Falcons dissatisfied of their closing occasion of the 12 months as a run of 5 top-four finishes in a row got here to an abrupt finish by the hands of Group Spirit on the StarLadder Budapest Main.
After the sport, Falcons coach Danny “zonic” Sorensen advised Esports.internet that Spirit “stunned” them and that his staff made “too many errors” because of this.
Falcons Fail to Soar
Spirit banned one among Falcons’ weaker maps, Inferno, and as such, the veto seemed favorable for the Saudi Arabian group. Inferno being gone allowed for Falcons to go for one among its stronger maps because the decider, and so they opted for a punish decide of Nuke to open the sequence.
That decide backfired, nevertheless, with a powerful CT facet from Spirit leaving the Falcons staff “stunned with a few of their aggression” based on zonic. Nevertheless, the legendary Dane was additionally fast to say it wasn’t simply right down to Spirit’s strengths.
He advised Esports.internet: “I additionally assume we had good conditions after we needed to go in and didn’t capitalize on them or get the trades off. That’s one thing we now have to do higher.”
Missed alternatives and an absence of composure gave the impression to be the story of the day for Falcons; in addition they misplaced Dust2 regardless of as soon as holding a beneficial 11-5 lead on their CT facet. zonic was easy in his evaluation, saying: “I feel the nerves acquired to us a bit of bit.”
That isn’t to say he was utilizing that as an excuse, although, as he additionally criticised the staff’s communication, missed utility, and their failure to fall again on their preparation or protocols as rounds acquired robust. He additionally heaped reward on one Spirit participant, nevertheless, saying that their much-maligned star Ivan “zweih” Gogin “went loopy.” An unavoidable fact, zweih did impress as he put up a monstrous 2.17 scores throughout all CT rounds within the sequence, while additionally offering an ace on every map.
zonic Lambasts “Unacceptable” Yr
The loss to Spirit implies that Falcons’ 12 months has now come to an abrupt finish. Their solely trophy of the 12 months got here approach again in April, at PGL Bucharest, earlier than two key roster adjustments: Abdul “degster” Gasanov and Emil “Magisk” Reig departed for Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov and Maxim “kyousuke” Lukin.
The dearth of trophies is one thing that zonic labelled as “unacceptable.” The coach advised Esports.internet that “The ambition of the staff is to win trophies, and we haven’t managed to try this.”
Nevertheless, his criticism of the staff wasn’t with out reward. As he acknowledged the sturdy run of type that closed out the 12 months and the adjustments that have been made to the roster, zonic added that he’s “glad,” saying: “after all, we need to win trophies and we now have to place ourselves in conditions to win them, however I feel we’ve executed that. We haven’t missed a playoffs since Cologne, and we’ve additionally been very near profitable trophies. If we are able to overcome that hurdle, then subsequent season we gained’t be speaking about 4 or 5 second locations, however possibly even a few trophies.”
Earlier than that, the staff must get by means of the compulsory quantities of hypothesis that may come their approach. ‘Only one extra star’ is the frequent phrase utilized in Counter-Strike, and each Valeriy “b1t” Vakhovskiy and Jimi “Jimpphat” Salo have been linked with the staff up to now.
