Astralis' Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif is the winner of the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award of the IEM Katowice Major by HLTV.org and betway.

The 20-year-old capped off a fantastic individual tournament with a 1.28 rating in the 2-0 victory against ENCE. He was only the fourth-best rated player on Astralis in that match but still ended the tournament with the highest playoff rating on the team, 1.37.

That ended up being the deciding factor in the race for the MVP award and what set him apart from teammate Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth, who was another strong contender for the medal.

Magisk is the MVP of IEM Katowice

Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz, Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen and Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev were all also in the running for the honour but ultimately fell out of contention, with Sami "⁠xseveN⁠" Laasanen being the only ENCE member worthy of a mention.

Magisk had the highest KAST of the tournament (80.0%) and was in the top five in six other stats categories, including rating (1.28), damage difference per round (+16.2) and percentage of support rounds (25.3%).

This is the second MVP medal of his career, after also claiming the honour at BLAST Pro Series Lisbon, the last tournament of 2018. He also becomes the third different player to be named the MVP in Astralis' Major winning runs, after Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye, who is currently playing for North, and device.

Below you can find the list of the MVPs of the 14 Majors held so far:

DreamHack Winter 2013: Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell
EMS One Katowice 2014: Jarosław "⁠pashaBiceps⁠" Jarząbkowski
ESL One Cologne 2014: Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg
DreamHack Winter 2014: Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer
ESL One Katowice 2015: Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer
ESL One Cologne 2015: Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist
DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca: Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub
MLG Columbus: Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David
ESL One Cologne 2016: Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David
ELEAGUE Major Atlanta: Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye
PGL Major Krakow: Dauren "⁠AdreN⁠" Kystaubayev
ELEAGUE Major Boston: Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik
FACEIT Major: Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz
IEM Katowice: Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif

Marcelo 'coldzera' David Age: 24 Team: MIBR Rating 1.0: 1.20 Maps played: 956 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.61 Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Age: 27 Team: VitalityB Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1383 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.66 Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen Age: 25 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 1405 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.65 Nicolai 'device' Reedtz Age: 23 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 1285 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.63 Emil 'Magisk' Reif Age: 20 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 865 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.63 Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Jesper 'JW' Wecksell Age: 24 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 1437 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.68 Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Age: 20 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1191 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66 Tarik 'tarik' Celik Age: 23 Team: NRG Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1014 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67 Adam 'friberg' Friberg Age: 27 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 1393 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev Age: 29 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 1264 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.69 Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 1445 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.65 Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen Age: 24 Team: ENCE Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 759 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.67 Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer Age: 27 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 1199 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65 Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Age: 23 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 1462 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.61 ENCE #9 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenJere 'sergej' Salo Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 1567 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.69 North #11 Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeCasper 'cadiaN' MøllerPhilip 'aizy' AistrupNicklas 'gade' GadeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Age: 21 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.23 Maps played: 959 KPR: 0.85 DPR: 0.66 Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub Age: 23 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 1403 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.63