10) REZ
Fredrik "REZ" Sterner who was born on January 11, 1998, is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for Ninjas in Pyjamas. His favorite weapons are the AK-47 and Desert Eagle, which is obvious considering he plays as a rifler for NiP. The 23-year-old was named MVP of IEM Oakland 2017 by the same source.
In 2020 and 2021, REZ scored 211 kills with the Deagle, bringing him to a total of 879 kills in his career.
On November 19, 2017, Intel Extreme Masters XII - has earned $129,000 in the Oakland Tournament.
Major Tournament Achievements
- IEM XII - Oakland, 1st place ($129,000 prize)
REZ’s
9) ropz
Robin "ropz" Kool (born December 22, 1999) is an Estonian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for mousesports as a lurker. His approximately total winning is $535,331.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- ESL Pro League Season 10 - Finals, 1st place ($250,000 prize)
ropz’s
8) ELIGE
Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski (born July 16, 1997) is an American professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player of Polish descent who currently plays for Team Liquid. He is considered to be one of the best North American players, having been placed on HLTV's top ten since 2019.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- Intel Grand Slam Season 2, 1st place ($1,000,000 prize)
ELIGE’s
7) Lekr0
Jonas "Lekr0" Olofsson (born July 2, 1993) is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for Dignitas. He is a rifler(entry fragger) also, his approximately total winning is $452,603.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- World Electronic Sports Games 2017, 1st place ($800,000 prize)
Lekr0’s
6) dev1ce
Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz (formerly known as devve and device) (born September 8, 1995) is a Danish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and former professional Counter-Strike: Source player who currently plays for Ninjas in Pyjamas as the AWPer. He is known as one of the best players of all time, consistently playing at a very high individual level since 2014. He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
During his 5-year tenure with Astralis from January 2016, when the organization was founded by the Team Questionmark players, to April 2021, when he was acquired by NIP, dev1ce won four Majors, earned the MVP award at two of them, and won various other tournaments and MVP awards. His approximately total winning is $1,908,400.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- StarLadder Berlin Major 2019, 1st place ($500,000)
dev1ce’s
5) electronic
Denis "electronic" Sharipov (born September 2, 1998) is a Russian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for Natus Vincere.
electronic began his professional career in mid-2015 as he joined the Evolution squad. After that, he played for three teams, Rebels, Team Empire, and NokSuKao, from January to September 2016. There, electronic was able to showcase his talents and because of that got noticed by FlipSid3's captain, B1ad3, who subsequently invited him to replace Shara on the roster. Under his guidance, electronic stepped up his performance to a whole new level, which eventually led to him joining Natus Vincere in Denis "seized" Kostin’s stead.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020, 1st place ($600,000 prize)
electronic’s
4) ZywOo
Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut (born November 9, 2000) is a French professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for Team Vitality as the AWPer. He is widely considered as one of the best CS: GO players in the world ever since his breakthrough in late 2018. His approximately total winning is $383,371.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- EPICENTER 2019, 1st place ($250,000 prize)
ZywOo’s
3) NiKo
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač (formerly known as NiKolinho and nIKOLINHO) (born February 16, 1997) is a Bosnian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player for G2 Esports and a former semi-professional Counter-Strike player. He is Nemanja "huNter-" Kovač's cousin. NiKo is widely considered as one of the most mechanically gifted players in the Global Offensive and has been in contention for the title of the best player in the world at multiple periods throughout his career. NiKo scored 320 kills with the Desert Eagle, bringing him to a total of 1970 kills in his career. His approximately total winning is $835,767.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- ELEAGUE CS: GO Premier 2017, 1st place ($500,000 prize)
NiKo’s
2) Xantares
İsmailcan Dörtkardeş (born 7 August 1995 in Istanbul) or XANTARES, also known as XANTARES, is a Turkish-Macedonian professional e-sports player. Playing for the Space Soldiers, the team climbed to 12th place in the world team rankings published weekly by HLTV.org in March-April 2018. With their success with the BIG Clan team, they ranked 1st in the world ranking from June to the end of August 2020. Although XANTARES had a contract with BIG until the end of 2021, he terminated his contract with the team in August 2021. It has been claimed that Dörtkardeş will join the Turkish team to be established by Özgür Eker, known by the username woxic. Dörtkardeş joined the Turkish team established under the name of Eternal Fire in August 2021. In the last 12 months, Xantares managed to kill 329 times with the cannon-like pistol, bringing him to a total of 1421 career kills with the fierce pistol.
XANTARES has earned approximately $319,685 from tournaments through 2021.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- Funspark ULTI 2020, 1st place ($150,000 prize)
Xantares’s
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1) S1mple
Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev (born October 2, 1997) is a Ukrainian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays for Natus Vincere as the AWPer. He is widely considered the best CS: GO player in the world. The total number of kills in s1mple’s career is an unusual 1665, making him the greatest Desert Eagle player in the world right now. His approximately total winning is $956,886.
He is the 4th player to make a Major final with two different teams, doing so with Team Liquid at ESL One: Cologne 2016 and Natus Vincere at the FACEIT Major: London 2018. The previous three are Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko, Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács, and Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer.
Holds the record for most clutches won at a big event with 19 which he set at StarLadder & i-League StarSeries Season 4, overtaking the previous record of 13 set by Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth. Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov later matched the record at IEM Katowice 2021.
Holds the record for most aces at a big event with 4 which he set at IEM Cologne 2021.
Major Tournament Achievements:
- BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020, 1st place ($600,000 prize)
S1mple’s
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