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After ESL Pro League Season 21<\/strong>, Mathieu ‘ZywOo<\/strong>‘ Herbaut has become the Counter-Strike 2 player with the most MVP awards from HLTV. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
Team Vitality defeated MOUZ in the ESL Pro League S21 Grand Finals with a commanding 3-0 record. This was the team’s second trophy of the year, putting them one tournament win away from winning the Intel Grand Slam. Vitality’s flawless victory highlighted ZywOo’s incredible performance.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
ZywOo finished ESL Pro League Season 21 with a 1.43 rating, 90 ADR and 1.14 KPRW over the team’s 15 maps. Only two maps were in the red throughout the tournament. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
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ZywOo Earns 22nd MVP Award, Breaking Record<\/span><\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n \nZywOo now has the most career HLTV MVP awards<\/a> after winning one at ESL Pro League S21. This puts him at 22 total medals, including 15 big events. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \nZywOo has overtaken the record from Oleksandr ‘s1imple<\/strong>‘ Kostyliev, who has 21 total MVPs, 14 being from big events.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \n“I wasn’t really thinking about [the MVP award] going into this tournament. I know everyone on this team could pop off in the finals,” ZywOo told HLTV<\/a> after the victory. “I knew if I just played my A-game and just waited, I thought in the next two or three tournaments I could get it so I wasn’t focused on it.” <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \nFor ZywOo, he said he goes into tournaments thinking more with a team mentality rather than focusing on his individual performance. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \nStill, he couldn’t deny that he was happy to win the award and beat s1imple. But winning won’t stop him from continuing to grind. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \n“I won’t stop just because I’m one in front of s1mple,” he said. “I will show I can go like 25, 30 MVP. I’ll keep grinding and never stop playing with this confidence.” <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \nZywOo has now won two MVPs in 2025 after also showing his CS2 prowess at IEM Katowice.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
\n \nThe HLTV MVP leaderboard is now: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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- ZywOo – 22 MVPs (15 big event)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- s1mple – 21 MVPs (14 big event)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- device – 19 MVPs (11 big event)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- GeT_RiGhT – 10 MVPs (2 big event)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- kennyS – 10 MVPs (3 big event)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Image Credit: HLTV YouTube After ESL Pro League Season 21, Mathieu ‘ZywOo‘ Herbaut has become the Counter-Strike 2 player with the most MVP awards from HLTV. Team Vitality defeated MOUZ in the ESL Pro League S21 Grand Finals with a commanding 3-0 record. This was the team’s second trophy of the year, putting them one … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":170348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,55,106,8701,18248],"tags":[899,1913,600,20449],"class_list":["post-170341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counter-strike","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","category-shooters","category-top-stories","tag-esl-pro-league","tag-s1mple","tag-team-vitality","tag-zywoo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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