We’re approaching the top of the European RMR 1 for the PGL Main Copenhagen 2024, and we’re starting to have a transparent image of the primary set of groups who might be showing at subsequent month’s Main. At the moment, we had the most important shock up to now, with Falcons’ big-money superteam falling to AMKAL, leaving the qualifier within the course of.
So, how did it come to this? Let’s check out what precisely went down in Bucharest.
Falcons flop in Bucharest
Credit score: PGL
It’s unimaginable to name this something aside from a disaster of epic proportions. After placing collectively a superteam constructed to win CS2 tournaments, Saudi-owned Falcons have crashed out of the RMR for the PGL Main Copenhagen 2024 with a 1:3 report. It’s a efficiency even worse than the Falcons’ report on the BLAST.television Paris RMR final yr, with a roster consisting of gamers comparable to NBK-, bodyy, and the corpse of kennyS.
For the likes of Magisk and zonic, this isn’t fairly what they signed up for. 4 and five-time Main winners respectively, it’s unthinkable that they received’t be there for his or her house Main in Copenhagen. Being reverse-sweeped within the closing collection in opposition to AMKAL ought to by no means have been on the playing cards, however an enormous efficiency from ICY on the ultimate map meant Falcons had been dumped from the competitors. On paper, Falcons ought to have been the one winner right here. However then once more, Counter-Strike merely isn’t performed on paper.
So, what subsequent for Falcons. We think about Magisk and the previous ENCE core of Snappi, SunPayus, and maden might be given extra time to get issues proper, regardless of this abject failure. For BOROS, the final remaining survivor of the earlier Falcons roster, this might be his closing displaying. NiP’s failure on the RMR yesterday was unhealthy, however someway, this feels worse.
NAVI proceed their Main streak
It’s not a Counter-Strike Main with out NAVI. As the one group to have been concerned in each CS:GO Main, the staff went into their 2:1 bracket match in opposition to BetBoom seeking to lengthen that spectacular report into CS2. It wasn’t with out a few hiccups, however they obtained there in the long run.
Credit score: PGL
NAVI got here flying out of the gates on map one, taking Overpass in 13:4. They slipped up on Anubis, the place BetBoom simply appeared to have all of the solutions to NAVI’s questions. Approaching to the Nuke decider, they confirmed nice mentality to battle again even when BetBoom received just a few titling rounds. Reward must go to jL and Aleksib particularly, who had been firing on all cylinders to get this match over the road.
As for BetBoom, they face one other robust matchup tomorrow in opposition to Turkish staff Everlasting Hearth. It’s an unlucky, tough draw, however at their greatest, they’ve proven sufficient to show they’ll take the two:2 match. If not, the Final Likelihood Qualifier awaits.
Right here is the complete choice of outcomes from the newest day of motion on the PGL Main Copenhagen 2024 European RMR 1:
Fnatic 0:2 KOI
AMKAL 2:1 Falcons
FaZe 2:0 Everlasting Hearth
9 Pandas 2:1 3DMAX
Enterprise 0:2 SAW
NAVI 2:1 BetBoom
