Astralis

Astralis won the ESL Pro League Season 8 LAN Finals after a dominant 3-1 performance over Team Liquid. The two teams met once more in the finals of ESL Pro League. The best team in Europe faced off against the best North American team. While the series started with a strong performance by the North American team. The dominance with which Team Liquid defeated Astralis on Map 1 definitely gave a scare to eat Danish fans. But the Danish team was led by

RFRSH owned Astralis has signed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with betting website Unibet. The deal spans for a period of two years and grants the betting website the exclusive image rights as well as global Image rights about Astralis. It is their first major foray into esports and they hope to capture this fast-growing segment soon. Esports has grown into a billion-dollar business with a fanbase across all corners of the world. Astralis is the star of the CS: GO world, and

Danish team Astralis has asserted its dominance yet again on the International stage. Astralis won ECS Season 6 LAN finals. This is their third tournament victory since winning the FaceIT Major. They faced Made in Brazil in the Grand finals. While the individual maps were close, the final score of the series was 2-0.   For Made in Brazil, this performance definitely raises hopes for the team's future. They have been improving with each tournament and they also have much better results now.

Recently Niko from Faze Clan made some allegations on social media. These allegations were against several players, but it also included the current CS: GO Major Champions, Astralis. The allegation was on Twitter and this points to potentially Astralis using unfair vision settings in order to gain an advantage over smoke grenades in the game. https://twitter.com/fazeniko/status/1065730619597033472?s=09 The tweet drew sharp responses from the community as well as several professional players in the game. They were unsure whether Astralis actually uses such unfair means

Recently, the Blast Pro series announces multiple tournaments all over the world. The new locations for future Blast Pro Series events include Lisbon, Sao Paolo, Miami and Madrid. The Lisbon event will start on the 14th of December 2018. It has a prize pool of $250,000. Blast Pro series Lisbon will see a total of 6 teams in participation. They will compete in a single Group and a Round Robin format. The top two teams will then play in the Grand finals competing

The penultimate day at IEM Chicago 2018 saw some really exciting Counter-Strike throughout the day. The first semifinal was between Astralis and Fnatic and it went down to the wire. Astralis and Fnatic: An exciting thriller of a series. Both the teams won their respective map picks, although the final score was way too close for comfort. The first map saw Astralis win Dust 2 with a score of 16-14. It was not until the very last round that we had an idea

An organisation which has deep roots in esports by now, RFRSH Entertainment has managed to raise $10.5 million in funding. The new round of funding saw the Danish Growth Fund, Creandum, and Sunstone take the lead. RFSH has varied interests in esports including ownership of Counter-Strike Global Offensive team Astralis and the Blast Pro Series. It’s an organization with unmatched experience and skills, representing deep know-how and experience in the industry and the challenges that lie within the biggest and fastest growing sub-culture

The Group stages of the IEM Chicago 2018 has come to an end. We have the six teams who qualify for the Playoffs. The IEM Chicago Playoffs are set to start on the November 9th with a knockout Best of Three game format. Group A Qualified teams: Astralis Faze Clan Team LDLC.com Group A had several strong teams in the lineup. While watching Astralis and Faze Clan are definitely the hot favourites in the group it is Team LDLC's qualification to the playoffs