Danny “\u2060zonic\u2060” S\u00f8rensen, the most decorated head coach in CS:GO<\/em>, is thinking about leaving Astralis, according to a report<\/a> by HLTV.<\/p>
Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told HLTV that Astralis has already started planning for 2022 and has put Heroic head coach Nicolai “HUNDEN” Petersen on the top of its wish list to take over the reins in the team. The former in-game leader has been coaching Heroic since he retired as a player in April 2020, but he was suspended from September 2020 to April 2021 for abusing the coach spectating bug<\/a> and had to work as an analyst during that period.<\/p>
Astralis, who has become a model in terms of how an organization should operate a CS:GO<\/em> team, struggled in part of 2020 as both gla1ve<\/a> and Xyp9x<\/a> left on medical leave in May due to feeling symptoms related to stress and burnout. The team, however, bounced back in the second half of the season and once again lifted important trophies such as DreamHack Masters Winter and IEM Global Challenge and finished as the best team in the world in HLTV rankings for the third time in a row.<\/p>
The Danish organization took a huge blow in April 2021, though, as one of their stars and perhaps the most consistent CS:GO<\/em> player of all time, Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, left the team to join Ninjas in Pyjamas<\/a> following a run of poor results at the beginning of the 2021 season. He was replaced by Lukas “Bubzkji” Andersen, who signed with Astralis in July 2021 and has been a sixth player since.<\/p>
