5 professional esports players you must know

5 professional esports players you must know
During the last few years esports became much bigger and it’s already comparable to most
of “classical” sports and if tendency keeps going on, soon esports will compete with soccer
and basketball! Simply, it means that nowadays you should know at least what esports is
and the basics of it.
Therefore, we suggest you to familiarize with 5 pro esports players you must know if you
want to get involved in the virtual, but so real entertainment!
Aleksandr “S1mple” Kostyliev

S1mple is a professional player in an iconic and one of the most popular shooters in the
world – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He is an idol for a lot of young players and fans
and get used to be the best player in the world.
He was named #1 player of 2018 only, but his incredible skills are undeniable: fast reaction,
insane shots, clutches, unpredictable and at the same time smart moves – it’s all about
S1mple. Also, he is very popular player known across the whole world.
The strange and controversial moment is that being #1 is not to be #1 team in the world –
S1mple has not yet won any of Major championships, the biggest event on CS:GO
competitive scene with $1.000.000 prize pool.
But such a player will find even more success compared to what he has now.
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok
Faker is the most famous League of Legends player on the Earth. During his career he won
more than $1.200.000 as a prize money, but his earnings are much and much higher if we
talk about marketing sponsorship contract. Lee is one of the most skilled mechanically and
so far by understanding of the game players. What makes him the best is his flexibility –

Faker can perform in a different playstyles and champions.
Also, he is a great leader that led his team, SK Telecom T1, three times to win the World
Championship.
Syed “SumaiL” Sumail Hassan
SumaiL became the first Pacistani well-known professional esports player. He burnt the
competitive Dota 2 scene 4 years ago, being a 16-years old young star. Aggressive playstyle,
smart plays and good understanding of maximum impact, he can bring to the game in the
concrete moment – that is what led SumaiL to success. Approximately, since 2015 and so far
he won almost $3.000.000 prize money and started his esports way from winning The
International 5 (Dota 2 World Championship) four years ago.

Joona “Serral” Sotala
Joona performs in the less popular esports title called Starcraft 2. It’s an iconic game, but
extremely hard to play at a high level and pretty hard to understand if you have never
played it. Starcraft 2 is mostly known in esports due to all-time Korean dominance. It started
since the release of Starcraft: Brood War in 1998 and had last until 2018. 20 years Korean
players were the best in Starcraft!

And then Serral entered the top of competitive scene a year ago. He became a first
“Western” player who can beat any of Korean Starcraft 2 player and even 5 of them in a row!
Now Serral is on the 1st place of World Rankings and he won’t stop his dominance in the
nearest future.
Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf
Kyle is one of the new generation esports players that performs in a new, but so popular
game called Fortnite (maybe you have already heard about it!). He raised from nowhere and
grabbed $3.000.000 with the win taken on the first solo Fortnite World Championship that
was held in New York on the summer’19.
Fortnite brought a lot of new names to esports, a new competitive genre called Battle Royal
into a tier-1 esports scene.

The game is easy to understand and watch, easy to enter for a new players and very
attractive. And Bugha is an icon of competitive Fortnite for now.