ESL said goodbye to the Professor after FURIA’s quarter-final exit, on the day FalleN passed ZywOo for the most clutches won on LAN.
Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo has played his last Intel Extreme Masters event. FURIA went out of IEM Beijing 2026 in the quarter-finals on Friday, beaten 2-1 by BetBoom, and with FalleN retiring at the end of the year, there is no IEM left on his calendar.
ESL marked it with a farewell post at :
“There is likely no single human being that has got more people playing Counter-Strike than you,” the organiser wrote.
Two titles in ten years
By Dust2 Brasil’s count, FalleN won two IEM titles and finished second four times, from Katowice in 2016 to Cologne this summer:
| Event | Team | Result |
|---|---|---|
| IEM Katowice 2016 | Luminosity | 2nd |
| IEM Oakland 2016 | SK Gaming | 2nd |
| IEM Sydney 2017 | SK Gaming | 1st |
| IEM Chengdu 2025 | FURIA | 1st |
| IEM Kraków 2026 | FURIA | 2nd |
| IEM Cologne Major 2026 | FURIA | 2nd |
Half of those finals came in the last two years with FURIA, a team he joined in 2023 and helped turn into the HLTV No. 1.
A record on the way out
FalleN did not leave Beijing empty-handed. During the event he passed ZywOo as the player with the most clutches won on LAN in Counter-Strike history, Dust2 Brasil reported. In September, at StarSeries Fall, he had already moved past Xyp9x on 475.
The lead is a single clutch, so the race is not over.
Two stops left
FURIA go next to BLAST Rivals Season 2 in Hong Kong next week, their last event before the PGL Major Singapore. The Major starts on 24 November, and FURIA are invited straight to Stage 3 as the top team in the Americas.
