After nine days of high-octane action at Masters: Berlin, Gambit Esports Gambit Esports Inactive Redgar Igor Vlasov Chronicle Timofey Khromov d3ffo Nikita Sudakov sheydos Bogdan Naumov nAts Ayaz Akhmetshin beat Envy Envy Inactive Marved Jimmy Nguyen Victor Victor Wong crashies Austin Roberts FiNESSE Pujan Mehta yay Jaccob Whiteaker in a convincing 3-0 to become the last team standing. The tournament saw everything from hilariously funny stage entries to jaw-dropping clutches that put viewers on the edge of their seats.

Talents from across the world put on a show on the Berlin stage and put up the numbers to back it up. While some stars continued to prove they're worthy of the praise they often receive, other lesser-known players made the case that they are equally deserving of such adoration.

The statistics the players and teams etched into the record books help tell the story of Masters: Berlin. Here are just five of the tournament's most notable numbers.

Duelist ACS domination

ACS has always been used as a quick metric for judging player performance in Valorant matches and tournaments. Before the start of the tournament a lot of the analysts and viewers expected the likes of Tyson "TenZ" Ngo and Mehmet "cNed" Yağız İpek to dominate the scoreboard in terms of ACS — and they did, but there were two others who dominated it more.

Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker and Olavo "heat" Marcelo traded the ACS lead throughout the tournament, the latter of whom found himself eliminated in the group stage after his worst match of the tournament saw him at the bottom of the scoreboard. His performance throughout the tournament, even with the one bad game, cemented the Brazilian star as one of the best in the game.

But perhaps the most notable aspect of the tournament's top ACS list is that eight of the top 10 were duelists, and seven of those eight were Jett mains. Murillo "murizzz" Tuchtenhagen was the only duelist in the top 10 to not play Jett, instead favoring Reyna and Raze in Berlin. The only two players to make the top 10 while playing agents outside of the duelist role were ZETA DIVISION ZETA DIVISION Japan Rank #7 Laz Ushida Koji yuran Yushin Hato hiroronn Hiroki Yanai Dep Yuma Hashimoto SugarZ3ro Shota Watanabe 's Ushida "Laz" Koji Gambit's Ayaz "nAts" Akhmetshin.

The LAN Buff

Who can step up at LAN? Well, at least in Berlin, many of the game's stars could.

The player who set the benchmark for LAN performance was TenZ with his stellar play at Masters: Reykjavik. The bar he set in Iceland unfortunately was too high for even himself to repeat, although he once again showed up on LAN with the third highest ACS in Berlin. While his Berlin performance didn't match the mark he set in Iceland, TenZ still outpaced his online ACS by a considerable amount.

In fact, Berlin had no shortage of players who stepped up on LAN. Duelists, sentinels, and support players alike ended Masters with a higher ACS at Berlin than they had online in their final regional tournaments of Stage 3.

murizzz ended the tournament with the greatest improvement from his online performance by recording an incredible +36 ACS from his online ACS to LAN. His performance boost was enough to make the duelist duo of heat and murizzz the best performing duelists by ACS from any team in the entirety of Masters: Berlin.

Another player worth mentioning was cNed, whose jaw-dropping performances online made fans and analysts wonder if he could maintain such play on LAN. cNed answered these questions in typical cNed fashion, dropping 268 ACS on his trusty agent Jett and with an Operator in his hands. That ACS was enough to finish fourth in the tournament and was a +14 improvement from his online performance during VCT Stage 3: EMEA Challengers Playoffs.

Phantom Supremacy

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The playerbase has debated which of the game's two premier rifles, the Phantom or the Vandal, is the best ever since Valorant's global release. The game's players have never come to a definite conclusion and probably never will. And while it may come down to personal preference, Masters: Berlin indicated that the debate's dynamics may change when competition moves offline.

Batuhan "russ" Malgaç was the forerunner in a trend of players moving more toward the Phantom than they had in online play. His team, Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #34 sterben Emre Demirci skylen Asil Yalçın hiro Emirhan Kat CyderX Caner Demir MOJJ Buğra Kiraz Celasun Emir Celasun SouhcNi Ibrahim Sağır Izzy Baran Yılmaz , has been known for for using the Red Elderflame Vandal, but russ went from a mere 9.09% Phantom pick rate during the online VCT Stage 3: EMEA Challengers playoffs to an astounding 30.12% on LAN. His Turkish foe on Acend, cNed, also picked up the Phantom much more than usual and even went as far as acknowledging Phantom supremacy.

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Flashy Jett stars like Cista "keloqz" Wassim, TenZ, and yay stood out for picking the Phantom less, and Gambit star nAts ended up using it slightly less than he did online. But it's clear nAts still picked the Phantom whenever he had the opportunity — he picked the weapon nearly 65% of rounds.

Coming in clutch

Players and fans share something in common when it comes to clutches: they're nerve-racking. A good clutch can always change the course of a match and swing the tide in favor of the clutching team. There were plenty of clutches in Masters: Berlin, but none were likely as monumental as the 1v3 clutch by Spencer "Hiko" Martin to complete an epic comeback against Gambit Esports on Icebox. 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #9 bang Sean Bezerra Cryocells Matthew Panganiban eeiu Daniel Vucenovic Boostio Kelden Pupello Asuna Peter Mazuryk not only won that map but also shattered Gambit's mental and carried on that momentum to complete the comeback and win the series 2-1.

While Hiko might have led the tournament in total clutches, he finished just outside of the top 10 in clutch percentage. The player with the highest clutch percentage was KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Rank #4 keznit Angelo Mori Klaus Nicolas Ferrari Shyy Fabian Usnayo Melser Marco Eliot Machuca Amaro heat Olavo Marcelo 's Roberto "Mazino" Rivas by a wide margin, finishing with a whole 12% better success percentage than the player with the next highest percentage among those with at least five clutches.

Envy and Gambit both proved dominant in clutch statistics, each team finishing the tournament with at least three players racking up five or more clutch wins. Clutches played a vital role in the successful runs of Envy and Gambit without a doubt.

The Serial Killers

Multikills serve as a great metric to check how much of an impact a particular player had on individual rounds as getting an excess of one kill in a round prevents a 1-to-1 trade and puts their team at a player advantage even if they die.

Among all the players in Masters: Berlin, nAts recorded the most multikill rounds at 74 proving once again how instrumental he was for Gambit all through the tournament. He was closely followed by G2's young French prodigy keloqz with 71 mutlikill rounds.

But Gambit dominated this category overall as three of nAts's teammates joined him in the top six of the tournament's multikill list. Bogdan "sheydos" Naumov got multikills in 65 rounds, Timofey "Chronicle" Khromov got multikills in 61 rounds, and Nikita "d3ffo" Sudakov got multikills in 60 rounds. The only other player to disrupt Gambit's total domination of the category besides keloqz was yay.

(Cover photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)