Danish team Astralis ended their performance at the BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 Showdown tournament, losing to mousesports in the quarterfinals. Although Astralis had several opportunities to turn the game around throughout the match, they failed to do so and were defeated on both maps, Overpass with a score of 16 – 19 and Train with a score of 5 – 16. In the next match, mousesports will face ENCE Sports and fight to reach the finals.
After replacing two players, Astralis has been performing poorly: since Andreas «Xyp9x» Heuslet and Lukas «gla1ve» Rossander decided to stop playing for a few months, the team has won only one match out of four. Following their initial setbacks at the BLAST Premier Spring, the players issued a message to fans asking them not to expect immediate success. They reminded us that it will take time for the new roster to reach its former level. CS:GO analyst Duncan «Thorin» Shields was critical of the announcement, calling the team «narcissistic» due to the fact that they demand understanding from players despite losing.
Meanwhile, Astralis decided to skip the cs_summit 6 tournament, hoping to return to good form for the next competition.
