The Danish e-sports team Astralis continues to win.
on Sunday secured the five Counter Striker-stars for the ninth time this year a major turneringstitel, since Team Liquid was defeated with 3-1 in the final at the ESL Pro League tournament in Odense.
With the victory follows a præmiecheck at a little over 1.6 million dollars.
But as if that was not enough, so was Astralis Sunday also the first team ever to win an Intel Grand Slam.
the way to do It by winning four titles within a span of ten tournaments in the ESL and Dreamhack).
The performance gives Astralis one million dollars, or what amounts to almost 6.6 million dollars in prize money.
Sunday was a very profitable day for Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen, Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth, Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander, Emil “Magic” Reif and trainer of Danny “zonic” Sørensen.
– We work so hard for it here each and ever single day, and I’m so happy and proud of what we have achieved in 2018 until further notice, says Lukas Rossander in a press release.
the Team, perhaps the greatest profile, Nicolai Reedtz, was also relieved and happy after the historic victory, there was Astralis’ first in Denmark.
We played in a completely wild setting and has been an absolutely fantastic support from the many attendees danes, who have supported us in both the semifinals and the finals.
– There have been so wild a mood for the whole weekend, and it’s so awesome to finally be able to take a victory on home soil, he says.
That was in the Sunday finale between Astralis and Team Liquid, which consists of players from the UNITED states, Canada and Brazil, played in a best of five maps.
Astralis started to lose first course 8-16, but answered promptly, back both to win the second and third course 16-11.
Thus had the danes just win one lane more to take the victory.
It did Astralis in convincing style on the subsequent orbit, which both received the five players and the 5000 spectators in the Sparekassen Fyn Arena in Odense to break out in wild cheers.
The five danes play in the coming weekend, the year’s last tournament, when Astralis put up in the Blast Pro Series in the Portuguese Lisbon.
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