Huh? Main team tryout? (Seeking minimum monthly votes)

After more than twenty hours of flight, Su Zhe finally arrived in Sweden.

Led by the club's airport reception staff, he arrived at the entrance of the Nip club. From a distance, he saw someone waving at him.

"Hey! Bro!"

After comparing the photo he had prepared in his phone's album, Su Zhe realized that the person waving was k0nfig, who had added him twice.

As they got closer, k0nfig gave him a big bear hug. "You're finally here. It must have been a long trip."

Su Zhe felt a little shy from such a generous gesture. It was his first time meeting such an enthusiastic "stranger."

K0nfig greeted the staff member who was leading the way, then said to Su Zhe, "Let's go, I'll take you to the training room first."

Su Zhe nodded and followed behind k0nfig. K0nfig talked quite a bit along the way, introducing him to the club's various facilities.

Su Zhe nodded from time to time, observing his surroundings, and marveled in his heart that Nip was indeed a powerhouse team in the CSGO world. The corridors within the club alone were several times wider than those at Tianlu, where he had been before.

The decoration was even more impressive, no different from the grand villas he usually saw in movies.

He followed k0nfig into the elevator and went all the way to the training room door. Peeking inside, he saw only four people.

Su Zhe asked curiously, "Are there so few people in your youth training? Or is it not training time yet?"

Hearing this, k0nfig couldn't help but laugh. "How could this be the youth training department? This is our main team's training room."

"Oh, I see." Su Zhe scratched his head awkwardly.

He had a bit of trouble distinguishing foreigners' faces. Except for those who were more famous or had distinctive features, they all looked the same to him.

At this moment, the people in the training room also noticed the unusual situation at the door. A tall guy with curly hair stood up and walked towards the door. "You must be Arrow, right? I'm es3tag, the temporary captain of Nip. Come in and take a look."

REZ and headtr1ck looked at Su Zhe with curious eyes.

The coach, djL, who had been watching demos, stood up and shook Su Zhe's hand with a smile. "It must have been a long trip. Have you booked a hotel? Your tryout is scheduled for tomorrow at two in the afternoon."

Su Zhe said, "Can I try out today?"

K0nfig was surprised. "Huh? Aren't you from China? Don't you need to adjust to the time difference? You should at least rest."

Su Zhe shook his head. "No need. I feel like my condition is pretty good right now."

Although he felt tired after a twenty-hour flight, he had slept quite a bit on the plane.

Most importantly, Su Zhe was too excited about this tryout. He was afraid that if he thought too much tonight and couldn't sleep, his performance in the tryout tomorrow afternoon would be worse.

Es3tag gave him a thumbs-up and smiled. "As expected of an 18-year-old, you have so much energy. Ten years ago, I was just like you, training for more than ten hours every day without getting tired."

DjL hesitated for a moment, then said, "Alright then. I'll contact the X team and see if they're available today."

After he finished speaking, he took out his phone and walked out the door.

Huh? Team X?

Su Zhe thought his English listening had failed him, so he looked at es3tag and said, "Could you tell me the location of the Youth Training department? I can find my way there myself."

Es3tag asked in confusion, "Why are you going to the Youth Training department?"

"To try out."

"Why go to the Youth Training department for a tryout?"

"Where else would I go for a tryout?"

"Hahahaha!" The conversation between the two made several people in the training room unable to help but laugh.

K0nfig clutched his stomach and laughed, "We're not looking for someone for the youth team this time. Otherwise, we wouldn't bother with this."

Es3tag nodded and said, "That's right. If your tryout performance is satisfactory this time, you can directly join our Main Team."

He then added sheepishly, "However, due to certain reasons, the difficulty of this tryout might be a bit high. You'll need to achieve a good result."

"But with your outstanding performance in the Ladder, as long as your condition is good, passing the tryout should be no problem."

Su Zhe felt his head spinning. His attention was entirely focused on the first half of the sentence.

Huh? Me? Directly into the Main Team?

The Nip team, which could crush Tianlu, is letting me join the Main Team directly?

Hearing this news, Su Zhe felt like he was watching The Three-Body Problem. This was too sci-fi!

Seeing Su Zhe's silence, es3tag thought he was a bit nervous and continued, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Team X's goal this time is also to try out new teammates. They have three new players this time, so they basically won't be using tactics in the matches."

As he said this, es3tag couldn't help but sigh for his hometown team.

Denmark had always been a country that produced strong CSGO teams. Before that, Team Liquid won three Major championships in a row, forging the longest dynasty in CSGO history.

And Team X, as Denmark's second team, was often ranked among the top ten in the world.

However, a few months ago, Team X announced they were benching their team's soul, Point Brother, and their key players stavn (Snake) and jabbi (Mouse) also backstabbed the team and went to Team Liquid.

This resulted in only sjuush and TeSeS remaining in the team that had once reached world number one. The team's ranking plummeted.

K0nfig, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up, "Stop standing around. Since we're planning to have the tryout today, Arrow, you go warm up on that computer first. We'll get ready too."

He said this while pointing to one of the computers in the training room.

Hearing this, Su Zhe snapped out of his immense joy and quickly replied, "Okay."

As he sat in front of the computer, he quickly calmed his mind and began to focus.

Although he wasn't sure why he had suddenly gone from youth training to a tryout with the main team, the opportunity was here, and he absolutely wouldn't let it slip away.

While Su Zhe was practicing his aim on the training map, shooting at over 300 bots, the coach who had just left returned.

"Fortunately, the new members of X team arrived early and stayed in the rooms arranged by the club last night. Otherwise, it would have been really uncertain if we could have scheduled this today."

As he spoke, he came up behind Su Zhe and asked, "Is there anything else you need to prepare?"

Su Zhe shook his head, "I'm ready. I can start anytime."

DjL nodded, "Alright, warm up a bit more. The other side will be ready soon."

Under es3tag's guidance, Su Zhe joined the TS Voice channel. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the ten players from both teams officially entered the custom room.

Just before they were about to start, es3tag, as the captain and shot-caller, reminded them again on the voice channel, "This time, we're on the attacking side and won't use set tactics. We'll just play default. It's the same for the defending side."

Su Zhe nodded upon hearing this, feeling that such a tryout was reasonable.

Set tactics were strategies formulated before the match began, where each player would simply follow the plan.

As a newcomer, he naturally wouldn't be able to coordinate well with their tactics.

Default play meant holding the map positions you were assigned in the early game and then deciding how to play based on the situation in the mid-game.

This style relied more on individual player skill and experience, which was the main purpose of tryout players.

Su Zhe stretched his finger joints, ready to start at any moment. Coach djL stood behind him with a tactical notebook, ready to record.

Both sides chose a map. Nip chose Mirage, while X team chose Inferno.

The tryout rule was also that each side would play a full 12 rounds, and then they would switch sides and play another full 12 rounds, regardless of the score.

For the first map, Nip chose Mirage and decided to start as the attacking side.

Soon, the ten players loaded into the server.

T Side: Es3tag, k0nfig, REZ, headtr1ck, Arrow

CT Side: Nertz, TeSeS, nicoodoz, sjuush, kyxsan

Before the match officially began, es3tag glanced at Su Zhe, who had a serious expression, and reminded him again:

"Good luck! The opponents are all veteran players who have been playing professionally for many years. Be cautious during the match, don't play like you do in regular ladder games."

"Okay!" Su Zhe nodded.

After entering the server, his first feeling wasn't nervousness, but rather how smooth the 20+ ms server latency was!

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