Sashi appoint HUNDEN as head coach

17-7-2023 18:46

The Danish organization turned to the 32-year-old veteran to lead their new project.

HUNDEN returns to coaching with Sashi

Sashi have announced Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen's arrival to fill the head coach position in their squad. The news comes less than a month after Astralis' decision to part ways with the 32-year-old, who spent the spring season as the organization's head analyst.

The skipper returns to coaching for the first time since Heroic terminated his contract in July 2021 for allegedly sharing sensitive information with a competitor. HUNDEN will now lead Sashi's rebuild phase following their decision to bench four players during the summer tournament break.

Astralis part ways with Kasper Hvidt, HUNDEN

HUNDEN spent the majority of his coaching career with Heroic between 2020-2021, when he helped the Danish squad climb up the rankings during the online era. Under his leadership, Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller and company took first place at ESL One Cologne 2020 Europe and the No. 2 spot on the HLTV ladder.

His stint was then temporarily halted as he was suspended by Heroic due to his involvement in the coaching bug scandal in September 2020, only returning to competition eight months later following the expiration of his ban. The organization terminated his contract after three months, alleging he had shared sensitive team information with a major competitor.

Astralis terminated HUNDEN's contract in June

"The restructuring of Sashi Esport continues, and as of today, Monday 17th of July 2023, Nicolai “HUNDEN” Petersen” steps in as the head coach of Sashi Esport," read the statement released by Sashi. "In addition to the previous experience from his earlier employment at top teams such as Heroic and Astralis, HUNDEN brings a lot of experience within talent development on the Danish scene."

"We are very pleased to be able to present HUNDEN to Sashi Esport," added Sashi sports director Allan "⁠Rejin⁠" Petersen. "Nicolai and I have known each other for many years and have previously worked together, so when the opportunity to get him to Sashi Esport presented itself, it was an obvious choice for us to reach out to him."

Sashi are currently:

Mikkel "⁠n1Xen⁠" Borlund

Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen (coach)

Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen (benched)
Thomas "⁠LUMSEN⁠" Søhus Larsen (benched)
Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup (benched)
Mathias "⁠Maccen⁠" Madsen (benched)

bruh

2023-07-17 18:46

9 replies

next ban is incoming as we speak

2023-07-17 19:24

6 replies

sashi like: "hire a blatant cheater, why not?"

2023-07-17 19:42

5 replies

Bedroom org, probably laundering money and some shit and dont care. They just need to spend enough money to make it look legit

2023-07-17 19:44

3 replies

Could you sound more Brazilian?

2023-07-17 22:08

1 reply

world is rainbows with honey and milk rivers.

2023-07-17 23:23

Its just a rich kid who uses daddys money to run a csgo org Its legit money, just not spent well

2023-07-17 23:24

well, it's rejin...

2023-07-23 08:07

The GOAT is back!

2023-07-18 08:53

The GOAT of BUG ABUSE is back!

2023-07-18 21:04

Sashi

2 replies

Msl blocked me without any flame whatsoever 🤣 These paycheck stealers wont get anywhere with honden

2023-07-17 20:20

Msl is on bench,so he has nothing to do with hunden

Huehuehue

XDDDDDDDDD

And I thought MSLs reputation couldnt go more downhill (even though he is benched)

2023-07-17 18:47

4 replies

So a former Sashi player’s reputation Will be affected by Sashi’s management’s decision to hire a cheater? Hltv users reaching even greater heights of stupidity lmao

2023-07-17 21:41

2023-07-17 22:30

2023-07-17 23:08

just goes to show how absurd it is the extent to which hunden is still persecuted and antagonized. (same goes for heroic)

2023-07-18 00:03

msl + hunden = unstoppable

Msl ain't in Sashi anymore

2023-07-17 18:48

but msl is benched right?

MSL's been benched broski lmao.

2023-07-17 18:54

no....

2023-07-17 18:59

yes and he even played some qualifiers with his smaerk? roster cant really remember the name

2023-07-17 19:52

smaek I think

2023-07-17 21:09

Wut???

2023-07-17 18:49

lmao 😂😂😂

LMaoo

2023-07-17 18:50

msl unlucky xDDDDDDDDDD

NICE! Get over it kids it's in the past - move on

2023-07-17 18:52

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fan of flusha logic

2023-07-18 04:35

Flusha 🤝 hunden

2023-07-18 08:55

Once a cheater, always a cheater

2023-07-18 12:36

10 replies

like you all are perfect fucking kids that never cheat and would instantly log out if you get that cam because you are St Francis of Assisi... lol

2023-07-18 15:51

so what you're telling us is that you're a cheater and that you'd cheat without thinking about it.

2023-07-18 20:00

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what I'm telling you is that 99% of you would do the exact same thing Hunden did if you were in his position, no matter how many dumb "hunden cheater" comments you type in hltv forums.

2023-07-19 15:54

7 replies

ok cheater, stop projecting, not everyone is a dirty cheater like you.

2023-07-19 17:11

such a French comment, mais merdeuuuuuu... on veut pas de jeux olympiques laaaaa putaaaaaain, fait chier Macrooon. Always bitching, never agreeing, always arguing

2023-07-20 15:35

what am I supposed to agree with? that I'm a cheater? I'm not, you're the one who said he'd cheat given the opportunity, because you're a cheater, not me.

2023-07-20 20:00

si t'etais a la place de hunden t'aurais fait la meme chose

2023-07-21 00:24

ma réponse en français reste la même: on est pas tous des tricheurs, sale tricheur.

2023-07-21 02:18

d'accord, mon ange.

2023-07-24 17:06

No, that's exactly where you are wrong and why hunden is hated.

2023-07-21 02:48

YIKES

don't matter, that team won't even make it to a closed quali

2023-07-17 18:53

skull emoji

NAHHHHHHHHHH

nice

wtf is happening

2023-07-17 18:55

aizy is only 27 wow

2023-07-17 18:58

I was surprised too

2023-07-17 20:28

2023-07-17 23:33

why

doubt hunden can build his dream roster with SASHI best chance is to get birdfromsky in and farm cct money

2023-07-17 19:04

sign gla1ve, xyp, dupreeh and esetag next

Nahh I think they should absolutely get bfsky instead of washed ass gla1ve, also bench or kick n1xen(who?) and get aizy back, maybe get Kjaerbye

2023-07-19 15:13

lets do it

2023-07-19 16:11

Bruh just stahp

2023-07-17 19:05

Holy shit this guy has more lives than a cat

What?

2023-07-17 19:06

It's actually a good fit, Sashi are no strangers to controversy. The owner of Sashi's daddy owns JN Meat International and bankrolls D0KT0R3N's projects. - At a bootcamp he threw his headset across the table, shouted at the players and left. Why? Because the players bought sandwiches (with their own money btw) at 3:30 pm since they didn't want to eat at 5 pm as they were scheduled to play a match at 6 pm. - Patti was kicked 2 days after this incident. - He trash talked a stand-in (f1skereN) live on stream. - notaN called the management incompetent. - vigg0 called the sports director "Mr. Two-Face" (although that guy has been replaced with Rejin now). - I personally witnessed D0KT0R3N leave his stream mid match because Sashi were losing in Power Ligaen

2023-07-17 19:23

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Is the org well funded?. They have opened a new gaming centre which is rare for a tier 5 team like sashi.

2023-07-17 20:29

As he wrote, the owner of JN Meat international is behind the org, the owner is rich. It's just a hobby for his seemingly useless son.

2023-07-17 20:36

Afaik it's all pretty much all funded by D0KT0R3N's father/his company, JN Meat. Sashi is one of the company's brands. JN Meat has an annual revenue of 16m USD, but he owns a bunch of other corporations too including real estate.

2023-07-17 20:51

ay do u really wear a blue coat and are your boots yellow?

2023-07-18 00:04

they have a fking ACADEMY TEAM

2023-07-17 21:53

interesting, ty

2023-07-17 22:47

sad

2023-07-17 23:00

yeah i have no idea why Dokteron would do a risky move like this. He has done far worse than what this person has mentioned. He used to be hard into giving gambling advice to his subscribers on his discord. He re-streamed multiple ESL Pro-league games, ESEA Premier Games, Flashpoint games Obviously, as you know I'm a caster and he was restreaming some of the games I casted when I casted MDL.

2023-07-18 12:27

holy cringe > > >Obviously, -as you know- I'm a caster lil bro literally WHOMEGALUL i promise you, absolutely no one here or in the 99.9999th percentile of the entire CSGO community knows who you are and have definitely never heard of you

2023-07-20 00:49

I think you'd be a bit surprised given that I casted a lot of EU/NA csgo that most of these people watched. You maybe don't. Tone the cringe down a bit kid. - OnlyjoshinTV

2023-07-21 07:23

jesus maria joseph corpus christi in christ that you actually even think that is remotely justifying you formulating your original reply in the manner you did, and then double down on it is just so so SO sad, this is not even a memeable thing anymore no way you're not trolling or satire? "kid"? ACTUALLY SIGNING OFF? this is LITERALLY THE HLTV VERSION OF THAT NECKBEARD DUDE "heh, nothing personal kid" those are literally no achievements really that have any relevance in your career or future prospects of e-sports, and it's obvious by your way of handling yourself that you did all of that for a handful of "fame" and a pathetic amount of relevant credentials, and you still wear it as if you're like a legit caster or ex-caster who was ever relevant or recognizable enough to garner an actual fanbase of your own, because your heart is not in it and you do/did it for the eventual pay-off of clout to hide all that worthlessness and inability to be great at something, but you really only just barely believe it & can't let it go because that was your "peak" in life. that's so funny get shrekt you talk like a typical washed up "anything" with superiority & authority issues and i've seen a lot of this in my line of work, and please, go to sleep knowing that I am actually someone moderately famous in music and you will never ever be recognized for that. You are just going to die more

2023-07-22 21:03

Why are you projecting and mindreading?

2023-07-23 04:21

Sashi are currently: Denmark Mikkel "⁠n1xen⁠" Borlund

2023-07-17 19:25

hunden and msl, name a worse roster

2023-07-17 19:30

hext and ocean

2023-07-17 19:31

I'm looking forward to see MSL and aizy playing again

2023-07-17 19:34

LMAO HOW DOES THIS CHEATER KEEP GETTING SIGNS???

half comments deleted XD

2023-07-17 19:46

very pro scene you can cheat and you still get signs...

2023-07-17 19:48

Why does this cancerous human keep finding a job in esports

2023-07-17 19:53

Just when shit couldn’t get worse lmao. Even bringing back steel and brax into the CS scene and letting them play in majors again would be more acceptable than this junkass continuing to somehow get employed.

2023-07-17 19:58

sadly true

2023-07-17 22:00

Lol

2023-07-17 19:59

First time I heard about Sashi and they already have MSL and aizy on the bench xD Like did they even play lmao xD

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2023-07-17 20:06

esports is so garbage its like real sports in that regard you can do horrible shit and no one will even care its just so sad and kinda disgusting

2023-07-17 20:10

lets not compare what football players are accused of (rape, murder etc) with using a bug other coaches used lol

2023-07-17 22:17

cringiest name award winner 2023

2023-07-18 20:01

Why is this guy not banned from the scene?

2023-07-17 20:16

esic useless lol

2023-07-17 20:19

cant stop da dog!

What could possibly go wrong?

2023-07-17 20:25

*insert GTA san andreas meme here*

2023-07-17 20:26

lmao

How is this guy allowed to have jobs in CSGO

2023-07-17 20:38

right? And how there are companies that are still willing to cooperate with a person with such tendencies and characteristics is beyond me.

2023-07-18 07:39

How is anyone seeing any nation but US as a bigger threat than US is a better question. Your leaders are pushing so god damn hard for WW3, getting desperate as the world stop using petrol dollar, nation after nation. Russia being one of the last ones to do so. The MSM barely tells but a a tiny fraction of the story.

2023-07-18 13:03

WTF xD This joker..

2023-07-17 20:39

No ethics, yikes I wish them the worst

2023-07-17 20:41

FUCKING BASED

2023-07-17 20:44

Hunden does not deserve to be in our cs. Go away dog, we don‘t want you

2023-07-17 20:58

buahahhahaha

2023-07-17 21:10

the danish scene is a pure joke, ban all of them

2023-07-17 21:16

How is this "dog" not banned from competetive cs? Cheating shits shouldnt be allowed to comete in any official matches no matter what tier.

2023-07-17 21:24

2023-07-18 05:19

lmao no surprise sashi such a joke org full of incompetent people

2023-07-17 21:46

LuL

sashi lmao

2023-07-17 22:16

Isn't this a new team? How are they already in a "rebuilding phase"

2023-07-17 22:25

kkkkkk

2023-07-17 22:26

He gonna coach a 1 man team

2023-07-17 22:27

Easy top 15 contender ngl

why do you keep giving this guy chance after chance? what the fuck is wrong with esport in denmark

2023-07-17 22:37

Sashi is not rly a good team tho. They had a pretty decent run in powerligaen but that was mostly fuelled by MSL as he is too overqualified to play at that level. There are quite a bit of lower tier danish teams that are way better than Sashi so its no surprise that they were willing to sign Hunden considering how irrelevant they are (imo). It’s just more of a reflection of how many danish teams who refused to associate with him despite of needing a guy with his expertise. Sashi being the Best team he could land speaks volumes of his fall from grace within the scene. When they announce their new roster, it could turn out to be way better than expected, so i might be totally wrong tho

2023-07-18 01:08

while I didn't explain myself I think you're missing the point. he should never get a job in esports, ever.

2023-07-18 04:22

Its very common that shit teams are willing to sign controversial players who comes with a baggage because they wouldnt be able to attract players/coaches of similar level under normal circumstances. For a tier15 org to land a tier1 analyst the tradeoff was too good to pass up on. I agree with you tho, but from a business perspective it makes a lot of sense for Sashi

2023-07-18 09:19

sashi t1 in few months goat is back

2023-07-17 22:41

fucking finally, this team gonna be GUUUD. +aizy again please

2023-07-17 22:55

aintnoway aizy plays without MSL

2023-07-17 23:15

lol, hardcore self own

2023-07-17 23:37

Sashi about to pick up some Tier 5 Danish players and suddenly become the best Tier 2 team out here

Or maybe dupreeh gla1ve and xypnix will join this young promising talent

2023-07-18 00:38

GOD HUNDEN IS BACK BABY moreover, Rejin is sport director now baby 2 good new in one article

2023-07-18 01:36

interesting choice lmao

2023-07-18 04:37

+birthfromthesky + 500 players = Time to farm money in european league & CCT

2023-07-18 05:22

2023-07-18 07:43

Ah sh'' here we go again

2023-07-18 11:12

If people spent half the amount of time they do hating on HUNDEN hating those in society who actually make their life shittier.......

2023-07-18 12:59

+ aizy + xyp + gla1ve + dupreeh + acoR

2023-07-18 13:05

How does this guy keep getting coaching jobs???

2023-07-18 17:45

Money

2023-07-18 17:50

2023-07-18 18:04

i get an obscure org needing a guy like hunden but at the same time i don't get why anyone would need hunden. L for sashi

2023-07-18 18:43

lmao funnier than coach abuser gettin job, is mad danish spammin dm's conviccted bug abuser. go cry.

2023-07-18 21:02

common danish L

2023-07-18 21:05

like it or not: HUNDEN still remains one of the best strategic masterminds in the game. im pretty sure he will get a nice lineup here that will play in the spotlight.

2023-07-18 21:09

Shouldn't this guy be like cancelled or something? After all the bad he has done he still gets to be paid? Classic CS thing.

2023-07-19 18:37