Falcons sweep Aurora to stay flawless at EPL
Falcons have continued their flawless start to their ESL Pro League Season 24 campaign with a 2-0 victovery over Aurora , dominating on Mirage (13-4) before a strong late surge granted them the win on Dust2 (13-10).
HLTV4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
Before the event Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin labelled ESL Pro League as a "high priority tournament" for Falcons , citing the team's need to show what they are capable of after an indifferent season thus far.
This matchup also served as a litmus test for Aurora , who managed to bag second-place in their previous outing at StarSeries Fall.
Whilst things are starting to come together for the newly-minted international roster, they still have work to do if they are to compete with the best teams in the world on a regular basis.
It was the first meeting between the teams since their quarter-final matchup at the IEM Cologne Major, where Falcons emerged victorious en route to their first Major title.
Dan "apEX" Madesclaire highlighted that loss as one that stung when speaking to the broadcast after the match, stating the other losses often came in events Vitality cared less about or were in lower-stakes matches.
Vitality snapped a five-game losing skid against Falcons with the victory, their last series win dating back to the final of ESL Pro League Season 22 almost exactly one year ago.
They had to fight from behind after repeatedly losing out in opening duels cost them a win on Anubis.
Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov was nigh-unstoppable and led that effort with a 10-1 opening duel record and 1.87 rating, numbers that helped his team convert victory after Vitality closed the gap with a pistol win.
Opinion
Fictional bylines. Each take uses a line above and adds no facts.
Falcons Esports still has to answer for this: "Before the event Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin labelled ESL Pro League as a "high priority tournament" for Falcons , citing the team's need to show what they are capable of after an…" That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
The headline skips this: "This matchup also served as a litmus test for Aurora , who managed to bag second-place in their previous outing at StarSeries Fall." That is the reading I would argue. The rest of the card does not cancel it.
Ivo Quill · contrarian
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- 3 OctRead more NAVI begin important EPL S24 campaign with decisive win over G2 Most favorites moving to the 1-0 pool means that we are set for some high-octane matches in round two.
- 3 OctAurora got off to a good start in Katowice with a 2-0 win over 9z on day one. The team are in good form having finished second at StarSeries, and finally earning the win over a big team that coach Ashley "ash" Battye craved.
- 2 OctFalcons go into Pro League knowing that the second half of the year has been below par. Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin , a star in the playoffs of the Cologne Major, needs no reminder. "We expected better results after the Major," he says.
