s1mple's LAN return ends in defeat
s1mple's LAN return saw the Falcons kick off their ESL Challenger Katowice 2024 campaign against SAW in the Group A opener and it was far from the ideal return for Counter-Strike's greatest player.
The action kicked off with Magisk and dupreeh turning around a 2v4 on their T side to give themselves the opening round but SAW answered back with five in a row before a B hit with impact from the Major-winning Danish duo once again got them back on scoreboard. The Falcons could manage just one more round as a sloppy T side from Snappi's boys saw them concede a 3-9 lead.
Falcons' CT side saw them start with the pistol and it was dupreeh leading the comeback as Falcons brought it to a one-round game before SAW finally got a T-sided round. A crucial 1v2 from Ag1l kept SAW in the game and the Portuguese team caused quite the upset, closing things out at 13-11, with s1mple yet to win a game in CS2.
Falcons now will take on Eternal Fire in the Group A elimination game, with Eternal Fire having lost their opening game to B8 earlier in the day.
FalconsSAW| Falcons |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen |
24 - 17 | +7 | 106.6 | 58.3% | 1.29 |
| Emil 'Magisk' Reif |
18 - 14 | +4 | 86.3 | 70.8% | 0.97 |
 Pavle 'Maden' Bošković |
12 - 17 | -5 | 67.1 | 75.0% | 0.83 |
 Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev |
12 - 15 | -3 | 63.2 | 75.0% | 0.81 |
| Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer |
9 - 17 | -8 | 50.6 | 62.5% | 0.62 |
| SAW |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ricardo 'roman' Oliveira |
17 - 16 | +1 | 74.4 | 75.0% | 1.26 |
| André 'Ag1l' Gil |
16 - 14 | +2 | 69.6 | 58.3% | 1.22 |
| Christopher 'MUTiRiS' Fernandes |
19 - 14 | +5 | 75.5 | 83.3% | 1.22 |
| João 'story' Vieira |
13 - 15 | -2 | 62.8 | 79.2% | 1.08 |
| Michel 'ewjerkz' Pinto |
15 - 17 | -2 | 75.0 | 66.7% | 0.91 |
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