Danish team is the most profitable CS:GO team of 2020
Check out which teams have won the most prize money throughout the entire year - Top 10 highest prize earning of 2020.
When we started the year in January, not many would have believed that MAD Lions would be the most profitable CS:GO team of 2020, regarding prize earnings. Nonetheless, the facts are clear, and the Spanish organization with its Danish roster sits at the throne, as the most successful team of the entire 2020 season.
The promising Lions have managed to collect an impressive $643.500 of prize money throughout the year, with Virtus.pro only $2000 behind. The Danish team tops the ranking even though, they only hold one single title in 2020. However, their sole triumph was at Flashpoint 1 back in April which gave them a staggering $500.000 prize earning. Besides the 1st place at Flashpoint 1, MAD Lions took home a 3rd place at ICE Challenge and a 5th-6th place at the second season at Flashpoint.
MAD Lions joints an elite company with CS:GO titans Liquid, Astralis and SK Gaming as the most winning teams the last three years.
It was this MAD Lions roster that brought home the highest prize earning from a single event at 2020 - (From left acoR, roej, AcilioN, Bubzkji, and sjuush)
Top 10 highest prize money earnings of 2020:
1. MAD Lions | $643.500
2. Virtus.pro | $641.750
3. Complexity | $632.250
4. Astralis | $631.000
5. Natus Vincere | $626.000
6. Vitality |$621.000
7. BIG | $519.604
8. OG | $465.750
9. MIBR | $460.592
10. FURIA | 397.500
Flashpoint 1 trophy
A challenging year
There was handed out a total of $16.591.445 throughout the entire 2020, the lowest since 2015. It's, of course, a clear consequence of Covid-19 and it's entry on the CS:GO scene. The global pandemic has meant that big LAN-events as we know them, have been impossible to hold and organize without the possibility of mass infection. That has resulted in the cancellations of every major and other notable events that offered a big prize pool.
Total prize money awarded:
2020: $16.591.445
2019: $22.010.752
2018: $23.162.374
2017: $19.328.939
2016: $17.108.228
2015: $6.16.292
Source:
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