"Too strong, this A team is really too strong!"

Although Zhao Yiyang knew that the era of Team A had arrived. Unlike the previous dynasties, Team A's dynasty was the kind of person you were from the perspective of the audience, and you were already desperate to watch the game.

However, when you really become their opponent and play on the court, you feel a deeper sense of despair.

Because the audience watched the game, they thought they could play evenly and fiercely before the game, but in the game, Team A was crushing it unilaterally. For this sense of gap, the audience just felt a little displeasure and then cursed in the comment area.

【Team A’s game is ugly!】

【Team XX is really a waste!】

However, if you are an opponent of Team A, you will feel that the CS performed by the team opposite is no longer on the same level as you.

Tianlu felt this way. Even when they faced FaZe before, they lost miserably, but at least they could see that they had never faced the gun head-on, which was a complete failure in shooting skills.

However, when facing Astralis, they felt a deep despair.

【Why is he in this position?】

【Where did you hit me?】

【Didn’t I seal the cigarette?】

This kind of inexplicable crushing is the most uncomfortable thing for professional players, because even if you study the rep repeatedly after the game, you can only draw one conclusion in the end - you can't learn it.

...

Tianlu was already very satisfied with the result of the semi-finals. At least they won all the games they should win in this game. When facing Navi in ​​the group stage, they were not unable to fight back.

Losing to Astralis is not unacceptable to Tianlu. Because they have trained with Team A before, they know how strong this team is.

Not to mention, when Team A beat Navi with two small points in the final, the feeling of loss in his heart immediately disappeared without a trace.

"We are almost the same as Navi!"

After watching the direction of the finals, the little kid also made a joke on his seat.

The Marseille trip ended here. Tianlu's players left Marseille on the second day of the final and returned to Ukraine.

However, their journey was not over. After a week of training in Kiev, they boarded the plane again, this time in Sydney, Australia, the far southern hemisphere.

Tianlu’s visa was processed in advance, so they took a plane directly from Kiev and redirected to Australia after arriving in Istanbul.

This time the journey was even further than their flight from China to Ukraine. Including the time of the transfer, it took 24 hours.

This also caused the players to not spend a while to play after arriving in Sydney like they did when they went to various parts of the world before. All the players stayed in the room and tried their best to relieve the fatigue caused by the journey.

On May 1, 2018, the IEM Sydney competition will finally officially begin.

Like the Dreamhack Masters, IEM Sydney is also part of the ESL Grand Slam system.

Not only are they the same number of participating teams, but they even have the same prize money.

However, compared with the Dreamhack Masters, IEM's World Tour takes more care of local or regional teams.

For example, this time, in addition to the Australian local team that was directly invited, it is also the only Australian card - Cowboy, IEM Sydney has given Australia three qualifying spots. In addition, connected to Australia and in Asia, which belongs to the same division in the official competition, they also generously gave 3 quotas.

However, one of the reasons why this competition has slightly decreased is that due to visa reasons, Navi, who just won the runner-up in the Dreamhack Masters, and Space Soilders, who are currently ranked in the top 15 in the world, were unable to come to Sydney.

Replaced these two teams is G2, who was just swept out at the doorstep of his home and a team that was forcibly gathered in Australia - Legacy.

According to the IEM competition system of one-management, the Sydney station was also divided into two groups to play the GSL double-loss knockout match of eight teams.

Because Tianlu's world ranking has risen to sixth in the world after Dreamhack Marseille, their grouping has also begun to have an advantage.

FaZe, aegades, Cloud9, Grayhound, Tianlu and SK were assigned to Group A.

There are four Australian teams in this group, which means that as long as you can ensure that you are stronger than these four Australian teams, you can reach the quarterfinals.

Compared with this group, the competition in Group B is more intense. Not only the A team that just won the Marseille championship, but also the old European teams such as MOUZ, fnatci and G2, but also the new North American forces like NRG.

Tianlu's opponent in the first round can be said to be their old opponent, that is SK.

It is in a completely opposite situation to the thriving Tianlu, and SK's condition in 2018 can be said to be deteriorating.

They reached the semi-finals at ELEAGUE MAJOR at the beginning of the year, but then they won the quarterfinals in SLI and Kato.

In fact, these results seem to be OK, and at least they can maintain a knockout spot in every offline competition.

However, what really caused a fatal blow to them was indeed the WESG 2017 World Finals held in China after Kato.

In this hodgepodge with 32 teams participating, SK lost to the Russian team composed of Gmbit's major champion and navi duo and the BIG team of pure German team in the D group, and failed to qualify in the group.

Originally, the Brazilians wanted to get a generous bonus from WESG in Hainan, but they broke out in internal strife due to their crushing defeat.

TACO, who has always been positioned as a tool man, is no longer trusted by his teammates, and he was kicked out of the team. However, without tool man TACO, their newly recruited new major champion Stewie2K obviously cannot play the role of TACO.

You know, before, TACO was responsible for helping coldzera die. Now, no one can help Leng Shen die for a while, and Leng Shen's state has begun to plummet.

So, since Tianlu can defeat SK once on Kato, there is no reason not to defeat the weaker Brazilian team.

According to the schedule, all the first rounds of the two groups must be played on the first day. At the same time, on the first day of the game, the second round of the Group A will be held, and the two places to advance to the quarterfinals will be directly decided.

Because the schedule is relatively compact, the first round of group stages were played in two rounds.

Tianlu and SK are the fourth group of Group A, so their game will be held at 11:10 am local time.

However, after all, e-sports was not on time, and the game was delayed until 12 o'clock before notifying the players to join the group.

Fortunately, the Australian competition does not have the same time difference as in Europe for domestic spectators. 12 o'clock in Sydney is exactly 10 o'clock in China. This time is exactly the time to get up during the first day of May Day holiday.

Therefore, today's Tianlu game will receive more attention from CS enthusiasts.
Chapter completed!