Inside the 6657 livestream room, the bullet comments erupted like a volcano!
“Holy shit! That turn-around could scare a man to death!”
“He can turn around even without an ‘oh’? Haki Dark, you bastard!”
“Big Sweet Potato takes the kid from behind on Banana, then with no info turns from A Apartments into Boiler and catches a perfect back. In the end, that Dark bastard activates killer-intent detection. Is this still the CSGO I know?”
“Fuck, I can’t tell who the ‘cheater’ is in this round anymore!”
“Is it possible they’re both ‘cheaters’?”
“I get what you mean. Cheat-car collision—just depends on whose parameters are higher, right?”
“The key is why does that Dark bastard hit every Scout shot, while when I buy a Scout it feels like a telescope?”
“Don’t forget, Dark debuted as a sniper back then too.”
“A sniper and a Scout are two different things. That thing isn’t meant for humans to use, okay!”
“...”
The livestream chat was scrolling like mad, all kinds of shock, doubt, and memes mixed together, the atmosphere so heated it almost burst through the screen.
At G2’s player booth, the instant Meng Lang completed that unbelievable turn-around shot, sniping ZywOo outside Boiler just as he was about to knife him in the back, the excitement that had been suppressed for so long finally exploded completely!
“Nice!!!” m0NESY was the first to slam the desk hard, shouting in excitement!
The reason the kid was so excited was not only because they had successfully turned around this crucial force-buy eco round, but also because it felt like he had finally vented the frustration choking him.
Why was he frustrated?
Because just now on Banana, ZywOo had perfectly read him and shot him from behind, killing him with one bullet. For someone with such strong pride, it had made his face flush with embarrassment.
But Meng Lang’s shot just now made his whole body feel at ease.
Niko also could not help laughing as he slapped Meng Lang hard on the back, his face flushed with excitement. “Good shit! That was too damn good, brother!”
He had just been killed by dupreeh through the smoke in that clutch and had almost thought it was over. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Meng Lang had held against the pressure in the end.
He took a deep breath, quickly calmed his excitement, put his headset back on properly, and began rallying the team in voice:
“All right, brothers! Since we even won that force-buy eco round! There’s nothing more to say next! Play well! Map one may be their pick, but I feel like we can win today!”
At this point, Niko smiled and glanced at Vitality’s booth opposite them, his tone carrying a hint of teasing. “They’ve got a ‘cheater’? No problem. We’ve got our own ‘cheater’ too!”
Hearing Niko’s teasing, Aleksib and huNter could not help laughing as well, but within their smiles there was now an added steadiness and exhilaration. Almost at the same time, they looked once again toward the calm-faced Eastern youth beside them.
The ability this young rookie had shown today—to step forward at critical moments and create miracles again and again—as well as that final extreme reaction and prediction, as if he had eyes in the back of his head...
They had only ever seen such qualities in a very small number of the absolute top players.
For example, the man opposite them whose ID was ZywOo.
At the same time, at Vitality’s booth across the studio, the atmosphere seemed slightly gloomy.
Losing a key round like that, one they had almost had in hand—and a rifle round against the opponent’s force-buy eco at that—still dealt a blow to morale.
In fact, aside from ZywOo himself, no one would blame him for losing such a clutch. After all, ZywOo had already done more than enough in this round: at the start, he used astonishing patience on Banana to “camp-kill” m0NESY; in the mid-round retake, he then smartly and silently rotated from A Apartments into Boiler, catching a perfect back-timing that nearly shocked everyone.
No matter who looked at it, that was already the perfect performance of a top-tier player.
If one had to blame something, it could only be blamed on that Dark on the other side... that final turn-around was simply far too unreasonable.
ZywOo looked at his gray screen. His lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he only sighed softly. A trace of barely perceptible annoyance and... confusion? flashed through his eyes.
He was annoyed that if he had not switched to his knife at the end and given the chance, it would have been fine.
As for what confused him—
How could he turn around like that?
Yes!
ZywOo could not understand it!
Just as others could not understand him.
At that moment, apEX beside him clapped his hands hard. The loud sound broke the silence. He forced his signature slightly roguish grin onto his face and exaggeratedly livened up the mood:
“Okay! Okay! Guys! I admit it, that point was my problem! I shouldn’t have told ZywOo to pull out the knife at the end! My bad, my bad!”
He spread his hands and made a comical gesture of admitting fault, then immediately raised his voice, returning to that high-spirited posture of the “mad dog” caller:
“But! Smile, all of you! Don’t wear funeral faces! We haven’t lost yet! This is nothing!”
apEX’s joking attempt to take the blame and encourage them finally made the somewhat stagnant atmosphere in the team start moving again.
ZywOo also took a deep breath, gripped his mouse again, and his eyes regained their focus.
But after their rifle round in the second half was overturned by a force-buy eco, Vitality had no money in the next round either. They could only choose a pure USP eco.
There were no surprises.
apEX called for a 5A stack, but Little Li chose to hit B directly, and G2 took the round easily.
The score in the second half also reached 10:8.
Both sides once again entered a rifle round.
Although Meng Lang bought an AK and, after equipping his signature weapon, raised his aim stats to T0 level, unfortunately, there was a naturally T0 star player on the other side.
The score between the two sides remained deadlocked. Before anyone knew it, it had reached 14:14.
They had arrived at the match-point round. Whoever won would take match point.
Through an ABA rotation, G2 created an opportunity for ZywOo to face a “local 1v3.”
All right, in truth, it was just that Vitality’s teammates did some dumbass things at the end and got killed on the way to retake.
ZywOo, holding an AWP in the pit below A Apartments, had his position locked by three G2 players, facing a three-man rush from A Apartments and A1.
“ZywOo! Can you snipe three?”
Unfortunately, G2 did not give him that chance.
Although ZywOo in the big pit landed a high-difficulty “dragon raising its head” shot, sniping down huNter as he jumped from A Apartments, in the next second, Niko’s vacuum-cleaner-like AK pre-aim swept straight onto his head!
One bullet took him away.
Vitality lost this match-point round.
They were also forced into a timeout.
In the 6657 livestream room, Wanjiqi could not help shaking his head and sighing.
“Oh! ZywOo, you had no chance!”
“What a pity! At this kind of distance, the AWP ultimately still can’t create too many miracles!”
“Now it’s 15:14. G2 have taken match point first, but Vitality still have economy in this round. They can still buy rifles. Now Vitality have called their final timeout. After the timeout ends, whether they can once again show astonishing tenacity and drag this into overtime, or whether G2 will completely kill off and end this match, will depend on this round’s mind game between the two sides.”
Along with Wanjiqi’s voice, at G2’s booth, Little Li set the tone for the round right from the start.
Fake B, real A.
At the start, Little Li threw the Yellow Wall cutoff smoke. Meng Lang immediately followed with a car molotov and flash to apply pressure, not giving the other side a chance to push up toward logs.
Meng Lang, charging in front, was no longer the same as before when it came to map timing. After throwing his utility, he fell slightly back. Only after two rounds of utility exploded at Tree and Cubby did he pull out his AK and press forward.
At this moment, the car molotov ahead still had not gone out. Coupled with the nade-molotov combo Niko sent toward sandbags behind him, Vitality simply had no way to stand at the front point of Banana this round.
Meng Lang led the charge and suddenly accelerated, pushing straight to sandbags and successfully taking control of Banana.
Seeing this, Wanjiqi could not help exclaiming.
“Oh! G2’s Banana control is very well done this round. This acceleration directly takes logs and sandbags. Vitality clearly also started with three B this round, wanting to fight for Banana, but G2 opened with the cutoff smoke and then took sandbags. Now they can only defend from the back.”
“Hehe, looks like while Vitality were calling their timeout, G2’s coach wasn’t idle either. In the earlier rounds of the second half, G2 never played it this way.”