Astralis send OG to Flashpoint 3 lower bracket

11-5-2021 00:07

Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen's team will have no room for mistakes after succumbing to the Danish side in the opening match.

Astralis secured a 2-0 victory over OG to close out the first day of Flashpoint 3, the European Regional Major Ranking (RMR) event. In a rematch of the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown game — Astralis' last one with Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz — the Danes got their revenge and advanced in the upper bracket.

Inferno was a 41-round thriller that went Astralis' way despite the best efforts of Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen and Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan, while an impressive display from Astralis on Nuke finished things off in two.

"Great start to the tournament once again, let's keep going this time," Astralis' captain Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander wrote on Twitter after putting up a 1.23 rating for the series, proving pivotal to the victory alongside Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth. On the other hand, OG's star duo Mateusz "⁠mantuu⁠" Wilczewski and Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså struggled to live up to expectations in the series and will be hoping they can make a deep run through the lower bracket of the 16-team event - where they face off against Vitality first.

gla1ve was leading by example against OG

A second-round force-buy win set up OG for a 4-1 lead on the T side of their map pick, Inferno, but Astralis came back into it with lockdown defenses to bounce back to a strong 10-5 half time score. The Danes extended to 12-5 before valde's Deagle triple kill changed the tides of the game, starting the comeback for OG. They eventually forced overtime with niko being the hero, but after two sets of added rounds it was Astralis that came out on top with strong play from Xyp9x and gla1ve.

Astralis showed some vintage form on Nuke as they powered on the offensive side to grab an 8-1 lead in no time. The struggles of OG were brought to an end thanks to flameZ' ramp lockdown in 3v5, inspiring his team to claw the scoreline back to 9-6 for the half. Unfortunately, there was little to see from OG in the second part of the map. Their pistol win was countered by Astralis' force, leading to a comfortable closeout, 16-11.

Flashpoint 3Best of 3

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10th May 2021

Inferno

Nuke

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	56 - 40	+16	84.7	79.4%	1.29
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander gla1ve	50 - 39	+11	80.4	72.1%	1.23
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	39 - 41	-2	73.2	82.4%	1.09
Lucas 'Bubzkji' Andersen Bubzkji	55 - 55	0	83.5	72.1%	1.08
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	36 - 47	-11	56.6	69.1%	0.86

OG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan flameZ	61 - 48	+13	98.1	82.4%	1.33
Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensen niko	57 - 48	+9	80.2	70.6%	1.11
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen Aleksib	39 - 47	-8	67.8	61.8%	0.92
Mateusz 'mantuu' Wilczewski mantuu	37 - 42	-5	56.9	64.7%	0.86
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså valde	27 - 51	-24	54.1	58.8%	0.70

Unexpected! Does anyone know how flameZ practises his aim and stuff?

2021-05-11 00:08

13 replies

With his hands

2021-05-11 00:21

11 replies

I heard he clicks on enemies to train aim

2021-05-11 00:47

9 replies

XDDDD

2021-05-11 02:06

wtf valve needs to ban this exploit

2021-05-11 03:10

he does have a secret though, he clicked on their heads to kill them faster.

2021-05-11 03:35

game deficit

2021-05-11 06:55

Lol

2021-05-11 07:07

I think he also stops before shooting!!!!! What a mental man

2021-05-11 07:14

I heard he moves his mouse so, that the center of the screen is directed towards the avatar of an enemy player. Then he clicks the left mouse button. There are some assistive lines nearby the center of the screen that can be used as reference.

2021-05-11 08:09

2 replies

But... That's cheating for sure???

2021-05-11 08:41

1 reply

he using game deficit...

2021-05-11 09:05

probably

2021-05-11 01:44

In one interviee he said he uses lubricant on his mousepad to get more precision. His favorite is the one that smells like strawberries

2021-05-11 12:53

dOG

Astralis just too good

Astralis without device >>>>>>> vitality with zywoo

4 replies

I am sure Zywoo + his clone would do a better job than current Vitality

2021-05-11 00:49

3 replies

You are wrong, you cant win games 2v5 even if it will be simple and zywoo.

2021-05-11 09:56

It's better than 1 vs 9

2021-05-11 13:48

yes.

2021-05-11 17:52

Ez for device

DBL rekt these noobs now 💪💪💪 OG out in last place

7 replies

🤨 wtf mens

2021-05-11 00:16

I am sorry mens the Poney too stronk 🐎🐎

2021-05-11 00:17

Nt nt, that isn’t a poney! This looks more like one: 🐴

2021-05-11 00:20

well they are big stronk poney, but sure.

2021-05-11 00:22

ez for DBL 🐴

2021-05-11 03:49

DBL in upper bracket, wtf man? They will play against Botstralis and rekt them

2021-05-11 09:30

ez for DBL 🐴ez for DBL 🐴

2021-05-11 13:07

imagine being in lower bracket couldent be faze right?

2021-05-11 00:09

Xyp9x stepping up, good to see

Finally

2021-05-11 00:12

come on Astralis, Magisk must take the AWP and let dupreeh as Entry and bubz as Rifler

Well played Astralis. I expected to lose, but they surprised me, this Line-Up got future

Xyp is starting to get back in his form

2021-05-11 00:11

Valde had a pretty bad game but Dupreeh with awp isnt helping at all , look at his rating from 1.07! Mantu has days where he goes into worse form and only makes impactless kills. Xyp had a really great performance! Overall , they did well but Inferno could have been closed earlier.

5 replies

dupreeh will get better, he's just in a slump rn, he'll be back to 1.10+ soon enough.

2021-05-11 00:13

He is playing AWP and has had almost no time to adjust, he should def get more time (he took all device roles he said during interview)

i would love to see it happen but i honestly doubt it does , he is still gonna need a lot of time to adjust with the awp and even then there is no one who can compete Device`s positioning so he cant replicate that awp impact either. I think it would be better if they only keep him on awp on CT sides only.

2021-05-11 00:23

he shouldnt be playing main awp , also i kinda liked the glaive awp

2021-05-11 02:27

boobski awp on vertigo was amazing too

2021-05-11 06:10

Valde had a bad game so expexted 16-0 16-0 vs vitality in the lower bracket tho

Nice job!

2021-05-11 00:15

lul. ezz for gla1ve

hahahaahahhahahahaah

2021-05-11 00:18

Aleksib went to class today with daddy glave

2021-05-11 00:19

2021-05-11 06:27

-1 nah

2021-05-11 13:11

Nice to see Xyp at the top of the scoreboard, congratz

2021-05-11 00:26

Flamez is good

2021-05-11 00:32

What happened with Valde?

2021-05-11 00:48

i'm so glad to see Bubzjki making A LOT of kills .. he's proving himself and shutting people up

2021-05-11 01:11

The boys are back in town. 5th major coming up. Same lineup. No stopping

2021-05-11 01:37

Xyp9x pog

2021-05-11 01:50

overrated botB & co.

2021-05-11 02:18

2021-05-11 06:28

Wow I just realized there is no group stage here. Lose twice= dead. No matter the round. I predict some clown fiestas, it's very easy to get eliminated here.

2021-05-11 02:26

Save flamez

2021-05-11 02:53

no issa no win

2021-05-11 03:58

Can't spell dog team without OG

2021-05-11 04:03

Attta boy

2021-05-11 08:15

LETSGO ASTRALIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2021-05-11 04:45

omg valde!!!

2021-05-11 05:03

OG won't stay together for long...calling it now

2021-05-11 05:57

Calling it wrong :D

2021-05-11 06:37

Big off day for Valde, missed some game winning rounds on inferno. also Aleksib should rely on his aim more, seems to overthink some situations. Unlucky xyp9x and gla1ve decided to perform too well

lol

2021-05-11 07:29

Clownog

2021-05-11 07:46

glA1ve aleksiB

2021-05-11 08:21

Astralis are so inconsistent it scares me.

2021-05-11 08:28

It makes sense, though - they are adjusting to a new player and at the same time, dupreeh is getting familiar with his AWP role.

2021-05-11 09:20

Dupreeh is good and all but he's no device. Gla1ve and Zonic have been trying a more agressive style and so far it's working somewhat decently... let's see how far it takes them.

2021-05-11 19:47

Hdhdjdj

2021-05-11 10:48

2021-05-11 14:05

LMAO OG cant even beat astralis without device? Hilarious, time to disband

2021-05-11 16:42

cant win when glaive is doing kqly with ak47 disgusting, expected more from a 4x major winner.

2021-05-11 16:48

Astralis looks very nice even without device!

2021-05-11 16:55

Well Astralis still lacks the AWPer but still good win for the boys. OG is a really strong team, I'm surprised they couldn't win this game, but I think they will bounce back in the liower bracket.

2021-05-11 22:10