NiKo\u2019s LAST DANCE? The stats behind FaZe\u2019s IEM New York renaissance Before IEM New York 2020, FaZe Clan\u2019s CSGO team had gone 338 days before winning an event at Blast Copenhagen in 2019. After taking the top spot in the EU IEM, Nikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kova\u010d showed why the elite talent would be missed if this really was the last dance with FaZe. There\u2019s no sugar-coating the FaZe star\u2019s woes in the last year, that was only made more apparent with the team\u2019s placements at events. Up until October 2020, FaZe failed to make any notable finals and posted an 11th place finish at CS Summit 6, 9th-12th at ESL One Cologne, as well as a 13th-14th placement at ESL Pro League Season 12. This didn\u2019t help public perception for Niko, who was starting to notice CSGO fans\u2019 flak towards his own IGL capabilities and new teammates on the roster. Throughout 2020, Niko actually hasn\u2019t been having a bad year. His HLTV rating for the year is sitting at 1.11, a decline from the 1.19 and 1.18 ratings for 2019 and 2018, respectively. The Bosnian has never posted below 1.04 at an event this year. IEM New York could serve as a turning point in FaZe\u2019s fortune so far. Not only did the team take top billing, Niko soared above his squadmates with a 1.28 event rating with 22.3 kills per map with 55.1% headshot rate to boot. With questions in the air about Niko\u2019s future in FaZe, the 23-year-old star\u2019s performance at IEM could be an indicator of better things to come as long as he\u2019s on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NiKo\u2019s LAST DANCE? The stats behind FaZe\u2019s IEM New York renaissance Before IEM New York 2020, FaZe Clan\u2019s CSGO team had gone 338 days before winning an event at Blast Copenhagen in 2019. After taking the top spot in the EU IEM, Nikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kova\u010d showed why the elite talent would be missed if this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}