YEKINDAR Wins First MVP Award at PGL Masters

Latvian player Mareks Gaļinskis, known as YEKINDAR, won the first MVP award of his career as FURIA claimed the PGL Masters Bucharest championship. In the final against Nemiga, he was the most prominent name on the match with a 1.56 rating and outshone the other players on the server.

The leading candidates for the award were Danil "molodoy" Golubenko and Daniel "syph0" Ageyev. However, the two players did not deliver the expected performance in the final series and fell behind in the award race.

YEKINDAR ranked first in the playoff statistics. He led with a 1.37 rating, 91.6 damage per round, 0.82 kills per round and 0.18 opening kills per round. He also reached the top in round difference with 3.42 percent.

In the overall rating ranking, Aleksandr "zorte" Zagodyrenko finished ahead of YEKINDAR with 1.31 points, while YEKINDAR had 1.27. YEKINDAR did not get off to a steady start in the first three rounds of the group stage, but he recovered and finished the tournament strongly.