HLTV Awards 2025: All the winners

The HLTV Awards 2025 ceremony took place over the weekend, on Saturday (January 10th, 2026) with the best of Counter-Strike for the year 2025 being rewarded for their performances. It was a historic awards show with ZywOo winning a record fourth Player of the Year while some of the usual suspects also walked away with the trophies.

If you missed the Awards Show, here is a list of the winners.

COMMUNITY AWARDS

Talent of the Year

James Banks (winner)
SPUNJ
Freya

Event of the Year

StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 (winner)
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
IEM Cologne 2025

Streamer of the Year

ohnePixel (winner)
fl0m
Evelone192

Skin of the Year

JTPNZ: AWP Printstream (winner)
Horameow: Glock-18 Shinobu
dwern: M4A4 - Full Throttle

PANEL AWARDS

The Panel Awards saw Vitality sweep most of the categories barring donk taking home Opener of the Year. FURIA's young AWPer molodoy was the Rookie of the Year while BIG EQUIPA was announced as the women's Team of the Year.

Rookie of the Year

molodoy (winner)
kyousuke
makazze

Team of the Year

Vitality (winner)
Spirit
MOUZ

Women's Team of the Year

BIG EQUIPA (winner)
MIBR fe
FURIA fe

Opener of the Year

donk (winner)
flameZ
YEKINDAR

Closer of the Year

ropz (winner)
frozen
KSCERATO

Anchor of the Year

mezii (winner)
HeavyGod
b1t

AWPer of the Year

ZywOo (winner)
m0NESY
sh1ro

IGL of the Year

apEX - Vitality (winner)
FalleN - FURIA
bLitz - The MongolZ

Coach of the Year

XTQZZZ - Vitality (winner)
hally (Spirit)
maaRaa (The MongolZ)

Highlight of the year

donk 1v5 vs Vitality (winner)
Twistzz 1v3 vs NAVI
ropz Dualies Ace

Source: BLAST

While ASTRA won the Women's Player of the Year in a relatively uncontested fight, it was a much closer battle for the top spot in the men's Player of the Year, which eventually went to ZywOo. It was also ZywOo's fourth HLTV Player of the Year award, making him the player with the most number of Player of the Year awards, overtaking s1mple's tally of 3.

Women's Player of the Year

ASTRA (winner)
vicu
bizinha

Player of the Year

#1 ZywOo
#2 donk
#3 ropz

https://x.com/HLTVawards/status/2010127860007350725

Hall of Fame inductees - 2025

olofmeister
cogu
markeloff