Vitality superstar Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut is the Most Valuable Player of ESL One Cologne 2019 by HLTV.org and betway. The French youngster secured the award after inspiring Vitality to a runners-up finish in Germany with a tournament-leading 1.33 rating across 17 maps played. ZywOo was on a 13-map streak of 1.00+ ratings ahead of the grand final, putting up key performances all throughout the French team's lower bracket run in the group stage. He kept up a fantastic level in the playoffs, which included an out-of-this-world 1.87 series rating against NRG and a 1.36 rating versus Astralis, pushing Vitality to the grand final. Although he recorded his only two below-average maps in the grand final against Liquid, the 18-year-old was still a key performer in the title decider thanks to great play on Dust2 and Inferno. That helped him fend off a threat from Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski, the biggest candidate for the award from the winning side. With two big-event MVPs to his name in 2019, ZywOo has now tied his aforementioned American rival after winning his first at ECS Season 7 Finals a month ago, and overtook him with three in total this year combined with his accolade from cs_summit 4.NRG #6
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Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold
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Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Age: 21 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 1115 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.69
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Age: 18 Team: Vitality Rating 1.0: 1.31 Maps played: 467 KPR: 0.88 DPR: 0.62
Liquid #1
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Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
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Astralis #4
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Vitality #3
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Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut