NRG talent Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov has earned the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award of IEM Shanghai by HLTV.org and betway.

The Bulgarian hot-shot won the race of the award after inspiring NRG to win the title at the Chinese event with a team-leading 1.34 average rating - the highest overall.

CeRq, who had just one below-average rating in Shanghai, played his best games in the playoffs, especially in the final against TYLOO - a match he finished with a 1.87 rating/+35 KDD.

CeRq secures the MVP medal

Besides leading in rating, the 18-year-old had the highest KDD (+58), damage difference per round (+22.8) and kills per round (0.83) of all players. He was also rated second in support rounds (24.7%), third in AWP kills per round (0.45) and fourth in opening duel success rate (64.5%).

This is the very first MVP award that goes to CeRq, who has been on NRG's books since August 2017.

Note: The MVP was decided at this point due to holidays.

Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Age: 18 Team: NRG Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 551 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.63 NRG #9 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov TYLOO #12 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto

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