Was NiKo better than sh1ro?

It’s not all over yet, but it will be this weekend. We can finally find out who the best player of 2021 was!

We thought we could tell that with our eyes, but we’ve realised we actually have to wait for a Danish website to tell us.

If you’ve been living under a rock, it’s s1mple, by the way.

So what was far more interesting was where the Gambit players fit in. sh1ro was confirmed as 4th, with Ax1le 5th. There were some very angry Russians, and maybe they sort of had a point.

We don’t love sh1ro - the way he refuses to take risks infuriates us - but he picked up a whole bunch of trophies, and more importantly, HLTV MVPs.

So HLTV thought he was the MVP for a decent amount of events, but not for a decent part of the year?

NiKo was incredible, especially when we got back to LAN - but the whole year wasn’t on LAN. So uh, maybe he wasn’t better than sh1ro this year?

What the hell do we know, our last top 20 had facecrack in it. Maybe we’re just wildly off here, but we can’t help but feel sh1ro can feel a little hard done by.

Not as hard done by as s1mple will feel when he doesn’t win #1, mind you.