Astralis set to install ruggah as new head coach

23-1-2024 09:00

The 35-year-old is poised to take charge of the Danish giants once his OG contract expires.

ruggah will join Astralis "on April 1 the latest"

Astralis have announced that they have reached an agreement with OG head coach Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due to take charge of their team, as reported by HLTV. He will take over from Peter "⁠casle⁠" Ardenskjold, who was relieved of his duties at the end of last season.

It will bring an end to ruggah’s spell with OG, which started in January 2020, less than two months after the organization entered CS:GO. He has been the only constant of a team that has gone through multiple iterations over the years and remains trophyless on LAN

The 35-year-old will take charge of the Danish giants "no later than April 1," when his current OG contract expires. IEM Chengdu looks set to be his first event guiding Astralis; until then, it will be assistant coach Mathias "⁠R0nic⁠" Pinholt standing behind the players at tournaments.

"I am happy that we have come to an agreement with Casper, who, in addition to being a really skilled coach, comes with experience from the highest level," Astralis sports director Kasper Straube said in a statement.

"This is one of our priorities in the larger analysis work we have done around the requirements for a coach in Astralis and our culture, as well as the expectations we have for all members of our coaching team.

"I feel that we have been thorough in mapping out the requirements in relation to both short-term needs and long-term development, and the choice has fallen on Casper, who, in terms of personality and approach to team management, is almost a perfect match. I am very much looking forward to working with him."

Astralis part ways with casle

ruggah wasn’t the only coach that Astralis approached about replacing casle. At one point, former HEROIC coach Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström looked all set to join the Danish organization but then talks broke down. The Swedish coach wrote on January 7 that he was still open to offers for the 2024 season.

It’s a busy start to the season for Astralis, who had to come through the closed qualifiers to reach the European RMRs. The Danish team is attending the BLAST Premier Spring Groups before traveling to Poland for IEM Katowice.

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2024-01-23 09:01

ah yes ruggah personal reasons

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hahahahaha :D also just yesterday there were multiple threads how he and jdl aare useless coaches astralis always poor choices, with coaches idk, just get xizt ? even rejin is better or i would even offer MSL a shot, i think he could be decent coach and not to mention GOD HUNDEN, why he never joined astralis fully ? like their rep cant get any worse

2024-01-23 09:42

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HUNDEN joined then left...

2024-01-23 09:49

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i dont think he ever was a head coach he was doing something behind the scenes u can see in his profile teams coached Heroic -> Sashi

2024-01-23 09:50

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Nope he joined, was their official coach for a bit, ESL investigated Astralis and fined them shit tons for getting Hunden to do work for them while under contract with heroic. So they fired him and their sporting director

2024-01-23 10:37

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He wasnt, he was some other kind of coach. I think he acted almost as their official coach but just not in public, feels like he had alot of impact for not being the official coach but he was kind of behind the scenes coach

2024-01-23 10:53

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He was analytical coach for Astralis, cuz I think he still had the ban so I couldnt be the head coach at the time, and then they kicked him

2024-01-23 12:14

hunden was head analyst or sth like that

2024-01-23 12:25

hunden was their secret coach, then ESL found out and they got fined

2024-01-23 12:34

Stop making up things

2024-01-23 16:00

hltv threads surely mean a lot

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on average hltv are smarter with roster moves than whoever running pro teams example Liquid sign shox hltv: wtf ? waste of time, kicked in 6 months .... 6 months passed ... shox kicked from liquid

2024-01-23 10:43

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Well sometimes the majority is right, even tho it doesn’t seem likely haha

2024-01-23 10:45

hltv hates pretty much 95% of roster moves whether they end up successful or not

2024-01-23 10:57

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2024-01-26 20:36

Just because you hate them with all your guts doesn't mean everyone does.

2024-01-23 10:46

+1 ahahahaha

2024-01-23 11:14

twitter.com/casdueh/status/1749712929329.. Man, shout your mouth while you don’t know a pice of info.

2024-01-23 11:16

The clown show continues 🤣

hahahahahaha what a typical ASTRALIS MOVE omegalul

2024-01-23 15:49

Why for gods sake? Xizt is right there????? Whatever was the reason talks broke down, offer him more, he is clearly the superior choice. What the f has Ruggah ever achieved, like ever?

2024-01-23 09:03

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+1, Xizt is easily the best coach not taken right now and I’d say top three out there at all. But no, Ruggah because he’s Danish. Xizt led a Danish roster at Heroic but I guess that Swedish blood can’t be allowed at Astralis.

2024-01-23 09:06

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"but I guess that Swedish blood can’t be allowed at Astralis" Based if true.

2024-01-23 09:08

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2024-01-23 09:13

Water is wet.

2024-01-23 09:23

water is not wet, what touches water is wet

2024-01-23 09:30

☝🤓 ummm ackchyually

2024-01-23 09:40

you're welcome preben

2024-01-23 10:11

-_- omg

2024-01-23 09:27

Thats why asstralis will stay as asstralis

2024-01-23 10:03

I will come back to this once goatvice and ChadF humiliates shitality later

2024-01-23 16:21

Ahahahahahah

2024-01-23 20:34

hahaha +1

2024-01-23 16:54

do people only read the headlines nowadays? "ruggah wasn’t the only coach that Astralis approached about replacing casle. At one point, former Heroic coach Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström looked all set to join the Danish organization but then talks broke down"

2024-01-23 09:38

do people not read comments nowadays? i clearly stated: "Whatever was the reason talks broke down, offer him more, he is clearly the superior choice."

Money is not always the deciding factor.

2024-01-23 10:48

someone said he wanted to get some break so he refused all the offers

2024-01-23 09:19

but i mean, this was his chance to be on the best danish lineup, Astralis are no strangers to mental/physical health so they could've helped him either way

2024-01-23 09:43

work with blameF after u have worked with cadian? nah mate i dont think xizt would like that

2024-01-23 10:02

whatever way you turn it, Astralis is the best Danish team. And we all know Swedish teams arent good enough to deserve a coach like Xizt.

its not like he HAVE to join exactly swedish team lol but perhaps -djl+xizt could finally fix this dog ass org and team

2024-01-23 10:04

it would probably improve nip but i think they are beyond saving at this point

2024-01-23 10:05

yeah, most likely anyways, xizt can join any team he wants, clearly he didnt want to join astralis or even astralis didnt want to hire a swedish coach, who tf knows gotta wait and see how things will turn out for him

2024-01-23 10:07

GOAT coach, clears fraudnic by a mile

2024-01-23 09:02

Expected that Astralis would try to poach another heroic player, gl to ruggah tho

Ain’t no way bruh… the guy who led the floundering OG roster anywhere but up? That Ruggah? Surely this isn’t because he’s Danish. It can’t be that…

2024-01-23 09:05

Who did he actually work with? OG never made a transfer over $200k. Throughout OG's entire stint in CSGO, they had always been either a placeholder team or some hatching ground for tier 3 prospects.

2024-01-23 09:15

They did pay 500k for Aleksib.

2024-01-23 09:21

They paid pretty well for flamez tho

2024-01-23 09:24

m8, degster was apparently 300k~

2024-01-23 14:15

They never had a solid roster.

2024-01-23 10:49

Oh hell nah

wtf has he done in OG to warrant this gig? :D

2024-01-23 09:04

Being Danish

He was banned by Valve for a short time for the coach spectator bug, so that's a clear indicator that he'd work well with the Astralis org

2024-01-23 23:38

why does ruggah need to wait for his contract to expire? Cant coaches just leave an org and join another? Not like they have a buyout or something they are just employees.

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Do you know what a contract is?

2024-01-23 09:09

Welcome to Esports.

2024-01-23 09:11

?? Whether he's a coach or a player, contract is contract

lmfao are u fucking serious right now??

2024-01-23 09:17

under 18yo spotted

2024-01-23 09:25

Expected from Thorin fan

2024-01-23 09:48

This guy hasnt worked a day in his life

2024-01-23 10:01

egypt moment

2024-01-23 10:09

8/8

2024-01-23 10:40

It's interesting how much hate ruggah gets because of his stint with OG. I am not a fan of OG and I'm certainly not a fan of Astralis, but I'm quite intrigued to see what he can do with an actually competitive roster, instead of being given funds that could only allow him to build budget MOUZ.

why tf go for ruggah, when xizt is literally open for offers.

Dont want no swedes in here. Astralis will stay pureblood

2024-01-23 16:23

who cares tho? we all know he wont stay there for long, too hard to work with igl like baitF

2024-01-23 09:16

name does not check out :(

2024-01-23 09:44

POG

@PsychoLogical25 will dislike this move I bet

he isnt the only one, I think even Astralis might not like it. Xizt was clearly the better option but the talks broke down for whatever reason.

2024-01-23 09:45

if it means OG can go find a proper coach then happy days

Wish he would stay at OG, but happy for him for this opportunity.

lost all respect for ruggah

The least successful coach of all time?

2024-01-23 09:37

Astralis - where careers end.

Or in ruggah's case, where ended careers begin again

2024-01-23 10:27

Hopefully

2024-01-23 13:41

i still think trace was the best , literally got scapegaot treatment when it was not his fault

Massive fraud

Now uninstall pls

2024-01-23 09:47

Can't hurt OG to change.

Astralis -devve +smooya -blameF +nealan -stavn +Keoz -jabbi +svedjehed

Astralis is fucked

2024-01-23 09:54

I was hopping for Xizt.

2024-01-23 09:59

Tier 2 coach for tier 2 team, expected from Astralis

2024-01-23 10:00

Name more viable coaches who are available on market.

2024-01-23 14:33

Smooya

2024-01-23 14:37

Astralis set to uninstall cs soon

Well that's good For OG

2024-01-23 10:06

Wtf lol

2024-01-23 10:08

Uh oh

2024-01-23 10:13

ruggah.exe has been successfully installed.

2024-01-23 10:17

RIP Astralis

2024-01-23 10:34

Install? He running on Windows ME or something right now? Need that update.

2024-01-23 10:35

+1, nice choice of word xd.

2024-01-23 12:35

what happened to ave?

"I am happy that we have come to an agreement with Casper, who, in addition to being a really skilled coach, comes with experience from the highest level," Line No.87162489071624 of why you never trust what Astralis says in any public statement ever. Astralis PR never ceases to amaze, like, guy is alright, I don't think he's bad, but he never did anything to claim he's on the highest level. OG is typical Pay-to-Win org inflating it's rank to relevancy by paying for tournament spots. I guess Astralis did the same for the past few years, so it's a match.... they won't do much more this year...

Can't wait for next week when the "rumour, dev1ce to be replaced by f1ku" news drops

2024-01-23 11:22

OG becomes even more of a meme team, started with Aleksi and NBK, now we have 5 nonames and a female coach, I'm dead

2024-01-23 11:26

2024-01-23 14:11

him instead of xizt is crazy

2024-01-23 11:28

hahah fuck off, no way this is who astralis went with

2024-01-23 11:38

He does not seem that good as a tactical coach from his OG stint, more of managing the players kinda of coach, could be better but its interesting addition

2024-01-23 11:40

Happy for ruggah. Dont know if he is qualified but time will tell

2024-01-23 11:41

Lmao snakestralis

no way that can't be real

They chose ruggah over xizt, am I in a dream?

2024-01-23 11:58

no and they wanted Xizt but talks broke down. Imagine Xizt ends up in OG now, daylight robbery by OG KEKW

2024-01-23 14:17

LLLLLLLLLLLL

now hes going to rug pull Astralis

After yesterday’s good showing they have to downgrade quickly to keep the mid lvl

2024-01-23 13:00

Golden opportunity due to perfect timing, lucky sob. He has never been very convincing imho (Optic...).

2024-01-23 13:05

HAHAHAHA

2024-01-23 13:37

RIP Astralis ahahahah

2024-01-23 13:40

how is he 35??? dude looks at least 50

2024-01-23 13:51

Cuz he did so good in OG? LOL

Why

2024-01-23 14:21

failing upwards, maybe him and AleksiB have the same agent.

2024-01-23 14:22

W for OG actually lol

2024-01-23 14:27

we dont need no stinking coaches....(in mexican dialect, pls)

2024-01-23 14:31

I told you ruggah is the new ChrisJ he can’t go he won’t go and when you think he’s going, he’ll defy all odds and go somewhere else

2024-01-23 14:36

ruggah lmao, his teams have always looked like a clownshow, never any cohesion or identity in his teams.

2024-01-23 14:41

I almost became a fan of the new roster, but ruggah?!?!?!? Hell nah

2024-01-23 15:00

Jesus Christ, just get Xizt...

2024-01-23 15:09

Good choice, ignore all the haters I think as a person he fits very well into this setup, and as many of us have seen over the years, chemistry is more important than 1 person's vision. This might be the missing piece, becourse honestly I have not been happy with any coatch on Astralis since Zonic. He has the right pieces, which he barely ever had on OG. Besides, I am happy we are keeping it Danish, and I would have been sad if they have taken on Xizt, I am not a fan of he's style.

2024-01-23 15:36

of course a former banned coach to round out the asstralis shithouse

2024-01-23 15:50

OG players wonder where their coach is meanwhile Ruggah is making a move to Astralis +No way ruggah is 35 he looks atleast 45+

2024-01-23 15:52

why? literally why

2024-01-23 16:30

The coach who never smiles

2024-01-23 16:38

Well I don't actually like it tbh., I think ruggah has done nothing but failure basically since like what, 2017? His time in North and now in OG, it is nothing but a fail, he failed to build a good team structure in every single roster he had, I really hoped this would be Xizt for Astralis, and I'm extremely dissapointed I have to say, hopefully he proves me wrong, but I don't like this signing at all.

2024-01-23 20:30