dev1ce confirms when gla1ve and Xyp9x will return for Astralis ESLIt\u2019s been the question on every Astralis fan\u2019s lips \u2014 when will gla1ve and Xyp9x return? After weeks of speculation, veteran AWPer Nicolai \u2018dev1ce\u2019 Reedtz has finally put the rumors to rest on when his team mates should be lining up again. Lukas \u2018gla1ve\u2019 Rossander and Andreas \u2018Xyp9x\u2019 Hojsleth took a step back from Counter-Strike at the end of May due to \u201cburnout and stress.\u201d In the weeks since, the practices behind closed doors at Astralis have come under criticizing from some. However, most fans of the four-time Major winners have been wondering when they\u2019ll see their stars back together again. The organization has been tight lipped about when the two will eventually return, citing anywhere from three months to the end of the year. However, dev1ce has said that we can expect one of them, at least, to return soon. Speaking on the HLTV Confirmed podcast, the star AWPer said that gla1ve will be making his return in a couple of months. But, in terms of Xyp9x, there\u2019s no set date. \u201cGla1ve\u2019s return is planned for August. Xyp9x\u2019s return is not planned. That\u2019s all I can say. I don\u2019t know when in August gla1ve will return, but it\u2019s in August,\u201d he said. He did say the date needed to be taken with a grain of salt though. Everything is tentative, and dev1ce didn\u2019t want to put any undue pressure on his teammates to return too soon. \u201cIt\u2019s hard sometimes, with these situations, because a date can put even more stress on the matter. You actually want to handle the situation and then slowly put people into things again.\u201d He referenced his own experience back in 2017, where dev1ce missed several events after IEM Oakland due to illness. \u201cFor my own point of view, I kind of got thrown into things again, and it\u2019s an issue you have to be really careful with, because you can pressure people too hard again, and then you\u2019ll have an even harder time coming back.\u201d Astralis, as an organization, has made it clear that in the future they want to build a 10-man squad. They\u2019ve already signed former North player JUGi and Heroic\u2019s es3tag to start the foundations, and are on the lookout for more players. However, their motives have been called into question, with sources behind closed doors criticizing the way Astralis\u2019 management has handled player burnout in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
dev1ce confirms when gla1ve and Xyp9x will return for Astralis ESLIt\u2019s been the question on every Astralis fan\u2019s lips \u2014 when will gla1ve and Xyp9x return? After weeks of speculation, veteran AWPer Nicolai \u2018dev1ce\u2019 Reedtz has finally put the rumors to rest on when his team mates should be lining up again. Lukas \u2018gla1ve\u2019 Rossander […]<\/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-38051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38051","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=38051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}