Official: m0NESY joins Falcons

19-year-old Russian esports athlete Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov has officially joined Falcons's Counter-Strike 2 roster. The Saudi Arabian club announced this via its X social media account.

Note that for the past few years, since January 2022, m0NESY has represented G2. Before that, he was part of NAVI's youth squad. Osipov replaced Abdul "degster" Gasanov, who was benched by the organization. Gasanov joined the team just a few months ago, in January of this year.

Yesterday, Falcons won a big Counter-Strike 2 LAN tournament PGL Bucharest 2025, which took place from April 6 to 13 in Romania. In the final, the team crushed G2 with a scoreline of 3:0. degster was chosen the most valuable player of the event.

Falcons' updated starting five will debut in a few days at IEM Melbourne 2025, which will take place in Australia from April 21 to 27. The squad currently occupies fifth place in Valve's world ranking.

 Falcons are now:

 Emil "Magisk" Reif
 Nikola "NiKo" Kovač
 René "⁠TeSeS⁠" Madsen
 Damjan "kyxsan" Stoilkovski
Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov

 Danny "zonic" Sørensen (coach)

Origin: x.com