The 8th player on the 2021 TOP20 list came out in the early hours of this morning, and he is the Latvian Berserker YEKINDAR from the VP team.
The 22-year-old has been playing in the field for nearly 5 years, and like many professionals, he first played grassroots games in his hometown, first appeared at HLTV in 2017 to play for the Wolveung team, and as the number of games increased, his performance in the game has become more and more stable. At the GameOn III Finals in Lithuania, he was spotted by Hoch (now Entropiq coach). Hooch said: Hey, we need this idiot. After the game, he switched to EPG for 8 months, where he experienced cS:GO at a higher level and met current Entropiq players such as El1an and NickelBack. At the time, they had picked out Spirit in the semi-finals. Gradually, the little madman and El1an stood out from the crowd, and they even beat NaVi 2-0 in the ECS S5 Challenge Cup, but the small temple of EPG was obviously unable to hold these two true gods.
YEKINDAR then briefly spent a month at forZe, eventually signing up to pro100 in October 2018. His strength has increased day by day during this period, with 1.47rating in the 2019 DELHI Invitational and 1.32rating on 9 charts on 2019 Tsibanja Luka. Later, in the match to the Rio CIS region, the little crazy brother scored 1.22rating in 11 pictures, and although their team tied for the penultimatary, they also beat VP 2-0, and the performance of the little crazy brother impressed the VP.
In May 2020, VP signed YEKINDAR, injecting new vitality into the team. After a gradual understanding among the players, he participated in a number of tournament qualifiers, including YEKINDAR's 1.39rating and the Flashoint 2 ticket for VP. VP beat NaVi 2-0 in the IEM New York CIS RMR, a game where the little maniac scored a game-high 1.41rating.
Flashpoint 2 was an important stop for VP's strong rise, and they defeated the world's 5th BIG, the world's 6th OG and the world's 13th Fnatic (both higher than the VP ranking) to win the championship. The total number of first kills of the little crazy brother is 84, with an average of 0.16 first kills in the game, and he is obviously the best sharp soldier.
Moving on to 2021, the beginning of January VP won the championship without losing a picture. YEKINDAR played the 3rd of the tournament with 1.22rating, 87 ADR and a staggering 1.48 Impact, and won the 1st EVP with excellent statistics. In the subsequent top event IEM Katowice, VP eliminated NIP, Little Bee and Black Panther from the loser group to advance to the round of 6, and then eliminated team A and liquid to advance to the final. Only in the end, they lost 1-3 to Red Star and won the runner-up. Yekindar scored 1.28rating and 92 ADR in 17 charts, and his strength and the effect on the team are obvious.
On the EPIC CIS RMR, although VP was not in good shape at first, it still won the second place. In particular, after the winner group lost 0-2 to Akuma, he killed Akuma 2-0 from the loser group, and finally lost to Red Star and won the runner-up. After the VP fell into a trough, YEKINDAR's lone wolf breakthrough was obviously targeted, although Jame and the little crazy brother duo had previously achieved good results, but the team was still not enough with these two firepower, IEM autumn RMR, the team replaced SANJI and replaced by FL1T.
At the Stockholm Major Challenge, VP advanced to the Legends tournament with 3 wins and 1 loss, with the only loss to FaZe. In the Legends game they narrowly defeated the Little Bee, but were beaten by NaVi and also lost to Red Star 14:16. In the face of elimination, the little crazy brother and FL1T have stood up, successively BO3 eliminated MOUZ and FaZe, with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses to advance to the top 8. The little madman got the signature stamp of the contestants on his first major trip (only the top 8 players in the Major this year have it), but unfortunately they were defeated by Heroic in the championship match, which stopped here, but his performance was obvious to all.
He is one of the best breakouts of 2021, with a high lower bound and stability. 53% gun success rate, ranking 1st with a first kill of 0.18 per turn. With an 18.6% kills per game, he ranked 10th, with an ADR of 84.5 in third place and a large number of assists, resulting in his impact as high as 1.36 in third place. He also has an assist-to-kill ratio of 86% and a kill-to-kill ratio of 0.74 per turn. His aggressiveness pays off for VP, ranking 5th with an average kill of 1.07 and 2nd with 113.8 average damage. He finished 9th with 1.14rating in the competition. In 21 years, VP only won 1 title, but he won 4 EVPs in Villa Cup 7, IEM Katowice, EPL S13 and IEM Autumn, which combined ranked 8th. In 2022, let's see how the little crazy brother will change.