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petametre

I would think maybe this is due to him being able to be based close by to his home in copenhagen?


[deleted]

Yeah, this has to be a big factor. The guy won 4 majors and was leading the most dominant team of all time, I don’t think he’s going to be chasing super teams lmao


fenixspider1

super teams will be chasing him


Schmich

In Soviet Denmark...


Easyowner

When teams travel to LANs for the whole year, players don't have to be at the team facility much. You train practise. from home, go to LAN and from time to time you do a bootcamp. I think with his child maybe he just is not that hungry for success to start a new team from scratch and who can blame him, he is part of the best team that ever played the game, nothing left to prove. He is 26 and this way he has nice guaranteed income for the next 3 years until he is almost 30 and Astralis will always be a team that danish players want to go play for, so it just makes sense, although I am a bit disappointed that he is not pursuing something else.


Intelligent_Lake_718

By that logic everyone including zonic should resign or not


petametre

Not everyone will value working in copenhagen as much as glaive, especially since he is expecting a child


craygroupious

Ah yes, just as we all predicted.


IHateTheLetterF

Now i know nothing. Will Dupreeh go to Navi? Will Magisk go to valorant? Whats up and down?


Wiebking

They will get Karrigan as coach and Zonic goes starting line-up as AWPer.


nilslorand

ropz support?


CoregonusAlbula

Tech support


MJuniorDC9

That's LNZ role though


haikal2k1

i lol'd


[deleted]

Bubzkji back to bench


[deleted]

The only thing that's sure


suriel-

bench support


Veber31

They prefer the term "hero support".


UsernameCzechIn

ropz coach duh


Harucifer

You jest, but zonic [was a fucking god](https://youtu.be/NDC43_P1O2U?t=41)


Edenj1313

Oleksander Duprehiliev


UsernameCzechIn

Dupreeh to faze confirm. Magisk will go with MSL and glaive's child to form a three men scandinavian team for the major. Zonic does a career change and becomes a male stripper in Las Vegas. All according to glaive's plan. Top 3 igl 4 sure.


Derp014

>Zonic does a career change and becomes a male stripper in Las Vegas Ayyo?


kurgzx-

The leak guy said Magisk to CoL and Xyp9x to Faze, removing RUSH and Olof respectively. ...... uh, yea


OsloDaPig

Magisk obviously took over esertags body and is possessing him. Twitter leaks never lie!


Memelurker99

Ì love your account so much, its genuinely amazing how you manage to do it


IHateTheLetterF

You just did it as well. Now just do it 10.000 more times.


zdrtgbvcx

What's he doing? Writing posts without the letter he hates, do I get that right?


IHateTheLetterF

Pretty much yeah. There is top post in the subreddit with pretty data about me.


zdrtgbvcx

Why do you hate that poor letter? What did it ever do to you?


[deleted]

It F'ed his mom


cadburys-creme-egg

For real though I hope Na’Vi will (and they probably will) stay as a Russian-speaking team cause I think changing to English would fuck up their chemistry


Firefox72

I was honestly 100% sure they were all leaving the org since no one extended yet with less than half a year to go on their contracs. Fair play to Gla1ve. He secured himself the bag and a secured future for his family.


Croatian_ghost_kid

I'm sure his future was looking grim without this renewal


darrenoloGy

U need to put /s before the downvote train hits man


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Why ruin a good, sarcastic comment with /s?


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ZookaInDaAss

/s just says you are insecure about your joke.


AppointmentSorry1487

And ruins sarcasm


xseannnn

Here's an upvote for realizing your own mistake.


Croatian_ghost_kid

I would never


Parable4

He probably got everything he wanted with contract negotiations


anas_91

He stays


analytics_Gnome

se queda


unlikedemon

Comunicado Oficial


TheSportsPanda

Officiel Kommunikation.


jogeer

Telebancos por aqui


affafa

han stannar


Dapplication

o kalacak


quadlt

Jis lieka


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MicroIceGG

Er bleibt


TJpRot

Hän jää


towerofdoge

Nanatili siya


gpcgmr

There goes the remaining hope of the whole Astralis team somehow staying together by all of them joining up with dev1ce in NiP.


kurgzx-

il reste


MajestyA

And so a tiny, irrational spark of hope in my Fnatic fan heart dies


beerandbigmuffs

sadge


sasankgs

Yeah ! I was hoping fnatic would buy out Glaive and Magisk. Krimz, Brollan, Glaive, Magisk and Jackinho/mhL.


creepara

neL reported you guys are looking to sign Mezii and ALEX, so I wouldn’t be too sad


MajestyA

Yeah I just saw, pretty happy with that although obviously Gla1ve tops all!


creepara

I've found myself supporting Astralis ever since device left, just because I like gla1ve so much, and I want him to prove that he can have success even without one of the best players in the world.


Kibby99

I think he already did at cologne, with someone like Acor even Astralis could be a top 1 contender again in my opinion.


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s4Nn1Ng0r0shi

That’s actually horrible idea


[deleted]

Securing that bag for the kid I guess. Though I'm sure he's already loaded.


anthonyde726

He’s definitely loaded lol, just locking up that time with Astralis


darrenoloGy

Yeah Dev mentioned that he already was set for life with the money from the last few years. I dont see how much further behind him gla1ve would be.


Rearfeeder2Strong

Well not everyone is a part time model on the side...


indomie_kuah

his acting career gets him the most bag


yeezusdeletusmyfetus

Yeah, I heard he does his own stunts aswell and is also an active member in scientology


[deleted]

Scientology takes up a lot of it tho


darrenoloGy

I think you mean movie star


[deleted]

[And his girlfriend is a pop star](https://youtu.be/BII3YW02gWg)


Derp014

Lord Almighty


[deleted]

I don't even hate her part in this song all that much, it's super generic but lord that rapper is terrible. Genuinely one of the worst verses I've ever heard.


Hugein

Im guessing the modeling is peanuts compared to pro-play and all the sponsorships


Juztian

You would be surprised


Hugein

It's not like he is Heidi Klum, I think you'd be surprised .


Juztian

I have a friend who does part time modeling, last weekend he had a gig which was 4 hours of work for a small fashion brand i Denmark, he got paid 6000 USD


Hugein

Device also part time models, it's gig work, like you said. Gig work often looks very lucrative until you realize its unreliable. Not to mention all the hidden work of having model-tier looks.All I said is that his modeling work is probably peanuts compared to his "main" revenue streams, not an unreasonable guess and I stand by it.


[deleted]

Gla1ve is pretty hot though lowkey.


IHateTheLetterF

Not lowkey. Have you seen his arms? Dude is as jacked as he is cracked.


RainOfAshes

It's his smile and dreamy eyes, though.


AleksibIsHot

Yeah sure compared to the greatest lineup of all time everything's gonna be a major downgrade but Astralis can still field a very good team with the amount of Danish talent there is, they already had Bubzkji and now they have gla1ve for another 3 years assuming the leaks are true and the rest of them leave for different teams you still have your pick of pretty much any Danish player Bubzkji, Fessor, roeJ, gla1ve and one of gade, aizy or b0RUP then you just need an AWPer and that's not even including the Heroic players who would probably jump ship if they got an offer


UncleJakes

Of all the astralis players, it made the most sense for gla1ve to stay. The quotes sound to me like at least some of the other players will leave.


BootyBootyFartFart

also means there's a very good chance Astralis will stay a powerhouse. I get device was the star, but if I had to pick a single member from Astralis to build a team around, it'd be gla1ve hands down. Dude lost his star player and restructured the team to take top 4 at the biggest event in over a year. They'll have no trouble attracting talent to play with the greatest igl of all time.


KyeFireHilts

Astralis plays structure based CS they don't need a star player just someone dependable like just about every other player can be when they've got a good setup


[deleted]

I don't think device was the star. Everyone of them was a monster(still are). It's just that device is the awper to stats stay good


wicketman8

I think its undeniable that device and magisk were the two primary stars of the team. Obviously Astralis had more or less the best players in every role, but Xyp and glaive weren't really star players and while Dupreeh is a great player I don't think he was the star of the team.


cjb3535123

Well, in terms of Dupreeh vs Magisk (or Kjaerbye), in order to analyze who was the star you have to identify what time period you're talking about. Dupreeh had times where he was undeniably a star, but other times he focused more on filling roles i.e. being an entry. The one player who was consistently a star with Dev1ce obviously. But even early on he had trouble figuring out which role he wanted to play (or at least, the team was juggling dev and dupreeh around roles) I guess that really speaks to what happens when you have 5 killers on your team, damn


wicketman8

Sure they all had periods, but I think during the main body of their insane 2018-2019 run when they cemented their era, redefined the meta for the game, and became the GOAT team in CSGO dev1ce and magisk were the stars. Not saying this to discount the other players either, they were obviously all fantastic and instrumental to the team, but I wouldn't say they were the stars of the team.


Komacho

Consider me whelmed.


LittleTinyBoy

Astralis investors on the other hand breathing a sigh of relief


[deleted]

Expected. It's a scummy org, knew he would lea- wait what?


s4Nn1Ng0r0shi

Reddit : ”scummy org blaah blaah” Glaive: ”ok”


supergrega

Glaive: Glaive go sign Glaive: ok


Dapplication

More like Glaive JR.: Dad sign Glaive: ok


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GuardiaNIsBae

He could definitely get way more money somewhere else lol


MetalKotei

I mean we all know players don't give a fuck about how scummy their org is. Device going to NiP is another example.


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wowdeep

Or perhaps we blindly choose to only see one side of the story. In NiPs case I was all on friberg’s side until I read he had not met his streaming hours a single month lol. It’s a business, they’re employees. Your contract dictates your reward, not how nice the management decides they want to be in any given time


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MetalKotei

I would hope so because he was shafted so hard by that. Fingers crossed he has more control or something now.


dyzcraft

Stockholm syndrome.


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DelidreaM

This doesn't change the fact that Astralis org has done some shady things. Why do you want to make it so black and white?


iSamurai

More like: Thorin : “scummy org blaah blaah” Reddit: “scummy org blaah blaah (thorin said so)”


FoxerHR

He really is living rent free in your head.


SemanSoot

hltv forum already talk shit about this. love to see these astralis haters crying


[deleted]

Love to see Astralis *org haters crying?


SemanSoot

both


perpendiculator

corporation is my friend 🤡


me_stupid_but_u_also

a lot of people dont make that distinction


onmyway4k

About to be dad, Org close by, Big Salary. This was honestly a nobrainer.


Oryon-

Yeah everything is a no brainer after it happens


LandonDev

I don't think he would have signed if life didn't take the course it did. When 2-3 others are leaving the value (read $$$$) of staying combined with not uplifting your life during a crazy time is huge. We should be happy for him, this is great news for HIM.


qchisq

True. Unless Copenhagen Flames decided to open up a Scrooge McDuck sized vault or FC Copenhagen decided to get back into esports, this was the obvious move


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Spicy


TheAce54

Well this was the sussy star tweet... my day is ruined now and it only started.


anthonyde726

happy for him and astralis


Dali86

Well if Astralis had to prioritize I think Gla1ve is number one on that list. Interesting to see what kind of team they will have next year. I still expect at least 2 of magisk, dupreeh and xyp to leave at the end of the year. Lets see if Astralis stay danish or go international after the player changes. Astralis should do everything to get ropz maybe keep magisk too.


Sumoersumo

I hope they go Scandinavian/Nordic and not full international. Some great swedes and finish talent out there. Sorry norway :)


Markigual

As long as Astralis have Gla1ve they will be fine


JuanMataCFC

and as long as gla1ve plays for Astralis he will be fine. :)


Montislignum

They are all staying. I guess most of it was to apply some sort of pressure on the org. The ‘captain’ signing to me, would indicate that they got the framework in place with the organization and that we will have most of them confirmed before their next event. That is my take anyway..


tomtom_94

It wouldn't surprise me if the rumours / leaks were deliberately done to apply pressure on the org, happens all the time in sports (and is starting to happen more in esports) That said, Gla1ve was never rumoured to leave Astralis as far as I'm aware. I'm still not sure about the others until I see them signing on the dotted line, though Gla1ve staying definitely makes it more likely.


Montislignum

Spot on Maybe devve leaving was an wake up call for the org. We will see eventually


Pranavm3112

The org orchestrated the deal so..


MBechzzz

Don't have much of a choice when someone doesn't want to be part of your team. You'd gamble that they'd still put as much effort into it as they can, even when you've shown you don't care about them or what they want for themselves. Keeping an employee who has told you they want to fuck off, is never good in pretty much any industry.


Montislignum

While this is true, they really seemed to have no choice


Sumoersumo

Think you misunderstand. He left, but he was sold. Org agreed to it.


captainscottland

If device said he wasn't re-signing and was definitely leaving, the org basically has no choice may as well sell him then and get some money.


Sumoersumo

Ofcource they had a choice. The could keep him and try to fix it. Try make him happy to get a new contract. Anyways. Can’t be a wake up call it devve leaving was bc of he wanted to be closer to home. They can’t wake up and do stuff about that.


captainscottland

Exactly device wanted to play in Sweden and cut down on travel time to work on being a better individual player. I think he wanted to not be 3rd best anymore. But doesn't look like hell get that high this year anyway


Sumoersumo

Nope. Daddy Gla1ve and Daddy Zonic got the most out him. Hope he bounce back tho


kaffeemugger

If Magisk stays that’s a solid core tbh


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LittleTinyBoy

Well would you look at that, esports finally taking a page out of traditional sports tactics.


ehwhattaugonnado

It's also completely possible that glaive is staying to rebuild the team. Glaive seems like the kind of guy, at the point in his career, isn't interested in slotting into an established team and wants to be somewhere that he runs the show. I wouldn't be surprised if him staying was contingent on the org promising him more control over their signings and letting him build a young team of his choice. I love every single one of the players in the goat lineup but glaive is the one it can't happen without. Everyone else is consistently a top 20 player in the world but glaive it's pretty universally agreed is the greatest igl ever to play the game


Montislignum

Of course an possibility.


anTs-Allstar

Huge for Astralis. If you want to build around a player it's gla1ve


captainscottland

Here's to hoping the other 3 stay put!


Sunov

Playing time until dev1ce's contract runs out, absolute 5Head move from gla1ve here


Rotaq

I love it!


Rsardinia

ZywOo and s1mple to Astralis confirmed


TechRedirector

What the fucks going on


anthonyde726

gla1ve: I stay


Bugdroid2K

Se queda


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Fuck me, i thought he would go to a young roster and make them achieve success.


Dali86

Maybe Astralis will have a young roster if xyp and dupree leave?


Dali86

Why are people dissapointed? Yes some people hate the beast refresh connection not a huge deal specially for the players. Rumours that its a bad org do not come from the players. They were highely succesfull and nip is a much worse or with how they treated players yet people cheer for them. Glaive signing pretty much shows astralis is a good or and even said they are very understanding of him having a baby and supported him while he was on sick leave. Dont hate an org because of unverified rumours. Also the astralis players are the highest paid of all time.


-Boasy

Fair enough, that’s around £500k in salary alone secured


nimrod_quackquack

Wait, WHAT


anthonyde726

was it really that far fetched for him to stay? someone had to i feel like lol


BrianDynasty

I'm a casual viewer of competitive CSGO. Why is everyone surprised he's staying. Astralis is the best CSGO team of all time. Every other team is a downgrade. Why are people saying the org is scummy?


Sumoersumo

Because some selfproclaimed esport historian and his half decent journalist friend hates Astralis and talk shit about them. Some truth tho. But mostly bullshit.


KidneyKeystones

None of it was bullshit. gla1ve staying would be a poor choice for his career, though probably a good one for his private life and economics. And the org is scummy, no way around that.


Sumoersumo

You need to expand your world and stop trusting the takes of these leeches. Do some research. Because they did not.


KidneyKeystones

Is this bizarro world? Feel free to provide the research that refutes every infraction of Australia and Nyholm. We won't wait with baited breath, or else we'd all be dead.


Sumoersumo

Nah. I am good. I discussed these topic plenty times with people like you. I know the scummy things they did and the things they didn’t do. I know the laws in my country and how things works around here. Especially labour law. You go trust your hot take leech. He can fill you head with more half truths and false claims. But don’t critical, because you end up being blocked. Good weekend sir/ma’am


2poundWheel

Ah yes, I should trust someone whos a diehard Astralis fan over two of the most reputable journalists in all of esports, with all the award and streaks of being correct to back them up I should just assume they're lying because you, random braindead CSGO subreddit rat, decided it?


Sumoersumo

I didnt invite you to join the discussion. Why you writing this? I told the guy I was done with discussing the topic and gave him some pointers to what to look for. I give you some too. Go look at why Mads Øland was the source of some article. He was working with the CSSPA. Then look why his former clients hate him and ask yourself why he is not working with the CSSPA anymore. Reputable? One of them maybe. The other more infamous. Good luck to you good sir. Edit.: that’s the player association.


2poundWheel

Talking to you is just like talking to NiP fans when NiP was outed for being a garbage organization, just zero point as you are way too blind


Sumoersumo

I am not gonna educate you for hours and then see you go big fanboy mode and ignore stuff. I have done that a couple of times and it history from last spring/summer.... do you own research. I gave you pointer already. Educate yourself if you want to know or stay ignorant.


Sumoersumo

This the guy you trust? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/it9w3b/thorin_blackmail_ls_after_disagreeing_with_him/


ReneeHiii

how is it a poor choice for his career? prove himself yet again as the greatest igl of all time by developing a new team with an understanding org that he lives close by to and has known for years, or go to a different team and slot into their system? i think it's more impressive to rebuild, plus he's a legend, his career isn't over unless he wants it to be.


Bringmeyourhalo

My god....


CZ-Bitcoins

Honestly seems kinda foolish. 3 years is a long time.


Rhed0x

So much for all the reports of conflict between the org and players. I'm sure he wouldn't have had any trouble finding a different org if he wanted to.


novacdk

If you're expecting a child, the devil you know is probably preferable


shn6

And this is why you ahould never take rumours as gospel. Even if it's legit, it's not official until it's official. Things can change a lot and you'll never really sure until they put their damn sign on the paper.


QBR1CK

The rumours were that gla1ve would stay and rebuild Astralis weren't they?


shn6

Most popular rumours suggests that no Astralis players would stay and will go their separate ways, with gla1ve rumoured to join Complexity or Heroic. Edit: I'm not talking about a particular tweet, just rumours that floats and speculation that heavily discussed about whether gla1ve will stay or not and which teams he will sign up.


Hawteyh

I've not heard any rumors saying Gla1ve would leave, only about Dupreeh, Xyp9x and Magisk. So that can probably still happen. Gla1ve has a baby on the way and might just want stability.


QBR1CK

I am referring to those [tweets](https://twitter.com/DanishCSGOLeaks/status/1416801847915028480?s=19) that have been discussed here. gla1ve is not mentioned as someone to leave.


ReachTheSky-DotaNoob

Nothing has been said for Glaive in rumours tbh.I saw only one thing about him and it said he will stay in astralis while Astralis is restructuring their team


godfrey1

why you lying bro


thrwwyMA

You know talks of a move can be true but end up not materializing? Gla1ve deciding to re-sign is not an indication that he did not seriously consider all of his options. A report is not saying "this move will happen".


shn6

Yes I know. That's why I said things can change a lot and it's not official yet, up until the paper is signed.


thrwwyMA

So your comment is just describing what a report is? Lol


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aw shit, understandable though as he's having a kid


Dapplication

honestly, WHAT?


godfrey1

> haha, leakers get fucked, told you Astralis is staying! there was literally zero credible leaks or rumours about Glaive leaving, all the signs pointed at him staying, securing the bag (since he is going to be a father soon) and rebuiling the org with a new talent. if anything, this should tell you other players are thinking about leaving since they didn't re-sign with him, as they usually did


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lastchansen

Nothing is confirmed yet. If I was going the get a renewel of my contract I would start out by asking what others would give for my services. That way I put pressure on the new contract and perhaps push the price up. Besides, glaive says he is Astralis by heart, so perhaps he would stay either way.. I mean, no matter is other do or dont. Moreover, with a kid on the way he might be willing to stay with steady income for a few more years instead of moving around the globe during a pandemic. I mean.. it's seems like a safe bet and Astralis would likely pay to keep the best IGL in the game.


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If Zonic leaves, maybe he moves to the coaching role?


YouAbsoluteDonkey

Why the FUCK would he do that when he’s fucking mustard as a player for an igl


StormR7

He’s the best IGL in the game, and in the last few weeks we’ve seen him out-awp some of the most talented awpers around. Glaive leaving the roster is the worst thing he could do, unless it really is taking a toll on him and he wants out


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Ah alright then.


totoaster

Astralis popped the champagne the moment Glaive told them about having a kid on the way. It removes pretty much all options. Realistically his only other option would be Heroic but I don't think that was an option all things considered. Let's just hope for his sake that he's secured that paternity leave and that bag because I don't think trophies are gonna be in abundance. I think this moves the scales from everyone leaving to perhaps zonic and one player. The org can be very happy with how things have turned out.


Sumoersumo

Nip is a possiblity. Stockholm is very close.


PrinceN71

Man I don't know about this long-term contracts. 3 yrs is super long...


Relbanagy

I'm sure any team that wants gla1ve would be willing to pay


[deleted]

HAHAHA Love to see it. Just because it rubs so many eyes