Category: Esports

  • 2025 CS2 Top 20 Prospects

    Noah

    2025 CS2 Top 20 Prospects This is my 8th year making prospect rankings for Counter Strike players. I have so much fun making these every year and hope you enjoy reading about players you may not have known about. This year I decided to do the rankings before the major and player break because roster-rumor-mania Read more

  • Which CS2 Pros Perform Better (or Worse) Against Top Teams?

    Noah

    Recently I’ve seen lots of discourse about degster, broky, and others performances against top teams. I wanted to research how players performed against different tiers of ranked teams to see if some narratives were justified. The first thing I did was collect data. I decided to use data from CS2 matches only (~20 months) to Read more

  • Is Vitality the Best Team on Every Map? An Analysis

    Noah

    Vitality is 45-8 since adding ropz in 2025 and half of those losses are by 2 rounds. They are the current #1 team in the world by such a large margin that it begs the question: are they the best team on every map? To answer that, we need to define ‘best.’ There are two Read more

  • Entrying, Trading, AWPing, Flashes: What affects HLTV rating the most?

    Noah

    In competitive Counter-Strike, a player’s HLTV 2.1 rating is often used as the gold standard for individual performance. But which teamplay statistics affect this number and by how much? To answer this, I gathered a dataset of top 50 matches since 2024 (minimum 2,000 rounds, n=287), separated them by side and whether the player was Read more

  • Top 20 Counter Strike Prospects – All lists since 2017

    Noah

    List #1 – December 23, 2017 #1 ZywOo (aAa) 17 years old #2 frozen (eXtatus) 15 years old #3 sergej (HAVU) 15 years old #4 Texta (Chiefs) 16 years old #5 liazz (Chiefs) 20 years old #6 huNter (Valiance) 21 years old #7 MICHU (Kinguin) 20 years old #8 Aleksib (HAVU) 20 years old #9 Read more