Match preview · IEM Beijing 2026

Falcons vs HEROIC — match preview

4 November at 05:30 Oslo · by the CS Edge model

Best of 3 (LAN)

Falcons come in ranked #6 in the world, HEROIC #26.

Falcons meet HEROIC at IEM Beijing 2026. The model has not priced this one yet — it waits for the map veto, because which maps get played moves the number more than anything else on this page. What follows is what we already know about both teams.

Falcons — recent form

2 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

W vs FaZe — 2–1 3 November at 08:00

L vs Natus Vincere — 0–2 2 November at 12:45

L vs Aurora — 1–2 18 October at 13:30

L vs BETBOOM — 1–2 17 October at 19:00

W vs 9z — 2–1 15 October at 13:30

Across everything we have covered: Falcons won 7 of 13, and our own call was right in 10 of 13.

HEROIC — recent form

2 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

L vs The MongolZ — 0–2 3 November at 09:00

W vs B8 — 2–0 2 November at 03:00

L vs FaZe — 1–2 21 October at 22:10

L vs SINNERS — 1–2 21 October at 13:00

W vs HYPERSPIRIT — 2–0 20 October at 16:00

Across everything we have covered: HEROIC won 17 of 22, and our own call was right in 15 of 22.

Head to head

No meeting between Falcons and HEROIC in our records yet — this is the first one we cover.

The map pool

Win, pick and ban rates over the last three months. This is where a series is often decided before it starts — a team can steer the veto onto a map the opponent rarely plays.

FalconsHEROIC

-0 maps Cache 77%13 maps

69%13 maps Dust2 62%16 maps

45%11 maps Mirage 45%11 maps

80%5 maps Inferno 69%16 maps

50%4 maps Nuke 80%10 maps

38%8 maps Ancient 73%15 maps

57%7 maps Anubis -0 maps

How they veto

The maps each side removes most often. Two teams that ban the same map hand the series to a third one neither wanted.

Falcons ban most often: Cache 100%, Inferno 26%, Nuke 21%

HEROIC ban most often: Anubis 91%, Cache 29%, Mirage 23%

Line-ups

Player rating: ★ top · high · average · low

Falcons

karrigan0.80

NiKo1.12

★

m0NESY1.32

TeSeS1.01

kyousuke1.09

HEROIC

★

Brollan1.18

MartinezSa1.13

★

nilo1.18

Chr1zN1.09

susp1.09

Also at IEM Beijing 2026 that day

Liquid vs TYLOO 4 November at 03:00
Aurora vs BETBOOM 4 November at 03:00
PARIVISION vs MOUZ 4 November at 08:00

When the prediction goes up

Our call publishes before kickoff, never after — that is the whole point of keeping a public record. When it does, this page fills in with the probability for each team, the per-map calls once the veto is done, and afterwards the result and whether we were right.

More on these teams

All Falcons predictions and results
All HEROIC predictions and results

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