#13 Kremp: Top 20 Players of Black Ops 7

The #13 player of the Black Ops 7 season is G2 Minnesota Star SMG, Kyle "Kremp" Haworth.

Kremp spent the year as the engine of one of the CDL's most talked-about dark horses, a role that took him through a full roster overhaul, a shocking upset over LA Thieves, and a run to the Quarterfinals at the Esports World Cup. The results around him were never quite as consistent as his own play, but Kremp's damage and Slayer numbers stayed among the best in the league from start to finish.

Season Review

Kremp joined G2 Minnesota as part of an offseason trio, brought in to give the roster a high-octane SMG threat to build around alongside Justice "Estreal" McMillan. Rookie Paul "Mamba" Solano and veteran IGL Cesar "Skyz" Bueno rounded things out at the ARs. On paper, it was a group with real dark horse potential, and the early results backed that up, with the squad finishing 3rd at the Monster Energy Launch Invitational and turning heads in scrims well before the season began.

Minnesota carried that energy into Stage I, closing the Major I Qualifiers at 3-4 for the 7th seed, a mixed bag that included statement wins over FaZe Vegas (3-1) and Toronto KOI (3-0) alongside costly slip-ups against the Carolina Royal Ravens and Boston Breach. Drawn into a difficult opening matchup with FaZe Vegas at the Major itself, G2 flipped the script entirely, sweeping the contenders 3-0. Round 2 brought a far stiffer test in OpTic Texas, who were playing the best Call of Duty in the league at the time, and G2 fell 3-0. A 3-0 bounce-back over Miami Heretics kept the run alive in the Lower Bracket, but FaZe exacted their revenge with a 3-2 win, sending Minnesota home in 4th. Still, it was a promising early marker for a roster with plenty still to prove.

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The belief only grew from there heading into the Major II Qualifiers, a round-robin slate where G2 knocked off both FaZe and the Paris Gentle Mates on the way to a 6-5 finish and the 4th seed. This was a team capable of beating anyone on its day, but just as liable to drop a series it had no business losing. That exact pattern played out at the 10-team Major in Birmingham, where G2's title hopes opened with a 3-0 statement over Riyadh Falcons before cooling almost immediately, dropping consecutive series to OpTic and Thieves to bow out Top 6. A respectable finish, but one more data point showing the gap between G2 and the league's true contenders.

The wheels started to wobble in Stage III. Losses to Boston and Vancouver Surge that G2 had no business dropping left them at 2-3 in qualifying, scraping into the 8th seed. Their Minor followed a familiar script, a win over a struggling Cloud9 New York squad undone by a clean sweep at the hands of LA Thieves, another Top 8 finish. At Major III in Atlanta, G2 had to fight out of the Lower Bracket of Pool A, topping Vancouver 3-1 before a 1-3 setback against OpTic. A 3-0 win over OMiT in the Lower Qualification Match kept them alive, but the well ran dry from there, with consecutive losses to Toronto (2-3) and LA Thieves (1-3) closing the book on that version of the Minnesota roster. Individually, it was Kremp's finest stretch of the year, closing Stage III with a 1.09 K/D and the 2nd-best Slayer Rating in the CDL (103.6), while his Search & Destroy numbers were downright electric: a 1.35 K/D, 1.01 kills per round, and 126.9 ADR.

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Stage IV brought a total roster reset. G2 sent Estreal to Paris in a package that returned Dylan "Envoy" Hannon plus cash, funneling that cash into a buyout for Byron "Nastie" Plumridge from Boston Breach, who stepped directly into Mamba's spot. The front office viewed the swap as a genuine upgrade, one that pushed G2 further into true contender conversation. The retooled group needed time to gel, though, stumbling to a 2-3 record and a 12-12 map count in the Major IV Qualifiers for the 7th seed, then bowing out in the Quarterfinals of Minor II against LA Thieves, 0-3. Kremp's individual play never wavered through the transition, posting a 1.09 overall K/D and 100.5 Slayer Rating across the Qualifiers and Minor combined, but the roster still needed more firepower to hang with the league's elite.

Major IV in Paris carried real stakes as G2's last opportunity to make noise before Champs. An opening 3-2 win over Riyadh Falcons offered hope, but the run collapsed just as quickly, with back-to-back losses to OpTic Texas (0-3) and Paris (1-3) sending them out Top 6, yet another Major spent chasing the league's best rather than beating them.

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Entering Champs as the 6th seed put Kremp and G2 on a collision course with FaZe Vegas right out of the gate, and they fell 1-3 to the team that would go on to win it all. But the group had one big moment left in them, knocking out LA Thieves in a five-map classic to punch into the Top 8. Paris ended the run there with a 3-0 sweep, eliminating G2 in the Top 6 and closing out a season that had generated plenty of buzz but not enough hardware. Kremp's numbers held steady throughout: a 1.06 overall K/D, 102.9 Slayer Rating, and a scorching 1.56 SND K/D paired with 1.03 kills per round.

The year wrapped up back in Paris for the Esports World Cup, where Kremp and company competed under the G2 Esports banner. Swapping in Ben "Beans" McMellon at main AR in place of Skyz paid off instantly, and the squad steamrolled Pool Play with a perfect 6-0 map record, taking down Cloud9 and Gentle Mates to finish atop Pool A. Their tournament ended in the Quarterfinals, a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to Miami Heretics across seven maps.

How Good Was Kremp in 2026?

Hardpoint

Kremp closed the year with a 1.02 K/D in Hardpoint, adding 27.2 kills per 10 minutes, 3,416 damage per 10 minutes, and 51.9 seconds of hill time per 10 minutes. Only JoeDeceives outpaced him in kills per 10, a testament to the breakneck speed Kremp played the mode at. He owns a pair of league records on the year, holding both the top two single-match kill totals, dropping 54 against Carolina in Stage I and 52 against OpTic Texas at Major III, and he also set the Black Ops 7 record for single-map Hardpoint damage, putting up 6,326 against OpTic Texas at that same Major. His level barely dipped on LAN, sitting at a 1.00 K/D with 26.6 kills per 10 and 3,427 damage per 10. When Kremp did go negative, the drop-off around him was severe: Minnesota managed just a 5-30 record (14.3%) in Hardpoint maps where he posted a negative K/D.

Search & Destroy

SND was easily Kremp's strongest mode of the season. He finished with a 1.17 K/D, a league-best 0.84 kills per round, 117.3 ADR, a 54.3% opening duel win rate, and 9 clutches. His 22% multi-kill round rate ranked 3rd in the league, trailing only two players who didn't play full seasons, Capsidal and Wevy. He set another Black Ops 7 record in this mode as well, becoming the first player to win six opening duels in a single map, doing so against Riyadh Falcons during the Major II Qualifiers. Kremp reserved some of his best play for the league's top teams, posting a 1.34 K/D with 0.90 kills per round and a 56.7% opening duel win rate against OpTic Texas, and a 1.25 K/D with 0.89 kills per round and a 61.9% opening duel win rate against FaZe Vegas. He also ranked 2nd in the league with 22 double-digit kill SND maps, but led the league outright when accounting for rate, hitting that mark in 31% of his SND appearances, and topped the league with 8 SND maps featuring four or more opening duel wins, good for 11% of his maps.

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Overload

Overload was yet another mode where Kremp led the team in slaying. He closed the year with a modest 1.02 K/D but added 36 goals, 25.3 kills per 10 minutes, and 3,150 damage per 10 minutes. Every number jumped a level on LAN, where he posted a 1.11 K/D, a league-best 27.4 kills per 10 minutes, and the 2nd-best damage per 10 in the league at 3,306. Whatever the setting, Kremp was a dominant slaying force for G2 in Overload all season.

A Look Ahead to Modern Warfare IV

Kremp was one of the best entry SMGs in the league this season, consistently posting some of the best overall Slayer and Damage ratings around. His SND play was electric all year, and that combination is exactly why he's the piece G2 wants to build around going forward. With the roster essentially a clean slate heading into the offseason, G2 will have plenty of options to figure out who plays alongside Kremp in Modern Warfare IV.

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