There are generally two types of competition systems for CSGO, BO1 and BO3. BO1 are often used in group stages or in the first two rounds of the Swiss round, while BO3 is used in knockout rounds or events that the organizer thinks are more important.

In addition, BO5 also occasionally appears, but it is only used in ESL and Dreamhack events. In general, in the finals of BO5, the teams that enter the finals through the winner group will have a 1-point advantage, that is, they will have their own 1-0 start. The reason is very simple, that is, the time spent in a game of CSGO is completely unfixed. If the game is played very quickly, it can end in half an hour. But if both sides are very anxious and even play in overtime, the market of the game will rise infinitely.

At least at this time, there will be almost no one-sided situation in the finals, because if you can enter the finals in so many rounds of the group stage and knockout rounds, the gap between the hard strength between the two sides will not be too big.

Of course, it may be in 2018 that the rise of a team led to the final, which was most anticipated by everyone in the past, which left the most exciting shots, but became a one-sided situation.

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Katowitz's first round of group stage was BO1. After Tianlu was assigned to Group A, he soon knew who his opponent was in the first round of group stage.

"C9! Brothers! Brothers, the opportunity for revenge is here!"

When everyone knows that when the group comes up, they will face the C9 who blocks them from the legendary group and wins the championship all the way. Not only do they not have the fear of the team's new major champion, but their hearts are instantly filled with the flames of revenge.

In fact, in Zhao Yiyang's eyes, the winner of C9's major championship was the right time, place and people, but when they used up all the help in the dark, the North American team would soon decline.

The just-concluded SLI S4 final is an example. C9 and Tianlu, who had no training, both fell in front of the knockout round.

Moreover, in the game, although the core of C9, automatic, was in good condition and won the highest rating, the other people's condition can only be described as a sluggish one.

This is also normal. When these North Americans win the championship that North America has never been involved in, they are prone to slackness in their hearts.

"Guys! We need to have a discussion!"

Because Tianlu and C9 both participated in two major events at the beginning of the year this year, there is nothing they don’t know about each other, because it is impossible for a certain team to develop a weird tactic that can win in less than a month.

That night, the coach and the team members first simulated and analyzed the map that BO1 might make tomorrow, and finally determined the map inferne. They entered the map and conducted default intensive training.

Moreover, YNK also brought a set of very practical prop tactics to the team inferno, that is, the dual fireworks routine of Banana Road anti-Qing.

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Time came unknowingly on January 27, 2018. On this day, all the 16 teams participating in the competition were ready in the hotel.

Katowicz's event is also divided into two stages. Only after entering the quarterfinals can they go to offline venues.

Moreover, this year's Kato is not a major, so the group matches are held directly in the hotel, so the rhythm of the game can be tighter, because each team can directly avoid the journey from the hotel to the venue, and there is no need to debug it. After all, everyone has been using the computers in the hotel training room for a while.

The first day of the game started with Group A. At 10 a.m., the opening match of Group A started between SK and AVANGAR.

At this time, AVANGAR was still the 3-lose fish on major. Although their ranking in the world is not very low, it is still difficult for them to get opportunities when facing SK, the top three teams in the world.

16 to 10, on the cache map, SK easily won the CIS team.

The second game was between Astralis and the Cowboys. Although Team A had a deviant fate in the past SLI and they reached the semi-finals, they were unable to further break through MOUZ's fortunes and the ranking was frozen here.

In this game, although Team A was not in good shape, they still defeated the Australian team with a score of 16-13 and approached the semi-finals of the group.

Finally, after these two games, it was Tianlu's turn to play.

"Brothers! We lost to C9 in major before, and they stopped our legendary group's dream! Now, we finally have the opportunity to take revenge with ourselves, and the map also came to Purgatory Town as we expected in the past two days."

"Do you still remember? It was on the major, we lost to them in overtime on this map! Now, with the same map, do you still want fate to be staged again?"

Although YNK couldn't speak Chinese, the players listened to him excitedly shouting before the game in English, and understood that the coach had regarded him as a Tianlu man, as if he was taking revenge. Therefore, they could be infected by YNK's emotions and shouted: "Yes!"

Then, everyone returned to their computers and waited for the referee to arrive.

Because this is not a competition held in offline venues, in order to prevent the participating teams from cheating, the event will send two referees to the training room of the corresponding team to supervise in each game.

The reason for two is very simple. One of them is a referee whose job is actually a technical staff member. Once there is any technical problem in the team, he can help solve it as soon as possible.

Soon, the two referees came to Tianlu's training room. After coach YNK briefly communicated with the referees, Tianlu's players obtained permission to enter the main.

"Brothers! Let's go directly to their house and enjoy your appetite first!"

During the warm-up, Tianlu did not believe in the saying that he had saved his character. They only had revenge for C9, so after joining the group, everyone did not hang up on the phone, but came to the other party's birthplace and began to "block the spring water"!

This approach obviously brought the mentality of the C9 players. They didn't understand why these orientals came to block the door during the warm-up, which made the C9 players very angry.

However, Tianlu's condition has improved significantly today. Although C9 resisted several times during the warm-up, it was all extinguished by Tianlu's firepower.

Finally, two minutes later, the referee chose to start the game.

"Brothers! Do you remember how we slaughtered them just now? Let's continue in the game, they are BOT!"

So that's it. Tianlu just chose to become the warm-up emperor to give himself psychological hints in the main competition.

However, this hint really worked.
Chapter completed!