ruggah completes move to Astralis

28-2-2024 14:18

ruggah was initially scheduled to join in April, but comes in early after OG and Astralis' failure to qualify for the Copenhagen Major.

ruggah, like Astralis, bowed out of the RMR with defeat

Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due has signed for Astralis and will start work as their new head coach immediately, just days after the Danish organization's failure to qualify for the PGL Copenhagen Major.

The former Dignitas and North coach agreed to join Astralis in January but had to wait for his OG deal, set to run out on April 1, to expire before linking up with Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz and company. An agreement has now been reached for ruggah to join Astralis one month early.

I have respect for the fact that it is a task that others have found it difficult to undertake

Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due on becoming Astralis coach

"ruggah comes into a team that is suffering right now," said Sports Director Kasper Straube to Astralis, "but with players of such quality, I have full faith that we will find the formula together."

ruggah added a statement of his own: "I have respect for the fact that it is a task that others have found it difficult to undertake, so while I will make no golden promises, everyone can see the potential in this group and with a strong organization around us, I can’t wait to get started."

Astralis set to install ruggah as new head coach

The wait for ruggah to join led to the now-released temporary coach Mathias "⁠R0nic⁠" Pinholt standing behind Astralis for their failures at IEM Katowice and the EU RMR, after Peter "⁠casle⁠" Ardenskjold was relieved of his duties in December 2023.

An inquest into those failures will be at the top of ruggah's in-tray as he attempts to guide Astralis through their latest storm.

Astralis are now:

Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz
Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund
Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer
Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard
Victor "⁠Staehr⁠" Staehr

Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due (Head Coach)

blud has a lot of work ahead xD

2024-02-28 14:19

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cant be worst than before him

2024-02-28 14:53

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2024-02-28 18:32

2024-02-28 16:10

ok, now please bench blameF

2024-02-28 14:18

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2024-02-28 14:21

they wont do it

2024-02-28 14:41

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they did

2024-02-28 16:26

Narrator: They did

2024-02-28 16:39

excellent

2024-02-28 21:34

xddd

2024-02-28 16:51

nope, not happening

2024-02-28 17:44

lol

2024-02-28 18:33

2024-02-28 21:29

better find an IGL and kick slabbi.....

2024-02-28 14:51

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who is slabbi?

2024-02-28 15:51

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stabbi

2024-02-28 16:02

Slacking Stabbi

>Ruggah former Dignitas and North coach Its actually happening MSL will come back

2024-02-28 17:45

They won't do that. but they should also bench staehr because blameF is a good player but just not as igl

2024-02-28 15:48

I've been fucking vindicated

2024-02-28 18:05

You are smoking. Yes Blame is good not IGLing but Staehr has been their only decent player next to Device since they picked up stabbi. Watch the games and look at the stats, Staehr somehow has ended up being the last player they should drop next to Device

2024-02-29 02:13

He is a firepower with decent impact on the game, just not an IGL

2024-02-28 16:04

I dont think he has decent impact

2024-02-28 17:22

nobody is perfect

2024-02-28 17:46

And he did, lmao

2024-02-28 16:23

I never thought they would actually do it, hell fucking yeeeessss

2024-02-28 18:02

I have wanted it for quite awhile. After RMR failure, hope became expectations. But a fear of them giving Ruggah a month or two to fix it, made me a bit uneasy.

2024-02-29 07:13

What next boss?

2024-02-28 16:41

idk, how about OG bench F1KU and k1to and some other shit

2024-02-28 19:01

You ask and you shall receive

2024-02-28 21:49

lul

Will this do anything?

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For sure. It's quite clear they didn't know how to use the current squad, with some guidance some problems can be fixed, maybe not all but some.

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What makes you think fucking RUGGAH of all people can fix that?

2024-02-28 14:34

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Because he is the best Danish coach on the market?

2024-02-28 14:39

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Sycrone?

2024-02-28 14:54

He is locked in on Mouz , they perform well

2024-02-28 15:26

AcilioN is a coach now, even bot xizt would be a better option. Id rather give a chance to a young unproven coach than a dude that has been coach for 8 years, with 4 different teams, great players at instances and still achieved absolutely nothing

No? Besides they had Xizt as an option as well which they didn't take

2024-02-28 15:01

No he isn't.

2024-02-28 15:03

for real they should sign msl as coach

2024-02-28 15:33

mslul

2024-02-28 15:50

And what are all of the other Danish coaches who are currently on the market

2024-03-01 04:51

Yeah like you have any insight on how he works with teams and what input he has xdd

2024-02-28 14:48

Idk about that guy but I did hear how he works, he coached nexa and he talked about it on one of Serbian Esport podcasts. All in all, ruggah has been coaching for 8 years with his biggest title being Blast Premier Fall 2022 groups and Spring sweet Spring, that should tell you enough about his coaching skills.

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Idk if ruggah is good or nah but do you really think that the players he had in og would have won more with a different coach?

2024-02-28 15:44

I do think so actually yeah. These were not that bad of a players. At various points he had Aleksib, mantuu, valde, nbk, issaa, flamez, neofrag, nexa etc Besides that, he never did anything noteworthy with any team he led

2024-02-28 16:22

Only 2 of the players you mentioned have had any success since leaving og. And the etc is just a bunch of nonames. Og is and was always mid. The initial roster punched way above their weight,but after that it has been on par with the level of players they had.

2024-02-28 16:40

So you want to convince me that if I coach for 8 years, t2-1.5 teams, and win one single t2 event in those 8 years (with 4 different orgs) and over 25 players I coached, and only 2 of those players are notable after my coaching, I am a good coach? That is some new levels on delusion

2024-02-28 16:52

#77

2024-02-28 17:40

Technically his biggest title is EPICENTER 2016 but that was 8 years ago and is definitely more credited to k0nfig and MSL

2024-03-01 04:52

Theres so many role clashes between stavn blamef and jabbi.. it could work sure but its gonna be really hard to get it all sorted out especially when you lack a proper igl

2024-02-28 15:17

can a coach be washed?

hahahahahahaha

2024-02-28 14:26

xddddddddd

2024-02-28 14:42

Groove

tier 3 > tier 2. Welcome to Astralis

players of such quality yet failing to win against 9pandas.

Those guys lost the game before they joined the server. Their mental, how they're organized, and infrastructure is complete dogshit. No leadership. Hopefully ruggah can change that, especially with an ACTUAL IGL.

2024-02-28 19:23

Well, better roll up them sleeves and get to work.

2024-02-28 14:20

Should have spend some money to get him 3 months earlier... Astralis was the only team in the entire RMR cycle without a fucking coach

If they can't make this work now , then -blamef and get real igl .

dude had only failure in OG now will have only failure in Astralis

2024-02-28 14:22

Wow ruggah really kicked him

2024-02-28 18:25

Ah, yes, ruggah. Best known for his four years in OG where he led them to ONE Blast final. Seems like the future for astralis is bleak eh?

i doubt ruggah will turn astralis into a top 3 team but all of the og rosters were mid af wether you like it or not.

2024-02-28 14:23

True, and if he had any hand in - blamef I’m already changing my tune.

2024-03-01 20:30

ASTRALIS IS SAVED)))

Hopefully Ruggah can teach BaitF to stop baiting so much

Ruggah: “okay first thing, baitf you are kicked”

Huge L

2024-02-28 14:24

Another 🐍 to ASStraLOSE

He held OG back, glad he is gone.

2024-02-28 14:29

baseed

Now jabbi +k0nfig

2024-02-28 14:25

This move won't change anything as long as blameF stays IGL and jabbi performs the way he does.

2024-02-28 14:28

Someone in that organization is literally laundring money cause there is no logical explanation for this

A lot of experience coaching teams that fails to qualify for the major.

They don't need a new coach. They need an IGL who's willing to sacrifice themselves for the team to perform. -blamef

2024-02-28 14:30

lul, thats so strange idea to do

Most successful teams have atleast 1 player on the team that is willing to sacrifice for the rest of the team. Faze: Karrigan, (Rain) - G2: Hooxi, nexa - Vitality: Apex. - Spirit: Chopper, magixx. Most people would probably think that a team like Zywoo, donk, m0nesy, s1mple, ropz would be the best team in the world because they are all good individually, but more things are required for a team to be consistent and successful. Astralis dont have any of that, it's very clear to see. No leadership, no tactical game plan, no confidence, just nothing.

2024-02-28 15:47

too late

good luck Ruggah o7

2024-02-28 14:32

I dont see any improvement here

2024-02-28 14:35

Will he take Astralis to the same heighs as OG?

Good for OG

astralis has definitely the talent and the skills to reach top5. they need chemistry and guidance

2024-02-28 14:43

they need to bench blameF and find another IGL.

2024-02-28 14:45

the fuck does it matter now fucking cunts

From being shit, to still being shit, this guy has done nothing with OG lol

He has done nothing with all the teams he coached. His biggest title is Spring sweet Spring online

damn. how about getting a head coach BEFORE kato and the RMR?

big brain time lmao

2024-02-28 14:52

Vladyslava coaching hype train incoming

just buyout zonic and then cry because it doesnt work = classic astralis

2024-02-28 15:13

Sad to see a another good dane wasting his time and potentially ruining his career by joining unfixable team.

2024-02-28 15:14

so looks like they think coach was more problem than BaitF

who?

2024-02-28 15:19

ggah

Change positions and start over, this can be good 🤷

2024-02-28 15:20

They won't replace blamF just yet they are too invested in him and think he is not the problem but I think he is the problem get the f out of Astralis blameF +sdy

2024-02-28 15:22

Check out the news, blamf is gone

2024-02-28 17:31

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Ye m8 I am reading this is good news for Astralis

2024-02-28 17:33

I was thinking sdy is good replacement too, but resulting team communication in English.

2024-02-28 17:36

Yeah he would be a good replacement or they could try sign Hooxi which would make 2 teams better with 1 move

2024-02-28 17:37

They have to wait for Major to finish. Also Hooxi’s contract with G2. It’s going to be interesting to see the shuffling after the major, stay tuned.

Thanks brother I'm staying tuned and look forward to this major!

2024-02-28 17:42

I mean, this is the final test for ruggah, i dont really trust him lnowing that og didnt show any bit of hope in 4 years, i would expect a decent coach to do at least something with average players, but lets see if he can make a super team work i guess

2024-02-28 15:23

THEY NEED BUZZ AND REMOVE JABBI

2024-02-28 15:29

0.5 kd to 0.5kd. nice one

2024-02-28 15:32

The best coach Astralis had in the past since zonic was TRACE, and of course they kicked him.

2024-02-28 15:38

didn't they kick him as punishment for not making major or something like that? look how that worked out

2024-02-28 16:20

they also kicked gla1ve for bad performance at the worst possible time. I think Astralis org really is a problem, could say things about other orgs too also in top 5 atm. That make life very hard for their players. For example even when Astralis had their prime, organisation fucked them up big time. If i remember well they couldn't play a lot of tournaments. Which is why they dropped off in form temporarily

2024-02-28 21:36

this team is beyond saving sorry astralis fans but there's no way out for the snakes LMAOOOOOOOOOO

2024-02-28 15:41

really msl should be coach at least he achieved in career

L move from Asstralis again nt

Thank God they took him.

2024-02-28 15:46

Bench BlameF, JFC!

2024-02-28 15:54

dead team?

2024-02-28 15:57

nice try

2024-02-28 16:01

Blamef need a brain behind himself. Hope this works out.

2024-02-28 16:03

2024-02-28 16:42

Still ehhh

2024-02-28 16:13

he already regrets it kkkkkkkkkk

2024-02-28 16:19

Good, og can win now.

What did he do to deserve this honestly? Nothing , they signed him just because he's danish ...

2024-02-28 17:03

Aren't there like other people on this planet who would make a good job as coach? Why get OG coach when OG was fucking dogshit and didn't win anything past months?

2024-02-28 17:17

The coach who never smiles

2024-02-28 17:18

He didn't really had reasons to smile in OG

2024-02-29 09:21

What an opportunity for this guy...

Time to see how good of a coach ruggah truly is...

-blameF seems kinda rough. Seems like blamef’s grown tired of IGLing. Why’s no one talking about Mankz from M80? He seems to be a decent IGL with huge support potential that astralis need the most.

2024-02-28 19:00