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S-Tier and Major top placements (1st place finishes plus runner-up at top tournaments). Source: Liquipedia.
Astralis is a Danish professional esports organization founded in January 2016. Astralis are one of the most successful organizations in the history of Counter-Strike with 4 Majors and a record 406 consecutive days at #1 on HLTV 's team ranking from April 2018 to June 2019.
It was partially owned by players of the former Danish Team SoloMid / Team Questionmark lineup. The rights to the Astralis name were obtained from the original founders of the Finnish Counter-Strike team .
The organization was established on 2016-01-18 by Frederik Byskov, Jakob L. Kristensen, Nikolaj Nyholm. The active Astralis roster is led by HooXi as in-game leader and coached by ruggah, MiGHTYMAX. Across their competitive Counter-Strike career the team has earned approximately $10,837,009 in prize money.