TOP20 in 2023
The annual year-end ceremony, the selection of the 2023 TOP20 players is expected to be announced from the early morning of December 28. The 20th-4th place players will be announced on a daily basis, and the HLTV Annual Awards Ceremony will be held on January 13, 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia (local time), where the top 3 of the year's Top 20 players will be announced, in addition to other awards.
第20名：Twistzz
He is known as the Hair Director, the Dean of Sassoon Academy, and the North American Headshot Machine. The 24-year-old has been playing in the arena for more than 8 years, and since 2015, Twistzz has been involved in Tectnic, TSM, Misfits and other teams. However, at that time, he was young and frequently changed formations, and he did not have to use it. It wasn't until 2017 that he joined Liquids and began to compete as a rising star in North America.
However, in 2017, only one chicken and the liquid of the Sassoon Academy students still missed the championship. It wasn't until 2018 that the Lightning NAF joined, and the liquid trio won their first championship, the Villa Cup S2. But that year, the director also got a Juggernaut experience card - he won the MVP of the tournament and the runner-up. ESL ONE New York Finals Liquid lost 2-3 to MOUZ, and the Director Finals slashed 120 heads and finished runner-up with 1.34 ratings. In the same way as s1mple's experience in the SLi S4 finals, coincidentally, Juggernaut also lost to MOUZ.
You can see how happy they are smiling
He made his debut in 2018, ranking 12th in the TOP20, and in 2019 the liquid shined. The first half of the year was liquid, and it took only 63 days to get the Grand Slam achievement, and it was also 4 months to beat Team A to become the world's No. 1, and the director contributed a lot. Helped the team win 7 championships (including 5 consecutive championships), 5 runners-up, 1 semi-finalist, 1 MVP and 8 EVP. This year, he ranked 9th on the TOP20 list.
It's a pity that they still lost to the King A team at the Berlin Major and stopped in the top 8. After the Major, the state of the liquid decreased, and in 2020, due to the pandemic, the tournament was changed to an online independent regional competition. Due to the excellent "location advantage" in North America, the quality and degree of competition have declined, coupled with the changes in the internal personnel of Liquid, the rise of teams such as Black Panther and EG in the outside world, Sanhua Juding has made Liquid begin to decline. The director in 2020 was lost and did not make it to the TOP20 list.
In 2021, he left the liquid that he had been playing for for nearly 4 years and switched to FaZe, but at this time, the Galaxy Battleship was a team that couldn't even enjoy Tu Yile after Ni Gongzi left. Fortunately, the big cousin has returned to FaZe, in the 2021 IEM Cologne competition, FaZe basically did not make it out of the group stage, in IEM Cologne FaZe beat one of the favorites Red Star to reach the semi-finals, but the Stockholm Major still failed to advance to the top 8, and this year the director won the TOP17.
At the beginning of 2022, ropz joined the Galaxy Battleship from the "FaZe Academy" MOUZ, making up for the last shortcoming of the team. As a result, FaZe won four major championships in IEM Katowice, EPL S15, Antwerp Major 2022 and IEM Cologne. The director has frequently played a key role in these competitions, especially in the Cologne finals, and the Nuke outfield is a classic. However, in the second half of the year, the team did not receive anything, and the director achieved a TOP11 ranking in 2022.
Director's TOP20 ranking in previous years
In 2023, FaZe won the EPL S17, IEM Sydney, Leixuan World Finals (online) and CAC 2023 four major championships this year, and after winning the EPL S17 championship in the first half of the year, FaZe finally became the fourth team to complete the Intel Grand Slam achievement, and Twistzz also became the first person to achieve a double Grand Slam (Liquid+FaZe) this year! After the game update on September 28, FaZe showed its strong strength, winning three championships in a row. And in the subsequent BLAST Autumn Finals and BLAST World Finals, they lost to Vitality and fell to the runner-up, which shows the strength of the Galaxy Battleship.
Not only has he had some highlight-reel moments this year, but his overall stats have been relatively stable. He has a horror rating of 1.3+ on 31% of the maps and is also one of the most consistent players in the field, with an average KAST of 73.7% for the year, ranking 15th among the top 20 players.
The most prominent feature of the superintendent is his ability to replenish guns. He has an average of 0.30 reshots, 0.16 reshots (#9), and 23.6% deaths that have seen his teammates complete reshots (#11), making him one of the best reshooters on both ends of the floor. Best proof of this is that Twistzz has the second-highest average number of shots per win among the top 20 players, with 0.18 shots per round.
Although he didn't win the MVP in any of the tournaments this year, he won the EVP of IEM Sydney, EPL S17, and the Thunder World Finals. Of the 18 tournaments and tournaments in the year, Twistzz has only played poorly twice. His lower limit is solid, but his output is not strong enough to achieve a higher position in the rankings. He has a KPR of 0.68, an Impact rating of 1.03, and a multi-kill rate of just 16.3%, the lowest among the TOP 20 players. Compared to its own in previous years, Twistzz's performance this year has seen a considerable decline.
When asked about his goals for 2024, the director said, "I'm going to work harder to raise my game, push the ceiling and the ceiling, and make my team successful both inside and outside the game." "Now the director has returned to his old club, Liquid, and formed a new team with cadiaN and YEKINDAR, so let's look forward to seeing how they perform next year.
Finally, Twistzz also gave his prediction of the future star - the Ukrainian player r1nkle, who is currently playing for the B8. I don't know what the director's vision is?
Okay, that's all for today's content, we'll see you in the next issue~