HLTV Award Show to take place in January with live audience and new categories

18-12-2022 10:06

The invite-only ceremony in January will be the culmination of the Top 20 countdown and will feature nominees and guests of honor.

HLTV announces that our biggest event yet, the HLTV Award Show 2022 presented by 1xBet, will take place on Saturday, January 14 in Stockholm, with a live broadcast on our Twitch channel. With this being the 10th anniversary of the Top 20 players list since the release of CS:GO, the show will be the celebration of not only this year's achievements but Counter-Strike as a whole.

The ceremony will feature the unveiling of the #1 player of 2022, as well as the best team and highlight of the year selected by HLTV. In addition to the awards we gave out last year, during the inaugural award show, HLTV will for the first time also commemorate the best women's player and team, as well as give out panel-voted awards for best IGL, coach, and more.

A bigger and better Award Show to take place on January 14

The Award Show is an invite-only event, which will feature a select audience of 300 notable industry members, headlined by active and former players. The likes of Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub, Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer, Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski and Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg will attend the ceremony as guests of honor, alongside to-be-announced nominees.

The Award Show will take place in Space Arena, a new, high-tech venue in the center of Stockholm that aims to become Sweden's national esport arena, kicking off with a red carpet preshow at 18:00 . The show will be hosted by top-tier talent, including Jasmine "Veracity" Kanuga, Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez, Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill and Pala "⁠Pala⁠" Gilroy Sen.

A new high-tech arena in Stockholm will host the show

You can find the full talent list and so-far confirmed guests of honor below.

Guests of honor:

Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer
Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist
Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell
Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg
Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg
Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund
Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub
Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt
Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski
+ more guests and nominees to be announced

Talent:

Jasmine "Veracity" Kanuga
Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill
Pala "⁠Pala⁠" Gilroy Sen
Milan "⁠Striker⁠" Švejda
Zvonimir "⁠Professeur⁠" Burazin

Some of the names confirmed for the Award Show

As previously mentioned, the yearly awards will be expanded with women's awards given out by HLTV, as well as panel awards which will be decided by a mixture of active professional players, on-air talent, and HLTV writers.

Expect more information on the panelists and the awards themselves in the near future. The award list is as follows below.

HLTV Awards presented by 1xBet:

- Player of the year
- Team of the year
- Highlight of the year
- Women's player of the year
- Women's team of the year
- Rookie of the year

Panel awards presented by 1xBet:

- IGL of the year
- AWP of the year
- Opener of the year
- Closer of the year
- Anchor of the year
- Coach of the year
- Best five of the year

To make sure you don't miss out on the award show make sure to turn on notifications on our Twitch channel and follow HLTV on social media for more updates.

Pog

2022-12-18 10:07

12 replies

Invite the best hltv users pls

2022-12-18 18:09

10 replies

+1 Include hltv user of the year award

2022-12-18 18:12

4 replies

Should be part of an 'honourable mentions' that includes a few other CSGO niches

2022-12-24 11:44

There would need to be an anomalous moderator lurking on the forums to get that kind of data, though.

2022-12-25 22:36

2 replies

Ok i volunteer

2022-12-25 22:38

1 reply

I guess you can suggest that to a mod. :D

2022-12-25 22:43

What makes a good user? The one that baits the most or one that is mature and factual?

2022-12-19 09:56

3 replies

You can shine in different categories

2022-12-19 10:01

Not sure I would call excelling in a negative thing “shine”, but I guess baiting and toxicity is such a huge part of the forum that people have started to think it’s normal and good.

2022-12-19 17:19

based

2022-12-23 08:57

actually they could invite the fantasy top10? of course not giving them hotel or anything, they would need to do that on their own.

2022-12-24 01:22

- Women's player of the year ANa ez

2022-12-23 22:54

Aleksib should be awarded the Best player of the year

2022-12-18 10:09

2022-12-19 00:52

Woman player of the year POG. ANa the goat getting her reward

2022-12-18 10:08

7 replies

Is there even any woman who is rivaling her?

2022-12-18 10:37

olga?

2022-12-18 15:36

0/8

2022-12-18 16:21

huh?

2022-12-18 16:22

goat pick

2022-12-18 11:16

Lol it’s gona be vilga or goosebreeder

2022-12-18 11:48

not a chance

2022-12-18 13:23

no igl of the year?

9 replies

Igl of the year is there,literally first panel award

2022-12-18 10:24

it wasnt at first

2022-12-18 13:37

It’s the first one under OneBet awards.

definitely karrigan

Hooxi*

2022-12-18 10:57

Hooxi = iGODl

2022-12-18 11:59

Cadian

2022-12-18 12:00

apex

2022-12-18 15:42

Alejandro "alex" Masanet Candela

2022-12-19 08:50

S1mple top1

Niceee

Okay i will actually tune for this but must remember this is the arena that the god aleksib destroyed the swedes in

5 replies

its not in Avicii Arena if thats what you are refering to

2022-12-18 13:05

isn't this the same exact arena where the swede lan was where nip destroyed lilmix right?

2022-12-18 13:06

I have never heard of this arena, and im Swedish. I think its brand new?

2022-12-18 13:10

The Award Show will take place in Space Arena, a new, high-tech venue in the center of Stockholm that aims to become Sweden's national esport arena

2022-12-18 14:46

yes you're right 👍

s1mple top 1

2022-12-18 10:13

very nice

2022-12-18 10:14

syrsoN #13 incoming

2022-12-18 10:15

if not, Syrson announcing he doesnt give a F*** about HLTV award show.

2022-12-18 21:29

CSGO equivalent of Ballon d’Or award ceremony

2022-12-18 10:17

Hope they don’t take as long lmao

2022-12-18 17:00

Hopefully they have award for clutch of the year

2022-12-18 17:35

Highlight of the year Is there

2022-12-25 17:33

If it's going to happen on January 14th, how many top20 placements will be unveiled there? 7? If yes, imo that's too many

2022-12-18 10:21

they'll probably start earlier to reveal only top3-5

2022-12-18 10:23

I hope so

2022-12-18 10:26

cool

2022-12-18 10:22

This is good.

- Player of the year = s1mple - Team of the year = FaZe - Highlight of the year = Twistzz at Cologne/ ropz at Katowice - Women's player of the year = IDK - Women's team of the year = IDK - Rookie of the year = m0NESY - IGL of the year = karrigan - AWP of the year = s1mple - Opener of the year = Ax1Le/YEKINDAR - Closer of the year = broky/ZywOo - Anchor of the year = Twistzz - Coach of the year = IDK - Best five of the year = FaZe

2022-12-18 10:31

14 replies

Women's team of the year is the most obvious one, Nigma Galaxy. They won every female event they attended. Best five of the year would definitely be mixed, there would be no point in this category if it was the same as the team of the year.

2022-12-18 11:07

Maybe they meant best bo5 of the year? idk that's what I assumed when I read it.

2022-12-20 02:52

Best final or event of the year would actually be cool

2022-12-25 17:36

Nigma / ANa are the two 100% locked prizes

I'm not sure s1mple will take the POTY award. He's really not playing good in the second half of 2022.

2022-12-18 11:08

He'll take it anyways

2022-12-18 12:17

Nobody comes close to his accolades unfortunately. 2 MVPs, a trophy, and 2 grand-finals (one of which was a major)

2022-12-18 14:56

I mean broky does have everything you just listed but his rating isnt that good so

2022-12-19 14:22

That goes without saying...

2022-12-19 15:49

hltv.org/stats?startDate=2022-01-01&endD.. sh1ro xiWu pretty close

2022-12-18 21:28

IGL of the year could also be Jame, but yeah, Karrigan more likely. Coach of the year could be Xizt.

2022-12-18 11:36

The only way we can measure how good an IGL is is by the achievements of his team. Karrigan is leagues above anyone else in that regard this year.

2022-12-25 17:38

Pretty accurate

2022-12-18 13:22

iDk is male

2022-12-19 14:25

2022-12-18 10:36

Tickets when?

Very cool

2022-12-18 10:50

HLTV production value $$$

2022-12-18 10:53

"Closer of the year" sounds weird

2022-12-18 11:05

absolute W

2022-12-18 11:19

I hope Xizt wins coach of the year.

2022-12-18 11:32

noice hltv!

2022-12-18 11:33

Great initiative HLTV. Should have started this years ago. We need an Official Hall of Fame for Counterstrike!

2022-12-18 11:40

Faze up

2022-12-18 11:52

Why no youtube stream? :(

2022-12-18 12:18

Asking the real questions here

2022-12-18 12:19

1x bet strikes again, maybe it's time for esports to grow up and find real sponsors aside from gambling?

2022-12-18 12:37

I agree but its either that for the time being or no events like this at all.

2022-12-19 08:52

i hope it wont be as shit as last time

nice!!

2022-12-18 13:28

great news.. better than the cringe 20 days countdown

2022-12-18 13:49

#74

2022-12-18 20:02

common sweden w

its rare to see a fin write something like this on hltv :)

2022-12-18 15:31

so the whole top 20 will be announced in 1 day? and hltv will post 20 articles about each one of them at the same moment?

2022-12-18 14:24

Nope, we will still have the countdown - stay tuned for more info

2022-12-18 14:44

Ok thanks for letting know, looking forward to it!

2022-12-18 15:50

2022-12-18 14:50

Invite Valve and do a showmatch but with a Steam Deck!

2022-12-18 14:51

Yo this is stacked

2022-12-18 15:40

It will be so awkward. Cant wait

2022-12-18 16:54

Very cool guys. Looking forward for it.

2022-12-18 17:41

finally not online

2022-12-18 21:24

LUL easiest guess of all time -Player is probably s1mple or zywoo (as usual) -Team is Faze -Play of the year is the twistzz Canada play -Idk who female player of the year is -Womens team is Nigma Galaxy -Rookie of the year is m0nesy -IGL of the year is Karrigan (Jame could come in for robbery if recency bias) -AWP of the year is S1mple or Zywoo -Opener is probably Yekindar -Closer is Broky (I remember a Broky clutch) -Anchor is Twistzz -Coach is probably xist from what I've heard people say -What's best 5, like best 5 at each role?

2022-12-18 22:19