There’s more to greatness than just number of titles. That’s even more true in Hearthstone, where we judge the game’s greats not by how many medals they win, but for how long they can stay relevant and on top of the competition. When talking about the western scene, there’s one player who excels in never letting his level drop.

Although no longer on the superstar Natus Vincere roster, Sebastian “Xixo” Bentert marched as a one-man army through the Hearthstone battlefield. Despite the fact he only won one major this year and has certainly been outclassed by others in that regards, his consistency remained unmatched. For fourteen straight weeks, he remained king of the GosuRankings, an unprecedented achievement. This year alone, he’s won playoff berths or made even deeper runs in eight different majors, maintaining an astounding 68 percent win-rate across the last ten months and a peak of 82 percent in October. It only makes sense that he is this year’s GosuAwards best western player.