The Danish Counter-Strike team Astralis has this past year, almost wading from success to success, and it can be read on both earnings and world ranking.
And in relation to the latter rounded out the team Tuesday, a historic milestone.
As the first team ever, the team has taken the top of the world rankings uninterrupted for a year, and it awakens the pride of the Danish stjernemandskab.
– It is a big achievement. Just to reach the first place was great, we now have been sitting firmly on it in a year, says sports director Kasper White.
the Team’s in-game leader Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander, is in line with his sports director.
– It is a wild feeling. It is not because it is something that we as such have thought about or talked about, but now when it has happened, it is nevertheless a performance, we are insanely proud of.
– There are so many tough opponents in CS:GO (Counter-Strike, red.), and yet we have managed to keep them behind us in a whole year in a row, he says.
The Swedish NIP teams managed in the period up to march 2013, winning 87 matches in a row, but at that time there were world rankings don’t.
The current MIBR-manpower has, under previous owners has been number one in 49 weeks in total – but no more than 23 weeks in a row.
Astralis itself has previously had 25 weeks in a row in the lead of the world ranking, drawn up by the hltv.org.
Instantly, the team has 1000 points, while the nearest pursuers from the Team Liquid and Navi have respectively 617 and 537 points.
But despite the solid guidance it can quickly turn, warns Astralis’ trainer, Danny “zonic” Sørensen.
– A year on the first place is historic, and we are well aware of, but for us it is just about to continue the work, for if we rest the least on our laurels, we will be overtaken.
the Competition has rarely been tougher, and teams from all over the world are queuing up to be the ones who beats us to the throne. However, they must fight hard for it, I promise, ” he says.
Astralis was founded in January 2016, and the team has retrieved no less than of 42.7 million dollars in prize money.
the Next task for the team is 11.-12. may, where it stands on the Blast Pro Series in Madrid.
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