Top 20 in 2023
The annual year-end ceremony, the 2023 TOP20 player selection has been announced in the early morning of December 28. The 20th-4th place players will be announced every day, 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.
15th place: jabbi
Jabbi, a 20-year-old from Denmark. Since May 2019, he has been competing in the competition for more than four and a half years. He moved from Team Kon Denmark to Team Singapore before joining Rookie Camp Copenhagen Fire at the age of 17.
At that time, the personnel of Xiaohuo changed frequently, and it was not until 2021 that Xiaohuo began to change abruptly after becoming the core of the team with Hooxi and Roej. In the first half of the year, they all maintained a super high-intensity rhythm of matches, averaging more than 20 maps per month against various opponents, not counting the inter-team battles and daily maps outside of competitions.
When he was the most ruthless, Xiao Huo played 35 pictures with various opponents in a month.
God rewards hard work, and the efforts of the little flame have finally paid off. In the European RRR, Copenhagen Fire made a big splash, beating G2, BIG and MOUZ in Group A to win 5-0 and finish at the top of the group. Although they lost to the Bees and Movistar Riders in the knockout round, they also won their ticket to Stockholm with a seventh-place finish. There are two rounds of European RMR, and the small flame did not play the first round of RMR 0 points, and the second round of RMR directly advanced to the Major.
Then the Copenhagen Fire team surprised everyone in the Stockholm Major Challenge and easily defeated the Danish big brother Astrali 16:6, and then beat the German tank BIG and the Danish second brother HEROIC in succession, taking the lead in the Legends Tournament with a 3-0 record. Although the Flames lost to G2 in their first game in the Legends Match, they won comfortably with EG and Faze at :6 respectively, but unfortunately they were only one step away from the quarterfinals.
In 2022, although the Copenhagen Fire did not play much, they were very good in the Major series, and the RMR went straight to the Major Legends group. However, in the Antwerp Major Legends, they went 2-2 again, and this time they beat the last dance of Imperial to advance to the last 8 of the championshipDespite losing to ENCE in the knockout round, Xiao Huo has become the strongest dark horse at the time after two consecutive major performances, and Jabbi, who has a good fight, is also known. It's a pity that the small flame at this time can no longer contain the ambition of the five people, so the gathering is a fire, and the scattering is full of stars. Jabbi replaces Blackie as Heroic's free man.
Jabbi then gradually integrated into Heroic, but his problem was that his performance in offline knockout matches was inconsistent. At the 2022 Rio Major, HEROIC went all the way and defeated the Black Panthers playing at home in the semi-finals to advance to the finals. However, they lost to the outsiders and missed out on the championship. In the final, heroic was all dumb, while Jabbi only had a pitiful 085rating, but heroic is still entering 2023 as the world's No. 1.
2023 started with a strong start to HEROIC, with consecutive knocks in the group stage of IEM Katowice, OG and Vitality, and Jabbi finished with 139rating is dazzling. Then in the semi-finals, Jabbi defeated N**i to advance to the finals, but in the finals against G2, Jabbi was unable to return to the sky and finally won the runner-up.
Heroic is a very consistent and strong team, but it always misses the championship. At EPL S17, HEROIC reached the quarterfinals but lost to N**i, and in IEM Rio they reached the final again, losing to Vitality led by Potato Potato. Paris Major Legends Heroic won all of them to advance to the top 8, and beat Faze twice to advance to the top 4. When almost everyone thought that it would be Vitality and Heroic in the finals again, then in the semi-finals, Heroic overturned and stopped in the semifinals. Then IEM Dallas and they stopped in the Final Four. After only six championships, Jabbi finally played well in the BLAST Spring Finals, and Heroic took revenge on Vitality to win the only championship of the year.
In the second half of the year, IEM Cologne and Petroleum Cup HEROIC both reached the offline knockout stage, stopping in the top 6 and 4 respectively. But at this time, the atmosphere within the team began to change, and they were eliminated from the group stage at EPL S18. In October, Pip Brother's "different views on the future and will be substituted" attracted widespread attention. Pip said he made changes to the lineup, but the players disagreed, but the bigger news was still to come.
Three weeks later, Heroic announced the "temporary" removal of St**N and Jabbi, and in a stern statement, he said that the two were behind the removal of Cabian, and that they were asking for a change of captain on the condition of extending their contracts, and that the two would soon be planning to join Astralis. The two players partially challenged this in a statement on Dec. 21, claiming that the two had never agreed to a new contract with Heroic and that the entire team was in favor of removing Cabian.
This ** sex news shocked the world and also disintegrated the strong team of heroic. Jabbi and St**N switched to Team A together and made their debut at BB Dacha, only to finish bottom of the tournament.
Reasons for qualifyingThe 20-year-old performed well in the first half of the year, making it to the top 20 for the first time. He won the BLAST Spring Finals and won the MVP, came close to the MVP with a stunning performance at the Super Elite IEM Katowice, and won the EVP in four other major events in which HEROIC competed. This is also the main difference between Jabbi and the fighters below him, as the latter can neither match these pinnacle events nor the quality of the events he plays.
As can be seen from Jabbi's year-end stats at Heroic, he has many statistic traits in complex roles, with Jabbi's opening head swap ratio being very high, reaching 307% (ranked 13th), while the first kill rate is 011 (ranked 20th). Despite often starting the default tactics on his own, he is a key part of heroic's swap kill machine, and he engages an average of 028 exchange kills (ranked 20th).
Jabbi is not a typical free man, and does not come into play when an opponent is ready to move or clean up a bag. More often than not, Jabbi is the vanguard of the battle, and his single moves will become the team's offensive lane, such as at the Overpass construction site or at Nuke's iron plate. Under such a system, he can maintain 109 T-side rating (ranked 23rd), which is a testament to his ability to play well in an unfavorable situation.
Jabbi's signature aim was a key part of that, and he ended the year at 039 headshot kills (10th), 050 hits to the head (6th) and 56A 6% headshot rate (15th) ends.
However, the team's internal conflicts in the second half of the year led to the disintegration of HEROIC, and his poor year-end performance left him with little room to climb the rankings further. In kpr(0.69) and ADR (736) In terms of his year-end total, his year-end total is quite low for the rest of the top 20 players. In other big tournaments this year, Jabbi also failed to repeat Washington's heroic performance, hence its 105's big game rating is also the lowest on the list.
I wonder if he can continue to play after switching to the A team now?My wife is gone. Finally, he ** 17-year-old Siriah from the MOUZ academy team, I don't know what Jabbi's vision is
Okay, that's all for today, we'll see you next time