Reducing the pressure on the "wolf" and giving the domestic team an intensity The 2024 CFS Asia Series has made a bold attempt

2024-04-29 20:14:44

Reducing the pressure on the "wolf" and giving the domestic team an intensity The 2024 CFS Asia Series has made a bold attempt

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2024-04-29 11:49Posted on the official account of Sichuan Cover News

Cover News Reporter Cai Shiqi

On the evening of April 28, the final of the 2024 CFS Asia Series (APAC) Spring Tournament came to an end, and the KZ team from the CFPL (CrossFire Pro League) defeated the CRH team from the CFVL region of Vietnam with a score of 3:1 to win the APAC championship for the first time.

The list of participating teams in this year's APAC is very different from that in 2023, except for the champion and runner-up CRH and RKE of the CFVL Spring Tournament, as well as the PM and SGJ teams of the Philippine Division, the biggest change comes from the participating teams of the CFPL China Division, not the champion and runner-up White Shark and EP in the Spring Tournament, but the third and fourth places in the Spring Tournament KZ and Qingjiu.

It is precisely this adjustment that has played the finishing touch to this year's APAC Spring Tournament, and the growing strength of the Vietnamese team will have a profound impact on the competitive landscape of the CF esports world in the future.

Reducing the pressure on the "wolf" and giving the domestic team an intensity The 2024 CFS Asia Series has made a bold attempt

Team KZ won the championship

The rapid development of CF in Vietnam The echelon strengthening of CNCF is imminent

After the implementation of the 2023 CFS e-sports plan last year, the wolf breeding support provided by CFPL for overseas regions, as well as continuous exchanges, have made the strength of overseas divisions continue to rise, in the confrontation of this APAC spring game, the strength of the Southeast Asian team, especially the strength of the Vietnamese team, is still beyond the imagination of most domestic audiences, in the APAC spring knockout round on April 28, CRH Lianke CFPL division Qingjiu and his own RKE team in the same division, broke into the finals, showing strong fighting spirit and strength in the game with KZ, although CRH has played 8 pictures before breaking into the finals, but CRH is getting braver and braver, and KZ fought four pictures in the final, and two pictures fought to overtime, but unfortunately lost in the end. However, through this campaign, CRH has successfully further demonstrated APAC's terrifying wolf breeding ability.

The CRH team in the CFVL division of Vietnam is a frequent visitor to the CF international competition in recent years, this team has steadily accumulated experience in the competition by continuously participating in cross-regional events, and the Chinese audience is becoming more and more familiar with them, but this time in the APAC Spring Tournament, CRH is not the only star of the Vietnam CF, the performance of the runner-up team RKE in the CFVL Spring Tournament is also eye-catching, with a wave of four consecutive wins to amaze the audience, and also defeated the big brother CRH in the CFVL derby, and directly competed with KZ on the 27th for the top spot in the group with the same four consecutive wins。

In fact, the CFS international stage has been developed for more than ten years, and there has been no top team other than CNCF for a long time, the last time to break the CFPL international six consecutive championships was Brazil's BD team, they won the world championship in 2018, and then in 2019 CFS VG team helped Brazil successfully defend the title, but then CNCF was ashamed and brave, Qingjiu, Chengdu AG and White Shark won the 2020-2023 CFS world championship in turn.

With the loss of Chengdu AG to White Shark in CFS last year, after the retirement of the main darling of Chengdu AG, CFPL presented a new competitive pattern, "10,000 years old" White Shark in the just-concluded 2024 CFPL Spring Finals, defeated the newly formed EP by Ma Zhe to win the championship, and it was not easy to win. Three or four representatives of the CFPL in the spring tournament such as Qingjiu participated in the APAC Spring Tournament, not only to avoid bringing top pressure to the teams in the Southeast Asian region and to avoid directly replicating the difficulty of the CFS finals, but also to allow the CFPL second-tier teams to accumulate international experience and improve themselves.

KZ and Eithisa participated in this APAC as the third or fourth place finishers in the CFPL Spring Tournament

The annual points system conducts a long-term assessment of the teams, and each competition region goes hand in hand to redraw the pattern of the world competition

In addition to the upgrades, expansion and bonus increases in the tournament system, there is an important adjustment in the 2024CFS esports plan announced at the beginning of the year, that is, the professional leagues in each region will adopt an annual point system, and the qualification for international competitions will also depend on the total results of the whole year, which puts forward a longer period of requirements for the performance of clubs.

Due to the different levels of development of CF esports in different regions, the Europe, Middle East and North Africa and Brazil regions have adopted the same points rules, and the Vietnam CFVL League has just taken shape, and the points are determined according to the league ranking, and the teams of the secondary league CSC also have the opportunity to enter the CFS World Championship.

The total points of the spring and summer tournaments jointly determine the qualification for the 2024 CFS Championship, which also means that the importance of each game in the regular season has been enhanced, and every team cannot relax.

The CFS World Championship has been expanded

In the past CFS World Finals and the last APAC, the CFPL participants have always had a fixed league champion and runner-up, which also means that the differences between the CFS World Finals and APAC are limited, and the CFPL region, which is in the leading position in the world, still has a lot of potential to be explored, especially in terms of helping to improve the strength of overseas teams with its own experience. How to further release the experience of strong divisions and help overseas regions further improve their strength has also become a long-term proposition under the global pattern of CF Esports.

After the long-term domination of the "Chengdu AG Big Demon King" in APAC last year was broken, this year's event has more variables. This is at the time when the new white shark of the CFPL has not yet sat on the throne, allowing the strong teams in the second echelon of the league to play against overseas teams can have a two-way strengthening effect: so that Southeast Asian teams have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the playing style of teams other than the strongest teams in the CFPL, and KZ and Qingjiu can also jump out of the CFPL division to observe the routines of overseas teams in actual combat, find new inspiration, absorb and grow, and launch new challenges to the CFS World Championship.

In fact, the rapid growth of the CRH team in recent years is not unique. CRH has continuously improved its own strength by frequently participating in international competitions and playing against strong teams such as Chengdu AG and White Shark many times, and after they returned to CFVL, they also formed a catfish effect, stimulating the growth of other Vietnamese teams.

Judging from the scene, this APAC seems to have reduced the difficulty for overseas teams, and also increased the intensity of the second-echelon strong teams of the CFPL. However, at a time when the CFPL is going through a stage of vigorous metabolism, the CFS Esports Program helps the leagues in each major region grow together through innovative adjustments to international events such as APAC, achieving the effect of going hand in hand, and the global ecology of CFS Esports is becoming more and more complete and full of fresh vitality.

2024 CFS Tournament Calendar

Through the adjustment of the participating teams, this year's APAC Spring Tournament has formed a significant difference from the positioning of CFS, and has also set a new model for cross-regional international competitions in other regions.

The 2024 CFPL Summer Tournament is about to begin, and CFVL S2 Vietnam is also poised to take off, and it will be interesting to see how much nutrients each participating team can absorb after the fierce competition in the APAC Spring Tournament.

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