It was armageddon for Astralis on Sunday, and it’s a circus on Wednesday.

IGL blameF, a four-time top 20 player (and suberb eco fragger) has been benched, which opens the door for a new IGL to come in.

Who could it be? karrigan? Snappi? HooXi? gla1ve? birdfromsky? Patti? maNkz? cadiaN? (lol)

Nope. None of them.

It’s device, with br0 coming in as a selfless map control rifler and anchor.

It’s as crazy as Cloud9 not managing to find a Russian-speaking AWPer they rate. Denmark is spawning a good IGL every six months, and they’ve gone with DEVICE?

There is logic. It restores stavn and jabbi to Heroic roles and Heroic structure, with an AWP IGL. br0 is a great player in the TeSeS mould, and Staehr is doing a decent sjuush cosplay.

Harping on about roles is a bit rich, though. It’s not like it wasn’t obvious. stavn and blameF were cut from the same crouch-spamming zero-headshot baity boy cloth. Giving up after three months is pathetic.

Putting even more eggs in the shabby Stabbi basket just reeks of sunk cost fallacy and sports director, Kasper Straube, giving his old Heroic boys mate rates. Or “prioritising youth,” as Astralis would put it.

Poor old device tweeted about a lack of motivation last week, and is now taking on the most intensive role you can possibly imagine. The guy should be wrapped in cotton wool, not thrown to the wolves.

All in all, it looks like we’ll be hate-maxxing and fraud-watching the Shanghai Major RMR for the next chapter in Astralis’ downfall.

Astralis are now:

🇩🇰 device (IGL)
🇩🇰 jabbi
🇩🇰 stavn
🇩🇰 br0
🇩🇰 Staehr

🇩🇰 Ruggah (coach)
🇩🇰 BlameF (benched)