A duel actually couldn’t prove a player’s true level.
It was like how S1mple got beaten up by Xantares every time they dueled, but once they entered an actual match, S1mple could play well enough to make Xantares curse his mother.
A duel basically only showed abilities that leaned toward head-on fighting, such as frontal aim speed, crosshair placement speed, reaction speed, and peeking.
But in a match, game sense, map understanding, pacing on pushes, and utility coordination were all crucial.
The truly strong players in matches were all hexagonal warriors.
Danking didn’t know whether Yang Yu was a hexagonal warrior, but he understood that not only had Yang Yu blown him up on the ladder, he had also beaten him into a Muggle in the duel.
When he heard Yang Yu tell him not to go easy next time, Danking laughed outright.
Maybe in the first few rounds, he hadn’t gotten into form yet, but once he fell behind in score, he had absolutely been playing through gritted teeth, with his condition fully maxed out.
But from his perspective, it was simply a horror scene. There was no room for error the moment they met. If his first placement missed, he was basically dead. It truly was terrifying to such an extent.
【LOL, did Danking really go easy?】
【The genius kid beat the egg yolk right out of him】
【The moment he got blown up, Danking knew: I want this guy!】
【The genius kid’s social awareness is maxed out, hahaha】
【He’s already been beaten dizzy by the genius kid, hahaha】
【Danking, why don’t you leave TyLoo? If we can’t make a name for ourselves as pros, we might as well stream and rake in some money】
Facing the teasing in the barrage, Danking didn’t mind.
He opened his mouth and praised, “Brother, you really are strong. After I end the stream later, I’ll go talk to the manager about this.”
“OK! Thanks, my Egg God. Then we’ll meet offline at the TyLoo base.” Yang Yu was also quite happy. Although he hadn’t become number one on the ladder yet, he had successfully obtained a trial opportunity.
Now all he lacked was a trial, and he could become a proper professional player. After that, there would also be a professional player certification beneath his ladder profile.
Just thinking about it was a beautiful thing.
“So are we still playing ladder?” Danking asked.
“Let’s go!”
In great spirits, Yang Yu then began a passionate three-stack with Danking and the others.
Yang Yu played a total of five games with Danking’s trio, and their final record was four wins and one draw.
In the one that ended in a draw, the opponents were a little too transparent. Something was completely off.
Among these five games, only one had Danking carrying. In the other matches, Yang Yu’s frontal firepower was fully maxed out, making Danking and the people in QUQU’s stream cry out in surprise again and again.
It wasn’t until later, when Mini World had something to do, that the two “big carries” driven by Yang Yu finally began to disband, and everyone went off to do their own things.
Yang Yu also rose from S37 stars to S42 stars, taking another step closer to number one on Perfect World.
After finishing today’s ladder climb, Yang Yu entered a deathmatch and completed the price required for ELIGE’s recoil control.
Then, after watching ropz’s Inferno ladder demo, he finally fell asleep in satisfaction.
Danking also ended his stream at this point.
After washing up and lying in bed, Danking recalled what had happened during today’s stream, and only felt that it was somewhat surreal.
But when he thought of that duel, he couldn’t help but start pondering again.
“Did I really not go easy?”
Danking tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. Whenever he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with the sound of being headshotted.
Could this kind of rifler possibly become my teammate in the future?
That seemed not bad either.
……
Yet the two of them, who had already fallen asleep, had no idea that the community had already begun a heated discussion surrounding what had happened between them.
A clip on Bilibili was quietly spreading.
【Danking encounters a genius youth by chance, fights with all his strength but cannot win……】
The contents of this video were very simple. It mainly edited together footage from Danking’s stream yesterday.
From Danking and QUQU’s three-stack running into Yang Yu and getting violently beaten, to Yang Yu saying after the match that he planned to go pro, to him beating Danking up even harder in the duel, and then later carrying crazily in the ladder stack—it had all been cut in.
However, through some editing techniques, the clip creator had directly cut out all the essence.
The CSGO circle had never been very large. As for a genius youth like Yang Yu, quite a number of people in the community were paying attention to him.
Because of Lai’angkai’s cheat analysis, many people had accepted the view that Yang Yu wasn’t cheating, but since he had not proven himself offline, many people still remained skeptical.
But after this clip was posted, the players in the community who still had doubts about Yang Yu instantly had no more thoughts.
After all, Yang Yu was planning to go pro, which meant going for an offline trial. Next, it was basically equivalent to proving himself offline.
【That exaggerated? He directly knocked Danking silly on the ladder?】
【Danking probably wasn’t serious. Pro players playing ladder are purely just enjoying gunfights】
【Tears in my eyes. CNCS has suffered from a lack of geniuses for so long, and finally another genius youth with visible talent has appeared】
【Even if he goes for a TyLoo trial, he’ll still have to sit on the bench for a while. Don’t be anxious】
【Ever since “Potato” carried Wanjiqi, I was actually very optimistic about this guy. His talent is visible to the naked eye. Every time this brother kills someone, it’s a headshot】
【Don’t get ahead of yourselves. We still have to see whether this guy can pass the offline trial. If he can’t, that’ll be hilarious】
【But at least there’s hope】
For CNCS players, the environment these past few years truly had been difficult.
CSGO was never a mainstream game in China to begin with. It was only after it became free on Steam that it slowly gained an audience, and the number of people playing CSGO began to increase.
But immediately after that came the phenomenal FPS game PUBG.
Back then, PUBG was unbelievably popular, practically pulling away all of the FPS geniuses in the country.
As PUBG failed to pass approval and its popularity gradually declined, Riot-operated Valorant arrived again.
They wanted genius youths too!
Now that a genius with talent visible to the naked eye had finally appeared, the players in the community were quite happy inside.
Lai’angkai, who surfed the internet at high intensity, also commented below: 【Good luck. Hope everything goes smoothly for “Potato”】
It was only after Yang Yu woke up from sleep that he saw the blessings many netizens had sent him.
He didn’t particularly care about these waves of discussion, but receiving the blessings of so many netizens still made his heart feel warm at this moment.
……
Danking had not forgotten this matter either.
On the third day after encountering Yang Yu by chance on the ladder, he found the manager and coach who had returned from a business trip.
He found the manager and explained to him, “Recently, I ran into a genius kid on the ladder. He asked me to help him get a trial opportunity. Ask the coach what he thinks.”
The manager immediately translated it into English for TyLoo’s current coach, LETN1.
TyLoo’s current coach was a former Serbian professional player. He had once been teammates with NIKO and YNK. TyLoo had brought him in hoping to use this coach’s European thinking to reverse their Asian-style dry peeking.
“An outstanding new player. Can I look at his demo?” Regarding Danking’s recommendation, TyLoo’s coach still accepted it.
He believed Danking was a talented player. A player he recognized should not be too bad.
The manager acted as the translator between them.
Seeing this, Danking was delighted. He immediately went to the computer and began searching for Potato’s match demos. He found some demos with very close, back-and-forth scores for the coach to review.
As the coach watched Yang Yu’s match demos, he nodded frequently and exclaimed from time to time. Clearly, he was quite satisfied with “Potato.”
The TyLoo manager beside him was also surprised as he watched, and began looking up all sorts of information about Yang Yu.
“You can have him come for an offline trial and see how he performs against professional players,” TyLoo’s coach said, also feeling as if he had dug up a piece of uncut jade.
At this moment, the TyLoo manager asked curiously, “Danking, how did you run into such a beast? These stats are much more exaggerated than when you guys played ladder back then.”
“Hey, I just ran into him on the ladder. The match record is still there.”
“The day before yesterday, when we were playing Perfect World, this guy directly hammered us to pieces. I was bringing QUQU, and he brought randoms and smashed us apart. How could I not be stunned……” Danking explained the whole story of how he had encountered “Potato” to the manager.
The manager clicked his tongue in wonder from the side. “The debut experiences of genius youths really are different……”
Having received the responses from the coach and manager, Danking immediately said, “Then I’ll go contact him now and discuss a specific trial time with him.”
However, at that exact moment, the TyLoo manager’s expression sank. “Tiedan, looks like there’s no need to notify him.”
“Why?”
The TyLoo manager turned the computer screen around.
Danking focused his eyes on it. It was shockingly the ranked match where he and QUQU had run into Potato.
However, on the match record image at this moment, there were four avatars that had clearly darkened.
【Evil Meow-Meow Head (Banned)……】
【Strengthen Black Soil Ah (Banned)……】
【My Art Style Is Above Yours (Banned)……】
【Eat My Blue Silver Entanglement (Banned)……】
“Ah!”
Was this the ladder environment of CNCS?
……
P.S. There won’t be a classic self-proving plot.
Asking for monthly tickets, meow~