nawwk named Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 MVP

3-12-2023 21:09

The Swede has won his first Most Valuable Player award.

nawwk posing with his first MVP medal in Finland

Tim "⁠nawwk⁠" Jonasson has been named the Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 MVP by HLTV and 1xBet, making this his first time earning the accolade.

The Swede won it despite being on the losing team in the grand final, as FURIA went on to claim the hardware 3-1 after winning two of Apeks' map picks and losing one of their own.

The 26-year-old edged out Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato, the other main candidate heading into the grand final, but ultimately it was nawwk's impact in round wins and his fragging that made the difference over the Brazilian, who was just as good in FURIA's map wins but didn't have quite as much impact.

A quick glance at the stats leaderboards for the event shows nawwk as the highest-rated player with a 1.28 rating. He also had the highest KDD (+63), KPR (0.84) and was second in 1+ kills per round (53.2%) and KAST (78.1%). He also had the least deaths per round (0.52).

nawwk renews deal with Apeks until 2026

This performance, which included a brilliant semi-final showing against ENCE with a 1.42 rating, a 1.81 in the first match against FURIA in the group stage, and even a second-best 1.17 tied with KSCERATO in the grand final, is a boon for Apeks, who just renewed their AWPer until 2026.

expected

2023-12-03 21:10

2 replies

Fallen robbed

2023-12-04 14:17

1 reply

Lmao, for what?

2023-12-04 19:36

Deserved

wp nawwk

deserved

2023-12-03 21:11

Wp nawwk

oh, he´s so happy ! made my day

1v9

lets fucking gooo

2023-12-03 21:12

nice

2023-12-03 21:13

He’s 26? I thought he was closer to 22-24. I swear he’s only appeared a few years ago… I love nawwk but now I wonder if apeks made a mistake signing him till he’s 28

2023-12-03 21:16

13 replies

I dont think nawwk has any intention of ever leaving since Apeks basically secured his future and can just retire without being screwed.

2023-12-03 21:18

Tbh same

2023-12-03 21:42

not like age has anything to do with how well u will play for the next 3 years

2023-12-03 21:53

7 replies

I mean it does seem that recently a lot of players have been able to perform from 25-28 but normally players start to drop off with age

2023-12-03 22:36

6 replies

f0rest still a god when he was 32-33 bro wdym

2023-12-03 23:21

I did specify normally, dupreeh, rain, device, forest, and some others have shown they can still perform good at older ages

2023-12-04 01:19

He was decent at that age, but not exactly the god he was when he was a bit younger

2023-12-04 01:36

i honestly think that with time the "golden years" for cs players will increase even more, before there weren't psychological coach, coach in general and all the structure teams have right now. It seems only logical that we will see more 30 years old still delivering not being IGL in the future.

2023-12-04 13:05

I can see that, still though if I’m and org I’d argue it’s a risky choice especially for someone like nawwk who isn’t the best awper, he’s good, but not great

2023-12-04 13:20

definitely a risky choice, my comment has footprints on the future and nawwk could not be included. But i would say it's pretty rare to see players having that long high quality career in other sports aswell, since they could lower their "league" for performance issue, we just have a smaller range of pro teams compared. So you have 30~40 godlike players instead of 100~ godlike players like in Serie A (for example, not really the same since cs team have 5 players instead of 20 teams of 23-30 players)

2023-12-04 13:29

I believe he said in an interview he started playing cs seriously around 2015-16. His first team on hltv is 2018, so it's not like he doesnt have time to still improve.

2023-12-03 21:56

If he keeps playing like this, other orgs will surely be interested in buying him out of his contract. It boosts the value of Apeks vs the big orgs with the deep pockets.

2023-12-03 23:42

big mistake signing a 30 year old player, in just 4 months he'll be 40 his career is dead after this, why would anyone sign someone whos 50

2023-12-04 07:13

What a hell? MVP Loser? Huh🥴 Brasil never will win never against european player in european tournament. Fact. On América its okay we win. Its MY opinion.

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ur opion is wrong

2023-12-03 21:48

maybe if brazil had better players? kscerato is good, but nawwk deserved it more this tournament

2023-12-03 21:52

i dont think those tournaments deserve an mvp

2023-12-04 07:30

its LAN and against top20 opposition, ofc it deserves an mvp

2023-12-04 08:22

meds

2023-12-04 01:23

Completely true!

2023-12-04 05:27

2023-12-04 11:52

Like i say ONLY europeans reply me with the same thing. Start with X ends with a. 🗣

2023-12-05 07:39

dude was insane

His photo doesn’t seems to be happy.

2023-12-03 21:20

3 replies

true

2023-12-03 21:37

He lost the final

2023-12-03 21:58

No trophy and less money = sad

2023-12-04 01:55

deserved yes

2023-12-03 21:26

2023-12-03 21:28

Deserved.

Kscerato didn’t deserve the mvp br crying so hard on twitter 😭😭😭😭

2023-12-03 21:29

A baiter beat another baiter for the MVP. HLTV Awards and Rankings all suck ass

2023-12-03 21:36

But nawwk is the better baiter than kekscrapapapotato

2023-12-03 21:44

2023-12-03 21:38

Expected

2023-12-03 21:39

This is exactly the type of player NiP need but sadly they kicked and scammed him once already so I don't think he will ever want to return to that org Deserved MVP btw

2023-12-03 21:41

Fnatic could have had that beast if only they would decide to go swedish again

2023-12-03 21:49

Add it to the list of sad MVP photos

swedish king

Deserved for tha boi, good that not for brazlul actually

2023-12-03 21:50

kscerato cant even get a MVP in a won tournament lol

nice one nawwk!

2023-12-03 21:55

another depressed MVP picture

Well deserved

2023-12-03 22:01

Wp Nawwk! +20 kd while losing is insane.

2023-12-03 22:04

2023-12-03 22:11

MVP for t3 LAN

2023-12-03 22:17

The only thing that was tier 3 is fnatic

2023-12-03 23:53

Between two baiters he was the one who deserved more.

2023-12-03 22:50

This Is Embarrassing From Furia. How You Win A Tournament But No One From Your Team Gets The MVP NOT Even Kscerato.

2023-12-03 23:20

being MVP dosent have anything to do with winning the tournament, nawwk rlly manage to perform like A MONSTER throughout the champ, but his team didnt followed up, KSCERATO performed good, along with his team, no embarass at all, ZywOo have a lot of MVP's of champs he didnt win, and he is one of the most respected players of the world.

2023-12-04 00:56

Perfect explanation, +1

2023-12-04 10:03

Brazil disband?

2023-12-04 08:11

Well deserved!

2023-12-03 23:24

why he mvp if he lost? losers don't deserve shit!

2023-12-04 01:10

2023-12-04 01:11

To the people saying he should not have got it: nawwk 1.28 rating KSCERATO 1.19 rating It is most valuable player. Not most valuable player on the winning team.

2023-12-04 01:31

That’s old man, when people start complaining about simple and zywoo getting MVP without winning. No sense loosing and gave u petty mvp

2023-12-04 04:22

I say no sense giving someone on the winning team MVP when there was someone who was quite clearly better on the losing team. Regardless of who it is. It's not as though we are comparing nawwk to Elige for instance, who had about the same rating but only played about 1/3rd of the maps by virtue of being out in round 2 of groups.

2023-12-04 08:09