Kim PapaDrayich Wins the Fifth Unibet Open eSports Battle Royal
The five-day Unibet Open Copenhagen event got off to a surprising start with the most unlikeliest of players romping home to victory. Swedish Counter-Strike: GO star Kim PapaDrayich won �5,000.
After the match, he admitted: ��I didn��t think I would beat these guys, they are much better than me. I decide to play conservative and take my time, if I was playing with friends at home I would have been much more aggressive, which would have been a mistake here.��
The win was even more impressive given this was PapaDrayich��s first appearance at a Unibet Open Battle Royale SNG but his inexperience didn��t hold him back from taking a commanding chip lead and beating Scott "Sco" McMillan - who won �3,000 - heads-
up.
��Sco has such good table presence, it��s quite intimidating, but those sunglasses hide beautiful eyes�� PapaDrayich joked with his opponent as they stood side-by-side speaking to the media ��I had a good chip lead and just needed to focus on my game��.
German Twitch superstar Alan "Hotted89" Widmann was the reigning champion going into the Battle Royale, but he could not defend his crown and busted in 5th place. ��I put a lot of pressure on myself, not only as champion coming into this, but also because Viktor Blom has been giving me some really good advice and I didn��t want to make any stupid mistakes," Widmann said afterwards.
The Unibet Open Battle Royale has developed a friendly but competitive edge as some of the players have played multiple times together, including an SNG in King��s Casino Rozvadov last week and the Unibet Open London back in February.
