Another chapter was added to Astralis’ book of disappointments.

In the decider match for the last spot at IEM Dallas, Heroic faced their old rivals Astralis. It’s a good setup for a match, and it should be clo… huh? Oh, it was a massacre.

Astralis won 5 rounds, not on a map, but in the entire series.

xfl0ud battered cadiaN’s crew on map 1, Mirage. He netted his best rating ever, a 2.63, for reference, the highest rating donk’s gotten against a top-10 team is a 2.50. That we could easily find. That statistic isn’t a surprise when you realize he had 25 kills in 16 rounds.

Even yxngstxr got in on the action.

Now, let us be frank, we’re not huge fans of him, but he shat on Astralis, and we’ve got time for that. For Christ’s sake, just like at his map 2. He matched xfl0ud’s 2.63 rating, which at this point has to be some subliminal message.

Though we’re not sure if it should count, we’re pretty sure cadiaN was trying to get fired. He wants that sweet severance cash.

Astralis were constantly throwing away man-advantage situations, which is one thing if you’re playing against ZywOo and ropz, but a whole other thing against this Heroic. The most egregious example of all was one round where Astralis had the B bomb site with Heroic all but saving, and instead of planting, they went A. It took them so long that Sunpayus caught them lacking and opened up a retake. That was a 5v3 they threw away for no real reason. If this was Nemiga vs CYBERSHOKE there’d be match-fixing threads on Reddit.

Even by our standards, this was some premium hate watch material. Though at this pace it’s not long before Astralis are not fun, just sad.