Teams’ roster changes after the BLAST.tv Austin Major results keep coming. Now, Falcons have announced the signing of Maxim ‘Kyousuke’ Lukin from Spirit. The 17-year-old prepares to replace the recently benched Emil ‘Magisk’ Reif.
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‘Kyousuke’ joins Falcons after establishing himself as one of the top young talents in the industry, gaining recognition with Spirit Academy over the past year.
The young rifler achieved an impressive 1.29 rating while playing for Spirit Academy in the higher tiers of tier two, contributing to the youth team’s ascent to 32nd in HLTV’s rankings and 28th in the VRS. During this time, he also secured several significant victories in CCT tournaments and celebrated LAN wins at BetBoom LanDaLan 1 and 2.
When the news of Kyousuke’s rumored transfer initially surfaced a few months ago, it caught the community off guard, as the young talent appeared poised to join Spirit’s main lineup at some point. Given the overlapping roles with Danil’ donk’ Kryshkovets, along with the young player’s own expressed goal of moving up to tier-one “by the end of the year,” he now instead finds himself with Falcons.
Falcons Announcement
Falcons roster is as follows:
- Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač
- Damjan’kyxsan’ Stoilkovski
- René ‘TeSeS’ Madsen
- Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov
- Maxim ‘kyousuke’ Lukin
- Danny ‘zonic’ Sørensen (coach)
- Abdul’ degster’ Gasanov (benched)
- Emil’Magisk’ Reif (benched)
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