used to dominated the scene with 87 map wins in a row.
Their biggest rival was
the french 'superteam' from Source, but even they could not beat them.
It was not until 2013 at Starladder where
the 'russian superteam' beat the on Mirage.
At the first major they were favorites, but
upset and beat them in the final to win the first Major.
Despite not making it to the playoffs
managed to win the second major over the same team Fnatic beat in the previous major.
At the third major the team finally won, despite losing to
in the opener.
A team that was a one point the best NA team
never made it out of groups in majors.
They lost to
at the Dreamhack winter 2014 major despite being up 13-2.
The Fourth major we also saw another NA team fail as
failed to keep their legends stage losing to Hellraisers in the opener
At the beginning of 2015 we saw the brazilian team
scraped money together to attend events.
At the fith major they managed to get top 8 beating
and Hellraisers to make to the playoffs
At the sixth major a hot favorite was the danish
amongst other swedisd teams.
This was the first major where we saw NIP not making it to the final for the first time losing to the famous
and the Plow became well known after that.
Despite Fnatic dominating the scene
gave the a hell of a fight and even beating them multiple times.
After the seventh major where
won, Fnatic decided to get rid of Pronax.
They replaced him with
and won 6 events in a row.
They won IEM Katowice beating
in the final and where hot favorite to win the next major just around the corner.
Although at the major they suffered a loss to
and where forced to beat Faze to make it to the playoffs.
They made the playoffs but got eliminated by
and their 6 event streal came to an end.
At the semifinals we saw the biggest choke to date where
managed to win 2-0 being down 9-15 and 6-15.
After that they won the major beating
in the final.
At the next event Luminostiy where upset by the chinese
in the group stage.
The chinese team then lost to
after Guardians return as he could not play the group stage due to a hand injury.
The team made it to the final yet again but still lost, this time to
in the final.
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Was favorites to win.
They previously lost to
at ECS Season 1 finals,
but managed to beat them at cologne and made it all the way only losing a map to
in the semifinals.
After that major the team could only make semis and finals but could not win anything losing to
at IBUYPOWER invitational 2016 fall.
At IEM Oakland we saw the magic from
as they won the event against SK in the final.
This was the first tournament where
returned to the swedish team.
At the end of the year the major qualifier took place where we saw NIP shockingly losing
16-2 and failed to qualify to the major for the first time.
Coming into the tenth major
where rated as the #1 team in the world.
But one team challenged for that spot as
meet Astralis in the Grand final.
After that event Dreamhack Las Vegas was played and this time
beat Astralis and won the event against SK in the final.
At IEM Katowice Astralis managed to keep their #1 spot as they only lost to
in a bo1 and tiebreaker against faze.
After IEM Katowice Faze picked up their first win at
where Nik0 became the mvp.
For a period of time it was the two same teams in most of the finals with
and Faze, leading up to the major.
At the eleventh major we saw the big surprise of
and Immortals making it all the way to the final.
This is where
won his first major after failing in multiple major finals.
This player was then going to go back to
where he replaced Guardian.
At IEM Oakland we saw the NIP magic as they managed to take down
in the finals to go back to back in Oakland.
Still they failed to qualify for the next major in
where the major qualifer became the new challenger stage.
At the twelth major, Faze was a hot favorite but could not beat
who became the first NA team to win a major.
After that major we starladder where
was playing above and beyond carrying Navi to the final.
Despite that he could not beat the hot
in the final but still got the MVP of the event.
Despite S1mple carrying his team to finals it was
who would go away with most of the titles.
They won DH Marseille where once again
was the mvp.
Going into Cologne
were 1 trophy away from winning the grand slam.
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They made it to the semifinals where
managed to to take them down on front of their home crowd.
At Dreamhack Stockholm we saw the surprising
win the event taking down Astralis twice.
At the faceit major, North failed to qualify as they lost to
in round 5 and was eliminated.
At the new legends stage
Surprised everyone going 3-0 and into the playoffs.
In the playoffs the only series that went 3 maps was the
vs Hellraisers match.
Astralis cruised through the event defeating
Liquid and Navi 2-0 to win their second major title.
After the major Astralis continued their dominance winning
as their next event beating MIBR in the final.
At IEM Chicago, Astralis where down 9-15 against
on the third map in the semifinals,
but came back with incredible tacticts winning
on inferno and later winning the event.
After Mousesports failure at Starladder they removed Snax and brought back in
who they had previously kicked for Snax.
Astralis ended the year, winning Blast pro Lisbon where
got his first MVP.
At the fourteenth major, we saw the finnish team
make it all the way to the final.
They beat Liquid in the quarters and
in the semis but could not compete with prime Astralis
At team that came up in 2019 was a french team known as
who had won ECS and CS_summit.
By far the best player on that team was
who got the MVP of both events.
Before the major we saw Liquid winning the
in Cologne and winning a million dollars.
At the fifthteenth major Liquid were favorites but lost to teams like NRG
and Astralis and got eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Astralis then went to win the major where
got his second major MVP.
A candidate for the MVP had a meme for himself called
Time, where he would save his awp.
Coming into ESL New York
looks to try and keep their #1 spot in the hltv rankings.
Faze clan aqcuired two new players
and Broky who is on trial.
We have seen legends of the game retiring recently with
and Zeus both igls who retired this summer.
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