e-Stars 2010: Top Players

Once again, we bring you a statistical breakdown of top performers, this time from e-Stars Seoul 2010. At the end of the article, you will have a chance to chose your MVP of this three-day tournament, so read on to find out who stood out.

As always, the e-Stars tournament consisted of two competitions – Continental Cup and King of the Game. The former was mostly dominated by fnatic, as they helped bring the victory to the West with 4 wins in 4 matches, while the latter marked the first title for the Polish team Frag eXecutors in 2010.

33 maps were played in those two competitions with just 30 players on display. This time, unlike in previous tournaments, we won't discard any players based on how far they made it, as all of the teams played against each other at some point. We have accumulated stats from both competitions and we will now check out who played well throughout the three days in Korea.

Best rated players

10) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang Wemade FOX 0.69 0.65 1.05

1 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.42 vs MYM (Group stage, tuscan)

The only home team at this event, Wemade FOX, showed varying form by winning 6 maps and losing 7. However, they left quite an impression by defeating highly favored, and until then undefeated, fnatic in the semi-final, right after barely scraping through the group stage on round difference.

Throughout their campaign, none of the members of Wemade FOX had outstanding performances, but on the other hand none of them disappointed, all 5 having ratings around 1.00. Their leader Keun-Chul "solo" Kang was their best and most consistent player with 8 of the 13 maps rated over 1.00. He was also the 5th best awper and one of the best clutchers, with 6 rounds won 1vsX, including the 1vs4 in the semi-final against fnatic on de_nuke.

9) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Jarosław 'pasha' Jarząbkowski Frag eXecutors 0.72 0.65 1.06

2 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.66 vs TitaNs (Group stage, train)

Frag eXecutors have been improving their form lately, after finishing 4th at ESWC they were 2nd at GameGune, and have now finally reached the top by winning the King of the Game competition in Seoul.

It is their first trophy since they added Jarosław "pasha" Jarząbkowski, and his performances certainly helped on the way to 1st place. Frag eXecutors' top rated player at their previous tournament, Mariusz "Loord" Cybulski, had to play with an injured hand, so they needed someone else to step up and Jarząbkowski did just that. He was the team's most consistent player (and twice top rated) and was also shared 5th best awper.

8) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Eduard 'ed1k' Ivanov MYM 0.74 0.68 1.06

1 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.28 vs TitaNs (Group stage, dust2)

The new MYM squad got the invite to e-Stars thanks to Na´Vi being unavailable, and they ended up having just an average showing with 3 wins and 3 losses, not making it past the group stage in KotG competition.

The Russian team's two new players didn't perform all that well, but two of their old members provided the needed balance. One of the latter two is the current in-game leader Eduard "ed1k" Ivanov, who apart from playing well overall was the event's best entry fragger and 2nd best pistol round player.

7) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Rasmus 'Gux' Ståhl fnatic 0.74 0.62 1.10

0 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.80 vs TitaNs (Deathmatch, nuke)

It shouldn't really be a surprise that fnatic has four players among the top rated ones, as they were in really impressive form throughout this event, registering 9 wins in a row up until their semi-final loss to Wemade FOX, finishing with 12 maps won and only 3 lost.

For the first time since they re-added Rasmus "Gux" Ståhl, they didn't win an event, after success at both GameGune and GC Shanghai. However, that wasn't because Ståhl didn't deliver, as he once again finds himself as one of the best players at the event. He didn't have any amazing performances, but was one of the most consistent players overall with 11 of 15 maps rated above 1.00. He was also, quite expectedly, a solid entry killer, 5th best at the event.

6) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Harley 'dsn' Örwall fnatic 0.72 0.58 1.11

2 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.81 vs TitaNs (Deathmatch, nuke)

Fnatic's long-time captain Harley "dsn" Örwall usually doesn't stand out a lot with so many madfraggers in his team, although he also practically never has a bad event.

This time, Örwall played consistently well, just like his teammate Ståhl, only in a different role. He is quite often one of the top awpers at an event, and e-Stars was no exception, as he had the most total kills with the awp (82) and the 3rd best awpKPR (0.20). He was also one of the hardest players to kill with 2nd best DPR (0.58).

5) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Filip 'Neo' Kubski Frag eXecutors 0.75 0.65 1.12

2 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.85 vs TyLoo (Semi-final, train)

Frag eXecutor's superstar Filip "Neo" Kubski was once again his team's main weapon, after a rare occasion at GameGune where he wasn't the team's best fragger.

Kubski had his ups and downs throughout this event, but will be remembered by some amazing performances, especially when it mattered most for his team. His three best maps came in the playoffs, two in the semi-final against TyLoo and one in the final against Wemade FOX on de_nuke, where he sparked his team's amazing comeback. He was also the 3rd best entry fragger of the event.

4) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Dmitriy 'hooch' Bogdanov MYM 0.79 0.71 1.16

2 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.53 vs fnatic (Group stage, train)

MYM's most experienced player Dmitriy "hooch" Bogdanov was the star of his team at e-Stars, as he played well in all 6 of their maps, always near or at the top of his team's scoreboard.

Bogdanov was the player who carried his team the most of all players at the event, as he was 26% better than team average. Especially notable is his performance against fnatic where he singlehandedly gave his team a chance in the game, although they ended up losing it. He was the event's 4th best fragger with 0.79 kills per round.

3) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Li 'tb' Bingyuan TyLoo 0.82 0.70 1.18

3 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.74 vs Frag eXecutors (Group stage, dust2)

The Chinese team TyLoo finished with 5 maps won and 8 lost, and a 4th place in the King of the Game competition. But looking at it more closely, 5 of those losses came against fnatic and in each of them they took at least 11 rounds, so they shouldn't be too disappointed with their overall performance in Korea.

Li "tb" Bingyuan isn't really considered to be the best player in TyLoo, and after his somewhat poor performance at GC Shanghai, his e-Stars display came as quite a pleasant surprise. He was top rated in a match 3 times, and probably his best performance was in his team's only win against fnatic out of the 6 attempts. In the second map of the 3rd place decider, where overtime was needed to settle the map-winner, Bingyuan put up an event-highest 41 kills to tip the scales to his team's favor. He stood out as a great pistol round player, finishing 1st in that category, and he also fragged well overall with 3rd-best KPR of 0.82.

2) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg fnatic 0.83 0.59 1.26

6 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.90 vs TitaNs (Deathmatch, nuke)

Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg has definitely been the player in best form over the past few months, voted the MVP of the events in Bilbao and Shanghai and top rated at ESWC despite his team's early exit.

Once again, Lindberg put up an amazing display with 6 man-of-the-match performances, the most of all players in Seoul, and was the most consistent player of the event with 12 of 15 maps above 1.00 rating. Also, he proved yet again that he is one of the best pistol round players in the world, being 5th best at this tournament, after being 2nd at both DH Summer and GC Shanghai. Add to that being the 2nd best entry killer and the 4th best awper, and it all makes him the most all-round player at this event, as he excelled in every category.

1) Player Team KPR DPR Rating Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund fnatic 0.85 0.56 1.28

4 x MotM, Highest rating: 1.75 vs Wemade FOX (Semi-final, train)

At the top is another fnatic superstar, Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, who finished yet again as one of the top rated players at an event, not missing a single opportunity for that this year.

Just like his teammate Lindberg, Alesund had plenty of great performances and he was top rated in 4 maps. However, he was even more lethal than his teammate overall by being the event's top fragger with 0.85 KPR (and the most total kills - 355), as well as being the hardest to kill with 0.56 DPR. He was also great in clutch situations, winning 6 rounds 1vsX (5 x 1vs1, 1 x 1vs3).

Note: This ranking is based on Rating (read about it here). It doesn't necessarily represent an ordered list of the best players at the event, but instead singles out the ones who played good in their matches using the formula described in the page linked above.

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Top Awpers

The player with the most awp kills per round was quite unexpectedly from team TitaNs - Toh "squall" Ghim. Although Ghim wasn't very successful overall, he played very well with the awp, which he used for 47% of his kills. At 2nd place is TyLoo's Xue "GoodRifle" Chao, who is among top awpers for the second event in a row after being 4th in Shanghai.

#	Player	Team	awp Kills	awpKPR	% of kills
1.	Toh 'squall' Ghim	TitaNs	43	0.23	47%
2.	Xue 'GoodRifle' Chao	TyLoo	78	0.22	32%
3.	Harley 'dsn' Örwall	fnatic	82	0.20	27%
4.	Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg	fnatic	57	0.14	16%
5.	Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang	WMF	44	0.13	18%
6.	Jarosław 'pasha' Jarząbkowski	Fx	39	0.13	17%

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Top Pistol Round players

Two TyLoo players, Bingyuan and Lai "xf" Xuefeng, did great in pistol rounds, but the rest of the team didn't back them up very well, so they only won 10/26 first rounds (38%). On the other hand, fnatic and MYM won 67% of their pistol rounds and they each had one player stand out.

#	Player	Team	PR KPR	PR DPR	PR Rating
1.	Li 'tb' Bingyuan	TyLoo	1.23	0.77	1.66
2.	Eduard 'ed1k' Ivanov	MYM	1.00	0.58	1.42
3.	Lai 'xf' Xuefeng	TyLoo	1.00	0.77	1.36
4.	Jakub 'kuben' Gurczynski	Fx	1.04	0.67	1.35
5.	Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg	fnatic	1.00	0.63	1.33

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Top Entry-kill players

No one really impressed as far as entry killer stats go, but a few players did stand out from the rest. MYM's in-game leader Ivanov surprisingly did well in opening duels, as did the more expected Lindberg and Kubski. TyLoo's Xuefeng was good in this category as well, while fnatic's Ståhl is among the top 5 entry killers once again, after DH Summer and Shanghai.

And here are a few possibly interesting stats involving entry kills:

• TitaNs have won only 8 of 111 (7%) rounds when one of their members died first
• Gux breaking the barrier was a great sign for fnatic in a round, as they won 46 of 51 times when he got the first kill
• losing their in-game leader ed1k early proved impossible for MYM to make up, as they lost 14 of 15 rounds when he died first

#	Player	Team	EKpR	EDpR	EK-DpR	Won%
1.	Eduard 'ed1k' Ivanov	MYM	0.14	0.09	+0.05	61%
2.	Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg	fnatic	0.13	0.08	+0.05	60%
3.	Filip 'Neo' Kubski	Fx	0.15	0.10	+0.05	59%
4.	Lai 'xf' Xuefeng	TyLoo	0.12	0.08	+0.04	61%
5.	Rasmus 'Gux' Ståhl	fnatic	0.12	0.09	+0.03	57%

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MVP nominations

Seeing as two different competitions were played during e-Stars, it's harder to measure a team's success and nominate players based on that. But still, MYM didn't achieve much in either competition, so their players aren't considered.

On the other hand, Wemade FOX didn't really have a player who stood out despite reaching the final of KotG, as all 5 of their members pulled their weight. That leaves the two fnatic stars, Alesund and Lindberg, along with KotG winner's best player Kubski and TyLoo's Bingyuan, who performed high above expectations.

So, take your pick between these four players for who you think performed best at the e-Stars event in Seoul, including both the Continental Cup and the King of the Game competitions.

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That concludes our coverage of e-Stars 2010, so as always feel free to leave your opinion on the matter and the reasoning behind your choice in the comments below. You can check out the rest of the stats from e-Stars here. Stay tuned to HLTV.org as we will continue bringing you top-notch coverage!