1- rookie of the season: MassVC<br /><br />no one really knew him, he went in round 3 and now he&#039;s the primary defender on a team with bones and blair. he&#039;s ranked 6th in frag ratio, only prime is a higher ranking rookie. mass also has a steep learning curve and the rest of sxp is getting comfier with every match as mass builds confidence holding the fort. he&#039;ll probably be an early round 2 pick next season if not better.<br /><br />higgs is an obvious contender, because he picked up doom literally just before the season started. his learning curve is insane, you have to respect how fast he got where he is, but i feel like he has it easier than mass. he just concentrates on bumrushing the flag and the team either has his back or not. i&#039;m not sure how firmly he truly grasps the flow of the game, because he has the least returns per round from the whole player pool. this tells me it&#039;s mostly an apprentice season for him, he wasn&#039;t thrown into cold water like mass was. prime and rust get a honourable mention, because they&#039;re producing similar numbers to mass&#039;, except rust lacks the true rookie aura and prime is a great def, but his team shines or falls with chain, not him. and hatred&#039;s right, turska shouldn&#039;t really get treated as a rookie. his whole &quot;rookie&quot; period lasted about as long as he was adjusting to high ping aiming. by the way, the only primary runner with more frags/round is blair, i&#039;m not kidding.<br /><br /><br />2- captain of the season: Hatred<br /><br />he has 2 rookies in his main lineup and he threw away his 2nd pick. ebl was supposed to be a trainwreck with a perfect zero season, yet they&#039;re fighting for #2-5 in idc. you have to respect how he rallied his team, how they train every week, how they produced a few awesome upsets. it&#039;s even more surprising when you consider that hatred isn&#039;t that used to highly organized ctf too. i mean he&#039;s one of the duel kings, but on paper he&#039;s one of the weaker captains when it comes to all the fancy ctf crap like flow and positioning and whatever. yo and he picked bosscoe, that&#039;s default win. perhaps he can claim the mb if he plays under &quot;hatred_brooks&quot;.<br /><br />contenders are obvious - ralphis, jenova, stallion. they are among the very best ctf players themselves and their teams are disgustingly strong. they&#039;re just doing what is expected and one of these guys will win the MB, which will be their consolation for not getting CotS.<br /><br /><br />3 - comeback player of the season: RottKing?<br /><br />this category is weird as ralph&#039;s music taste. i mean who even applies to it? just the guys who didn&#039;t play last season or even those who have a second spring after rough times?<br /><br />the former means either dev or gilga, both returned from a break and both are doing great on winning teams. gilga&#039;s team has a slightly better record, dev&#039;s team won h2h. dev&#039;s personal stats are stellar d numbers, gilga&#039;s seem average across all categories, which is logical given the various roles he was playing in different games. dev brings more to the table with his solo performance, gilga is a better team player. this is a dead race to me, tbh. playoffs will be the deciding factor.<br /><br />the &quot;reinvented&quot; category is p interesting. there&#039;s rott, who finally landed on a functional team so he can show off his immense all-around skill. he is the team glue that bridges the space between the two &quot;egotistical&quot; players in his team - jen the pure o, dev the pure turret. there is xen, who doesn&#039;t have to worry about captaining problems for once and can concentrate on his strong support game, which is especially impressive considering his laughable connection. and then there&#039;s blair, who got entirely reinvented as a ralphis-style flag enforcer and it seems to suit him just great.<br /><br />this category is more like a popularity contest, there&#039;s hardly an objective scale to compare these guys on. i guess i&#039;ll go with rott.<br /><br /><br />4 - most underrated player:<br /><br />there are two guys remaining with a perfect winning season. josh and our mystery guy. let&#039;s see a short round-wise PCT table:<br />BSK ... 74% (13-4-2)<br />ralph ... 74% (14-5-0)<br />gilga ... 78% (14-4-0)<br />josh ... 77% (10-3-0)<br />stall ... 71% (12-5-0)<br />lb ... 74% (14-5-0)<br />xen ... 81% (13-3-0)<br />??? ... 86% (6-1-0)<br /><br />guy is one of the sharpest fraggers of the season, yet he was drafted late in round 3. all of these achievements despite being a mexican. give MUP to reck and shut up.<br /><br /><br />5 - most valuable player: mikehail<br /><br />all that yapping about jen is true, he gets those flags and shit. but while he&#039;s enjoying that comfy zombie runner pos with his whole team backing him up, mike is carrying an average team on his back to an impressive reg season record. he&#039;s changing positions more often than a gangbang pornstar, because knf lineup changes with the weather. this is a change for mike, because he used to be in jen&#039;s shoes, but he stepped up to the challenge and he&#039;s having a huge season despite knf being such a weird team. i think only white and hatred are in a similar position and mike seems to be doing a better job. &quot;rott, don&#039;t touch the flag so i can hoard scores&quot; jenova, &quot;josh, defend with just rockets and i&#039;ll run backwards only&quot; ralphis and &quot;guys, should i let you have some flag drops?&quot; stall have great results, but they don&#039;t, like, stand out in their teams.