Description
The Heroic Astralis drama that dominated social media and HLTV forums started a soap opera in competitive counter-strike. Stavn and Jabbi joined Astralis to create a “super team” which never got off the starting line. Recently, the Danish move was to drop IGL BlameF and announced that multiple Major winning MVP dev1ce would take up IGL duties. The announcement was met with shock and concern by the CS trolls. However, a few top tournaments in the small sample size would point towards this… working? On this episode of Feed The Trolls I’m joined by @Thooorin & SPUNJ (yeah, these two reunited again, old school analyst desk vibes) to weigh in on dev1ce as an IGL. How did Astralis get to this point, could it work and what are the potential pitfalls?
While we’re here we also weigh in on the recent rumours that ex-Heroic IGL Cadian may be getting the ex from Team Liquid and where he might go. From the role of the IGL in and out the server, the origins story of dev1ce and BlameF’s exit from Astralis to focusing on what the future looks like for competitive Counter-Strike as a whole - there is a lot to sink your teeth into with this episode.
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0:00 Intro and why we think dev1ce is great
06:05 The dev1ce origins story
11:45 the fall of BlameF
25:36 Addressing the negative response to dev1ce being announced as Astralis IGL
30:51 Do we buy into the dev1ce as IGL?
32:08 Taking a look at the Astralis team roles now
34:11 Potential downfalls of dev1ce as IGL
38:44 What does Cadian do now? Where to from here?
40:59 Are the Astralis players with dev1ce good enough?
48:53 Will we ever see another dominant counter-strike run like the Astralis of old?
58:28 Ruggah as Astralis coach
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