In an interview on HLTV that came out on Friday, Astralis Group's Sports Director, Kasper Hvidt, explained a bit more about the sudden decision to pick up Denmark's weirdest awper, JUGi.
With some suggesting that Astralis was just using these cheap free agent players as Pokémon trading cards to trade for that Charizard EX everyone wants, Hvidt put the record straight by saying they had no such intention, even though transferring players isn't completely out of the picture.
The team's focus is to avoid skipping events, like they did in 2019, by making sure that individual players can be rested while the team still functions. Of course, there is also an argument to be made about how Astralis is one of the few teams able to pull off such a system, and also one of the few actually in need of it.
We did see coach zonic pick up the mouse multiple times in the last few years, and we like to think that JUGi is at least better than him*.* He might not be as versatile of a player as es3tag, but he will give them depth and allow for other players to be rested, and we think that is the main point to take away from Astralis' shopping spree*. Is it still a shopping spree when you get the players on free transfer?*
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