kyousuke went 58-37 to keep Falcons alive, while nin9’s 1v3 on map point carried The MongolZ through a double-overtime Nuke against HEROIC.
Team Falcons knocked FaZe Clan out of IEM Beijing 2026 on Tuesday with a 2-1 win in the Group A lower bracket, taking FaZe’s own Ancient pick 13-3 and the Mirage decider 13-7 after a 13-10 loss on Anubis. FaZe leave in 13th to 16th place with $4,000.
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FalconsStatsAncient 3-13, Anubis 13-10, Mirage 7-13
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A day ago no Falcons player finished the 2-0 defeat to NAVI with a positive K-D, and kyousuke went 33-35. On Tuesday he went 22-7 with 117.9 ADR on Ancient alone, where Falcons led 10-2 at the half on FaZe’s pick.
NiKo wakes up on Mirage
FaZe hit back on Falcons’ Anubis. JBOEN went 25-8 with 95.5 ADR, the best K-D by any FaZe player on a map in the series.
The decider was level at 6-6 at the half. NiKo had 17 kills over the first two maps, and on Mirage he added 21 with 98.4 ADR. His clutch set the tone for a 7-1 second half, and karrigan finished the series off against two of the players he used to call for at FaZe, frozen and Twistzz.
FaZe coach enkay J said after the match on ESL’s broadcast that FaZe threw away several post-plant advantages on Mirage, including two 3v2s at the end of their T side. He also pointed to the pistol rounds deciding too much of their play:
We cannot fully just rely on pistol rounds to get momentum going. We cannot be momentum clan.
FaZe will take a few days off after three and a half to four weeks on the road and then hold an online bootcamp before Stage 1 of the Major in Singapore, he said.
Falcons, the Cologne Major champions, are still waiting for their first final since June. They play HEROIC on Wednesday at , and the loser goes home.
nin9 saves The MongolZ on map point
The MongolZ beat HEROIC 2-0 in the Group A upper bracket semi-final and are through to the playoffs, but the second map went to a second overtime.
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HEROICStatsInferno 13-7, Nuke 19-17
| MongolZ | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 cobrazera | 44-36 | +8 | 87.9 | 71.4% |
| 910 | 46-39 | +7 | 84.4 | 71.4% |
| Techno | 34-31 | +3 | 59.9 | 64.3% |
| nin9 | 34-36 | -2 | 69.9 | 66.1% |
| bLitz | 31-41 | -10 | 69.4 | 64.3% |
| HEROIC | K-D | +/- | ADR | KAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 MartinezSa | 39-33 | +6 | 77.0 | 73.2% |
 Brollan | 45-41 | +4 | 77.8 | 58.9% |
| nilo | 42-38 | +4 | 74.5 | 69.6% |
 Chr1zN | 34-38 | -4 | 72.2 | 78.6% |
| susp | 23-41 | -18 | 56.5 | 64.3% |
Inferno was 6-6 at the half before The MongolZ won seven of the last eight rounds. 910 went 21-12 with 96.6 ADR on the map.
Nuke was HEROIC’s pick and their best map of the series. Brollan picked up two four-kill rounds on the map, and nilo (33-22, 90.9 ADR) and MartinezSa (29-21) kept them level through regulation at 12-12. In the first overtime HEROIC reached map point, and nin9, the AWPer who rejoined The MongolZ in September, won a 1v3 to keep the map going. The MongolZ won the second overtime 4-2, with Techno clutching a 1v2 for match point.
Techno told the broadcast after the match that “it feels amazing” to reach the playoffs in Asia, and said the team “made some simple mistakes” in the middle of Nuke.
susp, who went 33-17 against B8 on Monday, finished on 23-41.
The MongolZ meet the winner of FURIA vs NAVI in the upper bracket final, where first place in the group earns a direct spot in the semi-finals. HEROIC drop down to face Falcons. We follow the group on our IEM Beijing 2026 page.
