Donk tops FACEIT leaderboard for fifth straight season

Team Spirit’s Danil ‘donk’ Kryshkovets has topped the FACEIT leaderboards for a fifth consecutive season.

The Russian Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) player ended Season 5 of the tournament platform’s ranking system with the highest ELO rating of anyone in the world.

Donk ended Season 5 of FACEIT with the highest ELO total of 5,283, over 400 higher than Maksim ‘kyousuke’ Lukin‘s total. The recent Team Falcons signing finished second in the leaderboard, with teammate Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov finishing third.

FACEIT is one of the largest esports platforms in the world, offering players opportunities to compete in matches of equal skill to climb up leaderboards. Over the years, FACEIT has become somewhat of the go-to platform for professional players when it comes to honing Counter-Strike skills.

Moreover, the platform often enables aspiring players to compete against established names in Counter-Strike esports, giving them a chance to showcase their skills in front of the best players in the world.

While Donk topped the leaderboards, ARCRED player Boris ‘Ryujin’ Kim won the European FACEIT Pro League (FPL), scoring 4,851 ELO and fourth place on the leaderboard. Elsewhere, Stanley ‘calamity’ Chiu, Marcos ‘fokiu’ Paulo, and Zeyad ‘OSCAR’ Alrummani won the North American, South American, and Middle Eastern circuits, respectively.

Alongside announcing the Season 5 winners, FACEIT has shared details on what Season 6 of its CS2 ladder has in store. The ELO of the top-ranked players have received a soft reset in order to keep the leaderboard competitive.

In addition, Anubis has been removed from the platform’s map pool, with Overpass making a return following Valve reintroducing the map to the Active Duty map pool on July 16th, 2025.

Season 6 of FACEIT will begin on July 22nd and will conclude on November 23rd, giving players four months to earn a high place on the leaderboard.