FalleN: “Your soul is not there […] it’s just the body”

FURIA’s retiring captain says he lost his energy and passion for months this year, and only found his drive again recently.

FalleN has opened up about the hardest part of his final season. Speaking on BLAST’s broadcast after FURIA beat Falcons 2-0 in the semi-final of BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 2 on Saturday, the 2016 Major winner said there were months when he was only there in body.

Asked what it would mean to win the Major in Singapore as his last event, he described a year spent “fighting against myself for many months”:

We had some situations in the team, like we are not fully connected on the beginning of the year, we fixed all those things, at some point, at some point, I didn’t really have the energy or the passion to really give my best every day, even though I was still there, you know, when sometimes you are in the situation, sometimes you are in a place, but your soul is not there, you know, it’s just the body.

That has changed. “I think I was able to find that drive to finish better,” FalleN said, calling it “remarkable” to still be competing 23 years after he started and ten years after the top of 2016. A Major title would be “a cherry on top”.

“They play for me”

FalleN, who retires at the end of the year, spent most of the answer on his teammates rather than on the trophy.

They’re playing with a guy who they know is not going to play with them anymore, and they’re still trying their best every day, so all I can say is, no matter if I win the Major or not, […] I’m just very grateful that I have the teammates I have, and that they play for me.

He was just as warm about molodoy, the Kazakh AWPer who joined FURIA as a rookie. “There’s just some players where you play against, and you know he’s just above,” FalleN said, adding that he is proud of how molodoy has developed “not only as a player, but as a human being as well”. molodoy went 43-24 in the semi-final.

Thanks to Falcons

FalleN also thanked Falcons for agreeing to replay a round on Dust2, after YEKINDAR dropped out of the server, as we wrote in our report from the semi-final. He said he did not think it would have been “fair for everyone” if the game had continued.

“I have done that in the past, and now it’s been done to me, so I appreciate a lot this,” he said.

He also had a message for the map pool. FalleN called himself “a big hater” of Anubis, which he would remove, and said he would bring back Overpass, a map “you just cannot TikTok”.

FURIA meet Spirit in the Bo5 grand final in Hong Kong on Sunday. After that, FalleN has one event left: the PGL Major Singapore, where FURIA start in Stage 3 on 2 December.

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