ATF of Team Falcons: "I ruined, I hope the team forgives me"

Offlaner of Team Falcons Ammar ATF Al-Assaf in a post-match interview at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 commented on the first lost map at the tournament and blamed himself for it.

It was the first time we lost a map in this tournament. I am the one who ruined it. I hope the team will forgive me. There's not much to say about the loss, so the discussion was pretty uninspiring. Mostly they lost because of me. I'm to blame for the loss because I died too much for no reason, bought bad items. So yeah. But this is the first defeat, I can't tell yet how losing affects team communication. If I think I'm the one who lost, I'll say so - I won't try to find excuses or blame someone else. If someone else loses, they can say that too. Or I'll say it. We're all here for one purpose - to win. So we have to say everything openly.

Then the team lost to outsiders in the face of 9 Pandas, but on the second map without much trouble equalized the score. This confrontation was remembered by bad manners and thrash-talk from ATF and RAMZES666. Despite this, the team still made it to the upper bracket playoffs, but there they lost the starting match against Azure Rayand fell to the lower bracket.

ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 playoffs bracket