What’s worse than losing a derby to your rivals?

How about going 8-0 up and losing the first map 8-13?

What about losing to your rivals 0-2 while they have three stand-ins - two of which have previously been on your books - who are standing in for two players you just snaked from them?

Or even doing that in your home country to ensure you don’t play in front of your home crowd?

Fortunately for Astralis, they don’t need to choose from those four, as they did all of them in the space of about two hours.

In fact, from the time they went 8-0 up on Vertigo, they didn’t tweet until they’d nearly almost lost the second map. It must have been embarrassing.

Rubbing salt in the wounds was the vintage performance we saw on map one from dupreeh, who consistently found openings in the Astralis defence to punish their insolence.

He was much quieter on map two, but cadiaN stepped up with a 30-bomb in first OT to finish off Astralis and send them home before the Danish crowd even arrive.

They weren’t alone - NIP, with their own Danish contingent, were dumped out unceremoniously by NAVI.

In the upper bracket - otherwise known as the boring part where nobody’s event ends in heartbreak and crying - FaZe kept up their winning streak by beating an impressive Cloud9 after smashing NIP.

Cloud9, by the way, won their own grudge match against NAVI.

Complexity were the team who pushed Astralis to the brink with their own 2-12 comeback on map two, before losing to an ever-dominant Vitality in the upper final.

Tune in today as the playoff games begin. We’ll be back Monday morning with a recap and a winner of the $200K and the last spot for BLAST World Final in just 3 weeks.