HooXi

It's why actually the timing on me making that video was perfect, where it wasn't just a tweet I made.

I basically a- actually thought to myself like a month ago, if they were gonna make moves into Astralis, because there was that rumor they were gonna kick HooXi after their player break.

It's like, wait a minute, why not just go all Danish again? Actually, there are Danish players in the scene you can make like a mini super team out of without even needing, by the way, Karrigan and TeSeS, and you can have a pretty good squad.

Like, you can have blameF, you can have a bunch of Staehr, and so you can have a bunch of names and Astralis names and they would be good Danish players.

Always add in that they had Sphynx as a JKS, alexeb angle, I'll always point out.

So to me, I actually think the bigger gamble's the Siuhy one, because here's the thing that I find weird.

I've always told people this Sadly, me and Maui always got bundled due to shores in with Casade and Richard, who have their own personal beef with HooXi, which by the way, I get it.

If you have a personal beef, then fuck that person.

He's the one that takes over in timeouts.

So who is to say that he's not already, you know, 50/50 in-game leading with, with Karrigan? You know, kind of like he was when HooXi was on the lineup in G2 and, and kind of like he was when Snax was on G2, and maybe even with Kickson as well, you know? I, I, I don't know-

That is also my theory.

I actually low-key think he just gets a lot of say in all his teams, bro.

I haven't had any chance to talk about it on any shows, is obviously it's official now, the Astralis move, which is Astralis have-

Yeah

... removed HooXi and Jabbi.

It seems like if you read what they're saying, part of it also could be related to contracts.

Uh, if it needs to happen, it needs to happen.

And speaking of mob justice, uh, Astralis seem to have finally, uh, broken the camel's back when it comes to Danish fans because in the last week, um, approaching the expiry of their contracts, they've benched HooXi, benched jabbi, which by the way is probably some VRS chase to get a new core in place or whatever.

Nice.

And they're signing cemetery on loan as a rifler and Siuhy.

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I'll just say explicitly, like the weird thing about that is even though to me that looks like crazy nepotism, 'cause he's now been on one regime where they brought Jacob in for a leech, like homie, that's the worst trade of all time, Donald Trump meme.

And then the other one now is, now he's fucking kicking out HooXi, who look, no matter what you think about him, is at least a competent IGL, for Siuhy, who is the whole reason people now say your time on Liquid doesn't count.

Like, NLP is so relevant, now Liquid's taken their meme.

So a thing to look at within the news right now is, this was on HLTV, and it came from KRL originally, who's obviously been a pretty damn good source on many things now, even outside of French CS.

He says, "Sources: Astralis look to replace duo." And that duo is HooXi, the IGL, and jabbi, who has been looking a bit better jabbi-wise, but he's not been-

jabbi has been looking pretty good

... jabbi.

But he's not been at the very heights of god tier jabbi, and we still see some missing games from him.

It's kinda crazy though, right? Because it says, "HLTV knows Astralis are s- are taking steps to avoid losing their core for free with the contracts of HooXi, jabbi, and stare all nearing the end." Now, we remember on the Star Series podcast with Dust said about stare to NAVI would be good, you know? And that would be technically a jump up, maybe not with where NAVI are now in the rankings and stuff, but I mean, if they could go in all these different locations, it would be crazy.

But also Astralis just won.

I know it's a very small trophy, but they still won a trophy.

You know, it's only one best of three loss, but still, you'd want to come through that with flying colors if you're of that, that caliber.

Um, again, just making it through this, winning this event, it's expected, but it feels like a sigh of relief if you're Astralis, right? If you are Hooxi, you're like, "Oh my God, I had to do way too much to make this happen.

But thank, thank the fucking heavens I did.

Thank the Lord he was headshotting people [laughs] left, right, and center in some of these series to make this one happen." 'Cause if you're watching these games, it's like he took over T sides.