StarLadder Berlin Major Recap: 5 Key Storylines Of The 15th CS:GO Major
Two and a half weeks of top-tier Counter-Strike action at the StarLadder Berlin Major have come to an end. The tournament got its Champion, its MVP, and gave us several outstanding and moments. Here they are for you, broken down into digestible tidbits. Let’s go!
Pick’Em
Ironically, the only correct pick was the one I wanted to fail.
So let’s just skip this one and get straight to business :P
Back to back to back
Astralis are the StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 champions!
In the six months following the IEM Katowice Major, the CS:GO community has seen Team Liquid’s relentless dominance. Well, up until the 15th Major. In Berlin, the Danes made their first step to reclaiming their supremacy.
Winning the StarLadder Berlin Major not only made Astralis $500,000 richer, it made Astralis the only team to have won the CS:GO Major three times in a row and four times in total. Zonic’s squad also now boast an 18-game winning streak in Majors’ Champions Stage matches. That’s wild.
The team’s impressive showing at the Berlin Major put Astralis back on track and may usher in the next act in the Astralis era.
A good day for dev1ce
It was his 24th birthday.
His team became the first-ever four-time Major Champions.
And was crowned the StarLadder Berlin Major MVP.
Not a bad Sunday for Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz.
It was dev1ce’s second MVP title in 2019. The other one he received was for his outstanding performance at BLAST Pro Series Sao Paulo almost six months ago.
By winning the Major’s MVP medal, he increased his lead in individual top honors, where he’s in first place with 14 MVP awards.
But the MVP medal wasn’t the only thing dev1ce was presented with that night. He also got a very warm reception from the Mercedes-Benz Arena crowd, which sang him “Happy Birthday”.
A Broken Trophy
Everything was going suspiciously smoothly for Astralis that Sunday evening, so something had to go wrong. And it did. But it was funny.
Soon after the team lifted the StarLadder Berlin Major trophy, dev1ce decided to get a photo of him holding the trophy in one hand. And as soon as he lifted it up, the bottom part of the trophy came off, exposing the guts of the cup.
dev1ce was really embarrassed by the fact that the Major trophy crumbled in his hands but continued posing, which led to some outstanding photos :)
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