Every year, the portal HLTV selects the best players based on their statistics and achievements over the past twelve months. At the end of this week, the final part of the list was published, which means we can finally see who the analysts considered the most successful e-sportsmen of the year.
Alexander “s1mple» Kostylev
Despite the fact that at the end of 2022, Natus Vincere did not perform as successfully as in the first half, the rating was topped by Alexander “s1mple” Kostylev, thus becoming the first e-sportsman who manages to become the best for the third time. There are several players who have risen to the top of the rankings twice (including, for example, Matthew “ZywOo” Herbo, Marcelo “coldzera” David and Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Ålesund), but no one has managed to achieve high results so consistently before. In total, s1mple remains in the top 20 of the world ranking for seven years, of which the last five are either in first or second place.
In 2022, s1mple received the title MVP at major tournaments twice, and became EVP five more times. Even in his worst performance (BLASt Word Final) his rating was 1.1. According to the total statistics for the year s1mple became a leader in many indicators, and one of his most notable achievements was a rating of 1.42 at the BLAST Premier Spring – tournament. which Natus Vincere managed to beat FaZe and win his only major trophy of the year.
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Automatically generated description" class="fr-fic fr-dii" style="width: 800px;">The second in the top 20 best players was Matthew “ZywOo” Erbo from Vitality. The young eSports player has been playing for his current team since 2018, but during this time he has already managed to fully demonstrate his talent. It is interesting that on He proved himself on the local scene back in 2017, but delayed entering the pro level for a year in order to complete his studies first. As a result, ZywOo became a player who can compete with s1mple for the top position in the ranking: it was he who managed to displace the Ukrainian esportsman from the top of the list in 2019 and 2020. The most impressive achievement for ZywOo was his performance at the ESL Pro League Season 16, when he received the MVP title and demonstrated a rating of 1.42 on two dozen maps. At all but two of the 2022 events, he became the most productive player in the game. to his team.
Dmitry «sh1ro» Sokolov
Finally, third place in the ranking was taken by Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov from Cloud9. This e-sportsman is in the top 20 for the second time in a row, and this time he managed to move a little higher (in 2021 he took fourth place). Sh1ro showed himself excellently in online tournaments, and then was able to maintain high results even after most events returned to the usual LAN format. Despite the fact that his team failed to take prizes at top-level events, sh1ro’s individual results allowed him to end up in third place. His performance at IEM Rio was especially successful, where he was just short of winning the MVP title. He received this award only once during the year (at Funspark ULTI), but he won EVP six times, including at key events. events of the year.
