Change at the top of the top earning CS: GO players? Katowice may decide

Professional esports players can earn huge money. A large part of them come from prizes for individual tournaments. The better the score, the better the reward. In this statistic, the players of the legendary Astralis squad from 2018-2022 have been dominating the CS: GO scene for years. Their hegemony may, however, be broken after the end of the ongoing IEM Katowice 2022.

New giants

Two players Natus Vincere are right behind the Danes. Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and Denis “electronic” Sharipov have results not much worse than the top five. If NAVI ranks high in Katowice, the first will have a chance to break the Danish coalition from the summit, taking the fourth place behind Emil “Magisk” Reif. However, it all depends also on the result of Duñczyk’s team – Vitality.

Such good results of the Ukrainian-Russian organization were ensured primarily by the past year, when they won most of the large competitions, headed by the Major from Stockholm. Thus, the disproportion to the former composition of Astralis has decreased significantly, despite the fact that it had already triumphed in as many as four Majoras.

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The team that won in Katowice will take 400,000 dollars with them. Shortly after the IEM, the ESL Pro League will start, and in May the Major in Antwerp. Thus, a lot may change in the course of the following months.

The current list of the top ten

1. Peter “Dupreeh” Rasmussen (Vitality) ~ $ 1,943,081
2. Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth (Astralis) ~ $ 1,927,180
3. Nikolai “device” Reedtz (Ninjas in Pajamas) ~ $ 1,921,931
4. Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander (Astralis) ~ $ 1,779,342
5. Emil “Magisk” Reif (Vitality) ~ $ 1,536,540
6. Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere) ~ $ 1,521,738
7. Denis “electronic” Sharipov (Natus Vincere) ~ $ 1,375,475
8. Jake “Stewie2k” Yip (Evil Geniuses) ~ $ 1,184,973
9. Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo (Last Dance) ~ $ 1,136,438
10. Epitacio “TACO” Melo (GODSENT) ~ $ 1,085,086