HLTV.org's Top 20 players of 2021

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Watch the best highlights from the players featured in the Top 20 players of 2021 ranking, powered by GG.BET.

Celebrate the best players of 2021 with this 13:37 minute fragmovie that has been put together by our moviemaker Filip "filq" Szatkowski, which first premiered on the HLTV Confirmed Award Show during which Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev, Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut and Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač were revealed as the top three players of the year.

Along with the best three players of the 2021, Gambit's Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov and Sergey "⁠Ax1Le⁠" Rykhtorov rounded out the top 5, and the Russian squad's Kazakh veteran Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khasenov is also featured in the video after coming in sixth place in a year largely dominated by the CIS region.

Watch their top highlights and those of all of the top 20 players of the year in the video below, featuring the likes of Valeriy "⁠b1t⁠" Vakhovskiy, Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic or Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool, among others, and check out our introduction article to see the complete ranking.

[FOOLMUSIC]

Thanks for using 5 of my songs. Great video with some amazing plays! 🔥🔺

[rajaahdhananjey]

That simple nuke flick still makes me watch the clip at 0.25x. Never gets boring.

[AstroSully]

Amazing year. Astonishing plays. Incredible players. Let's hope for a even better year in 2022 for CS. Thank you HLTV!

[etoiiocjiefantbi]

IMO it was one of the best hltv highlight video ever. Highlights, music - everything was 10/10

[Lybrel]

LOL at Jame’s “surviving” bar going so long that it touched the end of the box. 🤣

[dylanlollar]

Awesome year of CS all things considered. Absolute crowning year of S1mple, that was the highest peak of any individual across all of CSGO

[konradrafalski]

Great edit by FILQ!
Also thanks HLTV for overall great job. Nice to have you guys.

[AnthonyPerfetto]

Shout-out to the editor Filip for putting in the hard work for this. I think we all expected #1 😃

[ГерманСокур-их]

в топ 10 восемь игроков из СНГ, невероятная гордость!!!!

[JoZibi]

Amazing to see this energy CSGO still has after all these years, and I guess it will continue to go so strong as long as it exists 🔥🙌🏼

[hudg]

This video is insane. A massive step up from last years top 20 video. Well done FILQ!!!

[OriginalRaveParty]

Despite all of the craziness going on, it's been a banging year for the best FPS game in the world.

Great edit 👍

[serelit]

2022 is going to be a crazier year with all the upcoming talents and roster changes

[jackal]

What an incredible video, props to filq for the edit! Spectacular job!

[teatop]

when they had to cut zywoo's ace clip and minimize his screen time just for that 13:37 video length 💀

[wickedwl]

Simple what a player !!
Unstoppable 🔥🔥👀

[nyoom]

very slow start from kyojin but he managed to grab #1 before the year ended

[solome]

Yekindar's spray transfer for a 4k on vertigo was 8:19

[Volent_]

Personally I thought that electronic should have been at #5

[Alpha-]

6:16 Still remember watching this live. Last Astralis moment