After the Falcons match at EWC 2026, we spoke with Nikola «NiKo» Kovač about their performance at the tournament, the pressure after winning the Major, and the high expectations for the team.
In the interview, he talked about how the team deals with the need to constantly win, why today’s game did not reflect their usual level, and how Falcons plan to move forward after the loss to Legacy.
Full interview with Niko after the match Falcons is now on YouTube!
You won the Major, but I have a question about consistency. Because it's a big brand, Falcons. How do you cope with this? You need to be consistent in terms of winning tournaments. What are your thoughts on this?
Yeah, I mean, definitely our expectations to do better than what we have done here, especially after, you know, you win a major people expect you to do better and we also expect ourselves to do better than this. We thought that we, you know, were in a good shape coming to this tournament, that we were prepared but today's game didn't really reflect to how we usually play and to who we are, which is super disappointing, so we just need to look for a reason what caused our performance today to go like this. And yeah props to Legacy they played very good today.
Yeah, and another question about pressure. Because again you are playing for big brands, for a big club, big investment, and how the team is coping with this pressure of winning, winning, winning, you need to win.
Pressure has always been there for myself. Every team that I have been a part of people, you know, they're always putting pressure on my teams. From organization point of view, there is less pressure than from the community. They know CS is very competitive and there's a lot of good teams. As I said, we wanna do better than what we did here. For us the pressure is consistent in a way. Even though, you know, we just won a major, then now we lost two tournaments in a row almost. And people quickly forget and ourselves also forget very quickly. CS is a lot of events so it's life, it's the game and we learn, we move on and try to do better.
After winning the Major, Falcons were unable to continue their winning run at EWC 2026 and ended their tournament run after the loss to Legacy. Despite this, the team remains among the strongest teams on the world stage, with new tournaments and opportunities to return to the title fight ahead.
As a reminder, FalleN on FURIA’s strength, the support of Brazilian fans, and the future of his career.
