The Astralis ingame leader, Karrigan, has been benched by the Danish team, the 16 year old NoTaN1dgl will be standing in for Karrigan.

.@karriganCSGO has been benched by our coach @CSzonic. We will be playing with @NoTaN1dgl in our upcoming matches: https://t.co/I3rRmQMZE4

— Astralis (@astralisgg) 11 October 2016

Astralis has been experiencing poor results in the past few months, the most recent being when they bombed out in the groups at ESL One New York.

The team is now:

Nicolai “device” Reedtz
Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen
Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth
Markus “Kjaerbye” Kjærbye
Anton “NoTaN1dgl” Pedersen (stand-in)

Finn “karrigan” Andersen (bench)

Danny “zonic” Sørensen (coach)