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Nemanja “huNter” Kovač is a Bosnian-Serbian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player for G2 Esports. He is Nikola NiKo’s Kovač’s cousin.

Career

huNter- began his Counter-Strike journey already in the late years of 1.6. At a young age, he didn’t have enough time to work his way up. The game was succeeded by Global Offensive by the time the Bosnian was 16 years old. After the new version came out in 2012, he didn’t take much liking to it at first, but after a few years and with a lot of encouragement from his cousin Nikola “⁠NiKo⁠” Kovač, huNter- eventually gave it a real try and began to play more in 2015-2016 with some of his old teammates from the 1.6 days in GamePub, as well as with NiKo himself in The World Championships qualifiers as a representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After he started to make a name for himself again on the local scene, in 2016 huNter- was called up by Nestor “⁠LETN1⁠” Tanić to one of the most well-known teams in the Balkan region, iNation. huNter soon began to show that he had the talent for more than just local play. The then-20-year-old averaged a 1.14 rating in his first full year in CS:GO after competing in various regional and international tournaments and qualifiers, and he kept climbing the ranks from then on.

huNter- began his Counter-Strike journey already in the late years Of 1.6. At his young age, he didn’t have enough time to work his way up.

The next step in huNter-‘s career came in 2017, when the iNation roster signed with Binary Dragons and the Bosnian went full-time under the Russian organization. With the new backing, the team went on to attend as much as they could — more than 30 tournaments and over 200 maps in a span of eight months with the organization — to rack up some much-needed experience, and huNter- got the opportunity to play his first international LAN events, at the Copenhagen Games BYOC qualifier and at DreamHack Open Atlanta, though without success in either campaign.

By May of 2018, the Balkan squad broke through to the top 30 for the first time after they qualified for DreamHack Masters Marseille, placed in the top six at the year’s Copenhagen Games event, and reached the playoffs at Qi Invitational. But despite huNter- continuing to impress, Valiance began to stagnate in the latter half of the year, which eventually prompted the organization to overhaul the roster and reach beyond the talent pool in the Balkan scene with the addition of Imperial’s star trio, Nemanja “⁠nexa⁠” Isaković, Rokas “⁠EspiranTo⁠” Milasauskas, and Otto “⁠ottoNd⁠” Sihvo.

Transfer To G2

huNter’s transfer to G2 less than a month after their campaign in Berlin was surprising. The transition to the French-majority squad was tough at first, as in their early days the lineup had to find ways past communication barriers with the French core and barely had the chance to practice while they attended several events back-to-back, but despite all the challenges the new European project managed to pick up some impressive results by the end of the year

Awards and Achievements

With huNter- earning his first individual award as he was named the Most Valuable Player of the event, G2 placed second at cs_summit 5. The Bosnian earned his first Exceptionally Valuable Award of the year in Katowice, and that set the stage for him in the following few months when the competition moved online. huNter- immediately added another EVP to his tally at ESL Pro League Season 11 as he topped the charts despite his team’s elimination in the first group stage, where they didn’t make it through to the second stage with a 3-2 record only because of a three-way tie with OG and FaZe.