casle to attend Copenhagen Major with ECSTATIC after ban reduced by ESIC

13-3-2024 15:16

The former Astralis coach helped ECSTATIC from home through their fairytale RMR run.

casle was banned in 2020 for five Major cycles

Peter "⁠casle⁠" Ardenskjold has successfully appealed against his ESIC ban and is now free to attend PGL Major Copenhagen.

The former Astralis skipper was among a host of coaches banned in 2020 due to exploitation of a coaching bug, and was initially banned for five Majors. Having missed the last four, he has now had his demerit point count adjusted thanks to ESIC accepting an appeal that was "out of the typical timeframe" and an independent Appeal Chair ruling in his favor.

Meet PGL Copenhagen Major's 34 rookies

Recently, casle has been assisting ECSTATIC with analyst work and was in the server with them as coach for the second IEM Dallas European open qualifier.

The organization's co-owner, Thomas Sinding, then confirmed on the March 12 GLHF podcast that casle had been unbanned and would attend the Major with ECSTATIC.

"Whether it will become permanent, time will tell," casle told Dust2.dk in February. "They are a team where the heart would be in the right place. I also think they have huge potential."

ECSTATIC were the only full-five man Danish lineup to qualify for their home Major after Astralis and Preasy missed out, but are among the most inexperienced teams at the event with five debutants.

ECSTATIC are:

Magnus "⁠Nodios⁠" Olsen
Patrick "⁠Patti⁠" Larsen
Jonas "⁠Queenix⁠" Dideriksen
Tobias "⁠kraghen⁠" Kragh Jensen
Jason "⁠salazar⁠" Salazar

Peter "⁠casle⁠" Ardenskjold (coach)

Hunden drone

2024-03-13 15:18

Esic continues being unserious on all levels

2024-03-13 15:17

gl ecstatic

cheater

playoffs at least now

2024-03-13 15:19

What did he do to get banned btw

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"The former Astralis skipper was among a host of coaches banned in 2020 due to exploitation of a coaching bug, and was initially banned for five Majors." hunden cam

2024-03-13 15:22

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So originally he would have been unbanned after the Copenhagen major instead of before it?

2024-03-13 16:08

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yes

2024-03-13 19:50

cant read?

2024-03-13 15:48

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It just says ‘coaching bug’, that’s very vague so there’s no need to be so rude. Now you look stupid and an a-hole

2024-03-13 18:29

It also says "banned in 2020 due to exploitation of a coaching bug". Clearly stated what he was banned for and it takes 1 google search if they needed more information on what the coach bug was. It provides a lot more information than what someone here would anyways.

2024-03-13 19:16

His point is, and was made twice but still not understood, is that 'coaching bug' only makes sense to people who know what that is.

2024-03-13 21:01

get kicked from Astralis, Astralis dont qualify and now you get to go there

2024-03-13 15:20

+1 xd

Patti was the igl on their academy team and how he is at the major as well lol

2024-03-13 15:24

Astralis is known for their top level decisionmaking

2024-03-13 16:27

lol

Astralis let him go and got into major without coach...and didnt make it while ecstatic with casle from home did. Clown management.

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Agree. Recent decisions are taken based on feelings rather than statistics. It is a repeat of the poor decision with magisk/Dupreeh replacement - their top players at that time - and prologed contract for xyp9x. They should have kept castle and blamef and give them time to build a stratbook and practice hard instead of PR events and consistent staff changes.

2024-03-13 15:35

didnt they use R0nic?

2024-03-13 16:23

agree about clown management, however they needed to let Casle go for the RMRs i assume, because he couldn't be part of the copenhagen major at that time.

2024-03-13 19:12

But ecstatic took him and he was helping them in rmr so....?

2024-03-13 20:13

What do we need esic for anyways if it folds after one complaint about a ban

2024-03-13 15:27

yeah thinking the same

2024-03-13 15:30

2024-03-13 15:33

We don't. Wouldn't be surprised if they ask ppl for $ to reduce their bans

2024-03-13 15:53

ESIC is getting paid by matchfixers and cheaters so they dont care at all

2024-03-13 18:51

here we go time for another round of people complaining about ESIC for some unknown reason...?

2024-03-13 15:31

ESIC issued these bans and whilst most TOs followed, it's always been skeptical just how much power ESIC actually has to enforce their decisions Several coaches appealed their bans, most notably HUNDEN who took legal action, and at least from the outside, it looked like ESIC just folded under that pressure, showing that their power is basically non-existent People are thus complaining because it looks like ESIC just backs down and lets cheaters pressure their way back into the scene

2024-03-13 15:39

this crearly affects, even worse, the ESIC's reputation. Esports Integrity Commission of CLOWNS

2024-03-13 15:34

"Having missed the last four, he has now had his demerit point count adjusted thanks to ESIC accepting an appeal that was "out of the typical timeframe" and an independent Appeal Chair ruling in his favor." Let me get this straight, one singular guy that isnt even part of ESIC decided to unban him just because he appealed really late? Joke of a regulatory body.

2024-03-13 15:42