frozen revealed as #8 on HLTV Top 20 Players of 2025 list

frozen has made his fourth consecutive appearance on HLTV's Top 20 Players of the Year list as the FaZe star has been revealed as #8 for the Top 20 Players of 2025. His #8 ranking is also the highest frozen has ever been placed on HLTV's Top 20 lists.

frozen put up an impressive 1.17 rating across 2025 and was FaZe's second highest rated player in the year with Twistzz being the only one who ended with a higher rating, albeit having played 1/3 of the maps frozen did for FaZe. frozen started 2025 with a disappointing showing at the BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 1 with a 0.84 rating. He stepped up immediately from IEM Katowice 2025 and went on an 11 tournament streak of dropping ratings above 1.01 consistently. While FaZe didn't challenge for titles at all throughout the year, frozen kept his numbers. frozen put up stellar numbers at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 and the opening stage at IEM Cologne 2025 with his 1.43 rating at the online stage of the BLAST Open London 2025 being his highest rated event.

While frozen didn't pick up any MVP awards in 2025, he finished with four EVP Awards, which were at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, ESL Pro League Season 22, PGL Bucharest 2025 and the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025.

Having made his debut almost a decade ago with nEophyte, frozen had stints with eXtatus, warmup, Majestic Lions, GUNRUNNERS and NoChance before making a name for himself during his 4+ years with MOUZ between March 2019 and December 2023. He moved FaZe at the end of 2023 and since then he has been one of FaZe's top performers despite karrigan and co. unable to lift silverware regularly.

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