The EVPs and Best Five of BB Dacha Belgrade S2

Spirit's swift raid of BB Dacha sees them leave with three individual awards to their name.

Spirit's demise was, perhaps, called too soon. Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov and Sergey "⁠hally⁠" Shavaev's men won all but one map, 61.2% of rounds, and had a 15-5 record in pistol rounds.

They were back to their front-running best, and so was Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets. It's his fourth MVP of the calendar year, and the fourth LAN he finished on or above 1.00 kills per round.

The 17-year-old's charge at the Player of the Year trophy is far from over, and he used his MVP interview to prove just how high his standards have climbed towards being.

IEM Cologne, where Spirit exited in last place, will live long in donk's memory — and might still prove deadly when it comes to award season.

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donk: "To make up for [Cologne] we need to play on a decent level four or five more events"

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It's so often the rifler in a superteam that has to settle for an EVP award from MVP numbers, but in a donk team it's AWPer Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov with that fate.

sh1ro was the second-best at the event in rating, KD-Diff, ADR, KPR, 1+ kill rounds, and Impact. You can guess who was first.

sh1ro did outshine donk in the grand final, though, where he topped the rating board with 1.48 and a 9-2 record in opening duels. Regardless, his wait for a Spirit MVP goes on.

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Jimi "⁠Jimpphat⁠" Salo was MOUZ's best player in their meaningful map wins (1.60 rating, Dorian "⁠xertioN⁠" Berman second on 1.28) and in the four maps that eliminated them (1.18 rating, Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás second on 1.16).

He also hit sky-high peaks of 1.59, 1.99, and 1.91 ratings in three of the four maps that confirmed MOUZ's top-three placing.

While at the end of the year, defeat to Eternal Fire means the event will be looked back on with some regret by the MOUZ squad, very little of that blame can be squared on Jimpphat's shoulders.

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Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker earns his first EVP since his MOUZ days by being the driving force behind Eternal Fire's run to the final — culminating in a 30-frag overtime win over MOUZ themselves.

The Turkish sharpshooter had a 1.33 rating in EF's lower-bracket map wins, a run that featured victory over HEROIC (No. 17), FURIA (No. 16), paiN (No. 14), and the aforementioned MOUZ (No. 3).

All were higher-ranked than woxic's Eternal Fire, and all felt the impact of his AWP (0.37 AWP KPR, 1st).

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Myroslav "⁠zont1x⁠" Plakhotia squeezes into the list for his second EVP of the year after a solid event that ended with him taking over Vertigo and Mirage in the grand final against Eternal Fire.

He matched donk and sh1ro's record of 0.14 opening KPR and was the fourth highest-rated CT player at the event from his anchor positions.

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Best Five

Spirit's dominance is borne out in the Best Five, with chopper joining his three main fragger EVPs alongside MOUZ's Jimpphat.

chopper gets the nod ahead of overachieving captains Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli and Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt primarily because of the dominance of Spirit.

We know they are a gameplan-heavy team, meaning much of their success should be credited to coach hally too, but chopper also deserves props for executing those plans so effectively to blitz teams out of the server.

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Honorable mentions

torzsi came closest out of the rest of the pack, putting up a fight in MOUZ's collapse but not doing enough beforehand.

Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş fell short of a second 2024 EVP by playing slightly worse against tougher opposition, lacking the full CV of peaks to crack the list.

paiN earned a top-four finish but did so as a team; biguzera ends on a higher rating than the others but largely because he was more consistent rather than massive impact.

Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo had the best map of the tournament with a 2.52 against Eternal Fire but lost the series, and needed more elsewhere for an EVP.

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MVPs and multiple EVP winners

donk adds a fourth MVP, though it is important to remember his two BB Dacha MVPs are of less value than bigger events.

Still plenty more running left in this increasingly intriguing No. 1 race.

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