Esports Transfers: How Much Would It Cost to Sign mantuu?

It's time for the latest segment of Esports Transfers, WePlay Esports' new independent platform designed to answer some of the most important questions in the industry: how much are esports athletes worth? How much does it cost to transfer a player? Do organizations overpay for their players or not?

We conduct an in-depth analysis of both statistical and in-game data, through which we obtain a result that is accurate to market value. The calculations are based on five different points: leadership, marketability, stability, skill, and demand. It's worth noting that each point is composed of various sub-factors as well. 

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• NiKo
• s1mple vs. ZywOo
• acoR
• HEN1

The star of today's episode is non-other than Mateusz "mantuu" Wilczewski, OG's sniper. Born in Poland, mantuu moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 5 when his family relocated in search of better working opportunities. As a child, he played a lot of football and videos games, namely Call of Duty and League of Legends. He was eventually introduced to Counter-Strike by his friends, and joined his first amateur team, n0_0rg, in 2015, where he met Dustin "DuDe" Großmann. The pair would play together for the better part of four years, playing on n0_0rg, Entropy Gaming, PANTHERS Gaming, and finally ALTERNATE aTTaX. Amid his time playing in the German scene, mantuu was actually a rifler, anchoring down bombsites and only really using the big green gun during double-AWP setups. He won a number of German tournaments, such as 99Liga and ESL Mesteirschaft, especially while representing AA. 

After performing really well in the tier 2 scene versus German and international squads, mantuu was approached by Nathan "NBK-" Schmitt and Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen, who were in the process of assembling a team for the legendary Dota 2 organization, OG. Understandably, mantuu was quite surprised by the offer given that OG was looking for a primary AWPer, while mantuu had only ever been a hybrid player in the past. Still, he welcomed the challenge with open arms. With his teammates being Valdemar "valde" Vangså, Issa "ISSAA" Murad, NBK-, and Aleksib, mantuu was by far the least experienced player on the squad. However, OG's investment immediately payed off with the rookie posting a 1.15 rating at first tournament with the international squad, cs_summit 5. In fact, accross the 303 maps he has played for OG, mantuu has averaged a 1.13 rating. While nearly half of his kills in OG have been with the AWP, the 23-year-old has proven to still be very deadly with the rifles and pistols. OG certainly struck gold when it signed mantuu, a promising player who was destined to play in the upper echelons of Counter-Strile, but the question remains: how much is mantuu worth today? Watch our video to find out!

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