Lurker: ropz

Estonian ropz shined in his role, and he became the piece of the puzzle for FaZe, which allowed the team to punish their opponents as confidently as in 2017. But, unlike the unfortunate Major in Boston, the championship title did not elude them this year.

Ropz's contribution to FaZe's success is enormous. His shooting speaks for itself because he became the best, with an indicator of 22.2% accuracy.

BlameF is also worth mentioning as the rifler-lurker with the highest rating of 6.7 but without remarkable team achievements. On the other hand, the MVP of IEM Dallas 2022 Cloud9's player Ax1le also showed a decent performance.

Sniper: s1mple

The Ukrainian sniper has continued to demonstrate his mastery of handling AWP. Despite the same rating of 6.8 with ZywOo, it is s1mple who will enter the dream team this year. There are two reasons for this:

• NAVI won 3 out of 5 matches against Vitality.
• NAVI got more first and second places at prestigious tournaments.

Obviously, sh1ro also entered the top three. But, unfortunately, he didn't get MVP medals this year. Still, during all 9 tournaments, he showed excellent sniper skills, resulting in the same rating of 6.8 as in the abovementioned pair.

Open fragger: YEKINDAR

The Latvian not only has the highest average number of first kills but also gave Liquid a big boost, first as a stand-in and then after the official transition. This transfer drastically affected the performance of the American club in tier-1 tournaments, where previously 5-8 places were often the ceiling for the previous iteration of the lineup. With the right approach and further development, YEKINDAR next year can lead Liquid to a stable entry into the top 4 and to trophies at prestigious LAN events.

Let's note NiKo, who is right behind YEKINDAR in statistics. Especially since G2 beat Liquid in the grand final of BLAST Premier: World Final 2022. But generally, 2022 was not a breakthrough for Kovach regarding individual performance.

Support: tabseN

The player of BIG was honored to be on our list due to his skillful handling of all types of grenades. On average, tabseN dealt the highest amount of damage with frag grenades, and he was in the top 3 for the effectiveness of Molotovs and flashbangs.

Also, tabseN combined all this with the duties of a captain. Unfortunately, his team won only one big tournament, so in our dream team, the IGL role went to another player.

Captain: cadiaN

CadiaN can be called versatile to some extent. As an IGL, he got 11th place on kills with AWP on average and almost the same damage and grenade efficiency as tabseN while winning two tournaments and finishing 2nd at the Rio Major.

Someone can say that Jame took first place in the Major, his AWP damage is greater, and the effectiveness of grenades is also commendable. But during other tier-1 tournaments, the results of Outsiders left much to be desired. This especially applies to the 16-17 EPL seasons, BLAST Premier World Finals, and IEM Cologne. Heroic also had yet to impressive results at these tournaments. However, they still hold the Pinnacle Cup Championship and BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2022 titles. This was the deciding factor in cadiaN's favor.

We should also mention karrigan, who did not have a high rating, but nevertheless became an essential component in FaZe's success in the first half of the year. He loses to Casper in everything except assists and damage. It is impossible to thoroughly compare shooting since karrigan uses AWP rarely.

Also, Jame and cadiaN are better suited to the dream team than karrigan simply because they both perfectly complemented the composition as second snipers in the roster with s1mple.

Coach: B1ad3

The contribution of Andrey B1ad3 Horodensky cannot be underestimated. From the moment he started working in his current position at NAVI, he became an integral part of the team and an actual brain center. He faced several challenges to rebuild the team after the departure of Boombl4, organize the work process during the background of the war in Ukraine, select the fifth player, transfer the captaincy to Denis electronic Sharipov and maintain a place in the world top this year. Of course, not everything went smoothly, and only some results corresponded to ambitions. Still, considering all the circumstances, he worked on the best level.

We must also pay tribute to RobbaN from FaZe for a successful year in terms of victories and Xizt from Heroic, whose wards overcame FaZe at the end of the year.

This year turned out to be rich in the successes of various teams. Every CS:GO fan could find a player whom he wanted to cheer up in one or another championship. Let's hope that the next year has stored many surprises for us.