BLAST seek further clarification from Astralis in emergency substitution case

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."

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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.

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Astralis got cadiaN in for the Fall Final on an emergency sub. Was it against the rules?
France Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Age:
31
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
2322
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.69
Denmark Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Casper 'cadiaN' Møller
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1783
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.62
Denmark Alexander 'br0' Bro
Alexander 'br0' Bro
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
553
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.66
#1
Faceit level 10  | 
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Finland Sipunak
lol what a clownshow
2024-09-24 10:36
269
2 replies
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
14
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
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#2
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Sweden Vrede
Clown party
2024-09-24 10:37
49
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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12 replies
#13
Cooper | 
Europe kuu1
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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8 replies
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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5 replies
#34
Cooper | 
Europe kuu1
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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#71
Faceit level 9  | 
Jesus | 
Kazakhstan yTuHbIe_ucTopuu
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
0
2 replies
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
0
1 reply
That is a 0/8 take
2024-09-24 14:42
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#107
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United States 1337bongz
Spirit won Kato after lmao what a braindead take.
2024-09-24 15:35
1
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
1
1 reply
Average Astralis pr Performance
2024-09-24 16:44
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#84
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Lithuania seneliz
reason if they don't want to play with him???
2024-09-24 13:40
0
2 replies
hes unavaible / on isolated hospital section
2024-09-24 14:13
0
if astralis don't wanna play with him then they play with ruggah
2024-09-24 17:16
0
Oh so now they want further clarifications, right!
2024-09-24 10:38
51
#5
Faceit level 10  | 
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Ukraine MmX_A_
Astralis has already dispatched some pumped up guys to br0 to break his arms
2024-09-24 10:38
50
4 replies
Standard Astralis procedure, it's not personal
2024-09-24 12:45
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#83
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Turkey 3bouss
He asked for it with that attitude from his agent
2024-09-24 13:36
0
bro wll get a visit from konfig
2024-09-24 16:24
2
LMFAO
2024-09-24 16:44
0
#6
Neityu | 
France FaYa_
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.
2024-09-24 10:38
64
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
12
#8
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Romania PRQN
lmfao ASStralis downfall and i'm here for it
2024-09-24 10:39
10
Ban them forever from any tournament is only just punishment
2024-09-24 10:39
10
9 replies
No they have to have xign as a permanent 5th, worse punishment imaginable
2024-09-24 11:00
1
6 replies
#37
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New Zealand Skye620
Nah you get fifflaren as your 5th
2024-09-24 11:14
4
3 replies
#42
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Austria Im_The_One
my and my mm mates will come and play for astralis we will win the whole thing tho
2024-09-24 11:25
4
a fate worse than death
2024-09-24 12:23
1
That's not a punishment, they can literally win the whole thing with Goatlaren
2024-09-24 12:47
1
That would make them win every event though
2024-09-24 11:44
0
1 reply
havent you heard about suffering from success?
2024-09-24 12:23
0
#43
Faceit level 7  | 
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France Vsiion
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
3
1 reply
No, but they should.
2024-09-24 11:45
2
#10
Faceit level 7  | 
cat | 
Poland Broken_BS
Idk what else is There to look into, either he's well or not
2024-09-24 10:40
1
#11
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Norway biggamer69
Blast «two faced» toledo
2024-09-24 10:41
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#12
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Canada Exerpas
Praying for br0 to be all good
2024-09-24 10:41
4
#14
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Europe _Liam_
"If the backlash weren't big, we wouldn't give a shit"
2024-09-24 10:42
47
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
11
3 replies
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
0
1 reply
Ehhh sure orgs may miss stuff but they're not usually intentionally favoring one specific team over the rest.
2024-09-24 17:37
0
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
0
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
2
1 reply
Hate the org not the players. I will still root for them. But yeah, you're right
2024-09-24 14:43
0
Let my boy cadiaN play.
2024-09-24 10:46
4
2 replies
#35
Cooper | 
Europe kuu1
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
7
1 reply
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
0
from being the GOAT team to a clown team ... well done Astralis for destroying your legacy
2024-09-24 10:48
14
1 reply
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
0
Imagine still being astralis fan
2024-09-24 10:48
3
1 reply
Astralis still has a pull in Denmark thanks to their squeaky clean propaganda department
2024-09-24 12:00
2
As much as i would like to see CadiaN play it was a shitty move from BetrayAlis
2024-09-24 10:50
3
#25
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Russia KopHuLLloH
"br0 is fit to play, according to his agent" lol this quote is golden
2024-09-24 10:51
4
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
1
#27
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Romania PROXY_v2
imagine disqualification of Astralis LOL
2024-09-24 10:53
8
3 replies
#28
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Ukraine delsix
-asstralis +eternal fire god i beg you
2024-09-24 10:55
2
1 reply
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
4
If Astralis are forced to play with br0 and br0 says no they will probably be disqualified.
2024-09-24 10:57
5
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
5
1 reply
#49
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Russia KopHuLLloH
only to apex and snappi so far
2024-09-24 11:39
0
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
10
1 reply
#67
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Finland fusil
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
1
Lmao no one believes this shit
2024-09-24 11:09
2
snakestralis doing shady things again.
2024-09-24 11:16
1
What a fucking shitshow
2024-09-24 11:19
1
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
4
11 replies
#45
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Norway biggamer69
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
9
5 replies
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
2
4 replies
#61
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Norway biggamer69
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
2
3 replies
I agree with your point and didn't say anything against it.
2024-09-24 12:00
0
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
2
1 reply
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
1
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
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#58
miLo | 
Asia vsly
its about fair play , its a tournament and not your school/college matchups , there're rules
2024-09-24 11:54
3
2 replies
Has nothing to do with "fair play". It's just about rules.
2024-09-24 11:56
1
1 reply
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
0
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
0
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
1
What a scum of the earth organization!
2024-09-24 11:40
0
Mix scammer org with a cheater core, what a surprise!
2024-09-24 11:48
0
#54
Faceit level 9  | 
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Moldova nutel
Don't beleive blast. What about ruggah? Why didn't blast made astralis play with ruggah lika any other teams do in those situations?
2024-09-24 11:48
0
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Astralis CEO has lewd pictures of the blast CEO Source: I'm the Astralis CEO
2024-09-24 12:06
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1 reply
Can confirm Source: I'm the Blast CEO
2024-09-24 13:57
2
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
0
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#109
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Moldova nutel
They just showed up to the media day with ruggah..
2024-09-24 16:21
0
1 reply
mb then i was going off of karrigan's tweet
2024-09-24 16:57
0
This org could not be more unlikeable
2024-09-24 11:48
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#56
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Taiwan iloviz
BLASTRALIS IS REAL
2024-09-24 11:52
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#65
Faceit level 5  | 
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Spain GLoXi
The time can change an org in few years. From winning all in 2018 to this in 2024
2024-09-24 12:10
0
#66
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China halflife2
Sad
2024-09-24 12:12
0
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
1
1 reply
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
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#72
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Poland vroniu
deserved for astralis
2024-09-24 12:43
0
It's all politics in the end and just arbitrary rules but it's still a funyy situation
2024-09-24 12:48
0
1 reply
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.
2024-09-24 17:16
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#76
Faceit level 4  | 
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
repsect to br0s agent
2024-09-24 12:51
0
#77
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dexter | 
Mongolia temukkun
my respect for cadiaN after this whole shitshow has gone deep in the water
2024-09-24 13:11
0
1 reply
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
0
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
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So enforcing rules is telenovela now? So I guess you don’t care about professionalism too much, right
2024-09-24 13:49
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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
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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
0
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
1
agree even the price pool extremly small compared to bb dacia lol
2024-09-24 14:12
1
Astralis should 1) Apologize 2) Withdraw from this tournament altogether There's no other way
2024-09-24 13:30
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#82
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Finland Tusku
*colludes with astralis* *gets called out* "hey astralis, explain yourself!"
2024-09-24 13:36
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#85
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
jackasmo | 
Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
Waiting for Richard Lewis’ summary vod gl hf
2024-09-24 13:45
1
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
0
L BLAST clown
2024-09-24 14:11
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#94
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Latvia splxnt3r
Clownstralis
2024-09-24 14:20
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#101
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
France Sinj_Gracieux
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
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ASSTRALIS
2024-09-24 15:14
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#104
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Korea donkpeek
Asstralis is clown org. 🤡
2024-09-24 15:14
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#108
Faceit level 4  | 
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African Union mikecool
typical ASStralis and lmao blast on blast for being blASSt
2024-09-24 16:17
1
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
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#121
Faceit level 10  | 
United States DingusCSGO
2024-09-24 17:17
0
How does Astralis still have sponsors outside of danish brands, with all the shit pr that they drag themself into all the time?
2024-09-24 17:19
0
They should have looked into this sooner and could've prevented a lot of IGLs getting the br0vid-19
2024-09-24 17:29
0
This is more entertain then the actual matches
2024-09-24 18:11
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