H0NeST climbs into HLTV Top 50 Prospects at number 33

Iowa Stormboar's H0NeST has broken into HLTV's Top 50 Prospects ranking for November, landing at #33 after narrowly missing the cut the month before, according to Dust2.us.

The entry comes in a month where HLTV overhauled the top of its list entirely. Daniel "syph0" Ageyev is the new number one prospect after an anchor-lurker display that carried Nemiga to the grand final of PGL Masters Bucharest, having sat second a month earlier on the strength of his tier-two form.

Alex "poiii" Nyholm Sundgren rises to number two after being named Dust2 Brasil MVP of FiRe Last Chance as 100 Thieves secured a dramatic Major qualification, pushing David "Dawy" Bibik down to third.

Further down the list, Vadim "tO0RO" Arkov jumped eight places to a new peak of eighth after a 1.36 rating helped Virtus.pro win CIS LAN Season 9, with UPGRADE pair Artur "pleynnn" Syzdykov and Maxim "SquEzxc" Grebenko also climbing, to tenth and sixteenth respectively, on the back of a fifth-to-eighth finish at the same event.

Volodymyr "mazay" Iorhachov of fnatic and Spirit Academy was the biggest riser in the top 50, gaining 16 places after a 1.29 rating helped fnatic reach the final of Stake Ranked Episode 5.

Zolbayar "tikuak" Chimedtseren, who has struggled to adapt to tier-one play with The MongolZ, continues to perform for Chinggis Warriors and will play his first Major in Singapore. Spaniard Yeray "Joey" Serrano Pérez debuts at #17 after winning Urban Riga Open S7 and finishing third at Roman Imperium IX with Sangal, while 17-year-old Andrii "tired73" Hlushko is closing in on the top 20 after winning Retake Season 13 with a 1.32 rating in his first HLTV-tracked LAN, a tournament where Natus Vincere reportedly forfeited a match against his side, WBT Academy, in Portugal.

NAVI Junior's Samuel "MahaR" Horáček and David "FAZERY" Procházka also enter the list for the first time, landing next to each other at #26 and #27.

HLTV said it had changed the underlying methodology this month, moving from percentile scores back to a scaled system using median absolute deviation to better preserve gaps between players, a shift that benefited players such as pleynnn, SquEzxc and tired73.

Two long-standing fixtures of the ranking, Gleb "gr1ks" Gazin and Klimentii "kl1m" Krivosheev, aged out of eligibility this month after turning 21; kl1m had reached as high as second place in August 2026 before his move to G2 Ares, after which he has not played an official match. Jae "74LOR" Webb held the title of top Oceanic prospect for only a month before his own birthday, while David "bl1x1" Stepanyants exited the list by passing 1000 career maps.

HLTV's Prospects criteria require players to be under 21 and to have played fewer than 50 maps at Big Events, fewer than 50 maps for a top 20 team against top 20 opposition, fewer than 100 maps for a top 30 team against top 30 opposition, fewer than 300 maps for a top 50 team against top 50 opposition, and fewer than 1000 career maps overall, with eligibility recalculated for every monthly update.