The Best Players From Masters Reykjavik

After a dominant victory run on the part of Sentinels, no one was shocked to find Tyson “TenZ” Ngo topping the event leaderboard. Liquid and fnatic have also placed well with their frontrunners.

Considering that X10 dropped out pretty early, Itthirit “foxz” Ngamsaard and Patiphan “Patiphan” Chaiwong have managed themselves really well. The two achieved above average combat scores and were stronger than most Grand Finals participants. Nonetheless, the leaderboard is being spearheaded by the usual suspects. Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom has maintained his position as one of Europe’s leading figures for over a year now. Even if his team fails to attain high placements, he still puts up an amazing show anyways. At Masters Reykjavik, he averaged a combat score of 265 and a stunning 190 ADR – the highest figure at the entire event.

However, he only managed to win one out of 21 clutches. In this category, Nikita “Derke” Sirmitiv overtook him by a lot. The Finnish player mounted six clutches for fnatic. On top of that, he had the most opening kills at the entire event and almost doubled the figure of the next player in line. On the overall leaderboard, he ranked third. As the frontrunner for his team and the only Grand Finals player to somewhat hold a candle to TenZ, he definitely deserves the accolades.

TENZ: THE WORLD’S BEST PLAYER

Even before Masters Reykjavik, the young Canadian made headlines as one of the biggest VALORANT stars on the planet. His dominant style in North America has already made him famous in Europe and everyone was eagerly waiting to witness him at a LAN event. The fans’ expectations were confirmed and he was able to contend with every single European professional.

TenZ had the highest average combat score (289.4), the highest KD ratio (1.48), and the most kills per round (1.02). The only reason why he didn’t dominate the total kills category was that Sentinels barely had to play any matches. After all, he and his team breezed through the Upper Bracket. Even in the Grand Finals, they didn’t drop a single map.

Just recently, the Canadian was transferred from Cloud9 for a hefty sum. For an esport that’s this young, it’s impressive to see organizations pay seven figures for transfers. But after Masters has had more than a million concurrent viewers, this figure doesn’t even seem that absurd anymore. At the moment, TenZ is just the best player in the world – and after Masters, the entire world has gotten to know that.

Time will tell whether the top performers from Reykjavik will continue to go strong like this. At the Stage 3 Masters in Berlin, all the different regions will meet once again. Until then, TenZ is alone at the top. If he manages to keep his level up, he will remain there for some time to come.