Falcons defeated Aurora 2-0 at ESL Pro League Season 24 in Katowice, HLTV reported, winning Mirage 13-4 and Dust2 13-10. The result followed a 2-0 win over TYLOO in Falcons' opening match of the event, leaving the team without a dropped map across its first two series.
Mirage was Aurora's map pick. According to HLTV, Falcons built their lead on the CT side, where Nikola "NiKo" Kovač led the team, and then converted on the T side after René "TeSeS" Madsen won a 1v4 in the pistol round.
Dust2 was closer. Özgür "woxic" Eker and Ismailcan "XANTARES" Dörtkardeş carried Aurora's CT side to a halftime lead, HLTV reported. Falcons then won eight rounds in a row in the second half, with Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov central to the run, to close the map and the series.
The match was the first time Damjan "kyxsan" Stoilkovski had faced Falcons since leaving the team earlier this year. Aurora came into the event having finished second at StarSeries Fall, their previous tournament, with what HLTV described as a newly formed international roster.
Before the event, Falcons' Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin had called ESL Pro League a "high priority tournament" for the team, HLTV reported, citing a need to show what the roster is capable of after its season so far.
