"Let's go, bros!" During the Pistol Round freeze time, apEX took a deep breath, clapped his hands, and looked at his teammates.
Most of the players looked relaxed. Judging by their expressions, they didn't seem to be feeling much pressure.
Vitality had just replaced misutaa with Qin Feng, and even zonic was mostly treating this as a chance to get some practice in.
Ardo, Magic Man, and the others were no exception.
By contrast, most of G2 looked troubled. Only young prodigy m0NESY tilted his head and smiled at Aleksib, who sat in the middle of the players' bench, directing the team.
Aleksib looked a little gloomy.
M0NESY's skill was there for all to see. Replacing AMANEK with the kid was unquestionably a positive change for the team.
But G2's results were now even worse than they had been under gambling god nexa.
Perhaps m0NESY didn't yet know what was going on, but Aleksib could feel more and more clearly that the team and management didn't trust him.
Meanwhile, as the in-game freeze time ended, the Pistol Round of the first half on DUST2 finally began.
Qin Feng, Ardo, and Big Potato bought Kevlar, while Magisk picked up two P250s and handed one to ZywOo.
As for apEX, he spent a full 700 dollars on a Smoke Grenade and an Incendiary Grenade.
There was no denying that playing at a LAN event dramatically improved the feel and experience for any player.
When Qin Feng had practiced running the map with his Vitality teammates in the UK, his ping had fluctuated between 22 and 35.
But after arriving at the BLAST Lisbon LAN venue, the in-game latency was only around five milliseconds.
Vitality were clearly in better form than during their previous online practice matches.
Following the team's prepared strategy,