The biggest Counter-Strike champions in Brazil got together again. This Friday (18) the official announcement of The Last Dance was made, a project headed by Gabriel “Fallen” Toledo and which has been dominating the conversations of the game’s community since the end of last year.
The stars were hired by Imperial Esports, present in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) scenario since 2018. Felippe “felippe1” Martins, Imperial’s CEO, participated in the broadcast with the athletes.
The live event broadcast of the announcement on the official channel via Twitch reached a peak of over 100,000 people. The video was rebroadcast on other profiles. Gaules, one of Twitch’s biggest streamers, gathered another 66,000 people. The hashtag #lastdance was the most mentioned on Twitter on Friday night.
In addition to Fallen, the team is also made up of 2016 two-time world champions Fernando “fer” Alvarenga and Lincoln “fnx” Lau. Ricardo “boltz” Prass and Vinicius “VINI” Figueiredo complete the line-up. The coach is Luis “Peacemaker” Tadeu, formerly of Complexity Gaming.
“It was a dream to return to work with Brazilian teams. Who knows, I might be able to help end these guys’ careers in a beautiful way”, said the coach in a documentary shown during the announcement. The atmosphere promised to play at a high competitive level, without promising titles or hiding that it was a farewell.
“IT’S [minha] last attempt at playing competitively,” Fallen said. “Nothing better than being around friends right now.”
One of Fallen’s friends declined the project. Marcelo “coldzera” David, twice elected the best player in the world and considered by many to be the highlight of the achievements of 2016, abandoned the Last Dance project. “He wasn’t 100% aligned,” Fallen said.
To understand the importance of Last Dance it is necessary to talk about Fallen, Fer, Cold, Taco and Fnx. These are the names of war that represent the height of Brazil in CS:Go. The five elements of the best team in the history of Brazil.
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Fallen, Fer, Cold, Taco and Fnx. These are the names of war that represent the height of Brazil in CS:Go. The five elements of the best team in the history of Brazil.
The milestone of this trajectory took place on April 3, 2016. On that date, Luminosity Gaming, formed by Gabriel “Fallen” Toledo, Marcelo “coldzera” David, Fernando “fer” Alvarenga, Epitácio “TACO” de Melo and Lincoln “fnx” Lau, surprised the planet by winning the MLG Columbus. It was the first Major, the most important international dispute of the modality, of a Brazilian team.
The title ended a ten-year fast. Brazil was going through a drought since the MiBr title in the Electronic Sports World Cup 2006, still in version 1.6 of Counter-Strike. fnx was part of this team.
What happened in 2016 was a stroke of luck? In the same year, the Brazilian quintet removed the doubts by obtaining a second consecutive Major title. Acting for the German organization SK Gaming, the team won ESL One in Cologne.
Since then, Brazil has never seen a local team shine with the same intensity. Also at the individual level, the athletes no longer achieved the same prominence.
The big unknown is fnx, it’s been months without playing important competitions. His name today is linked more to controversies than to e-sports. In 2021 he participated in the reality show “On Vacation With Ex” by MTV.
The questions were buried by hope in November last year, when the first rumors of the meeting of the two-time champion quintet began to emerge. The project would be spearheaded by Fallen, also called The Real One.
The community named the project Last Dance, a reference to the eponymous series that depicts the last winning season of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls in the NBA – the attraction is available on Netflix.
Taco, now captain of Godsent, and Coldzera, twice elected best in the world, declined to meet their former teammates. They were replaced by Ricardo “boltz” Prass and Vinicius “VINI” Figueiredo.
The successors have joined a retirement project, but both still have age and wood to burn. Boltz is 24 years old and left MIBR a few days ago. His Twitch profile has nearly half a million followers.
Vini, 22, is the youngest in The Last Dance line-up. Until then, he was with Furia, the team that reached the quarterfinals of the PGL (Professional Gamers League) last year.
The exchanges did not cool the spirits of the fans, attentive to what would happen with the project, made official in the middle of last month. “I’m coming out of the most stability I’ve found in my career,” Fallen said in a video posted to YouTube with more than 340,000 views.
The so-called Farofa do Fallen, the first videos with the team meeting, reached 450 thousand views. A tweet by Fallen posted on Wednesday (16) with a teaser for the project was liked by nearly 40,000 people and garnered 671,000 views.
Last Dance may not be able to repeat the same performance as in 2016. It is more certain to say that the new-old team will provide emotions for the Brazilian audience, which starts to adopt the single crowd scheme.
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