After a slow start in the first map, on the second map, on inferno, which VG actively selected, all FaZe players played and directly completed the beating.

16 to 7, everyone was killing, which also resulted in Zhao Yiyang's data not being as eye-catching as the first map.

"This is FaZe. Everyone has the ability to kill. Even Golden, who has been criticized in the past, can still have a good head-to-head winning rate against Asian opponents like VG."

This BO3 can be said to be a near miss. In other words, even if the Asian team has improved in strength, in fact, it is only Zhao Yiyang who has improved them.

Take Tianlu as an example. Before the major, FaZe and Tianlu also played several training matches because of Zhao Yiyang.

However, after this ebb and flow, Tianlu's strength is far less than their peak last year. Although it is definitely stronger than before Zhao Yiyang joined, the new Tianlu is, at this time, almost the 15th in the world.

About the level of the first name.

Although Zhao Yiyang still hopes that Tianlu can keep at least one spot in the main competition, whether he can keep it or not depends on Tianlu himself.

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The first round of the game didn't have any major disturbances. Perhaps the only upset was the violent beating of fnatiCE, currently ranked sixth in the world.

But this is normal in Zhao Yiyang's view. After all, ENCE's dark horse career can be said to have completely exploded in this major.

And fnatic, which has lost flusha and golden, even if they still have the bald KRIMZ and the talented boy n in the team, their strength and style are still far from the fnatic team in the past.

Moreover, time is needed for the growth of talented young people. There are very few "geniuses" like Zhao Yiyang who do not need much time to grow. Everyone will reach their peak when they debut, and the height of the peak is high enough, just like

Leng Shen in 2016, or Zywoo who should have appeared in 2019.

Speaking of zywoo, in this major qualifier, his team Vitality also lost the game in the first round. They lost to G2 in a "French" civil war.

And zywoo's performance can't be said to be very good. After all, they lost the game with a score of 0-2, and zywoo only achieved a record of 33-36, which made some people start to question it.

And the best "gun" to question Zywoo is naturally Zhao Yiyang.

"Light started carrying from the first major last year, and he still had a cold at that time!"

"Is this Zywoo? I can't see how he is better than N at all!"

This is a major. On the major stage, all players receive higher exposure than other competitions. Especially for young players like this, it is normal for their status to fluctuate when they participate in such a competition for the first time, but this will also

Give some people a reason to attack.

The first day of competition is over. In the end, FaZe, ENCE, G2, Cowboys, IP, Vega and NRG won the first round and entered the 1-0 pool.

Among these teams, the most promising one is undoubtedly FaZe.

This is also the first time that Zhao Yiyang has been treated as a "popular" in such an S-level event, which makes him feel a little strange.

"Haha, brother, don't you think it's incredible that we are still the most popular among these strong teams?"

After listening to Zhao Yiyang's thoughts, NiKo also laughed: "This is the thinking of the strong. You are not in Tianlu, not in Asia, but in FaZe. Although our performance in the past six months was not good, we

We were once the number one team in the world, and we were also the champions!”

"There are three top 20 players in our team and two former top one players. This is the reason why everyone is optimistic about us. You have to get used to this, we are strong!"

A strong player must still have the confidence to win the game no matter how strong the opponent is, and FaZe is like this. Their opponent in the second round happened to be NRG, the highest-ranked team in the qualifiers for this major.

This North American team performed very well at the end of last year and is now ranked as high as fifth in the world, two places higher than FaZe.

Although their commander daps is a "commander player", that is, his marksmanship is relatively average, the three young people in the team, Brehze, cerq and ethan, have all grown up.

But FaZe's paper lineup is no worse than any team in the world. They have last year's top 1 and top 4, and they also have top 15 players. Three top 20 players allow them to guarantee firepower when facing any opponent.

The advantage is as long as the players perform normally.

As a result, on the first map of BO3, which was still the overpass actively chosen by FaZe, they really showed their strength.

16 to 3, a violent beating, a complete beating. Everyone was killing indiscriminately. Olaf, who had the lowest rating in the entire team, had 1.29, and his record was also +5. Naturally, the one with the best statistics was sniper Zhao Yiyang, who had the lowest rating in the 19th round.

He got 23 heads in the game, and was only killed 7 times, with a rating of 1.96.

"FaZe is back!"

If the performance against VG in the first round was not enough to make people think that this FaZe has regained its form a year ago, but this BO3 against NRG made everyone feel that this Galaxy Battleship

It really started again.

Under golden's command, they played more flexibly than in the past when karrigan was here. Golden gave light and NiKo more flexible positions, and also adjusted the position of rain.

"In the past, Rain was definitely the one who focused on breakthroughs, but now, he has become the second shooter, and the first one has become Golden!"

"It is definitely a wise choice to let Rain make up for the loss. The Norwegian player's form fluctuated greatly last year. If he is still allowed to make breakthroughs, the adjustment to his form will never be as immediate as this!

"

"Light and NiKo still guarantee the upper limit of FaZe's firepower, which also provides Olaf with a more comfortable space to do what he is most familiar with!"

"At least judging from the situation in this major qualifier, FaZe's substitutions are definitely in line with people's expectations. Of course, the specific upper limit of their strength after the substitutions will have to wait until the main game or even the knockout rounds of the Legend Group to see

clear!"

The world of CSGO is like this. Although the world rankings given by hltv are a reliable reference for the current status of the team, there is no way to feel the horror of teams like FaZe or NaVi just by looking at the world rankings.

The reason is simply that their upper limit is too high.

From the perspective of the opponent NRG, although their team's integration is very good, the three firepower points in the team can be said to be completely suppressed when facing FaZe, that is, they are completely crushed in terms of marksmanship.
Chapter completed!