The second match between Tianlu and North was held on the third match day. Before that, four teams that entered the quarterfinals knockout round had already appeared.

They are the first Astralis in Group A, the first NiP in Group B, the first FaZe in Group C, and the first MOUZ in Group D.

The fifth quarter-final spot between Tianlu and North will be decided.

At 10 a.m. on August 31, Tianlu had already arrived at the studio to debug the equipment and prepare for the competition.

North is the Danish team, the current second brother of Denmark. Unlike other European teams, Denmark and Swedish teams are known for their routines. For example, the A team, which is currently favorable to the world, their understanding of maps, grasp of timing and use of props can be said to be one level ahead of all other teams, and there are often times when they will not even have a frontal steel gun process with you.

The two more famous teams in Sweden, NiP and Fnatic, are not famous for their frontal firepower. Their understanding of maps and some unexpected tactics are also powerful tools for achieving results.

The same is true for North. There may be only Valde in the team who is considered a gunman, and the others will still play a whole coordination.

Therefore, it takes some time to choose a map, and nuke must not be put.

Finally, the three maps of the qualifying battle between Tianlu and North are inferno, overpass and mirage.

The whole game set the tone from the first round.

Although Tianlu won the victory in the pistol game inferno, in the second round, they were just overturned by North.

The evenly matched game imagined before the game began like this. Tianlu was hard to tell the difference between North in the first half, but after converting to the defensive side in the second half, they widened the gap on the map they were most familiar with.

16 to 12, this is the score of the first map. Although the process is a bit thrilling, Tianlu still took the lead.

The second map is overpass. This map Tianlu has been solved well in the offensive side's problems in the previous training camp. They currently have two more mature offensive routines, but North is obviously better at this larger map.

Although North got a three-point lead in the first half of the offensive side, thanks to Zhao Yiyang's awakening in the second half, Tianlu still stubbornly dragged the score into overtime.

Unfortunately, in overtime, Tianlu finally lost 17-19.

Finally, the game came to the decisive game, which is the Mirage Desert Mystery.

In fact, the map of mirage is similar to inferno. It is so regular that there is no good tactic to fight.

When it comes to this map that may rely more on marksmanship, the advantage of having superstars in Tianlu team is reflected.

With 34 kills, Zhao Yiyang still won a terrifying record of more than 1 kill per game in 27 rounds, thus helping Tianlu defeat North with a score of 16-11 and obtain a quarterfinals.

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After Tianlu qualified, the last qualifying places in each group were also generated one after another.

NaVi still adjusted after slowing down and got the second qualifying place in Group B, while the second qualifying place in Group C was taken by Heroic, and the MIBR in Group D.

At this point, Tianlu's opponent in the quarterfinals is mousesoprts. Tianlu can be said to be very familiar with this opponent.

Since the major at the beginning of the year, the two teams have very similar results. The world rankings on Hltv are also the same. Just like in this Dreamhack Masters, the mouse ranks fifth in the world, while Tianlu is sixth.

It can be said that these two teams are really equal, and anyone who wins is possible.

The process of the game is also similar to what everyone predicted before the game. MOUZ also relied on its BP advantage to defeat Tianlu with a score of 2-1.

In fact, this is also a big problem for Tianlu. Because their nuke has not been fully trained, they currently have two relatively weak maps. One is cache. After this map was added to the map pool in Dust2 in May, Tianlu did not play often; the other is nuke. Although Tianlu is practicing this map now, compared with traditional European strong teams, they still cannot make any moves.

So, the mouse was in a dark move on BP. After Title 1 won the cache victory, although it lost to Tianlu on the Title 2 train, in the dust2 of Title 3, they still narrowly won with a score of 16 to 14.

However, although he lost to MOUZ in the quarterfinals this time, it is not unacceptable to Tianlu.

It is just the norm. This is Tianlu’s evaluation of this “Based Test”. Everyone can feel that their status has actually been adjusted a lot, but there are still some details.

It is difficult for you to discover these details in training matches, and you can only expose them in offline knockout matches in such large-scale events because the pressure is enough.

Fortunately, they still have five days to adjust before major.

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After leaving Stockholm, Tianlu directly transferred to London. They didn't care who the winner of the Dreamhack Masters was. They just hoped that they could reach the main game first in the next FACEIT MAJOR qualifiers.

Because Tianlu fell from the "New Legend Group" of the previous major, their opponents in the first round of the Swiss round will be teams from minors from all over the country.

In fact, this kind of matchup is not necessarily good, because among the eight teams that have been directly invited, there are only a few teams that are obviously not good at strength. And these teams that can play from minors at least show that they are in good condition in the near future.

On September 3, 2018, all the teams participating in this major had already gathered in London.

On this day, the organizer also completed the draw of the major qualifiers in the studio.

Tianlu's luck is pretty good. Their first round opponent happened to be his old friend, the Australian No. 1 Cowboy.

Compared with other opponents, this opponent's challenge to Tianlu is obviously much lower, mainly because Tianlu knows Cowboys too well.

Although Tianlu and Cowboys have not fought many times in the past six months, it is mainly because Tianlu has entered the ranks of the world's first-line teams and they rarely appear in Asian stadiums.

However, as an Asian team, Tianlu is very clear about what other Asian teams are like. Especially at this time, the Cowboys have not made up their minds to go to North America to train, so they are essentially still a "Asian team".

This is definitely much easier than facing the teams that have been played by the CIS and European minors.

The weather in London was getting colder in September, and Zhao Yiyang also put on his coat because he was afraid that during the major period, some things outside the game would affect his condition.

After all, at the beginning of the year, when he was major, he performed poorly due to a cold, which also affected Tianlu's path to promotion to a certain extent.
Chapter completed!