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It shouldn’t arrive as a surprise that the prime entries on a list of the optimum prize pool-earning esports players for 2021 are the best 3 teams from this year’s Dota 2 Worldwide, or TI10. T110’s unbelievably substantial $40 million prize pool was considerably and absent much greater than any other function this year and even better than previous TIs.
With that staying stated, in this article are the optimum-earning esports gamers of 2021 in phrases of prize pool winnings.
Crew Spirit’s Dota 2 roster – $3.68 million per player
- Illya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk
- Alexander “TORONTOTOKYO” Khertek
- Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov
- Miroslaw “Mira” Kolpakov
- Yaroslav “Miposhka” Naidenov
Crew Spirit’s triumph at TI10 was almost nothing shorter of breathtaking. The CIS roster had been signed by Spirit significantly less than a yr prior and hadn’t achieved a great deal before their TI10 run. They didn’t even gain ample DPC factors to be invited, they had to qualify by the Eastern European qualifier. At the event, they narrowly capable for an higher bracket spot and ended up immediately despatched down to the reduce bracket by Invictus Gaming. But then, Spirit went on a miraculous run by the grand finals with a five-sport get above PSG.LGD.
For everyone on the team apart from Miposhka, their $3.68 million choose household this 12 months signifies over 99 p.c of their total life time earnings, according to Esports Earnings. That variety nevertheless can make up above 93 percent of Miposhka’s complete prize pool payouts, nevertheless.
PSG.LGD’s Dota 2 roster – $1.16 million per participant
- Wang “Ame” Chunyu
- Cheng “NothingToSay” Jin Xiang
- Zhang “Faith_bian” Ruida
- Zhao “XinQ” Zixing
- Zhang “y`” Yiping
PSG.LGD’s in close proximity to-flawless operate at TI10 may well have resulted in a heartbreaking finish, but the players can experience a minor better searching at their $1.1 million payouts. The team out of China can be deemed a single of the very best Dota 2 squads of the 12 months with wins at the WePlay AniMajor and the OGA Dota Pit Invitational underneath their belts.
The 2nd-place complete at TI10 pushes Ame, Faith_bian, and y’ into the over $3 million lifetime earnings category. Ame is the optimum life time earning Dota 2 player without a TI get (two next-place finishes, a single third, and one particular fourth).
Group Secret’s Dota 2 roster – $742,000 per participant
- Lasse Aukusti “MATUMBAMAN” Urpalainen
- Michał “Nisha” Jankowski
- Ludwig “zai” Wåhlberg
- Yazied “YapzOr” Jaradat
- Clement “Puppey” Ivanov
The customers of Staff Top secret are no strangers to profitable. The veteran roster of familiar Dota 2 faces arrived into TI10 with significant hopes, with MATUMBAMAN and Puppey just about every wanting to repeat as champions and zai hoping to last but not least declare the Aegis that’s eluded him for so long. They fell quick this yr, shedding to Spirit in the decreased bracket finals. But $720,000 for a 3rd-place end isn’t way too shabby of a consolation prize.
With that outcome, MATUMBAMAN moves into the No. 9 situation in all-time earnings for Dota 2 with $4.5 million total ($2.1 million coming from Secret’s TI7 acquire alongside Puppey). Zai grew to become the 2nd-maximum earning Dota 2 player devoid of a TI gain driving the beforehand described Ame.
Natus Vincere’s CS:GO roster – $687,000 per participant
- Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
- Denis “electronic” Sharipov
- Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhaylov
- Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy
- Valerii “b1t” Vakhovskyi
Last but not least, we get some names that aren’t Dota 2 gamers in the reigning CS:GO Big champions Na’Vi. This was the ideal year on record for the Na’Vi CS:GO division with to start with-spot finishes (and significant prize payouts) at the BLAST International Closing, IEM Cologne, and, of course, the PGL Stockholm Big. Na’Vi as a complete took dwelling $600,000 from BLAST, $400,000 from Cologne, $1 million from Stockholm, and an excess million from completing the IEM Grand Slam through their Cologne victory, plus a smattering of other initial-spot finishes.
For one particular of the game’s all-time greats in s1mple, his 2021 winnings depict just about 50 per cent of his life span earnings. Conversely, his rookie teammate b1t’s choose household represents in excess of 97 per cent of his life time earnings in his youthful occupation.
