After winning 9 trophies in 2025 and securing both Majors there’s no doubt that the discussion greatest team of all time has been reopened.
BLAST Bounty 2026 Season 1 kicks off the new CS season with over $1,000,000 on the line, a 32-team single-elimination bracket, and a split format that starts online before finishing on LAN in Malta.
On January 9th, Counter-Strike announced a map pool change that will reshape vetoes fast: Anubis is back in, Train is out.
By Anders Frost
By Anders Frost
Anubis is back in the Active Duty conversation, and it is a perfect time to look at who has actually delivered on the map in CS2.
Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut has been crowned HLTV’s Player of the Year at the HLTV Awards, securing the award for the fourth time in his career.
Team Vitality have been crowned HLTV’s Team of the Year, beating out fellow nominees MOUZ and Spirit after a 2025 season that set the standard from start to finish.
Raphael “cogu” Camargo, Yegor “markeloff” Markelov, and Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer have been inducted into the HLTV Hall of Fame as the Class of 2025.
Danil “molodoy” Golubenko has been crowned HLTV’s Rookie of the Year, beating fellow nominees Maxim “kyousuke” Lukin and Drin “makazze” Shaqiri.
The HLTV Awards live in Belgrade, Serbia has crowned the best players in each of their roles for 2025.
