Falcons’ hyped-up roster isn’t what followers hoped for.
Falcons has official fallen out of competition for the 2024 Copenhagen Main, which breaks a number of aggressive streaks for Emil “Magisk” Reif and coach Danny “zonic” Sørensen. The newest disappointment additionally kills the squad’s momentum from a top-four end at IEM Katowice 2024. Right here’s how the crew’s RMR run broke down and why Magisk lacking out is such an enormous deal.
Falcons entered as an affordable favourite for the Copenhagen Main European RMR A, although it confronted robust competitors from groups like G2 Esports, Virtus,professional, Na’Vi, FaZe Clan, and extra. Nonetheless, Falcons was anticipated to make the Main with a 3-1 or 3-2 scoreline.
The crew gained its first match towards 3DMAX 13-8 on Nuke, which was a more in-depth scoreline than most followers anticipated. It drew a really troublesome matchup in FaZe for spherical two, in the end dropping 7-13 on the exact same map. Falcons would as soon as once more play on Nuke towards Everlasting Hearth, which was arguably the hardest attainable opponent within the 1-1 pool.
Sitting at 1-2, Falcons’ make-or-break match was set towards AMKAL. The Russian-Kazakh stack had actually zero accomplishments collectively earlier than this RMR, making Falcons an awesome favourite to win. The birds dominated on Vertigo, however fell to an equal shellacking on Historic. The decider on Mirage hit additional time, however a swift three rounds for AMKAL ended issues simply as shortly as they began. Falcons’ Main goals are formally over.
Magisk to overlook Main, ending six-year attendance streak
Falcons’ defeat implies that Magisk, one in every of CS2’s most embellished gamers, will miss his first main since 2018.
Magisk has attended each single Counter-Strike Main for the reason that London FACEIT Main in Sep. 2018, which he gained with Astralis. Magisk performed in three of Astralis’ 4 Main wins and earned one other with Vitality on the 2023 BLAST.television Paris Main. He ranks among the many most embellished CS gamers of all time surpassed solely by a few of his Astralis teammates. This was his first alternative to attend a serious with Falcons.
As well as, Falcons coach zonic will miss his first main in his complete teaching profession. The player-turned-coach joined Astralis when it was nonetheless generally known as Group Questionmark. He attended each single Main since then together with the BLAST.television Paris Main after transferring to Vitality. He joined Falcons throughout the crew’s 2023 rebuild. The shock loss on the European RMR A method each he and Magisk will miss the prospect to increase their Main streaks.