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We continue to analyze IEM Katowice 2025 – one of the most prestigious tournaments in the competitive League of Legends. The start of the group stage matches is in full swing, where teams that have advanced from Play-In join those who have directly entered the group stage.
One such pair is Eternal Fire and Falcons. The Turkish club went through Play-In, while Falcons went straight to the group stage.
We figure out whether Falcons deserve to be here with a direct quota and what Eternal Fire will show at the start of the group stage.
Let's go.
Form of Eternal Fire
We open the analysis of the match Eternal Fire - Falcons with an analysis of the game form of Eternal Fire. In this match they play as favorites with a coefficient of victory in the region of 1.5.
Eternal Fire began actively making their way to the title tournaments in the 2023 season. Then the team won ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference, thereby securing a place in EPL S17. The main event ended badly – only TOP-20 and no way out of the group.
They also took part in BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. They took the TOP-14 there, which was not enough to qualify for the only major of the season.
In the middle of the year, Eternal Fire showed their best form. The Turks entered the TOP-4 twice, but did so at TIR-V tournaments. They made it into the top four at CCT North Europe Series #7 and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.
- Eternal Fire lineup: XANTARES, jottAAA, MAJ3R, Wicadia, woxic.
Before the start of ESL Pro League Season 8, MAJ3R's team played in CCT Central Europe and Pinnacle Cup V. Both championships ended for them in the TOP-8.
Eternal Fire played their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18 against Cloud9. They played as number two and played for a logical result: 0-2, but with 11 and 12 rounds respectively.
In the first match of the lower bracket, Eternal Fire played against 9INE. The Turks were clearly in shape, as they managed to easily overcome a rather strong competitor. The match ended with a score of 2-0 in favor of Eternal Fire. As a result, the run to ESL Pro League Season 18 ended very well: the team barely qualified for the playoffs of the tournament, where they managed to win two series. EF left Astralis and BIG behind, but lost to Natus Vincere.
EF later placed Top 16 at Roobet Cup 2023, where they placed Top 16 and Top 2 at PARI, Please. In 2024, Eternal Fire attended PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier B, where they placed Top 2, advancing to European RMR A.
IEM Katowice 2024 started with the Play-In stage. By the way, they passed it very easily: 13-1 against BB Team and 2-0 against Rebels Gaming allowed them to get into the group stage. In the first match of the group stage, they also easily defeated Falcons (13-9; 13-6), and then showed a very vigorous CS in the match against the world's TOP-2 team FaZe Clan, but lost on three maps (1-2). As a result of IEM Katowice 2024, Eternal Fire took the TOP-12, after which they began to play at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A.
At the qualifying tournament, the Turks took the TOP-8, which gave them the opportunity to advance to PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, which is true, to the first stage.
At PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, Eternal Fire are doing very well so far. The Turks have 2 wins and 1 loss: they beat Mongolz and Pain, but lost 0-2 to Heroic in the match for reaching the next stage. However, they succeeded on their next attempt: they beat GL with a score of 2-1.
In the Legends stage, Eternal Fire debuted with a surprising win against Vitality. However, in the second round, they lost to MOUZ, which brought them to a 1-1 score. But then there was a real sensation: 13-1 against FaZe Clan and the score is 2-1 in the pocket of the Turks.
Eternal Fire got into the playoffs of the tournament after defeating Vp. The match ended with a score of 2-1. However, they were unable to move beyond the first round, because NaVi turned out to be stronger than the Turks and closed the series with a score of 2-0.
They also attended ESL Pro League Season 19, where they failed, and quite seriously. The Turkish team took TOP-21-28. Then the diametrically opposite situation at CCT Season 1: Global Finals and then – not getting out of the group at YaLLa Compas 2024.
Eternal Fire got to IEM Cologne 2024 thanks to the ESL world ranking, but they finished in the TOP-20 without really having time to show anything. Then there were equally disastrous tournaments like IEM Rio 2024, with a TOP-12 finish, and a failure at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B with a TOP-14 finish.
Season 2025 started with the qualifiers for BLAST Bounty Season 1. There, EF beat ENCE and Falcons dry. Right at the final stage of BLAST Bounty Season 1, Eternal Fire beat Vitality dry. Then – a victory over G2 Esports and an exit to the grand final, but a loss to Spirit with a score of 1-3.
IEM Katowice 2025 kicked off with the Play-In stage, where they easily earned two clean wins against Complexity and Heroic to advance to the group stage.
Eternal Fire Mappool
The best map is Nuke. There are 4 matches and 4 wins.
Anubis is doing very well (7 matches, 85% win rate), Mirage (4 matches, 75% win rate). Vertigo – 71% win rate in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass – 3 wins in 5 matches.
Falcons uniform
We continue our analysis of the Falcons – Eternal Fire match with an analysis of the Falcons’ game form. In this match, they are playing as underdogs with a win odds of around 2.5.
The Falcons spent the entire 2023 year, as they say, in search of themselves. They started the professional season by performing at B-tier tournaments: Thunderpick Bitcoin Series #2, OMEN WRG Challenge 2023 and CCT West Europe Series #1. They celebrated TOP-2 at the first two, and TOP-8 at the more prestigious CCT.
Later they tried to get to the Parisian major. They had two attempts, at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A and BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. Both were unsuccessful: TOP-11 and TOP-6.
The Falcons continued to bang their heads against the wall midway through the year. Top 13 at ESL Challenge League Season 45: Europe, Top 10 at ESL Championnat National Spring 2023, and Top 24 at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.
They tried to get to IEM Sydney 2023, but dropped out of the open qualifiers at the TOP-64 stage. As a Saudi club, they got a slot at Gamers8 2023, where they played to the best of their ability, and that was the TOP-16.
- Falcons lineup: Magisk, NiKo, TeSeS, kyxsan, degster.
At the end of the year, Falcons tried to cobble together DreamTeam. So far, it's not going so well, because they failed the first tournament with the new roster. It was BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, where the team took the TOP-12.
They got into IEM Katowice 2024 based on ESL Ranking points. They were in the TOP-10 there before the start of the tournament, but for what merits is a big mystery.
Falcons started IEM Katowice 2024 with a defeat to the best team in Turkey – Eternal Fire. Having lost to the Turks dry, Falcons were close to leaving the tournament in the lower bracket match against Rebels, but were able to stay afloat thanks to a 2-1 victory. In fact, a similar situation happened in the match against CoL, where Falcons lost the first map, but made a comeback on the second and closed the series in the third. Later they beat NaVi, and by the end of the championship they took the TOP-4, losing to the future champions from Team Spirit.
Later they played at ESL Pro League Season 19, where they completely failed, finishing in the TOP-28. They started IEM Dallas 2024 with a loss to G2, but then confidently beat Monte with a score of 2-0. However, Falcons were not enough for much more and as a result of IEM Dallas 2024 they finished in the TOP-9–12.
Before performing at IEM Dallas 2024, they visited Challengers at DreamHack. They got to IEM Dallas 2024 thanks to the ESL rating. However, they didn’t manage to get far in IEM Dallas 2024: TOP-12. In general, Falcons showed a terrible game in the 2024 season, only occasionally, like at BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024, they got into the prizes.
The Falcons' 2024 season culminated in their performance at the PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A, where they finished in the Top 14 without reaching the main tournament.
Season 2025 “Dream Team” started with a performance at BLAST Bounty Season 1. There, Falcons predictably failed, finishing in the TOP-16.
Falcons Mappool
Falcons' best map is Nuke (1 game, 1 win), followed by Ancient (1 win, 1 loss).
Among the unfavorable maps for Falcons are Vertigo and Anubis. On the first one they have 3 matches and 1 win, and on Anubis – 1 loss.
Falcons vs. Eternal Fire Head-to-Head History
The teams have already played each other in the 2025 season. That was at BLAST Bounty Season 1, where the Falcons celebrated the victory.
Predicted result of the match Eternal Fire vs Falcons at IEM Katowice 2025
I expect a confident victory for Eternal Fire in this match. Falcons have changed their roster again in hopes of changing something from last season, but the sum doesn't change with the rearrangement of the terms.
Result: Eternal Fire wins.
