Falcons only let Mouz win nine in two maps when they enter the second consecutive final.

Mouz.

Falcons became the first team to reach the final of IEM Melbourne after wiping out Mouz in a one -way semi -final.

Nikola "⁠niko⁠" Kovač and his teammates have met Mouz again four times in the past two months and has failed three times, but this story is completely different after the appearance of Ilya "⁠m0nesy⁠" Osipov.

The addition of the Russian player is bringing immediate effect, when he reached the average rating of 1.44 in Falcons's map victories before the semi -finals and continued to perform impressive performance in the match against Mouz with a series of opening phases on Dust2 and Clutch 1V2 extremely important on Nuke.

Not just the stage of Niko and M0nesy

However, the story not only revolves around M0nesy and the "companion" Niko burden the squad.

The whole team seemed to have been revived after the victory in Bucharest and the latest join, when Damjan "⁠kyxsan⁠" Stoilkovski and René "⁠teses⁠" Madsen also maintained a stable performance in the semi -finals.

In the "destruction" match of Dust2, Teses topped the achievement table, while Kyxsan - the captain in the game - led by extremely effective processing phase, thereby winning the title of Player of the Map. With a stable performance on Nuke, the Macedonian player even compared to the two brightest stars in the team, reaching the highest ADR index and 1.48 rating.

Emil "⁠magisk⁠" Reif had a difficult time to adapt to the new reality, when he spent four consecutive tournaments with sound ratings, but after a slow start on Dust2, his performance on Nuke was not bad.

Mouz is completely missing

In the opposite direction, it is difficult to find a positive point in a match that Mouz only won a total of 9 rounds through two maps.

Jimi "⁠jimpphat⁠" Salo is the only person who plays stable on Dust2, but most of the time he can only witness his teammates collapsed in the other half of the map, while on Nuke, the significant effort of Dorian "⁠xermion⁠" Berman could not save the situation.

Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi and Asia "Torzsás" Torzsás is especially difficult, with Spinx recorded the worst index of his career in the 3-13 defeat on Dust2 (rating 0.30), although he had been a key factor in the group stage; And Torzsi also recorded the second lowest rating in his career in the same map (0.27).

"The pressure has influenced us, we began to respect them too much," Dennis "⁠sycrone⁠" Nielsen shared in the interview after the defeat.
"On their side, they have a new source of energy and you can feel it on the server. We let them have too much map control space, and that is the factor that makes a big difference. Today, they played with us."