BLAST seek further clarification from Astralis in emergency substitution case

24-9-2024 10:35

The TO did not do due diligence and is now inquiring further about Astralis' emergency substitution.

br0 is fit to play, according to his agent

After several teams piled the pressure on BLAST by having their in-game leaders tweet, "I might be unfit for Blast Media tomorrow," and one of them, Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire, already missing the tournament's media day, the tournament organizer responded that they are looking into the situation.

BLAST admitted to not doing their due diligence in response to an inquiry from HLTV by taking Astralis's word at face value, which they also stated is their standard operating procedure. The TO is now looking into sanctions/penalties if deemed necessary. Their response is the following:

"Astralis declared that br0 was unfit to play in the Fall Final. We aren't able to reveal further details around this reason due to confidentiality. We have never asked teams for doctors notes as we respect/take teams accounts at face value and always have. We are in the process of seeking further clarification from Astralis on this matter and if we feel it is needed, we will look into sanctions/penalties."

Astralis told BLAST br0 "is unfit to play" for emergency sub; IGLs threaten to skip media day in protest

It all began when Astralis told BLAST that Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro was "unfit to play" at the BLAST Premier Fall Final in order to get an emergency substitution, which would allow new signing Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller to play at the event after the roster lock if it were for medical reasons.

Astralis' vague language became "a medical emergency" when BLAST communicated the reasoning for the allowance of an emergency sub with other teams.

When br0's agent came out to say that his player was "healthy and ready to perform," it created a backlash. Several of the other teams competing at the event tried and failed to protest BLAST's decision, sources who wish to remain anonymous to protect relationships tell HLTV, which led to several players making matters public and boycotting the tournament's media day.

Astralis got cadiaN in for the Fall Final on an emergency sub. Was it against the rules?

lol what a clownshow

2024-09-24 10:36

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Astralis always has been the dirtiest org. Inside and outside the servers. Everyone who follows CS for a while knows that.

2024-09-24 14:38

esports is a fucking joke and this was the final nail in the coffin for me. absolutely 0 professionalism, fairness and integrity. Danish TO bending over for Astralis all the time. Astralis being distasteful slimy weasels. pathetic. and we wonder why there aren't many sponsors in the space besides saudis and gambling sponsors

2024-09-24 16:47

Clown party

2024-09-24 10:37

Better late than never. If br0 isn't sick they BETTER not allow cadian to play

2024-09-24 10:38

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We want little bro on the server and it would be so funny if he would not only play but would also make an EVP performance. What will Astralis do then? Spirit were in the same position a while ago. Artfrost, their sniper, had a MVP performance at his last event for the team but after that they still kicked him for shiro.

2024-09-24 10:41

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They would still follow they decision i don't belive one event performance would magically usnign Cadian

2024-09-24 10:49

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I know. But it would put them in an awkward situation just like Spirit were back then.

2024-09-24 11:04

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i mean if bro somehow puts 5 rating against all opposition kick devve's boyfriend staehr and let bro cook.

2024-09-24 12:34

Ain't happening. It would be better to get rid of both staehr and bro rather than just bro. Both suck ass

2024-09-24 13:57

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That is a 0/8 take

2024-09-24 14:42

Spirit won Kato after lmao what a braindead take.

2024-09-24 15:35

Id like to see cadian but yea its unfair for Bro, they should prolly get fucked for this, he trained and they kicked him like a dog, if he was compensated properly im sure he wouldnt go loud about it, they prolly just told him sorry in the most danish accent ever with a lil grim

2024-09-24 13:16

Average Astralis pr Performance

2024-09-24 16:44

reason if they don't want to play with him???

2024-09-24 13:40

hes unavaible / on isolated hospital section

2024-09-24 14:13

if astralis don't wanna play with him then they play with ruggah

2024-09-24 17:16

Oh so now they want further clarifications, right!

Astralis has already dispatched some pumped up guys to br0 to break his arms

Standard Astralis procedure, it's not personal

2024-09-24 12:45

He asked for it with that attitude from his agent

2024-09-24 13:36

bro wll get a visit from konfig

2024-09-24 16:24

LMFAO

I would have said better late than never if they had taken the initiative, but we all know they wouldn't have done anything without complaints from other teams and other players.

Almost like this was pre-planned for Blast to wash their hands, but we know it's the same set of hands between both.

2024-09-24 10:39

lmfao ASStralis downfall and i'm here for it

Ban them forever from any tournament is only just punishment

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No they have to have xign as a permanent 5th, worse punishment imaginable

2024-09-24 11:00

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Nah you get fifflaren as your 5th

2024-09-24 11:14

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my and my mm mates will come and play for astralis we will win the whole thing tho

2024-09-24 11:25

a fate worse than death

2024-09-24 12:23

That's not a punishment, they can literally win the whole thing with Goatlaren

2024-09-24 12:47

That would make them win every event though

2024-09-24 11:44

havent you heard about suffering from success?

brother GOAT Forsaken only got banned 5 years for litterally cheating on LAN, joel is still allowed to play after cheating/matchfixing/radarhacking, do you really think astralis will get punished ?

2024-09-24 11:27

No, but they should.

2024-09-24 11:45

Idk what else is There to look into, either he's well or not

2024-09-24 10:40

Blast «two faced» toledo

Praying for br0 to be all good

"If the backlash weren't big, we wouldn't give a shit"

2024-09-24 10:42

So they only give a shit about their own rules when getting backlash? What a scummy and unprofessional org. Won't be watching blast matches.

2024-09-24 10:44

usually that's what happens when you get called out. TOs don't really do shit if you haven't realised.

2024-09-24 13:25

Ehhh sure orgs may miss stuff but they're not usually intentionally favoring one specific team over the rest.

2024-09-24 17:37

Honestly I'm too excited to see Apex shit on them to skip it. But I'll watch a costream so at least BLASTRALIS don't get my ad rev

2024-09-25 01:52

Sometimes I wonder why I decided to support this team lmao. Absolute jokers even though everyone who has played or plays for them are gems.

2024-09-24 10:45

Hate the org not the players. I will still root for them. But yeah, you're right

2024-09-24 14:43

Let my boy cadiaN play.

2024-09-24 10:46

It's not about cadian or astralis. It's about blast. Astralis can try to use him. But blast should deny it as that is what they did in the past.

2024-09-24 11:06

I respect your point, blast should be focused on the integrity of theor tournaments while astralis should have astralis best interests in mind. But imo it is about astralis too, astralis shouldn't have lied about bro. Also there's two parties that were trying to get bro into blast and astralis is half of the equation. And I haven't even mentioned yet how blast and astralis used to have the same exact ownership and there's a reasonable chance some of that has stayed but has been obfuscated

2024-09-24 17:41

from being the GOAT team to a clown team ... well done Astralis for destroying your legacy

2024-09-24 10:48

They've always been a clown team since day 1 when they pretended to be a player owned org just because the 5 players all had what a 2 percent share (their share percentage wasn't disclosed) Just only those who've been following actually genuinely respectable investigative journalists like rlewis, thorin, and dekay knew about it. But because those people are abrasive and sometimes flat out cringe, on Twitter, their journalism is innacurate and can't be trusted I guess.

2024-09-24 17:42

Imagine still being astralis fan

Astralis still has a pull in Denmark thanks to their squeaky clean propaganda department

2024-09-24 12:00

As much as i would like to see CadiaN play it was a shitty move from BetrayAlis

2024-09-24 10:50

"br0 is fit to play, according to his agent" lol this quote is golden

2024-09-24 10:51

this is classic astralis shit, though in general I don't really see a difference between playing with cadian or not.

2024-09-24 10:52

imagine disqualification of Astralis LOL

2024-09-24 10:53

-asstralis +eternal fire god i beg you

2024-09-24 10:55

It's way too late for that. They'll, at worst, just be forced to use br0/ruggah and maybe get a fine

2024-09-24 11:02

If Astralis are forced to play with br0 and br0 says no they will probably be disqualified.

2024-09-24 10:57

Yeah right blast Do your job only when you’re pressured to Huge props to apex, twistzz, snappi and karrigan

2024-09-24 10:59

only to apex and snappi so far

2024-09-24 11:39

1. Astralis kick a player without even saying thank you. 2. Astralis signs another player 2 weeks after the roster lock deadline 3. Astralis says the kicked player is medically unable to play 4. Kicked player's agent says the player is perfectly fine BLAST: Hmm seems legit to me, I'll just take Astralis' word for this

2024-09-24 11:01

Lying about their players health is so scummy towards him. He should be looking for a new team and they are just like, nah he can't play this game.

2024-09-24 12:15

Lmao no one believes this shit

2024-09-24 11:09

snakestralis doing shady things again.

2024-09-24 11:16

What a fucking shitshow

2024-09-24 11:19

I genuinely dont understand why the hell there is even drama about it. Bro played like shit, got subbed. What's the big effing deal? Can we just watch the damn CS now instead of dealing with semantics of substitution. FFS people are so pissed as if bro got unfairly subbed to donk or something, just let it go ffs

2024-09-24 11:24

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Read #32, even for someone apparently lacking in critical thinking skill, such as yourself, he explains it in as short and simple terms as possible

2024-09-24 11:29

We're just viewers, and from the viewers' perspective it would be better if Astralis played with cadiaN because br0 is kicked and not going back obviously, so forcing Astralis to play with br0 is a waste of time for both team and viewers. As for rules, I agree with other teams being dissatisfied by Blast decision.

2024-09-24 11:57

Then they play with ruggah, who is an emergency sub (as coach). What is so hard to understand? They had a deadline to follow, failed to do so, and should therefore not get a free pass for their own mistake. It’s not that difficult to follow

2024-09-24 11:59

I agree with your point and didn't say anything against it.

It's still absolutely understandable, that Astralis is trying to get their new squad to play, instead of the finished player. Methods questionable, but yeah.

2024-09-24 14:46

Method is exactly the problem, by getting blast-favoritism + trying to sneak through loopholes it puts them in an even worse light than they're already in. Also, no it is not understandable that they're trying to play with a player who wasn't on the roster two weeks before the roster deadline. It is not blast's, nor the other teams playing at this event's responsibility that agreements such as roster locks are upheld by Astralis. All in all, just a clown, scummy org, trying to be scummy time and time again.

2024-09-24 15:01

Thats not the point. The point is that blast hasn't allowed these kinds of substitutions to ANY other org, but now that it's their darling astralis, they allow it. Astralis came up with fake illness, broke the rules and blast blatantly allowed them to do it.

2024-09-24 11:33

its about fair play , its a tournament and not your school/college matchups , there're rules

2024-09-24 11:54

Has nothing to do with "fair play". It's just about rules.

2024-09-24 11:56

Lol it's literally unfair play if one team is allowed to ignore even just one rule and the other teams aren't. How is this not getting across to so many people today and yesterday It doesn't have to be a net positive! It CAN be a net negative and it makes zero difference! The advantage is that they have more tools than other teams have , in paticular one tool, the choice to make a roster move. Even if it doesn't work out that just means they misused their tool. They still have an extra tool! Others teams with that tool may have had even better roster move options than astralis had, surefire guaranteed upgrade moves.

2024-09-24 17:29

First of all you missed the point entirely, but even within your own statement, you cannot simultaneously say br0 played bad, and also say that replacing him is meaningless. If he played bad, then replacing him is an advantage, plain and simple.

2024-09-25 02:02

We are still a very long way from a healthy ecosystem. So many actors abusing their position while others have incredibly outdated or naive policies. Talk about professionalism...

2024-09-24 11:30

What a scum of the earth organization!

2024-09-24 11:40

Mix scammer org with a cheater core, what a surprise!

2024-09-24 11:48

Don't beleive blast. What about ruggah? Why didn't blast made astralis play with ruggah lika any other teams do in those situations?

Astralis CEO has lewd pictures of the blast CEO Source: I'm the Astralis CEO

2024-09-24 12:06

Can confirm Source: I'm the Blast CEO

they told blast both br0 and ruggah are unable to play, if only br0 was unavailable they would have to play with coach as per rules

2024-09-24 14:21

They just showed up to the media day with ruggah..

2024-09-24 16:21

mb then i was going off of karrigan's tweet

2024-09-24 16:57

This org could not be more unlikeable

BLASTRALIS IS REAL

2024-09-24 11:52

The time can change an org in few years. From winning all in 2018 to this in 2024

2024-09-24 12:10

Sad

2024-09-24 12:12

Despite a rat move from Astralis, I still see those rules as complete bs. I wish we came back to a concept of 5+ teams. Something that actually gave B1t a shot at t1

2024-09-24 12:31

That's a valve decision unfortunately so it's not really up to to's, sure they CAN allow that. But because it wouldn't be allowed at any official major related tournaments it's just not realistic. I actually agree with you btw. I think banning 6+ player teams and making it so coaches CANT talk at the end of a round only in timeouts were lame decisions. What I don't see however, is how this is In any way related to the cadian situation. Even if 6+ player rosters were allowed cadian still wouldn't be allowed to play as he was registered as a player too late and it would be unfair to other teams who were maybe considering a roster move but didn't SPECIFICALLY because of this blast.

2024-09-24 17:20

deserved for astralis

2024-09-24 12:43

It's all politics in the end and just arbitrary rules but it's still a funyy situation

2024-09-24 12:48

Not true at all but for sure it's definitely an entertaining situation who doesn't like seeing a top 2 most scummy org of top tier cs of all time with nip being the only competitor (nip didn't pay the entire goat 5 their tournament winnings nor nawks stickers and I think some other shenanigans too) So I'll agree with you on your last point atleast.

repsect to br0s agent

2024-09-24 12:51

my respect for cadiaN after this whole shitshow has gone deep in the water

2024-09-24 13:11

We should definitely be blaming the org more than the players because the players don't have final say. We can't know the players intentions when they don't have final say. In fairness GOING TO ASTRALIS PERIOD is a bit cringe considering their history. And you should know that you're going to be forced to partake in their cringe just like the goat 6 were forced to with lying to the media n such. I'm down to blame the players for that. If they made zonic and dev1ce of all people lie about a 10 man roster being their plan and it totally didn't just have to do with the goat 5 negotiating contracts so they wanted to have replacements at the ready. Then you should expect that they're going to make you lie as well.

2024-09-24 17:08

Who really fucking cares actually. Let them lose with Cadian and stop bitching around like it was a freaking Major. Professional cs is more and more closing in to becoming a stupid telenovela smh

2024-09-24 13:13

So enforcing rules is telenovela now? So I guess you don’t care about professionalism too much, right

2024-09-24 13:49

Ofc they have to follow the rules, but it’s a freaking drama on how it’s handled and I can’t hear this bs anymore. Disqualify them from the event, force them to play with ruggah, make it a 4on5, I don’t give a damn

2024-09-24 14:40

I don’t believe any of the suggestions right now would make it any less drama. It’s probably the most drama-less wanly of doing it. It’s the same in life, if people behave like shit, there is gonna be drama. No way around it.

2024-09-24 15:31

The problem is. Astralis and Blast are in collusion and blast are trying to save face. The only way to actually make them face their corrupt practices is to make a big deal out of it and dramatize it. "if astralis IGL can do whatever he wants, then so can i". Astralis literally told HLTV to stop asking any more questions implying they didn't know how to operate. When you are that bitchy it's no wonder the response is drama. Blast are literally in collusion with astralis none of your suggestions would ever materialize. The singular option you have left as an affected party (every other team) is to stir up drama.

2024-09-24 16:31

agree even the price pool extremly small compared to bb dacia lol

2024-09-24 14:12

Astralis should 1) Apologize 2) Withdraw from this tournament altogether There's no other way

2024-09-24 13:30

*colludes with astralis* *gets called out* "hey astralis, explain yourself!"

Waiting for Richard Lewis’ summary vod gl hf

2024-09-24 13:45

Astralis is also stupid They made an enemy out of bro's manager and then declare bro to randomly be unfit but didn't account for the manager telling otherwise I mean if you are going to break the rules, atleast do it smart

2024-09-24 13:59

L BLAST clown

2024-09-24 14:11

Clownstralis

2024-09-24 14:20

From the best org to the worst, and actively digging to get lower every day. Cheaters should be kicked out from the tournament.

2024-09-24 14:53

ASSTRALIS

2024-09-24 15:14

Asstralis is clown org. 🤡

typical ASStralis and lmao blast on blast for being blASSt

2024-09-24 16:17

This move is just going to add even more pressure to the already pressure filled always feeling like he's hated stavn. Probably jabbi too. Dev1ce isn't used to being hated. And cadian now is expected to perform almost immediately. What a dumb clown decision. If astralis somehow play without letting this drama effect them ill be mind blown. But I'm practically certain this media storm will ruin any chances of a honeymoon period happening. Good job astralis

2024-09-24 16:59