Relying on its successful performance at the beginning of the year and high influence, Nicolai "device" Reedtz successfully won the eleventh place in this year's TOP 20 list.
Device first debuted in CS:Origins, and he participated in his first offline event at the age of 13, teaming up with Henrik "FeTiSh" Christensen before the release of CS:GO to seek higher strength improvement, and Device has not been able to stay in any team for too long, either withdrawing or being kicked, in large part because of his own lack of competitive motivation.
He began his transition to CS:GO in 2012 and initially joined the Copenhagen Wolves, which at the time included FeTiSh and Steffen "3k2" Markussen and the young Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen, although he was kicked not long after, but soon returned to the team, and at this time the team recruited Andreas "Xyp9x" H jsleth. Since then, Device's personal status has begun to improve. They didn't have much success in 2013, but he made his top 20 list for the first time when he moved to Dignitas in 2014, thanks in large part to the team's good performance in the knockout stages of the three Majors that year.
Everything began to develop rapidly from 2015, as Finn "karrigan" Andersen began to give orders, the team began to shine under the banner of TSM, device won his first MVP award with the highlight of the CCS Kick-Off final in Romania, since then his previous struggles have gradually disappeared, until the end of the year he won a total of 4 MVPs, That's enough to make it a top 3 in the annual charts after Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer and Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács.
Despite being an all-rounder before, in 2016 the device changed dramatically, and he began to become the full-time sniper of Astralis. The team's early days were always accompanied by pain and change, but after Markus" Kjaerbye "Kj rbye and Lukas" gla1ve "Rossander joined the team to replace René" cajunb "Borg and karrigan," device remained stable and won his fifth MVP medal, the ECS Season 2 Finals. This year Astralis rose to the top of the list, and in the annual list, Device became the top 3 after Marcelo "coldzera" David and Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo of the Samban Army.
"I watched a lot of demos from top snipers, and even built a Google Docs specifically to record which maps I should do some specific sniper actions on, and then tested and evaluated which ones worked for me and set my goals for the future." In the second half of the year, I also developed a program to analyze my heat map on the field to show my style of play, which helped me play more diversely, especially on the defensive side. ”
Astralis won their first Major title, atLanta's ELEAGUE Major, in early 2017. But the year quickly got tougher, as SK and FaZe were the two favourites to win the championship, and the Danish team struggled to keep up, causing the world rankings to fall again and again. Despite this, device still showed his best with 12 EVP and 1.13 grand drawouts, and it was a little unfortunate that he missed some of the events at the end of the year due to a hernia and ended up in the fifth place in the annual TOP.
Device and his teammates made history in 2018 when they became the most dominant team of all time, winning ten major tournament titles, including one Major, and Emil "Magisk" Reif also succeeded Kjaerbye in half of them. As the star sniper of the Danish team, device won 7 MVP awards and 7 EVP nominations in 17 events that year, as well as a full-year highlight of 1.24 Rating, but he could only rank in the top 2 of the year in front of the absolutely powerful Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev.
The strong performance in 2019 continued, with device winning two Major titles again. Astralis became the first four-time Major winner in history, including three consecutive Major titles, but the Snipers of the Top of the World team still couldn't fulfill the dream of TOP 1, and this time in addition to s1mple, there was a French son of genius named Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut.
2020 ushered in more challenges, as all events had to be moved online due to the pandemic, and Astralis gradually began to fall apart, with Xyp9x and gla1ve temporarily leaving the team for rest, Patrick "es3tag" Hansen, Jakob "JUGi" Hansen and Lucas "Bubzkji" Andersen having served as team substitutes in succession, but even in the case of chaos and poor performances The team's schedule is still full of queues. Despite this, Device won three MVP medals and six EVP nominations that year, and he also won his sixth top 5 ranking, and even on the Internet he had "Mr. Consistent)
"Of course I want to get a TOP 1 ranking once in my career, but if you ask me what I'm aiming for 2021, then the fifth star in my chest is much more important than everything else."
Device's 2021 quietly began, and he received a VP nomination in the first event, THE BLAST Global Finals, when Astralis lost to Status Vincere, who had already begun to show its strength throughout the year, and the Danish Sniper ended with a Rating and 1.20 influence rating of 1.09, but in the subsequent BLAST Premier Spring Group Stage, the Danish team lost to NIP and BIG The 7-9 finish struggled, and Device's data even got a higher Rating and 1.26 impact score of 1.10.
The Danish star then stood out again in IEM Katowice and EPL S13, and as the two biggest events of the year, the device won two EVP nominations with a Rating of 1.25 and 1.21.
The announcement of The device's departure from Astralis was the biggest news of the time, with the long-fighting veteran announcing his joining the Swede-made NIP team. He shined on the team, performing well in Flashpoint 3, and with a Rating of 1.12, an impact rating of 1.19, an ADR of 76.5 and 70% KAST, he helped the team to second place and win another EVP nomination of his own.
"I feel like if I can win the Major championship and create a new era by joining another team, it's more important than being the best player in the world. In a sense, this is also a kind of inheritance and imprint on CS. ------------------
However, the feeling of the pajama ninja cooled down in the following event, and the IEM Summer Race ended hastily with a score of seven or eight. NIP was eliminated by Virtus.pro in the B group losers and only got his below-average 1.0 Rating, followed by a similar result in the BLAST spring finals, where he finished in the fourth place of the team with only 1.02 netting.
IEM Ke solemnly returned to the offline mode, and the device showed a strong individual strength in the wild card stage, and the first two times they defeated LDLC and MOUZ with a Rating of 1.42. He failed to maintain his form in the main event due to NIP's troubles, losing to Gambit and Virtus.pro after winning a win against Liquid, and the Ninja in Pajamas finished in ninth to twelfth.
NIP can't shake the tension and the EPL S14 is undoubtedly a tough race, and although NIP lost two games in the group stage, it still ventured into the knockout round with a third-place finish. OG was quite anxious to play NIP in the quarter-finals, but the former won in the tiebreaker chart, while Device only got a 0.82 Rating in this BO3, and only 1.03 Rating in the whole event. But the good news is that the status of NIP is gradually starting to pick up.
device shined in blast Premier's fall group stage, with NIP beating BIG twice in three games, beating G2 once. The Danes finished with a Rating of 1.25, an impact score of 1.27 and an ADR of 80.3. The Danish team also had the best results in the IEM Fall, with Device winning his only MVP medal of the year and his five maps in the group stage. Nip then beat Movistar Riders, Vitality and ENCE in the knockout stages, and the Danish star sniper ended the event with a Rating of 1.35 in 15 match maps.
As hosts of Stockholm Major, NIP set high goals and showed great possibilities in the opening two wins against MOUZ and Astralis in the Swiss round group stage, but the next two losses to Natus Vincere and Gambit left the Danish-Swedish mixed team undecided, but in the final set of the Swiss round they still defeated the Copenhagen Flames and won one of the last two tickets to the Avicii Arena. NIP was then defeated by G2 in the quarter-finals, but Device's Rating in the knockout round of 0.92 and the Rating of the entire tournament at 1.04 were hard to accept.
Major's former NIP announced a change of lineup, this time replacing Linus "LNZ" Holt ng from Young Ninjas with Device's compatriot Danish es3tag. NIP flew to Copenhagen for the BLAST Premier Fall Finals, the second and last major tournament of the year to be open to spectators, but the ninjas in pajamas were aggressively avenged by Astralis and then eliminated by Liquid in the losers group. The device ended the event with some sort of average (exactly 1.00).
At the IEM Winter Games in Sweden, Device welcomed his final revelry of the year, earning another EVP with a Rating of 1.27 and an impact score of 1.37 and an 89.2 ADR on 11 maps. Sadly due to mental health issues, he announced his temporary departure after defeating GODSENT in the quarter-finals, and Love "phzy" Smidebrant temporarily took over his team's main sniper position, as well as the rest of 2021 including the IEM Winter Semifinals, the Grand Finals and the entire BLAST Premier Global Finals after the substitute attendance.
"NiP management and my teammates understand mental health treatment. I am also actively cooperating with the treatment for the sake of recovery, and I look forward to returning to the field at the peak of my ability to be the best of myself. ”
Why is Device the Top 11 Player of the Year?
Although he has since finished in the top five of the top 20 lists in the first six years, he is still one of the most influential players in 2021. Although he did not achieve the same world-class stable performance as in previous years, the Danes still achieved a world-seventh 1.21 rating in major events, thanks in large part to a 58.7% opening goal winning rate (ninth in the world), an 18.6% multi-kill rate (world eleventh) and 59 last-game wins (world thirteenth).
Device has won many convincing awards, including the MVP of the IEM Fall Europe and four EVPs including IEM Katowice and the IEM Winter. The 26-year-old Danish player has never been too bad, but it has only been able to play in a few competitions, which is completely inferior to the original star player level.
His other stats for 2021 are also worth noting, with a +455 KD difference of the world's eighth, a 0.13 opening kill rate of the world's tenth, a 1.14 tournament Rating and elite tournament Rating (the world's fifteenth and tenth world), the world's fourteenth 0.73 average kill rate, and the world's fifteenth 0.33 AWP average kill rate, which are limited to helping him rank outside the world's top ten.
And the lack of high-level performance in important events also makes him less than the same level of players, with an average rating of only 1.02 in the 34 map sample, while his average annual Rating is 1.17, all of which organizes him to go further on the TOP 20 list.
*Note: There is no mention of Tomorrowstar players nominated by Device