flameZ is pushing back on the idea that Astralis won two Intel Grand Slams.
The grand slam debate has always had an asterisk crowd, season 1? Untouchable, no one's arguing that but Season 2 is where it gets messy because of the roster changes, the timeline, what actually counts it's the kind of technicality that sounds like cope until you look at the specifics and realize it's a legitimate conversation.
Astralis in their prime (2018–2019) is still probably the most systematically dominant team CS has ever seen. Four majors, the era, the structure and that part of the legacy is untouchable.
But legacy and record-keeping are two different things, and flamez seems to be drawing exactly that line.
The Astralis Grand Slam conversation never really died, did it?
Full story rdy.gg/en/cs2/news/flamez-astralis-havent-won-two-grand-slams
Is flameZ raising a fair point or is this just unnecessary revisionism on one of the greatest dynasties in CS history?