Mads Wildenhoff

The HLTV Awards live in Belgrade, Serbia has crowned the best players in each of their roles for 2025.

The HLTV Community Awards have been distributed and some big names have won trophies. Here we've gathered all the winners and nominees.

Track every HLTV Awards panel role winner by year, including IGL, AWPer, Anchor, Closer, Opener and Coach of the Year, plus the finalists in each category.

Rookie of the Year has quickly become one of the most interesting trophies on the calendar because it captures the moment a new name truly arrives on the biggest stage.

Since the HLTV Awards began in 2021, the Team of the Year trophy has highlighted the squad that defined the season, either through trophies, consistency at the biggest events, or simply being the benchmark everyone else chased.

Since the first HLTV Awards show in 2021, HLTV has handed out a Player of the Year trophy to celebrate the best individual performer in Counter-Strike across the season.

Martin "stavn" Lund has announced his departure from Astralis after his hiatus, which started in September last year.

ESL have announced the invites for IEM Kraków stages 1 and 2, as the 2026 season nears. The invites IEM Kraków will have a big impact on future invites towards the IEM Cologne Major.

If you’d rather not check HLTV every day to see whether your favorite player made the list, we’ve gathered the full list here, and we’ll keep it updated day by day.

Around 10 days ago The MongolZ announced that Unudelger "controlez" Baasanjargal's stand-in period for the team had ended as the season came to a close.

Astralis won 22 trophies in two years and defined an era, but the decline after 2020 was just as dramatic. Now, Astralis face a rebuild that cannot lean on the old identity.

Ivan “zweih” Gogin has accused NAVI's makazze of radarhacking and ruining people's careers.