acoR signs with ECSTATIC

1-9-2025 12:20

The former MOUZ and GamerLegion member will take up the vacant AWP spot on the Danish team.

acoR joins ECSTATIC as their new AWPer

ECSTATIC have announced that they have completed the signing of free agent Frederik "⁠acoR⁠" Gyldstrand, who will take up AWPing duties following the benching of Kristoffer "⁠Kristou⁠" Aamand.

acoR has been on the lookout for a new team since the end of 2024, when TSM benched their entire lineup. In May, he attended IEM Dallas with GamerLegion as a stand-in, averaging a 0.88 rating as the team beat 3DMAX, FURIA and G2 en route to a 5th-6th place finish.

acoR: "I've had a few offers that I turned down"

In the last two months, he had been playing for m1x, featuring the core of the old Bad News Eagles lineup.

acoR will bring an injection of experience to the Danish team, which is currently ranked 24th in the Europe VRS, eight places off the Major qualification zone. Next week, the team will travel to Poland to compete at Betclic Clash Summer, a $10,000 tournament headlined by DraculaN champions fnatic.

With acoR's signing, ECSTATIC are now:

Thomas "⁠TMB⁠" Bundsbæk
Anton "⁠Anlelele⁠" Huynh
Martin "⁠nut nut⁠" Holm Vestergaard
William "⁠sirah⁠" Kjærsgaard
Frederik "⁠acoR⁠" Gyldstrand

ok (good for him?)

2025-09-01 12:21

2 replies

ecstatic replaced Acor Junior with the original acor Not sure if it ' s good for they / them Regards

2025-09-01 12:24

What does ok here signify?

2025-09-01 12:33

ohhh nawww

my goat

Not exactly a blockbuster move, but they will be on top of t2 fo sho

1 reply

Better than Kristou though, good move all in all.

2025-09-01 12:25

Letsgo?

2025-09-01 12:22

Okaaaay let's go

2025-09-01 14:31

This time acor will turn it around and show his early promise once more into a great t1 awper.

4 replies

I seriously doubt it, although it can hardly be worse than Kristou

2025-09-01 13:13

If their bar was anyone better than Kristou you could get cajunb out of retirement and bring him in.

2025-09-01 13:18

cajunb is the goat

2025-09-01 16:48

acoR great movement and he can play.

2025-09-01 14:32

Much better than Kristou, its not like anyone expected for them to sign someone like device or nicoodoz. Yeah, they could try some young player, but with their good VRS, its easier to get someone experienced.

I'd take acor any day of the week, I just wanted to wash my eyes with soap after some of the shots that kristou was missing

2025-09-01 12:29

and decisions WHY ARE YOU SAVING ITS THE LAST ROUND RAHHH

2025-09-01 15:06

expected

nice

2025-09-01 12:26

Washed 🔁 Washed Fair trade guys

2025-09-01 12:27

”washed” implies that they were once good, Kristou wasn’t

2025-09-01 13:41

i think you didnt watch ecstatic play. kristou is far beyond washed

2025-09-01 13:56

The state of danish cs guys, right here in front of your eyes At least could've trialed junyme. If it worked out they would sell him for hundreds of thousands. And acor, after his stint is done they will take him to retirement home. For free

Junyme ain’t that good bro. This a great signing for this roster that can capitalize on their form

2025-09-01 16:34

3 replies

the best thing about acor is his predictability. everyone knows his floor and ceiling. short-term it's an upgrade and he could help them qualify to budapest major but long-term they're cooked astralis are in the same situation with device btw. they should sign whoever is next in line after molodoy and kl1m

2025-09-01 19:47

Yeah its a fine philosophy, but u need the actual talent and players for it to be worth it, u cant just assume ppl with good ratings in much lower tier play are good. The players that made the jump all had experience against solid teams and very strong eyetests compared to players like kl1m

2025-09-01 20:22

astrails has no money to spend on better younger players that are already on teams richardlewis.substack.com/p/newly-releas.. richardlewis.substack.com/p/exclusive-be.. dust2.dk/nyheder/60715/dust2dk-erfarer-t.. dust2.dk/nyheder/60410/overdrive-astrali.. dust2.us/news/60726/astralis-reportedly-.. hltv.org/news/41552/media-astralis-explo..

2025-09-01 20:43

2025-09-01 12:28

acor will carry this guys to upper tier 2

2025-09-01 12:40

Probably the best signing they could have gotten, for now. - lucky/nicoodoz/regali not realistic - cadian... is he even interested? It would have been fun to see, though - jboen, sl1m3, etc. need to grind t3 more or it's just going to be kristou v2.

2025-09-01 13:02

actually good

2025-09-01 13:03

Respect to Ecstatic for actually striking on an upgrade while they are on an impressive upswing instead of doing it after the fall-off

Huge upgrade but only because nut nut will frag like a demon from now on

2025-09-01 13:27

Underrated change, ecstatic instantly 0.3 tier higher

2025-09-01 13:46

graphic design is my passion ahh post

2025-09-01 14:30

2025-09-01 14:45

honestly an upgrade

2025-09-01 14:48

At this point I don't even know if it's an upgrade or not, it's been years since acoR has been any good, Jesus is really the talent pool in the Danish scene totally dead? Astralis bringing back Magisk, ECSTATIC signing acoR. Like surely you could've signed like Lucky for example, he is decent, is still young and has some experience aswell, like, I don't know, really weird change, I don't get what they're doing.

2025-09-01 14:56

Lucky is already on sashi, acor was a Free agent

2025-09-01 15:33

Yeah no wonder he was a free agent considering the fact that the last time he was good was in GamerLegion I don't know how many years ago already. What I'm sad about is the fact that you're a solid Tier2 team like ECSTATIC, if you want to make a step deeper, qualify for a Major for example, you have to invest a bit sometimes, not just go for what's cheap, that doesn't make them more dangerous in my eyes.

2025-09-01 15:36

2025-09-01 20:42

Yeah I can understand that, but it's just really sad, also, I don't know if it's real with those 'personal reasons' or not, but if it's not, then they're just downgrading their roster, I'm sad like really for the Danish scene, Astralis doesn't have the money to buy youngsters from teams like ECSTATIC or Sashi etc... What a timeline.

2025-09-01 21:27

good move tbh

2025-09-01 15:08

Again bot wtf with this team

2025-09-01 15:10

decent signing

2025-09-01 15:37

Ecstatic are cooking.

2025-09-01 15:40

very good 1for1 upgrade.

2025-09-01 15:55

Nice upgrade,Will Bring them closer to T1 events

2025-09-01 16:26

movement GOAT

2025-09-01 19:29

From Acor 2.0 to Acor 1.0

2025-09-01 19:44

Many players are better than Krisou, but would this be a good move for them in the long run? It's like adding +1-2% to winrate or so - kinda nice, but it not gives us an x-factor. Are there any promising young awpers in Denmark with the potential to increase the probability of winning by 5-10%?

2025-09-02 15:50