Astralis and CS:GO<\/em> coach Nicolai \u201cHunden\u201d Petersen agreed to and signed a deal for him to take on a coaching position at the Danish organization while he was still under contract with another Danish organization in Heroic, according to emails and text messages acquired by esports reporter Richard Lewis.<\/p>
Hunden was reportedly signed to a contract with Heroic from May 2020 to May 2022, but according to documents from Heroic’s ongoing legal battle with Hunden, Astralis reached out to Hunden in March 2021 with a coaching role offer. <\/p>
According to Lewis, other documents in his possession indicate that not only did Hunden sign a deal with Astralis, but that someone at Astralis had reportedly also asked him to recommend and recruit players<\/a> for the organization while still contracted to Heroic, and that the organization reportedly “connected Petersen with a lawyer for the purposes of getting out of his Heroic contract.”<\/p>
Lewis also noted in his report that it was Hunden’s action of leaking strategic Heroic documents to Astralis that soured the deal between the two parties, with Astralis reportedly “chastising” Hunden for doing so. Back in July 2021, Heroic terminated its contract with Hunden and announced it would open a legal process<\/a> against him for sharing strategy assets with “a key individual at a major competitor.” He was later banned by ESIC again<\/a> for two years.<\/p>
Related: Who is HUNDEN and why was he banned from CS:GO<\/em>?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>
Astralis announced that Hunden had joined the organization<\/a> as an analyst for the CS:GO<\/em> division this past January.<\/p>
