s1mple join Team Falcons after 3 months break from competition

Oleksandr Kostyljev, also known as "s1mple" finally returned to competition with Team Falcons.

After 3 months of inactive in Natus Vincere, his current team and organization since the start of Counter Strike 2 competition for 3 months from October 2023 to Early February 2024. The community beloved one of the best player of all time finally announces his return to the server. After he gave his very interesting interview backstage with Jame Banks in Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024. Where he said that he will return to competition after PGL Major Copenhagen 2024. Which at that time gave community a hope that he will eventually return after he stated that the new game isn't that great to play since first officially came out in September 2023.

But instead of waiting, s1mple decide to come back to the server much quicker than anyone would anticipated. On February 20th, the Saudi organization announce a shocking news that s1mple will be there 5th player replacing their benched player, Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas as the temporary replacement for 1 month. The reaseon because of the team poor performance and subsequently failed to quarlify for the first Counter Strike 2 major tournament in Copenhagen.

This move caught the community by surprise. But nevertheless it is the sign that s1mple will not be retiring soon after some community start to doubt his performance in the server since 2023. s1mple will play his first tournament with his new team during March 6-10 in BLAST Spring Showdown. Furthermore Falcons General Manager, Grant Rousseau, added that this would 

"give us the flexibility to make the permanent roster decision needed going into ESL Pro League, IEM Dallas, etc. whilst still giving us a great shot to make it out of BLAST Showdown."

Which mean the community could also see s1mple decide to extent contract into permanent if the team perform well enough but that depend on the players and the team.

Courtesy: HLTV