CS2: Genius donk won the Player of the Year award, and the fourth underage player was shortlisted for the TOP 20

The competition in 2024 CS events is fierce, and all players try their best to show themselves. The performance will be evaluated at the end of the year, and then the TOP 20 players will be selected. In 2025, the HLTV awards film announced the final winners of all awards, and the Player of the Year was won by the 17-year-old genius donk. In addition, he also became the fourth underage player selected in the TOP 20.

Several years ago, there were also several players under the age of 18 who had a place on this list with their brilliant performance. In 2019, there was Brollan, who was 17 years and 5 months old. In the same year, sergej was also on the list at the age of 17 years and 9 months. Until 2022, it was the turn of the famous m0NESY, who was still a 17-year-old and 7-month-old boy. The player with the biggest breakthrough in 2024 was undoubtedly donk, who even won the best player of the year and was the TOP 1 among the 20.

It is worth mentioning that 2024 is the first time that two Russian players have won the TOP 1 and 2 awards. The previous highest record was ZywOo sweeping three awards in 2023. As the saying goes, the back wave pushes the old wave, and he was surpassed after a year. Donk became the player with the most awards at the awards ceremony in a single year, with a total of 4 awards, breaking the TOP1 honor held by s1mple and ZywOo since 2018. It can be seen that he has a bright future and is a rising star.