TOP 10 best players in 2021: 10th place - device

EGamersWorld is launching a series dedicated to the best players of the season. The top 10 players of 2021 are opened by device, which, in our opinion, had a good, but not bright enough season, based on the past performances of the esports player.

You can familiarize yourself with the criteria and see a description of the assessment parameters inourprevious material.

The season for the 26-year-old Dane began with Astralis. At that time, if there were any talks about the player's departure, it was only as rumors. At the same time, the Danish team immediately reached the final of BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020, in which they lost only to NAVI.

However, subsequent results have forced device to look for other career options. As we know, the player has lived in Stockholm for the past several years, which does not directly fit with the long bootcamps in the Danish capital. In addition, the cybersportsman met with Emilia Hult for a long time, which, in many ways, became the reason for his move to Sweden.

Already in April, the player made an important decision - to leave Astralis and move to the promising Ninjas in Pajamas project. The new story in device's career was going well at first, as the Swedish team took second place at FLASHPOINT 3, effectively guaranteeing themselves a participation in the home PGL Major 2021.

However, in the future, the team began to decline, while the Dane himself began to show a very mediocre game, giving more and more reasons to doubt the correctness of his transition. During this segment of the season, the team managed to fail at IEM Summer 2021 and IEM Cologne 2021, while device barely crossed the positive threshold of its K/D at the indicated championships.

Another breakthrough came in the fall, when Ninjas in Pajamas won the last RMR tournament of the season, while device itself was voted the best IEM player in Fall 2021 Europe.

However, the Dane will stop there, having shown a very bleak game at PGL Major Stockholm 2021, without becoming the leader of his team, which barely managed to crawl to the playoff stage. At the same time, device failed the next tournament - BLAST Premier Fall Final 2021. In general, Ninjas in Pajamas looked disassembled, while the sniper himself did not dismantle the confident CS.

As a result, the player's season ended prematurely. As it will become known later, the device burned out emotionally, which is why it decided to pause his career. Without him, the team finished IEM Winter 2021 and BLAST Premier Global Final 2021, and failed to show themselves at a short distance without the help of a star sniper.

Why did device take tenth place?

For a player of this caliber, device had an average season in terms of achievements and personal stats. Only at IEM Fall 2021 Europe was the Dane recognized as the best player, while all other tournaments can hardly be included in his piggy bank.

Device statistics for the season:

• Rating - 4.2875.
• ADR - 76.7.
• K/D - 1.16.
• Impact - 1.20.
• The number of clutches is 56.
• The number of cards played is 164.

The 26-year-old Dane finished the season with a 1.13 rating. Considering the statistics of the past years, this year turned out to be unlucky for device. The transition to a raw team, difficulties on the personal front, the growing number of rumors and the premature end of the season are only indirect signs of failure.

At the same time, device was still the best player in Ninjas in Pajamas, taking on the duties of not just a sniper, but also an entry fragger. Statistics also speaks about the high influence of the player on the success of the team. However, lack of consistency, lackluster play in the main tournaments of the season, and failure at PGL Major 2021 - all these factors prevented device from being higher in our ranking.