{"id":26430,"date":"2022-12-04T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26430"},"modified":"2022-12-04T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:19:16","slug":"k0nfig-to-stand-in-for-heroic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/k0nfig-to-stand-in-for-heroic\/","title":{"rendered":"k0nfig to stand in for Heroic at BLAST Premier World Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroic will take their place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/blast-premier-world-final\/\" title=\"BLAST Premier World Final betting guide\">BLAST Premier World Final<\/a> without Martin \u201cstavn\u201d Lund, who will rest for the remainder of the year, with Kristian \u201ck0nfig\u201d Wienecke to stand in for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish team has chosen to give stavn more time off this winter break and he will not travel with the rest of the team to Abu Dhabi, UAE, for the final event of the year. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kristian \u201ck0nfig\u201d Wienecke will be replacing Martin \u201cstavn\u201d Lund for the BLAST World Final 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The decision has been made a while ago to give Martin some rest after a long year and a 2023 season where we as a team wish to start our preparation for the year early. (1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S5SOm65wa7\">pic.twitter.com\/S5SOm65wa7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HEROIC (@heroicgg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicgg\/status\/1599376308974194688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heroic are willing to risk their no.1 world ranking to give stavn the extra time off and begin their preparations for 2023 early. <\/p>\n<p>K0nfig has not played professional Counter-Strike since his contract was terminated by Astralis in October, after an altercation with a club promoter in Malta that resulted in physical injury was made public. <\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old stated in November that he was ready to return to action after working with a therapist, and he now has his chance to show what he has got on the world stage at the BLAST Premier World Final. <\/p>\n<p>Heroic will enter the tournament with a lot of momentum behind them after they finished as runners-up at the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-rio-major\/\" title=\"IEM Rio Major betting guide\">IEM Rio Major<\/a> and then won the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/blast-premier-fall-final\/\" title=\"BLAST Premier Fall Final betting guide\">BLAST Premier Fall Final<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the news broke about stavn being rested and k0nfig standing in, Heroic have drifted from +300 favourites to +400 third-favourites with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a> for the BLAST Premier World Final, which will begin on December 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian \u201ck0nfig\u201d Wienecke will stand-in for Martin &#8220;stavn&#8221; Lund for Heroic at the BLAST Premier World Final in Abu Dhabi, UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[152,2196,1957,1762,235,661,2837],"class_list":["post-26430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astralis","tag-blast","tag-blast-premier","tag-blast-premier-world-final","tag-heroic","tag-kristian-k0nfig-wienecke","tag-martin-stavn-lund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26430"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26447,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430\/revisions\/26447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}