It was peak Astralis time with the Danes destroying all opposition left and right. Christopher ‘GeT_RiGhT‘ Alesund was still playing for NIP, while MIBR fielded more Americans than Cloud9! Do you remember December 2018?
It’s 1276 days ago, since the BLAST circuit visited Lisbon for the BLAST Pro Series Lisbon event. Here Astralis ended up winning the event after making a flawless run in the group stage, where all six teams faced each other. In the Grand Final Astralis defeated NAVI 2-1 to take home another title and a $125.000 paycheck.
At this year’s event, Astralis is not even qualified. But that is not the only thing, that has changed. Just take a look at the lineups of the six teams, that took part in the tournament.
Astralis (1st):
{cflag:DK} Peter ‘dupreeh‘ Rasmussen
{cflag:DK} Emil ‘Magisk‘ Reif
{cflag:DK} Nicolai ‘device’ Reedtz
{cflag:DK} Lukas ‘gla1ve‘ Rossander
{cflag:DK} Andreas ‘Xyp9x‘ Højsleth
NAVI (2nd):
{cflag:UA} Aleksandr ‘s1mple‘ Kostyliev
{cflag:RU} Egor ‘flamie’ Vasilyev
{cflag:RU} Denis ‘electroNic‘ Sharipov
{cflag:UA} Ioann ‘Edward’ Sukhariev
{cflag:UA} Danylo ‘Zeus’ Teslenko
Cloud9 (3rd):
{cflag:US} William ‘RUSH’ Wierzba
{cflag:FR} Fabien ‘kioShiMa’ Fiey
{cflag:SE} Robin ‘flusha‘ Rönnquist
{cflag:US} Timothy ‘autimatic’ Ta
{cflag:DK} Ismail ‘refrezh’ Ali
MIBR (4th):
{cflag:BR} Marcelo ‘coldzera‘ David
{cflag:US} Braxton ‘swag’ Pierce
{cflag:US} Jake ‘Stewie2K’ Yip
{cflag:BR} Gabriel ‘FalleN‘ Toledo
{cflag:US} Tarik ‘tarik’ Celik
FaZe (5th):
{cflag:BA} Nikola ‘NiKo‘ Kovač
{cflag:DK} Finn ‘karrigan‘ Andersen
{cflag:SK} Ladislav ‘GuardiaN‘ Kovács
{cflag:SE} Olof ‘olofmeister‘ Kajbjer
{cflag:NO} Håvard ‘rain’ Nygaard
Ninjas in Pyjamas (6th):
{cflag:SE} Dennis ‘dennis’ Edman
{cflag:SE} Fredrik ‘REZ’ Sterner
{cflag:SE} Christopher ‘GeT_RiGhT’ Alesund
{cflag:SE} Jonas ‘Lekr0’ Olofsson
{cflag:SE} Patrik ‘f0rest‘ Lindberg
This year’s edition will start on Wednesday when the tournament favorites from FaZe will take on paiN. There is $425,000 in prize pool with $200,000 going for the winner.
