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🎮Astralis

Denmark · Copenhagen, Denmark

Major honours

4Counter-Strike Majors
2018-2019Three straight Majors
Season 1 (first ever)Intel Grand Slam
MultipleBLAST Premier titles

Astralis is the most dominant dynasty Counter-Strike has ever produced. It was founded in 2016 when a group of Danish players left their existing organization to form a new, player-owned company, and after winning its first Major at ELEAGUE Atlanta in 2017, it swept FACEIT London in 2018 and both IEM Katowice and StarLadier Berlin in 2019 for four Major titles and three in a row. In the same stretch it became the first team to complete Intel Grand Slam Season 1. The team's strength was never individual talent alone but system: gla1ve's precise shot-calling and the whole team's utility discipline, especially repeatable set plays on Inferno and Nuke, that opponents could see coming and still not stop, while device's AWP turned that structure into points. Astralis's practice of keeping sports scientists and a psychologist on permanent staff also became the standard that every top organization later adopted.

Record comparison

World titles
4
Games with a world title
1
Career prize money (public record)
$10M+
Years since founding (2025)
9

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Club legends

devicegla1vedupreehXyp9xMagisk

Rivalry

The 2019 rivalry with Team Liquid defined the era. Liquid swept nearly every tournament that summer, yet fell apart whenever it faced Astralis, and the head-to-head record between the two became shorthand for the dynasty's psychological edge.

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