The final stage of the WePlay Academy League is in full swing. Four esports organizations are trying to determine which one has the most promising CS:GO roster of youngsters. Luckily, missing out on the online stage is not a big deal: today, the CS.MONEY Blog is going to tell you the most important things about the event, take a look at the inventories of the best players of the online stage — m0NESY, nilo, prosus, szejn, and phzy, and highlight their best plays. Let’s go!
WePlay Academy League
WePlay Academy League Season 1 features eight teams. All of them have one thing in common: they are academy teams of the major esports organizations. The format of the competition is pretty straightforward. The tournament is divided into two stages: the group stage (held online) and the playoff (LAN, which started yesterday at the WePlay Esports Arena Kyiv).
During the group stage, each team faced all of the other squads twice — a double round-robin format. The top four teams qualified for the LAN finals in Kiyv.
Mouz NXT, Young Ninjas, BIG Academy, and Fnatic Rising will determine the best academy team within the Olympic knockout format. The champion of the event will receive $45,000. The total prize pool of the tournament amounts to $100,000.
Future stars
The format of the tournament is rather curious. In the group stage, each squad played 14 games. So every team had plenty of room to display their skills.
We selected five participants who showed especially great results. This list includes:
- Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov of Natus Vincere Junior;
- Hubert “szejn” Światły of mouz NXT;
- Linus “nilo” Bergman of Young Ninjas;
- David “prosus” Hesse of Fnatic Rising;
- Love “phzy” Smidebrant of Young Ninjas.
m0NESY, the AWP monster
Even though the Natus Vincere Junior team didn’t get to the WePlay Academy League playoffs, we couldn’t but mention m0NESY’s performance. The young sniper ranked first in a number of categories. He’s got the highest rating, the most frags with an AWP, and the highest score in opening duels. Bottom line: a genuine annihilation machine.
We found three AWP skins in his inventory. StatTrak™ AWP Asiimov caught our eye particularly: it has over 7500 kills on its frag counter!
szejn, the reliable support
Of all players who played 14 matches in the group stage, Hubert “szejn” Światły of mouz NXT was the most effective support. The Pole efficiently assisted his teammates in every fourth round. An excellent result, even though it exceeds the #2 record only by a whisker.
During the WePlay Academy League group stage, Hubert made 122 frags with an AK-47. By the way, he has an excellent AK-47 Case Hardened with three mouz stickers in his inventory.
nilo, the god of aiming
Linus “nilo” Bergman of Young Ninjas boasts outstanding aiming skills. He made the most headshots per round in the group stage. His headshot percentage is also high — 59%, the fourth-best result overall. Who knows, maybe Linus will want to “talk about his one-taps” in a few years.
The Swedish player is equally good with both the M4A4 and the M4A1-S. At the WePlay Academy League, he’s already done 31 frags with the M4A4 and 37 with its silenced counterpart. We decided to pay close attention to the latter, as Linus’ inventory includes a fantastic M4A1-S Nightmare.
prosus, the spearhead of attack
David “prosus” Hesse was extremely productive in the group stage. He racked up a total of 350 frags in all matches! That’s certainly a lot, but here’s another fact: every fifth of those 350 kills was an open frag. That’s the second-best result in the group stage. The only player with a higher score was m0NESY!
Most of the time, the German player used an AK to make his open frags. For example, in the match against BIG Academy on Inferno, he masterfully denied his opponents’ attempts to secure mid. From the spectator’s perspective, it looks like a walk in the park!
phzy, a careful victor
After the group stage, phzy ranks fourth rating-wise and fifth in terms of KAST and rounds with multiple frags. But, most importantly, he is a master of survival — phzy survive in about half of all rounds played.
And while that number doesn’t seem as badass as, say, a million headshots or a high percentage of successful open frags, you shouldn’t underestimate the importance of survivability. A player who survives in the round makes his team stronger. For instance, he’ll have to drop a device in the next round. And that’s crucial!
In the young Swede’s inventory, we found a CZ75-Auto Pole Position. That’s a great look. Considering that phzy regularly plays with an AWP, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of a backup gun!
The WePlay Academy League playoffs are in the full swing. We recommend that you don’t miss the tournament, since it features the future stars of the best European esports organizations. By the way, subscribe to our mailing list so that you don’t miss the coolest posts in the CS.MONEY Blog. The field for your email is right here.
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