Cousin Jokes About Individual Skill
After DD got the final kill, the match froze on the screen.
Jiang Yang and his teammates shouted and cheered, letting out all the emotions they'd been holding inside.
Maybe because they'd lost the BO3 to Little Fire yesterday, the whole team had been a lot more tense than before, and hadn't played nearly as relaxed.
Jiang Yang's teammates hadn't been in particularly good form, either, so the match had still put them under some pressure.
Now, in this qualification match, Jiang Yang had carried the team to a map win with his outstanding performance. The pressure was on the other side now.
If MR failed to perform on even one of the remaining maps, Steel Helmet would advance from this Major qualifier to the Major itself.
Steel Helmet would then be one of the sixteen strongest teams in the world. Jiang Yang would get to lead this lovable bunch of old timers to match CNCS's best-ever result.
He'd also get his very own player sticker!
And Jiang Yang had played so beautifully on the first map, with an absolutely outstanding performance overall. If there had been a crowd in the arena, he could already imagine their cheers.
Even though there was no audience for the Challenger Group matches, he could imagine just how lively the chat in his cousin's stream was right now.
"Cousin was incredible on the first map... Do you remember some of those plays? He had the other side laughing. Today, he read MR like an open book." Ma Xixi praised his cousin to the skies.
At this Stockholm Major, Ma Xixi's biggest hope had been to watch veterans like S1mple, NIKO, and Elige—the ones still haunted by past disappointments—and see if they could finally put those regrets behind them.