Speaking of the history of world e-sports, it may be necessary to trace the Nintendo games in the 1980s. In 1986, the American ABC channel broadcasted the Nintendo game between two children on TV, which was seen as the beginning of esports.
In 1990, Nintendo held game console competitions in 29 cities across the United States, and the Nintendo World Championships also became the first official video game competition, which was 10 years earlier than the World E-sports Competition [WCG].
After more than ten years of development, with the continuous standardization of the industry and the gradual attention of mainstream media, the trend of commercialization has become increasingly obvious. Among them, South Korea has become the only country with a complete e-sports industry chain. In our country, e-sports is still in the development stage, and low social recognition is a common phenomenon in China's e-sports. There have even been serious misunderstandings about e-sports such as "online games = e-sports" and "He Chao incident".
Whether in the world or in the relevant institutions of our country, it has clearly stated that e-sports is an emerging competitive sports event, and it has developed into a competitive sport with a modern competitive sports spirit, a kind of electronic game between people.
Of course, there will be no lack of geniuses and legends in competitive sports, and e-sports is no exception. It also has its own genius players. Let’s take you to take a look at the top 10 talented players in the history of e-sports selected by foreign media.
10 - Swag
Real name: Braxton Pierce
Nationality: United States
Birthday: September 20, 1996
E-sports event: CS:GO
Speaking of Swag, players familiar with anti-terrorism may first think of CS:GO's biggest scandal in the history of the history of the fake game.
[Event Perspective] : iBUYPOWER, who Swag plays for, was one of the strongest teams in North America at that time, and their future was also favored by many people. But the bright future was shattered by a game in August 2014. When facing NetcodeGuides.com, iBP unexpectedly lost the game. Not only did the result make people suspicious, but the way of losing the game was also very strange. After various revelations and controversies, V Club finally took action and banned 7 iBP players, including Swag, with the time limit of permanent.
Putting aside the fake match incident, Swag is definitely one of the strongest geniuses in North America. When he was 7, his brother brought it into the world of Counter-Strike, and at the age of 14 he won his first championship with Swag's ID and started his career.
After winning one championship after another, Swag gained more attention and he immediately turned to CS:GO. In 2013, Swag made a big splash. He achieved excellent results in the North American Championships and DreamHack Winter Tournament. Most importantly, his talent in the competition was amazing. He then joined iBP, helping the team become one of the strongest in North America, and was selected into the top 20 of HLTV, becoming the youngest player to be selected on the list in history. At the same time, he has also become the only hope for the United States to win the world championship and is also considered the best player in the world in the future. All of this came to an abrupt end because of that fake match.
In March this year, the e-sports giant T1 officially announced that Swag will join and switch to Valorant. We also look forward to this former talent returning to the king again in a brand new project.
9 - Beaulo
Real name: Jason Doty
Nationality: United States
Birthday: June 19, 2001
E-sports project: Rainbow Six-Siege Operation
He is called "pineapple" by his fans. He is a high-scoring anchor. He has very top personal skills. There may be many people who can play in professional leagues, but there are only a handful of people like Beaulo.
Pineapple has all the qualities of becoming a professional player: personal operation, reaction, game understanding, muscle memory, desire to become a professional player, and even business attention. He is all top-level existence. Beaulo Peek, led by him, has also become a competition technique for many rainbow players to practice and imitate.
Some people say that his professional competition did not show his proud strength.Yes, maybe his game was not outstanding, but Rainbow Six itself is a game that pays more attention to the team. The game is not entirely determined by his personal talent. Live broadcasts and professional games themselves cannot be compared year-on-year.
8 - Scrub Killa
Real name: Kyle Robertson
Nationality: Scotland
Birthday: May 8, 2003
Esports event: Rocket League
He is a real prodigy. He won the championship in the iconic Scotland competition at a very young age. He really likes to challenge opponents who are better than himself and can beat them. Many teams wanted to get him, but he was under 15 years old at the time and did not meet the age requirements of RLCS.
When he joined VIT, his first professional season was not as dazzling as everyone thought. Although he won the "Savior of the Year" award, he performed poorly in several key games.
The following season, they beat G2 in the finals to win the world championship, while Scrub Killa won the MVP. Although he failed to defend his title the following year, he proved that he was a promising prodigy and was also a very outstanding professional player.
He has won the Twelve Titans and the Mannfield Night 5K Championship twice. He is one of the few professional players in the Rockets League to have played the Rockets League prequel SARPBC, and he is the first player to win the game in RLCS LAN. In a 1-on-1 match, Scrub Killa won the largest prize pool of all time.
7 - MkLeo
Real name: Leonardo Lopez-Perrez
Nationality: Mexico
Birthday: January 20, 2001
E-sports event: Nintendo Star Fight
He is recognized as the best player in Nintendo Star Fight, and he is also the number one player in the world. In 2019, he won the Stars Fight Championship in EVO 2019, which is also the season with the largest number of participants.
MkLeo won the first championship in his life when he was 8 years old. In 2016, he started participating in international competitions. After winning the 2GGT, he signed with Echo Fox. That same year, he qualified for Genesis 3 and won the final victory, and in Genesis 4 he defeated Elliot "Ally" Carroza-Oyarce to win the championship. MkLeo is the youngest player in the top eight in tournament history.
2017, MkLeo won the 2GGC championship at the end of the year. At the beginning of 2018, ZeRo, who was considered the best player in the big fight, announced his retirement, and MkLeo also saw a good opportunity to be the best. In Genesis 5, EVO Japan and CEO 2018, MkLeo won the final victory, which made him eventually ranked first in the year-end world rankings.
6 - Topson
Real name: Topias Miikka Taavitsainen
Nationality: Finland
Birthday: April 14, 1998
E-sports project: DOTA2
Topson ranks eighth among the 12 children at home. He started to come into contact with DOTA when he was 8 years old. At first, his wish was to become a chef. His parents were both skeptical of the future of playing the game at first, but after Topson won the game, they gradually accepted his choice.
Before joining his career, he had participated in some low-level competitions. Although he did not achieve any good results, Topson gained more attention through such competitions, and these attentions became reality in 2017. He joined the Russian SFT team and started his career. After several teams, he focused on streaming and took the lead in Europe through MMR. In 2018, he was recruited into OG. On the subsequent Ti8, they finally turned the tables in LGD to win the championship. A year later, on Ti9 held in China, he defended the championship with his teammates, becoming the first team in history to win the Ti competition twice in a row.
After seeing the 10th-6th place, are you a little confused? Whether it is an e-sports event or a contestant, you are too unfamiliar? It doesn’t matter, starting from the fifth place, the real master-level figures have appeared. They are all absolutely dominant in their respective fields.
5 - s1mple
Real name: Alexander Olegovich Kostreev
Nationality: Ukrainian
Birthday: October 2, 1997
Esports event: CS: GO
Currently playing for Ukrainian NAVI team s1mple plays as an AWP sniper. He is considered one of the best players in the history of the Counter-Strike.
s1mple started to play the Counter-Strike series as early as the age of 4. Shortly after CS:GO was released in 2012, s1mple started playing the game and started her career a year later.
In the early years of his career, s1mple did not show any extraordinary things, and was even commented as a person who likes to be verbally and rude. After moving to the United States in 2016, s1mple joined Team Liquid. In the semi-finals of the 2016 ESL One Cologne station, s1mple made one of the most well-known operations in CS:GO's history: he blindly sniped two enemy players in the moment he landed. He then left TL to join NAVI and won the championship at the 2016 ESL One New York Station. He himself ranked 4th on the HLTV TOP20 list for his outstanding performance.
In 2018, s1mple's transfer to Brazilian team MIBR failed. After NAVI won the StarSeries in the fifth season, it won the championship with ESL One Cologne at the CS:GO Asia Invitational. s1mple himself has won the MVPs of StarSeries and DreamHack Masters Horse Racing Stations in succession. HLTV's top 20 also awarded the top spot of that year to s1mple.
4 - ZywOo
Real name: Mathieu Herbaut
Nationality: France
Birthday: November 9, 2000
E-sports project: CS:GO
For many e-sports players, their road to success is full of ups and downs. Usually, they start from the beginning with no name, and constantly improve themselves and become an elite player in countless competitions.
But such a routine is not suitable for ZywOo. Before he starts his career, he is destined to be the best one. As early as 2016, ZywOo's name attracted much attention. He was called the savior of French CS. He played CS with his brother at the age of 7 and played his first offline game at the age of 9. After that, he transferred to CS:GO. In 2016, ZywOo joined NeveMind. In mid-2017, ZywOo's ability attracted attention. He was invited by FPL to participate at the age of 16, and HLTV also regarded him as a future superstar.
In 2018, ZywOo signed with VIT and became a professional player. In the same year, he led the team to win the championship in the Dreamhack Open Atlanta Station.
At the beginning of 2019, ZywOo performed poorly and he scored the worst Rating result for the year. In April, ZywOo won his first championship in 2019. In the subsequent Los Angeles cs-summit 4 game, ZywOo once again played his bravery and won his first MVP of his career. In the ECS Season 7 Finals game, ZywOo helped the team win the Big Events Championship for the first time with outstanding performance. In the ESL One Cologne competition, although VIT was the most popular, ZywOo still won the MVP.
In the last event of 2019, ZywOo retained his best performance to the end. He played 1.53 Rating and an amazing 97.3 ADR and 1.65 Impact in all competitions, both of which were the highest in the year, helping the team win the final trophy in Russia, while being won by his fifth MVP. He was also undisputedly awarded the top spot by HLTV's TOP20.
3 - Flash
Real name: Li Yonghao
Nationality: South Korea
Birthday: July 5, 1992
E-sports event: StarCraft
This Korean professional e-sports player, known as the "leader", debuted in 2007 to join KTF MagicNS. He is also the youngest StarCraft champion.
Flash first came into contact with Star Interstellar when he was in elementary school and learned about this game through an older brother. But it was not until he was in junior high school that his parents bought him a computer, and Flash officially started playing interstellar. During the summer vacation of the first year of junior high school, Flash told his parents that he would become a professional player and hoped that they would give him a month and that if he did not pass the training camp, he would give up e-sports.
Flash obtained the quasi-Pro qualification in one month. In the third year of junior high school in 2007, he joined KTF MagicNS. After starting his career, KTF MagicNS trained for at least 10 hours a day, and he could rely on perseverance to overcome any difficulties.
Flash is a player who has talent and diligence, which finally made him stand at the top of the world. In 2008, he won his first OSL championship; in the 2010 OSL2 competition, Flash won three championships and finally won the Golden Mouse; WCG 2010 World Finals, StarCraft Championship; the youngest SPL100 Winner; the longest TvsT winning streak record is maintained; the highest ELO record of StarCraft professional player; the only player who won the championship in both OSL MSL, 3 times OSL championships, 3 times MSL championships, and has both a Golden Mouse and a Golden Badge (NADA).
2 - Sumail
Real name: Said Samel Hassan
Nationality: United States (Pakistanian)
Birthday: February 13, 1999
E-sports event: DOTA2
Born in Pakistan, Summel started to come into contact with DOTA at the age of 7. After moving to the United States with his family, he began to participate in professional competitions in North America. With his outstanding performance, he became an elite player in internal competitions, thus winning the praise of the future star of North America.
In January 2015, Samel signed a professional contract with EG. A month later, Samel won the DOTA2 Asian Championship with his teammates, and Samel even gave all the genius performance to all viewers in the game.
In the Ti5 World Championship in the same year, EG fell into the loser group when losing to CDEC, but they regained their confidence, passed the hurdles, defeated LGD in the loser's final, and returned to the finals. In the finals, EG relied on Samel's outstanding performance and revenged CDEC 3-1 and successfully won the championship.
In 2016, Samel was selected as "30 Most Influential Teenagers" by Time magazine. After Ti9's defeat, Samel left EG and joined Quincy Crew with his brother Yawar. But a few weeks later, Samel left again, and the team manager explained that Samel was not suitable for them. In January 2020, a major transfer was reached and Samel announced his joining OG.
1 - Faker
Real name: Lee Sang-he
Nationality: South Korea
Birthday: May 7, 1996
E-sports event: League of Legends
For most players who are in contact with e-sports now, League of Legends may be the game they pay the most attention to and are familiar with, and when it comes to this game, we must not mention Faker.
, a Korean e-sports player who has become the "big devil" and "Brother Li" by players and players, has won the world championship three times, the mid-season invitational championship twice, the Korean Champions League championship nine times, the Asian Intercontinental Championship championship once and an All-Star Championship (predecessor of the mid-season competition). With a total career bonus of more than $10 million, he is also the first player in LOL history to win a Grand Slam.
In 2017, Faker and SKT T1 team signed a contract with the highest annual salary of more than $10 million. In 2018, he signed another contract with an annual income of approximately 5 billion won, becoming the player with the highest salary in the entire LCK South Korea Division.
At the end of 2011, Faker started playing "League of Legends" and soon became a master, becoming the first in the Korean server with the ID of "GoJeonPa". In February 2013, he chose to join the SK Telecom T1 team and gave up his high school studies. In April of the same year, Faker made his debut in professional arena, and he singled out Ambition, a recognized strongest mid-lane player in South Korea, and became famous in one battle. In the Global Finals held at the end of the year, Faker won the championship for the first time.
In 2015, the change in the Korean league system caused a large number of players to flow out, and Faker stayed in South Korea after rejecting a contract with an annual salary of 10 million yuan from China. In the 2015 and 2016 Global Finals, Faker helped SKT achieve two consecutive championships and also achieved the triple crown in LOL history.
After experiencing three consecutive championships in the 2017 World Championship and the sluggish LCK League in 2018, the 2019 Great Devil and his SKT returned to the spotlight. They won the LCK Spring and Summer Championship and reached the semi-finals in the 2019 World Championship. In the just-concluded 2020 LCK Spring Festival, Faker also led T1 to win their 9th LCK championship.
