{"id":39190,"date":"2025-01-28T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/the-story-of-the-starladder-berlin-major-astralis-csgo-hat-trick-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:18:25","slug":"the-story-of-the-starladder-berlin-major-astralis-csgo-hat-trick-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/the-story-of-the-starladder-berlin-major-astralis-csgo-hat-trick-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of the StarLadder Berlin Major: Astralis\u2019 CSGO Hat-Trick &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the StarLadder Berlin Major: Astralis\u2019 CSGO Hat-Trick StarLadderCounter-Strike: Global Offensive kings Astralis completed an unprecedented back-to-back-to-back Major success at the StarLadder Berlin Major. This is the story of how they managed to do it. When it comes to CSGO, top names stand out above the rest when entering tournament play. You\u2019ve got FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, MIBR, and G2 to just name a few. Yet, one stands above the rest \u2013 Astralis. The Danish Counter-Strike kings may have lost their spot on the throne of the game\u2019s world rankings when they started picking and choosing which events to attend, but they\u2019ve still been a force to be reckoned with. Entering the StarLadder Berlin Major, many fans and pundits had already crowned Team Liquid as North America\u2019s second Major winning team, but that wasn\u2019t to be the case. Dexerto\u2019s latest esports documentary tracks the StarLadder Berlin CSGO Major from start to end \u2013 including the heartbreaking exits of on the rise squads in CR4ZY and Mousesports and Renegade\u2019s shock semi-finals appearance \u2013 before culminating in Astralis\u2019 ascent back to the top. There are also exclusive interviews with eventual champions in Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen and Lukas \u2018gla1ve\u2019 Rossander who detail Astralis\u2019 rise back to the top, as well as how they felt winning another Major. On the other side of things, AVANGAR\u2019s Alexey \u2018qikert\u2019 Golubev also gives his perspective on how the CIS-based squad shocked everybody to take on Astralis in the Grand Finals \u2013 even though they eventually fell to a 2-0 defeat. Aside from hearing from players involved, esports historian Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields gives his unrivaled insight on proceedings with a number of interviews about the action. Hosts James \u2018BanKs\u2019 Banks and Frankie Ward also giving their say-so on the intense CSGO Major action amid interviewing players. So, if you missed anything from the StarLadder Major, you can jump right in and get a complete rundown of everything that unfolded. We guarantee that you won\u2019t want to miss it this time around, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the StarLadder Berlin Major: Astralis\u2019 CSGO Hat-Trick StarLadderCounter-Strike: Global Offensive kings Astralis completed an unprecedented back-to-back-to-back Major success at the StarLadder Berlin Major. This is the story of how they managed to do it. When it comes to CSGO, top names stand out above the rest when entering tournament play. You\u2019ve got [&hellip;]<\/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-39190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39190","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=39190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}