Some maps become a personal curse. For years, that map for Nikola "NiKo" Kovač was Inferno — the place where, back in 2018, his first real dream of a Major fell apart. And then, on June 21, 2026, in the most fitting venue imaginable — Counter-Strike's cathedral in Cologne, the LANXESS Arena — on that very same Inferno, everything finally clicked into place.Falcons were closing out FURIA. Third map, the

Heading into IEM Cologne Major 2026, Vitality made no secret of how much this event meant to them. They wanted to become the first team ever to win three Majors in a row and put to rest any hope the community still had for real competition at the top of the pro scene. But in Cologne, Vitality didn't look anywhere near as confident — or as terrifying — as they

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