Astralis defeat Extra Salt; Complexity send Vitality to lower bracket in DH Masters

29-4-2021 16:24

Both Astralis and Vitality debuted new lineups in the opening matches of DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 group B, but only the Danes walked away with a victory.

Two roster changes were the main talking point of the opening matches of DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 Group B: Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz's departure from Astralis, which caused some role shuffling for the four-time Major champions, and Vitality's benching of Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy in favor of youngster Jayson "⁠Kyojin⁠" Nguyen Van.

dupreeh had a solid debut with the AWP

Any hopes for a North American upset were wiped away by Astralis quickly as they picked up a 7-0 start on Nuke against Extra Salt. Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif was leading the way, but Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen on the AWP as well as Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen, now a permanent fixture in the active lineup, provided firepower to secure a 16-8 win over the FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe runners-up.

Kyojin's debut for Vitality was spoiled by Complexity and an in-form Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage. The Australian posted a 24K-15D scoreline alongside nine multikill rounds and a clutch to power his team to a 16-10 victory on Nuke, sending the French powerhouse to the lower bracket.

The winners of the two matches, Astralis and Complexity, will face off on Friday in the upper bracket semi-finals, while Vitality will have to stave off Extra Salt if they wish to avoid their fifth group stage elimination in a row.

DreamHack Masters Spring 2021Best of 1

Astralis

Matchpage

29th April 2021

Extra Salt

Nuke

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	24 - 12	+12	89.2	91.7%	1.61
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	20 - 14	+6	93.7	79.2%	1.35
Lucas 'Bubzkji' Andersen Bubzkji	20 - 13	+7	92.3	79.2%	1.34
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	20 - 14	+6	80.1	83.3%	1.27
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	13 - 14	-1	68.9	87.5%	1.12

Extra Salt	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek Sonic	16 - 18	-2	68.6	66.7%	0.98
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado MarKE	18 - 20	-2	77.3	62.5%	0.95
Josh 'oSee' Ohm oSee	15 - 18	-3	65.9	62.5%	0.83
Justin 'FaNg' Coakley FaNg	10 - 19	-9	49.6	62.5%	0.65
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou JT	8 - 22	-14	42.7	58.3%	0.55

DreamHack Masters Spring 2021Best of 1

Complexity

Matchpage

29th April 2021

Vitality

Nuke

Complexity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	24 - 15	+9	96.7	80.8%	1.49
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer blameF	16 - 13	+3	79.7	76.9%	1.15
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	18 - 19	-1	68.3	69.2%	1.05
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	18 - 17	+1	74.3	53.8%	0.99
Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev poizon	14 - 17	-3	55.7	69.2%	0.88

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	22 - 16	+6	78.7	80.8%	1.35
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	20 - 17	+3	86.9	61.5%	1.21
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	15 - 19	-4	68.0	65.4%	0.88
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier misutaaa	14 - 20	-6	59.4	80.8%	0.77
Jayson 'Kyojin' Nguyen Van Kyojin	10 - 19	-9	41.9	65.4%	0.74

Vitality lmao

2021-04-29 16:24

23 replies

god rush!

2021-04-29 16:26

3 replies

Device was the problem

2021-04-29 16:27

2 replies

just imagine if they lose vs extra salt in bo3 now

2021-04-29 16:32

so rude dude :/

2021-04-29 18:43

rpk is not problem , just mald IGL make them worst. they should bring good igl and let apex playing entryfragger with zywoo.

2021-04-29 19:36

18 replies

Speak fucking english I want to rip my eyes out now THANKS

2021-04-29 20:05

17 replies

Go see a therapist.

2021-04-29 20:34

4 replies

2021-04-29 21:14

His english is fine. Don't try to act like you speak fluent english in your daily life.

2021-04-30 00:14

Why would i speak fluent english on daily basis if i live in russia? But when i visit international forums i try to because im not a egoistic swine His english isnt fine and u know it

2021-04-30 07:56

1 reply

Go protest against your vile and evil leader, Putin, instead dude.

2021-04-30 11:17

your life problem , you need friend?

2021-04-29 22:21

11 replies

Lol hahah

2021-04-30 00:15

No he need daily sunxuichai :)

2021-04-30 01:50

Me no need twenty iq friends ty

8 replies

atleast im not bad attitude , if you good at math but your attitude so bad you cant alive at this world.

2021-04-30 08:52

7 replies

If i have to live in a world where people dont want to spend 2 minutes of their time to at least use a google translate i dont care about my life

2021-04-30 09:17

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i dont using google translate by the way. english not my first language , i learn 4 language

2021-04-30 18:36

Yeah thats what i told u: u cant even use google translate to not look like a complete r*tard U cant even see the difference between nouns and verbs lmao, u didnt understand what i was saying to u Whats the point of this? U are just embarrassing urself

2021-04-30 23:37

stop thinking you good bro , your life kinda suck.

1. I do not think anything 2. U dont know me therefore ur opinion on me, my life, etc is not valuable at all Also, why are u seem so obsessed with my life? I think my life is not the point of this conversation

2021-04-30 23:36

1. no one obsessed your shit life. 2. you just suck at life

2021-05-01 18:46

Lmao

2021-05-02 08:58

very lucky

2021-04-29 16:25

APEX IS A SHIT IGL JUST KICK HIM ALREADY GOOOOD

+1 Apex is the real problem from my point of view

They can easily sign back ALEX free agent as welll.. Good IGL

2021-04-29 16:43

-misutaa +bodyy as IGL and make apeX fragger

2021-04-30 05:46

expected

VITALITY LUL no stream snipe= no wins

2021-04-29 16:28

Osee upcoming talent my ass

indian talent? modCheck

2021-04-29 17:18

Forsaken. Oh wait! He a chiter menn

2021-04-29 18:09

Vitality ROFL

2021-04-29 16:29

Vitality must have nightmares of jks at this point

2021-04-29 16:31

Did Dupreeh awp for Astralis?

Yep for the most of CT side. On T side the AWP was only picked up once by astralis and by gla1ve

2021-04-29 16:34

thx, i guess its most bvious choice by them. Bubzkij to play entry like in Tricked and Dupreeh used to play awp when Device was feeling weird with it.

2021-04-29 16:37

yes but #24

2021-04-29 16:36

hltv.org/stats/players/weapon/7398/dupre.. AWP ABUSER! :OOOO

2021-04-29 17:16

EZ4GODZKJI

2021-04-29 16:33

justin

2021-04-29 16:35

"jks" savage.

2021-04-29 16:44

Is savage

2021-04-30 02:29

NA's LAST HOPE LUL

dupreeh had a solid debut with the AWP" actually , no. He missed quite many easy shots that someone like Device would hit in his sleep but he still did good nonetheless. The one who did very well were Xyp and Boobski!

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+1, dupreeh looked shakey except the rounds he was back on a rifle. Glad to see bubzkji, magisk, and xyp all showing up at long last though.

2021-04-29 16:41

Yea sir!

2021-04-29 17:04

His positioning also needs improvement. Eg. There was a round where he fell back until he got stuck in dark at the lower bombsite which is not an ideal spot for an awper.

2021-04-29 17:03

Yep, I feel like it would be better if Astralis adopts a non-awper heavy strats and such for the moment.

2021-04-29 17:05

From one of Dupreeh's tweets it sounds like him AWPing is temp and they have someone lined up, he said "Set in stone" which implies they are probably in talks with the org and player.

2021-04-29 17:15

2021-04-29 16:38

kyojin xaxaxaxaxa against faceit pugs he looks like a god, but this is the big leagues boy.

2021-04-29 16:39

faceit is biggest fraud of all times.. thats why in future we wont see more quality CS.

2021-04-29 17:00

What about ropz for example?

2021-04-29 17:23

Ropz is an exception.

2021-04-29 19:45

This is his debut and he plays RPK roles, he still has a chance to not become misutaa 2.0

2021-04-29 16:40

free points for astralis vs bots

!onlyfang mens

2021-04-29 16:45

Nuke it's easy without awp, but on the others maps?

2021-04-29 16:47

device was problem

2021-04-29 16:58

Didn't get to see the astralis match, 5 rifle or dupreeh awp?

2021-04-29 17:01

#24

2021-04-29 17:19

Zywho le bot

2021-04-29 17:13

+1 zywh0 le baiter

Yay

2021-04-29 17:41

dev1ce was the problem lol?

2021-04-29 17:44

nice

2021-04-29 18:38

kicking rpk OMEGALUL

2021-04-29 18:42

I really liked to see this new Astralis.. despite they're being too agressive on the CT side, all of them played a solid game.. I hope they continue to perform like that.. and Vitality.. WE ALL KNOW apEX IS THE REAL PROBLEM.. not RpK

2021-04-29 19:35

Justin F*ucking Savage

2021-04-29 19:51

I remember Xyp9x playing in a matchmaking game around 8-9 years ago when f0rest was just streaming a matchmaking game in CS 1.6. Xyp9x must have been just a kid back then. His name stayed in my mind because it was interesting. Xyp9x. Today I woke up remembering that game. It was inferno. Now 10 years later that kid became a legend

2021-04-29 20:16

WP astralis

2021-04-30 08:16

Apex = cringe rage dude. Only good at support, but now become IGL just to destroy the team. Shox = drama queen. Only good at lurk, can't be IGL. Just kick these two already.

2021-04-30 12:51

Well Astralis is in huge troubles, they have to find a solution for the AWP situation, they need to find their firepower again, comeback to form, and overall I don't think this is their final lineup, I think it's just a temporary one. But a good win anyway. Extra Salt is showing some life in them, I would give them more time in EU. Complexity won the match but they are still struggling, the firepower doesn't seem to be there, and they look kind of lost in some deep round situations. The same could be said for Vitality, but they look even worse, but it was their debut with Kyojin so who knows how it will go in the future.

2021-04-30 14:40