Astralis\u2019 crazy Nuke streak reaches incredible milestone ESLThe Astralis era of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive shows no sign of coming to an end as the team passes another incredible milestone. Astralis have been the dominant force in CS:GO for over a year now, during which time they\u2019ve won twelve offline events, including back-to-back Major victories, and never gone more than one event without a title. The squad are now widely considered the greatest team in the history of CS:GO. While there are obviously a lot of factors that go into such an insane run of success, one has been the team\u2019s absolute dominion over Nuke. Following a victory over the ex-3DMAX team at the ESL Pro League Season 9 group stage, Astralis has now won 30 offline games on Nuke since their last defeat on the map. To put Astralis\u2019 streak into perspective, another classic map win streak was that of the Brazilian SK Gaming on Train when they were the number one team in 2016. That streak \u2013 which was broken by Astralis themselves, incidentally \u2013 ended at 17 maps. 30 NUKE WINS IN A ROW! And with that, we take home the 2-0 win vs. ex-3DMAX, good game! See you back here tomorrow for more #ESLProLeague action :uk:#ToTheStars pic.twitter.com\/XyDbhs8r9L \u2014 Astralis (@astralisgg) April 23, 2019 Astralis\u2019 second streak While Astralis\u2019 Nuke streak is their longest and therefore gets the most attention, it\u2019s not the only map on which they\u2019ve wracked up an incredible run of victories. The team has also won their last 18 offline games on Inferno. While the number might not be quite as incredible as their Nuke streak, Astralis\u2019 unbeaten Inferno run is an enormous achievement in itself and arguably speaks to their dominance even more so than the Nuke stat. Nuke is much less popular as a home map for most top teams, whereas almost every elite hopeful is comfortable playing Inferno. Read more: Dekay on CS:GO: Top five inactive players – That Astralis can maintain such an incredible record on their second-best map, despite routinely playing it against other top-5 teams, is indicative of just how far above the rest of the competition Astralis are right now. Astralis\u2019 map pool buffed by Valve? If Astralis\u2019 map pool wasn\u2019t formidable enough over the last year of competition, it\u2019s possible that it could be set to become even more so. Valve recently announced a change to the active competitive pool that introduced Vertigo, a map never before seen in professional play, removing Cache to do so. While it remains to be seen whether Astralis will integrate Vertigo into their own map pool \u2013 and how strong they might be on it if they do so \u2013 the removal of Cache can certainly do them no harm, as it has long been their default ban. So far the Astralis era has shown little sign of coming to an end, and at the very least it seems challengers cannot rely on a map pool change taking away one of Astralis\u2019 strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astralis\u2019 crazy Nuke streak reaches incredible milestone ESLThe Astralis era of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive shows no sign of coming to an end as the team passes another incredible milestone. Astralis have been the dominant force in CS:GO for over a year now, during which time they\u2019ve won twelve offline events, including back-to-back Major victories, and […]<\/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-37312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312","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=37312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}