HLTV Awards: Community vote finalists revealed

Over 150,000 votes have been cast and we can now reveal the top three in Talent, Event, Creator, Streamer, and Skin of the Year.

The voice of the people has been heard. 150,082 votes from HLTV users have been collected to give a top three in each Community Award category.

The polls slammed shut on December 24 after a week of voting, in the second ever year of the HLTV Community Awards.

The winners will be announced during the HLTV Awards pre-show on January 11 in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Talent of the Year finalists by 1xBet

James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks

BanKs attended a whopping 23 events this year across his roles as stage host, interviewer, and desk host. The Brit returns from 2023, where he narrowly placed second.

Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan

Scrawny lent his voice to all three BLAST Premier finals, as well as both Majors, Katowice, Cologne, and — don't forget — Launders LAN.

Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill

SPUNJ completes the top three, making it the same podium as last year — but will they be in the same order? 2023's winner was on the gantry for the grand finals of Cologne, Katowice, and the Shanghai Major.

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Creator of the Year finalists by 1xBet

3kliksphilip

Philip "⁠3kliksphilip⁠" Dyer may say he "does Counter Strike for people who don't play Counter Strike" but he won the community vote in 2023 and is back in the top three this year, more than a decade after his homemade synths and smooth narration hit our screens for the first time.

NadeKing

NadeKing is still finding wacky lineups, but his main content is now pushing CS2 to the absolute extremes for fun party games like throwing 100 flashbangs at Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski and pranking YouTubers using console commands to make their aim (even) worse.

Virre

Virre is part of a dying breed in Counter-Strike, a moviemaker who still delves into the demos to make fragmovies for all the big events and compilations of similar moments.

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Event of the Year finalists by 1xBet

IEM Katowice

IEM Katowice 2024 will go down in history as the event Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets equalled Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač's Big Event rating record from ESL One New York 2017 at 1.70, and beats out fellow ESL flagship IEM Cologne to make the top three.

Perfect World Shanghai Major

Asia's first Major brought us the Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato ace, the Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros 4 second 1v4, the donk 1v5, and that was just the group stage. Playoffs, with FaZe returning to their best to see off Vitality and G2 only to fall at the final hurdle to Spirit were even better to make a Major worthy of the top three.

PGL Major Copenhagen

Natus Vincere's second Major came in unlikely circumstances, but whether it was a 'fluke' or not they made it entertaining in their run through Eternal Fire, G2, and FaZe. We also had Spirit's Vertigo float, Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali's unfortunate Inferno game crash, and Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius's iconic Deagle and Ak-47 ace.

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Streamer of the Year finalists by 1xBet

ohnepixel

Mark "⁠ohnePixel⁠" Zimmermann, when he's not coaching a team to the Asia RMR, is still streaming skin content and ever-popular tournament co-streams on his channel.

fl0m

Erik "⁠fl0m⁠" Flom is a veteran Counter-Strike content creator, and now leads stream team Mythic through CCTs and ESL Challenger Leagues.

dima_wallhacks

Lithuanian streamer dima_wallhacks earned his break grinding to Global Elite with bad weapons, and also runs map contests on his Twitter.

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Skin of the Year finalists by Skin.Club

Endrit: AK-47 | Inheritance

moonfighter: M4A1-S | Black Lotus

apel8: Zeus x27 | Olympus

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