Spirit's 18-year-old star "broke" Counter-Strike early with MVP titles in Katowice, Major and Cologne.

Donk with the special edition IEM Cologne medal

Danil "⁠Donk⁠" Kryshkovets won the title of HLTV x 1xbet Most Valuable Player (MVP) the ninth after becoming the champion of IEM Cologne.

The rating index 2.1 is 1.50 of the British is the highest of all MVPs at Cologne, only after the Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev in 2021, the time Covid made matches that could not be held at the Lanxess Stadium.

Only 18 years old, Donk has completed the three titles that most players spend his career to pursue: win MVP at Iem Katowice, a Major and now Iem Cologne.

Nine MVP titles after only 20 months of competition at Tier One level means Donk has balanced the total number of MVP in Nikola's career "⁠niko⁠" Kovač, and the Russian prodigy has not shown signs of slowing down. Only Christopher "⁠get_right⁠" Alesund has more MVP medals as a pure Rifler, with a number of 10.

The destination of the Cologne medal has never been really suspicious, when Donk reached an average rating of 1.47 in the playoff round while England and Spirit dominated Natus Vincere and Mouz at the stadium.

His overall index in the tournament also exceeded all reasonable standards for an MVP: +4.13% Round Swing, 1.33 kills each round, and 105.2 damage each round in the whole tournament.

The best player in 2024 is currently holding a 1.45 rating until the present time of 2025, 0.08 higher than the previous year, when he started the journey to chase Mathieu "⁠zywoo⁠" Herbaut in the race to the title of the best player in January.