Zyw0o beats s1mple to become the top-ranked player of 2019

January 22, 2020 Archie Maraasin

Team Vitality member Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut is the number one player in HLTV’s rankings for 2019.

ZywOo beat out Natus Vincere’s Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev for the number one spot. The 19-year-old French player impressed throughout 2019, growing into a dangerous presence on any server. Since he joined Team Vitality in October of 2018, ZywOo helped Vitality win DreamHack Open Atlanta 2018, Charleroi Esports 2019, cs_summit 4, and ECS Season 7. ZywOo and Vitality capped off 2019 with a win against a surging mousesports team at EPICENTER Moscow 2019.

He collected a total of five MVP medals last year, including several at tournaments where Vitality failed to make the grand finals. With an average rating of 1.37 and a 28-map streak with a rating above 1.00, ZywOo is more than deserving of the accolade.

ZywOo top CSGO player over s1mple, Liquid have three in top ten

2019 saw s1mple fall from the top spot to number two in the world. The Na`Vi star hasn’t been nearly as dominant in the past year as he has before, likely due to the loss of in-game leader Danylo “Zeus” Teslenko and the return of Ladislav “GuardiaN” Kovács. While s1mple missed out the top spot this year, number two is a reasonable finish for a player with his talent.

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The rest of the top ten includes two Astralis players in Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz at number three and Emil “Magisk” Reif at number five. Team Liquid‘s Jonathon “EliGE” Jablonowski placed at number four, bolstered by a year of consistency with no sign of slowing down.

With TL’s Keith “NAF” Markovic at number seven and Russel “twistzz” Van Dulken at number nine, Team Liquid was the only CSGO team with more than two players inside the top ten. mousesports Robin “ropz” Kool finished off the top ten.

  1. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut
  2. Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
  3. Nicolai “device” Reedtz
  4. Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski
  5. Emil “Magisk” Reif
  6. Denis “electronic” Sharipov
  7. Keith “NAF” Markovic
  8. Vincent “Brehze” Cayonte
  9. Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken
  10. Robin “ropz” Kool
  11. Nikola “NiKo” Kovac
  12. Özgür “woxic” Eker
  13. Jere “sergej” Salo
  14. Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth
  15. Justin “jks” Savage
  16. Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen
  17. Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson
  18. Tsvetelin “CeRq” Dimitrov
  19. Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin
  20. Ethan “Ethan” Arnold

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