FACEIT Major 2018device claims FACEIT Major MVP award
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.
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
1324
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.65
APR:
0.14
Denis 'electronic' Sharipov
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
646
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.67
APR:
0.14
Tarik 'tarik' Celik Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.17
Maps played:
1204
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.63
APR:
0.13
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
1128
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.66
APR:
0.15
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.22
Maps played:
895
KPR:
0.85
DPR:
0.67
APR:
0.11
Deserved! Best player off all time after s1mple and Niko! EZ for Tom Cruise!!!
hltv.org/stats/players/matches/7398/dupr..
dupreeh deserved
He's loyal to his gf, sorry dude, it seems to me that you want him to give you his big d.
Device had the highest rating at 1.26, followed by magisk at 1.25 then dupreeh at 1.24, was very close.
awful list
He's simply better than device
Did you mean... s1mply?
hahaha ++
imo niko> device but i would but electronic 2nd tbh
this year only ofc
1. S1mple - device - niko
2. Others
+1
Idi nahyi so svoim simplom
+1
Congrats
u are damn right now people can actually see device as being one of the best players rn and one of the goats
All time....have u started watching cs from this major only
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.
NIKO IS TRASH U DUMB CUNT
NiKo isnt that great in late half of 2018
he's good looking but he does not look like TC.....
Expected
+1
Rigged xy9 ftw
As i said he guaranteed himself the #1 spot at the end of the year.
pretty sure as it stands right now simple would get it
s1mple has got 5 mvp awards in 2018 and device has got 3(one of them from the Major which is more valuable than the regular event)
dont forget the evp's and simple's rating
Btw statswise device ended this Major as the 3rd best player of the entire Major and the best in his own team.
I don't think/hope so. He definitely deserves this but it's obvious that it's been really hard to determine an MVP at any Astralis victory, they're so close to each other.
We shouldn't forget that there's still a lot of CS to be played until the end of the year.
hltv and the community in general has been praising s1mple so much that i honestly cant see him not getting #1. the only way i can see this happen is if s1mple fell off after this major AND astralis continues to dominate with device being a key to most victories.
as for stats, you can kind of see it as device doing well because he's in a good team, which makes him even better. navi relies on s1mple and electronic to perform, and s1mple is kind of seen as this one man army that can make magic happen all by himself (obviously this major finals being an anomaly but that will in no way negate his achievements thus far). device is simply a polished cog in this powerful machine called astralis
But i don't think s1mple "carrying all the bots" (as many like to put it) is as bad for his stats/makes his good stats so much more impressive, as people think.
He's constantly featured on NaVi, and gets put in every opportunity to frag/succeed. You could say that his "volume of opportunity" is greater because he is a great (possibly greatest) player on a lesser team (than Astralis).
Still think s1mple should be #1 this year, though. Unless NaVi (and s1mple) starts to fall off, and Astralis keeps going, as you said.
He will hardly be #1. Yes he has a Major MVP under his belt but the major performances are also very important and device averaged a negative rating in the previous major (1.29 for s1mple vs 1.16 for dev1ce in 2018 majors), adding to the 5 mvps against 3 and massive rating difference (1.25 vs 1.34) this major MVP doesn't close the gap enough.
Guaranteed no but he was the only player that could potentially dethrone s1mple this year since Astralis's era started..
And we know they take team performance and tourney wins in consideration when doing the rankings.. ( which in some ways is logical because going deep into tourneys = facing better competition = harder to maintain the same stats )..
That said electronic could also be an "opponent" for s1mple if he continues playing like he did at this major.
He litterally outrated s1mple, and had more impact imo ( especially in the Grand final, but in many other matches too)..
Genuinely feeling bad for him. But he is lot younger. He will win it someday :)
Deserved
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.
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.
Expected
Why he is receiving hate?
Because community calls him an eco-and-exit fragger.
one of lowest eco fraggers on the team btw in most cases glaive dupreeh and especially magisk gets more eco kills
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
typical thing to hate on a more 'boring', for lack of better terms, but consistent player because he doesn't SEEM as impactful of a player as perhaps some other aggressive awpers who try getting those highlight kills. i think the only player this year that wont receive much criticism for being at the top is s1mple for obvious reasons.
Congratulations Astralis!
not deserved
s1mple deserved
oh wait
Well deserved
no hltv.org/stats?event=3564 electronic 1.36 - device 1.26
Mouse won Starladder, but mvp was s1mple, so nvm
dupreeh robbed
Why not dupreeh or gla1ve
Easy for the master of exit frags and awp saving
This someone must be you
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.
Rofl. Mad astralis fankid. On overpass alone he had atleast 3 rounds where he was saving.
NaCl
taco deserved it
+1000
yep
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 !
undeserved
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.
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..
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
again not dupreeh LUL
Expected
>plays only awp
>eco frags
MAJOR MVP OMEGALUL
The most perfect hybrid player in CS:GO (s1mple is a GOD, can't compare)
+1
S1mple
RUSH 1 Major, s1mple 0
most expected thing ever
Well deserved trophy
They didn't even get to double digits against Astralis
Go home and cry kids,
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
Another undeserved MVP, Dupreeh nailed this tournament and had wayy more impact... but at the end dk.org cares about numbers
He did as well as Device along with Magisk
It's not undeserved
But I agree Dupreeh deserved it too
ez ez ez
totally deserved
Device? Lol!
Magisk the real mvp
device and dupreeh were best
deserved btw
nope for me its for sure dupreeh that guy is just insane. When is the hardest dupreeeh is there.
DEVICE TOP 1
Xyp9x MVP by far
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 :>
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
gob b top1
device>s1mple
....like brain>vodka
s1mple is a choker
device big titles not choking on big games
#RUNDEVVE #devveGOD top 1
king devve
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.
your life seems much more meaningful, sitting on a forum to write shit about those you spend your time on watching... smh
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.
Xyp9x deserved it
they all deserved it
hard to pick
Xyp9x > dupreeh > dev1ce in the major
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
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
