Demon1 wins Champions 2023 MVP award

Written By Naim Rosinski Content Manager & Editor
Last UpdatedAugust 27, 2023 at 08:26AM
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Evil Geniuses have emerged as the undisputed victors of VCT 2023 - Champions following a dub over Paper Rex in the grand finale. The 3-1 dub saw Evil Geniuses go from zero to hero as the team fell under a ton of scrutiny early in the 2023 VCT season. Yet, the team has shown nothing but progress as the season went on, until they were the ones to lift the trophy on stage in the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

And one man helped them achieve that this year. Max "Demon1" Mazanov joined EG mid-January in 2023. The 20-year-old, being a rookie to the top level VALORANT scene, emerged as one of the most dangerous players this season. Max showed his prowess at Masters Tokyo earlier this year by being in the top 5 of the best players of the event with at least 300 rounds played. At Champions, he simply became the best player of the event, and it's not even close.

Demon1 with the Champions 2023 trophy on stage following EG's dub over PRX. Photo credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games
Demon1 with the Champions 2023 trophy on stage following EG's dub over PRX. Photo credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games

Demon1 puts on a masterclass at Champions to win MVP award

Demon1 was indeed an absolute demon in Los Angeles. Over the course of the event he played 4 different Agents, with his top 3 most-picked being Jett, Chamber, and Astra. He took up the reins of Brimstone when the team faced DRX on Fracture (the only time EG played Fracture) and obviously, he was a demon on Brim as well.

Having played 7 total matches, 21 maps, and 459 rounds, Max scored an unbelievable THESPIKE Rating of 1.26, garnered an ACS of 246, maintained a K/D of 1.39, and had an average damage per round of 166.4. Absolutely sublime numbers for anyone to show for when playing at the highest level of VALORANT against the best teams in the world.

Demon1's statistics after Champions 2023 Los Angeles.
Demon1's statistics after Champions 2023 Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, if we have a look at the runners up to the event, we can see a hefty gap between the players.

LOUD's Cauan "cauanzin" Pereira and Aspas "aspas" Santos attained a rating of 1.16 and 1.14 respectively. In joint-third, Max's teammate Alexander "jawgemo" Mor also attained a rating of 1.14, showing that he was a crucial part of EG's run-up to the trophy at VALORANT Champions.

Demon1 was also named as the runner up Duelist player of the year in Americas and placed fourth in the VCT Americas MVP award in the official VALORANT end of season awards.

Make sure to check out our VALORANT player stats to see how all the players performaed at the Los Angeles VALORANT Champions event this year.

A former ESL teacher with a Master’s degree in English Studies that found his drive in esports. Merging a passion for the craft of writing with a never-ending need to out-aim others in the game of VALORANT and Counter-Strike.

Naim began his esports-writing and reporting journey at DailyEsports (now Upcomer), where he was a contributor for CS:GO. More and more enamored with esports, he quickly received a chance to attend IEM Katowice 2019 as press and managed to interview Cath, Lekr0, FalleN, and jkaem, his first dive into covering an event on-site.

With the release of VALORANT, Naim saw potential in Riot Games’ take on a 5v5 competitive shooter and joined Run It Back as a writer. After 3 months, he got promoted to a Managing Editor, managing a team of contributors and held regular brainstorming meetings to get content pumping for 3 years straight. In that time he attended Masters Berlin 2021, as well as VALORANT Champions 2022 as press on-site press.

Now, Naim is a Content Manager & Editor at THESPIKE. He keeps tabs on news, features, and evergreen content production, as well as contributing himself from time to time.

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