Fnatic's latest addition, Michael "Friis" Jørgensen, has won his first MVP title ever for the performance at DreamHack Winter. The experts and the public agreed that he was the best of this event, which is also reflected in the All-Star lineup, as he is the only member of the winning team in it.
MSI BEAT IT championship at DreamHack Winter 2011 ended over a month ago and we've now gathered the results from our polls regarding the MVP and the All-Star lineup of the event. Around 2600 of our users gave their opinion in the Top players article, joined with 30 opinions that we gathered from experts (players and journalists) that produced the following results.
MVP
Both sides of the vote agreed that fnatic's Michael "Friis" Jørgensen was the Most Valuable Player of the event, as he helped the team to reach first place as their best player. He fought off two other candidates who also displayed amazing performances while leading their teams to podium places, Emil "FYRR73" Karlsson from Lions and Yegor "markeloff" Markelov from Natus Vincere.
This is Jørgensen's first MVP title at a major tournament and his biggest individual success, while his influence on the fnatic team overall has been immense, as since he joined they also won IEM6 GC Guangzhou and placed second at MSI BEAT IT Russia.
Friis (second from the right) with the winners' cheque
The voters recognized his impact during this tournament, as in addition to being fnatic's best player overall, he stepped up when it mattered most, especially in the last map of the final.
It was de_tuscan as the decider third map between fnatic and Lions when Jørgensen let loose and started hitting amazing AWP shots, ending up with a 37:19 score (1.81 rating) in a very close 16-13 win. He also stepped up earlier in the tournament when fnatic faced another tough test against Natus Vincere in the group stage, putting up a 27:15 score (1.61 rating) in a 16-10 win, also on de_tuscan.
Additionally, he ended up as the best AWPer of the tournament with 118 kills and an impressive 0.37 awpKPR.
MVP of DreamHack Winter 2011:
Michael "Friis" Jørgensen (fnatic)
Here is what Jørgensen's performances looked like match by match:
| Opponent (Result) | Stage | Score | +/- | Rating | Demo |
 TeG (16-14) | Group stage | 20:16 | +4 | 1.13 | POV |
 Na´Vi (16-10) | Group stage | 27:15 | +12 | 1.61 | HLTV |
 Moscow Five (16-2) | Group stage | 19:6 | +13 | 1.68 | POV |
| Anexis (17-19) | Quarter-final | 26:23 | +3 | 1.12 | HLTV |
| Anexis (16-8) | Quarter-final | 16:12 | +4 | 0.98 | HLTV |
| Anexis (16-10) | Quarter-final | 18:13 | +5 | 1.23 | HLTV |
 mousesports (11-16) | Semi-final | 16:17 | -1 | 0.85 | HLTV |
| mousesports (16-12) | Semi-final | 20:16 | +4 | 1.20 | HLTV |
| mousesports (16-11) | Semi-final | 18:14 | +4 | 1.08 | HLTV |
 Lions (8-16) | Grand final | 18:17 | +1 | 0.99 | HLTV |
| Lions (16-7) | Grand final | 10:13 | -3 | 0.79 | HLTV |
| Lions (16-13) | Grand final | 37:19 | +18 | 1.81 | HLTV |
All-Star lineup
In addition to the three MVP candidates whose performances were high above the rest, the only Norwegian player at the event was also picked by the majority. The last place was up in the air for the most part and it ended up going to another Lions member, making the fictional lineup consist of the 5 best rated players of the tournament.
All-star lineup of DreamHack Winter 2011:
Karl-William "kalle" Haraldsen (ESC)
The most picked member of the All-Star lineup was the tournament's MVP and best AWPer, Michael "Friis" Jørgensen. He was the public's first choice (64%) and a close second by the experts (83%).
Experts' first choice was in fact Emil "FYRR73" Karlsson from Lions, the revelation of the tournament and the player with the most total kills. They selected him in almost every lineup (90%), while he barely made the public's list as 5th (44%).
The most consistent player of the tournament who led Natus Vincere to third place, Yegor "markeloff" Markelov, was the public's second choice with 55% and with a similar results from the experts' side (53%), he was an inevitable member of this lineup.
The fourth member is Karl-William "kalle" Haraldsen, whose team ESC Gaming didn't even make it past the quarter-final, but he managed to leave a big impression as the best rated player of the tournament after just returning back to activity.
The last spot in the All-Star lineup was a toss up between five different players, but the experts ended up deciding it should be Lions' Niklas "niko" Johansson, the most dominant player of the tournament. Only a few votes separated him from ESWC MVP Finn "karrigan" Andersen and fan favorites Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Filip "Neo" Kubski who all received over 40% of votes from the public.
Poll results
Results of the MVP poll:
| Player | Total | Experts | Public |
| Michael "Friis" Jørgensen (fnatic) | 49.5% | 53.3% | 45.7% |
| Emil "FYRR73" Karlsson (Lions) | 33.4% | 40.0% | 26.7% |
| Yegor "markeloff" Markelov (Na´Vi) | 17.1% | 6.7% | 27.6% |
Results of the All-Star poll:
| Player | Total | Experts | Public |
| Michael "Friis" Jørgensen (fnatic) | 73.5% | 83.3% | 63.6% |
| Emil "FYRR73" Karlsson (Lions) | 66.8% | 90.0% | 43.7% |
| Yegor "markeloff" Markelov (Na´Vi) | 54.4% | 53.3% | 55.4% |
| Karl-William "kalle" Haraldsen (ESC) | 47.2% | 46.7% | 47.7% |
| Niklas "niko" Johansson (Lions) | 31.0% | 46.7% | 15.3% |
| Finn "karrigan" Andersen (mouz) | 30.6% | 33.3% | 27.8% |
| Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund (SK) | 30.1% | 16.7% | 43.5% |
| Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg (SK) | 29.7% | 16.7% | 42.7% |
 Filip "Neo" Kubski (AGAiN) | 27.9% | 6.7% | 49.2% |
| Rasmus "Gux" Ståhl (fnatic) | 24.6% | 30.0% | 19.2% |
| Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström (SK) | 19.6% | 20.0% | 19.1% |
| Richard "Xizt" Landström (fnatic) | 18.8% | 23.3% | 14.4% |
| Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström (Lions) | 14.3% | 13.3% | 15.3% |
| Martin "trace" Heldt (Anexis) | 13.4% | 10.0% | 16.8% |
| Andreas "MODDII" Fridh (ESC) | 10.7% | 6.7% | 14.8% |
| Sergey "starix" Ischuk (Na´Vi) | 7.5% | 3.3% | 11.7% |
In the end, we would like to thank the journalists from the following fellow sites for contributing their votes for our experts poll: cnfrag.com, SK-gaming.com, greatfrag.com, fnatic.com, fragbite.se.
Only the results from WCG 2011 remain to be shown now, which we will have to hold on for a little while until we gather more votes from the experts, so stay tuned to HLTV.org until then.