Aurora Gaming vs Astralis Tips & Live Stream – Astralis to Proceed to PGL Astana 2025 Finals

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Last updated: 16 May 2025

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Aurora Gaming vs Astralis Counter-Strike 2 betting picks for Saturday, May 17, 2025, in the PGL Astana 2025 semifinals (15:00 UCT+5)
Astralis look rejuvenated under a new in-game leader
Expect a competitive game

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Aurora Gaming vs Astralis Predictions

Aurora Gaming and Astralis will clash on Saturday, May 17, in the PGL Astana 2025 semifnals, where they’ll battle it out for a spot in the big finals and a shot at $200,000 winner’s share.

Aurora Gaming vs Astralis Predictions
Head to Head
Where to Watch Aurora Gaming vs Astralis Live?
Astralis Form
Astralis Squad & Team News
Aurora Gaming Form
Aurora Gaming Squad & Team News

Astralis enter the semifinals after a very solid display against Natus Vincere, which set them up for their first S-Tier grand final of the season. However, they’ll have to pass the surging Aurora Gaming, who turned things around after a shaky run in the Swiss Stage and swept The MongolZ in the quarterfinals.

As a clash between two improving teams, this promises to be an exciting affair, which can go either way.

Clash of two surging teams
Astralis look like an entirely different team
Aurora Gaming have reached higher highs this season, but should not be heavily favoured

Head to Head

Aurora Gaming and Astralis have yet to meet with their current lineups.

Where to Watch Aurora Gaming vs Astralis Live?

PGL Astana 2025 live streams for Aurora Gaming vs Astralis are available via the best betting sites with live streaming services.

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Astralis Form

Astralis have surprised many with their performances in Astana. They started their campaign with a 3-1 run though the Swiss Stage, which included wins against ODDIK (2-1), paiN Gaming (2-0), and Virtus.pro (2-1), while Astralis’ only loss of the group stage came against Team Spirit (0-2).

The Danish lineup continued their momentum in the first round of the playoffs, where they eliminated the shaky Natus Vincere with 16-13 on Nuke 8-13 on Mirage and 13-6 on Ancient.

Staehr was Astralis’ top player that day, with an incredible 1.51 performance rating, and now joins device and stavn as one of three players with a +1.09 average rating this tournament.

Astralis Squad & Team News

Astralis have not made any changes since the arrival of HooXi as a new in-game leader.

Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz
Victor "Staehr" Staeh
Martin "stavn" Lund
Jakob "jabbi" Nygaard
Rasmus "HooXi" Nielsen

Aurora Gaming Form

Aurora Gaming have not had the most convincing run through the PGL Astana 2025 Swiss Stage. They lost to BIG (1-2), edged past HOTU (2-1) and Ninjas in Pyjamas (2-1) and managed just one clean victory, against ODDIK (2-0) in the final round.

However, despite looking shaky in the group stage, the Turkish Counter-Strike 2 squad stepped up in the playoffs, with a 2-0 sweep of The MongolZ, who XANTARES and his crew defeated with 13-5 on Mirage and 16-14 on Anubis.

Woxic and Wicadia were the top-performing players on the day, averaging 1.47 and 1.41 performance ratings.