Talent of the Year 2024 - Community Voting

17-12-2024 12:00

Welcome to the HLTV Awards Community voting.

Decided 100% by the vote of active HLTV users, Community Awards will be given out for the Talent, Event, Streamer, Creator and Skin of the Year to show who the fan favorite was in 2024.

The voting will start on December 17 at 12:00 and end on December 24 at 23:59 . Voting will only be accessible to HLTV users who have registered before the release of this article.

The finalists will be revealed on December 26, and the winner revealed in Belgrade at 2024's HLTV Awards on January 11.

Select your favorite Talent in the widget below, and join the conversation in the comments or on social media by following the @HLTVawards account on Instagram and X.

Talent of the Year nominees, ordered by S-tier event points:

Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers
James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks
Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell
Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer
Hugo "⁠Hugo⁠" Byron
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche
Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill
Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović

Talent of the Year 2024 by 1XBET

Freya

BanKs

JustHarry

HenryG

Hugo

launders

Machine

moses

Pimp

Scrawny

SPUNJ

stunna

YNk

Make your voice heard in the other Community votes below:

Skin of the Year 2024 - Community Voting

Creator of the Year 2024 - Community Voting

Event of the Year 2024 - Community Voting

Streamer of the Year 2024 - Community Voting

scrawny

2024-12-17 12:01

309

20 replies

Gave my vote to him, deserved for his talent in casting. Would have been a hard choice, but someone forgot Techgirl. First I disliked her for no logical reason, but she is slowly winning me over

2024-12-17 12:33

13 replies

Nah his such a geek

2024-12-17 12:35

9 replies

Does he enjoy videogames or something?

2024-12-17 12:36

7 replies

What does that have to do with being a geek? His just trying to hard with everything. Mustache, glasses, etc etc no own style or soul

2024-12-17 12:38

6 replies

bro knows absolutely nothing what he's talking about

2024-12-17 12:44

Since he’s the only one who doesn’t wear the same generic clothes like the others are wearing, I would say he has his own style!!

2024-12-17 13:31

4 replies

just trying to hard. also trying to hard with the bad cold talks

2024-12-17 13:35

3 replies

Did it ever cross your mind that maybe he’s actually being himself rather than ”trying” to be something?

2024-12-17 17:44

2 replies

Switching styles and looks etc it’s only a sign of bing insecure and trying to ”fit in” which I find super unattractive and the opposite of what you are saying

2024-12-17 20:53

1 reply

bro you are selfreporting so hard here stop it

2024-12-18 14:53

reported

2024-12-17 18:39

Ye wtf TechGirl was a breath of fresh air in the talent space, absolutely criminal she isn't on the list

2024-12-17 13:00

Preach

2024-12-17 12:59

+1 I wanted to vote for TechGirl... Another hltv L

2024-12-17 17:17

he or launders deserve to win, simply because of that legendary cast on the match of all time.

2024-12-17 16:57

he has been so fking good this year.

2024-12-17 21:50

launders clears

2024-12-17 23:19

ONE AND ONLY THE BEST! WELL THE DUO OF LAUNDERS AND HIM IS ALSO MY FAVOURITE TALENT.

2024-12-18 09:06

2024-12-18 12:28

Has to be him. Otherwise its rigged

2024-12-19 14:18

HUGOOO

Where is TechGirl...

2024-12-17 17:18

All in for my boy Spunj

107

ez vote for spunj

BanKs all the way, love that guy.

2024-12-17 12:02

10 replies

Banks! Best stage host I have ever seen!

2024-12-17 15:04

So he's the only one you have ever seen?

2024-12-17 16:39

I really like OJ Borg, but since he only does Cologne and Katowice it's Banks all the way.

2024-12-17 23:08

OJ Borg the goat. There's something about him that makes Katowice and Cologne sacred.

2024-12-19 20:23

Banks loses anyway, thanks for your vote, hate that guy.

2024-12-17 17:10

Love you 2 xoxo

2024-12-17 18:35

gigachad

2024-12-17 18:41

Thank you love you too

2024-12-17 18:46

gigachad as always

2024-12-18 11:40

How can anyone hate BanKs

2024-12-23 16:29

SPUNJ #1

2024-12-17 12:03

+++++++ GOAT SPUNJ<3

2024-12-17 12:20

aussie talent GOAT

2024-12-18 08:52

Maniac robbed

2024-12-17 12:04

257

true

2024-12-17 16:09

Best troll ever

2024-12-17 22:14

5 replies

It's just too easy

2024-12-18 00:03

u miss written couple of letters 💀

2024-12-19 12:15

how so

2024-12-19 12:55

obb ap

2024-12-19 13:18

mh🤨

2024-12-19 14:30

himself

2024-12-17 22:21

dont disrepect maniac like that, he is going through mental health struggles. that is the reason he had to assault those females. its a legit reason. + he had a traumatic childhood

2024-12-17 23:20

reported and meds

2024-12-18 19:02

just because you dont understand doesnt it, doesnt mean it isnt real

2024-12-18 22:34

maniac was hands down the best analyst, scandals aside

2024-12-18 22:50

if only he could keep his hands down, instead of groping those women right? but its ok because he was going through mental health struggles so he is a victim too.

2024-12-18 22:54

Why did they try to sneak Pimp here 😭

& launders

2024-12-17 12:09

Maybe because he lost so much weight?

2024-12-17 22:01

No way! Where can I find more of this story? He doesn't seem to talk about it at all, what a humble guy!

2024-12-18 10:13

freya undervalued

i voted for her , she's the most consistent talent in term of being always on point among the candidates

2024-12-17 12:11

Shes not a caster so she will naturally be on the lower end of the list but if there were two lists, casters and "other" then for sure she could have a chance of winning the category.

2024-12-17 13:29

They could honestly split this into desk/host talent and casting talent, we have such a huge amount of great talent in CS, only one award is tough.

2024-12-17 22:06

100%

Agree, interviews and desk segments always flow very well with her. She also has good enough knowledge about the game and the scene to participate in the conversations.

2024-12-17 23:42

Since everyone is going to vote for spunj, I'll give ynk some love.

2024-12-17 12:06

Where is OverDrive

2024-12-17 12:08

busy on creating his own "news"

2024-12-17 14:14

Scrawny my boi, you are doing fine work, have a vote.

2024-12-17 12:10

launders - deserved

my racist goat <3

2024-12-17 12:43

12 replies

what?

2024-12-17 14:53

11 replies

Gotta be on twitter for that one, Launders is 'racist' in that he wants more national teams to exist instead of international rosters. Theres' a lot of irony rolled up into it. Launders himself calls himself racist when talking about wanting a full French or dutch team etc

2024-12-17 14:56

hahahahaha for a moment I thought the worst bro

2024-12-17 16:02

How is that in any way racist? People literally don't know what the word means anymore.

8 replies

He is literally using it as a joke.

2024-12-17 20:03

its sarcasm, a joke, I literally explained it above, holy shit you're dense (Dense is also another figure of speech or joke, I am not saying you are actually dense like tungsten, but you are in fact, stupid.)

2024-12-17 23:07

Damn you really got triggered huh. Merry christmas.

2024-12-23 13:17

You really think you're a lot smarter than you are

2024-12-23 15:51

You have no idea who I am lol

2024-12-23 15:59

I forgot you even existed until you replied to me, of course I have no fucking idea who you are, are you insane.

2024-12-23 16:02

You certainly comes across as insane. Yet you are so insignificant that I don't care to make assumptions about you.

2024-12-23 16:04

You're just repeating what I said....you really want that last word in don't you

2024-12-23 16:27

i voted for Spunj im his secret alt :)))

are you @Kokoszkaa??

2024-12-17 12:57

hehe

2024-12-17 13:08

scrawny the goat

2024-12-17 12:13

no maniac in the talent of the year? This is daylight robbery and recency bias

talent out of the esports doesn't count.

2024-12-17 12:15

If this isn't bait: 1. Nobody would vote for him because of what happened so why even put him there 2. He did nothing for the last four months of the year lmao

2024-12-17 17:53

I think the 25 upvotes indicate that there are enough people willing to troll and vote for him anyways, but i dont blame you for na education reasoning though.

There are 22 votes for Overdrive being on the list I think you're taking HLTV votes too seriously #11

2024-12-18 01:53

Proving my case and thinking it has been disproven, na educational content indeed. Have a good one.

2024-12-18 05:57

You don't need to be rude. We're talking about talent nominations on a CS forum maybe you don't need to judge my intelligence and the education of my country based on a couple of quick comments I typed. There's such a thing as respect

2024-12-18 20:06

hes going through mental health struggles. leave the man alone. he deserves to be here. he had a traumatic childhood which is the reason he had to assault those females. its legit

2024-12-17 23:22

2024-12-17 12:14

harry/hugo deserves my vote

machine win this please.

BANKS

2024-12-17 12:16

Remember to vote for SPUNJ so he gets the awkward moment of presenting the award and winning it at the same time on the couch.

2024-12-17 12:19

Freya hands down

2024-12-17 12:21

My heart goes to Freya

2024-12-17 12:23

Sl4m!!!

2024-12-17 12:26

EZ4SPUNJ

2024-12-17 12:27

Spunj probably gonna win. Last time deserved but feel like ynk, launders and Freya were better this year. Voted for racism

kokoszka (SPUNJ)

2024-12-17 12:28

Sad that spunj will probably win again. We honestly have so much great talent that they all deserve to win. Would like to see stunna, Harry or scrawny take it. Stunna and Harry just hilarious guys and scrawny top tier caster.

2024-12-17 12:29

Moses of Freya!

Was cheering for Spunj last year, but this year he dropped a lot (feels like he got way too comfortable and not putting in the effort after winning it last year)

2024-12-17 12:31

machine

2024-12-17 12:30

where anders blume? he's the best

where is maniac

ynk <3

2024-12-17 12:37

Machinee

BanKs, because he is a Chill Guy

everyone takes machine for granted smh

2024-12-17 12:46

Pimp lol

2024-12-17 12:47

Where is Maniac?

2024-12-17 12:50

He is prisoned i guess

2024-12-17 22:52

Am I don't see maniac??

2024-12-17 12:51

I keep him in my basement

2024-12-17 13:16

anything different from freya is wrong

2024-12-17 12:55

ofc the goats launders and scrawny best duo ever in cs talent

2024-12-17 13:01

RickyDC imo

2024-12-17 13:03

Machine goated casting in final

2024-12-17 13:05

Where @Facts_Giver ?

2024-12-17 13:14

SPUNJ because he’s jacked now

2024-12-17 13:25

scrawny because hes the best caster we've got right now in my humble opinion, if i could vote for a second person then ofc launders because hes the second best caster we've got

hugo

2024-12-17 13:34

#1 Freya is <3

2024-12-17 13:36

MACHINE GOAT

2024-12-17 13:37

honestly i might have to give my vote to henry

2024-12-17 13:47

I have zero trust in any awards when Spunj wins caster of the year over Scrawny. Scrawny is levels ahead of Spunj. The "I really like spunj, so I give him my vote for anything he does" is bloody real.

2024-12-17 13:53

I am voting for spunj not necessarily for his casting skill, but because he contributes more analysis and commentary on counter strike than any other talent member on top of being pretty damn good (and the most knowledgeable by far)

2024-12-17 21:22

Until someone better comes around I would always vote for Chad. He is the only one that, based on his past as a IGL, offers quick implications for the decisions made by the teams on screen, often questioning the choices (yeah, they make the decisions live, while also playing while he is chilling in the commentary both) and most of the times proven to be right. I am not gonna say Scrawny is bad but he would never get my vote as I...just don't like his style. I am too lazy to explain this.

2024-12-17 22:08

banks goat

2024-12-17 14:05

scrawny deserve it so much

2024-12-17 14:15

i wish i could vote for both scrawny and launders, these 2 were forced to cast the worst CS game oat

Which?

2024-12-18 11:04

nip vs amkal

2024-12-18 15:39

If you aint supporting your local racist idk what you are doing

2024-12-17 14:23

scrawny or machine hard decision ngl

2024-12-17 14:25

gave it to freya, since harry and machine are surely to stay.

2024-12-17 14:27

Techgirl?

2024-12-17 14:58

Ynk for sure

2024-12-17 15:01

Spunj, Machine, Moses & HenryG are far ahead of the rest of the list

2024-12-17 15:05

Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers

2024-12-17 15:06

no thorin and maniac lol 🤡🌎

2024-12-17 15:10

how many events did the ginger man do?

2024-12-17 17:57

FREYA!

2024-12-17 15:13

I voted for Mauisnake

LETS GO BANKS

2024-12-17 15:22

Gotta show james banks love here, he always hypes it up so much it gives me chills

SCRAWNY lets go

2024-12-17 15:24

I DONT SEE ANYONE I CAN VOTE FOR ON THIS LIST... SORRY, ALL NOOB

2024-12-17 15:25

spunj lapdancing on moses, that's my vote as a single talent

2024-12-17 15:26

Clearly maniac

2024-12-17 15:29

*puke* nt, maniac

2024-12-17 15:54

I did not hit her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her! I did not! Oh hi, Mark

Machine & SpunJ taking the W here

2024-12-17 15:34

voted for machine best caster

2024-12-17 15:36

No Richard Lewis rip, dude is amazing on the desks :(

2024-12-17 15:37

LIteraly. Seeing him on the desk again really made me realize how bad other desk hosts are at hosting, specially their questions and thoughts.

2024-12-17 17:58

I wouldn’t say other desk hosts are bad, they just haven’t mastered their craft like RLewis Also that Espoo desk was straight fire

2024-12-17 19:39

Banks

2024-12-17 15:42

Sjokz. lolol

My goat spunj commentated a close qulaifiers drillas game and he joined ohne for the major too also podcaster goat

2024-12-17 15:47

EZ for my glorious king Jason “Moses” O’Toole!!!!

2024-12-17 15:51

The only answer is Launders

2024-12-17 15:53

machine for that 12-10 round masterclass

2024-12-17 15:55

freya, spunj, machineGG, scrawny.. hard to chose one :)

2024-12-17 16:03

absolutely criminal that they lump stage hosts, analysts, and casters all into the same category.

2024-12-17 16:13

where richard lewis

2024-12-17 16:18

No Anders sadge I think a lot of people may have forgot about him

2024-12-17 16:27

but not you lessthanthree

2024-12-17 19:33

Harry or Hugo is such a difficult decision. Should've nominated them as a duo, because those two are just simply perfect together.

2024-12-17 16:40

LAUNDRR

2024-12-17 16:44

Voted for spunj, I like his takes Where is maniac by the way?

2024-12-17 16:49

I think this vote is kinda unfair to the analysts and hosts, because they can't really compete with the casters in my opinion. Everyone watches the matches, so everyone knows the performances of the casting talent inside out. But not everyone is watching the other segments around the matches. I never watch the analyst desk, because I'm only interested in watching the games. So there is no way for me to compare them to the casters. Except for Banks. I really like his interviews and his personality. But the others. No idea

2024-12-17 16:55

Where is techgirl

No thorin :(

2024-12-17 17:36

we know who ddk is voting for x.com/ddkesports/status/1868772246141255..

2024-12-17 17:59

Freya would have won it if she didn't get engaged earlier this year

2024-12-17 18:01

Found the incell

2024-12-17 18:40

shame you can vote only for one I JUST NOTICED ALMOST NO COMMENTS ABOUT MOSES WTF

2024-12-17 18:19

Hasn't done much since the Exodus...

2024-12-17 22:10

We are so blessed in Counter-Strike to have such an elite and passionate set of people to vote for on this list. GL HF <3

2024-12-17 18:34

Much respect Banks, keep doing what you do, and please continue doing materials with the players outside of stages/events

2024-12-17 18:43

Gz on the nomination, appreciate your efforts to bring Chinese players and fans closer to the rest of the community.

2024-12-18 19:27

For me it was Banks, had some great interviews and materials outside the stage with multiple players, which i found insightful, especially with Navi players.

Difficult to choose between Harry and Hugo because they are a goat duo.

2024-12-17 18:42

Where is Maniac?!

2024-12-17 18:54

BanKs deserve!!!!

2024-12-17 19:07

BanKs GOAT

2024-12-17 19:16

2024-12-17 19:21

Scrawny just for NiP vs Amkal

2024-12-17 19:37

Launders on top baby

2024-12-17 19:45

ez launders

2024-12-17 19:46

Why no maniac?

2024-12-17 19:47

Ez4Freya

2024-12-17 19:53

Machine no questions next

2024-12-17 20:07

"Talent" of the year

2024-12-17 20:20

gotta be donk, right?

2024-12-17 21:07

should be, i don't see no talent here

2024-12-17 21:20

I wish they separated casters, hosts and analysts tbh. I love Scrawny's casting way too much for me not to vote for him, but Banks deserves it too

2024-12-17 20:23

steel?

2024-12-17 20:39

He is back to playing, his team featuring Major winner Skadoodle have skadoodled their way into the American Challenger League: hltv.org/matches/2378006/take-flyte-vs-u..

2024-12-17 22:13

LETS GO ALEX

2024-12-17 20:52

spunj he worked alot this year i still hear his voices in my head i vote for him

2024-12-17 22:34

Anders

2024-12-17 22:41

LETS GO ZORLAK!

2024-12-17 23:03

Where is Maniac ? X)

2024-12-17 23:11

Maniac

2024-12-17 23:35

Is the talent in the new w us?

freya representing the girlssssss

2024-12-17 23:45

Maniac.

2024-12-17 23:55

no thorin no maui, this is idiotic

2024-12-18 00:14

tbh hard to pick as the award isnt for best analyst but talent... in many ways, all the cast here is entertaining. I would say I get the most hyped when its spunj, hugo, henry, machine or harry casting. Going to give my vote to spunj

2024-12-18 02:50

Scrawny was the best caster but Yanko the best analyst. Picked Scrawny

2024-12-18 03:15

launders pog

2024-12-18 03:56

Scrawny & Launders absolute goats

2024-12-18 04:01

Scrawny deserve it this year

2024-12-18 04:18

Hope ynk gets some recognition this year

2024-12-18 04:30

i don't like any of these people

2024-12-18 04:49

stunna tha goat. tbh they should separate casters and desk thats kinda weird to have them together. like casters are gonna win every time right? I'd pick spunj as my caster.

2024-12-18 05:21

No maniac?💀

2024-12-18 05:59

no sjokz? 🥺

2024-12-18 07:01

Needless to say,Freya

2024-12-18 07:25

Spunj as always. Solid casting, analysis, professional and doesn't get juvenile when he's bored.

2024-12-18 08:38

YNK is easily the best analyst right now and Machine & Spunj are the best casters. It’s a shame not many are mentioning Machine and YNK though so one of them gets my vote.

2024-12-18 08:39

YNK is hella boring but anyway Scrawny wins easily

2024-12-20 01:03

I feel like half of them so selfish and easily offended, and only Freya is just doing her job.

2024-12-18 09:01

2024-12-18 10:19

Scrawny, Launders, Machine and HenryG are GOATED casters. I love stunna as a host and BanKs as stage host/interviewer. But I'm voting SPUNJ, my overall favourite talent since Sadokist disappeared from the scene!

2024-12-18 10:47

Fair, i voted scrawny cuz i love his casting

2024-12-18 13:47

2024-12-18 11:14

LETS GO SPUNJ

2024-12-18 11:29

The real answer is Thorin

2024-12-18 12:21

JustHarry for the smoke dome

2024-12-18 12:35

Maniac TOP 1

2024-12-18 13:20

Ma boi scrawny on top

2024-12-18 13:46

We are all so blessed with amazing talent

2024-12-18 13:58

BT and Liminha for sure

2024-12-18 15:06

Where is maniac?

2024-12-18 15:25

MACHINE THE GOAT

2024-12-18 15:38

Very hard to compare such different roles to be honest. Would have prefered if it was caster, on desk, etc. A part of me wanted to pick Spunj, simply because he is so versatile. He does commentary, analyst work (not any longer though it seems) and regular podcasts such as HLTV-Confirmed. He is a very big face for the sport I believe. But he is not alone in this. Many others also do different kind of work, well. I picked Banks, simply because I think he is dominant at what he does. He gives the best on stage/backroom interviews, seems to have a very good vibe going on with most players and is in general a very likeable person. However we are truly lucky in this sport to have such good talents. Most of them are very good at their job.

2024-12-18 15:52

id give it to spunj all day because I love everthing about this guy, but I will give it to ynko because he grinded alot this year and his analysis are very good + he even cast some games or maps this year like on epl which was good too.

2024-12-18 20:56

best rising talent is scrawny but best talent goes to the goat Spunj

2024-12-18 21:02

This is actually hard to vote on lol

2024-12-19 04:11

no maniac?!?!?

2024-12-19 04:38

a lot of great casters, but my vote for scrawny, his raw emotions is best

2024-12-19 05:29

No maniac?!?!?

2024-12-19 12:07

where is Cadian? clips.twitch.tv/BenevolentAwkwardNostril..

2024-12-19 12:18

if u vote pimp can u let me know so i can report u

2024-12-19 14:02

why maniac is not in the list?

2024-12-19 14:31

Let's go banks

2024-12-19 14:36

Used to only vote Launsers but he sucks now and acts lkke a whiny emo kid who barely speaks anymore. Voted for BANKS! Bubzjki did great also.

2024-12-19 17:02

We want machineWJQ F YOUR LIST

2024-12-19 23:06

maniac got robbed! He caused the biggest headlines out of all the talent this year.

were is SL4M?!

2024-12-20 17:02

So stacked... everyone listed deserves to win it

2024-12-20 18:29

banks

2024-12-21 18:27

harry <3

2024-12-22 16:44

Account to new for Vote :(

2024-12-23 15:28

Voting ended already??? Article says different

2024-12-24 10:11

exactly, according to the article voting should end in 9 hours

2024-12-24 15:11

I support MachineWJQ for the best talent

2024-12-24 12:52

I think SPUNJ deserves this award, the combination of his entertaining casting and the knowledge of the game makes a great combo

2024-12-24 23:05

Scrawny and launders are the best and most consistent duo nowadays. Machine and SPUNJ are hype/great in clutch, but more often than not they seem to be high on their own supply. I voted for Scrawny.

2024-12-25 03:51