Heroic beat Astralis to complete lower bracket gauntlet, reach final at DreamHack Open Fall

25-10-2020 00:05

HEROIC came back from a huge deficit on the opening Nuke to win the Danish derby for a spot in the Regional Major Ranking event's grand final.

The hard-fought victory against Astralis saw the Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller-led team pick up a fifth consecutive series win and complete an impressive run through the tournament's entire lower bracket to set up a best-of-five title decider against Vitality, scheduled to kick off on Sunday at 18:00 .

With the loss, Astralis now close their chapter with Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen with a third-place finish at the RMR event, with the 24-year-old set to move to the new Cloud9 squad after spending the last three months as part of the Danish side's extended roster.

stavn shone on Nuke as he led the way to a comeback victory

The two Danish rivals, who had previously played a grueling series against one another in the group stage, provided a spectacle of a battle on Nuke. The opening map looked firmly in Astralis' hands at first, until HEROIC stepped up to the plate to snatch it away with a massive comeback. Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's team started off on the CT side and utterly dominated the opening stretch, but cadiaN & co. managed to break through the huge bank to claim five rounds in the opening half.

Down 5-13 after a second pistol round loss, HEROIC dug their heels in when they got a hold of weaponry on the defense, with Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund leading the way to overtime as he kept racking up openings and multikills to stop Astralis' efforts to close the map in regulation. One set of overtime wasn't enough, with HEROIC unable to convert a second map point, but they managed to do so the second time around on the back of a perfect defense.

Astralis struck back on Inferno with a 16-8 win in a closer affair than the scoreline might make it seem. HEROIC were more than competitive towards the beginning of their opponents' pick, but a couple of throwaway rounds in man and economic advantages meant that Astralis gained control late in the first half as Terrorists and managed to stay on top in the second.

The series came down to Vertigo, where the two teams had previously played a quadruple-overtime affair in the group stage of the same event. This time, it was far from as intense as HEROIC controlled the map thanks to a couple of dominant runs on each side, clinching the decider 16-11.

DreamHack Open Fall 2020Best of 3

Astralis

Matchpage

24th October 2020

HEROIC

Nuke

Inferno

Vertigo

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	71 - 56	+15	79.2	74.2%	1.25
Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen es3tag	59 - 58	+1	75.8	72.0%	1.06
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	60 - 63	-3	73.2	72.0%	1.02
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	55 - 60	-5	69.9	72.0%	0.97
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	59 - 62	-3	67.7	65.6%	0.94

HEROIC	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller cadiaN	68 - 51	+17	72.2	71.0%	1.16
Martin 'stavn' Lund stavn	62 - 67	-5	83.5	64.5%	1.08
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen niko	62 - 59	+3	72.9	67.7%	0.99
René 'TeSeS' Madsen TeSeS	53 - 63	-10	68.9	66.7%	0.95
Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup b0RUP	51 - 66	-15	54.7	69.9%	0.88

HEROIC TOP 1!

2020-10-25 00:06

9 replies

4 replies

Easy for the best danish team

2020-10-25 00:09

3 replies

insane match

2020-10-25 00:18

1 reply

ez north

2020-10-25 09:45

wp!

2020-10-25 01:10

unlucky

cheaters away plz

2020-10-25 00:07

2020-10-25 00:24

Heroic Cheater already top1 in cheating.

2020-10-25 01:59

what a run! GL vs Vitality

Too easy for the best Danish team

Top 1 btw

Too easy for the greatest online team in history

8 replies

Yeah ... after two Bo3's in one day, 14 hours at your peak performance, overtime, playing for 1.000's of dollasso and what have you ... Anybody could do that, right?! WP and GG Heroic ... but "ez" ... silly and disrespectful.

2020-10-25 00:52

7 replies

Bruh please. They didn't play the game for 14 hours straight and they are sitting at home. Nerds game that hard every single day.

2020-10-25 01:20

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Why aren't these 'nerds' earning five to six figures playing those games then? Playing games at the highest level is far more mentally involving than gaming casually. I can personally verify this - I've played at the top tier in some niche games (Doom Eternal's multiplayer for instance) and it's so much more intense than when I play CS, which I play semi-casually, just because of that higher level.

2020-10-25 02:28

how does Doom Eternal have high level games? lmao

2020-10-25 12:40

2020-10-25 03:27

how much

2020-10-25 06:10

Cry is free bettor

2020-10-25 07:01

Cry some moar

2020-10-25 13:52

best team in denmark

2020-10-25 00:08

After astralis

2020-10-25 08:53

-1

2020-10-25 12:44

ez hahaha bye losetralis

GG.. be careful with the smack talk ;)

LETS GO CHINA

EZ 4 ZYWOO

2020-10-25 00:10

Good game

2020-10-25 00:11

Welcome to C9 Es3tag <3 And GGWP Heroic, you played REALLY well tonight. Will be a very good Bo5 tomorrow vs Vitality i believe.

2020-10-25 00:12

LOSING TO G2, winning astralis, fucking slaves

2020-10-25 00:13

God cadian

Boi das cap

2020-10-25 00:17

There is no doubt both Astralis and Heroic are among the top 5 teams in the online world atm

Heroic and then astralis*

2020-10-25 00:22

Spirit and Astralis , i had high hopes from both today and both disappointed. That choke on Nuke was just too much.

2020-10-25 00:20

astralis bandwagon fans mald

2020-10-25 00:21

2.1m

2020-10-25 00:26

GG, great game. Stavn is a beast!

2020-10-25 00:27

Astralis 2nd best danish team btw KEKW

Cadian performing amazingly nowadays.

2020-10-25 00:28

Feels good. Astralis the number one team as always.

2020-10-25 00:29

Danish cs is so stronk. Must give credit!

2020-10-25 00:31

yeah 6 coach bug abuser and one of them works still for Heroic. they deserve credit.

2020-10-25 01:58

Yes Jermany top 1 I agree bruder ))

2020-10-25 15:51

Always BUG Clan fans first to condemn bug abusers. xD

2020-10-25 17:19

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oh another cheat supporter.

2020-10-25 18:20

BIG clan players are as much bug abusers as the former coach of Heroic, aka. GOD HUNDEN.

2020-10-25 18:29

what bullshit. Valve said the jump bug wasn't a cheat. Also BIG was the last team that used it.

2020-10-25 19:20

BIG was the most blatant abusers of it. xD

2020-10-25 19:26

But not the first one. All teams that cried on the major abused it before in many many official matches. GobB was the only smart one who said "it is a part of the game (Valve agreed) so let's use it as a part of the game.

2020-10-25 19:31

Ahahahaha gla1ve broke nother table

2020-10-25 00:47

Wonderful match! GG Heroic and GL against Vitality! (But plz, gentlemens ... Don't you think the "ez" thingy looks a bit silly?)

2020-10-25 00:49

bruh dont take hltv comments seriously

2020-10-25 09:15

He he ... You may have a point! 😎👍

2020-10-25 10:33

ez for best danish team (heroic)

2020-10-25 00:50

good shit

2020-10-25 00:51

Heroic is looking really good, they surprised me hugely, I think with small changes this team might be one of the best rosters maybe even in history. I think they are going to win the final tomorrow without much of a problem. Astralis is still really good. Just unlucky match.

2020-10-25 01:00

woah chill, people forget this is all online bullshit.. last event they went out last. stop overhyping heroic

2020-10-25 01:03

I'm actually not overhyping them. They are playing well atm., but with small changes this team could be something insane.

2020-10-25 02:55

heroic top1 EAZY HUNDEN SQUAD! astralis time to disban

2020-10-25 01:02

Like vp did after they won some tournanents with bots ?

2020-10-25 10:05

Great game. Props to both teams, especially for Heroic, for being such a hard enemy to any team they face. Hunden's "cheating" doesn't seem to make any difference

2020-10-25 01:26

No xyp9x no major

2020-10-25 01:55

expected from cheater org.

Ez for true top1 of Denmark.

2020-10-25 02:05

deserved victory for heroic

2020-10-25 02:34

Es3tag: Leaving Glaive: Bubzkji! Bubzkji: "Now is my turn to shine" Glaive: Clean the mousepad, Xyp9x is coming back Bubzkji: "sight" okay boss, "Cleaning"

2020-10-25 02:38

LUL i feel bad for Bubzkji actually

2020-10-25 02:46

lol

2020-10-25 11:22

poor bubzkji

2020-10-25 15:56

ez for cadian that raped asstr0lloss for the sec time

2020-10-25 02:13

Well someone is mad :D

2020-10-25 06:25

i'm not lol,just trolling astralis fans gl against mibr btw,you will face the god vsm,he carried fucking detona against big so they can upset

2020-10-25 13:55

Ohh, so your just a mean person, right on!

2020-10-25 15:06

yeah!😎👍👌👊💪 btw if you don't come to brazil,brazil comes to you,will be ez for vsm,mibr and furia 2-0 astralis COME TO BRAZIL!

2020-10-25 15:13

Naa I don't really wanna come to your 3. world country (thats to put it nicely), I'm good in my 1. world country. Also, the only reason that BR and NA are so high in the ranking ATM, are that the teams don't play EU and CIS teams...

2020-10-25 15:26

cadian lost to juliano

2020-10-25 02:26

ez Now Vitality win final.

cadiaN is one of the best CS players and constantly shows good results yet people still underestimate him.

2020-10-25 02:57

It's because he was really bad during his time in Rogue and North. He only just began to play good for some reason in Heroic.

2020-10-25 13:14

He plays good since online era ..way easier to perform in his bedroom , the opposite of players like astralis who need crowd and adrénaline to play great ,After so many years of cs playing online their IS just no motivation for that kind of players who won everthying.

2020-10-25 13:43

IMO a good performance is a good performance. I understand that stage presence and the affect of a crowd makes it harder for some players, but seeing how badly Cadian had played online even back then compared to now is a huge step up. You can't really take anything away from him.

2020-10-26 02:10