Magisk took 5th place in the list of the best players of 2019 according to HLTV

In 2019, Magisk with its teammates was able to win two Major tournaments, IEM Katowice Major 2019 and StarLadder Berlin Major 2019, as well as win among other championships: BLAST Pro Series São Paulo 2019, BLAST Pro Series Global Final 2019, ECS Season 8 Finals.

The Dane received the medal of the best player at IEM Katowice 2019, and was also recognized as a valuable player in ten championships in which Astralis participated.

The previous players in the top 20 from HLTV were electronic and NAF, ranking 6 and 7, 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: Emil 'Magisk' Reif (Astralis)
• 6th place: Denis 'electronic' Sharipov (NAVI)
• 7th place: Keith 'NAF' Markovich (Team Liquid)
• 8th place: Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte (Evil Geniuses)
• 9th place: Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken (Team Liquid)
• 10th place: Robin 'ropz' Kool (mousesports)
• 11th place: Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač (FaZe Clan)
• 12th place: Özgür 'woxic' Eker (mousesports)
• 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)