Life is all about swings and roundabouts. On one hand, we feel really sorry for dev1ce, who is having to miss the Major due to a stress-related problem, and won’t be seen before 2025.

On the other, br0’s miraculous recovery must be celebrated.

Unfortunately for everyone’s favourite Tom Cruise lookalike, his organisation have made a rod for his social media back. He’s going to have to deal with jokes about this because his own team told the world that br0 was sick and then brought him in to replace him.

The thing is, that this is desperately sad for anyone of an Astralis or Danish persuasion. It’s desperately sad for people who want all the best teams and players to be in their best shape and want to see the best Counter-Strike.

Luckily for us, we’re neither of those. But we’re sure you guys are sad.

br0 is a pretty solid replacement generally, because he’s a versatile player who can fill a lot of roles. He isn’t, though, an AWPer, so Astralis will have to find an AWPer from withi- oh, yeah. Never mind. They’ll just let cadiaN do it.

This looks more and more like the old HEROIC with each passing day.

What we’re saying is, if any team had to lose their superstar with four Majors and two Major MVPs, HEROIC - sorry, Astralis - are uniquely positioned to not be too doomed by it.

They’re probably not going to win the Major, though. But then… they weren’t all that likely beforehand.