Nikola Kovač

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Nikola Kovač
Player information
Nickname NiKo
More nicknames Nikolinho
Date of birth February 16, 1997
country code Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
game Counter-Strike , CS: GO
team FaZe Clan (since 2017)
Former teams Team Refuse (until 2013)
iNation (2013)
GamePub (2013–2014)
aimface (2014–2015)
iNation (2015)
mousesports (2015–2017)

Nikola "NiKo" Kovač (born February 16, 1997 ) is a Bosnian e-athlete who is active in the discipline Counter-Strike: Global Offensive .

Career

After Nikola "NiKo" Kovač had completed smaller tournaments in several small clans since 2013, the German organization mousesports announced in March 2015, after several test matches with NiKo, that they would sign him. After initially taking part primarily in international games, he won the ESL Spring Championship 2015 and won his first tournament win with mousesports on a national level in May . Only 2 days later he was put on the bench with teammate Nikola "LEGIJA" Ninić. At the end of August 2015, however, he was brought back into the main lineup. While he and his team failed in the group stage at the Dreamhack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Major in November 2015 , they finished second at the CEVO Pro Season 8 Finals that same month . In 2016 he qualified with his team for the IEM Katowice and in February he won the ACER Predator Masters Season 2 with mousesports against Flipside Tactics . At MLG Columbus 2016 , he and his team were eliminated once again after the group stage. After he was able to qualify for ESL One Cologne 2016 , the major in the team's home country , with mousesports , they were also eliminated after the group phase. Shortly afterwards, at the end of July 2016, he reached the semi-finals of the ELEAGUE Season 1 Finals with mousesports . Further successes in 2016 included a finals at the Gfinity CS: GO Invitational , a semi-finals at the ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals and a quarter-finals at the ELEAGUE Season 2 Finals . At the end of January 2017 at the ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017 , he was again unable to get past the group stage with mousesports. Shortly before Dreamhack Las Vegas 2017 in February, mousesports announced that NiKo would be sold to FaZe Clan for a transfer fee of around € 500,000 and that it would leave mousesports after Dreamhack Las Vegas, which it ended when it reached the quarter-finals.

successes

This is an excerpt from the successes of NiKo. Since Counter-Strike is always played in teams of five in competitions, the personal prize money is one fifth of the total prize money won by the team.

year space competition team Personal
prize money
2015 1. ESL Summer Championship 2015 GermanyGermany mousesports 000€ 800
2015 2. CEVO CS: GO Season 8 LAN Finals GermanyGermany mousesports 00$ 5,000
2016 5th - 8th DreamHack Masters Malmo 2016 GermanyGermany mousesports 00$ 2,000
2016 5. Esports Championship Series Season 1 - Europe GermanyGermany mousesports 00$ 5,000
2016 3rd - 4th Eleague Season 1 GermanyGermany mousesports 0$ 14,000
2016 2. Gfinity CS: GO Invitational 2016 European UnionEuropean Union mousesports 00$ 6,000
2016 3rd - 4th ESL Pro League Season 4 : Finals European UnionEuropean Union mousesports 00$ 9,000
2017 5th - 8th Dreamhack Masters Las Vegas 2017 European UnionEuropean Union mousesports 00$ 3,000
2017 2. IEM XI - World Championship European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 00$ 8,800
2017 1. Star Ladder i-League Invitational - Season 3 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 25,000
2017 2. IEM XII - Sydney European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 00$ 8,000
2017 2. Esports Championship Series Season 3 Finals European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 24,000
2017 3rd - 4th ESL One Cologne 2017 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 00$ 4,000
2017 1. ESL One New York 2017 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 25,000
2017 1. Eleague Premier 2017 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan $ 100,000
2017 2. IEM XII - Oakland European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 10,800
2017 3. BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2017 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 00$ 5,000
2017 1. BLAST Pro Standoff: Copenhagen 2017 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 00$ 4,000
2017 2. ESL Pro League Season 6 - Finals European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 20,000
2017 1. Esports Championship Series Season 4 Finals European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 50,000
2018 2. Eleague Major: Boston 2018 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 30,000
2018 2. IEM XII - Katowice: World Championship European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan 0$ 20,400
2018 1. ESL One Belo Horizonte 2018 European UnionEuropean Union FaZe Clan $ 100,000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mousesports officially introduces Niko. 99damage.de, March 4, 2015, accessed on February 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ nex, Spiidi and denis with mouz against PENTA. 99damage.de, May 4, 2015, accessed February 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Niko replaces Spidii at mousesports. 99damage.de, August 30, 2015, accessed February 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Niko leaves mousesports. 99damage.de, February 9, 2017, accessed February 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kovač, Nikola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kovač, NiKo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian e-athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1997