Astralis star k0nfig admits to Malta fistfight: \u201cScared I was about to die\u201d Stephanie Lindgren\/BLASTDanish CS:GO star Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke has revealed that he feared for his life during an altercation in Malta that resulted in a complicated ankle fracture. k0nfig had to sit out last week\u2019s European RMR, the qualifying event for the upcoming IEM Rio Major, after fracturing his ankle in the lead-up to the tournament. News outlet Jaxon revealed shortly afterward that the injury had been the result of a scuffle with a nightclub promoter in Malta, where his Astralis team was staying for ESL Pro League Season 16. On October 10, Astralis announced that they had reached an agreement with k0nfig for the cancellation of his contract, in an effort to give the player \u201cspace and time\u201d to recover, according to Kasper Hvidt, the organization\u2019s Director of Sports. Despite initially labeling Jaxon\u2019s story \u201cmostly BS\u201d, k0nfig has now confirmed that he was involved in a fight that began when he was denied entrance into a nightclub in Paceville where was due to join his teammates. \u201cThe entrance of the nightclub was at the top of this staircase leading into the club,\u201d k0nfig wrote in a Twitlonger post. \u201cI walked up the staircase and asked the guy who appeared to be in charge if I could join my friends and explained that they had already gone in. \u201cInstead of just saying no, he dissed my tattoos and said that it was \u2018his fucking club\u2019 and that I was a \u201ctattooed loser\u201d and that there was no way he would let me in, except if I paid 5,000 euros for a table. He was aggressive and I felt humiliated so we got into an argument. \u201cI told him he was the loser for standing in a nightclub queue and feeling better than everyone else and then suddenly he spat me directly in my face and kicked me straight in my face. It made me fall down the stairs and sprain my foot.\u201d k0nfig added that, after sitting on the pavement outside the club, in a state of \u201ctotal shock\u201d and confusion, he spotted the nightclub promoter leaving the premises and chased after him. \u201cWhen I caught up with him, I said I would report it to the police and he immediately spat at me once again and cursed at me, which infuriated me,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got into a fight, and he broke my leg and I fell to the ground. He was kicking me multiple times in my head while I was laying down. I tried getting away from the situation but I couldn\u2019t because of the broken leg. I tried to run away but I couldn\u2019t put weight on my right leg. It just snapped and broke completely, dislocating my foot as well. He stopped kicking me because I dragged him down to me and I had to defend myself to make him stop kicking me. \u201cI was so scared that I was about to die. I remember feeling like I was watching my own body from above laying there.\u201d Looking back, k0nfig admitted that he \u201cterribly\u201d regrets the decision to confront the nightclub promoter again. \u201cI should have walked away,\u201d he said. \u201cI should have just gone home and licked my wounds because then none of this would have happened.\u201d k0nfig talks about his future Teamless and out of action for an undetermined period of time, k0nfig said that he has been \u201cin a really deep dark place\u201d since the incident. He returned to Denmark on September 22 and has since undergone two surgeries to fix his broken ankle. \u201cWhen I came home I broke down crying, I couldn\u2019t see the light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d k0nfig said. \u201cIt felt so fucking bad that I just wanted to delete everything and just give up. I couldn\u2019t stop crying. I was in my own bed feeling empty.\u201d k0nfig leaves Astralis after less than a year on the team, having been signed alongside Complexity teammate Benjamin \u2018blameF\u2019 Bremer in November 2021. The team has failed to live up to the hype generated by those two high-profile signings, with IEM Rio being the first Major that Astralis will miss since the organization was created, in 2016. One of the biggest \u2018what if\u2019 stories in the CS:GO scene, k0nfig is determined to return to action soon. He will start seeing a psychologist soon as he hopes to address some of the issues that have prevented him from realizing his potential. \u201cMy mindset is moving forward,\u201d he said. \u201cMoving forward but seeing the demon in the eyes. I\u2019m not going anywhere. I\u2019ll turn this downfall into something positive. \u201cThis is not who I am. I don\u2019t give up. I\u2019ll do what is needed to become the god-tier Counter-Strike player that I know I can be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astralis star k0nfig admits to Malta fistfight: \u201cScared I was about to die\u201d Stephanie Lindgren\/BLASTDanish CS:GO star Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke has revealed that he feared for his life during an altercation in Malta that resulted in a complicated ankle fracture. k0nfig had to sit out last week\u2019s European RMR, the qualifying event for the upcoming […]<\/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-37344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344","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=37344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}