Blast has announced that they have requested for a special formal investigation by the ESIC in lieu of the emergency substitution by Astralis at the Blast premier fall final.
The request seems to have come in after Astralis had already concluded their campaign and exited the tournament in joint last place.
“We have held what we had hoped would be final discussions with Astralis and the players representatives over the last few days to clarify the situation which resulted in both parties voicing different positions,” said Blast. Wild there was no explicit declaration Alexander “br0” and his representatives seem to be the ones who are being talked about in the statement.
The situation seemed to have begun when Casper “cadiaN” Møller was signed into Astralis and some of his first matches for the team were played at the Blast fall final despite roster submission rules, stating that no new player can be signed after the final two-week notice prior to the tournament.
Even then, blast announced that they had sent an email to all the teams attending the event- that they had approved a special emergency scenario where Astralis’ roster was changing due to a medical emergency with one of their players.
All hell broke loose when br0’s agent later stated via X that his client wasn’t dealing with any “ health issues” but was in fact “ fully healthy, and ready to perform”.
This suspicion into Astralis’ request for an emergency substitution led the captains of the remaining seven teams attending the Fall finals to organize a protest against Blast’s decision to allow this emergency sub and also signed an open letter to the tournament organizer on the Fall finals media day.
This furthermore led to a lot of public pressure being applied on Blast, who then ended up releasing a public statement that said: “There has been no reason to question Astralis’ original statement”. Since then they have changed their position on the matter due to what probably was a discussion between br0’s representatives and the ESIC.
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