ATF on qualifying for The International 2026 playoffs: “We beat Vici Gaming; the outcome of the match was obvious.”
Team Falcons offlaner Ammar “ATF” al-Assaf commented on the team’s advancement to The International 2026 playoffs on his personal Telegram channel.
Hey, how’s it going? Fine. Today we qualified for The International playoffs. Well, we’re last year’s champions, so we were supposed to do that. We beat Vici Gaming—the outcome of the match was a foregone conclusion. Sure, they *** [knocked us out] at the EWC, but that doesn’t matter. The PGL admin said that if I didn’t record the “circles,” he’d ban me. So I had to do it. Seriously, yeah, one of them actually said that. So yeah, that’s why I’m writing them. In three or four days, we’re playing Nigma Galaxy. That’s the news. I don’t know why I stopped writing “circles.” The hype isn’t what it used to be, but I’ll try.
Earlier, “ATF” al-Assaf commented on the teams at 1win Essence II: “All the teams in this tournament are playing for third place at TI. We’re not playing for the grand final—it’s already set; it’ll be Yandex vs. PARIVISION.”
