The Community Awards return for 2024, 100% decided by HLTV users and presented by 1xBet and Skin.Club.
The Community Awards are back for 2024’s HLTV Awards, featuring five awards to be voted on by you.
These trophies are ones that are hard to decide objectively, making them perfect to hand over to the people to decide.
The voting will begin on December 17 at 19:00 and end on December 24 at 07:00 (Midnight CET). Voting will only be accessible to HLTV users who have created accounts before the release of this article.
Winners will be announced at the HLTV Awards on January 11 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Now, let’s start to list off the nominees — and explain our methodology.
Talent of the Year by 1XBET
Like last year, this is a tricky one to narrow down with such a large group attending similar amounts of events all around the world.
We used a points system to decide who would make it in, with 2 points for 2+ weeks long S-tier events, and 1 point for all other S-tier events.
We then got our top 10 but with a tie from 8th down to 13th, so the nominee list will feature all 13.
Talent of the Year nominees, ordered by S-tier event points:
United Kingdom Freya “Freya” Spiers
United Kingdom James “BanKs” Banks
United Kingdom Harry “JustHarry” Russell
United Kingdom Henry “HenryG” Greer
United Kingdom Hugo “Hugo” Byron
Canada Mohan “launders” Govindasamy
United Kingdom Alex “Machine” Richardson
United States Jason “moses” O’Toole
Denmark Jacob “Pimp” Winneche
Canada Conner “Scrawny” Girvan
Australia Chad “SPUNJ” Burchill
United States Tres “stunna” Saranthus
Serbia Janko “YNk” Paunović
Event of the Year by 1XBET
Our list has been created by limiting ourselves to S-tier events and excluding online events, group stages, and tournaments without a live audience.
There’s a maximum of two events per tournament organizer, in which case we look at peak viewers and hours watched divided by airtime using data from Esports Charts to determine the top two.
Event of the Year nominees, ordered by chronology:
Poland IEM Katowice 2024
Denmark PGL Major Copenhagen 2024
United Arab Emirates YaLLa Compass 2024
United Kingdom BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024
Germany IEM Cologne 2024
Denmark BLAST Premier Fall Final 2024
China Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024
Creator of the Year by 1XBET
With a whole coterie of Counter-Strike content creators out there, we have leaned on the advice of Stream Hatchet to provide data on the best creators.
This uses a mix of views, engagement, and average watch time over 2024 to create a nominee list of 10. We also eliminated creators that weren’t primarily making Counter-Strike content.
Creator of the Year nominees, ordered alphabetically:
United Kingdom 3kliksphilip
Sweden Anomaly
Estonia NadeKing
United States NartOutHere
Brazil Polex
Russia shoke
United Kingdom Sparkles
Other Superstitum
United States TheWarOwl
Sweden Virre CS2
Streamer of the Year by 1XBET
Like with the creators, we had help from Stream Hatchet to provide data on the best streamers.
This uses a mix of airtime, watch time, peak viewers, and average viewers for another shortlist of 10. We also eliminated streamers that weren’t primarily making Counter-Strike content.
Streamer of the Year nominees, ordered alphabetically:
Russia Eugene “Aunkere” Karyat
Lithuania dima_wallhacks
United States Erik “fl0m” Flom
Argentina Luciano “forg1” Forgione
Brazil Alexandre “gAuLeS” Chiqueta
Poland Piotr “izak” Skowyrski
Romania Costin “jaxi” Vrînceanu
Germany Mark “ohnePixel” Zimmermann
Turkey Özgür “rootthegamer” Alagül
United States Jake “Stewie2K” Yip
Skin of the Year by Skin.Club
The newest addition to HLTV Awards, the Skin of the Year is made by starting with all 34 community skins added to the game in 2024.
HLTV then internally voted on the 34 weapon finishes to create this top 10.
Skin of the Year nominees, ordered alphabetically:
AK-47 | Inheritance (Endrit)
AWP | Chrome Cannon (Strenson)
Glock-18 | Gold Toof (madpoly)
M4A1-S | Black Lotus (moonfighter)
M4A1-S | Vapor Wave (Blazer)
MAC-10 | Saibā Oni (kioShimyo)
SSG 08 | Rapid Transit (cimota)
UMP-45 | Neo-Noir (Blazer)
USP-S | Jawbreaker (Samolee)
Zeus x27 | Olympus (apel8)
To find out more about the show, head over to the HLTV Awards page for all of the information about this year’s event, see the full list of awards on offer, and check out a bit of the history of previous HLTV Awards shows.
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