Astralis' rank has already dropped to the 18th place in world ranking. They will need time to collect themselves and fight more seriously.
At least they qualified for the playoffs though so it's still not that bad of a performance even though they'll most likely lose against ENCE tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in the SEA region, T1 released their 3 remaining players Ana, Topson, and Whitemon. Plenty of shake-ups in the weaker regions as teams are mounting to have better line-ups before the new DPC begins. I am also waiting if Team Spirit will remain with their current line-up after its disastrous early TI exit.
Speaking of SEA, there were some leaks about two new SEA teams for the next season as
T1 sold their slot to Bleed esports (valorant org) and
RSG sold their slot to Tier One Entertainment (Blacklist International). That said, Kuku and the boys will probably get picked up by one of the two orgs.
Players from the infrastructure are not bad at all. Astralis also invests in the long term, I think they are not in a hurry, they are just busy creating their own formation. Anyway, I'm watching the quarterfinals right now.
The music in this organization and the fact that the presenter was too excited afterwards seemed too repulsive to me. The presentation at the beginning of the Ence - Astralis match really pissed me off. Ence defends like Stone on the Mirage map, this is a defense they usually do on this map. The tactics that Astralis used were always failing. Mirage map ended 16-11, the first map went to ENCE.
Choosing Mirage against Ence really takes courage, I think Astralis chose the wrong map. Now we move on to the Ancient map of Ence's choice. This map goes to Ence and ends 2-0, I don't think it will be a surprise.