Astralis Have Failed Yet Again… (ft NER0)

So what's ugly right now?

Well, I mean, long before people decided I was a Money C fan, I was actually an Astralis fan.

The good Astralis, obviously.

The Danish Astralis.

Yeah, of course, of course.

Yeah, obviously.

So this one is basically about how the new Astralis management have handled the roster since they joined.

Because basically, I think the move to international is something people have talked about on shows for years.

It was inevitable with the way the scene was going.

But you still kind of want to keep... your connection to Denmark in one way.

So that's the first part of the point is that I think going down to one Danish player, maybe zero because they've not been able to extend the contract is a huge red flag for Astralis because in my mind, there's no reason why they wouldn't have at least tried to extend the contracts of the three Danes to keep that core.

And the second part is just this fuckery with the Major because there's just no ways no one didn't know about this rulebook thing where if you play...

If two teams have the same player on their roster, only one of them can go to the Major.

Like, someone has to have known that inside Astralis.

And as soon as Foot basically decided they were only going to play one event with St. Pius, this was a very real risk that if you had Cemetery on your roster, you wouldn't be invited to the Major.

And what they've done is they've gone to stake ranked.

They've... brought Cemetery with them, but if they play five games with Cemetery and foot losing the quarterfinals of Bucharest, Astralis won't get to the major.

And that, to me, is just a massive failing of management.

And the way they're trying to fix it, they had Neo registered for a game for like an hour earlier until someone tweeted that that wouldn't have actually got them out of this VRS bind thing.

And now Yavi's playing tomorrow, so he's done them a massive favor when... realistically, he's out of contract in like four days.

So, I mean, maybe not a favour, but he's had to be in Barcelona to watch a football game, paid for himself to be in Barcelona for a football game, according to Vorborg.

Also, it's

pure happenstance.

If he hadn't happened to be there, he probably couldn't play the tournament.

I mean, it's not a coincidence that they've gone to Barcelona the day before Astralis play in Barcelona.

So what's ugly right now?

Well, I mean, long before people decided I was a Money C fan, I was actually an Astralis fan.

The good Astralis, obviously.

The Danish Astralis.

Yeah, of course, of course.

Yeah, obviously.

So this one is basically about how the new Astralis management have handled the roster since they joined.

Because basically, I think the move to international is something people have talked about on shows for years.

It was inevitable with the way the scene was going.

But you still kind of want to keep... your connection to Denmark in one way.

So that's the first part of the point is that I think going down to one Danish player, maybe zero because they've not been able to extend the contract is a huge red flag for Astralis because in my mind, there's no reason why they wouldn't have at least tried to extend the contracts of the three Danes to keep that core.

And the second part is just this fuckery with the Major because there's just no ways no one didn't know about this rulebook thing where if you play...

If two teams have the same player on their roster, only one of them can go to the Major.

Like, someone has to have known that inside Astralis.

And as soon as Foot basically decided they were only going to play one event with St. Pius, this was a very real risk that if you had Cemetery on your roster, you wouldn't be invited to the Major.

And what they've done is they've gone to stake ranked.

They've... brought Cemetery with them, but if they play five games with Cemetery and foot losing the quarterfinals of Bucharest, Astralis won't get to the major.

And that, to me, is just a massive failing of management.

And the way they're trying to fix it, they had Neo registered for a game for like an hour earlier until someone tweeted that that wouldn't have actually got them out of this VRS bind thing.

And now Yavi's playing tomorrow, so he's done them a massive favor when... realistically, he's out of contract in like four days.

So, I mean, maybe not a favour, but he's had to be in Barcelona to watch a football game, paid for himself to be in Barcelona for a football game, according to Vorborg.

Also, it's

pure happenstance.

If he hadn't happened to be there, he probably couldn't play the tournament.

I mean, it's not a coincidence that they've gone to Barcelona the day before Astralis play in Barcelona.