Sources: Astralis bench gla1ve, finalize Staehr transfer

21-6-2023 23:01

Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's time with Astralis is coming to an end after a nearly seven-year tenure.

HLTV has learned from multiple sources that Astralis is set to make an announcement regarding two changes in the CS:GO roster: the benching of gla1ve and the acquisition of Victor "⁠Staehr⁠" Staehr from Sprout.

Astralis previously reached an agreement to sign Staehr after his contract with the German organization runs out at the beginning of 2024. However, the Danish side has now reached a breakthrough in negotiations over the 18-year-old's transfer fee following months of unsuccessful attempts to get him out early.

gla1ve is the next Astralis veteran on the chopping block

One source has indicated that Astralis will look to put gla1ve on the market. His benching will see leadership pass on to Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer, a move that some have called for amidst Astralis' struggles in recent times and gla1ve's poor individual form. blameF has already been calling the shots on one map, Mirage, and has more experience with the role from his time with Complexity.

The changes come as part of a large overhaul of the CS:GO division in Astralis. Earlier on Wednesday the organization announced that it has cut ties with its Director of Sports, Kasper Hvidt, and Head Analyst, Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen, citing results that have not lived up to ambitions.

Astralis part ways with Kasper Hvidt, HUNDEN

It is currently unclear whether the changes will end there for Astralis. The roster submission deadline for the Danes' first outing in the fall season at the BLAST Premier Fall Groups is set for Thursday. Further changes beyond that point would be subject to a review from the organizers and, if approved, would result in Astralis dropping to the bottom of seeding for the event.

2023-06-21 23:01

Blamef igl lfg

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gla1ve coach????

2023-06-21 23:17

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Would be interesting

2023-06-22 12:58

probably nice but could also see him on a new team. maybe Vitality when Apex decides to leave.

2023-06-22 14:41

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Nah, Gla1ve is too old.

2023-06-23 19:20

baitF xD

2023-06-21 23:25

blameF igl + 4 baits lol

2023-06-22 04:34

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Guys you all rush, I wait back here

2023-06-22 09:59

Or guys, you go b, I go lurk until I'm sure no one is holding their back, while you all die.

2023-06-22 14:43

hltv.org/news/36386/gla1ve-it-feels-real..

2023-06-21 23:32

T.T

2023-06-22 14:54

LMAO BaitF strats: device go kill *everyone’s on the team dies* BaitF: “Now I can save my gun while getting exit frags”

2023-06-21 23:36

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2023-06-21 23:39

the funniest example of blameF was when someone on hltv said: "blameF is type of guy, that lets blind guy to cross the street first to see if its safe" thats just so true and hilarious at the same time xd i swear everytime i see him play, i remember this

2023-06-21 23:43

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:D good one

2023-06-22 00:30

Fr i remember watching him play recently, it was a round on inferno while they were losing t-side, just him and more two Astralis players alive, forced round ONLY PLAYER with pistols was him and still the guy refuse to open pixels for the others 😂 They were preparing to exec B on Banana and I was thinking “man he’s going first but I bet that somehow he’s going to bait his friends to be last one alive” After the smokes and flashes he positioned himself to be the last entering the bomb (remember he was the only with deagle the other two were with AK and Galil). His friends died but he was able to get an EZ kill to statpad before dying too Lmao

2023-06-22 00:36

When u cant win majors, u win top 20 hltv. This is peak BaitF

2023-06-22 09:03

in a 1v1 against jame, both would save

2023-06-22 02:08

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I think Jame would go for kill. He knows Blame is useless without baits unlike Jame

2023-06-22 03:52

+1 if its also last round jame wont save and go for it ;)

2023-06-22 05:51

the thing is blamef is such a masterbaiter it's pointless to hunt as you will lose your life

2023-06-22 10:33

Lmao

2023-06-22 09:09

LMAOOO

2023-06-22 02:14

I dont know what you guys are smoking blameF have been entry fragging the last few months,

I don't know if you have seen their matches, but that's just not true. He's still lurking and have such a low impact with it.

2023-06-22 14:46

"Let's peak con together. On one. Three. Two. One." And he just pushes his teammate in and goes away to save his AK.

2023-06-22 09:08

lol

2023-06-22 10:28

HAHAHAHA

2023-06-22 10:45

lmaaaaaaao

2023-06-22 18:29

"dev1ce go kill" is a proven working strat though. zywoo s1mple dev1ce the holy AWP trio of CS.

2023-06-22 00:26

Device is a god but without proper stats not even him can carry the team

2023-06-22 00:32

And the issue is, when you have an IGL that would use your awp player to bait, then your awp player loses 80% of his impact especially when you are more a passive awp player than an aggressive one.

2023-06-22 03:54

Classic sh..talking without knowing sh.. Stats dev1ce blameF Buzz Altekz gla1ve Xyp9x Opening kills pr. round 0.15 0.13 0.09 0.10 0.09 0.08 Deaths per round 0.08 0.09 0.10 0.09 0.10 0.07 Opening kill rating 1.30 1.17 0.96 1.03 0.94 0.92 Won opening duel 66.7% 60.3% 47.2% 52.8% 46.3% 50.5%

2023-06-22 09:10

Numbers and numbers, how about eyes? Also i disprove all this bs: 1) those stats are both for t side and ct side. Its a well known fact blamef baits on t side. On ct side is where he gets his "opening frags". 2) Where is the difference from buys or ecos? Blamef must be the biggest eco hunter on the scene, he becomes yekindar, ez "opening frags" and multikills. 3) when glaive entries and just dies blamef trades the low guy, thats "opening frags" but he traded, no difference for hltv. On ct side blamef is good. On t side he is a baiter.

2023-06-22 10:38

ofc danish kid will defens blamef

2023-06-22 11:23

hahaha avg baitf tactic

2023-06-22 11:04

Well, he had couple of tournament win and notable moments on coL. If you remember, they even beat the GOAT Astralis line-up under his leadership.

2023-06-22 00:46

+1 coL was looking really good until health issues from poizon and K0nfig breaking bones and oBo getting home sick etc. Outside of the server issues is what seemingly brought them down.

2023-06-22 02:01

Its not gonna go well. BlameF somehow drains team energy.

2023-06-22 06:14

Source: trust me bro

2023-06-22 08:12

whole lotta teams going through generation changes rn, sad to see gla1ve go but deserved for Staehr

2023-06-21 23:03

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I said a few days ago that until then this season didn't have too many significant changes, holy fuck not anymore

2023-06-21 23:29

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wdym not significant. Navi and faze and vitality are huge. also liquid and fnatic

that was before the navi talks with iM and aleksib. what of faze and vitality btw? nothing huge about removing dupreeh tbh

2023-06-22 00:50

flamez to vitality is like 95% sure csgo.com/news/90531-report-flamez-turns-..

2023-06-22 01:09

ok? what's that got to do with what I said

2023-06-22 08:30

I read your comment again, seems i was sleepy sorry mens

2023-06-22 12:16

WTF

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This was kinda expected wasnt it? Blamef was the igl of complexity and showed some promise there before whole project went south. Staehr was a known move for months and gla1ve has been underperforming for a long time.

2023-06-21 23:15

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not when you still have altekz and buzz on the roster

2023-06-21 23:33

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This

2023-06-21 23:34

That's just a Na'Vi way of thinking, even if you continue removing your 5th man, it's not gonna magicaly work, tbh this change was more than expected. BlameF on Complexity showed better results with a weaker team, than gla1ve with a decent T1 team on paper.

2023-06-21 23:48

Still -buzz + dupreeh would be a got fix for the next 12 months

2023-06-22 06:32

And then Dupreeh is gone. He is probably too old and won too much to be willing to grind CS2 for 14hrs/day.

2023-06-22 08:14

this

Exactly man

2023-06-22 04:30

+1 I get removing glaive to some extent but blame IGL is hardly the answer Astralis probably are thinking 'new generation talent' we've been playing with old men for so long while the other Danish teams have taken up all the talent. No more

2023-06-22 05:38

Yea i dont think astralis is going to win anything with blamef igling, but gla1ves benching was an expected possibility. And i dont think blame returning to igl role is a huge surprise either.

2023-06-22 06:44

blame returning to IGLing is not surprising mainly because 'if not him then who else?' Besides, with Astralis giving glaive the shittiest rosters possible, kicking glaive due to poor performances is a story I have heard before with nexa in G2, except Nexa apparently wanted to step down

2023-06-22 06:51

I agree with the first part. While i dont think Astralis has had good rosters in a while, i think gla1ve was still underperforming both individually and as an igl. He should have done better and benching him is justified.

2023-06-22 09:57

I actually felt that he should have been given a chance with the staehr roster But bubz pointed out a role clash...and that performance wise staehr would either replace glaive or blame. Astralis chose firepower understandably but if blame becomes another electronic it's just another regrettable decision

2023-06-22 11:43

if I remember blamef partly wanted to join astralis to not IGL anymore

2023-06-21 23:40

nah on top of that too, Blame was still IGLing when they played Mirage and they looked like ASS almost every time

2023-06-21 23:56

Yup, his calling on Mirage says all about his igling capacity. He can never be a title contending igl. Staehr should replace Altekz. Altekz should go back to academy team. Blame is great player but bad igl. He should not be leading the team. He will make Astralis worse by his igling.

2023-06-22 04:35

Altekz have looked better than Buzz... Replace both then, if one is not enough. Astralis are going for the long game in CS2.

2023-06-22 08:16

who tf was expecting gla1ve to go over buzz and altekz, they weren't even expecting it themselves

2023-06-22 01:00

promise?? he used JKS as bait and won literally nothing except one mini blast

2023-06-22 03:55

2023-06-22 05:29

lit gang

2023-06-21 23:02

Danish last dance with dupreeh, xyp, gla1ve for Copenhagen Major

2023-06-22 01:29

cope 1000

2023-06-22 02:40

Yeah they gave so much. They should make an Astralis old boys team.. luckily they are not needed for Danish CS to be relevant :)

2023-06-22 04:40

Lmao that'll go down in flames just like FalleN's "Last Dance" project.

2023-06-22 05:26

yea it's a last dance you're doing it with the pals with whom you have had success in the past because you like doing it not bcause you're expecting to win anything

2023-06-22 06:53

WHAT

Wtf

Expected

2023-06-21 23:04

tier 5

huh

wtf

Wow

???? what are they smoking

HOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

finally

HOLY SHIT DIDN'T EXPECT

Unexpected

Lmfaoooo

this is it

Had to be gla1ve or BlameF sadly, well done Astralis!!!

+1!!!!!

2023-06-21 23:09

Indeed, I just expected it to be blameF who would get axed.

2023-06-22 01:05

This surprised me

HUH?????????????????????

baitF igl its time

just when i thought this roster mania couldnt go bonkers , we get this!

BaitF IGL , oh my god i cant fathom the level of baiting we are gonna witness in the history of our game now.

Just go back and watch the dysfunctional col roster and you can see how bad it’ll get

2023-06-21 23:46

it was brutal back then but i honestly dont even have to go that back, Astralis` current Mirage is evident enough of how bad this whole debacle is gonna be

2023-06-21 23:51

It went good untill oBo left and coL started to sign players who had role overlaps with blame tho?

2023-06-22 00:03

Yeah but blame not adapting at all shows how bad of an igl he was and there’s a reason none of the top igls lurk. Also, aside from ropz, there’s pretty much no one who lurks as hard as blamef and ropz is much more mechanically skilled than blamef. Blamef has a lower hs% than most awpers, and he typically drops off against better teams where they’re prepared from him and outaim him a lot of the time, though the drop off is also kinda bc astralis just sucks

2023-06-22 01:55

col had money, he could get players for specific roles but he isn't capable to think like that.

2023-06-22 03:57

RIP

finally, astralis might actually start winning again

this honestly feels bad, especially seeing as devve and him just reunited :(

He should try as coach in Astralis.

2023-06-21 23:16

Better than casle or Rejin

2023-06-21 23:23

I think this is a good idea.

2023-06-22 05:28

Good move broskis it was time for him to go

Cct won't stand a chance

finally this bot will be kicked. Time to grab some cash cups with xyp9x

Calling bot the guys who brought Astralis on the top at their prime is just disrespectful and unreal.

2023-06-22 01:44

Calling bot when you have hooxi on the team is delusional lol

2023-06-22 05:40

I bet -Hooxi + gla1ve soon in g2 and make my day lol

2023-06-22 10:47

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye 👋

Striker Bomb

WHAT ?????? edit: blameF igl = peacemaker coach

2023-06-21 23:07

gla1ve head coach confirmed bcs -hunden

bennieF igl

gla1ve fraudulent activities caught up to him

common astralis w

2023-06-21 23:05

baitF igl

2023-06-21 23:06

Woah, not the move

benched brain instead of baiter

I was under the impression that they're finally using their head when they removed Kasper and hunden Bruh

hmm...

???what are we doing bruh

lmfao

Bro what the heck, I thought he was the goat IGL?? I'm glad the 2 youngsters aren't being screwed over tho

Goat = good right now??? Right now karrigan is the best but nowhere close to being the greatest of all time, unless he wins more majors ofc

2023-06-22 11:05

Kinda sad, but his time seemed to be over lately, especially without zonic. He lacks firepower but his calls have become even worse. I mean, it's not even surprising, this guy and his team have dominated the scene for a long time, it's hard to sustain. Maybe he'll find another decent team and rises from the ashes, who knows?

That was unexpected, oh lord

bad move

2023-06-21 23:08

We will miss you gla1ve

Glaive should be coach

expected

Finally, he's been the worst IGL in a T1 org for 2 years now, never thought cheapskate Astralis would kick him.

end of an era :(

Oh boy

hype

WHO IGL?

Baitf

Unexpected but i think that’s a move that will prove if the new gen will be greater than the previous one

BRUHHHHHHHHH

Dang who could have see that one coming

What is this offseason???

2023-06-21 23:11

why bench gla1ve ??? bench buzz or Altekz .... bye astralis now you gonna struggle like mouz.

2023-06-21 23:12

Like they weren't struggling already. Buzz and altekz are young and have room to grow, while glaive has been on a downhill trajectory for years.

2023-06-22 00:00

"Bench buzz or Altekz" Buzz who have the same rating as Glaive and Altekz who have been a machine for Astralis. I'm not even a fan of Astralis, but i'm hella happy to see Glaive gone with Hunden and Hvidt.

2023-06-22 08:04

Nice, BlameF igl and gla1ve coach

LMAO BLAMEF TO IGL PLEASE

2023-06-21 23:13

yeah ok, bench glaive, not the worst baiter in the csgo history

not sure how everyone is so surprised, gla1ves calling and form has not been that great recently, it was time for a change

I’m devasted hope he goes international. g2 gla1ve or new navi or new liquid

I'm certain Niko will press G2 to sign gla1ve, there's no way

The good thing is he has multiple good options as long as teams are not spooked by the possibility of a fairly old player not adapting to CS2

2023-06-21 23:42

Expected after that device interview.

2023-06-21 23:14

which one?

2023-06-21 23:21

hltv.org/news/36421/device-with-cs2-we-h.. TLDR he heaps the academy guys and staehr with praise, says IGLs matter less in current meta.

oh ye, it makes sense.

2023-06-21 23:26

Another team is broken now

If i would be ceo astralis i would put glaive as coach role.

for sure has gotto remain with the team.

+1 Glaive can be coach or analyst, his fire power not good anymore, but his experience can very usefull

Hes worth too much astralis wont do that

2023-06-22 11:07

good point.

2023-06-22 13:42

Gg, never supporting this trash again.

Whether this is the right move to make or not I’m not 100% sure but change was definitely needed within the team. We’ll see if this was the right change.

nice move

Not sure if I like blameF igl, or the fact Astralis is keeping both buzz and altekz, but gla1ve for sure was past his due date and I think it's good to move in a new direction, still this lineup has 0 reason to convince me, buzz and altekz are nothing more than cheap academy players that is the only reason they are there, and staehr although seems solid in low tier CS, it's not like he's posting crazy numbers there either

DAMN. Another 4x major winner is going to the bench

oh i hate it and i love it at the same time you and i drink the poison from the same by

dev1ce joins astralis to play with gla1ve gla1ve leave xD

bro im actually pretty sure i know u from twitter

2023-06-23 07:14

Do you know who shavi is? Or just s1mple.

2023-06-23 16:31

-nitr0 from Liquid and -gla1ve. Its end of cs go.

2023-06-21 23:18

Fnatic Glaive ?

2023-06-21 23:20

here we go. Astralis is cleaning ship and hopefully will do it right. thanks gla1ve for all that you have done! amazing guy really. I got massive respect for you. hope you will stay with the team in some other manner like coaching or as tactical analist. best of luck! oh and enjoy the little one here and there ;)

analist 😳

xD its the same thing as coach ……… standing behind them …. doing the xD

2023-06-22 10:12

Omfgg

If is true, end of an era.

I just made a HLTV account just to comment on how crazy this is

blameF IGL, I don't trust Astralis to do anything with that

Nobody believes in blame igl bruh.

2023-06-22 04:47

Damn right. Hopefully he's learned from his Complexity days though. Every time a fragger becomes an IGL, it makes them worse overall. Look at NiKo back on Mouz, mezzii right now in FNATIC, electroNic, and so forth.

2023-06-22 05:31

benching their best player? jjajajajajaja

2023-06-21 23:24

Interesting!

YES! FINALLY!

so he finally got exposed as being a zonic babby and carried by prime goat astralis lineup

and now we will see if glaive GOAT and if he can bounce back in other team

2023-06-21 23:27

This is not astralis anymore just another boring danish team yawnn heroic better

at least they stay danish, +1 respect

2023-06-21 23:31

Astralis finally want to be back to tier-1

G2 gla1ve POG

He is totally washed out, it's hard to find a motivation for hard work after climbing so high

well it gets easier to find it when u are put on a team without weak links and having all invites

Forgot about this but expected ig

glave xyp9x dupreeh aizy msl new top1 inc just wait

gla1ve and MSL on the same team? I hope you're joking because all of their games are just going to be 3v5 lol.

2023-06-22 05:32

Msl on sniper and gla1ve still better than a lot of player who didn’t lead.

2023-06-22 10:50

I was joking mostly but yea didnt realized putting both msl and glave at the same time.

2023-06-22 21:39

sad to see the goat roster getting decimated over the years...

2023-06-21 23:38

Finally

this off-season is wild

LMAO

2023-06-21 23:41

he should be an upgrade over hooxi tbh

I used to pray for times like these in 2018.

gg astralis never winning anything again

As a Swede it hurts to say but..Astralis has without doubt been the most successful team in CSGO

2023-06-21 23:47

fnatic still second tho

Sweden is nothing in csgo except during flusha private hack cheaterino

2023-06-21 23:50

well I mean, they were nearly unstoppable with almost no competition except peak NA Liquid during 2019, peak SK Gaming/MIBR, and at a smaller extent FaZe, during their peak so its understandable :v Fnatic meanwhile had to sweat their asses off due to competition from peak NiP, peak french cs, and polish VP :v

2023-06-22 00:01

2019 really was peak city

2023-06-22 02:28

*BlameF has been calling on one map, Mirage, and reached impressive 30-40% win ratio on it.

i remember you mentioned this already weeks/months ago in other discussions and i didnt forget. 100% agree, his igl'ing isnt that special. even though AST made plenty changes in the lineup and even BennieF changed up his game for the better of the team, i really need to see how he thinks this team should be lead. Also, with Victor (staehr) in the team, it should be obvious who is their star rifler and stat player. this should be Victor at all times. Will BennieF contribute to this, i honestly dont think so. Nevertheless, im happy to see AST switch up their game, and hopefully regaining some of their old glory (even with a bench that costs 50k per month). Still need to see that one signing tho...

2023-06-22 00:29

agree which do you think that is? -buzz/altekz +dupreeh/es3tag? personally id want to see three experienced guys in device, blamef and perhaps dupreeh with two best upcoming danish talent as in steahr and altekz. its between buzz and altekz. otherwise I fear the team will lose its backbone to guide the two youngsters specially during playoffs. 3 youngsters sound nice but thats too much on blamef and device shoulders considering their role. igl lurk, awp co igl. need someone to form a entry pag with them like dupreeh. which also restores their offensive-passive balance. hitting two birds with one stone.

2023-06-22 10:37

2023-06-22 02:13

30-40 is impressive?🤔

2023-06-22 05:58

it is impressive because that his ONE map he IGL's, if you do that poorly on a map everyone knows and everyone has at 50-50 - then how do you expect things to go when he needs to do 6 maps? It's just a weird promotion, he couldn't be doing any worse than he was doing and he got promoted.

2023-06-22 08:40

i think he was sarcastic

blamef igling will be superb, you just heard here first, he is mastermind genius, moving players like pieces on chess board, he will stay in spawn and coordinate other 4 players with maximum precision and if everyone from his team dies he will win round alone, and that would be his ultimate bait move 😎

69/10 copypasta

2023-06-22 01:23

lol you guys are killing me. I believe in the project tho.

2023-06-22 10:39

gla1ve has been bad individually lately but I can't see this going thé right way with -both -gla1ve and -hunden , especially since they seemed to be gaining in power lately. They will most likely regret it soon enough, and maybe WE get another round of the famous -player +player roster strat

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised to see -altekz +gla1ve in few months. I'd rather have altekz benched now, because then it will feel like a waste of time

2023-06-22 00:08

2023-06-22 08:11

I honestly was never so confused about a move ever before On one hand gla1ve had issues, quite a lot and is not in his prime that is for sure However, he's still a great igl in my opinion and I don't know if with blameF igl and staehr additional our firepower actually improves. It's so difficult to judge for me

they will basically play with no traditional igl with device and blamef leading I believe. it makes some sense, in modern cs you call something in spawn then rely on star players to mid round. it's still sad to see gla1ve go.

2023-06-22 00:16

Yeah, I think this has great finnish ENCE vibes .. The famous -IGL + firepower ... We can recall how that went back then for ENCE...

2023-06-22 14:06

glaive to Astralis Talent

2023-06-21 23:58

This is a hilarious story. Bench Gla1ve, Hahaha! Sure thing Idiot ! Bench a 4x Major Winner? Really? Against His Wishes? Dear God, these people are dumb beyond Creation. Gla1ve kind of reminds me A LITTLE BIT of Tom Brady when the Patriots were in a slump, give him the weapons and reap the rewards, or don't and watch them fail again. He needs Weapons not Bots.

2023-06-22 00:02

He is bot and was mediocre IGL and fragger at best when he was in his prime. Credit goes to zonic and goat trio of dupreeh, xyp9x and device. Gla0ve had the smallest contribution to these major victories.

2023-06-22 00:22

Mediocre fragger? Mediocre IGL? I seem to remember some really incredible performances. Did you watch the same Majors as I did ?

2023-06-22 01:16

0/8 shit take

2023-06-22 05:36

Mad gla0ve fan girl

2023-06-22 14:26

is this your goat?

Another sensible move from Astralis... They might just be serious this time

We are going to witness a whole new levels of baiting from blameF

This is big mistake. They will regret it, glaive still got it and will prove it in the future, mmw

Tier 3 max for one roster fraud and Mr. Nvidia Settings

2023-06-22 00:18

we will see in cs2 :)

Yeah people said this about pronax as well. You don’t realise difference between great IGL who was good even before he got his dream squad and mediocre IGL who became all of sudden “good IGL” when he joined stacked team and was never able to replicate that success before or after his roster fell apart. gla0ve was nobody before he joined dupreeh, device, xyp9x and became nobody in the second this trio and zonic broke up. Says it all

2023-06-22 00:27

just like messi ehm i mean ronaldo, sorry i got lost, your opinion is really dumb, lets see how he does in new team and in cs2 :) glaive > baitF for me and thats it and pronax could´ve done much more without his mental issues

2023-06-22 00:38

Ronaldo did nothing after he left Madrid I don’t know what you are talking about and comparing gla0ve to the best footballer there ever was in history Messi is hilarious at best.

2023-06-22 00:45

We were all literally expecting altekz Or buzz to go out for staehr, wtf they benched one of the best danish IGL and gave the captaincy to baitf? So this team is only going to have firepower but no one calling the shots?

2023-06-22 00:51

FINALLY finally xyp gone finally glaive gone immense respect to both for everything they achieved, but theyre so behind the meta its sad finally hunden is gone that guy should never have a career in cs ever again finally they get staehr after all this time!

2023-06-22 00:06

Honestly that's a W. Blamef can do a much better job than him and they get staehr on top of it

2023-06-22 00:07

Blame won as IGL 1 blast groupstage Gla1ve won everything except Cologne.

2023-06-22 03:49

He won everything in 2018. Its 2023 now and it's obvious his style of calling is outdated and he's not in his prime anymore. Blamef will do a better job than him I'm sure of it

2023-06-22 08:13

It isn't outdated baitf destroyed every plan he had

2023-06-22 10:48

W? IDK

2023-06-22 00:09

-Gla1ve and -Crumpits : These recent moves have made me lose faith as a fan. Looking forward to where Gla1ve goes next, hopefully he continues to play.

2023-06-22 00:11

the best move astralis has ever made

2023-06-22 00:14

Finally it is happening. “gOaT” BOT igl, one roster fraud, Mr. Nvidia Settings is getting fully exposed and kicked. Never again in tier 1 pls. He was always nobody who just joined astralis in the right time and profited from insane trio of device, dupreeh, xyp9x playing together forever and mastermind zonic. Bye bye, definitely not gonna be missed. Just -baitF and I might become neutral towards astralis. karrigan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gla0ve

2023-06-22 00:20

I think Device, dupreeh etc know how important Glaive was for their success. So I think they are thankful even when it was sometimes hard.

2023-06-22 03:48

Expected. Glaive's fire power is not enough, even if he's calling good (which he is not recently comparing to other teams). Ofc, buzz and altekz are not really tier-1 but if I'm Astralis and I can only change one player for the future of this roster, it would be glaive. There's almost no chance that he would bounce back, and with his legacy and achievements, he has every right to just retire/go coaching. While Altekz and Buzz are still young and they have a chance (slim tho) to develop their skills over their careers.

It's the most happynest day of My life, astralis need grow up

2023-06-22 00:21

OMEGALUL

2023-06-22 00:23

eoae

2023-06-22 00:35

Why people be acting surprised about this. Shit was to be expected

poor glave

LMAO THE TYPICAL BAITF CYCLE

2023-06-22 00:48

Why not go english comm and sign the IGL of Apeks? You keep the firepower of blameF, and change your IGL with someone who brings new ideas to the table, and you still have 4 Danish players. Sure, they would have a terrible second half of 2023 with switching to English, but in the long term it's just so much better. BlameF isn't going to perform more than a season as an igl

2023-06-22 00:53

Astralis academy keep xyp +glaive +dupreeh. That’s the kind of team that could win 4 cct events

2023-06-22 00:54

Truly the end of csgo

2023-06-22 00:55

Good decision to keep buzz and altekz over glaive

Nice now add rejin

2023-06-22 01:10

glave wont make any good team, danish bot

2023-06-22 01:15

Finally BAITF IGL

2023-06-22 01:19

WHY THEY KEEP TWO ACADEMY

2023-06-22 01:21

That was unexpected. Even if it was always the discussion, that Astralis needs to remove either blamef or glaive. But I honestly thought it will always be blamef and Astralis will stick with glaive. I think they have potential now, some great players, staer and device. But I am not sure how blamef IGL will work for them. We will see. But wild changes during the player break. Can't think of anything like that in the last years.

2023-06-22 01:24

I don't think so. We all know how important an IGL is. And we saw at COL how he IGLs. He just baits more.

2023-06-22 03:47

hltv users knows how important igl is and device knows that igl is not that important in this meta.. i dont know who to believe.. some random users here or 4x major winner who plays csgo professionally for a decade ?

2023-06-22 09:23

We all see in Navi what happens. I believe the GOAT a major winner who won everything unlike device

so with the dupreeh rumors, the 2018 GOAT astralis is finally fully fractured :(

2023-06-22 01:25

RIP 4 MAJORS GOAT IGL.

2023-06-22 01:34

astralis is so desperate to get out of T3 its funny. they still won't though until they go international lol

2023-06-22 01:38

-buzz +k0nfig time

Man they should put Glaive to Coach, that would probably be superb

2023-06-22 01:46

HAHHAHAH DEV1CE JOINS ASTRALIS TO PLAY WITH GLA1VE JUST FOR HIM TO PLAY UNDER BLAME LET'S SEE HOW GOOD ASTRALIS IS WITHOUT GLA1VE. TIER 3 WITH DEV1CE ON THE TEAM.

2023-06-22 01:57

Liquid -Rainwaker +Glaive please lol

2023-06-22 02:00

Woww loving these roster changes. At least it adds some kind of excitement

2023-06-22 02:06

Buzz, altekz, staehr. T1 team? Won't be easy.. GL glaive, legend of the game

2023-06-22 02:07

Truly a new era for the Astralis camp if this move is finalised...

new era maybe tier 2 now instead of tier 3

2023-06-22 02:11

Astralis were already tier 2, 1.5 at best. I can't imagine that they will break out of that tier with this current roster but it would be a dangerous upset team, especially with how dominant tier 2 teams are currently...

2023-06-22 02:16

ASTRALIS IS FINISHED

device was the first prime astralis player to leave the team and now he’s the only prime astralis player still on the team

2023-06-22 02:53

Don't forget what happened when blameF was IGL thr last time on Col hltv.org/events/5202/blast-premier-sprin..

2023-06-22 03:25

2020

2023-06-22 03:36

They should have benched BaitF. Their game will never improve with him. We saw at COL how a whole team of top players was destroyed by him. Imagine using JKS as bait. How bad you have to be as IGL

2023-06-22 03:44

New BaitF's victim.

2023-06-22 03:58

this move was very predictable. If youve followed csgo for the last 1-2 years and this is surprising, please move to greener pastures

2023-06-22 04:10

the most realistic move also gloves trial to coach

2023-06-22 04:13

Gla1ve may have been rough in his individual form but he is still better than Altekz, way way more better than him actually. Blame maybe a good caller but he is nowhere as good as gla1ve in callings. Altekz shoeuld have been sent back to the academy team and staehr should have been taking his place. Thus, astralis having a trio of firepower (blame, dev1ce and staehr) and buzz as secondary excellent player. Then you have gla1ve calling, this team would have a real tier 1 trophy contender. Most often than not every team has an igl who is constantly underperforming in his stats or fragging, etc individually. It's not for their playing skills that has them in their team but for their brain and stats. Apex, karrigan, etc 90% of the team has that. So, u don't replace a great igl for having 0.90 stats cuz all igl have that. Having replaced gla1ve with staehr, u still have two player buzz and altekz underperforming and dragging the team down but then an added problem if igl comes in and destroying the team. But with gla1ve, no igl problem at least. And I don't know why, bit people seem to be okay with Altekz in the team?? Absolutely no idea why..... And after everything Gla1ve has done for Astralis, ( i maybe getting sentimental), but i think that he deserves to play cs2, giving him one last chance till then by doing staehr replacing altekz and then decide.

2023-06-22 04:26

right decision

2023-06-22 04:56

Navi please get him instead of Aleksib

2023-06-22 05:20

Woah blame IGL? God bless Astralis

i dont understand why blamef receives so much hate, he's a top tier player, can call and frag same time.

because someone said he is baiting so now everybody is saying that

2023-06-22 09:37

sheeps

2023-06-22 10:49

just get zyphon as well and we have almost the entirety of device's faceit squad competing at events haha zyphon buzz device staehr blamef

2023-06-22 05:59

Yup, solid team there

2023-06-22 07:12

Yeah and with sprout falling apart it should be easy to get him

dayumnnn, but at least they got steahr

2023-06-22 06:29

Im not gonna Watch Astralis more

Wow, didn't think they had the balls. Glaive is a legend and kind of deserved one more shot with a legit lineup but you can't deny he was awful lately. It really got to the point where you have to throw the "but hes IGL" argument out the window

2023-06-22 06:34

HUH??????

2023-06-22 06:35

Good and obvious change. There is a reason they let magisk igl for however long they admitted.

its over

2023-06-22 07:27

Someone just woke up in Astralis, more of this, now they just need to bring in Snappi or Karrigan and they are gucci!

2023-06-22 07:49

Blame igl i guess...

2023-06-22 08:01

no, buzz

Xyp igl?

Yo, what

2023-06-22 08:25

the article makes it sound like blamef has more experience as an igl than gla1ve

2023-06-22 08:37

Since he became daddy glave he hasn’t done anything

2023-06-22 08:52

I said that staehr wouldn't join astralis as long as gla1ve was igl, didn't expect them to straight up replace gla1ve with staehr. cool move idc still won't win anything

2023-06-22 08:56

2023-06-22 09:16

Bad

2023-06-22 09:21

SOURCES: what sources? trust me bro comments are welcomed

2023-06-22 09:33

trust me bro

2023-06-22 09:40

source?

2023-06-22 09:46

Glaive coaching role ?

Please let the man find a new team.

2023-06-22 09:44

BLAMEF: "I TOLD K0NFIG THAT I'D LIKE TO PLAY WITH HIM FOR THE REST OF MY CAREER"

2023-06-22 09:39

Yeah, but k0nfig let him down.

saw this comming from the day the announched +blameF

2023-06-22 09:43

Finally! Both Astralis and Gla1ve needs a fresh start.

good, good. 2 good moves in a row... let's see what's next

2023-06-22 09:45

Best change in astralis in many years

2023-06-22 10:21

Getting konfig back would make it perfect

Pretty unexpected tbh. Was expecting Staehr to replace Buzz, not gla1ve. device the only og left in this team, pretty sad.

2023-06-22 10:30

best choice they could make, it was obvious he was a problem but was kept because of his legacy for so long

2023-06-22 10:35

welcome to Los Kogutos

NAVI please get glai1ve instead of aleksi..........

2023-06-22 11:01

Gonna be awkvard now when every strat he calls ends with "And i come in late on the flank. "

2023-06-22 11:06

the thumbnail for the article goes hard

2023-06-22 11:08

GL for the future Nvidia Ambassador And my GOAT..

Best. News. Ever!

2023-06-22 11:15

tf is this move.... let's sign some random tier 2 guy... Astralis is a tier 3 team for many more years to come now....

expected move, maybe some results to follow

2023-06-22 11:35

- bF +glaive

2023-06-22 11:45

They will win 1 tournament, their owner cries then proceeds to suck at everything

2023-06-22 12:22

Dupreeh, Magisk and Zonic back to Astralis incoming.

2023-06-22 12:42

Its been inevitable, but still it feels kind of sad tbh, and im not even an astralis fan

2023-06-22 12:55

baitF IGL lmao

2023-06-22 13:24

Everyone get out of HLTV... I want to be alone

2023-06-22 13:28

lets fucking gooooo, Altekz will outshine everyone my last fav player in GOAT roster finally call it quit

2023-06-22 13:31

rip gla1ve damn

2023-06-22 13:37

Nahh he will join vita or navi

2023-06-22 17:02

-dev1ce soon No reason for him to stay with this academy roster

2023-06-22 13:47

Maybe the will reform Tsm together device gla1ve dupreeh if he leaves vitality xyp9x Zyphon

2023-06-22 16:51

I know exactly how blamef's igling is gonna look. Its not a pretty sight

2023-06-22 14:27

Fingers crossed it wont be how we Think

2023-06-22 14:55

Maybe glaive to coach or analyst role? They just cleared all the analysts.

2023-06-22 15:05

Propah geeza move

2023-06-22 14:49

Why did they not mention + b0RUP?

2023-06-22 15:02

yeah wtf boruo is not mentioned classic

2023-06-22 16:49

Navi pick gla1ve please!!!

2023-06-22 15:16

I dont think this is the right choice baitF Igl?

2023-06-22 16:48

I think that someone bought gla1ve and Astralis had enough money to buy staehr before 2024. Glaive to mouz/g2, every t1 team can be interested.

2023-06-22 17:27

Absolutely! If I own a team with poor igling, I'd be running after Lukas right away. G2, Liquid, Vitality (if they had the balls to get rid of that awful igl) or even NaVi

2023-06-22 19:43