device claims FACEIT Major MVP award

23/9/2018 - 22:29

Astralis star Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz is the winner of the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award of FACEIT Major 2018 by HLTV.org and betway.

The Danish AWPer scoops the honour after inspiring Astralis to win the tournament with a team-leading 1.26 rating over the New Legends and the Champions stages.

device hit peaks in his team's Swiss stage victories against Vega Squadron (1.88 rating) and MIBR (2.19), but he remained a key contributor in the playoffs, posting just one below-average rating, on the first map against FaZe - a series in which he ended up being the top performer after putting on a show on Inferno.

device wins his third MVP of 2018

He was the hardest player to kill at the tournament, averaging 0.55 deaths per round, and was ranked third in rating, behind Denis "⁠electronic⁠" Sharipov (1.36) and Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev (1.34). The Na`Vi duo had been strong contenders for the MVP award heading into the final, along with Astralis' Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif and Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen - two players device wound up outshining not just in terms of rating but also impact in round wins.

This is the eighth MVP award of device's career, the third this year after winning the medal at the ECS Season 5 Finals and at ELEAGUE Premier. During Astralis' first Major success, it had been Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye to win the honour after an impressive grand final showing.

Deserved! Best player off all time after s1mple and Niko! EZ for Tom Cruise!!!

2018-09-23 22:30

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1. s1mple 2. device 3. NiKo

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2018-09-23 22:31

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hltv.org/stats/players/matches/7398/dupr.. dupreeh deserved

2018-09-24 00:44

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OMG NICOLAI PLS FUCK MY GF <3

2018-09-24 03:37

Device had the highest rating at 1.26, followed by magisk at 1.25 then dupreeh at 1.24, was very close.

2018-09-24 18:13

hltv.org/forums/threads/1885027/top-20-p..

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awful list

2018-09-23 22:34

Ppl that places s1mple over device on this year's list are delusional af

2018-09-23 22:39

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He's simply better than device

2018-09-23 22:41

delusional af

2018-09-23 23:48

Did you mean... s1mply?

2018-09-24 02:21

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hahaha ++

2018-09-24 17:14

imo niko> device but i would but electronic 2nd tbh

2018-09-23 22:32

If you are talking about all time then that list doesn't even come close to what it is meant to be

2018-09-23 22:35

this year only ofc

2018-09-23 22:40

1. S1mple - device - niko 2. Others

>NIko >Top 3 >pick one

>Niko >top 20+ Pick one

2018-09-24 13:46

Off all time Devve Top 5 hes been up there for 4 years So s1mple < Devve

2018-09-23 22:55

s1mple is still the best player in the world but device is also insane

2018-09-23 23:14

+1mple

2018-09-24 00:10

2018-09-24 02:07

Idi nahyi so svoim simplom

2018-09-24 02:09

sorry but simple dont even get to top 10 players

2018-09-24 02:56

Device is currently getting the support from the best structured and tactically developed team. He is great but individually not even close to Simple and Niko

2018-09-24 09:53

2018-09-24 11:38

2018-09-24 22:12

Congrats

no dupreeh deserved it. dupreeh is robbed

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+1 Dupreeh should have got it

Device got robbed at their last major win though.

2018-09-23 23:50

Thats what I was thinking too.

2018-09-23 22:46

Dupreeh definitely out performed him in the final but idk about the rest of the major.

2018-09-23 23:02

u are damn right now people can actually see device as being one of the best players rn and one of the goats

Funny how not even 1-2 years ago people kept calling him overrated in the top 20 rankings lmao

People still do...

2018-09-23 22:37

for no reason other than not making retarded flashy plays and not over peeking and being smart basically.

2018-09-23 22:42

True...

+1 His gamesense is so on-point, it actually makes people consider him boring.

2018-09-24 19:30

All time....have u started watching cs from this major only

2018-09-23 22:38

i started watching cs when after cologne 2018

Ok kiddo

lol noway

he's the most consistently great player of CSGO history, nobody has been that stable in the top 5. S1mple is the GOAT, no doubt, but just too young to award that title in the sense that he hasn't been around for that long.

2018-09-23 23:13

NIKO IS TRASH U DUMB CUNT

2018-09-23 22:58

NiKo isnt that great in late half of 2018

2018-09-24 01:12

he's good looking but he does not look like TC.....

2018-09-24 02:30

so close

2018-09-23 22:29

Expected

Glave was more deserving

yeah he got so many important kills and was perfect igl, still wp to device

2018-09-23 22:33

deserved

Rigged xy9 ftw

DEV

SIMPLE GOAT ANYWAY

Genuinely feeling bad for him. But he is lot younger. He will win it someday :)

poor dupreh

ye, I wished the MVP award to him as well. But he lifted the trophy anyway and showed a great CS - he should be proud of himself anyway.

nice speech my prodka friend <3

Thank you

Prokda #1

2018-09-23 22:59

nice

Deserved

very nice gj.... deserved... navi waste another chance

Lmao saving every round ===> hardest player to kill gj HLTV giving MVP to exit fragger. Dupreeh deserved it much more, not giving it to him only because he has few fucking points less in your rating just because he always goes first is retarded.

yea, this site has always been biased towards device, just ignore hltv rankings per usual.

This! Just turning numbers to make the statistics look better. Dupreeh gla1ve and xyp9x all played better.

dupreeh stats are better, go check them, also #148

2018-09-23 22:52

The ones who decide mvps and evps at events do actually watch the matches and decides from what they see. This is a much deserved MVP for device.

2018-09-23 22:43

#148

he's the definition of playing the percentages, the most of Astralis probably. They're the team that consider saving 4v4 instead of retaking and win games like that. You can call it what you want but he's just the guy always making the victory as certain as possible. Also, theoretically speaking, the AWPer should always save the most.

2018-09-23 23:20

GOATv1ce <3

dupreeh should probably have won it, but can't be mad about device getting some recognition with all the undeserved hate he's receiving from the community.

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Why he is receiving hate?

cus he is "boring" and "eco hunter"

one of lowest eco fraggers on the team btw in most cases glaive dupreeh and especially magisk gets more eco kills

ikr

people say that he lives off of eco and exit-frags, that he is too passive and that he doesn't have enough impact. neither of which is true. he is consistently one of the players in astralis with most opening frags (only topped by magisk in this tournament i believe) and counting his eco-frags, you'll see that he's actually one of the ones who farms the least amount.

yeah pretty sure only xyp gets less eco kills than him

+1000 Finally someone whos got a brain like me, and actually can analyze what happens in the games.

2018-09-24 06:43

Congratulations Astralis!

overrated

not deserved

Dupreeh deserved

s1mple deserved oh wait

Deserved, but poor Dupreeh.. ;/

Top 2 this Year Ezzzzzzz

Well deserved

SHARKJEBYE LEFT ASTRALIS FOR THIS ?

yeah thanks to shiterbye for leaving astralis & let them become the best cs go team of history with baby Magisk

2018-09-24 05:50

no hltv.org/stats?event=3564 electronic 1.36 - device 1.26

and who won the major

2018-09-23 23:29

Mouse won Starladder, but mvp was s1mple, so nvm

2018-09-24 07:33

dupreeh robbed

dupreeh deserved

Why not dupreeh or gla1ve

Easy for the master of exit frags and awp saving

Looks like someone didn't watch the major ^^

2018-09-23 23:23

This someone must be you

only u retard

2018-09-24 02:15

U must be talkimg about s1mple then? Just look at the first 8 rounds on Nuke, he saved awp almost every round so that he could, die. Deviced saved and made exit-frags ONCE the entire match. Your statement and all others abour device for that matter, is simply not true. Take of the hate glasses and reconize* pure talent.

2018-09-24 06:26

Rofl. Mad astralis fankid. On overpass alone he had atleast 3 rounds where he was saving.

2018-09-24 07:05

NaCl

2018-09-24 06:56

dupreeh real mvp :D

NOT DESERVED EXIT FRAGGER ECO FRAGGER CHOKEVICE ABSENT THE WHOLE MAJOR. DUPREEH ROBBED

Absent ? Where lol. Eco kills are still valuable and important in every match

Dupreeh mvp. Device choke

stop typing retard comment and watching again pls.

2018-09-24 02:18

taco deserved it

Deserved.#2 player of this year

the most overrated player in the history of esports

+1000

yep

Agreed

nope. the most undeservedly hated on player in csgo history.

2018-09-23 22:36

2018-09-23 23:00

2018-09-24 12:34

Same as neo and coldzero

dupreeh going insane in the backstage I was told

This is a part of a 4D chess plot to make Astralis implode because they just are too stronk !

2018-09-24 03:19

undeserved

dupreeh deserve but hltv wants to fuck dev1ce more than emilia hult

Why not dupreeh wtf . Why device ffs

the whole teams deserves a MVP TVP

mvp for what ? eco frags ? saving awp ? dupreeh and gla1ve was better than him.. cmon mongols ; /

I dont know what it is, but device seems to be the only top 5 player that seems to go missing in at least one map in a series.

I don't think so, it played more good Dupreeh

Dupreeh should be mvp

most overrated player in cs history.

4/8 his playstyle so lazy

@ top ranking, dev1ce is better than s1mple overall this year @ LANs rn, wow.

Cry is free hltv.org/stats/players/compare/7998/s1mp..

Without a "major upgrade", for my graph s1mple has 98 points and devve has 96. With major win+mvp, he now has 101 points which is better than s1mple. EGB & HLTV look on these important tournaments more, too. It works like this: do a 2 rating2.0 on tier3 event = do a 1.25 rating2.0 on tier1 event. s1mple was good until the end, but at the end, devVe and co got him.

EZ. But Glaive and Dupreeh deserved it more tbh.

+1 no more to say haha..

Ez 4 my boy device

expected

in his interview he will dedicate this individual prize to his team anyways. astralis is no 1man-show. they do this incredible stuff together. he knows that and will adress it accordingly

gotta change your name m8 :D

Cant, changed it less than 30 days ago

omfg what a scandal glave or dupreeh deserved that not ecofragger device

device is one of the players in the team with the least amount of eco frags. you'd know if you actually watched the games :P

again not dupreeh LUL

Dupreeh robbed

Dupreeh? Ughhh Silver HLTV

Come on ....just beacuse he's an awper imo dupreeh had way more impact

>plays only awp >eco frags MAJOR MVP OMEGALUL

This whole major is a big joke

2018-09-23 22:45

The most perfect hybrid player in CS:GO (s1mple is a GOD, can't compare)

gla1ve best IGL and MVP

FFS NOT DESERVED

exit/eco fragger

dont think u watched any of their games.

He is right, he is not doing something incredible, most of his fraggs eco/exit

i literally counted device's eco frags and he was one of the ones with the least amount. check their demos if you don't believe me.

S1mple

RUSH 1 Major, s1mple 0

should have been dupreeh imo

most expected thing ever

s1mple the best.

Not deserved. But it is what it is.

Well deserved trophy

Congratulations! Dupreeh could have gotten the MVP award as well :)

Undeserved. Dupreeh was better and gla1ve was a beast too

Undeserved as fuck.

2018-09-23 22:44

Why not electronic ?

They didn't even get to double digits against Astralis

2018-09-24 07:01

Go home and cry kids,

What a joke Dupreeh or gla1ve >> baitvice

should have been dupreeh

2018-09-23 22:48

well deserved

2018-09-23 22:51

Lol sure Dupreeh played good in the final (and many of the games) but Dev1ce have been constant through all tournament right from early stages, and if HLTV and others who are unsure of who should getting it (whole team could have gotten MVP) then they just give it to highest rated player and I think it's deserved 100

+1, Well said.

2018-09-23 23:56

Deserved 🔥

2018-09-23 22:56

2018-09-23 23:06

Another undeserved MVP, Dupreeh nailed this tournament and had wayy more impact... but at the end dk.org cares about numbers

2018-09-23 23:08

2018-09-23 23:58

He did as well as Device along with Magisk It's not undeserved But I agree Dupreeh deserved it too

2018-09-24 07:02

gz, i wont say baitvice anymore, good player tbh

2018-09-23 23:11

ez ez ez

totally deserved

Device? Lol! Magisk the real mvp

2018-09-23 23:19

Dupreeh or electronic deserved it

2018-09-23 23:26

device and dupreeh were best deserved btw

2018-09-23 23:28

Deserved.

2018-09-23 23:36

nope for me its for sure dupreeh that guy is just insane. When is the hardest dupreeeh is there.

2018-09-23 23:40

dupreeh is not tom cruise. this is mvp also who has more fangirls

2018-09-24 00:09

DEVICE TOP 1

2018-09-24 00:18

Underrated player, believe it or not. People are often disrespecting him because they dislike Astralis.

2018-09-24 00:27

This cant be real

2018-09-24 00:29

Congrats, though every player in Astralis played well.

2018-09-24 00:53

Xyp9x MVP by far

2018-09-24 01:22

Dupreeh was robbed

2018-09-24 03:28

Congrats, even getting the MVP is a regular thing for him now

I admit I didn't watch groupstage but in palyoffs dupreeh was much much better HLTV have introduced so many different stats nowadays that they can just make any player look good if they pick the right ones. some exmaples: - when happy was LMS all the time, he got massively downrated in the top20 players in 2015, even though his team won 8 tournaments. Now suddenly, players always get massive props for having few deaths per round. - impact in key rounds vs rating. What a stupid argument to have, when rating 2.0 is supposed to account for impact anyway (plot twist: it doesn't ofcourse) - Rating in play-offs/ in close games/ vs high ranked teams: Sometimes it matters, this time it did not :>

2018-09-24 05:44

dupreeh could get the MVP, but is not like you can get mad at device getting it lol everyone in astralis was too impactful toward the whole tournment

2018-09-24 08:04

if this squarehead gonna be top 1 2018 there will be a riot

2018-09-24 07:19

gob b top1

2018-09-24 13:31

device>s1mple ....like brain>vodka

2018-09-24 08:02

s1mple is a choker device big titles not choking on big games #RUNDEVVE #devveGOD top 1

2018-09-24 08:03

king devve

2018-09-24 08:10

dev1ce > s1mple closed.

could be literally anyone of the team. it’s incredible the balance between them in terms of effort, impact and key plays. and that reflects on the stats. mvp of the finals: xyp9x, played so perfectly. mvp of the tournament: dupreeh, consistently monstrous. and they won mirage vs faze (the only close map of their playoffs) thanks to his stunning plays.

2018-09-24 08:33

fuck them all, they have meaningless life at all, only good at csgo, nice retards

2018-09-24 08:47

your life seems much more meaningful, sitting on a forum to write shit about those you spend your time on watching... smh

2018-09-24 13:30

I just like to say shitty things to shitty persons, because they deserve it. They are so full of their egos, I liked complete Astralis back in time when Kjaerbye was in line up, and yes I like Magisk also, and I still like him, but it's not always all in CS. device seems like so full of his ego, as well as gla1ve and xyp9x, dupreeh is great guy, too, btw. But zonic is just a shit person, also. He was my favorite 1.6 player in mTw and also coach at first sight, but it's really embarrassing to him to be just a shit person like he's now.

2018-09-24 13:44

dupreeh>>>

2018-09-24 09:37

Device nr. 1 in my opinion. If the team will win some more tournaments, its easy to say he deserved to be ranked nr. 1 in the world, ofcourse if he performes...

2018-09-24 10:28

Xyp9x deserved it

2018-09-24 10:44

they all deserved it hard to pick

2018-09-24 10:48

Xyp9x > dupreeh > dev1ce in the major

2018-09-24 12:19

lol'd at many comments. haters made my day

2018-09-24 12:30

Where is cold?hahahahah

2018-09-24 13:32

Its sad how much kids can complain about everything. If Dupreeh had gotten the mvp, then Xyp9x had been robbed, if Xyp9x had gotten it, then device or gla1ve had been robbed.. Shut up and enjoy instead

2018-09-24 13:35

Rating 2.0 Denis "electronic" Sharipov 1.36 KD-diff Denis "electronic" Sharipov +63 Damage per round Denis "electronic" Sharipov 89.0 Damage diff per round Denis "electronic" Sharipov +21.1 Kills per round smooya 0.86 (6 maps) electronic 0.86 (10 maps!) But ok exitvice is very hard to kill so that makes it even :D

2018-09-24 14:45

If Na'Vi could find good compensation for zeus and edward, they will be top 1.

2018-09-24 16:07

Edward and Zeus - the backbone of the team from 2010, no one with his skills will not replace them, you would have familiarized with the sources, a friend

2018-09-24 22:05

starix would be a good offer... Just saying ;)

2018-09-25 20:39

passive awp angles for days! nice clicking!

2018-09-24 19:11

Astralis<Zonic :D NaVi best team!)

2018-09-24 21:47

Smooya.....

2018-09-25 13:11