Nikola Kovač

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Nikola Kovač
Status Active
Born (1997-02-16) 16 February 1997
Nationality Bosnian
Current team FaZe Clan
Role Rifler (lurker), secondary AWPer
Games Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Career prize money $522,532[1]
Nickname(s) NiKolinho, nik0k0
Professional career
201?-??-?? – 2013-1?-?? Team Refuse
2013-11-06 – 2013-12-16 iNation
2013-12-16 – 2014-??-?? GamePub
2014-??-?? – 2015-01-12 aimface
2015-01-12 – 2015-03-04 iNation
2015-03-04 – 2015-05-04 mousesports
2015-05-04 – 2015-08-30 mousesports (Backup)
2015-08-30 – 2017-02-19 mousesports
2017-02-19 – Present FaZe Clan

Nikola Kovač (born 16 February 1997), better known by his alias NiKo, is a Bosnian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and former Counter-Strike videogame player. NiKo got very popular within the community after his impressive performances for mousesports, especially during ESEA Season 18 where he showed his incredible aim and game sense at such young age. He currently plays the role of a lurking Rifler and secondary AWPer for FaZe Clan. He is the cousin of Valiance's huNter. [2][3]

Achievements

NiKo's first tournament win was at the third season of StarSeries, followed by a winless period of 5 months with a near miss at ECS Season 3. Following a re-shuffle of the FaZe roster, bringing in the two best players of 2015 - olofmeister and GuardiaN, FaZe was rejuvenated and managed back to back flawless victories at ESL One: New York and ELEAGUE Premier 2017. Following this the team went two months before taking the ECS Season 4 trophy over mousesports at the end of the year. Falling just short in the first Major trophy in 2018[4] the team then entered another lull, this time with Xizt standing in for olofmeister, until they managed to take home both the IEM Sydney 2018 and ESL One: Belo Horizonte 2018 trophies at the beginning of the summer.

Awards & Recognition

  • Was voted the 11th best player of 2016 by HLTV.org.[5]
  • Was voted the 2nd best player of 2017 by HLTV.org.[6]
  • Was voted the MVP of 3 different tournaments.[7]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.esportsearnings.com/players/5783-niko-nikola-kovac
  2. ↑ https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/NiKo_(Bosnian_player)
  3. ↑ https://www.hltv.org/player/3972/huNter
  4. ↑ http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/page/3/
  5. ↑ "Top 20 players of 2016: NiKo (11)". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  6. ↑ "Top 20 players of 2017: NiKo (2)". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  7. ↑ https://www.hltv.org/player/3741/NiKo
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