thought he had no tactics.

At this time, everyone in the room turned their eyes to Jiang Yang. As someone who had briefly been in the G2 lineup, Jiang Yang had the most say.

"Little Leo's command ability is actually not bad." Jiang Yang glanced at Siuhy who pretended to be indifferent, "It's just that his style is not suitable for me."

As soon as he finished speaking, siuhy's expression instantly turned from cloudy to sunny, with a smile on his face.

"His command style is quite strict, which doesn't give the players much room to play." Jiang Yang thought for a while, "He is actually more suitable for a team with an academic style of play like Heroic."

Siuhy is actually the conductor of the academic style of play, but in the process of getting along with Jiang Yang, he gradually gave Jiang Yang more authority and was willing to believe in Jiang Yang's personal abilities, gradually transforming himself into the academic style conductor who tends to use muscle.

But Leo has not yet found a comfortable position between the academic and muscular styles.

G2 entered a honeymoon period at the beginning because the firepower of Leo's system of play suddenly became stronger, making it difficult for the first-line teams to adapt.

But after fighting a few times, everyone found out that Leo only had a few tricks and started targeting him.

G2's firepower points were really targeted in this way, and the problem of incompatibility between the system and the players' styles was exposed.

"NIKO and his group all have outstanding individual abilities. Leo's style of play has reduced their freedom. Although the lower limit has been raised, the upper limit has indeed been constrained."

“I think their styles don’t match.”

Sometimes it’s not that there’s a problem between Leo and the G2 team, it’s just that their styles are not suitable, which makes it difficult to play.

There is even a situation where 1+1<2.

Ash looked at Jiang Yang: "Then how do you think G2 can solve its own problems?"

Jiang Yang's gaming IQ has always been relatively novel, and often gives them new ideas. He wanted to see some of Jiang Yang's ideas about G2's current situation.

"The simplest thing is to just replace Leo and let a commander who can give them more freedom take over this mess."

"Or, we can strengthen the team. On the basis of Leo's set that can maintain the lower limit, we can increase the team's firepower and use the firepower to raise the upper limit. This way, NIKO and the others can play more comfortably, and maybe there will be a better chemistry."

GL and the others fell silent.

I don’t know why I suddenly thought of Genting.

G2's current lineup is equivalent to being stuck at the second or third stage. There are problems with the operation of this lineup, which makes the core big C unable to deal damage and unable to persist to the last round.

Jiang Yang's idea is to either change to a suitable lineup to trigger the bond, so that the whole team can be revitalized and create a chemical reaction.

Or you can just be simple and brute-force and buy some high-cost cards to enhance your combat effectiveness and raise your stats.

As long as the front row can hold on long enough, the output from the back row will definitely be enough.

This idea is indeed unique enough.

"But how should I put it? Sometimes I feel like NIKO lacks that bit of energy." IM raised his eyebrows. "I made major mistakes twice before the finals."

“Actually, he is the Electronic Brother, but his S1mple has not grown up yet.”

When it comes to NIKO, there is always regret.

As the best rifleman in the world, it is ultimately difficult to compete with a sniper.

In addition, he always performs poorly in the finals, which makes his past accompanied by many regrets.

Although m0nesy's performance this year is eye-catching and he has enough explosive power, he has a sufficient ceiling.

But anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was not stable enough.

Not to mention that IM's reference is Jiang Yang.

m0nesy's sniper is fast and quick, his simple guns always miss, he tends to make small mistakes at critical moments, and he occasionally turns invisible.

These shortcomings are magnified countless times in the eyes of IM.

"This shot of Yang will definitely not go in vain..."

This is a sentence IM often says when watching G2 games.

However, Jiang Yang thinks that m0nesy may not be NIKO's S1mple.

If he had the chance, he really wanted to team up with Lao Ni again.

By then, NIKO will have a sniper he can trust.

I don’t know if there will be such an opportunity.

"Except for us, it seems like every team is adjusting their own problems." Pasha smiled at Snax.

Snax rolled his eyes. "You're making it seem like we don't have any problems. We tried to train for a whole day yesterday, but the communication was so awkward. It's like we've lost all the tacit understanding we had before. If you have any good ideas, please share them."

"We will also be appearing in the Blast Spring Finals soon."

Although they were unable to participate in the IEM Dallas after the Major, as the Major champion in Antwerp, GL was directly invited by Blast to participate in the upcoming Blast Spring Finals.

The Blast series of events is quite interesting.

Because the competition is mainly based on an invitation system, they do not have to participate in a long group stage, but can directly fight against various strong teams right from the start.

The game is not far away from starting. GL, who just returned from the break, needs to get into training and start to adjust his level back to normal.

However, after the personnel arrived one after another, they conducted a day of trial training yesterday, but the results were not ideal.

The training results were okay, but when reviewing the game, I found that although there was still some tacit understanding, there was no sense of unity when playing.

This is the first problem they face after the offseason.

Pasha gave his own opinion: "I think it's because I rested for too long and I haven't adapted to the training state for a while. I just need to train hard for a few days to adapt."

"You are mistaking training for fitness again, right?" Snax was speechless about his friend.

Siuhy recalled what he did in the Mouz period: "How about we find some time to go out together for a couple of days? Just get used to each other's presence."

IM objected: "Forget it. I was dragged out to play every day when I was resting. I was eager to come back for training, but now I have to go out again?"

Even Ultraman couldn't cast a vote.

Team building is a good idea, and Jiang Yang has also asked some other professional players about it.

After they come back from the offseason, the first thing they do is usually go for team building.

For example, Faze will go swimming together, and the little bees like to play football or watch football games together.

GL is a makeshift team. If it were before, why would we care about these things? If we don't feel anything when practicing, we can just practice for a while longer.

But now they are a championship team and they have more room for independent management.

If some people don’t want to go out, team building cannot be carried out.

How to solve the problem of communication tacit understanding has become a big problem.

At this moment, Jiang Yang suddenly had an idea: "Hey, I have an idea!"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to Jiang Yang.

"How about we shoot a live video?"

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(End of this chapter)