CS: Demon King C, you said I was a genius?

The three-minute halftime break ended quickly.

LVG and Black Panther will decide the winner in the final half of the match.

Although winning three out of five matches is enough to qualify for the EPL main event, no one can actually guarantee who their next opponent will be or whether they will be easy to defeat.

If you accidentally lose a match, and then face a strong team in the next match, you will inexplicably be on the verge of elimination, and you will face even greater pressure in the game.

Therefore, every match is a key element for advancing. Moreover, both teams have now reached the third map, so they are naturally unwilling to give up the victory and will definitely fight with all their might in the next round.

During the final preparation time, Xigua bought two dual pistols and threw them out, one to Su Zhe and the other to Jee.

"Let's use 3B2A to hold both sides this round. A God, you and Starry go straight to Hall A at the start and try to take it down."

"Jee, you take the dual pistols and work with Xiaohua to hold B slope. As soon as I hear any noise, I'll flash from the baseline and clear out B company."

Su Zhe nodded after hearing this. On this map, he was originally responsible for controlling the mid lane and supporting A, so it was normal for him to give up control of the mid lane to support the two sides.

This way, you can get an early lead on the opponent's opening strategy and avoid falling into a passive situation again if you lose control of the map in the mid-game.

After the preparation time was over, Su Zhe put on half armor at the store, then picked up his dual pistols and headed towards bomb site A with Starry.

"The pistol round in the second half is crucial. If LVG can win the pistol round, they can widen the score gap and take the initiative in the game."

"Oh? Black Panthers have immediately bought three sets of offensive equipment and all five of them are heading straight for B door. This B bomb site is going to be a torrential downpour. Let's see how many Jee's dual pistols can hold off."

"The first and second lines have launched their offensive smoke bombs, and B slant and the Black Room have started their attacks simultaneously!"

Although it's a two-sided opening, it's definitely not possible to recklessly push forward at the start.

Jee had already positioned himself near the cover at B-slope. After seeing the first and second smokes explode simultaneously, he raised his guard to its maximum.

Suddenly, after hearing the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the dark room, he immediately shouted into the voice chat: "There are a lot of people in the dark room! They might be trying to ambush us from the other side!"

The watermelons at the first location were still blocked by smoke grenades, but after hearing Jee's message, they immediately made a decision.

"I'll clear ramp B! You guys clear the area below ramp B first!"

This set of temporary countermeasures was decisive and very effective.

As long as the bandits on the other side can be cleared out and the position on the slope can be secured, even if the bandits in the dark room enter the bomb site and complete the planting, it will be difficult for them to defend the bomb in the next moment.

"Give it to me!"

As Xigua flashed out, Jee, wielding dual pistols, immediately strode sideways. Xiaohua, who was positioned in the second groove, stopped setting up the black room and went straight out to check the position of B slant, preparing to push out with Jee to provide follow-up shots.

"The black room is coming! But Jee and Xiaohua have already decided to give up control of B site and go clear B side first!"

"The card god down the slope directly ate the white card! Jee's quick forward push caught him in the timing!"

"Take one down! And the Godfather who was there as a backup in Gate B! Oh! Jee! He caught the Godfather who came out to finish him off!"

"Nice! Great gun!" A cheer and praise came through the team voice chat.

B's successful diagonal breakthrough put them in a 5v3 advantage. Now, their priority is to avoid being killed and wait for their teammates to rotate back and surround them.

Watermelon stood behind the smoke on the first path without making a sound, and quietly made its way towards the second path.

Once the smoke from the first and second lanes clears, the second lane offers a better position to provide follow-up fire with teammates on the slope.

As he moved, he suddenly heard a gunshot to his right, and then the screen went black.

The fallen Xigua was initially stunned, but quickly realized what was happening and shouted in the voice chat, "The enemy has reached the bottom line! They might be rotating from the CT spawn to A!"

After Su Zhe and Starry pushed out of Hall A, they heard the news about the bomb at B site. At that time, neither of them knew that Jee could clear the B site without taking any damage.

They simply pushed straight ahead to the end, and by this time the two of them had already circled around from the bandit's mouth and arrived at the middle position.

"Black Panther's last-minute decision was brilliant! He silently moved, cleared out the bottom-line flower, and switched to A!"

"Now the offensive and defensive positions of both sides have been completely reversed, and LVG is also unsure where Black Panther will plant the bomb."

"Black Panther cleared out the A bomb site and planted the bomb. Now LVG's four players are heading back to defend, but they're all grouped up in the middle lane. They'll definitely have to go through VIP to flank the CT base."

"Yuurih is covering our retreat behind the VIP door; that's a really hard spot to search!"

LVG has always adhered to a conservative approach once they have a numerical advantage, which is why the four players gave up control of the map and gathered in the mid lane.

Upon hearing that the bomb had been planted at point A, Su Zhe immediately went to the donut-shaped location, but his firing line was blocked by a donut-shaped smoke grenade placed by the opponent.

'How many smoke signals did the pistol unit light?'
Su Zhe didn't expect the other side to have smoke grenades to delay their return to defense, so he shouted in the voice chat: "You three, just stick together and go back to the CT spawn. I'll wait at the donut until the smoke clears and then we'll finish them off together."

"it is good!"

After agreeing, the three of them didn't hesitate and quietly made their way towards the VIP area.

Once inside the VIP area, Jee, wielding dual pistols, didn't search the cover on his right. Fortunately, yuurih didn't wait until they were all past the point before firing.

Once Jee came into view, he shot her down with his Glock.

Starry, who is behind him and can be called the "Little Niko of CN", is naturally a skilled shooter.

After pinpointing the enemy's location, he immediately pulled out and fired a pre-emptive shot, successfully taking down yuurih.

A one-for-one exchange in terms of numbers isn't a loss for LVG, who are defending.

Starry and Xiaohua slowly made their way from the police station to point A, and the smoke from the donuts began to dissipate.

There are about 20 seconds left.
LVG didn't pick up any pincers this round. After silently calculating in his mind, Su Zhe shouted, "Find someone quickly! Time is running out!"

Knowing that time was of the essence, Starry called out, "Little Flower, come with me to clear the ruins!"

As soon as Starry turned to look at the ruins, he heard gunshots coming from Hall A behind him.

(The positions where the bandits in Hall A set up their guns ↓)
Starry was also startled and immediately dodged the line of fire. He then told Xiaohua to go check Hall A, while he took the dual pistols he had just picked up from Jee and went alone to clear the ruins.

Starry glanced around and saw that one of the people on the other side was indeed hiding in the ruins, so he immediately started firing his dual pistols like crazy.

Taking advantage of the close-range firefight with dual pistols, Starry managed to get Kye's kill while dodging and firing.

But Xiaohua, who went to Hall A, brought bad news: she was instantly killed when she peeked out from between Chelo's guns.

At this moment, Su Zhe moved from the donut section to the bread section. Hearing the increasingly rapid C4 beeping, he decisively pressed the E key and shouted, "I'll dismantle it right away! Help me set up Hall A!"

"it is good!"

After saying that, Starry did not face Hall A directly, but instead used the obstruction of the view from the cover to slowly move towards Hall A.

Sure enough, Chelo panicked after hearing the defuse sound and tried to harass the defuse operation, but the moment he moved out of his way, he saw a pair of guns pointed at him.

"Clap clap~"

Starry used dual Beretta weapons to headshot and kill chelo.

“NIce!!”

With the pistol round decided, Su Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, holding down the E key with his left hand while bumping fists with his teammate beside him with his right.

"It seems like my teammates' marksmanship has improved a lot since we switched sides," Su Zhe thought to himself, finding it somewhat amusing.

Suddenly, he remembered that back in China, whether playing ranked matches on 5E or Perfect World, the defending side always had a higher win rate on both CT and T maps, and he suddenly understood.

The defending team only needs to occupy advantageous gun positions and defend the points with their marksmanship.

The attacking side has to consider more factors and needs better teamwork. If the teamwork fails, even on a large T map, it will be difficult to score points.

'The foundation determines what comes above.'
After losing the pistol round, Black Panthers received a booby-compensation for planting the bomb, but Godfather opted for a pure eco round to play it safe, allowing the team to be fully armored and armed when entering the rifle rounds.

The score then climbed to 9-5.

Once the game transitioned to rifle rounds, Black Panther's map control advantage was once again on full display.

Although the Ancient Ruins is a CT scan, it doesn't have the same obvious advantages as the Death Park map.

In 23, the CT side had a 51.1% win rate on the map Ruins. However, since its introduction in CS2, various teams have been constantly developing new items and tactics for this map.

Even now, the ancient ruins, like the town, have become a map of balanced offense and defense.

This means that LVG, with limited tactical options, doesn't have much of an advantage on the defensive side of this map. However, as Black Panthers capitalized on their map control to score points, Su Zhe's individual skill exploded, and Jee's AWP touch gradually improved.

In addition, Starry's marksmanship is no worse than any of the Black Panthers players, which allows LVG to maintain a slight lead in the score.

When the two sides reached the twenty-second round, the score was temporarily fixed at 11-9.

The next round was another crucial long-range rifle round, and Watermelon called a pause in the match before the round began.

"Although the other side won the last round, they also lost three long spears, and their economy hasn't been built up yet. If we win this round, we can take the match point directly," Coach GUM reminded everyone from behind.

Although this was good news, the LVG members only nodded slightly upon hearing it, without much of a smile on their faces.

Because LVG's economy is also not good, winning would give them match point, but losing would allow the opponent to tie the score directly.

In addition, Black Panther and others also reached their peak performance as the competition entered its second half.

Once the score is tied, the outcome of this best-of-three series becomes very difficult to predict.

Watermelon thought for a moment and said, "Jee, you should use your AWP to cover B this round. I feel like the enemy will put pressure on the B bomb site this round."

As LVG's main sniper, Jee is basically in a mobile state on the defensive side. He can either use his sniper rifle to hold A site alone or cooperate with his teammates to defend B site.

Jee nodded in agreement. The fact that point B had been breached in several rounds made his sniper retake efforts very passive.

"As for the rest, just play normal defense. If the opponent gives you a VIP smoke at the start, don't worry about the middle lane. Just use the normal 3B2A formation."

After thinking for a moment, Su Zhe suggested, "How about we control the middle lane this round? Otherwise, if the enemy coordinates with the middle lane and both sides, they might block the VIP lane with their smoke screen. Then, no matter if they flank A or B, it will be very difficult for us to defend."

Watermelon was also in a dilemma after hearing this, and said, "Should we start with a 2-2-1 formation to control the middle lane? If the enemy speeds up and attacks B, Jee's AWP can take down the enemy's base, and we might not be able to hold on. I also need to keep an eye on the dark room to prevent being flanked."

Su Zhe shook his head and said, "We don't need B point to help. We can leave A point empty at the start. As long as Jee's sniper doesn't leak information at the start, even if someone on the other side is making a default move in A hall, they won't dare to come and attack immediately."

In the previous rounds, Jee's AWP was always at point A, and the opposing Black Panther team knew this as well. Su Zhe didn't believe that the opposing team would recklessly rush into point A.

"3B2 opening?" Watermelon hesitated a bit when he heard such a bold defensive formation.

Although this defensive tactic is frequently used by foreign teams, domestic teams generally stick to the traditional point-capture defense, which makes Xigua a little worried.

Seeing Xigua's hesitation, Su Zhe continued, "You guys just defend B point normally. At the start, use the utility at B connector to put some pressure on us. No other changes are needed. Starry and I will control the middle lane."

"I'll take responsibility if we lose."

"Uh, that's not what I meant." Xigua didn't expect Su Zhe to say that, and was about to explain when Su Zhe interrupted her.

Su Zhe said with a smile, "It's nothing, don't worry about it. Let's finish the match first."

After discussing some details about positioning, the one-minute timeout quickly ended, and the match resumed.

After replenishing his supplies and picking up an A4, Su Zhe and Starry walked one after the other towards the VIP area.

In this round, LVG did not provide a smoke grenade for the terrorists at the start. Su Zhe and Starry each used a light smoke grenade and a dark smoke grenade for the terrorists, respectively. Only then did Starry provide a light smoke grenade for the terrorists, causing the smoke grenade to explode quickly.

If the terrorists are given smoke at the start, they often have to aim at the point and use W+jump to shoot, and the landing point cannot be guaranteed to be accurate. If the terrorists are given deep smoke, Black Panther may very well flash into the middle lane and force his way out of the middle lane through the smoke.

In order to reduce timing and ensure that the mid lane can be temporarily controlled, the two used a rather clumsy method to exchange items at the terrorist spawn point.

After the two handed over the props, Starry took the lead and stood under the VIP area, and then Su Zhe stepped directly on Starry's head.

After the two moved a distance at the same time, Su Zhe successfully used Runboost followed by a spin jump to quickly step onto the high edge on the left side of the middle lane.

They also wanted to use a pincer movement in the middle to ensure that even if the bandits used flashbangs and smoke to escape, they wouldn't gain any advantage.

Su Zhe stood above, keeping an eye on the enemy's spawn point as he made his way to the mid-lane jump platform, only to find that the enemy's spawn point showed no sign of coming out.

So he turned on his microphone and said, "Starry, help me hold the bandit's cigarette."

"it is good!"

After hearing the agreement, Su Zhe turned to look at the computer screen of Xigua on the other side.

They discovered that Watermelon had already guessed the location of the dark room and had used a B Company smoke grenade to block the way.

Su Zhe continued speaking over the microphone, asking, "Is there any movement on Slope B?"

"There were a lot of people, but none of them came out. They were deterred by my B-type slant fire."

Xiaohua answered, saying that Jee's sniper rifle was only positioned at the back post to ensure that the enemy wouldn't discover his location immediately.

After summarizing the information, Su Zhe immediately launched a smoke grenade and flashbang for B Company from both angles, followed by a quick backflash and then directly engaged in a smoke grenade launch at the B Company's barrier.

"Tetetetetete~"

Arrow used an M4A4 to kill yuurih while shrouded in smoke.

Arrow used an M4A4 to headshot Kye while the smoke was thick.

"Oh! Arrow! This smoke has completely stunned the thugs who were huddled together outside B door!"

"First they were hit by a lightning bolt, and then they were in such a narrow terrain that they didn't even have anywhere to hide!"

"And what they least expected was that LVG, who had been playing defensively in the previous rounds, would play so aggressively this round, without any warning."

"Was this a tactic called out by Xigua?"

Gaining such a huge defensive advantage in just one minute and thirty seconds made LVG's subsequent defense incredibly easy.

After two players from B Company were eliminated, Xiao Hua, who was close to B Company, wanted to turn her head to check the information below the slope.

But he didn't expect that Black Panther sent four people to Bilibili this time. Although two people were lost, they were still able to spare the energy to defend Bilibili.

As soon as Xiaohua moved out, she ran into Chelo's gun and was instantly killed by a barrage of bullets.

After getting the kill, Chelo knew that there were many people in B Company and that they might have already pushed forward. So he decided to go into the B bomb site with Godfather, who was behind him with a sniper rifle.

But as soon as he peeked out, he heard the sound of a sniper rifle firing from a certain location, and then the screen went black.

This put the Godfather behind him in a dilemma, wanting to quickly go back and jump into B door to try and save the sniper rifle in his hand.

However, the smoke from B-team had already dissipated by this time, and while his body was still in mid-air, he heard a series of gunshots coming from the direction of the dark room.

"Tetete~"

Arrow used an M4A4 to headshot FalleN.

One minute and twenty seconds into the game, Black Panther was left with only Card God, who was acting as the default at the terrorist spawn point, and the bomb had fallen outside the B gate with the death of Godfather.

LVG naturally wouldn't allow Black Panther to have a chance to turn the tide in the next round, and after sacrificing two players, they directly took the AK from Card God's hands.

Is this still LVG? What are they doing here? They won the crucial game so easily?

[Haha, Black Panther thought LVG was going to play like turtles again this round, but A-God's unconventional smoke grenade completely confused them.]

[Is Xiao Zhe shooting with the smoke screen on? Even though the Black Panthers are all huddled together, his smoke-mixing is just too accurate.]

[Thank goodness it was an offline tournament, otherwise Black Panther would have definitely reported it.]

[They actually won! If they beat Black Panther, advancing to the main event will be no problem.]

Don't make promises you can't keep!

【.】

After winning the crucial long-range rifle round cleanly, LVG's defense remained flawless against the five-man Black Panther squad with half Desert Eagles, successfully securing match point in map three.

Perhaps it was the impending victory that made the LVG team so eager to end the game.

As a result, the defense had some weaknesses, and the Black Panthers found another opportunity to score.

Fortunately, in the final round, Su Zhe managed to kill three opponents at the start and then win the 1v2 clutch.

The final score for Figure 3 was 13-11.
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There will be another chapter later, but it might be a little late. (End of this chapter)