Anyone claiming bingo on their 2024 card, put your hands down. There’s no way you saw this one coming.

BOROS being benched in Falcons? Sure, that was pretty predictable, especially given the rumors of NiKo in silly seasons past. But signing s1mple, the GOAT, is not what we expected; especially not on a one-month loan.

With rumours swirling of a $100K loan fee for s1mple’s services, it’s not a cheap stunt from the Falcons’ camp either.

Sure if you compare that 100k to YEKINDAR’s reported buyout fee of 1,000.000 USD, it’s peanuts. Relatively, we’ll gladly take 100k if you’ve got it. But that 1 million buyout was for YEKINDAR’s transfer, not just a month of his time*.* And even if you still think that’s a fair price seeing as there’s quite a bit of CS to play in a month, you’re wrong. Falcons are only playing in BLAST Showdown. Buuuuuut, it is s1mple.

If you thought maybe they had an event not announced yet, it’s not that either.

Falcons Director of Esports hammered home that it was just to cover for Blast Showdown, and that it’s supposed to give them flexibility for a future fifth. **

But let’s be real. This is a glorified paid trial.

Falcons get to see what s1mple will perform like as a rifler, s1mple gets to see how he likes the team, and NAVI gets to make money either way. Sounds like good business to us.

In March Falcons will be: