Talk:HLTV

Edit protection
Literally no reason to ever take that off this page. HLTV is pretty infamous for the trolling on its forum from people in 50+ countries so this probably should be indeff'd. The moment it expires someone will make a post about it on the forum and it'll start all over. Nole (chat·edits) 18:08, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 January 2020
undo the most recent edit by JamesWiseman121 because it is vandalism. TheHeroBrine (talk) 22:29, 13 January 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 00:15, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 January 2020
Change there being no 2019 section to there being a 2019 section... I guess

2019
ASSrock (talk) 19:48, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 1. 🇫🇷 Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut
 * 2. 🇺🇦 Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev
 * 3. 🇩🇰 Nicolai "device" Reedtz
 * 4. 🇺🇸 Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski
 * 5. 🇩🇰 Emil "Magisk" Reif
 * 6. 🇷🇺 Denis "electronic" Sharipov
 * 7. 🇨🇦 Keith "NAF" Markovic
 * 8. 🇺🇸 Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte
 * 9. 🇨🇦 Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken
 * 10. 🇪🇪 Robin "ropz" Kool
 * 11. 🇧🇦 Nikola "NiKo" Kovac
 * 12. 🇹🇷 Özgür "woxic" Eker
 * 13. 🇫🇮 Jere "sergej" Salo
 * 14. 🇩🇰 Andreas "Xyp9x" Højslet
 * 15. 🇦🇺 Justin "jks" Savage
 * 16. 🇩🇰 Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen
 * 17. 🇸🇪 Freddy "KRIMZ" Johansson
 * 18. 🇧🇬 Tsvetelin "CeRq" Dimitrov
 * 19. 🇸🇪 Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin
 * 20. 🇺🇸 Ethan "Ethan" Arnold


 * Yes check.svg Done Majavah (t/c) 06:19, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 May 2020
In the Section history "In 2016, HLTV launched dust.dk, a website dedicated to the Counter-Strike scene in Denmark." should be changed to ...launched dust2.dk, ... dust.dk is a website about horses and not counter-strike. dust2.dk is the correct site. In the same regard the title of source 8 has to be chanched to "Dust2.dk" as well. 77.23.14.215 (talk) 16:16, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Done, thank you! – Thjarkur (talk) 17:21, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2020
On February 28th, HLTV was acquired by Better Collective, a sports betting media company. It was purchased for €34.5 million, and the deal included their sister site dust2.dk Ref: https://esportsinsider.com/2020/02/hltv-org-acquisition-better-collective/

Additionally, the mention of HLTV's acronym — "HLTV, which stands for Half-Life Television" — would be better worded as "HLTV, formerly an acronym of Half-Life Television", as I doubt that the acronym is acknowledged anymore, if it was at all. Cheers. Jarshparseguy (talk) 09:16, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Good edits. ✅ Nole  (chat·edits) 14:46, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Visitors/mo
Just commenting this for future editors/discussions. After the purchase by Better Collective, a number of sources started reporting this 26.5 million visitors per month number. As best I can tell, this comes directly from the HLTV announcement and should be viewed with caution. Treat that as a primary source unless we get someone better reporting on that. Nole (chat·edits) 15:01, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 January 2021
149.90.116.167 (talk) 19:26, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Kennys should be in 6 with 61 points and he isn't even in the rank 20. He should have 61 points going into this logic. 2013 - 9 points - Rank 12 2014 - 15 points - Rank 6 2015 - 15 points - Rank 6 2016 - 8 points - Rank 13 2017 - 14 points - Rank 7


 * Well, the reason he wasn't in that list was that it only included people with at least one top-3 ranking. However, I've removed that entire table from the article as apparent WP:OR / WP:SYNTH since it appears to me that this ranking system was invented for this Wikipedia article. Courtesy ping to who added this information last year - please feel free to re-add if a reliable source is provided to support this information. &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 20:00, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 January 2021
Add the TOP 20 list for 2020 Igor567 (talk) 01:01, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:03, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 May 2021
17. Finland Timo "aslak" Verkoperrä change to Timi "aslak" Verkkoperä Rahike (talk) 08:41, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Alyo  (chat·edits) 09:13, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 October 2022
In #2010 section there is a. (dot) missing on 8th entry. I want to change From:

8 Denmark Danny "zonic" Sørensen

to

8. Denmark Danny "zonic" Sørensen Raffleberry (talk) 17:22, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ RudolfRed (talk) 17:54, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Unrelated Player Links
Remove links from "frozen" and "Spinx," as they have nothing to do with the players themselves. Teegrumpee (talk) 18:41, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 January 2023
In the 2022 top 17th player, the czech flag is assigned to David "frozen" Čerňanský but he is slovak. The flag should be changed from the czech flag to the slovak flag. 78.98.251.181 (talk) 01:38, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

✅ PianoDan (talk) 23:04, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 March 2023
change"getting revenge on an enemy for killing a teammate" to "getting revenged by a teammate for killing the player" Akira641z (talk) 20:41, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: I think the current wording is much clearer than your suggestion. Actualcpscm (talk) 22:19, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Update HLTV being an "acronym" to being an "initialism"
Acronyms are intialisms that are spoken, like RADAR. You don't say "huhtulv" you say aitch-ell-tee-vee, you spell it out. That makes it an initialism, not an acronym 2A00:23C8:881E:A201:E4A6:CD4:A5B5:1F9F (talk) 20:23, 25 August 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- good catch Alyo  (<b style="font-family:courier; font-size:small">chat</b>·<b style="font-family:courier; font-size:small">edits</b>) 16:06, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2024
Change "Global Offensive" in the end of first paragraph in history section to "Counter Strike" Consider also changing "Global Offensive" in the first line of HLTV Rating section to "Counter Strike"

All changes due to the transition to CS2 in 2023/2024 Jona9290 (talk) 21:39, 21 February 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ I removed replaced the instances of Counter-Strike Global Offensive to Counter-Strike. Coulomb1 (talk) 18:10, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I left those in italics btw, but thanks for catching that @Coulomb1! Alyo  (<b style="font-family:courier; font-size:small">chat</b>·<b style="font-family:courier; font-size:small">edits</b>) 21:09, 11 March 2024 (UTC)