With the arrival of the Katowice major, csgo officials have also opened a necessary link for every major for players - major betting.

In this major betting, no audience placed VC at 0-3 or 3-0.

Today's VC's strength in the eyes of the world is no longer as unknown as it was in the first half of the year.

As an emerging team that has shown its prominence in the Fog Major, they have accumulated a large number of fans. Even if they are not fans, they have seen the strength of VC in this year's IEM and have put them in the promotion team.

The draw for the challenger group of this Katowice major follows a strength-dividing mechanism.

They divided the teams in the Challenger group into two levels: Legend and Challenger.

Legend is the team ranked 9-16 in the Fog Major, and the first team of vc is within this level.

The challengers are the teams that have qualified through the rmr pre-selection this time. The second team of vc, ll, is within this level.

In the same level, they divided all participating teams in the challenger group according to their rankings based on their previous performance in the major, the results of this qualifier, and the strength of the competition area.

After all the sorting is completed, the first day of the game will be played in such a way that the first place in the group will play the last one in the group, and the second place in the group will play the second place in the group.

This method may be a bit cruel to those teams that have finally qualified from rmr.

But he can ensure the strength of the teams in the following competition formats to the maximum extent, and can try his best to ensure that there will be a strong matchup situation later.

Of course, except for the groups on the first day, the entire challenger group follows the Swiss system.

This means that as long as you have the strength, even if you lose on the first day, you still have a chance.

The Swiss format has been decided.

You will always encounter opponents with the same record as you. As long as you can win three games before losing three, you can advance to the legendary group.

While it gives people hope, it is also extremely cruel.

This competition format also tests a team's comprehensive ability.

In the challenger group competition, all teams will initially compete in a bo1 format, while games involving elimination or promotion spots will use a bo3 format.

In the end, this is a 16-to-8 competition, and only 8 teams will advance to the legendary group stage.

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Looking at the competition format announced by the organizer, Meng De can still accept it.

This format will put a lot of pressure on the second team, since they will be playing the legendary team from the beginning, but it will be very easy for the first team.

So he can then focus more on the second team and let Wu Qiang take charge of the first team for the time being.

What's more, in the past six months, the first team has not made such troublesome mistakes.

Even if the game is slow, he will adjust himself later.

What worries him now is that the intensity of the second team is so high when they come up. Can they withstand it?

In the first game, the second team had to face the Mad Lions, who had made big news before.

Among them, the star player Quit is a player who won the mvp medal with a rating of 1.22 in the Fog Major. He is very powerful.

What's more interesting is that due to the time arrangement, the first team's game starts before the second team's game.

In this game, the first team had good luck and met bikg again.

The bikg team was at the Fog Major and was vc's last strong opponent in the challenger group.

At that time, they put a lot of pressure on vc, but s1mple was stronger than ting. Coupled with their various tactics, they successfully advanced to the legendary group stage.

This time the two teams met again, it was a battle of revenge for each other.

After bikg was bought out, he chose to buy a player with the ID name 'steady' from the trading market.

Steady means steady, but this player's strength is too steady, and he can even be called the sixth player.

If s1mple is a radical representative, then this player named steady is completely the other side of s1mple.

In this game, vc still showed an impressive performance and easily won its first victory.

s1mple even achieved an astonishing record of 22-5-7 in the game, and the situation was overwhelming.

Meng De stayed in the first team's battle room for a while, then hurriedly came to the second team's side.

"S1mple is so fierce today!" Broky commented while chewing the chewing gum he received from the director.

"All big-game players are like this." gla1ve replied.

They were still very nervous, but the first team set an example for them.

A few people also felt a little more relaxed.

"Do you think we can defeat the Mad Lion?" Broky still didn't have much confidence.

In his opinion, he is just a player who has only been in the scene for less than half a year, while the Crazy Lions are one of those big teams that appear in the news.

Tig said to him from the side: "We haven't fought yet. You were sent here by the opposite party, just to disturb the morale of the army."

"Where do I have..." Broky defended.

Meng De heard a few people chatting and came over to comfort him:

"It's normal to be nervous when facing a big competition. I'm very nervous now too."

"Coach, are you nervous too?" Broky expressed disbelief.

"I am also a human being, why am I not nervous?" Meng De rolled his eyes at Broky, "The opponent is very powerful. For you, the opponent on the first day is not friendly."

"Their strength is much stronger than yours. Once you lose your confidence, you will be completely doomed."

gla1ve interrupted Meng De: "Coach, you are exaggerating."

He does think the coach is making a fuss out of a molehill, and even if they lose the first day's game, he doesn't think they will ever recover.

Failure is the main theme of the profession. They cannot win every game, but they cannot let the loss of one game affect their professionalism.

It seems that the coach is confused if he cares.

Several people were a little surprised by today's coach. In their opinion, the coach has always been quite steady, so why were he so nervous today?

However, after a few people chatted like this, they no longer felt so much pressure.

Yes, it's just a game.

Haven't played it yet.

Meng De carefully looked at the expressions of several people on the side and made sure that their nervousness had been relieved a lot, and then he felt relieved.

In fact, he was never nervous from beginning to end.

He has a lot more experience participating in major competitions than these guys.

What he did just now was just based on a little trick from psychology.

If someone notices that someone else is more nervous than you, then some of his or her nervousness will be relieved.

Now it seems that this little trick is somewhat effective.

"Okay, check your peripherals, we'll be ready to go."

.......

"Welcome to the first day of the Katowice major challenger group. This game is between vc.a and wl (Crazy Lion). I am the commentator for this time."

"I am Wang Yuning, the commentator for this competition."

"In the just-concluded match between VC and BiKG, the big brother of VC's first team gave them a good start. I hope the boys from the second team can perform well in this game." Coke is full of expectations for this.

Next to him, Wang Yuning, a former professional player, said:

"Although I also hope that the boys of the second team can win this game, the Danish Lions are still very strong."

"The libero Zero in their team won the title of top 11 in last year's selection, and the eldest player in the team even won the MVP in the last Fog City Major. There are two strong players here.

, the strength of the VC second team is still a bit lacking."

Coke nodded: "It is true that judging from the strength on paper, the strength of the second VC team is not very good."

"But kennys' talent is obvious to all, and gla1ve is the most eye-catching leader in Asia this year. It's not without opportunities."

"However, the results on paper are only shallow, and the final result will have to be revealed in the competition. If bp's results are good, then vc.a may still have a chance."

"Then let's take a look at the BP situation on both sides."

After the guessing game, VC got the right to be the first ban in this game.

Meng De came up and chose to ban the Lost City where the second team performed the worst.

The crazy lion sent away the death amusement park.

Mengde then sent away the Mysteries of the Dead City who had not performed well in his team.

The opponent is very fast, so remove the train.

As a result, there are only three maps left, namely Town, Shaer, and Nuclear.

Meng De carried Sha Er away, and they had a higher winning rate against small towns and nuclear weapons.

Crazy Lion managed to avert the nuclear crisis and left behind the last classic picture of Purgatory Town.
To be continued...