The Falcons fly to France for Spring

kennyS is back. To sh*tstomping tier 500 teams, but back regardless.

And when we say tier 500, we’re not being totally dismissive. He quite literally smacked a team called 500 in the qualifier to move a step closer to Paris, and apparently, that’s enough to get people gassed.

By people, we do mean Thorin.

He will at least be at the RMRs for Paris, and it’d be a cool story if Falcons were able to qualify for a French Major and kennyS’ comeback would be in his home country. Though we would get a case of deja vu from FalleN, coldzera, and co. just a few months back.

Which failure would be more amusing?

They won’t be joined by any other French teams — except maybe Vitality, if dupreeh is still out - as all of the others fell in typically French ways.

500 ended up sneaking through with iNation - a Serbian team - in the Last Chance qualifier, while the other big stories came in the Closed A Qualifier. Not just one, but two UK teams qualifying for the RMR.

If you hate English people (or Irish people), we recommend not going on Twitter during the RMRs. Or just blocking them all. You won’t miss much. Into The Breach aren’t completely out of nowhere, but Viperio are a team of people you probably haven’t heard of and a real, genuine UK team with just two Irishmen — if you count the coach, that is. Otherwise, it’s just one.

Quite how this was allowed to happen is beyond us, but we’re sure their losses at the RMR will bring joy to most of Europe.

Don’t adjust your sets.

GamerLegion, Apeks, B8, 1WIN, 9INE, Aurora, forZe, Eternal Fire and Monte also qualified in Europe.

Elsewhere…

Imperial and BESTIA (ex-ISURUS) went 3-0 in the South American qualifier, with Fluxo, Flamengo and Paquetá getting through in similarly simple fashion. paiN and Complexity swept through in NA, with MIBR (yes, we know they’re not NA) and Detonate qualifying as well.

IHC are joined by a new Mongolian team, Eruption, in the Asian RMR, with VERTEX and TYLOO sneaking through the qualifier too.