Who among the tournament participants demonstrated the most outstanding individual performance at this stage? To help you sort out this issue, we have selected the top five most outstanding players of the group stage.
"dev1ce" (Rating 7.0)
Nicolai took second place in the list of the tournament's best opening fraggers:
Also dev1ce became the best clutcher of the championship, in all matches he managed to win:
- 3 clutches - one against three
- 1 clutch - one against two
- 1 clutch - one against one
m0NESY (Rating 7.0)
The young sniper from G2 Esports gets stronger with every tournament. Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov finished the group stage with an average rating of 7.0.
It's also worth noting that Ilya was the tournament's best pistol player, with his rating being 0.060!
Of course we should not forget that m0NESY in the game against Astralis gave out an incredible ACE from the digil:
It's worth noting that it was G2 Esports that defeated the reigning major champions - Team Vitality with a score of 2:1, and also easily took down FaZe Clan 2:0.
sh1ro (Rating 6.8)
The next spot in our top list also belongs to a sniper, this time from Cloud9, namely Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov, whose average tournament rating is 6.8!
Despite the fact that the team was playing with a substitute, Dmitry still managed to lead the team into the tournament playoffs and in almost every match he held a leading position among his teammates.
It's only left to add that sh1ro took as many as 10 clutches during the group stage of the championship:
- 5 clutches one against two
- 5 clutches one against one
NiKo (Rating 6.8)
What's a top list without the star of G2, Nikola "NiKo" Kovač, who also took his place in the top for his incredible and very consistent gameplay throughout the group stage.
The player's average rating was 6.8! Also, NiKo took fourth place in the list of the best opening fraggers for the Group Stage of IEM Cologne 2023, with his rating being 0.0157!
And of course, where would we be without Nikola's wild headshots. The player took fourth place in the headshot percentage. The Bosnian hit his opponents' heads with a frequency of 55.1%!
And by the end it has to be said that it was NiKo who was the best player with regular rifles:
NiKo - perfectly shows that hard work always pays off. That's why he is the most stable player of his team.
ZywOo (Rating 6.7)
The sniper from Team Vitality, the MVP of the last CS:GO major - Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut also made it to our top list, as his rating was 6.7 for all 7 played maps!
ZywOo - took the spot of the tournament's best opening fragger with a rating of 0.174!
He also won 4 clutches for his team:
- 2 - one against three
- 2 - one against one
The playoffs of the tournament will start on August 4 and run until August 6, 2023!
IEM Cologne 2023 takes place from July 26 to August 6 in Germany. Teams are competing for a prize pool of a million dollars and a slot at IEM Katowice 2024. You can follow the schedule and results of the championship here.
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