The eSports player “dupreeh” and his team recently won an important tournament. He is now the only CS:GO professional who has earned 2 million USD.
Who is it about?
- Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen (30) is a Danish CS:GO professional who has been playing for the eSports organization “Team Vitality” since January 2022.
- In May, he participated in the Paris Major with Vitality – the last major tournament of CS:GO
- In the past, dupreeh also played for TSM and won the Berlin Major 2019 with Astralis among other achievements.
What major tournament did dupreeh win? In May 2023, the “Paris Major” took place in the eSports scene of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. This was a large international tournament where the best teams of the tactical shooter competed against each other.
At the same time, the Paris Major was the last major tournament in the lifecycle of CS:GO before the popular shooter is re-released as Counter-Strike 2 in summer 2023.
During the tournament, dupreeh and Team Vitality paved their way to the finals of the Paris Major, where they faced the European lineup of GamerLegion. There they achieved a 2:0 victory, securing the Major win. Team Vitality was rewarded with $500,000 in prize money.
dupreeh the only CS:GO professional to surpass the 2 million mark
What does the victory mean for dupreeh? With the win of the Major, dupreeh also receives a share of the prize money, making him the only CS:GO professional to have earned over 2 million dollars through prize money – the total amount is a remarkable $2,164,164.40 (via esportsearnings.com).
This puts him about 160,000 to 400,000 dollars above his countrymen Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth, Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, Lucas “gla1ve” Rossander, and Emil “Magisk” Reif, with whom he played at Astralis in 2019.
Only in sixth place follows CS:GO legend Alexander “s1mple” Kostylev, a player who is neither from Denmark nor played with dupreeh at Astralis. s1mple has a total of nearly 1.72 million US dollars.
While other teams celebrated successes at the Paris Major in May, the team “G2 Esports” was particularly noted for promoting a professional for gambling who had just turned 18:
