Mad Catz ViennaMad Catz: Top players - Introduction
The first big event of 2013 is two weeks gone and we've taken the time to analyze its star performers. Starting with Mad Catz Invitational, we will try a different format of presenting our "Top players", this time actually ranking them and separating the list into several parts.
The event in Vienna, Austria named Mad Catz CS:GO Invitational attracted 16 teams from all over Europe who fought for a 10,000€ prize purse. As everyone probably knows, Ninjas in Pyjamas once again ran away with the biggest cheque, taking home 6,000€, although this time after defeating a new opponent in the final - former Danish squad of Anexis.
As we have done many times in the past, we will present you our Top players of the event, but this time in a somewhat changed manner. Instead of having all the players and stats bundled in one place, we will split them up into several articles. The biggest change however will be that we will actually rank players in a similar fashion to what we did for our Top 20 players of the year series, mainly based on statistics but also on performances in big matches (tougher opponents, playoffs) and influence on team's success.
That means that while acknowledging that there are different roles in CS and that players make impact on rounds in many different ways (f.e. in-game leaders' influence can't be measured in stats), in order to make this kind of ranking as objectively as possible we have to pull a statistical line somewhere between which players we can call stars and which not.
The main way to separate them apart from the obvious (best fraggers, AWPers, etc.) is consistency, and to judge that on a tournament level we will only consider players who had more kills than deaths and rating of at least 1.00. We will assume that the players who don't meet that criteria have likely either had their high peaks outweighed by some very bad performances, or have performed below average in most of their matches, or simply have roles in their team that deny them a star status.
At Mad Catz CS:GO Invitational 30 out of 80 players fulfilled those conditions. We chose 21 who are worth singling out, and after a lot of analysis sorted them by the above mentioned criteria. Before focusing on those 21, here is a chart showing how all 30 are distributed by countries:
With 13 nations represented, France tops the list with 6 players from three teams, followed by Sweden with 5 players (or better said the entire NiP team), and Ukraine and Poland with 4. Germany had four teams at the event, but they weren't very successful, so only 2 of their players stood out (another two who played for the best placed German team TCM wear the Greek and Turkish flags).
Additionally, as you'll notice unlike in our previous analysis, we will also rank some exceptional performers whose teams didn't make it to playoffs, but their positions will take a big hit due to the lack of team success.
HLTV.org's Top players of Mad Catz Invitational:
The first part will be announced at the same time as this article, while the second will come a few days after. By this time next week, the list should be completed with part four. In the meantime go ahead and browse our stats section dedicated to this event here.
Mad Catz: Top players - Part 1
Mad Catz: Top players - Part 2
Mad Catz: Top players - Part 3
Mad Catz: Top players - Final part
We hope that you will keep with us throughout the week and that this change of the presentation format will give each player more time under the spotlight. Stay tuned to HLTV.org and feel free to tell us what you think about the ranking, each player and even each stat.
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