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

Chapter 237 The Smile Won't Disappear.
"They're here! They're here! Brothers!"

"Welcome to the 2024 IEM Dallas Grand Finals, featuring G2 against the Nigels!"

In a live stream on Douyu (6657), after starting his broadcast while playing with a machine, he habitually made an opening remark.

Then, before the match officially started, he began answering some questions from the live chat.

"Who do you think will win? It's really hard to say. The Little Bees are clearly back in form. Like G2, they've been on a winning streak all the way to the finals."

"If you only look at the numbers, the two teams are actually not that different."

"If we can win the championship... it mainly depends on who is in better form. They are all muscle-based teams, and in the end, it will come down to who has the better marksmanship."

Teams like Mouz and NAVI primarily use items to advance step by step, restricting the opponent's movement while gaining control of the map, thus creating an advantageous situation to turn the tide.

However, for teams like Bee and G2, the main tactical objective is to create a relatively fair gunfight environment for the players, allowing them to overwhelm their opponents with sheer skill.

So, it's hard to say who will win the final today, even with the help of the machine.

After all, the reason why star players are star players is because they have no upper limit.

They might take on the entire team in a 1v5 situation, or they might get knocked out in a 1v1 situation; it all depends on who can unleash their full potential.

Go Xiao Zhe! Let's lift the trophy again!

[The sales volume is exactly the same as last year; it started to decline in the first half of the year, and then picked up momentum in the second half.]

Indeed, since August of last year, the rating data for cargo vehicles has never been positive.

[After all, it's the second half of the year when we need to push for performance; if we don't pull through now, we'll have no hope of being number one this year.]

Today's match will probably be all about gunfights, hurry up and start! I want to see a bloodbath!

If Xiao Zhe wins the championship and also gets the MVP award this time, would he have a chance to be the Top 1?

The top spot is uncertain, but a spot in the top ten is almost guaranteed.

……

At the competition venue, both teams are making the most of their final warm-up time.

“Breathe, what did DouDou say during the interview? Why am I suddenly hearing so many boos from the audience?” Niko asked curiously.

He was wearing headphones and couldn't hear the specific content of the interviews with the two team captains, which shows how loud the boos were.

She smiled and said, "The host just asked DouDou if she was confident of winning her first trophy in 24 years."

But DouDou didn't answer the question, saying that he'd won so many games in Dallas, but there was very little cheering for them in the arena.

Su Zhe couldn't hold back his emotions when he heard that.

Honeybees have quite a few fans in China, otherwise they wouldn't be considered one of the top 4 celebrities, but they have a very poor public image globally.

On the one hand, Little Bee was established relatively recently, only starting to appear on the front lines in 19.

CS:GO has been popular overseas for a long time, and people prefer the old teams that evoke memories, such as FaZe and Liquid.

Secondly, the Little Bees' team performance often fluctuates. There are times when they dominate and win championships, but there are also times when they are eliminated by various second-tier teams in major competitions.

In addition, their star player's playstyle is quite pragmatic, which makes it less entertaining to watch.

This has resulted in the Little Bees, a favorite to win the championship, not having a very large fan base.

Niko smiled and said, "Then Dallas is practically our home ground now, so everyone needs to work even harder to win the championship and not let the fans down."

"Don't worry! I feel incredibly hot today!" the child said confidently, rubbing his hands together.

The group chatted and warmed up, and soon moved on to the BP map section.

TAZ prevailed in the coin toss round, giving G2 the initiative in map drafting.

Without hesitation, they immediately put the Death Tower in the first ban slot.

G2 and Little Bee's strong maps don't overlap much, so you need to limit the opponent's choice of maps where they have a higher win rate.

The little bees didn't hesitate and immediately banned the Ancient Ruins, which they never attacked.

"What do you guys want to play for the first map?" Taz asked in the team voice chat.

"Well, for the first picture, let's choose the town," Breath said after thinking for a moment.

For the first map, you can choose either Town or Anubis, but the win rate of the Little Bees on Anubis is high enough, and they might take it on their own later, so there's no need to waste a pick slot.

It's worth noting that the Little Bee has recently had an 80% win rate on the Anubis map.

In small towns, although everyone knows about DouDou's flying-to-the-second-floor tactic, their win rate in small towns is not high, only 50%.

However, the little bees did not succeed in locking down the Desert City on the second map as they had hoped.

After another round of bans and picks, the three maps for this final round have been finalized.

Figure 1: Purgatory Town

Figure 2: Desert City

Figure 3 shows the newly commissioned, scorching desert city.

As viewers watched the final draft results, they started chatting.

[This image selection is interesting; it happens to be one of the three old images, finally making the match understandable.]

[G2 released Mirage map recently, have they started practicing it?]

[I guess so. Against the Little Bees, MiLati might be a bit stronger than the Tower. G2 hasn't played the Tower map in a long time.]

[It feels like they'll take them down 2-0; no one can stop G2 right now.]

[Not necessarily. G2 excels in small towns, while Little Bee excels in medium-sized areas. They can probably reach map 3.]

[You can also take a look at picture three; I want to see how the two top teams play in Sand City 2.]

While the viewers in the live stream were discussing, the players officially entered the competition server for Map 1, and the competition officially began amidst cheers from the audience!
Map: Purgatory Town

Vitality: ZywOo, flameZ, Spinx, mezii, apEX
G2: Hooxi, Niko, huNter, m0NESY, Arrow
As G2's map pick, the Little Bees chose to start on the defensive side.

"Come on! Come on! Let's try to win the first map and get off to a good start!" Taz encouraged everyone by bumping fists with them from behind.

"come on!"

After shouting a command, he began to plan the tactics for the pistol round.

"I'd rather not give up in the pistol round, so the enemy can steal our kills with their USPs. We'll group up in Banana, make silent contact first, and then rush in with a bomb after we get close to the car."

Breathing now has enough confidence in its players and doesn't even think about controlling the map or getting information. Instead, it wants to speed up and test the performance of the little bees and its own players.

This will then determine how to play in subsequent rifle rounds.

After the countdown ended, Su Zhe and his group headed towards the banana path after getting half-armor at the store.

The initial progress went quite smoothly. The little bee had no intention of taking control of the banana lane. After the child in the first position made his way to the parking space, he peeked at the police station's location but still didn't see anyone.

He raised an eyebrow and glanced at the turn time: one minute and thirty seconds.

"Cousin, get ready. Throw the prop at one minute and twenty-five seconds."

"it is good!"

He breathed in the countdown timer, counting down for his teammates who were preparing to charge.

"Three, two, one throw!" A box of fire, police officers and coffin smokers simultaneously covered the area.

Just as the child got close to the cover and reached the yellow wall, a large, muffled thunderbolt came from the coffin location, instantly blasting dozens of drops of blood off the group of people who were huddled together.

There's someone behind the coffin!

The child gave a reminder, and after the grenade's slowing effect wore off, he strode towards the bomb site again.

He first observed the location of the coffin, and after ensuring that the CT at the coffin location did not force its way out of the smoke and into the bomb site, he went directly to the pre-aimed blind spot.

After seeing the CT constantly peeking, the kid directly predicted the opponent's peeking habit and fired in advance.

"Bang bang~"

m0NESY used a Glock to headshot and kill ZywOo

"That kid's got it! He was trying to collect tolls by hiding in that dead-end spot, but the kid shot him in the body and then in the head, killing him instantly!"

"It all comes down to Fireboy's dual pistols in the third box position. He was originally going to fight closer in the first box, but Fireboy in the first box forced him to the third box position, which is further away."

After hearing the other party's footsteps approaching from behind the third box, Fire Boy immediately pulled out both guns and saw the child searching behind the second box turn to the side.

'good chance! '

He had just pressed the fire button, but Su Zhe had already prepared to set up his gun off the stage.

"Bang bang~"

Arrow used a Glock to headshot and kill flameZ.

"So nourishing!"

The child was startled by the sudden appearance of the CT scan, and by the time he realized what was happening, the other person had already collapsed to the ground.

"There's no one here, we can plant the bomb."

After the child checked the three boxes again, he had just turned on his microphone when he heard the sound of a USP gun firing from behind him.

Niko, who was positioned furthest back, also died instantly.

Upon hearing the gunshot, Su Zhe immediately turned around and, after seeing the CT emerging from the smoke at the police station, immediately located and opened fire.

"Bang bang~"

Arrow used a USP to headshot and kill apEX.

"DouDou's timing for the smoke stunt was excellent! But Arrow reacted too quickly, giving him no chance to take down a second person!"

"It looks like the game is already won in a 4 vs 2 situation."

"The point where the cargo is loaded is intended to be a dead spot to expose the cargo and cover Fire Boy as he retreats from the first box to the third box, so we have no choice but to pull it out and engage in gunfights first."

"But I didn't expect G2 to be so hot right from the start! They didn't even get a kill before the kid finished them off."

While they were working on the machine analysis, mezii and Spinx had already returned from the police spawn to defend the area.

However, due to their large numbers and the fact that G2 had already planted grenades, the various crossfire lines did not give them many opportunities.

The score has now reached 1-0.
After losing the pistol game, Little Bee opted for a force buy.

Under DouDou's command, they opted for an unconventional mid-lane push.

However, it didn't achieve any good results. Su Zhe, who had made a detour to the side, outflanked two of them, but the child successfully dodged and caught two more with his AK from the front.

After winning the force buy game, G2 smoothly entered the early stages of the match and took the lead.

By the time the match entered the first long rifle round, the score had reached 3-0.

"NICE!! Well done, guys!!"

The roar of the crowd in the stadium was deafening, making the G2 players extremely excited, because they knew that the audience was cheering for their performance.

"Go! Go! Keep scoring!" The early advantage boosted the morale of the G2 team, and they encouraged each other with fist bumps.

Breathing then began to plan the tactics for the long rifle rounds:
"Let's continue to control the banana lane at the start of this round. Once we gain control of the sandbag, we can retreat and use items to control the mid lane."

"Then, based on the information we get, we'll launch a bomb attack."

The round countdown ended quickly, and after replenishing his items, Su Zhe headed straight for the side path.

He walked to the side passage, and just after breaking the VIP window and throwing out a VIP lighter, he heard a child's voice coming from his earpiece.

"They've smoked for Faze! Watch out on the side!"

In this round, Su Zhe and his cousin teamed up to take the side route, planning to clear out Building A2 first.

This way, when teammates control the mid lane in the second instance, they can also coordinate and cooperate.

Upon hearing the child's message about the mid lane, Su Zhe and his cousin immediately slowed down to prevent the opposing mid laner from pushing down and clearing their side lane first.

"They even gave out cigarettes in the middle of the banana path across the street."

Niko looked at the items on the other side and was a little confused for a moment. Why was the B bomb site being used so quickly? Weren't they worried that they wouldn't have any defensive items when they detonated the bomb the next time?

However, he did not let his guard down. He slowly retreated back to the bandit's mouth, intending to wait for the smoke to dissipate before controlling the banana path, in case the little bee suddenly came up with some tricks.

As soon as he retreated back to the enemy's position, he suddenly heard the sound of a grenade hitting the wall through his earpiece.

"Bang bang bang bang~"

Four grenades flew in quick succession from the middle road and the banana path, heading straight for the bandits' mouth!

The child and the breathing hurriedly retreated into the bandit's cover, but it was too late, especially since the two of them were squeezed together and blocking each other's space.

As a result, the two were blown up by the grenade, flying in all directions.

Niko, who had retreated back to the bandits' den, only had about 20 drops of blood left on his body.

"Oh! This is the Bees' pre-planned tactic! Throwing the FaZe smoke and Banana Road smoke was purely to cover the trajectory of the grenades. Kid and Breathing both immediately felt unwell! This grenade combo was well-designed!"

"Within one minute and forty seconds of the game, it was already a 5v3 situation. How is G2 supposed to compete?" At this point, Wanji couldn't help but laugh.

This grenade combo, combined with the child's red and warm expression under the camera, is incredibly entertaining.

[While I hope G2 can win, hahaha, this is just too ridiculous!]

[I've learned this trick; I'll use it next time I play with my roommates.]

Are you sure your FaZe smoke won't splatter?

Amidst the murmurs of the audience, the three survivors began their attack.

Su Zhe and his cousin planned to push directly to the depths of the A2 building, while Niko stood at the entrance of the bandit's house to prevent the little bee from pushing against the front of the banana path.

The disadvantage at the start was simply too great.

Niko, who had only 20-odd drops of blood, was taken down by a single bullet from DouDou, who was protruding from the banana passage.

Su Zhe and his cousin were stuck in the A2 building and couldn't get out. Su Zhe then gritted his teeth and jumped out of the building, but before he even landed, he was shot down by a vehicle that had been pulled out from the link.

My cousin lived up to expectations in the 1v5 endgame, falling asleep as soon as he did.

Bliss and sorrow can be separated in an instant.

The smiles didn't disappear; they simply shifted from the faces of the G2 players to those of Little Bee.

(End of this chapter)