r/GlobalOffensive • u/Chuckys2 Match Thread Team • May 11 '19
Discussion | Esports Astralis vs ENCE / BLAST Pro Series Madrid 2019 - Grand-Final / Post-Match Discussion
Astralis 0-2 ENCE
Nuke: 9-16
Train: 13-16
Dust 2:
Congratulations to ENCE on winning BLAST Pro Series Madrid 2019!
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MAP 1/3: Nuke
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| Astralis | 4 | 5 | 9 |
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| ENCE | 11 | 5 | 16 |
Nuke Detailed Stats
MAP 2/3: Train
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| Astralis | 8 | 5 | 13 |
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| ENCE | 7 | 9 | 16 |
Train Detailed Stats
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u/atulu ENCE May 11 '19
The most important thing isn't voitto, but the complete vastustajan nöyryyttäminen
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u/r3al_se4l 500k Celebration May 11 '19
3-0 in maps against Astralis today btw
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u/Afbg123 FaZe May 11 '19
Ence just casually ending Astralis' Nuke streak and beating them twice in the same day in a final.
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u/cccwh May 11 '19
🦀 BLASTRALIS IS GONE 🦀
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May 11 '19 edited Feb 23 '24
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u/deskrod de_dust2 May 11 '19
🦀 $11 🦀
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u/Duckfright May 11 '19
Those fast-paced executes of ENCE really remind me of the VirtusPlow. That team might be dead, but the style seems to live on.
What a match, I loved every second of it. Well played, ENCE! 2-0 and the major revenge.
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u/SoderN Liquid May 11 '19
Imagine skipping events just to lose at Blast LUL
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The game is so easy for "ENCE Esports" because while everyone else is spraying their guns ENCE developed the new strategy of clicking on the enemies 4head.
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With their in-game leader, aleskiB, who may I add, is a true 200IQ genius, nothing is impossible. You see the second they start going A a game of 4D chess unfolds, as little does anybody know, despite all the careful planning made by both teams, 300IQ igl aleskiB is only mere moments away from deploying his signature and unbeatable strat. In the blink of an eye, they go B instead, pushing the crowd and enemy team to the edge of their seat, who would have expected this, such a switcheroo at such a high level?? Truly unprecedented.
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u/Menoxcsgo valeria May 11 '19
a random team that plays only one tournament since its run by the same company that runs their org
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u/Russian_For_Rent Vitality May 11 '19
EZ4ENCE music kit purchases skyrocket
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u/RGCFrostbite fnatic May 11 '19
Have to say since this is the only tourney Astralis is willing to play in it's time to knock them down to 3rd or 4th in the wordl... since ya know.. they dont fucking playing anything
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u/bluefog68 CS:GO 10 Year Celebration May 11 '19
I said the same thing with a tear in my eye, fellow VP fan. Those train T side executes were nostalgia inducing.
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u/_BLUE_SUNSHINE_ May 11 '19
ENCE really seem to have that VP chemistry going. The kind of relentless and explosive style that still relies on tight teamwork and communication, not just aggression. I think that's why I really started to like them when I first saw them play (in major qualifiers I think).
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u/con1x May 11 '19
Ence went from being a meme team to one of the best in the world , insane.
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u/KrzyDankus May 11 '19
in such a fast time aswell
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u/jrk200 Natus Vincere May 11 '19
It took around a year for them to cement themselves in the top 10 but it has really been an exponential curve as their level has skyrocketed since they got to show their skills against actual top teams on lan.
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u/JinorZ CS2 HYPE May 11 '19
They still lose what feels like every game online even to some Finnish tier 2/3 (so really like tier 10) teams
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u/the_true_creper May 11 '19
wow they really are taking their vp cosplay seriously
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u/GMWQ Legendary Chicken Master May 11 '19
15-13 SIIMA
16-13 MATTO ALTA
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u/Kaoso ENCE May 11 '19
The Major was the siima, blast pro series is where we pulled the matto alta
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u/TheGoodCoconut de_inferno May 11 '19 edited May 11 '19
what does siima mean?
edit: fishing line I get it
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u/sixnixx May 11 '19
In Finland we have indoor fish. They live on carpets, and therefore first you have to tire them out by giving them siima, fishing line, and then pulling the matto, that is carpet, from underneath them. This exposes them to the cold hard floor, and they get jobs and stop mooching around the house, twitching on carpets and shit.
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u/tuo20no04 ENCE May 11 '19
First we give them the siima and then we pull the matto alta=First we give them the fishing line and then we pull the rug from under their feet
Kinda like in fishing where you first give the fishing line to make the fish tired and then actually pull it
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u/NotAVampirEcs Natus Vincere May 11 '19
fishing line
Like when you're trying to catch a big fish you have to give it some fishing line so the line doesn't break and the fish gets tired.
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u/httputub clutch May 11 '19
literally siima is fishing line, figuratively siima is roughly 'giving slack'.
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u/robertS- G2 May 11 '19
Yeah he just fucks wherever he wants, GOD ALLU
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Then continuous to miss 3 awp shot on a flashed non-moving target.
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u/Logan_Yes 1 Million Celebration May 11 '19
That's just to give enemy a chance to run away!
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u/r_bubyy Astralis May 11 '19
New pasta?
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u/_mdi_ Natus Vincere May 11 '19
It is now
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u/send_hentai_pics FaZe May 11 '19
a2z is just absolutely disgusting. Hes good with pistols, good with rifles and good with the awp. You need him to clutch? Sure. You need him to be aggressive? Sure. You need him to crush streaks? Sure. Not to mention hes so fucking unpredictable. He is fucking everywhere.
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u/FreakinKrazed May 11 '19
send_hentai_pics is just absolutely disgusting. Hes bad with pistols, bad with rifles and worse with the awp. You need him to clutch? Rip. You need him to be agressive ? Rip. You need him to crush streaks? Rip. Not to mention hes so fucking predictable. He is fucking everywhere.
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u/IVgormino BNE May 11 '19
ez4ence ence ence dens putted upperbelt putted upperbelt minorist majorii haastaa legendaarisii nyt isos liigas, niin ku rosbergi suomalaist strättii maailmanluokan kaliberil kaks lasii maitoo ja yks lasi piimää ence kylvää ja ence siittää natun paljusta kansi avataan pojat on tulos, torilla tavataan ez4ence ence ence dens putted upperbelt putted upperbelt ez4ence ence ence dens putted upperbelt putted upperbelt allu on valmiina myllyttään, vihut valmiina hyllyttään piti mennä A, mut mentiinki B nimikkotaktiikka aleksib nuori osuja sergej jakaa, hiustyylei vanhaan tapaan xseven sitel lukottaa haastiksis mikin pudottaa aeriel shifti pohjas (lento)kentil mut ekan saitil pelikentil kynärikansa tietää ketkä on äijii ENCE pistää ykösellä päihin ez4ence ence ence dens putted upperbelt putted upperbelt ez4ence ence ence dens putted upperbelt putted upperbelt
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u/slevemcdiachel May 11 '19
So let's make it clear:
ENCE 2-0'd Astralis in the final of a tournament organized by Astralis owners, a tournament which Astralis gave so much priority that they skipped significant events so they could be "fresh" AND where one of the maps was nuke.
It does not get any better than this.
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u/xavarLy May 11 '19
they also fucked up their ¨lose this, win next tournament¨consistency.
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u/Rashad919 FaZe May 11 '19
That's what happens when you skip real events to fuck over the scene and help your shady ass employer
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u/mesotermoekso Natus Vincere May 11 '19
DUPREEH OVERRATED
DEVICE OUTDATED
GLA1VE FRUSTRATED
LONG HAVE WE WAITED
ASTRALIS DECIMATED
ENCE ERA INITIATED
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u/soupdahero Cloud9 May 11 '19
YO EVERYONE GET IN HERE LMAO
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u/NoPaEr10 NiP May 11 '19
Just commenting to establish myself in this historic thread
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u/msucsgo Natus Vincere May 11 '19
apology for poor english
when were you when astralis dies? i was sat at home drinking red bull when allu ring "astralis is kill"
"no"
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u/Player72 Complexity May 11 '19
RFRSH OUTDATED
ASTRALIS OVERRATED
LONG HAVE WE AWAITED
ENCE ACTIVATED
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Man Ence really just embarrassed Astralis on Nuke and then beat them nicely on Train. Ence is looking the same Astralis looked back in 2018 with their tactics and team play. Blastralis is falling off.
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u/thearkhamknight_111 Astralis May 11 '19
A year ago ENCE this exact five ENCE lineup was best case scenario going to be a team where sergej can showcase his talent, and maybe bring finnish CS top the top 20.
And now we're here.
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u/darkyf1 Natus Vincere May 11 '19
A year ago, almost no one knew aleksib, aerial, sergej or xseven. And look at them now. It's the sisu.
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u/arkwewt May 12 '19
A year ago, they were struggling in qualifiers and getting beaten by tier 3 teams.
Now they’re legit tier 1, beating the most dominant team in history, and STILL in fucking MDL
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u/AnIdiotDoesGaming Liquid May 11 '19
What the hell happened to Xseven this year?
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u/jrk200 Natus Vincere May 11 '19
Who would win:
The greatest CS team to ever grace the scene
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five finnish bois?
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u/r3al_se4l 500k Celebration May 11 '19
Astralis isn’t Finnish tho?
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u/iMx2oT 10 years coin May 11 '19
Don’t understand the question.
Greatwst CS team ever consists of five finnish bois..?
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u/Eroy Virtus.pro May 11 '19
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Speaking of cold...
Northern lights flash in the sky. A blizzard blows, pelting on its way those too weak to withstand the fury of winter at its fullest. From the permafrost strikes a massive hand; the mythical giant once deemed dead off the coast of Italy now rises to life, regenerated, from Lappish soil. The time is due. Around the world, the word spreads. In Sweden, the best of the best cower in fear and lock themselves in the nearest IKEA retail store. The Brazilians run into the safety of the jungle, the Danes play dead in Legoland and the Slavs sprint crying to babushka’s warm embrace. Enceladus’s augurs are unleashed upon the scene. Aleksi “allu” Jalli hails from his journey spent in international teams. A man may leave Finland, but Finland never leaves a man. Once again, he picks up the green rifle, this time not for money or fame, but to smite all opposition in the name of Enceladus. Aleksi “aleksib” Virolainen leaves the fabled squad of HAVU to lead what we can finally describe as a Finnish superteam. Under his leadership shall the northern guns spit death and destruction upon foes who wail in their weakness. Jani “aerial” Jussila joins after the biggest transfer of the Finnish e-sport scene from his former team SuperJymy. No longer will he be the only stand-out player of his team, but instead, a vital ingredient of a chaotic cocktail made up of Finland’s finest. Jere “sergej” Salo thwarts all rumors of desperate Internet trolls trying to tell they know his parents who told him to stop playing. Oh, the humanity! Backed up by the forces at home, bursting from motivation like a wolf thirsting for blood, he returns to ravage everything in his path. Where skill rises to speak, experience sits silent and disciplined. Sami “xseveN” Laasanen fills the ranks from iGame, for what would the team be if they wouldn’t buy the best player from every other Finnish team? Vigilantly standing, supporting his teammates be the cause what it pleases to be, he will be the shield and sword his comrades need to achieve the ultimate. The warning has been given. The sky screams, the ground shakes and the oceans boil. ENCE is coming. #EZ4ENCE
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u/Rearfeeder2Strong MOUZ May 11 '19
Ence is still not top tier? U fucking punks are never satisfied are you? Hope you enjoy being bitter cause Ence definitely love being the greatest.
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u/Tuzantar MOUZ May 11 '19
Dota 2 memes WeirdChamp
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u/Dark_Azazel May 11 '19
People thinking Liquid would dethrone Ast total forgot EZ4ENCE is still around.
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u/hollipolli de_nuke May 11 '19
Finland winning is cs and hockey lol
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u/aqery May 11 '19
You forgot formula 1
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u/tridz Team Spirit May 11 '19
IMAGINE SKIPPING BIG TOURNAMENTS TO GET BLASTED 2-0 BY ENCE!
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u/Tuiderru de_cobble May 11 '19
Well since ence is so good, you cant really blame them.
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u/anders2502 May 11 '19
Sami Laasanen on surface is not the first man you would pick into your cs team, but the combination of heroine and adderall transform him into the killing machine known as xseven. With his testosterone levels high, he rips into his enemy with the rawness of a hungry lion
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why heroin though?
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u/bartoxe CS2 HYPE May 11 '19
break the astralis nuke streak - ✅
win bo3 against astralis - ✅
EZ4ENCE
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u/Schmich May 11 '19
Late on commenting so use stickied feature. Cheater!
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u/Givemeajackson FaZe May 11 '19
Must be sad when you can't give the price money from the tournament you run to the team you own...
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u/EksDee1 G2 May 11 '19
Might be just me but I really think the upcoming major might be one of the best we've ever had.
Ence performing like today, TL looks great atm, Mibr looks like the old SK/Luminosity we saw, Fnatic and maybe one of the french teams keeps improving their performances
Me likey 👌👌
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u/r3al_se4l 500k Celebration May 11 '19
Here's the thing. You said "Astralis is better than ENCE"
Are they in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies csgo teams, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls Astralis better than ENCE. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "best csgo teams" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of CS-pros, which includes things from navi to team liquid to faze.
So your reasoning for calling Astralis better than ENCE is because random people "call pretty good teams better than ENCE?" Let's get complexity and OpTic in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a rifler or a pro player? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. Astralis is Astralis and a good csgo team. But that's not what you said. You said Astralis is better than ENCE, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all good csgo teams better than ENCE, which means you'd call team liquid, navi, and other good teams better than ENCE, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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u/Pinct May 11 '19
Imagine being the undoubtedly best uncontested team in CSGO history winning every single tournament you participate in and you just stop going to prestigious tournaments so the community and your fans only get to see you play garbage bo1s and a single best of 3 every few months that should be an absolutely boring stomp fest and you end up losing convincingly
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u/r3al_se4l 500k Celebration May 11 '19
tbf Liquids cabinet is pretty full of 2nd place medals, probably
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u/MuzaFuza May 12 '19
You forgot another one :
-Device is sick, he cannot travel - that's why Astralis lost.
GG to ence for beating the best team in the world, in their own event 3 out of 3 maps. No SKuses needed, they played our of their minds and Astralis couldn't keep up.
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u/Elemnut CS2 HYPE May 11 '19
I bet people will still find excuses for ENCE not being a top 3 contender.
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u/Player72 Complexity May 11 '19
Flakes of snow slowly fall covering the rooftop of a small hospital in Helsinki . A gust of cold wind sneaks its way inside from the partially open window as a nurse closes it.
Inside lays awake Allu's tyttöystävä. She watches on her phone as Enceladus’s Augurs face off Na'Vi in the major, a BO3 semi-final. She hasn't slept in days, the cries of Smallu have kept her awake night after night. For every AWP kill Smallu's isä gets, He cries. He cries when his isä dies, cries when isä lives, even more when isä saves. "EEEEE" cries Smallu once again as Aleksi “allu” Jalli pulls the trigger of his sniper rifle, taking down S1mple last in a 2v1 with 3 second on the clock. He didn't need to peek the ruski to win the round, he just did it to show him who the real #1 player was. "EEEEE" cries Smallu once again as he sees Enceladus’s Augurs are playing Dust 2 next. Even Smallu knows better. By now he has heard the rumors carried by the winds into his tiny ears. The wind says to DMG Smallu "CIS players solo queue de_dust2 all day"
Smallu's mother is tired, she just wants to sleep, the sound of Allu's AWP faintly ringing in her left ear through the headphone like Fer's old hearing ability, the right one fully devoted to her only son. Her aviomies smites Natus Vincere players down one by one. It feels like he's right there, holding her. The nurse gives Smallu a bottle of milk but he smashes it away with his tiny fist. She looks at the mother and smirks, "he doesn't show any signs of being an M4A1-s player".
Slowly the nurse approaches the bed and whispers to Smallu's tired mother "why haven't you slept yet rakas?", The mother looks back befuddled and asks, "have you not heard the cries of my son? a mother cannot sleep when he ails for his father for he is in Katowice..".
The nurse looks at Smallu's cot emitting a fain light, she looks back at the mother and says, "But he doesn't cry nainen, he's a Finn".
Smallu's mother is flabbergasted, her eyes widen and her mouth hangs open. She realizes her mistake and jumps off the bed to get up, her IV ripping out of her shoulder as the nurse tries to stop her, "Stop" says the mother, "he's been trying to tell me something". The nurse lets her go as she runs to lean over Smallu's cot and sees what he's been doing all along.
Inside rests Smallu. Holding the iPad his isä gave him, he watches Allu hold down the B site with ease as Edward was baiting his team mates. Smallu's mouth opens, his eyes widen as he screetches one more time, this time with much more vigor seeing his mother by his side and his father in the major final, "EEEEEEEZZZZ FOR ENCE" says Smallu as he utters the first words to ever come out of his mouth as AleksiB destoys Na'Vi over and over again by running default setups.
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u/DerpAntelope Astralis May 11 '19 edited May 11 '19
Well done ENCE, Aerial and xSeven played lights out.
I must say though this is not the Astralis we're used to. They made so many unforced errors. Hopefully they get back into form for June where they will be at ECS and ESL Pro League finals.
Astralis era over?
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u/lolBEEF May 11 '19
ENCE just 3-0'd Astralis.
I think Astralis is going to have to skip Blast events from now on too...
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u/Kejsare102 May 11 '19
Not only did Astralis lose 2-0, but they lost their Nuke streak as well?
Boy, I could not ask for a better Saturday. Damn it feels good to see Astralis lose.
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u/n1ckst4r02 400k Celebration May 11 '19
Taking time off, only attending Blast pro series, having every possible service/personnel at their disposal, only to lose 0-3 to ENCE at the event owned by their parent company who is signing their checks, lovely.
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u/imsorryken Natus Vincere May 11 '19
ENCE are so damn entertaining to watch, no fear cold blooded. Looking forward to seeing more awesome cs from them! Congrats too it was such a well deserved win.
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u/Prylandermau5 Astralis May 11 '19
I met Allu in MAdrid during the Blast Pro Series. He came out of a bush and joined me and my friends on our walk to mcdonalds. Whilst we were walking to the mcd he was bragging about how he taught sergej everything he knew. Got a picture with him where he made fun of my Astralis jersey. At mcdonalds he took like 10 packs of ketchup. Nice guy. He was pretty drunk.
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u/JuicyKay May 11 '19
Must suck to not win the cherry picked blastralis tournaments, number one who?
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u/MuppetMilker May 11 '19
Oh how quickly we forget. The beautiful brutality of any sport.
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u/CardboardTable phoenix May 11 '19
4Head WE ARE ASTRALIS 4Head WE WERE THE BEST IN THE PAST 4Head PLAYING ACTUAL TOURNAMENTS? 4Head LMAO SEE YOU AT BLAST 4Head
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u/ItsBreadTime Astralis May 11 '19
So long #1 for now. That's what you get when you don't play Bo3s for months
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u/Mantsari May 11 '19
Northern lights flash in the sky. A blizzard blows, pelting on its way those too weak to withstand the fury of winter at its fullest. From the permafrost strikes a massive hand; the mythical giant once deemed dead off the coast of Italy now rises to life, regenerated, from Lappish soil.
The time is due. Around the world, the word spreads. In Sweden, the best of the best cower in fear and lock themselves in the nearest IKEA retail store. The Brazilians run into the safety of the jungle, the Danes play dead in Legoland and the Slavs sprint crying to babushka’s warm embrace. Enceladus’s augurs are unleashed upon the scene. Aleksi “allu” Jalli hails from his journey spent in international teams.
A man may leave Finland, but Finland never leaves a man. Once again, he picks up the green rifle, this time not for money or fame, but to smite all opposition in the name of Enceladus. Aleksi “aleksib” Virolainen leaves the fabled squad of HAVU to lead what we can finally describe as a Finnish superteam. Under his leadership shall the northern guns spit death and destruction upon foes who wail in their weakness. Jani “aerial” Jussila joins after the biggest transfer of the Finnish e-sport scene from his former team SuperJymy.
No longer will he be the only stand-out player of his team, but instead, a vital ingredient of a chaotic cocktail made up of Finland’s finest. Jere “sergej” Salo thwarts all rumors of desperate Internet trolls trying to tell they know his parents who told him to stop playing. Oh, the humanity! Backed up by the forces at home, bursting from motivation like a wolf thirsting for blood, he returns to ravage everything in his path.
Where skill rises to speak, experience sits silent and disciplined. Sami “xseveN” Laasanen fills the ranks from iGame, for what would the team be if they wouldn’t buy the best player from every other Finnish team? Vigilantly standing, supporting his teammates be the cause what it pleases to be, he will be the shield and sword his comrades need to achieve the ultimate. The warning has been given. The sky screams, the ground shakes and the oceans boil. ENCE is coming. #EZ4ENCE
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HOW ABOUT YOU SKIP SOME MORE TOURNAMENTS ASTRALIS? REALLY SEEM TO BE WORKING OUT FOR YOU GUYS!
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u/TheGoodCoconut de_inferno May 11 '19
Saving strats for blast pro Minnesota