After Falcons were knocked out of IEM Rio 2026, team captain kyxsan delivered what was probably one of the most honest comments of the entire season. In the club’s YouTube vlog, the Macedonian did not hide behind standard phrasing, but directly admitted that the team lacks quality in key matches, and that he himself feels he gave the roster too little at this tournament.
kyxsan is speaking not like a player
The strongest thing in these words is not even the criticism itself, but the tone in which it was delivered. kyxsan is speaking not like a player who is simply angry after a loss, but like a person who has been carrying this weight for a long time. In his words there is guilt over team decisions, fatigue, and a very clear feeling that the match against Spirit was not an isolated failure, but a repetition of everything that has been breaking Falcons all year.
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kyxsan apologized to the team for his tournament
One of the most painful moments in the entire comment is his direct apologetic tone. kyxsan essentially admitted that he did not give the team what he was supposed to give at this event.
I’m sorry if I didn’t give much to the team at this tournament
This is an important detail, because there is no attempt here to spread responsibility across everyone. He does not hide behind collective blame, but immediately places himself at the center of this conversation.
The Falcons captain speaks directly about the team’s weakness in big matches
His loudest point sounded even harsher. kyxsan effectively said that Falcons lack not only composure, but also the basic quality of decision-making in top-level series.
It feels like we don’t know how to play, we don’t know how to make the right individual decisions in such big matches — and for me that is the biggest problem
This is a very strong and very unpleasant assessment for the roster. Especially coming from someone who was inside all of those losses and saw them not from the outside, but from inside the server.
For him, the match against Spirit became a painful repetition of the whole season
kyxsan does not describe the elimination by Spirit as something random. On the contrary, he emphasizes that this very game reminded him of all the other matches Falcons lost in 2026.
I can’t fix it anymore, I’m just sharing what I feel about this game against Spirit. It reminded me of all the other matches we lost this year
And this is where his words sound the most alarming. Because the problem in such wording is no longer one unsuccessful map or series, but a repeating pattern that the team still failed to break.
He also mentioned his own state after difficult news
Another important part of the comment is the personal emotional background. kyxsan admitted that after all the news and everything he had gone through recently, playing was extremely difficult.
Some games were terrible, some decisions too. I can take responsibility for that, but after that news and everything I went through, it’s very hard to play
This phrase provides very important context. It does not remove responsibility from him, but it explains that this is not only about tactical problems or nerves during a match. Inside Falcons, this was clearly a period where the psychological burden was already directly affecting the game.
This is no longer just emotion after a loss, but an honest snapshot of Falcons’ condition
The most interesting thing in all of this is that kyxsan does not sound like a person who simply “burned out” after elimination. His words are too specific for an ordinary post-match emotional outburst.
He talks about wrong individual decisions, about recurring loss patterns, about personal responsibility, and about the fact that psychologically this stretch had already become very difficult. And that is exactly why this comment reads not as ordinary post-match frustration, but as a very precise snapshot of Falcons’ internal state at a moment when the team once again fell short where more was expected of them.
A very honest admission
kyxsan’s words after IEM Rio are not just another sad quote after an elimination. They are a very harsh and very honest admission that, in big matches, Falcons once again ran into the same problems: weak individual decisions, a lack of cohesion, and psychological pressure that can no longer be ignored.
And that is probably exactly why this comment sounds so powerful. Because there are no excuses in it. There is only a captain who, after yet another difficult loss, said directly that the team once again lost in almost exactly the same way.
