The Most Famous Esport Players
Read on till the end as I show you
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The most famous esports players
ever
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The teams they worked with during
their gaming careers
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The games they majored in all
through their careers
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Their country of origin
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Their real names (you don't see
that every day)!
Introduction
Esports, also known as electronic sports, is a video game competition. Esports generally involve organized multiplayer video game events, especially among professional gamers, who compete as individuals or in teams.
The games didn't come into full limelight
until the 2000s when professional gamers began to participate and the
spectatorship of these events via live streaming skyrocketed.
Esports became a landmark part of the video
game industry in the 2010s, with many game makers actively designing and
supporting tournaments and other events.
However, in case you are not big on playing
Esports, you can always place wagers on the results of their tournaments and
make money from it- even when you're not live-streaming the games! These
platforms offer new player no deposit bonus codes among other
amazing benefits you can get.
This article will show the top ten most famous
Esports players of the time who have become idols that new players in Esports
look up to
- f0rest
Country: Sweden
Team(s): Fnatic, Begrip Gaming, SK Gaming, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Swedish National
Team
Game(s):
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Counter-Strike
REAL
NAME: Patrik Lindberg
f0rest is rated as one of the best Counter-Strike players in the world. He began
professionally in 2005 and ever since, he has become a master at his craft.
He carried his team Fnatic on his shoulders with his incredible skills till they became
the highest-earning team in CS history.
He eventually exited Fnatic to join SK Gaming
which he equally left for Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) where he played
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
- Faker
Country: Republic of Korea
Team(s): Korean National Team, STK T1 K
Game(s): League of Legends
REAL
NAME: Lee, Sang
Hyeok (이상혁)
By all standards, Faker remains the best
League of Legends player alive. There are only two people who have won the
League of Legends World Championship and he is one of them, but that is the
least of his catalog of achievements.
He has also won these awards
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The All-Star Paris 2014
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The IEM World Championship 2015
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The Mid-Season Invitations 2016
& 2017
He has made over $1.2 million throughout his
career.
- Flash
Country:
Republic of Korea
Team(s): KT Rolster, Evil Geniuses
Game(s): StarCraft: Brood War
and StarCraft II
REAL
NAME: Lee, Young Ho (이영호)
Flash quickly rose through the ranks as one of
the best to play StarCraft when he began to play the game professionally. His
professional gaming career recorded a surprisingly high number of tournament
wins.
In December 2015, he retired from StarCraft II
but he returned in 2016 with StarCraft: Brood War and continued his reign
as one of the most indomitable players in the business as he kept racking up
more tournament wins.
- GeT_RiGhT
Country: Sweden
Team(s): Fnatic, Begrip Gaming, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Giants Gaming, Team
WinFakt Lemondogs, SK Gaming, Team Kinguin, Swedish National Team.
Game(s): Counter-Strike, Assetto Corsa, and Counter-Strike: Global
Offensive
REAL
NAME: Christopher Alesund
GeT_RiGhT is one of the top Esports stars
to come out of Sweden. To many people, he is the best to have ever played
Counter-Strike. He began his pro-game career in 2007 after which he has racked
up so many top spots in several tournaments.
He adopts the Lurker mode in most of his
games, avoiding the enemy but decisively hitting where it matters the most,
despite that he is not much of a great shooter.
- SlayerS_'BoxeR'
Country: Republic of Korea
Team(s): SK Telecom T1, Air Force ACE, SlayerS
Game(s): StarCraft II and StarCraft II: Brood War
REAL
NAME: Lim Yo-hwan (임요환)
Many people call him SlayerS_'BoxeR' or BoxeR,
for short. Many others call him "Terran Emperor" or "The
Emperor", many thanks to his amazing expertise at being Terran in
StarCraft II. He remains one of the best players to have ever graced the game
and his trophy cabinet shows it all.
Throughout his pro-gaming career, he had a
record 548 wins but his career came to a halt because of a health-related
crisis. However, he now plays poker professionally.
- Olofmeister
Country: Sweden
Team(s): FaZe Clan, Fnatic, Five Crowns, LGB eSports
Game(s): Counter-Strike, Assetto Corsa, and Counter-Strike: Global
Offensive
REAL
NAME: Olof Kajbjer
Sweden has a record number of extremely
talented gamers and Olof looks like the very best the country might have
produced so far to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He is so adroit at
the game that he earned the nickname CS:GO.
Although he currently works for the FaZe clan,
Olofmeister has played for many other teams. Amongst his numerous wins in many
tournaments as a gamer, Olofmeister has won ESL One Katowice 2015, two
Championship titles from CS:GO Majors, and ESL One Cologne 202015.
- Fatal1ty
Country: United States of America
Team(s): Clan Kapitol
Game(s): Aliens versus Predator 2, Painkiller, Doom 3, Counter-Strike, Quake
4, Quake III Arena, QuakeWorld, and Unreal Tournament 2003
REAL
NAME: Johnathan Wendel
While Fatal1ty no longer plays games
professionally, he was one of the scariest players to play against in Quake and
other FPS titles. But after he left pro-gaming, he founded his personal company
Fatal1ty Inc., where he licenses his brand to makers of gaming accessories.
His professional gaming career run began in
1999 and during his career, he racked up the following wins:
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12 World Championship titles
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4 Player of the Year Wards with
the Cyberathlete Professional League
- Daigo
Country: Japan
Team(s): None
Game(s): Capcom vs. SNK 2, Fighter IV, IV: Arcade Edition, and Ultra Street
Fighter IV, Guilty Gear XX, Guilty Gear Slash, Street Fighter IV, V, V: Arcade
Edition, Hyper Street Fighter II, Fighter II Turb, and Fighter III: 3rd Strike
REAL
NAME: Umehara, Daigo (梅原醍醐)
Also known as "The Beast", Daigo is
rated as one of the best Street Fighter gamers of all time. He is currently the
Guinness World Record holder of " The Most Successful Player in Major
Tournaments of Street Fighter"
He started a Manga series that launched its
English version in 2017 and was called Daigo the Beast: Umehara Fighting
Gamers.
- Moon
Country:
Republic of Korea
Team(s):
Fnatic, Meet Your Makers, TyLoo
Game(s):
StarCraft II and Warcraft III
REAL
NAME: Jang,
Jae Ho (장재호)
Moon has played both Warcraft II and StarCraft
II professionally for several years. Despite these, he is still rated as the
best Warcraft III Night Elf player on the planet!
To his credit, he has won
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4 seasons of MBC Games' World War,
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Korean Warcraft III Championships
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5 World Championships
His exploits made him enter into the
documentary, Beyond the Game.
He has won more money prizes than any other
gamer in Warcraft III history.
- Jaedong
Country: Republic of Korea
Team(s): 8th Team, Hwaesung OZ CJ Entrus, Lecaf OZ, Evil Geniuses, Korean National Team
Game(s): StarCraft II and StarCraft II: Brood War
REAL
NAME: Lee, Jae Dong (이제동)
Jaedong is considered one of the top-rated
StarCraft players of all time- and he participates using the Zerg race. His
pro-gaming career as a StarCraft gamer ended when he retired in 2016.
However, he diverted his focus to playing
StarCraft: Brood War and he has racked up victories and superb sims of prize
money. He has been called countless names including "The Legend
Killer" or "The Tyrant".
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Conclusion
Playing as a new player in Esports could seem
challenging. But good for you, you have these ten people to look up to.
