Astralis have been eliminated from the European closed qualifier for StarSeries Fall following a 0-2 loss to HEROIC in Group B's decider match.
It's the first setback for the Danish-majority roster since Filip "NEO" Kubski took charge of the squad. Astralis are still alive in BLAST Bounty following a come-from-behind victory over Nemesis in the Round of 32.
Henrich "sl3nd" Hevesi put in a 1.54 rating as INFINITE defeated Nemesis in the only three-map series of the day. Gentle Mates ran over Walczaki, while Echo beat Nuclear TigeRES for the second time in the qualifier.
The top two teams from each group will now enter the single-elimination playoffs, which will be played out over the weekend. The opening round will be headlined by a clash between Ninjas in Pyjamas and HEROIC in a rematch of last week's Stake Ranked Episode 3 upper bracket final.
Two teams will lock in spots at StarSeries Fall, joining Vitality, Natus Vincere, FURIA, MOUZ and the winners of the North American and South American qualifiers at the $500,000 LAN in September.
HEROIC
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin
Linus 'nilo' Bergman
Tim 'susp' Ångström
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard
Joonas 'doto' Forss
INFINITE
Henrich 'sl3nd' Hevesi
Rasmus 'kreaz' Johansson
Raul 'Blytz' Gligor
Martin 'Dytor' Handl
Sebastian 'volt' Maloș
Samy 'Tionix' von Gehlen
Filip 'NEO' Kubski
Walczaki
Szymon 'sk1tt' Rogoziński
Dawid 'SaMey' Stańczak
Wojciech 'bajmi' Strzelczyk
Patryk 'olimp' Woźniak
Bartosz 'moonwalk' Mikołajczyk
Henrich 'sl3nd' Hevesi
Vitality
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
William 'mezii' Merriman
Rémy 'XTQZZZ' Quoniam
Gentle Mates
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell
David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo
MOUZ
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Oldřich 'PR' Nový
Adrian 'xelex' Vincze
Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen
Echo
Oliver 'IceBerg' Berg
Jason 'salazar' Salazar
Jamie 'leakz' Bugge West Jensen
Jonas 'Boye' Boye Østergaard
Nicky 'NickyB' Bruhn
Astralis
Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen
Love 'phzy' Smidebrant
Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard
Victor 'Staehr' Staehr
Gytis 'ryu' Glušauskas
Filip 'NEO' Kubski
FURIA
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko
Sid 'sidde' Macedo
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Martin 'stavn' Lund
Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck
Roman 'n0te' Hamze
Kacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Nemesis
Ivan 'SELLTER' Miroshnikov
Evgeny 'r3salt' Frolov
Alemkhan 'mag1k3Y' Moldakamalov
Philipp 'tex1y' Moskvitin
Daniil 'Sdaim' Tupov
Maksim 'NMV' Naumov
Nuclear TigeRES
Arseniy 'senka' Kozlovsky
Denis 'm1QUSE' Karpovich
Timur 'z1k4' Askhadulin
Ilya 'flouzer' Selifonov
Egor 'ayuki' Ershov
Natus Vincere
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy
Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov
Drin 'makazze' Shaqiri
Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy