All the major tier-1 tournaments in 2023 have now concluded, making it time to summarize this remarkable year.

Throughout this year, numerous championships took place, but one player managed to climb to the top of the leaderboards for the most awards earned in 2023. That player is French sniper Matthieu "ZywOo" Herbaut from Team Vitality.

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Nine players managed to grab one MVP award each. Below is the full list, as well as the tournament for which the MVP award was received:

• Nemanja "huNter-" Kovač  (IEM Katowice 2023)  
• Jakob "jabbi" Nygaard  (BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023)  
• Nikola "Niko" Kovač  (IEM Cologne 2023)  
• Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás  (ESL Pro League Season 18)  
• Håvard "rain" Nygaard  (IEM Sydney 2023)  
• Tim "nawwk" Jonasson  (Elisa Masters Espoo 2023)  
• Petr "fame" Bolyshev  (ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023)  
• Viktor "sdy" Orudjev (ESL Challenger at DreamHack Winter 2023)  

FaZe Clan rifler Robin "ropz" Kool came close to ZywOo in 2023, earning three MVP awards. Notably, two of these were secured after the release of Counter-Strike 2.

ZywOo managed to earn an impressive five MVP awards, with one of them at the last major in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - BLAST.tv Major Paris 2023. Below is the list of all the tournaments where he received the MVP award:

• BLAST Premier: World Final 2023
• BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023
  
• Gamers8 2023
  
• BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023
  
• IEM Rio 2023

However, he still hasn't reached the level of Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev, whose record stands at 8 awards in a year. Recall that this happened in 2021, when Natus Vincere dominated the professional Counter-Strike scene.