The Field of View episode on Falcons’ Cologne Major run also has NiKo warning his teammates before the Spirit decider and karrigan talking m0NESY through his nerves before the final.
A NAVI coach asking his players if they are “afraid of winning” is the scene drawing the most attention in ENDGAME, the 140-minute Field of View episode ESL have released on Team Falcons‘ title run at the IEM Cologne Major 2026. The film went up on the ESL Counter-Strike YouTube channel on Sunday and had passed 220,000 views by Tuesday morning.
It follows Falcons through four series: NAVI in Stage 3, Vitality in the quarter-final, Spirit in the semi-final and the 3-0 grand final against FURIA on 21 June. The opening eight minutes cover how Finn “karrigan” Andersen left a FaZe side that had missed the Major, and the honest team talk after a loss to BetBoom. Every voice on screen is subtitled in English, with the speaker’s name in front of each line.
We watched all of it. These are the four scenes worth skipping to:
- 9:07 B1ad3’s timeout with NAVI leading 11-6 on Anubis (watch)
- 1:37:54 NiKo’s warning after Mirage in the semi-final against Spirit (watch)
- 2:02:12 karrigan and m0NESY minutes before the grand final (watch)
- 2:19:08 NiKo on the 30 days after the trophy (watch)
NAVI’s timeout at 11-6
The Stage 3 series between NAVI and Falcons went to a third map, and NAVI led 11-6 on Anubis. Coach Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi still called a timeout and started with his AWPer, Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov:
What are you doing guys? Why you’re not risking when you don’t have… Ihor (w0nderful). Did you see how you played the round? You want to shoot with AWP a little bit or maybe you drop to somebody else? What do you think? Huh?
He then asked for makazze, whom he calls Drin, to come and clear water, and turned to the whole team:
We can push, we can create space. We cannot give them scripts. […] You’re leading 11-6. What is happening? You’re afraid of winning or what is happening?
It did not work. Falcons won six rounds in a row, NAVI forced overtime, and Falcons won it there to lock in their place in the playoffs. Dust2 Brasil was among the first to pick up the scene after the release.
NiKo after Mirage
The semi-final against Spirit is the longest part of the film. Falcons saved a map point and won Anubis 16-14 in overtime, then lost Mirage 13-8 on Spirit’s pick. Before the decider, coach Danny “zonic” Sørensen told the team “it sounded like we gave up too fast”, and Nikola “NiKo” Kovač spoke next:
This is the only way I cannot accept that we lose, if we play like we did on Anubis and we lose, we… But this way, if we lose, I’ll be super disappointed in each and everyone of you and myself as well. So if anyone is down we push them back up, ok?
Falcons won Dust2, with karrigan pushing through the smoke at B doors for two kills in round 20, a play he talks through himself in the film. On the other side, donk describes the night after the defeat in Russian, with ESL’s subtitles: “I felt that I lost to myself. …] They didn’t do something special or anything” ([1:58:53).
karrigan and m0NESY before the final
A caption in the film notes that the grand final was karrigan’s fourth CS2 Major final. Backstage, Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov points at his stomach and cannot find the English word for butterflies. karrigan does the rest:
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for, the moment you’ve looked at every major. Everytime. You look the final. I don’t look the final. I hate to watch. Because… It hurts, you know? But now you are the one in it. And it’s first of many, bro.
He sends m0NESY out to “take the first one with a storm” and to “go in and play how you always play the game”. Falcons then won Mirage 13-8, Anubis 13-8 and Inferno against FURIA, with Maksim “kyousuke” Lukin and René “TeSeS” Madsen as the other two names on the trophy.
NiKo’s 30 days
The last section belongs to NiKo, who had lost the 2018 Major final with FaZe. Earlier in the film he says “every Major loss was more and more difficult. Especially that I’m getting older” (1:59:28). After the trophy, he says:
I was the happiest man alive for the next 30 days. It brought me so much joy to see how many people were actually just happy for me as well.
He adds that he was “jumping, breaking a monitor by throwing the headset in the monitor”. m0NESY calls it his “small dream” to “finally break the curse of grand finals lost in a row”.
Falcons have not reached a final since Cologne. They open BLAST Rivals Season 2 in Hong Kong against Vitality on , a rematch of the 2025 Copenhagen final they lost 3-2.
