Sergej ranks 13th on the 2019 HLTV Top Players List

Hyeres 'sergej' ENCE Salo became the champion of the BLAST Pro Series Madrid 2019, sensationally defeating the Astralis finals on their favorite map, and also took second place in the first major, IEM Katowice Major 2019, DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019, IEM Chicago 2019 and CS: GO Asia Championships 2019.

Every day, the HLTV editorial staff exposes one player each of their version of the top 20 best CS: GO players. On January 20, the secret will be revealed about who will take 1st and 2nd place at the same time.

The previous players who got into the top 20 from HLTV were Xyp9x and jks, who took 14 and 15 lines, respectively.

Rating of the best players of 2019 according to HLTV:

• 1st place: January 20 announcement
• 2nd place: January 20 announcement
• 3rd place: January 18 announcement
• 4th place: January 17 announcement
• 5th place: January 16 announcement
• 6th place: January 15 announcement
• 7th place: January 14 announcement
• 8th place: January 13 announcement
• 9th place: January 12 announcement
• 10th place: January 11 announcement
• 11th place: January 10 announcement
• 12th place: January 9 announcement
• 13th place: Jere 'sergej' Salo (ENCE)
• 14th place: Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth (Astralis)
• 15th place: Justin 'jks' Savage ( 100 Thieves )
• 16th place: Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen (Astralis)
• 17th place: Freddy 'KRiMZ' Johansson (Fnatic)
• 18th place: Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov ( Evil Geniuses )
• 19th place: Ludwig 'Brollan' Brolin (Fnatic)
• 20th place: Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold (Evil Geniuses)