December EVPS from CS:GO

The ECS Season 8 Finals, in Arlington, marked the beginning of the last stretch of the event season. The eight-team tournament culminated with a dream final between Astralis and Liquid, with the Danes running out 2-1 victors to collect the grand prize of $225,000. Nicolai “device” Reedtz won a record 15th MVP award for his heroics in Texas, with this being his fourth medal to come from ECS tournaments. Both Astralis and Liquid provided three players to the tournament's six-man EVP list.

The two ECS finalists would fall short at the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals, where fnatic and mousesports contested the final. After watching his team cruise to a 3-0 series victory, Robin “ropz” Kool picked up his first-ever MVP medal, with three of the Estonian's teammates also featuring on the list of the tournament's top performers.

Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen was BLAST Pro Series Global Final MVP (Image: HLTV)

The event in Odense would be the last time the 2018 player of the year, Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, would make an EVP list. The Natus Vincere star ended 2019 with one MVP, from StarSeries i-League Season 7, and five EVP presences.

The four-team BLAST Pro Series Global Final rekindled the rivalry between Astralis and Liquid, though the outcome was the same as it had been in Arlington as the Danes came out victorious. This time around, it was Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen who was named the MVP, with his team also providing three of the five EVPs. The tournament in Riffa was the 12th this year in which Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski was either the MVP or among the EVPs.

EPICENTER saw Cédric “RpK” Guipouy earn his first EVP mention since we began revealing our picks for every Big Event, at the start of 2018. The 30-year-old was the third standout player from Moscow champions Vitality, together with MVP Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut and with team captain Alex “ALEX” McMeekin, with losing finalist mousesports providing two names to the EVP list.

Below you can find all the Exceptionally Valuable Players of the four Big Events that took place in December:

ECS Season 8 Finals
 Keith “NAF” Markovic
 Emil “Magisk” Reif
 Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander
 Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski
 Jake “Stewie2K” Yip
 Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen

ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals
 Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin
 Özgür “woxic” Eker
 Chris “chrisJ” de Jong
 Denis “electronic” Sharipov
 Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
 Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski
 David “frozen” Čerňanský
 Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson
 Emil “Magisk” Reif

BLAST Pro Series Global Final
 Emil “Magisk” Reif
 Keith “NAF” Markovic
 Nicolai “device” Reedtz
 Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth
 Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski

EPICENTER
 Alex “ALEX” McMeekin
 David “frozen” Čerňanský
 Robin “ropz” Kool
 Cédric “RpK” Guipouy