Best players of EPL S21
Best players of EPL S21 look stronger than ever, and with the other big dogs all struggling — Vitality didn’t play a top five team all tournament through no fault of their own — their grip at the top of the scene looks tough to break.
The team are 28-5 in maps with Robin “ropz” Kool, and 12-1 in series; there are true shades of FaZe’s start to 2022 after their own signing of the Estonian.
But unlike FaZe then, Vitality have a true superstar. This was the event Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut took over Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev’s MVP record, 22-21 overall and 15-14 at Big Events.
His raw numbers for the event beggar belief, a +4.07 Round Swing, and a full radar chart (meaning he was in the top five per cent for every single metric).
And, in an even more worrying sign for the rest of the scene, the 24-year-old is far from done.
donk – Best players of EPL S21
Danil “donk” Kryshkovets ended the group stage with a 1.74 rating, and there is no denying that is what earned him his EVP — a rare case where someone’s form is so overwhelming in groups that an award was already secured.
But it speaks to donk’s level that, even after a terrible start to Nuke against Eternal Fire in quarters, he recovered to a 24-frag 1.19 rating by the end of OT.
His floor was pretty high in the rest of playoffs too, a 1.21 rating overall, which kept his overall numbers at bonkers levels: 1.24 KPRW, +3.77 WPA, and 97.3 ADR.
m0NESY – Best players of EPL S21
Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov, by his 2024 standards, has been in a bit of a slump since Shanghai.
He had a 1.29 rating through 2024 up to the RMR, but has dropped to a 1.16 since then and just 1.08 versus top 10 opponents.
ESL Pro League, then, was a welcome return to his peak form even if it didn’t translate into team success. He was top of the tournament charts in Round Swing (+4.36) and had a multi-kill in a whopping 38.8% of G2’s round wins.
flameZ – Best players of EPL S21
Shahar “flameZ” Shushan is one of those rare players who always seems to step up in playoffs and that was the case here, a middling 1.13 in groups and 1.33 in the knockouts.
80% of his kills led to round wins and his big peak in the semi-final (1.81 rating map one, 2.37 map three) against The MongolZ demonstrated his ability to take over matches at the flick of a switch.
ropz – Best players of EPL S21
ropz was a model of consistency in Sweden, adding a second EVP to his Vitality cabinet.
He was great on both sides (1.27 CT, 1.30 T), in groups (1.31) and playoffs (1.27), and topped the event leaderboard in round-to-round consistency (79.8% KAST).
The specialist anchor-lurker may not have had too many Player of the Map performances but with a floor like this, an EVP was assured.
torzsi – Best players of EPL S21
Ádám “torzsi” Torzsás stood head and shoulders above his MOUZ teammates in terms of rating (1.15, Dorian “xertioN” Berman second with 1.08) and round swing (+1.44, Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin second with -0.26) whilst topping round wins too (0.97 KPRW) for a second EVP of his own.
In MOUZ’s map wins that gap remained with torzsi on a 1.33 rating and +3.82 round swing. The team’s numbers suffered from five convincing map losses to champions Vitality and a tough run (8 maps vs top five teams) but their AWPer kept his head above water for the final award of the event.
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