Astralis coach Danny zonic Sorensen said winning the StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 was one of the most enjoyable moments in club history. He explained that before the tournament his team had a recession, however, she still came prepared to the major.

“Of course, we did not plan that over the past six months we’ll lose our form and begin to lose tournaments, and then suddenly we will win the major. But majors have always been our main goal. At the beginning of the year, the guys were completely exhausted, so we decided to change the structure of our training. This was done in preparation for the tournaments that are truly important to us. I don’t think that our failure was so strong – we still went far at most events. But the major meant too much for us, victory on it became one of the most enjoyable for the whole time of our game in Astralis. ”

Astralis is a four-time Valve Tournament Winner. In addition to the major in Berlin, she won Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII – Katowice Major 2019, FACEIT Major – London 2018 and The ELEAGUE Major 2017.

Before the start of StarLadder Major, the Danish team dropped to second place in the world ranking of teams from HLTV.org. Astralis previously held leadership in it for over a year.

Now the lineup is playing at ESL One New York 2019. In the first match of the group stage, he defeated OpTic Gaming with a score of 2: 0. The tournament prize pool is $ 200 thousand.