donk crowned best player of 2024

The best Counter-Strike 2 player of 2024 according to the authoritative portal HLTV.org is Team Spirit's Danil "donk" Kryshkovets, which was announced during the HLTV Awards 2024 ceremony. Second and third places were secured by Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov (G2) and Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut (Vitality), respectively.

In 2024, donk won four top tournaments with Team Spirit: IEM Katowice 2024, BLAST Spring Final 2024, BetBoom Dacha Belgrade Season 2 and Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024. At each of these events, as well as at BetBoom Dacha Belgrade Season 1, the Russian was chosen the MVP.

donk's average rating for the past year amounted to 1.36. He became the world's best by many stats, including rating, impact, kills per round, damage per round, etc.

In turn, m0NESY with G2 won three trophies – IEM Dallas 2024, BLAST Fall Final 2024 and BLAST World Final 2024. His high level of individual play allowed him to secure three MVP awards (at all of the aforementioned competitions), as well as five exceptional valuable player (EVP) titles.

At the end of 2024, the Russian recorded an average rating of 1.27 and became a leader in a number of statistical indicators. In particular, he topped the list of the best players in the world in terms of the number of successful clutches.

ZywOo has only one big victory to his credit in 2024, which he spent with Vitality – at IEM Cologne 2024. As for the individual awards, the Frenchman was crowned MVP twice and earned the status of exceptionally valuable player (EVP) seven times.

Herbaut finished the year with an average rating of 1.35. Among other things, HLTV.org experts noted his rating against top-5 squads – according to this metric, as well as some others, he became the best player on the CS2 pro scene last year.

The top 20 players in the world in 2024 according to HLTV.org are:

1.  Danil "donk" Kryshkovets
2.  Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov
3. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut
4.  Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač
5. Justinas "jL" Lekavicius
6. Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov
7. Shahar "flameZ" Shushan
8. Helvijs "broky" Saukants
9. Valeriy "b1t" Vakhovskiy
10. David "frozen" Čerňanský
11.  Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov
12.  Mario "malbsMd" Samayoa
13.  Lotan "⁠Spinx"⁠ Giladi
14.  Dorian "xertioN" Berman
15. Ismailcan "XANTARES" Dörtkardeş
16.  Mihai "iM" Ivan
17. Jimi "Jimpphat" Salo
18. Robin "ropz" Kool
19.  Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski
20.  Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás