Astralis

Lore & Background

Astralis' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team won their first Major at the ELEAGUE Major 2017. They won their second Major at the FACEIT Major: London 2018. They won their third Major at the IEM Katowice Major 2019. They won their fourth Major at the StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019, becoming the first CS:GO team to win three consecutive Majors and the first to achieve four Major wins total.

In Their Own Story

The arena in Berlin hummed with a low, electric buzz, the kind that settles into your chest before a grand final. On the stage, five jerseys in red and black sat in a quiet huddle, the crowd's roar reduced to a distant ocean sound behind the noise-cancelling headphones. Device spoke first, his voice flat and steady, breaking the next round into three beats: smoke B, flash mid, entry through the long. No one argued. No one needed to. They had run this play a thousand times in the LAN hotel, in the rain-slicked streets of Aarhus, in a hundred scrims where the only audience was the glow of five monitors. Magisk checked his AWP scope, dupreeh cycled his rifle, and the countdown on the screen ticked down. When the round started, they moved as one organism — five limbs of the same body — and the world outside the server ceased to matter. That was the Astralis way: not the loudest, not the flashiest, but the most inevitable.

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Did You Know?

• Astralis' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team holds the record for the most Major Championships won, with four.
• Astralis became the first CS:GO team to win three consecutive Majors, at the StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019.
• Astralis Group became the first esports organization to conduct an initial public offering.
• Nicolai 'dev1ce' Reedtz set the record for most MVP medals in Counter-Strike history with 18 during his tenure with Astralis.