The 4th player in the 2021 TOP20 list was released in the early morning this morning, he is the Russian player sh1ro from the Gambit team.
Sh1ro, 20, first appeared on HLTV's record in 2018 and played in the early days of his team lineup changed frequently, switching to Team7, FLuffy Gangsters and aim0d. However, the young sniper still showed amazing talent, getting excellent statistics in many qualifiers, such as the MSI MGA 2018 closed qualifiers, and even after losing to forZe, he still got 1.37rating.
As early as May 2018 sh1ro and nafany have been teammates
It wasn't until September 2018 that Sh1ro and Nafany joined the Vyalie Pitoni team together and finally had a stable squad. They gained a lot of experience during this period and won a series of budget matches. In the 2018 WESG Russia division, they defeated the small rocket Winstrike (yesterday introduced Ax1Le as said that their two armies fought), defeated teams such as Shark Vega and Valance in the DH Atlanta 2018 Open Qualifiers. In the end, it only lost to Vitality, sh1ro also had 1.23rating. After the above performance, he received a call from F_1N inviting him to go to the Gambit trial.
After his first tryout, Sh1ro was confirmed to stay, and in April 2019 he joined the Star Red Star academy, where he showed great potential at the Copenhagen Games Festival qualifiers that month, beating GODSENT. For the remainder of 2019, they beat Winstrike twice, and in the CIS esports Pro Championship, they beat shark Vega and the then-popular AVANGAR, with sh1ro taking 1.48rating out of 11 charts. Also winning the first offline event MSI MGA 2019 championship, SH1ro has become a well-deserved star of tomorrow.
They did well in 2020 in qualifiers and small competitions for major events, but stagnated once they faced higher intensity confrontations, and they have been hovering around the top 30 in the world during this time. It wasn't until the middle of the year that the 5 youngsters improved, winning two small games, and sh1ro played a crucial role, with 1.37+ ratings in 4 consecutive games.
The real change in the team is the addition of veteran HObbit, who is clearly helping the young team grow rapidly with his experience and rifle prowess. Sh1ro said: "In every next game and training, HObbit will pass on the experience to us, he has changed my view of the game, thanks to him, we can play against the strongest team in the world. No matter what the crisis, HObbit can keep calm and help us out of the predicament. ”
They beat VP in the second half of 2020, performed well in the IEM New York CIS group stage but failed to defeat NaVi, and then reached the final four of the DH December Open.
At the 2021 DH January Open they reached the final four again, finishing runners-up at Snow Sweet Snow 1. In February sh1ro and four other young people participated in the heavyweight event - IEM Katowice, in the first game against the A team, in the loser group successively eliminated MOUZ, Heroic and G2 to advance to the top 6, and then eliminated NaVi 2-0, 2-0 swept Spirit to advance to the final, and finally defeated VP 3-1 in the final to win the first major competition. They defeated 4 TOP10 teams, including world number one, sh1ro scored 1.27rating on 17 maps, a net kill of 111, and a staggering 19 endgame 1VX victories, earning him MVP.
After IEM Katowice they blew a red whirlwind, and won the EPL S13 runner-up, the DH Spring Championship Runner-up, the EPIC CIS RMR Champion, the IEM Summer Championship, the BLAST Spring Finalist, the StarLadder CIS RMR Runner-up, the IEM Cologne Round of 6, the EPL S14 Round of 8, the IEM Autumn RMR Champion... (Write this paragraph for 3 consecutive days, see the first two articles for details)
Next up is the most important Stockholm Major, where the Legendary Red Star advanced to the quarter-finals with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss, and won the Black Panthers 2-0 in the quarter-finals. But in the Major semi-finals, they fell in front of the natural winners, and later sh1ro said: "We played NaVi too many times in a year, we racked our brains to come up with new ways to beat them, but in Sweden we had a lot of pressure at the time and we couldn't cope with it, it was a good lesson, next time we will perform better." ”
After major, they won the V4 Future Esports Festival, the IEM Winter Round of 6 and the 2nd place in the BLAST World Finals. Although the 2021 Red Star is overshadowed by the light of NaVi, for these Russian guys from the grassroots race, 2021 has soared.
In 2021 sh1ro is one of the best endgame players, the hardest fighters to die, the best snipers and the ones who have won the most awards. His average of 0.52 deaths per round is not only the first in 2021, but also the first in the history of the TOP20 charts, surpassing Markeloff's previous record of 0.53 in the CS era. He ranks 5th with an average of 0.76 kills per game, and sh1ro is 1st with 112 wins under the 1VX of the endgame. AWP ranks 3rd with 0.44 kills per turn and 1st with a 69.6% first kill success rate. He also had an average rating of 1.14 above the top 20 at last year's lowest rating, and won 6 titles, 3 MVPs and 11 EVPs in 14 events, making him one of the most awarded of any player. He ranks 3rd with an average rating of 1.24, but remains 3rd at 1.22rating in major events. So far, his data is far ahead among the players who have been announced, but 2 of his 3 MVPs are not major events, and the performance of the top 5 team against the top 5 team in the major tournament knockout stage will drop to 1.15 rating in the 4th place, and his personal performance compared to the top 3 players does not affect the round victory too much, so in summary sh1ro ranks 4th, looking forward to 2022 he can meet stronger and complete the transformation.