Boombl4: "This tournament we're playing better, and I feel the progress"
BETBOOM booked the last spot in the Thunderpick World Championship's four-team playoff bracket with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Legacy .
HLTV17 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
The Russian side overturned a 12-7 deficit to win their pick of Nuke in overtime, almost pulled off a similar comeback on Dust2, then ran out 13-11 winners on Mirage in a lively decider map.
"It was a crazy game," Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhailov told HLTV after the match. "I think the one bad thing in this series was our T side on Dust2. "But it's new errors to fix for the next matches.
But it was still a crazy comeback on Nuke and an overtime, so crazy game. "I think everyone is happy right now because we made the playoffs." The win puts BETBOOM on a collision course with Falcons in the semi-finals.
The last time the two teams met was in Stage 3 of the IEM Cologne Major — where Kirill "Magnojez" Rodnov had a 1.86-rated performance as the Russians ran out 2-0 winners with Timur "FL4MUS" Marev as a stand-in.
"Last season we had a lot of stand-ins, and we went to the playoffs in Atlanta and the Major as well," Boombl4 said. "It was a [good] experience for some players like Magnojez, d1Ledez and S1ren.
"This tournament we're playing better, and I feel the progress," Boombl4 said.
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Falcons Esports still has to answer for this: "The Russian side overturned a 12-7 deficit to win their pick of Nuke in overtime, almost pulled off a similar comeback on Dust2, then ran out 13-11 winners on Mirage in a lively…" That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
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