HLTV releases nominees for the HLTV Community Awards
HLTV has dropped the nominees for the HLTV Community Awards. The community will vote on the categories of Talent, Event, Creator, Streamer, and Skin of the Year.
The first round of voting will begin on December 16th and run until December 23rd. Users will then decide between the top three from each category in the second round of votes, which will start on December 24th and end on December 31st.
There are five North Americans who have been nominated for awards, with the BLAST.TV Austin Major 2025 is up for the Event of the Year category, as well. Canadian casting duo Mohan "launders" Govindasamy and Conner "Scrawny" Girvan are in the Talent of the Year category with Americans Alex "Mauisnake" Ellenberg and Tres "stunna" Saranthus. In the streamer category, Erik "fl0m" Flom is the sole North American in the mix for the award.
HLTV released an article detailing how they determined the nominees in each category.
Here are the categories and their nominees:
Talent of the Year
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Freya "Freya" Spiers -
Harry "JustHarry" Russell
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Hugo "Hugo" Byron
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Jacob "Pimp" Winneche -
Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill -
Alex "Machine" Richardson
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James "BanKs" Banks
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Janko "YNk" Paunović -
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy -
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan
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Alex "Mauisnake" Ellenberg -
Tres "stunna" Saranthus
Event of the Year
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IEM Katowice 2025 -
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 -
PGL Astana 2025 -
BLAST.tv Austin Major
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IEM Cologne 2025 -
FISSURE Playground 2
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BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 2 -
StarLadder Budapest Major
Creator of the Year
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3kliksphilip
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Anomaly -
bysTaXx -
Cachorro1337 -
dima_aimbots
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Murzofix -
NadeKing -
shoke -
Sparkles
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Virre CS2
Streamer of the Year
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Vadim "Evelone192" Kozakov -
Erik "fl0m" Flom
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Luciano "forg1" Forgione -
Alexandre "gAuLeS" Chiqueta
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Ömer "imoRR" Karataş
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Piotr "izak" Skowyrski
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Justinas "jL" Lekavicius
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Sebastien "KRL" Perez -
Mark "ohnePixel" Zimmermann
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Ivan "StRoGo" Shurpatov
Skin of the Year
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AWP | Ice Coaled (REINCARNATION)
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AWP | Printstream (JTPNZ)
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FAMAS | Bad Trip (HEWOK)
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Glock-18 | Shinobu (Horameow)
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M4A1-S | Liquidation (Mei)
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M4A4 | Full Throttle (dwern)
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MAC-10 | Cat Fight (Maloo)
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MAC10 │ Derailment (Tolik_Wask)
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MP7 | Smoking Kills (48)
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UMP-45│Late Night Transit (cimota)
The first round voting opens on December 16th, with the second round beginning on December 24th. The HLTV Awards are scheduled for January 10th. More info for the HLTV Awards can be found here.
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