Lucky to start for Astralis in ESL Pro League Season 14 opener

16-8-2021 19:08

The neophyte AWPer will take the place of Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth in the starting five.

Astralis will make use of their latest signing, Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald, who joined the team in the off-season, as they face off against Spirit in their opening ESL Pro League Season 14 match.

The Danes will play with a dedicated AWPer for the first time since losing star player Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz to Ninjas in Pyjamas back in April, after which sniping duties were passed around and shared among Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen and Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander, the latter going on to say that he didn’t expect the team to reach the top without an AWPer.

Lucky will be put to the test in ESL Pro League Season 14

Lucky’s addition to the starting lineup comes at a time in which there’s an air of uncertainty surrounding the futures of several of his teammates as dupreeh, Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif and today’s substitute, Xyp9x, have contracts that are set to expire at the end of the year and only gla1ve renewed his deal with Astralis, inking a three-year extension during the player break.

Speculation now surrounds the 25-year-old Xyp9x, who is not only sitting on the sidelines but also tweeted a cryptic message in which he said that he was grateful for being a part of Astralis since its inception and is now looking forward to what the future brings after giving an interview with Dexerto saying he's exploring his options.

HLTV reached out to Astralis to know if Lucky will start during this match in particular, the rest of the tournament, or as a permanent fixture, since Xyp9x is listed as a substitute in the official roster submitted to ESL, but the Danish organization did not wish to comment.

Considering Valve's Regional Major Ranking rules, which punish switching players, it is unlikely that the Danes would unnecessarily rotate players and face penalties ahead of the final two RMR events before the Major.

Astralis will face Spirit with the following roster:

Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander
Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif
Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen
Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen
Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald

Danny "⁠zonic⁠" Sørensen (coach)

Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth (substitute)

lucky

2021-08-16 19:09

10 replies

expected

2021-08-16 19:11

7 replies

+1 jermans washed cant even take #1 anymore

2021-08-16 19:12

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But Namibia is a former jerman colony so jerman still #1 Ty mens))

2021-08-16 19:17

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I tried to keep your legacy with this shit internet mens)) kein Problem Bruder))

2021-08-16 19:20

3 replies

Danke dir Bruder, ich schätze das sehr <3

2021-08-16 19:21

+rep

2021-08-16 20:21

based

2021-08-16 20:33

Luckily expected

2021-08-16 19:15

Lucky to substitute clutch minister

2021-08-16 19:18

perhaps

2021-08-16 19:41

Very nice

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not nice , xpy9x benched instead of bubzski, LUL.... astralis management

2021-08-16 20:13

RIP CLUTCH MINISTER

Astralis is finished

Probaly yes

2021-08-16 20:41

who?

Xyp to FaZe

extremely lucky

2021-08-16 19:10

Unsurprisingly

Astralis 0-32 FeelsBadMan

I believe in the 16-0 on Dust 2 . Still can't believe Spirit threw second pistol and failed last time

2021-08-16 22:39

LMAO

Xyp leaving so they just bench him

they mostly needed an awper anyways

2021-08-16 19:53

unlucky

RIP

good

Pog

neophyte ok lucas calm down

no :(

But i picked xyp in my fantasy(( Will i get the points now?

I think you will just get points for lucky, not sure tho.

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I've got 6 points and it's shows Padding Probably rip =(

2021-08-16 19:14

RIP :"( they had to change it, I once picked a guy that got replaced just before the tournament and I got points for the new player.

You will earn points from Lucky's & Xyp9x performance combined -)))

2021-08-16 19:37

O_O

ez 4 degster

RiP my bet

0.99 rating against tier 5 kkkk bye shit team

Gl Lucky boy

RIP CLUTCH MINISTER GOAT support

nooo xyp9x :(

should've kicked bubskij or magisk for lucky then why clutch minister need to go?

What happens now who put xyp9x in fantasy team?

You get lucky for the matches he's in instead

The problem is that didnt happen, they just give me 6 points like he not done the match

2021-08-16 19:27

Oh ive no idea then, what i said used to be the case a year or so back when I checked but I guess they've done something different these days

2021-08-16 19:32

Yea probably. Thanks anyway for trying to help ;)

2021-08-16 19:36

NIP: -Plopski +Xyp9x

xyp9x did nothing wrong

WTF hahaha

2021-08-16 19:16

Let's go Spirit

LUCKY 0.99 RATING AGAINST THE SHITTIEST TEAMS WHEN HE WAS ON TRICKED, GG. GOOOOO TEAM SPIRIT

Name

checks out*

I WIN MORE THAN YOU HAHAHA

2021-08-16 19:44

2021-08-16 19:47

mens(( Dupreeh is now alone, the longest standing core is even weaker now ((((

xyp meeeens((((

2021-08-16 19:31

Expected, Lucky was always gonna start as the first choice anyway and the only question was who was he gonna play in place of. Was clear it was gonna be Xyp earlier today. Good luck to him and the team, let's go easy on the kid and give him some time.

2021-08-16 19:43

RIP Astralis this guy is worse than JUGI

2021-08-16 19:50

/facepalm

2021-08-16 23:14

2021-08-16 19:51

rip ratstralis

2021-08-16 20:09

Why hltv put xyp in fantasy if dont play? Many people pick xyp and now is not playing

Well yeah, I'm really sceptic about this signing from Astralis, like I heard the roumors that they reached out to acoR and Farlig but both refused to sign, but honestly Lucky seems like just a desperate need of an AWPer, the guy just simply isn't ready to play in such a heave utility based style of play that Astralis is playing, I really doubt they will do good with this, and now replacing Xyp9x, man I think Astralis is not going out of this group honestly.

2021-08-16 20:40