s1mple - owner of the most number of MVPs in the history of CS:GO

Natus Vincere team sniper Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev took the first place in the top of the players who have received the most MVPs in the history of CS:GO.

In total, s1mple has earned 21 MVP medals in his career, with one of them being at a major. Below we provide you with the whole list of tournaments where Aleksandr received the MVP award:

1. ESL One: New York 2016
2. DreamHack Open Winter 2017
   
3. StarLadder & i-League StarSeries Season 4
   
4. DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018
   
5. StarLadder & i-League StarSeries Season 5
   
6. CS:GO Asia Championships 2018
   
7. ESL One: Cologne 2018
   
8. BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2018
   
9. StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 7
   
10. IEM Katowice 2020
    
11. ESL Pro League Season 12: Europe
    
12. BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020 
    
13. DreamHack Masters Spring 2021
    
14. StarLadder CIS RMR 2021
    
15. IEM Cologne 2021
    
16. ESL Pro League Season 14
    
17. PGL Major Stockholm 2021
    
18. BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021
    
19. BLAST Premier: World Final 2021 
    
20. BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2022
    
21. IEM Cologne 2022
    

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And here is the whole top of players by the number of MVP medals received looks like this:

1. Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev - 21 medals
2. Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz - 19 medals
   
3. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut - 16 medals
   
4. Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund - 10 medals
   
5. Kenny "kennyS" Schrub - 10 medals
   

On September 27, 2023, Valve released CS2 to the public, thus ending the CS:GO era. ESL Pro League Season 18, which was won by MOUZ, was the last major LAN championship in the history of the game.