s1mple finally locks in pro Counter-Strike 2 debut but not with NAVI Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoCS legend Oleksandr \u201cs1mple\u201d Kostyliev is making his pro Counter-Strike 2 debut with a one-month loan to Team Falcons, leaving NAVI in the interim. s1mple is undoubtedly Counter-Strike\u2019s goat. However, since CS2 came into the pro scene, s1mple has been out of the stage, announcing a hiatus shortly after IEM Sydney 2023, CS2\u2019s first premier LAN tournament. But, he revealed just over a week ago at IEM Katowice 2024 that he was ready to make a return to pro Counter-Strike, revealing he\u2019d be coming back after the Copenhagen Major with NAVI. However, in a surprise move none saw coming, Team Falcons has announced that s1mple will be signing with the team on a loan to replace a benched player. On February 19, Team Falcons announced the benching of Mohammad \u201cBOROS\u201d Malhas after their devastating elimination at the Copenhagen Major RMR Qualifiers, with a loaned player being teased in the announcement. As it would turn out, they got s1mple on loan from NAVI for a month. This is not a permanent move for s1mple, as he would be standing in for the team for just one tournament, the BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024. \u201c[s1mple] will perform for Team Falcons for one month as a stand-in, including at BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024,\u201d announced NAVI. \u201cAnd try to help the team earn one of two slots at BLAST Spring Final.\u201d This appearance will mark s1mple\u2019s first-ever pro CS2 match as he was not present at IEM Sydney for NAVI\u2019s very first tournament run in the new game. The BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown is slated to begin on March 6 and run through until March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
s1mple finally locks in pro Counter-Strike 2 debut but not with NAVI Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoCS legend Oleksandr \u201cs1mple\u201d Kostyliev is making his pro Counter-Strike 2 debut with a one-month loan to Team Falcons, leaving NAVI in the interim. s1mple is undoubtedly Counter-Strike\u2019s goat. However, since CS2 came into the pro scene, s1mple has been out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}