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Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth, former Support player of TSM and Astralis and currently an assistant coach for MOUZ, is the star of the 398th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is episode three of three about Xyp9x's career.

Xyp9x was a rising talent at the end of CS 1.6 and managed to get into an early FNATIC line-up in CS:GO, where the team could manage top four placings from time to time. It was a move to Copenhagen Wolves and eventual pivot to being a supportive element that cause Xyp9x's career to take off, though.

Already playing alongside names like device and dupreeh, Xyp9x was contending with the best teams in the game in 2013 and in 2014 the core took it to another level and could routinely challenge at the majors, though they became notorious for falling apart in big semi-finals and not reaching a big LAN final yet.

2015 saw karrigan join and Xyp9x cemented his status as the world's best Support player as he overcame a slump of form late in the year to prevent him being kicked and enter a new category of performance. That year his TSM side would win five notable LANs, famously holding a strong winning record over FNATIC during the Swede's era. Alas, the majors would again elude them.

In 2016 the team became Astralis and would face the toughest years of their time at the top, finally bombing out of some group stages and seeing moves like cajunb swapped out for Kjaerbye delivering questionable results. Late in 2016 the team gambled on bringing IGL talent gla1ve back from the wilderness and the rest is very much history.

Astralis won the first major of 2017 and become the world's best team, challenging for their own era. They didn't manage to win the second major, Krakow, but went as far as a close semi-final loss to eventual champions Gambit. It would be the following year, with Magisk joining to replace an outgoing Kjaerbye, where Astralis soared like no other team in history.

As Team Liquid fans will very well remember, Astralis were seemingly unbeatable both for TL, the consensus second best team in the world, and in finals, where they seemed to outplay everyone they faced with rare exceptions. The Astralis era is fondly remembered as the most dominant in history. The team would win three majors back-to-back-to-back from 2018-2019 and without ever going to a deciding map in those play-offs!

After the online era, Xyp9x and Astralis never returned with the same force or potency and Xyp9x became notorious for his long and hefty contract. He was even eventually playing down in the Academy team at the end. After retiring he has become a coach for MOUZ and already helped the team win ESL ProLeague S19.

In part three, Xyp9x talks about winning the Katowice major, losing the nuke map win streak to ENCE, Team Liquid's rise, how Astralis won Starladder Berlin, burn out, the post-online period, playing for the Academy team and now pivoting to coaching MOUZ.

This interview was recorded on the 29th of April, 2024.

► Time-line of topics discussed:
00:00 dupreeh, his tragedy and IEM Katowice
02:08 Beating ENCE to win Katowice
04:17 Losing to ENCE at BLAST
04:55 BLASTralis era
07:49 Starladder Berlin major
10:08 Were TL better than Astralis?
10:49 Astralis post-major
12:30 EG rivalry
14:31 Facing karrigan teams
15:49 karrigan post-Astralis
19:19 Friction in Astralis
20:39 Burn out period
23:16 CSPPA
25:21 What did he do while he was out of CS?
27:02 Astralis downfall
29:37 Big contract and stats going down
32:40 Having coaches other than zonic
33:58 Academy period
36:11 Could he have gone to other teams?
38:28 Coaching MOUZ
40:24 How his career ended
42:17 Going from chokers to most decorated
44:41 Favourite clutches
46:40 Final words

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