Official announcement: Falcons extends contract with sniper m0NESY until 2030.

Saudi esports club Falcons released a statement on Monday confirming the contract extension with its CS2 team member Ilya Osipov (ID: m0NESY). The new contract extends the original 2027 expiry date by three years, until 2030.

The 21-year-old m0NESY is from Russia and has played for several top CS teams during his professional career, including NewBALLS, SG.pro, NAVI.J, and G2. He also won numerous prestigious titles with G2, including the 2022 BLAST World Championship, the 2023 IEM Katowice Championship, the 2023 IEM Cologne Championship, the 2024 IEM Dallas Championship, the 2024 BLAST Autumn Finals Championship, and the 2024 BLAST World Championship.

In April 2025, m0NESY officially replaced Abdulkhalik Gasanov (ID: Degster) in Falcons' starting lineup. As one of the top snipers in the current CS2 scene, he has played 265 maps and participated in 5853 rounds for Falcons to date, with an average personal rating of 1.29, and won the team's first S-level tournament championship at the 2026 IEM Cologne.

The current Falcons roster is as follows:

Rifleman: Nikola Kovacs (ID: NiKo)

Rifleman: René Madsen (ID: TeSeS)

Sniper: Ilya Osipov (ID: m0NESY)

Rifleman: Maxim Lukin (ID: kyousuke)

Commander: Finn Anderson (ID: karrigan)

Coach: Dani Sorensen (ID: zonic)

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