Dupreeh reveals why Astralis chose Vertigo vs Liquid at CSGO Berlin Major StarLadderAfter a 2-0 victory over the world\u2019s best CS:GO team in Team Liquid, Astralis\u2019 Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen spoke with Frankie Ward and Dexerto about their surprising map pick, their desire to win another major, and the secret to becoming the best team. The former kings of Counter-Strike, the Danish dynasty in Astralis are back on their top form, winning a statement series against Team Liquid, who have been dominating 2019 while Astralis struggled. In the quarterfinals of the StarLadder Berlin major, Astralis\u2019 aggressive tactics were displayed before the games even began, with a surprising selection of Vertigo for their map pick. Somewhat flustered, Team Liquid opted to pick Overpass, a map that Astralis is quite proficient on. \u201cWe feel at home in the major\u201d @dupreehCSGO tells @getfrank about @astralisgg\u2018s opportunity to make #CSGO history at the #BerlinMajor Powered by @TeamRazer | #ThisIsEsports pic.twitter.com\/lzDIJwGRbG \u2014 DEXERTO.COM @ Berlin Major (@Dexerto) September 6, 2019 Even dupreeh admitted that was a surprise, as he expected them to select Dust 2. Unfortunately fans didn\u2019t get the third game on Inferno that they wanted, but they got to see a masterclass on Vertigo. When speaking to Frankie and Dexerto, dupreeh acknowledged that Vertigo was a map where they previously struggled, believing they shouldn\u2019t have lost to Liquid on it when they faced each other at the ESL Pro League finals in July. \u201cWe felt we should have won it, we had a really good idea of how to play against them, we just didn\u2019t execute in France.\u201d But he also mentioned that they wanted to play it more after it was changed, that they were feeling good on it in practice, and that they knew it would surprise Liquid. Frankie asked about the extensive smoke and flash usage on Vertigo, and dupreeh ended up giving away the secret to becoming the best Counter-Strike team: \u201cThat\u2019s just how Counter-Strike is, you copy each other\u2019s [strats], and the team that does it the most and the most well is obviously the better team. Coming up with new things and always keeping your opponents guessing is really important.\u201d But even by keeping to a simple strategy like that, Astralis isn\u2019t the same juggernaut they were in 2018, and dupreeh is well aware of it. During their slide in play earlier this year, dupreeh said that the most obvious sign of issues was at the ECS Finals when they lost to FURIA Esports. According to him, that was the lowest point for the team, and when they realized something\u2019s not working. He spoke at length about the importance of the player break, as it gave the players time to \u201crecharge their batteries\u201d and isolate the issues that were affecting them. He also highlighted how big the break between stages was, as Astralis had plenty of time to prepare for Team Liquid, and could recharge after playing two different absurdly long overtime games in the New Legends stage. If there\u2019s one thing that should worry teams the most, it\u2019s that dupreeh said that playing at majors is \u201clike playing at home\u201d for Astralis. NRG Esports will have to kick the legends out of their own house if they want to hoist that major trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dupreeh reveals why Astralis chose Vertigo vs Liquid at CSGO Berlin Major StarLadderAfter a 2-0 victory over the world\u2019s best CS:GO team in Team Liquid, Astralis\u2019 Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen spoke with Frankie Ward and Dexerto about their surprising map pick, their desire to win another major, and the secret to becoming the best team. The […]<\/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-38085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085","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=38085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}