Falcons secured a place in the ESL Pro League Season 24 playoffs by beating Natus Vincere in three maps: 13-6 on Inferno, 15-19 in overtime on Anubis and 13-8 on Mirage, HLTV reported.
The win completed a 3-1 group stage for Finn "karrigan" Andersen's team and sent them through to the playoffs at the Spodek Arena. NAVI dropped to the 2-2 pool, one loss from elimination.
NAVI split the first half of Inferno 6-6 on the attack, but Falcons won seven straight rounds after the switch to take the map 13-6. Nikola "NiKo" Kovač finished Inferno with a 2.74 rating.
Anubis was closer. Falcons won eight rounds on the CT side, which HLTV called the map's unfavored side, and NAVI's own defense held well enough to take the map to overtime, where NAVI won it 19-15.
NiKo and Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov led Falcons on the Mirage decider with 26 and 19 kills respectively as the team closed the series 13-8.
