CSGO has changed a lot. When looking back at the history of Counter-Strike, almost no team has been able to take the top spots from the European giants. However, in the past two years, North America has changed rapidly and become a more formidable force. More surprisingly, a young North American player has surpassed CS legends to earn a high income in this sport.
According to esportsearnings.com, Jake “stewie2k” Yip did just that. Former Cloud9, MIBR member and now playing for Team Liquid has earned himself $619,490 from tournaments throughout his career and is currently the 19th highest earner in CSGO game history.
To make it easier to understand, stewie surpasses prominent names like Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg, Nathan “NBK” Schmitt, Filip “NEO” Kubski, Ioann “Edward” Sukharev, Jarosław “pashaBiceps” Jarząbkowski in terms of performance. income.
Many of the people above have more trophies and competitions, they also play CSGO longer, but the recent increase in prize money, combined with the rise of North America, has greatly increased the income for stewie2k . s1mple is of course still the best player in the world right now.
When compared to CSGO players who earn more than him, stewie2k is currently only $22,000 behind superstar Nikola “NiKo” Kovač. Most of Stewie’s prize money came from winning the ELEAGUE Major with Cloud9 in 2018.
The next North American player on this list is also on a Major winning team: Tarik
“tarik” Celik – came in at 31. Following tarik was Keith “NAF” Markovic, also taller than s1mple, f0rest, Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund and others.
Then we have a lot of NA players that are 38-45.
This shows how winning the Major can have a huge impact on their income and career thanks to the $1 million prize pool. Only 4 CSGO events have more prize money: WESG 2016 & 2017 and ELEAGUE Season 1 & 2.
Although income is not everything, it still shows that North American CSGO players can rest assured about their careers in this region.
Top 25 highest earning CSGO players after IEM Katowice 2019
Source link: CSGO: Stewie2k makes more money than s1mple, NEO, f0rest, NBK and many others
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