Astralis trio become first CS:GO players to break $1 million prize money mark \u2013 Top 20 highest earning players StarSeriesFor the first time in the history of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, players can say that they have made over $1 million in prize money. Breaking the million dollar mark in winnings for any game is an impressive achievement, and virtually every professional player to have ever done so has been a Dota 2 star. But November 25 saw three CS:GO players join the likes of League of Legends star Lee \u2018Faker\u2019 Sang-hyeok in that very exclusive list of esports millionaires that have never won Dota\u2019s \u2018The International\u2019. If you follow Counter-Strike, you probably won\u2019t be surprised to hear that all three of those players are members of Astralis \u2013 the Danish team that has dominated the 2018 season and continued to do so with a victory at the ECS Season 6 finals on Sunday. The longest serving members of the roster, Nicolai \u2018dev1ce\u2019 Reedtz, Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen and Andreas \u2018Xyp9x\u2019 H\u00f8jsleth, all surpassed the $1 million threshold with their hard-fought victory over MIBR in the ECS Grand Final in Arlington \u2013 a win that netted the team $250,000. Interestingly, two of the men that they beat in that nail-biting match, Gabriel \u2018FalleN\u2019 Toledo and Fernando \u2018fer\u2019 Alvarenga, are their closest competitors for prize money, followed by their in-game leader Lukas \u2018gla1ve\u2019 Rossander and another MIBR star, Marcelo \u2018coldzera\u2019 David. Even Astralis\u2019 newest addition, Emil \u2018Magisk\u2019 Reif has broken into the 15 highest earning CS:GO players, currently sitting just under $630,000 earned. This alone proves how strong the team has been since adding the former North and OpTic star in February (each player has netted over $450,000 in 2018). Xyp9x currently holds the number one spot in earnings from CS:GO, sitting at $1,038,721.90, with dupreeh just behind him with $1,035,922.74. Dev1ce is lagging behind his two long-time teammates slightly, but can still boast an impressive $1,003,423.21 despite a number of setbacks. Prolonged health issues marred the 23-year-old\u2019s 2017 season and forced him to miss events like ECS Season 4 and BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen at the end of the year, meaning he missed out on a fair chunk of money that both Xyp9x and dupreeh were able to cash in on. The top 20 highest earning CS:GO pros on November 26 2018, according to esportsearnings.com, can be found below. As you can see, a number of legends, including the likes of f0rest, GeT_RiGhT, shox, TaZ and kennyS, are no longer anywhere to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astralis trio become first CS:GO players to break $1 million prize money mark \u2013 Top 20 highest earning players StarSeriesFor the first time in the history of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, players can say that they have made over $1 million in prize money. Breaking the million dollar mark in winnings for any game is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}