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

"13-8! The game is over! Congratulations to G2 for proving themselves in this match against the Green Dragons."

"They won this best-of-three series 2-0! If they win the next match in the upper bracket final, they will directly qualify for the IEM Dallas semifinals!"

The IEM tournament is also short; if you win all five matches, you will be able to lift the championship trophy.

The losers not only have to play an extra round of best-of-three matches, but they also have to start from the top six in the knockout stage.

After celebrating G2's victory, Wanji suddenly remembered something, hissed, and said:

"It feels like G2 doesn't have any obvious weaknesses now, right? In the past, it was either Kid or Niko who were bad, and it was always difficult to win a game if only one person performed well."

"Now that Arrow has joined as a powerful new firepower player, all the problems are solved! The ceiling for this new G2 lineup is limitless!"

G2 is truly a dynasty now!

Indeed, G2 is stronger now than when JKS was playing.

[JKS is strong, but he can't integrate into the team atmosphere; Xiao Zhe seems to be much better at it.]

G2 now has a three-pronged attack! As long as two of them perform consistently, they can win the game.

[Trident? Is G2 now the 18 IG?]

We still need a championship to prove ourselves. Let's see if we can win IEM Dallas this time, and Cologne is just around the corner too.

[Keep it up! Just don't make a Galaxy of Titans 2.0 (crash version)!]

After glancing at the comments, Wanjiji smiled and continued, "Judging from the last two matches, G2 does have the feel of a dynasty, but we'll have to see if they can maintain this form."

"You have to understand that Niko's roster in FaZe back in 18 was even more impressive than it is now, if it weren't for the Boston Major."

【? ? ? ? ? ? 】

Why did we suddenly veer towards interesting things from 18?

Okay, that's enough for now, you can shut up now.

After glancing at the reactions in the live chat, Wanji stopped his anti-serialization efforts and skillfully opened the HLTV official website.

"I'm quite curious about the stats from this Bo3 series. Wow~ G2 really has a three-pronged attack!"

Except for breathing and cousin's data being slightly worse, Su Zhe, Niko, and the child all had ratings above 1.2!

Su Zhe's two charts show a KAD of 34-12-25 and a Rating of 1.39.
The child has a KAD of 30-14-22 and a rating of 1.29.
NIko's stats are the most impressive, with a KAD of 38-18-26 and a Rating of 1.43.
Looking at the Green Dragon's side, unsurprisingly, there was one Green Dragon with four Red Dragons. Donk alone got 32 kills and had a rating as high as 1.30, but his other four teammates were not very good.

sh1ro's data is the most abstract; as the team's sniper, his rating is only 0.65.

[Cousin & Breathing: There are three smurfs in the team, I don't know how we can lose]

[donk: Is G2 still hiring? I recently started learning English.]

[Bengbu is under control; with three firing points simultaneously, it must be tough for Donk.]

Donk seems too old now; he should pass the torch to Niko.

【.】

Viewers in the live stream were discussing the match statistics, while at the stadium, the G2 players were already cheering.

"Nice!!"

Wow! You guys played great!

With each shout, the pressure in everyone's hearts gradually dissipated.

Actually, the pressure from the Green Dragons in today's game wasn't too bad; the main pressure came from off the court.

Now that G2 Esports has officially acquired Su Zhe as a replacement, they must achieve good results.

If they accidentally lose the game, the pressure from both the club's management and the player community will shake up their new roster.

He breathed a sigh of relief and joked, "I'll probably pick Sand 2 less often in the future, it's such a simple map that I don't feel like I can use my command skills at all."

Everyone smiled upon hearing this, but they all tacitly agreed in their hearts.

Although the team already has enough firepower, if the team is not in good form and encounters a team that is aggressive and in good form, there is a real chance of losing.

After all, experience, decision-making, and other aspects that G2 excels in are still too small on this map.

If you're on a hot streak, you can easily push the team to victory. But if you're completely out of form, it can put your team in an extremely passive position.

"Good job." Niko gave Su Zhe a high five and encouraged him.

"Is this a compliment or a mockery? I haven't even gotten as many kills as you today." Su Zhe rolled his eyes and made Niko's signature move—Hyuga Niko.

"Hahaha!" Niko patted Su Zhe on the shoulder and laughed, "You're on a good shooting night. We'll have to rely on you in the next game."

"However, there were some minor flaws in your positioning on the offensive side today. I'll discuss them with you during the replay later."

Su Zhe nodded and said, "Okay."

Taz, who was standing nearby, reminded them, "Alright, let's go shake hands first. We've played two games today, and everyone must be tired. Let's go back and rest early so we can review the tasks later."

Led by Taz, the G2 team headed towards the other side.

The director's camera followed their footsteps, slowly panning to the Green Dragons' seating area.

Like most teams that lose a match, the Green Dragons were packing up their peripherals with expressionless faces, but a sense of frustration was still palpable.

Especially Donk, Su Zhe could even see a sense of helpless powerlessness in him.

"Isn't this similar to what I felt when I was in NIP..." Su Zhe looked at Donk's expression and felt a deep sense of empathy, as it was exactly the same as his own emotions after losing the match.

The team gave me a chance, so I couldn't blame my teammates. After losing the game, I had nowhere to vent my frustrations, so I could only keep it bottled up inside.

Green Dragon politely stood up after seeing the G2 members enter.

During the handshake, due to the language barrier, there wasn't much to talk about; they just kept saying things like "Well played" and "Keep it up next time."

Donk said something to Su Zhe in Russian, but Su Zhe didn't understand what it meant. He just nodded with a smile.

"Phew~ The first day of the competition is finally over! There's still one more day to prepare tomorrow." Back in his seat, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The schedule is quite tight, with sixteen international teams having to compete for the final championship within a week.

Only by continuing to win can they find some time to prepare for the competition.

After finishing his breathing exercise, he laughed and said, whether it was self-deprecation or some other emotion, "I guess people in the player community are going to start cursing at me again soon."

Niko curled her lip and said, "Why bother with those comments? They don't know the inside story; they're just a bunch of guys who only look at the data."

"Hmm?" Su Zhe asked curiously, "Didn't we win the game? Why are we still cursing at you?" Hu Xi chuckled, "You'll see when you look at my post-game rating data."

Su Zhe:......

He didn't remember the exact KD ratio for breathing, but it was probably over negative ten.

However, the role of breathing in a game cannot be reflected in statistics.

Let alone his involvement in pre-match analysis, tactical design, and research on the opponent's habits.

They contributed a lot of money and did a lot of dirty work during the game.

The main problem is that Taz, as a coach, doesn't have the brain to prepare for the competition, so he has to rely on breathing to handle it, which means he doesn't even have time to practice shooting.

If the players hadn't revealed these things themselves, how could viewers possibly know?

Previously, when Breathing played in offline competitions, even a simple kill in a match would elicit cheers from the audience.

This is enough to show how deep people's prejudice against him is.

Su Zhe smiled and said, "Niko is right, you are the best coach I have ever met in my career."

"Oh?" Breathing looked surprised. "You don't usually say that when you contact es3tag, do you?"

Upon hearing the breathing sound, everyone couldn't help but laugh, which made Su Zhe a little embarrassed, as he seemed to have actually said something like that to es3tag.

After packing up their belongings amidst laughter and chatter, the group didn't linger at the venue and boarded the bus back to the hotel.

On the bus.

Niko noticed that Breath was checking the match schedule, so she casually asked, "Has the result for our next opponent been released yet?"

He replied, "Not yet. They just entered Map 3, and it will probably take another 40 minutes or so to find out the results."

"Oh?" My cousin, who was sitting in front of me, turned around and asked, "Which two teams are they playing so closely?"

Breath raised an eyebrow and said, "It's a match between my hometown team and M80."

Niko, who was standing nearby, predicted, "Then they'll probably be playing against Team X. M80 is a strong second-tier team, but they're still a bit weaker than Team X."

Breathing is from Denmark, and the only top-tier teams that he can call his hometown team and participate in this tournament are Team X and Team A, except that Team A did not participate this time.

Breath shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. Degster didn't come to the competition this time; Nicooodoz is replacing him."

“nicoodoz?”

Su Zhe suddenly remembered that this was the ID he encountered during his trial when he first joined NIP, and he seemed to have even faced off against him.

"PatPat Bear, it's normal for him to suddenly stop competing." Niko shook his head after hearing this, clearly not having a good impression of this professional player.

After returning to the hotel, everyone decided to have a light dinner to tide them over before regrouping to review the day's match.

In the training room, Breath paused on the big screen, turned to Su Zhe and asked, "How do you feel about your current free agent position?"

Su Zhe thought for a moment and then said, "That's good."

"to be honest."

"...It's quite frustrating."

"Haha, you're really telling the truth!" Niko couldn't help but laugh when he heard this conversation.

He laughed along with his breathing and said, "I noticed that when you were hanging on one side, you kept thinking about making a forward thrust, but you always managed to hold back."

Su Zhe nodded. He did think that some of them had a chance, but he was afraid of committing a crime and giving himself away for nothing.

It's not that he's afraid of his stats falling behind; the main reason is that he's only recently officially joined G2, and it wouldn't be appropriate to give away points due to disciplinary issues.

After all, most people believe that being bad at something is acceptable, but personal subjective issues are not.

Breathing continued, "I saw you had several opportunities; actually, pushing forward is quite easy to get the opponent's timing..."

"Here's what we'll do: if I don't give you any specific instructions in future matches, you can play according to your own strategy."

"Just like Faze's ropz, play more freely, so that the opponent can't figure out your strategy."

"However, if you make any risky moves, such as trying to push B2 while defending B site alone, it's best to communicate with the team beforehand. I can adjust my position in time, and even if you miss the opportunity and give up, we still have a chance to recover."

"When you're working alone, you should definitely communicate more and share your ideas promptly."

Su Zhe hummed in agreement, indicating that he understood. He hadn't expected that breathing would grant him such a great deal of authority during the competition.

No wonder people say that breathing is the best way to bring out the individual abilities of your teammates.

After addressing Su Zhe's question, Hu Xi looked up at Taz behind him and asked, "I feel that we need to adjust our BP topic selection. What do you think would be a more reasonable way to arrange our map?"

When Taz heard about the breathing issue, he chuckled and said, "I think it's better for your team to communicate on this point. You've been playing together for a few days now, so you should know which maps you're best suited for right now."

Hush smiled, clearly expecting this answer, and then said to everyone, "We've already tried the Sand Second map today, and it's indeed not very suitable for us."

"If we're facing a team with weak guns, we'll pull them out and use them. Otherwise, we'll use them normally."

"Furthermore, our previous plan to use five main images is not working well, and we still need to control our resources to three images."

There's only so much training time in a day. If you're doing map running and tactical research on five maps at the same time, then the training volume is indeed a bit too much.

Instead, we should narrow it down to three images and then develop specific countermeasures based on the opponent's situation.

Niko nodded in agreement, then asked to confirm, "Is it the nuclear reactor, the town, and Anubis?"

He hummed in agreement. "Yes, we currently have more tactical reserves on these three maps, and you are all quite good at them."

Niko shrugged and said, "Then I'm fine with it. But I feel like I should practice more on popular maps like the Ruins."

He smiled and said, "That's natural. We can do further research on our opponents beforehand."

Su Zhe listened to everyone's words from the side, had no objections to offer, and even agreed with them.

Using five maps as the main map at the same time is indeed a bit too overpowered.

Sometimes, just remembering a few props can be overwhelming, and you might even forget exactly how to throw them during the match.

It's important to know that in official matches, last-minute practice, such as suddenly practicing throwing equipment during halftime, is common.

After discussing the next map selection, the team's debriefing for the day officially came to an end.

Next, they will have to work hard for a spot in the IEM Dallas semifinals. (End of Chapter)