Saudi Arabian organisation, Falcons Esports signs top players to make its entrance in the Dota 2 scene.
Awarded by the Saudi Esports Awards as the best Saudi Arabia organisation in 2021 and 2022, Falcons Esports are most known for their VALORANT, Rocket League, PUBG and Counter-Strike 2 teams and are now looking at taking the Dota 2 scene by storm signing high profile players and TI champions for their Team Falcons debut.
TI11 Champions Oliver "skiter" Lepko and Jingjun "Sneyking" Wu have moved together from Tundra Esports to Falcons for the new competitive season. They are joined by Andreas "Cr1t-" Nielsen who is returning to European servers after spending the past seven years in North America at Evil Geniuses and Shopify Rebellion. Cr1t last time competed in Europe in the 2015-2015 season, under the OG banner.
The renowned veterans are joined in the mid lane by the 19 years old Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak, who made his debut in the online era of 2021, but has quickly caught the limelight through his time at Nemiga Gaming and especially with the few occasions he stood in for Tundra and Entity this year.
Despite being a Saudi Arabia organisation, Team Falcons signed just one player from the MENA region, namely Ammar "ATF" Al-Assaf, who will join in the offlane position.
Team Falcons roster
Oliver “Skiter” Lepko
Stanislav “Malr1ne” Potorak
Ammar “ATF” Assaf
Andreas “Cr1t-” Nielsen
Jing “Sneyking” Wu
Team Falcons are expected to make their debut in the regional qualifiers for the upcoming ESL One Kuala Lumpur, however, it is unclear in which region they will compete. While the majority of the roster resides in Europe, ESL One have also a designated MENA qualifier for teams from Middle East and North Africa.
ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 qualifier battle is set to start this Sunday, November 12 with the open brackets followed by closed regional qualifiers happening next week.
ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 qualifiers
- 7 regions: NA, SA, WEU, EEU, MENA, China, SEA
- 8 regional qualifier winners
Open and closed qualifiers
- Open qualifiers #1: Nov 12-13
- Open qualifier #2: Nov 14-15
- Closed qualifier: Nov 16-18
After Team Spirit forfeited their direct invite slot to ESL One Kula Lumpur 2023, Western Europe received an additional qualifier slot and will have two teams claiming a ticket to Malaysia. Easter Europe also has two qualifier slots, while the rest of the regions, including MENA, have only one spot up for grabs.
