If you can beat them, join them. Wait, huh?

Well, it’s exactly what stavn and jabbi have done. They’ve left the best Danish team Heroic to join the ever-rebuilding Astralis.

The outgoings are anchor b0RUP and device’s FACEIT friend Buzz. Whilst b0RUP was a shoo-in, the last spot was a close call between Staehr and Buzz. Buzz’s form simply dropped at the wrong time, worsened by Staehr’s mirrored improvement.

And hey, it’s easier to kick freebie Buzz than someone you chased for years and paid for, we suppose.

This move leaves Astralis with a pretty solid lineup: jabbi and stavn have shown what they’re capable of in the past stat-wise. Even if for stavn that does entail dropping off in big games, but hey that’s why they have device.

The new roster is genuinely exciting, which makes it weird that the announcement was anything but.

Although we guess it was hard to top Heroic’s earlier announcement, around how both players demanded their IGL’s head if they were to renew, only to then decide to leave negotiations for a spot in Astralis.

It also didn’t help that Astralis failed to hype it at all. They just dropped a post the day after their BLAST elimination. There wasn’t even a Tweet between their event debrief post and the announcement.

This roster will debut at BetBoom Dacha in December, so if you are genuinely excited, sit tight.