Thunder bag! You're not even at the terrorist's house, where are you hiding?

A 4v5 clutch situation, and the pressure was back on the defense.

"Help me watch mid, I'm going to peek from A short," Calyx said, glancing at imoRR by the elevator. "Tell me if you hear anything, I'll smoke for s1mple."

However, Fnatic, who had taken control of A main and blocked off the CT spawn, didn't choose to push immediately. Instead, they crept towards the A bombsite, unwilling to give the CTs any information.

Fnatic's silent approach clearly caught the defending Eternal Fire off guard.

By the time Calyx realized the Terrorists had reached the A bombsite, his smoke grenade was already a beat too late.

Before the smoke had even fully deployed, Calyx was spotted by ALEX, who was holding an angle on the ramp.

"Dada."

Bullets flew. Using the silhouette he saw before the smoke popped, ALEX landed two AK shots on Calyx, who was still hiding in the smoke.

Following that, a molotov on A short completely sealed off the CTs' rotation route from A short.

With Calyx eliminated, the CTs lost almost all their defensive angles. The remaining Eternal Fire players were forced to save their weapons once again.

5-0!

In the following rounds, Eternal Fire's players became increasingly out of sync.

Within the first minute of each round, the CTs were almost forced to abandon all their forward positions, having to focus their defense around the A and B bombsite areas.

Qin Feng's sniper rifle was putting immense pressure on them.

Although woxic had tried to hold A short with his sniper rifle, he was almost always forced back by flashes and smokes.

By the time he wanted to re-peek, Qin Feng, who had already locked down the angle, naturally wouldn't give woxic any chance to fire.

After the first 10 rounds of the first half, the score had already reached 9-1.

While Qin Feng's stats weren't the highest on his team, his AWP was putting unparalleled pressure on Eternal Fire.

Every time the defense tried to retake an advantageous position, they were ruthlessly shut down by Qin Feng's sniper rifle.

The CTs holding the bombsite were isolated and unable to deal with Fnatic's explosive pushes.

"This isn't working," woxic gritted his teeth. "We can't defend if they control the map like this. Their sniper is too good at holding angles."

XANTARES nodded in agreement. "Let's push mid with utility, playing this passively is too much."

As they communicated, the eleventh round began.

Apart from one player scouting A main and one CT heading to B, the remaining Eternal Fire players opted for a three-man push through mid.

Perhaps due to their consecutive point gains, ALEX, who had been clearing B lower, seemed to let his guard down, and was instantly headshot by XANTARES, who had pushed up to B lower.

"Be careful, they're pushing B lower," ALEX reminded his teammates, annoyed.

It was supposed to be a standard 4A1B setup, and he should have chosen a safer position.

"Okay," Qin Feng nodded. After throwing his utility, he aimed towards mid.

To avoid the CTs pushing forward and wide-swinging, Qin Feng's sniper rifle was positioned slightly further from the wall.

However, woxic's aggressive push with his sniper rifle clearly exceeded his expectations.

[Eternal Fire.woxic eliminated Fnatic.Aether with an AWP]

The remaining three Fnatic players had already taken A main, but XANTARES had also cleared out B.

With their attack direction locked down, the three Terrorists naturally couldn't complete the 3v5 clutch.

The score subsequently became 9-2.

In the following rounds, Eternal Fire seemed to have found a way to break through.

By pushing forward at the start of the round to trade kills, they disrupted Fnatic's offensive rhythm.

Although Qin Feng's sniper rifle often locked down one of the pushing CTs in the subsequent rounds, the other Fnatic players clearly hadn't adapted to Eternal Fire's sudden aggressive tempo.

As the scores alternated, the first half ended with a score of 11-4.

After a short halftime, it was time for Eternal Fire and Fnatic to switch sides.

A simple rush through A short by the Terrorists directly headshot the defenders at CT spawn and A main.

As for Qin Feng rotating from B, he only managed to trade woxic on the small path under the Terrorists' crossfire and quick follow-up shots.

The score naturally shifted to 11-5.

Eternal Fire was naturally unwilling to give up this hard-won opportunity, and by consecutively winning Fnatic's gun rounds and ECO rounds, they narrowed the score to 11-7.

Since Qin Feng hadn't chosen to force a fight with his teammates after losing the pistol round, he had now picked up his sniper rifle.

This sniper rifle would become Eternal Fire's nightmare.

No matter how skilled the rifle players were, they could never gain an advantage in a duel against a top-tier sniper.

Even XANTARES.

Not to mention, he would be facing Qin Feng, who would never let his guard down due to holding an angle for too long.

Fnatic's remaining players had also found their form.

Once Fnatic acquired their full rifles, Eternal Fire found themselves unable to score, ultimately losing the first match with a score of 7-16.

After a short break, they moved on to Inferno, the second map chosen by Fnatic.

Unexpectedly, Eternal Fire chose to start as Ts, just like Fnatic.

However, Fnatic continued their hot streak from the previous match. After winning the pistol round, they immediately pulled ahead to a 3-0 score.

The fourth round began, which was also the first full buy round of the match.

Eternal Fire didn't choose to default to holding sites using their weapon advantage, nor did they opt for a direct rush with utility.

Instead, it seemed like they were playing individually, with each player finding a CT on the map to engage in a gunfight.

In less than a minute, Eternal Fire found themselves in a 2v4 situation.

"Is Eternal Fire crazy?" ALEX, hidden near the tree position on Banana, smacked his lips in surprise.

Wasn't Eternal Fire just handing them free rounds and a chance to warm up and buy weapons?

However, it wasn't long after ALEX spoke that the in-game chat began to refresh with messages.

Eternal Fire.ImoRR: pause!

Eternal Fire.Calyx: Can't find the bomb.

The game was directly paused by a PGL administrator.

"What, why did the game suddenly pause?"

"Did a player disconnect?"

Wan Ji Qi, unable to see the players' communication in-game, opened the official social media accounts of the tournament organizers.

"Oh, let's take a look. It seems a player from Eternal Fire has reported a bug in the game."

"The bomb on Eternal Fire's map disappeared, they can't find it, and they are discussing with the tournament organizers about replaying the round."

"According to official news, the referee observing the game had already reminded them about the bomb's location at the start of the round, but several players from Eternal Fire apparently didn't see it."

"The organizers and both teams are still in discussion."

[Bomb! You're not even at the bombsite, where are you hiding?]

[No pause when you can't find the bomb, but pause when it's 2v4?]

[Boldly and irresponsibly guessing, if Eternal Fire had eliminated all the opponents, they wouldn't have paused.]

[Damn, Aether is in such good form right now, what's the meaning of this pause?]