TOP 10 best players in 2021: 7th place - B1T

The EGamersWorld portal continues a series of materials dedicated to the best players of the season. The seventh place in our rating is occupied by B1T - a player whose appearance in the main NAVI roster brought the team a bunch of trophies. And let's not forget that at the age of 18, Valery won almost everything that you can imagine.

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At the end of last year, the 18-year-old player was pulled up from NAVI Junior to play in several tournaments and give a break to the tired flamie. It worked out well, but the organization decided to allow time for adaptation and not make abrupt changes.

Nevertheless, after a while, B1T fit perfectly into the NAVI roster, with which it became the winner of BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020. It is interesting that the player missed IEM Katowice 2021, playing only on one map as a substitute.

However, due to Valve's new rules prohibiting teams from using substitutions during the RMR cycle, the organization was forced to permanently put B1T in the squad and replace flamie.

Such a sharp turn in his career did not go unnoticed, as for some time B1T tried to get used to the TIER-1 level. In the spring, the 18-year-old cybersport player nondescriptly finished ESL Pro League Season 13, DreamHack Masters Spring 2021, EPIC League CIS 2021 and BLAST Premier Spring Final 2021, barely crossing the threshold of the 1.00 rating.

However, already at StarLadder CIS RMR 2021, the player showed his real level, as it seems, having finally got used to his role. As a result, NAVI took the second RMR tournament of the season, after which it went to conquer IEM Cologne 2021.

In Cologne, the Ukrainian again performed beyond praise, becoming the third best player in NAVI after s1mple and electronic, finishing the championship with a rating of 1.22. And this despite the fact that for Valery IEM Cologne 2021 became the first LAN tournament in his life, albeit without spectators.

After an international pause, NAVI continued to take tournament after tournament, while B1T himself established himself as the main weapon of his team. And if the player performed well at ESL Pro League Season 14, BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2021 and IEM Fall 2021 CIS, then at PGL Major Stockholm 2021 another high point has come for Valery.

As a result, Born to Win won that Major, while B1T became the fifth player of the championship with a rating of 1.27.

The season for NAVI ended in an outstanding way, because after Stockholm, the team took control of BLAST Premier Fall Final 2021 and BLAST Premier World Final 2021. Valery himself continued to show a high level of individual play, finally closing all questions about the best transfer of the season.

Why did B1T rank seventh?

For a player who has spent their first full season at the senior level, these statistics are outstanding. For comparison, estimate the misutaaa performance in the first season for Vitality. In addition, B1T almost immediately joined the NAVI roster in order to make a huge contribution to the team's dominance during the season. At the same time, few would argue that Valery's transfer is the best in 2021.

B1T statistics for the season:

• Rating - 4.955
• ADR - 72.2.
• K/D - 1.13.
• Impact - 1.10.
• The number of clutches is 51.
• The number of cards played is 155.

B1T had a good season statistically. Yes, the 18-year-old has not received any MVP medals. Nevertheless, Valeriy was among the best at all the main tournaments of the season, not falling out of his rut, despite the format factor and the pressure from the stands.

At the same time, we must take into account the unique ability of B1T to distribute headshots, which was noted in absolutely all tournaments where NAVI played.

However, the sheer number of trophies earned during the season did not help the player get higher in the rankings. In addition, Valery was definitely not the first violin of his collective, remaining only a cog in a well-coordinated mechanism, clearly performing its tasks. However, given the lack of experience and rapid progress, B1T is located on the seventh line of our rating.