With a month of practice Astralis attended DreamHack Summer 2016, and this time things were looking up as they topped their group, comfortably defeating the Finnish ENCE eSports and Danish SK Gaming. June 2016 - October 2016 (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, karrigan, Kjaerbye) Following this defeat Astralis decided to swap René “ cajunb” Borg for Dignitas’ Markus “ Kjaerbye” Kjaerbye who was headhunted by Astralis’ coach, Danny “ zonic” Sørensen whom he knew from his time coaching him during 2015. Luminosity went on to win this event in a gruelling best-of-five vs G2. They fought a tough best-of-three, winning the first map and narrowly lost the remaining two despite Nicolai “ device” Reedtz having a K-D of 81-50. This time they lost to the North American mix of OpTic Gaming in a best-of-one 7-16 and came up against the Columbus Major champions, Luminosity. A month later, the team attended ESL Pro League S3 Finals in England. NiP would go on to win the event in front of a roaring Swedish crowd. Astralis drew the hometown heroes, Ninjas in Pyjamas in the decider match and lost 1-2 with poor performances from dupreeh and IGL Finn “ karrigan Andersen. Their first group stage exit in six months occurred at DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016, where they won the opener vs Lounge Gaming but were upset by their Danish counterparts, Dignitas 9-16 on their home map Overpass. Over the next few events Astralis did not live up to their reputation of cleaning up in groups and advancing comfortably to playoffs. Astralis went on to face Na`Vi in the semi-final where they narrowly lost Inferno 14-16 and were outclassed on Dust II thanks to stellar performances from Ioann “ Edward” Sukhariev and Egor “ flamie” Vasilyev. Things did not go well for the Swedes though, as Astralis won in two maps, 16-10 on Overpass and 16-5 on Fnatic’s map pick, Cache due to a standout performance from Peter “ dupreeh” Rasmussen. The event started well as Astralis beat Gambit and CLG to top their group but were rewarded by being drawn against Fnatic in the Quarterfinals, the favourites to win the whole event after winning their previous six events in a row. Astralis were set to play the last match of the day vs Fnatic, but due to delays, this didn’t start until midnight and finally finished at 3am with Astralis losing 1-2.Īstralis were expected to go far in MLG Columbus, the eighth CS:GO Major following their 2nd place finish to Natus Vincere at Counter Pit League Season 2. IEM Katowice was next and Astralis would once again top their group and go straight to the semi-final with best-of-one wins over Team EnVyUs, Virtus.Pro, E-Frag, FaZe Clan and Tempo Storm. Astralis narrowly lost a life to G2 and played two close games vs Fnatic in the faux-final as the only two teams left. Astralis won five maps against G2 Esports, 圆tence, Team EnVyUs and Dignitas. ESL Expo Barcelona was up next which featured an unusual format where each team had three lives and a map loss would mean a life lost. They would go on to lose the semi-final vs their rivals from the previous year, Team EnVyUs 1-2 and then defeat CLG in the third-place decider, only losing seven rounds over two maps. Their next LAN was Global eSports Cup where they topped their group once again, this time with best-of-three wins over Method and G2 Esports. The team topped their group after defeating their Danish brethren Dignitas and the European-mix team mousesports in best-of-ones, however they exited the event in the semi-final losing 0-2 to Luminosity Gaming. January 2016 - May 2016 (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, cajunb, karrigan) Īstralis’ first event was DreamHack Leipzig 2016 in January 2016. 4 February 2018 - April 2021 (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, gla1ve, Magisk).3 November 2016 - January 2018 (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, Kjaerbye, gla1ve).2 June 2016 - October 2016 (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, karrigan, Kjaerbye).1 January 2016 - May 2016 (device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, cajunb, karrigan).
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