Maybe Snappi and zonic do know what they’re doing, after all.

From the ashes rose not a phoenix, this time, but five Falcons. The new superteam looked dead in the water in Katowice, but with their backs against the wall in Group A they stood taller than anyone expected.

Well, anyone who watched them in their other games, anyway.

Falcons looked incredibly shaky against Rebels in their first elimination game - having been dicked by Eternal Fire - and stumbled past Complexity into a showdown with NAVI.

NAVI had beaten Apeks and Eternal Fire in much more convincing fashion, and when NAVI raced into a 10-3 lead on Ancient, it looked done and dusted; but you don’t put Magisk away that easily.

Falcons won 10 of the next 11 rounds, including a forcebuy that seemed to break NAVI’s spirit, concentration and minds entirely in the next round, and romped to a dominant victory on Mirage.

Their 13-4 victory was their first recorded game on the map, by the way.

We’ll refrain from calling Aleksib a massive chok- ah, too late.

Elsewhere, donk absolutely eviscerated FaZe almost single handedly to top that group, having torn Complexity and NAVI to shreds already. We mentioned Complexity’s loss to Falcons, but it’s important to note because just a month ago we all thought they might be okay.

Dear reader, they are not okay.

Group B was pretty wild, really. ENCE 2-0’d G2 to become the first Polish team in the Spodek since VP, but found themselves on the end of a beating by MOUZ, who quietly look like a top three team in the world right now.

Despite an impressive win over Monte, GamerLegion couldn’t finish off Heroic in the lower bracket. They actually looked very good at this event, though - Heroic, too, surprisingly solid.

Speaking of which…

Do you remember on Monday when we talked about Vitality being on the brink of elimination? They lost a rip-roaring series to Heroic to go out in last place alongside Rebels, Apeks and… Cloud9.

The less said about Cloud9, the better. They got spanked by a Monte team who didn’t look at their best.

G2 eventually cleaned up Heroic in the deciding game to join ENCE and MOUZ, and have a chance to retain their crown.