Astralis have handed Aurora their first defeat in over three months, netting a 2-1 series victory over the Russian team (16-8 Ancient, 8-16 Mirage, 19-15 Nuke) in the grand final of CCT North Europe Series 3.
Viktor "?Lack1?" Boldyrev's side have torn up the competition in the tier two scene since October, winning 30 out of 35 maps ahead of their match against Astralis and maintaining a streak of 15 series wins in a row. Aurora won CCT South Europe Series 2 during that string of victories, beating the likes of GODSENT, Bad News Eagles, and GamerLegion in the process, and rightly earned a berth into the top 30 ranking this month off the back of their results.

Read more Team ranking: January 2023

Buzz topped the board in Astralis' grand final series with a 1.15 rating
The event offered some much-needed practice for Astralis ahead of ESL Pro League Season 17. The team successfully qualified for the BLAST Spring Final through the Spring Groups to start 2023 off on the right foot, but are absent from IEM Katowice due to lackluster form in 2022 which left them below the invite threshold for ESL's world rankings.
Aurora began their run in the North Europe event from the Swiss group stage, whereas Astralis received an invite directly to the round of 16. The Russian side dispatched of HAVU, Sangal, and Janusz "?Snax?" Pogorzelski's new lineup Let us cook in 2-0 fashion to reach the playoffs, where they added wins over Endpoint, MOUZ NXT, and Illuminar to make the grand final.
Astralis worked their way past EYEBALLERS, 9INE, and Copenhagen Flames en route to the final, where they maintained their form with a 16-9 win on Ancient to kick off the title-deciding series. Aurora replied in kind on their own map pick of Mirage, but couldn't make up for a slow start on the Nuke decider and ultimately conceded the map to the Danes in overtime.
CCT North Europe Series 3Best of 3

Aurora

Matchpage 1 2 6th February 2023


Astralis 8Ancient 16 16Mirage 9 15Nuke 19
Vladislav 'lattykk' Vydrinlattykk | 55 - 49 | +6 | 69.6 | 1.13 |
Ivan 'SELLTER' MiroshnikovSELLTER | 61 - 51 | +10 | 79.7 | 1.12 |
Evgeny 'Norwi' ErmolinNorwi | 65 - 58 | +7 | 81.1 | 1.10 |
Viktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevLack1 | 42 - 54 | -12 | 59.3 | 0.86 |
Aleksandr 'KENSI' GurkinKENSI | 43 - 60 | -17 | 67.6 | 0.82 |
Christian 'Buzz' AndersenBuzz | 61 - 53 | +8 | 82.9 | 1.15 |
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice | 63 - 54 | +9 | 78.1 | 1.13 |
Benjamin 'blameF' BremerblameF | 56 - 53 | +3 | 79.9 | 1.08 |
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossandergla1ve | 44 - 54 | -10 | 61.0 | 0.88 |
Andreas 'Xyp9x' H?jslethXyp9x | 44 - 54 | -10 | 65.9 | 0.88 |
CCT North Europe Series 3 bracket stage final standings:
1.
Astralis - $22,000
2.
Aurora - $10,000
3-4.
Copenhagen Flames - $5,000
3-4.
Illuminar - $5,000
5-8.
FORZE - $2,000
5-8.
SINNERS - $2,000
5-8.
9INE - $2,000
5-8.
MOUZ NXT - $2,000
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GODSENT
9-16.
EYEBALLERS
9-16.
Evil Geniuses
9-16.
HAVU
9-16.
9z
9-16.
GamerLegion
9-16.
Endpoint
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FORZE #32


Vladislav 'Krad' Kravchenko

Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov

Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko

Aleksandr 'shalfey' Marenov

Evgeny 'r3salt' Frolov

Artem 'Fierce' Ivanov


HAVU #41


Jani 'Aerial' Jussila

Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen

Joonas 'doto' Forss

Otto 'ottoNd' Sihvo

Matias 'Banjo' Kivist?

Mikko 'xartE' V?limaa


SINNERS #55


Tomá? 'oskar' ??astny

Patrik 'Zero' ?údel

Jind?ich 'ZEDKO' Chyba

Sebastian 'beastik' Daňo

Max 'SHOCK' Kvapil

Tomá? 'Tomkeejs' Tomka


GamerLegion #29


Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand

Mihai 'iM' Ivan

Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus

Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek

Isak 'isak' Fahlén

Ashley 'ash' Battye


Copenhagen Flames #24


Rasmus 'raalz' Steensborg

Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup

Thomas 'TMB' Bundsb?k

Thomas 'birdfromsky' Due-Frederiksen

Iulian 'regali' Harj?u

Benjamin 'cube' Stabell



9z #49



Maximiliano 'max' Gonzalez

Franco 'dgt' Garcia

David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado

Santino 'try' Rigal

Nicolás 'buda' Kramer

Gustavo 'tge' Motta


500 #26


Nikolay 'niki1' Pantaleev

Georgi 'SHiPZ' Grigorov

Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov

Ivan 'Patrick' Ivanov

Aleks 'Rainwaker' Petrov


Sangal #39


Robin 'ScrunK' R?pke

Kornél 'kory' Szedlár

Love 'phzy' Smidebrant

Can 'kyuubii' Ali

Caner 'soulfly' Kesici

Klesti 'stikle-' Kola



9INE #33



Wiktor 'mynio' Kruk

Krzysztof 'Goofy' Górski

Olek 'hades' Miskiewicz

Kamil 'KEi' Pietkun

Kacper 'Kylar' Walukiewicz

Piotr 'nawrot' Nawrocki


Let us cook #151


Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Raul 'Blytz' Gligor

Alexandru 's0und' ?tefan

Sebastian 'fr3nd' Ku?mierz

Mikkel 'Maze' Sparvath

J?drzej 'Bogdan' Rokita



Bad News Eagles #20



Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi

Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti

Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi

Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci

Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci

Jonatan 'Devilwalk' Lundberg



Endpoint #34



Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath

Kia 'Surreal' Man

Guy 'NertZ' Iluz

Mi?osz 'mhL' Knasiak

Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko

Allan 'Rejin' Petersen


GODSENT #80


William 'draken' Sundin

Alfred 'RuStY' Karlsson

Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora

Erik 'ztr' Gustafsson

Joel 'joel' Holmlund

Maikil 'Golden' Selim



EYEBALLERS #53



Robin 'flusha' R?nnquist

Jesper 'JW' Wecksell

Anton 'Sapec' Palmgren

Peppe 'Peppzor' Borak

Casper 'SHiNE' Wennerberg

Fredrik 'slap' Junbrant


Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev

Age: 23 Team: Aurora Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 983 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.69


Illuminar #48


Piotr 'morelz' Taterka

Mateusz 'TOAO' Zawistowski

Bartosz 'bnox' Niebisz

B?a?ej 'zaNNN' B?czkowski

Bartek 'mASKED' Trybu?a


Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Age: 29 Team: Let us cook Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 2201 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.65


Aurora #28


Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev

Ivan 'SELLTER' Miroshnikov

Aleksandr 'KENSI' Gurkin

Evgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin

Vladislav 'lattykk' Vydrin

Sergey 'starix' Ischuk



Evil Geniuses #23



Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

Jerric 'wiz' Jiang

Jadan 'HexT' Postma

Daniel 'Vorborg' Vorborg


Astralis #15


Andreas 'Xyp9x' H?jsleth

Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander

Nicolai 'device' Reedtz

Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer

Christian 'Buzz' Andersen

Peter 'casle' Ardenskjold


MOUZ NXT #69


Marcus 'Q-Q' Krolak-Henriksen

Jimi 'Jimpphat' Salo

Henrich 'sl3nd' Hevesi

Bram 'Nexius' Campana

Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard

Tobias 'TOBIZ' Theo
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