Astralis appointed NEO as the head coach of the CS2 roster

On July 16, Astralis announced the appointment of Filip “NEO” Kubski as the head coach of the Counter-Strike 2 squad. The Pole replaced Casper “ruggah” Dew, whom the club fired last month - the Dane led the team since March 1, 2024. NEO is the 2014 Major champion with Virtus.pro and one of the representatives of the legendary “Golden Five” generation. The 39-year-old specialist has been coaching FaZe for the last almost three years: during this time, the team won IEM Sydney 2023 and IEM Chengdu 2024, and also reached the finals of majors in Copenhagen, Shanghai and Budapest. NEO had been unemployed since March, when he left FaZe. At the same time, performance coach Ursula “Xirreth” Klimchak joined the headquarters. She came from NAVI, where she was part of the coaching staff that won the Copenhagen Major 2024, and before that she worked at ENCE. Building the next chapter of Astralis. Together with NEO. Major champion in 2014, a proven coach with three major finals under his belt.-- AstralisCurrent Astralis roster: Viktor "Staehr" Stöhr, Jakob "jabbi" Nygard, Rasmus "HooXi" Nielsen, Love "phzy" Smydebrant, Gitis "ryu" Glušauskas, coach NEO, assistant Max "MIGHTYMAX" Hit and performance coach Xirreth. The first tournament of the team under the leadership of NEO will be BLAST Bounty Season 2, starting on July 21. Let us remind you that Astralis ended the season unsuccessfully: the team was eliminated from the second stage of IEM Cologne 2026 with statistics of 1-3, losing to 9z, TYLOO and paiN.