FaZe easily achieved a 2-0 result, which was beyond some people's expectations, but it was also within some people's expectations. Because the FaZe team has been in really poor shape in the past half year, plus the challenges they faced

The opponent is not weak and has been in good form recently, so it is indeed a bit unexpected that they can win 2-0 so easily.

However, FaZe's lineup and paper strength make his performance seem natural. The top 1 and top 4 in 2018 are on the same team, and top 1 is still in strong form even if he changes teams, which gives them

Defeat all possibilities.

Finally, after several other 1-0 battles, FaZe's opponents are about to emerge.

"A total of four teams will compete for the first two opportunities to advance to the new legend group of the major. They are FaZe, Cowboys, and ENGAR!"

For FaZe, they have an advantage when facing the other three teams, so their mentality has naturally changed.

"Hey, man, who do you think we'll play next round?"

The coach was joking with the players. Although he asked this question, his tone and expression were very relaxed.

"Cowboy! Or AVANGAR!"

Zhao Yiyang said this because he vaguely remembered that among the three teams, ENCE obviously has a better chance of becoming a dark horse. This is not to say that the Cowboys and AVANGAR are not strong, but there is always a bit of "fate" when facing dark horses.

means, so Zhao Yiyang still wants to fight a relatively weak one.

"I think everything is fine, we can advance smoothly!"

Naturally, other Europeans will not say who they want to fight, especially NiKo and Rain. The two of them have won numerous honors in the past, and their mentality must be different from Zhao Yiyang or Golden. In their view, as long as FaZe is in good condition, then they

It's the strongest team in the world.

As a result, at 9 o'clock in the evening, the draw results for the third round were officially announced.

"Guys, our opponent in qualifying is the Cowboys!"

"I'm familiar with cowboys!"

Zhao Yiyang felt a little more at ease when he saw this draw. Although the current cowboys are no longer what they used to be, and their current strength has improved significantly compared to last year after "leaving Asia to the United States", Zhao Yiyang still maintains his love for the cowboys.

With a complete victory record, he naturally has a strong psychological advantage.

"Come on! Let's analyze the common play styles of the Cowboys!"

The coach stepped forward at this time. His duty is to help the team analyze future opponents and formulate some targeted strategies.

Although ave has not been with FaZe for a long time, and he still has many ideas that he has not had time to apply to the team, his past professional and coaching experience allows the Danish legend to still fulfill his basic responsibilities as a coach well.

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Before this major, he had already conducted a certain analysis of all participating teams. Then as FaZe continued to win, he conducted further analysis of the opponents they might face in the future. This time, FaZe also performed well.

Cowboys are naturally the target of his analysis.

That night, everyone at FaZe did not analyze it too late because they still had a game to play the next day.

However, everyone is full of confidence in the next day's game, because they are confident enough in the current lineup, and their performance in the first two rounds was really good.

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February 22nd is the third match day of IEM Katowice MAJOR. On this day, the two teams that will be the first to qualify for the new legendary group will be decided.

FaZe's game started in the second game, so they could only miss the first promotion spot.

The first promotion spot is determined by ENGAR. Although ENCE may be the biggest dark horse in this competition, AVANGAR can also be called a dark horse because it can reach 2-0.

When two dark horses meet, the winner will naturally be the darker horse. ENCE is undoubtedly a character that better meets this requirement.

With a score of 2 to 1, they lost one game first and then chased two consecutive games to defeat AVANGAR. The Finns used their actual actions to prove that they are indeed the biggest dark horse in the CSGO world in the past six months.

After this game, it was the qualifying match for FaZe's Cowboys. At this time, the Cowboys were already their complete package. The four best Australian players, coupled with a Norwegian veteran, allowed their world rankings to rise all the way.

Currently, their world ranking is 12th. Although they have not yet entered the top ten, the gap with FaZe is not big.

Before the game started, many viewers flooded into China's live broadcast platform. Although the current time is not friendly to Chinese audiences. However, FaZe's high popularity in China itself, coupled with the addition of Zhao Yiyang, made FaZe

In the hearts of Chinese players, the support team is second only to Tianlu.

"Brothers! Let's see if FaZe can qualify today!"

"I am definitely more optimistic about FaZe. Not only are they stronger than the Cowboys, but also because of light. You know, what is Light's winning rate against the Cowboys?"

"100%, Light has never lost against the Cowboys!"

While the commentators were still arguing with the barrage, the BP results of the game had come out. The three maps were Nuke, Mirage and Inferno.

Because of the addition of Zhao Yiyang, FaZe has now begun to gradually give up on cache training. Although Zhao Yiyang did not explicitly say that cache will be removed from the map pool this year, the team strategically gave up one map and practiced the other six maps, which can be regarded as the current

An option for many professional teams.

Therefore, Nuke has naturally become a map that FaZe needs to train on, although they were not good at this map in the past. In 2018, they only played Nuke 8 times.

However, since the team lineup has changed, FaZe must also take the initiative to embrace this change. Nuke's training is the result of the change.

"FaZe did not ban Nuke, but the Cowboys actively chose this map!"

"FaZe has played against Nuke a few times in previous games, but they were still a little raw at the time. If they don't take the initiative to ban now, it means they think they have already practiced it, so we will see how well they can perform."

"As for the last two maps, there is no need to say more. Mirage is FaZe's old trick; inferno, this is Light's trick!"

Before long, the qualifying battle between FaZe and Cowboys officially began.

To people's surprise, the Cowboys, who took the initiative to piuke, were completely unable to break through FaZe's defense on the offensive side in the first half.

Zhao Yiyang's big sniper has a very high degree of freedom in this map. He will appear on the third floor for a while, then check the connection, and sometimes even go to K1 to steal people.

Coupled with NiKo's defense of the front gate and outfield, and Olaf's control of the infield, at the end of the first half, the defending FaZe directly scored 11 to 4.

With this score, no matter how good a team is at Nuke, even if it comes from Team A, it will be difficult to say they can complete a comeback.
Chapter completed!