Astralis add JUGi to CSGO roster Astralis\/HLTVOut of nowhere, Astralis announced they\u2019ve signed Danish player Jakob \u2018JUGi\u2019 Hansen as their CSGO squad\u2019s seventh player, effective immediately. JUGi had been playing with North since signing in May 2019, but things never really clicked and he was benched in January of 2020. After not playing competitive CSGO for several months, the AWPer has now found a new home at Astralis, according to TV 2 Sport, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019ll be replacing any of their starters. JUGi was one of the hottest new names in CSGO in 2015 and 2016, in part because of his raw skill on the AWP, which you can see a clip of above. He spent time on Optic in 2018 before being picked up by North in 2019, but for whatever reason, he\u2019s never become the star that he seemed destined to be all those years ago. It\u2019s a bit of a strange move by Astralis, who typically sign high-profile, marketable players, while JUGi has remained fairly low-profile throughout his career. Astralis recently signed Patrick \u2018es3tag\u2019 Hansen from Heroic as a sixth player to fill out their roster, so as the team\u2019s seventh player, JUGi will probably spend most of his time on the bench in a backup role. The organization already has veteran AWP legend Nicolai \u201cdev1ce\u201d Reedtz in their starting squad, so the chances of JUGi seeing playtime while he\u2019s available are slim, but we\u2019ve seen stranger things happen. CSGO is a 5v5 game, and teams typically don\u2019t mess with their starting five for a variety of reasons, the main one being team cohesion and how comfortable players are with one another, which means it could be some time before JUGi sees the spotlight. Neither Astralis or JUGi has commented on the reported pickup yet, but it will be very interesting to see what the Danish esports org ends up doing with their newly expanded roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astralis add JUGi to CSGO roster Astralis\/HLTVOut of nowhere, Astralis announced they\u2019ve signed Danish player Jakob \u2018JUGi\u2019 Hansen as their CSGO squad\u2019s seventh player, effective immediately. JUGi had been playing with North since signing in May 2019, but things never really clicked and he was benched in January of 2020. After not playing competitive CSGO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}