ZywOo claims ESL One Cologne MVP award

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.

ZywOo secures his third MVP in the last six weeks

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 Peter 'stanislaw' JarguzTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 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 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Astralis #4 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Vitality #3 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlex 'ALEX' McMeekinMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut