CS: A young talent from Peking University, you want me to play professionally?

"Don't be discouraged. This is just a training match for us. Although we need to give it our all from beginning to end, we shouldn't let our mentality affect our performance when we encounter problems."

"Even though we all know how strong NA is now, from the previous matches and the current scrims, when we play against them, you should be able to feel that they are not an invincible team."

During the match, this team will also encounter some problems, make mistakes, and have some questionable choices. Therefore, as long as we strive to become stronger, we can infinitely approach, and even surpass, their level after a period of time.

It's fair to say that after the WCA Global Finals, Team A's leadership has undergone a significant transformation. They now fully understand the formidable strength of Team A, but also recognize that Li Mo is the absolute core of the team, as the others will inevitably make mistakes. After all, no one is perfect and can't be infallible. Therefore, upon returning to China, they, like Team A, immediately implemented comprehensive adjustments.

After the adjustments, when they faced NA again in the training match, they clearly felt that the team had become even stronger. However, even against the stronger NA, they still had the ability to fight back.

More importantly, analysts from clubs around the world, as well as many health experts, believe that Na must have secretly pushed the players to their physical limits through extremely high-intensity training. Only through such training could this newly formed team have reached such a level in such a short time.

Therefore, because of this stereotype, the reason why Team A didn't show the helplessness and despair that many other regional entertainment teams displayed when facing NA, and was even very willing to play scrims with them, was because they wanted to learn as much as possible from the current peak NA team, so that after this team quickly fell from grace, they could continue their legend.

It must be said that, logically speaking, many people's analyses of NA and Li Mu are not unfounded or without any basis. Their analysis is actually quite reasonable because, under normal circumstances, in a region that is inherently weak, and where the competition and overall atmosphere are not particularly good, it is really unlikely that a team with such dominant ability at the world championship would emerge.

However, if these teams knew the truth—that Na's players' training time wasn't even up to the average of the world's top teams, and that everyone was in excellent health, and that their overall focus on player health was arguably the most advanced in the world—the other teams would absolutely find it unacceptable.

Teams like Team A can accept NA pushing their physical limits or showcasing tactics they've meticulously researched for a short period, allowing them to perform exceptionally well for a time. However, they cannot accept a team consistently improving, and their performance becoming increasingly outrageous.

"Alright, that's enough about understanding the opponent for now. In the following rounds, we shouldn't engage in any more probing or overly passive play. In the remaining rounds, we need to execute the tactics and teamwork we've developed in training matches and through our regular post-match analysis."

It must be said that Team A is indeed a very rational team. They clearly understand that simply studying Team Na is not particularly meaningful. Especially when the opponent is not in the same region as them, studying only one team is like walking a tightrope, and a very dangerous one at that.

Because their research only has real meaning if the two teams meet in the World Championship finals, or in a very crucial tournament. If they only study NA and spend too much time on it, without allocating time to studying other teams or developing their own tactics and teamwork, then what they're doing is clearly clownish.

It's clear that Team A is fully aware of this, which is why they believe they've already learned about NA's numerous tactics and strategies on both offense and defense. They want to assess the rationality of NA's tactics and teamwork.

In the following rounds, Team A's playing style underwent a significant change. They became more proactive, and their ideas and decisions were often quite bold. Therefore, Li Mo understood that the opposing team was trying to test the validity of their strategies against him, or to gauge the extent of their threat.

Li Mo found the opponent's actions quite standard. In fact, after the second half began, he thought that Team A might change their previous style of play, no longer probing in the early stages or throughout the game, in order to see what countermeasures they might have, especially unconventional tactics and teamwork.

So, in Li Mo's view, the fact that the opposing team only started playing their own game at this point clearly indicates that they felt immense pressure in the previous rounds. It was precisely because of this that they hadn't been playing their own game and instead wanted to learn more about Li Mo's tactics and strategies.

Throughout the entire training match, Team A undoubtedly lost the Death Park map by a large margin.

However, both sides actually gained something from this training match. Of course, Team A, who was the one seeking advice, obviously gained more from this round of practice matches.

After the adjustments made by Na, their game strategy on this map became clearer. Astralis repeatedly considered many of the things Na did in this round, and the coaching staff wanted to summarize them into their own ideas and utilize and transform them.

After all, although there are significant differences in the playstyles of each team, their strategies for the map, especially the control of points and the use of items, are actually quite similar once they are integrated.

Therefore, Team A has learned a great deal about this map, and from the coaching team's perspective, they can now analyze and summarize their own style based on this experience. In terms of gains from both sides, Team A undoubtedly gained a significant advantage. Their understanding of the Amusement Park map was roughly on par with many other teams, placing them in the same tier. However, Team Na, after Li Mo's explanations upon returning from abroad, is now completely ahead of the current version. Therefore, Team A learned a great deal during the match.

"Brother Mo, when we play a training match against them, isn't it a bit too early to reveal our own tactics, or rather, our improvements and enhancements in teamwork?"

After the training match, Lin Yu immediately asked the question that had been on his mind. As far as NA was concerned, Li Mo had said a long time ago that anyone with any doubts or thoughts about the game should raise them as soon as possible.

Because if doubts are not resolved, they will obviously remain buried in one's heart forever. Especially in many situations, if they are exposed in a crucial game, then without a doubt, this will be a very terrible time bomb.

Li Mo had already guessed that someone might ask this question. And if nothing unexpected happened, it would be Lin Yu. As the youngest player on the team, Lin Yu was often quick-witted and outspoken, which was a bit different from his usual personality. Although he was quite shy, in the game, no matter what problem he encountered, he would always be the first to step forward, raise his doubts, and eagerly seek a solution.

Li Mo greatly admired and approved of his habit. Because in a team, if there is little or no communication among members, or if they are afraid to openly and honestly discuss problems, it creates a very bad atmosphere and can easily breed many problems.

"Without a doubt, we played a practice match on this map with Team A today, and they definitely gained more from it. They will also learn some of our techniques."

"But from another perspective, we will definitely grow faster, and we will always be the first. After mastering some new things, we will continue to transform them, while these people can only follow behind us. In this state, we will not allow our opponents to surpass us. They are actually in the process of catching up more often. When they think they have a good understanding of us and have enough tactics to deal with us, they will find that we have once again taken the lead over them."

"And for us, it's perfectly normal to identify problems, come up with solutions, and continuously update our tactics. After we learn something new and make improvements, this process obviously needs to be tested."

If we don't hold back our efforts and don't test our training processes in practice matches and against opponents, then when we try to bring these skills to the world stage and encounter problems, we might be caught off guard and unsure how to respond.

After hearing Li Mo's words, everyone suddenly understood. Before Li Mo revealed these points, they had all had some doubts. When they first formed their team and competed domestically, many of the tactics and teamwork Li Mo devised hadn't been used in scrims or even domestic matches. Therefore, for a long time, they instinctively believed that these tactics were their trump cards, reserved for use against strong opponents on the world stage.

It wasn't until after returning from the World Championship, when Li Mo held a meeting with them, that they realized this habit of using stealth tactics couldn't continue indefinitely.

They need to improve their individual abilities and teamwork, making their team invincible and unstoppable, able to continuously raise their standards against any team and under any circumstances.

After the training match, Li Mo immediately began a post-match analysis. Although Team A didn't actually come up with anything new, they did expose some problems throughout the process. Li Mo's goal was for the players to discover these problems themselves and figure out how to solve them.

After finishing all that, it was already quite late. After a quick wash, Li Mo went to bed to rest before midnight.

……

For Li Mo, after returning from this World Championship, his focus is undoubtedly on two things: first, preparing for the upcoming S-level tournament.

On the other hand, he needed to quickly refine the framework of his thesis, as his goal was to complete it before his sophomore year. By the first semester of his sophomore year, he expected to have a basic draft of the thesis. By the second semester, the thesis would be nearly complete. Then, after revisions by his advisor, he would continue to refine it.

(End of this chapter)