Dan "apEX" Madeskler, captain of Team Vitality's CS2 roster, publicly congratulated teammate Shahar "flameZ" Shushan after flameZ was placed seventh in HLTV.org's list of the best players of 2025. The congratulatory message was shared on the social platform X.

Published 05.01 at 12:30 — the selection for the best coach of 2025 has been announced.

Ilya Davydov, better known as Maddyson, publicly stated that the high online numbers for Dota 2 and CS2 broadcasts on Twitch are largely the result of artificial inflation. In a message shared on his Telegram channel, he argued that many content creators do not choose these games out of genuine preference, but rather because outside parties push them into doing so.