The next two teams are a little obvious, unfortunately. However, I’m not going to stop shouting this from the rooftops until it actually happens.

Falcons, my brothers, you’ve just got to accept that this sh-t isn’t working. zonic aside (who, never fear, I will be coming for in the near future), the role balance of this team stinks.

You’ve got kyxsan, an IGL relatively happy to take space and make information-seeking plays. Then you have NiKo, a very versatile player who will always be best served as the tip of the spear. Oh, but you also have TeSeS, another player who is similarly most effective when placed at the head of the attack, albeit in a slightly more supportive role.

It wasn’t incredible, but you made it work. And then you went and added kyousuke, a player who can only be placed in those positions favoured by NiKo and TeSeS, because his zoomer ADHD won’t allow him to do anything else.

Now look, I don’t blame you for signing kyousuke. I’d have done it too. I mean, how could you not? He was the latest Russian prodigy to come through the Spirit wonderkid factory, and given that he was happy to leave so as to not be overshadowed by donk, it’s better you have him than one of your rivals.

The issue with that, though, is that you benched Magisk to sign him. And not the player who would be permanently sent to that little chair in the corner of hotel rooms as a result of the new kid on the block’s arrival.

Okay, maybe Magisk also needed to go, he wasn’t exactly great. And maybe TeSeS deserved a chance to be versatile, but what about TeSeS ever made you think he would be?

For the sake of it, let’s just take a quick look at the numbers. In the first half of 2025, playing in generally favourable positions, TeSeS recorded a perfectly respectable 1.07 rating, with that number increasing to 1.15 on T sides.

However, after kyousuke arrived, that rating fell to 0.95, the lowest on the team. And, in case you were wondering, the T sides became the problem, dropping drastically to 0.93.

Now, if you had just done the correct thing and made a change over the Winter break, we might have already seen you lift a trophy this year. Sure, it would have been BLAST Bounty, but who knows what would have happened in Kraków without your resident bum and a returning kyousuke?

Unloseable rounds aside, it’s this role balance issue that keeps you far away from your closest rivals. If you had a Jimpphat, a b1t, or even a PR, you might look a lot closer to the likes of FURIA or Vitality. And given the fact that you made light work of Vitality with a nobody like NucleonZ in Bounty, that should be pretty f-cking clear by now.

And look, I get it, the dominoes just didn’t fall when you needed to. But you seem to forget that you’re Falcons - you don’t wait for the dominoes to fall, you’re the ones who topple them. And then, just like in all the other games that apparently only exist for the purpose of the Esports World Cup, you become the undying conquerors.

Stop f-cking about.

Please?

Source: ESL