{"id":19019,"date":"2025-01-05T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=19019"},"modified":"2025-01-05T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:42:38","slug":"heroic-trio-joins-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/heroic-trio-joins-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"HEROIC Trio Joins Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HEROIC <\/strong>have said goodbye to Ren\u00e9 <strong>&#8216;TeSeS&#8217; <\/strong>Madsen, Damjan <strong>&#8216;kyxsan&#8217; <\/strong>Stoilkovski, and Abdul <strong>&#8216;degster&#8217; <\/strong>Gasanov in a post on X this Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HEROIC Announcement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicgg\/status\/1875637053406519526\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the completion of the triple signing, the <strong>Falcons <\/strong>now have their finalized roster. On Friday, the organization officially revealed the highly anticipated addition of Nikola <strong>&#8216;NiKo&#8217; <\/strong>Kova\u010d, who has joined Emil <strong>&#8216;Magisk&#8217; <\/strong>Reif, the last remaining player from the former team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision concludes a challenging off-season for Danny <strong>&#8216;\u2060zonic\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>S\u00f8rensen and his team, who had to adjust their plans after their second attempt to secure Ilya <strong>&#8216;m0NESY\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Osipov&#8217;s signature was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, they decided to integrate a <strong>HEROIC <\/strong>core that provides a crucial eighth position in Valve&#8217;s global rankings, which is essential for securing invitations to premier tournaments starting in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The updated roster is set to launch in <strong>BLAST&#8217;s inaugural Bounty season<\/strong>, beginning online on <strong>January 14<\/strong>. If they secure a spot in the top eight, they will also make their LAN debut at the finals taking place in <strong>Copenhagen <\/strong>starting <strong>January 23<\/strong>. Additionally, they are expected to receive an invitation to <strong>IEM Katowice<\/strong>, which starts at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, <strong>HEROIC <\/strong>only includes Rasmus <strong>&#8216;sjuush&#8217; <\/strong>Beck and Guy <strong>&#8216;NertZ&#8217; <\/strong>Iluz in their roster, but it&#8217;s also been reported that both are likely to depart, with the former heading to <strong>Ninjas in Pyjamas<\/strong> and the latter moving to <strong>Liquid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Falcons Announcement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/FalconsEsport\/status\/1875644009760354535\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Falcons roster is as follows:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Emil <strong>&#8216;\u2060Magisk\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Reif<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nikola <strong>&#8216;\u2060NiKo\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Kova\u010d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Damjan <strong>&#8216;kyxsan\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Stoilkovski<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abdul <strong>&#8216;\u2060degster\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Gasanov<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ren\u00e9 <strong>&#8216;TeSeS\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Madsen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Danny <strong>&#8216;zonic\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>S\u00f8rensen (coach)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEROIC have said goodbye to Ren\u00e9 &#8216;TeSeS&#8217; Madsen, Damjan &#8216;kyxsan&#8217; Stoilkovski, and Abdul &#8216;degster&#8217; Gasanov in a post on X this Saturday. HEROIC Announcement With the completion of the triple signing, the Falcons now have their finalized roster. On Friday, the organization officially revealed the highly anticipated addition of Nikola &#8216;NiKo&#8217; Kova\u010d, who has joined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":19020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-19019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19021,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions\/19021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}