The 20 highest paid professionals of all time on CS: GO

The competitive landscape of CS: GO has seen many upheavals. While the Danish players still dominate the first places in the standings, others are starting to find a place, determined to pull the rug out from under them.

The Danes dominate the world rankings

In 2018, Astralis players Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen and Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth became the first CS: GO stars to cross the million dollar cash prize threshold.

Since then and thanks to their victories at IEM Katowice 2019 and StarLadder Berlin, they have been joined in the millionaires’ club by their teammates Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander and Emil “Magisk” Reif.

If the Danes may have given up their stranglehold on all world tournaments with the emergence of Natus Vincere, Vitality, FURIA and even Complexity, they still established themselves as the five highest paid players.

In fact, they’ve taken the lead at such a level that it’s only a matter of time before they each hit $ 2 million.

16 players have now crossed the million dollar mark each

While Astralis was the first to clearly exceed the million dollar cap, there are now 16 players who are part of the millionaires’ club. Among them we find the nucleus of the former team SK-Luminosity, as well as the CIS trio composed of Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, Denis “electronic” Sharipov and Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov, who made a leap in this ranking. after NAVI’s recent explosion of success.

S1mple, who was named MVP of the PGL Major in Stockholm, is now less than $ 15,000 to break into the top 5 of the table and overtake Emil ‘Magisk’ Reif, who missed the last tournaments of 2021 after scoring. been placed on the bench of Astralis.

s1mple recently entered the CS: GO Millionaires Club after winning the Intel Grand Slam.

Who is the richest CS: GO player of all time?

Dupreeh took the upper hand over his Astralis teammate, Xyp9x, as the richest player of all time on CS: GO. But the 28-year-old Dane’s grip on first place has loosened in recent months.

NAVI’s duo s1mple and electronic move closer to the top 5 after winning the Intel Grand Slam Award and the Stockholm PGL Major with a prize pool of $ 2 million.

Below is the ranking of the 20 professional players who won the most cash prize on CS: GO, according to esportsearnings.com.

The 20 CS: GO players with the most cashprize – Updated December 27, 2021.