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zonic: "What people don't see is Finn is bringing 5-10% extra to some of the other players, especially Maxim, when things are going well"

Falcons arrived in Malta as the heavy favorite to take home the Thunderpick World Championship trophy, and have taken their first steps toward that by sweeping Ninjas in Pyjamas in their opener.

HLTV14 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

"Sometimes we tend to stress a lot when we come into the big stage this season, and right now it's a bit tough to figure out why," zonic said.

"We have gotten some extra help in terms of listening to the communication and seeing if there are some differences.

"We put a lot of expectations on ourselves after that win, and then when we don't reach those expectations, I think we start to get easily frustrated that things are not clicking," he said.

"And I think that has put us in a bit of a setback, to be honest, this season." Listen to the interview here . Danny, a 2-0 victory to start off the tournament.

An overtime win on Ancient, now a much more dominant performance here on Dust2. Give me your thoughts on the series, first of all. We've been working a lot now on Ancient, also changed up a bit.

Smooth sailing on Dust2, tough game on Ancient, and still room for improvement, but it was good to see that some of the adjustments that we have made have been helpful.

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Falcons Esports still has to answer for this: ""Sometimes we tend to stress a lot when we come into the big stage this season, and right now it's a bit tough to figure out why," zonic said." That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.

Mara Voss · pessimist

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