To say that MOUZ didn't miss a beat in Beijing would be an understatement. They won all 11 maps, with only one of those maps exceeding 22 rounds.
All five players shone throughout, but Dorian "xertioN" Berman took the spoils as the MVP after a 1.53-rated playoffs ensured MOUZ left with the trophy.
While in-game leaders are not given any special treatment in the MVP race, it is worth adding just how rare this is: xertioN is the first rifling IGL MVP of a Big Event since Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander in 2019.
It is yet more validation, if we needed it, of Dennis "sycrone" Nielsen's decision to hand his 22-year-old star opener the captaincy. That move was not without risk, but MOUZ are flying.
Radar Chart Stat Glossary
Rating 3.0: HLTV's composite rating of kills, damage, survival, KAST, multis and Swing
KPRW: Kills per round win
Eco Swing: Duels won above expected value, based on equipment of a player and their opponent
Impact Rounds: Rounds with positive round swing
Round Swing: The win probability sum of a player's actions
A Game: A player's 75th percentile map
B Game: A player's 50th percentile map
C Game: A player's 25th percentile map
Vs Top 10: Rating vs top 10 teams (HLTV Ranking)
Vs Top Half: Rating vs teams who placed in the top half of the event
Rank in Team: Avg. rank within your team by rating
Map Wins: Rating in map wins in series wins
Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov
w0nderful is Counter-Strike's most in-form player with a 1.32 rating in the last month, second only to Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut at MVP events.
IEM Beijing was a tour de force for Natus Vincere's sniper, with nine player of the map (POTM) showings, a 1.42 rating and 1.08 KPRW.
He obliterated Falcons twice, was a monster in the quarter-finals against PARIVISION, and put up a fight in losses to FURIA and The MongolZ.
xertioN's 1.53-rated playoffs denied him an exceptionally rare third-place MVP, but that is the caliber of tournament we are talking about here from w0nderful.
Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás
torzsi was also in the MVP race after being MOUZ's best player in groups and maintaining a high floor all event long.
He had five standout maps, albeit no POTMs, and finished a huge 58% of rounds with a positive impact in terms of round swing. His match page is a sea of green from overtime against BETBOOM to 1.48 and 1.49 ratings in the grand final.
A better finish to the final against The MongolZ , and that sky-high floor could have taken torzsi to an even higher finish on this list.
Lotan "Spinx" Giladi
Spinx was the highest-rated MOUZ player at the event, and is next up with five standout maps of his own.
He was stronger in groups than playoffs, and two of his best maps came against world number 34 TYLOO, which kept him lower in the list, but that says more about MOUZ's dominance than any weakness in Spinx.
The team's closer was still player of the map in Dust2 in the final, and his 2.59 rating against PARIVISION was the best single-map rating of the tournament to leave him with a solid EVP.
Valeriy "b1t" Vakhovskiy
b1t was right there with w0nderful in groups with a 1.42 rating as the two Ukrainians put Natus Vincere in their backpack.
He finished the seventh-eighth place elimination game against Falcons with a 1.78 rating over three maps, a ridiculous feat.
He was player of the map five times, with another three standout maps including two in playoffs, which left him with a heap of credit despite a slow semi-final.
Sodbayar "Techno" Munkhbold
EWC 2025 MVP Techno had never earned an EVP, but that changes now after leading The MongolZ's run to the final in Beijing.
The team shared a lot of credit in that run but Techno was always in and around the top contributors; his 1.16 rating in playoffs included a 1.93 rating against MOUZ in the final and two solid maps against Natus Vincere.
Ten of the team's maps came against top 10 teams, and Techno averaged a 1.18 rating in those games. With that, and the top KPRW on his team (0.97), an elusive career-first EVP is his.
Oldřich "PR" Nový
Techno was top of his team with a 1.18 rating, but PR was fifth in his with the same number, which illustrates just how dominant MOUZ were all event long.
PR started the event slower than his teammates but was excellent in playoffs (1.32 rating) and in the seeding game against PARIVISION.
From that game onwards, his 1.33 rating is second only to xertioN, and in buy vs buy rounds PR rises to a 1.46, top of his team.
All in all, that's a ramp up that guaranteed he would cross the EVP threshold.
Adrian "xelex" Vincze
Last but not least, xelex completes the set. We haven't had five EVP+ players from one team at an event for three years, since World Final 2023, which goes to show exactly what type of event MOUZ enjoyed.
To find an event where all five players on one team were rated above 1.15, you have to go back even further to Liquid's dominance of IEM Chicago 2019.
So while xelex was MOUZ's least valuable player, he was still exceptionally valuable given his peaks (three maps above a 1.33 in playoffs) and floor (82% of maps above 1.00).
The best players of IEM Beijing 2026, in order:
Dorian "xertioN" Berman
Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov
Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás
Lotan "Spinx" Giladi
Valeriy "b1t" Vakhovskiy
Sodbayar "Techno" Munkhbold
Oldřich "PR" Nový
Adrian "xelex" Vincze
MOUZ's dominance in context
MOUZ are the first team to earn five EVP+ awards at a single event in three years, and the first team with five players above a 1.15 rating in seven.
Here are the other times a team has had all of their players above that mark at an MVP event:
Honorable mentions
Usukhbayar "910" Banzragch had a great start to the event but tailed off in playoffs to fall short of an EVP, something that is also true for Kirill "Magnojez" Rodnov and Dzhami "Jame" Ali.
Danil "molodoy" Golubenko was a smidge closer to an EVP than that trio thanks to his 30 bomb in the quarter-final against BETBOOM, but also needed more to get over the line after a poor map one and two.
In groups, Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin showed his ceiling with some great peaks, while Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski was back to his best in driving Liquid to a top-eight finish.
Yi "JamYoung" Yang, Nikita "HeavyGod" Martynenko and Santino "try" Rigal also stood out in their teams despite early exits.
All-Star
xertioN may have been MVP, but he would have earned this spot in All-Stars with a far worse rating given MOUZ's 100% map win record and 66.4% T-side win rate.
w0nderful just beat torzsi in a razor-sharp race to be AWPer of the event, thanks to the sheer volume of peaks for the Ukrainian.
Anchor was hotly contested, with PR, Techno and b1t in the race, but like in the AWPer category it's the Natus Vincere man who had the most peaks.
That means xertioN is joined by xelex as the only opener EVP, with Spinx slotting in as closer, to bring MOUZ up to their maximum of three players.
Multi-award winners
xelex joins Dmytro "dem0n" Myroshnychenko with two EVPs as the Rookie of the Year race heats up.
The EVPs of 2026
- Bounty S1
- Cluj-Napoca
- Rotterdam
- Rio
- Astana
- CAC
- XSE PL
- EWC
- FPG3
- EPL S24
- Beijing
- Krakow
- EPL S23
- Bucharest
- Rivals S1
- Atlanta
- Cologne (M)
- Bounty S2
- Porto
- StarSeries
- Masters
- The MongolZ
Yesuntumur 'nin9' Gantulga
Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren
Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold
Usukhbayar '910' Banzragch
Anarbileg 'cobrazera' Uuganbayar
Erdenedalai 'maaRaa' Bayanbat
Oldřich 'PR' NovýPast 3 months
Adrian 'xelex' VinczePast 3 months
MOUZ
Ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi
Dorian 'xertioN' Berman
Oldřich 'PR' Nový
Adrian 'xelex' Vincze
Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen
Falcons
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
René 'TeSeS' Madsen
Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Maksim 'kyousuke' Lukin
Danny 'zonic' Sørensen
TYLOO
Yi 'JamYoung' Yang
Dongkai 'Jee' Ji
Jingxiang 'Mercury' Wang
Qianhao 'Moseyuh' Chen
Su 'Zero' Jingshen
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong
Dennis 'sycrone' Nielsen
Danil 'molodoy' GolubenkoPast 3 months
Dzhami 'Jame' AliPast 3 months
Natus Vincere
Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy
Drin 'makazze' Shaqiri
Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy
FURIA
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko
Sid 'sidde' Macedo
Ádám 'torzsi' TorzsásPast 3 months
Dorian 'xertioN' BermanPast 3 months
Santino 'try' RigalPast 3 months
Nikita 'HeavyGod' MartynenkoPast 3 months
Ihor 'w0nderful' ZhdanovPast 3 months
Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiPast 3 months
Kirill 'Magnojez' RodnovPast 3 months
Dmytro 'dem0n' MyroshnychenkoPast 3 months
Liquid
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip
Liquid
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
Georgi 'Jorko' Mitev
Viktor 'flashie' Tamás Bea
Valeriy 'b1t' VakhovskiyPast 3 months
Lotan 'Spinx' GiladiPast 3 months
BETBOOM
Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov
Aleksandr 'zorte' Zagodyrenko
Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin
Daniil 'd1Ledez' Kustov
Kirill 'Magnojez' Rodnov
Artem 'Fierce' Ivanov
Maksim 'kyousuke' LukinPast 3 months
Usukhbayar '910' BanzragchPast 3 months
PARIVISION
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov
Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali
Vladislav 'xiELO' Lysov
Ivan 'zweih' Gogin
Dastan 'dastan' Akbayev
Sodbayar 'Techno' MunkhboldPast 3 months
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Mathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautPast 3 months
Yi 'JamYoung' YangPast 3 months