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Great read, thanks for your continued work

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Thank you for introducing me to the word 'gazumping'. I wish I had reason to use it.

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Ah yes, Danish CS and player drama involving Cadian, nothing really changes here.

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Roller coaster of a story, Merry Christmas Richard

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Wow! Fantastic article to finish the year off with!

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incredible

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Good job RL. Very rounded

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What an amazing read. Unimaginably deep context.

Hearing about Astralis's Machiavellian tactics, and you being an inextricable thorn in their ass, I wonder how they haven't (or whether they) tried to sabotage you in some way.

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Nyholm used to email Eleague tried to get Richard fired back in the days

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Stabbi confirmed.

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A bit of a disappointing article by your standards, 90% of this piece I had already known about from your reports before, even the transfer amount that your source added was already publicly known. By the end of the piece it felt like a bit of a waste of time with how little new information was in this piece. I understand though as it seems with the lack of new articles news must be drying up in esports this time of year.

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Do you know how many articles and websites there are on the Internet which collate known information and place it into tje context of a structured narrative

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There's actually quite a lot of new information in the piece and the context is important, doubly so when you consider new people are coming into esports all the time and won't know the history. Fortunately your opinion is very much in the minority on this one so thanks for stopping by and happy holidays.

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It seems realistic that Heroic is now 75% ownded by a non-Danish company that the financial gain for selling their two 'stars' is worth it, especially for that price. Thanks for the good read RL

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The fact that Astralis was not to blame except using their Danish size to bully others got me surprised.

They knew bringing the coach would bring the players and waited...

The players actually were the villains in this... Hope Cadian gets the success he deserves reviving Liquid no less

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