Burnout is not new to the game, but for a lineup that for the greater part of the past three years has remained atop the HLTV rankings, it is. It has been an ongoing issue the past few years, with the Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association enacting a player break period and marking off part of the calendar for players to recuperate. The game is noted for having back-to-back competitions and struggling to balance an event calendar when so many unrelated parties are involved. Success in Counter-Strike has long been tenuous.
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Read more: VALORANT's early pro scene similar to Overwatch's start | Can Riot Games strike gold twice with VALORANT? The Danish lineup that won the past three Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major championships will look far different come their next competition. The past two weeks, two of the starting Astralis players, Lukas "gla1ve" Egholm Rossander and Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth, have taken leave, citing burnout as a primary reason for their departures.
After the team signed es3tag to a forward contract, they were mired in controversy, with his former team, Heroic, threatening litigation. The team has worked to add two new players to the roster, Patrick "es3tag" Hansen and Jakob "JUGi" Hansen, but there was backlash. As the coronavirus pandemic has caused turbulent change across the world, it has been a turbulent few months for Astralis. As Astralis stood on stage at the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in late February in Katowice, Poland, one of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's most successful teams stared out into an empty arena.Īlthough no cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed in Poland at that time, concerns around COVID-19 spreading at big events quickly put a halt to live attendance at esports competitions.
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