ZywOo Net Worth 2026: How the $4M Fortune Was Built

Last updated: November 13, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

ZyWoo’s net worth is estimated at $3.5 million to $4.5 million in 2026, with around $4 million as the anchor figure. Mathieu “ZyWoo” Herbaut, the 26-year-old French AWPer who has played for Team Vitality since October 2018, built that fortune on three income streams that stack year after year: a reported salary of about €100,000 a month, a career prize-money total of $2,366,234.31 from 151 tournaments, and the sponsorship and sticker income that follows the only player ever named HLTV Player of the Year four times.

The number moved fast in the last two years. In March 2024, after the Paris Major win, ZyWoo signed a new Vitality contract that French media reported at a minimum of €100,000 a month — roughly €1.2 million a year in base pay before a single tournament cheque clears. Then came the 2025 season: two more Majors, eight MVP medals, a 30-match win streak and the $1 million Intel Grand Slam bonus. Skin.Land, updating its ZywOo profile on November 12, 2026, puts him at $3.5–4.5 million, and FarmSkins and OrbDispatches land in the same band. One widely repeated figure does not survive a check of its own date: the $1.5 million number still floating around the web comes from a SurpriseSports table dated 2023, before the contract renewal, before the two 2025 Majors and before the Grand Slam.

This article shows the working behind the estimate and names the outlet behind every figure. The salary has never been confirmed by ZyWoo or by Vitality, and no audited balance sheet exists for any esports player — so what follows is the range the freshest reporting agrees on, and the public record underneath it.

ZyWoo’s Net Worth in 2026: The Four-Million Anchor

ZyWoo’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at around $4 million, inside a range of $3.5 million to $4.5 million. That is the figure the freshest reporting converges on, and the convergence is unusually tight for an esports estimate. Four independent outlets, working from the same public facts — the reported salary, the prize record, the trophy haul — land within a million dollars of each other.

Skin.Land carries the most weight here because it is the most recent. Its ZywOo player profile, updated on November 12, 2026 — one day before this article — puts the estimate at $3.5–4.5 million and repeats the reported €100,000 monthly salary after the 2024 renewal. FarmSkins reaches the same $3.5–4.5 million band in a September 2025 breakdown that explicitly frames the number as after taxes and expenses. OrbDispatches, writing in late 2025, gives the same range. Wikibious widens it slightly to $3–5 million, which still sits comfortably around the same $4 million midpoint. When four outlets with different methods land on the same midpoint, the midpoint earns its place as the anchor.

The outlier deserves a sentence, not a shrug. Pro Gamer’s highest-earners breakdown, updated in September 2026, puts ZyWoo’s monthly salary at $105,000–125,000 and his net worth above $5 million. That salary is higher than every other report — L’Équipe’s reporting, KRL’s €83,000–100,000 range, and the March 2026 repeat by caster Leniniw all sit at or below €100,000 a month. A higher salary assumption lifts the whole estimate, which is exactly why this article anchors at $4 million and shows the range instead of copying the biggest number on the page.

One more check keeps the anchor honest. Net worth is not career earnings. ZyWoo’s recorded prize money is $2.37 million across his whole career, and that is a gross team figure, not a personal bank balance. The $4 million estimate only makes sense once the salary is added: at a reported €100,000 a month, two and a half years of the post-renewal contract is roughly €3 million in base pay alone, before prizes, stickers and sponsors. The arithmetic behind the anchor is shown in full later in this article, with every assumption labelled.

The Salary: What Vitality Reportedly Pays Him

The salary is the biggest single piece of the fortune, and also the least certain, because neither ZyWoo nor Vitality has ever confirmed a number in public. What exists is a chain of reporting that points the same way. In March 2024, after the Paris Major win, ZyWoo signed a new contract with Vitality running through 2026. French media, led by L’Équipe and reported through outlets such as Last Hit, put the deal at a minimum of €100,000 a month. The French streamer and insider KRL discussed the figure on stream and put it in a range of €83,000 to €100,000 a month. FarmSkins, in a September 2025 breakdown, states the figure as at least €100,000 a month, about €1.2 million a year in base pay alone, before prize money or sticker revenue. Skin.Land, updated November 2026, repeats the €100,000 monthly figure and calls him reportedly the highest-paid player in Counter-Strike history.

None of these is a payslip, and the exact figure remains unconfirmed — but every independent report since March 2024 has landed at or near six figures a month, and none has put him materially lower. The same figure surfaced again in March 2026, when Belarusian caster Leniniw claimed on a podcast and on Telegram that ZyWoo earns around €100,000 a month with Vitality, in the same breath as claiming s1mple was asking $120,000 a month in a move to BC.Game. Leniniw himself admitted some of his information came second-hand, and neither player nor team confirmed any of it. The March 2026 repeat still matters: two years after the renewal, with a new contract extension signed, the number in circulation had not moved.

There is one serious lower bound on the record. Analyst Mauisnake, who has used insider information to estimate top-team salaries, puts ZyWoo’s pay at no less than $60,000 a month — his minimum estimate. That floor is useful. It means even the most cautious reading of the reporting puts ZyWoo’s base pay above $720,000 a year, and the consensus reading puts it near €1.2 million a year. The gap between $60,000 and €100,000 a month is the honest uncertainty in this article, and it is one reason the net-worth figure is a range, not a point.

The August 2026 extension runs through 2028, which changes the shape of the fortune. A player on a short contract is a year from free agency; a player locked in through 2028 has three more years of six-figure monthly pay contracted, plus whatever bonuses the deal carries. No outlet has reported the terms of the extension, so this article does not invent them. What can be said is that Vitality moved to lock down its star the moment it could, and that the extension removes the single biggest risk to the estimate — a contract ending.

Prize Money: The Public Record

If the salary is the foggy part of the fortune, the prize money is the clear part. Esports Earnings, which tracks tournament payouts player by player, lists Mathieu “ZyWoo” Herbaut at $2,366,234.31 from 151 tournaments. That number is a matter of public record. It is also the most misunderstood number in this article, because it is not $2.37 million sitting in ZyWoo’s bank account.

Tournament prize money in Counter-Strike is paid to the team, and the team splits it. Five players, a coach and the organisation all take a cut, under terms that are private. A $1.25 million Major prize pool does not mean $250,000 per player, and it certainly does not mean $1.25 million for the star. What the Esports Earnings figure gives us is the gross competitive record attached to his name — the size of the stage he plays on, year after year. His personal share is smaller than the headline, and no outlet has ever published the split.

A second outlet counts the same career differently, and the difference is instructive. Skin.club’s richest-players ranking lists ZyWoo at $2,185,460 — about $180,000 below the Esports Earnings total. The gap is not an error on either side. Skin.club’s own page says its figures come from recorded tournament payouts and exclude salaries, sticker revenue, team bonuses and sponsorships, and the two databases cover different sets of events. The $2.37 million figure is the fuller record, and it is the one this article uses. The $2.19 million figure is a reminder that even “public record” numbers depend on what gets counted.

The table above, drawn from the Esports Earnings record, shows how the money actually arrives: in lumps, attached to wins. A first place at IEM Kraków in February 2026 put $80,000 against his name. The ESL Pro League Season 24 title in October 2026 added $59,000. Even the off weeks pay — a fourth place in Bucharest was $17,500. The Grand Slam line needs a note of its own: the bonus itself is a $1 million team prize, paid in gold bars according to CSGO.com’s report of the win, and the $200,000 figure is the entry recorded against ZyWoo in the Esports Earnings record. The two numbers describe the same prize from different angles, and neither is his personal take-home.

Then 2026 kept the run going with Kraków and the Pro League title. Prize money is the smallest of his three income streams in any single year, but it is the only one with a public paper trail, and it is the reason the $4 million estimate can be checked against reality at all.

The Million-Dollar Grand Slam Bonus

The single richest prize of ZyWoo’s career was not a Major. It was the Intel Grand Slam Season 5, a $1 million bonus paid to a team that wins four big ESL and IEM events inside a set window, and Vitality sealed it at IEM Melbourne on April 27, 2025, beating Team Falcons 3–2 in a final that went to triple overtime on the deciding map. ZyWoo finished the tournament as MVP, his 24th career MVP medal at the time, the most any player had ever collected.

The four wins that built the Slam show how long the run took. IEM Cologne in August 2024 started it. IEM Katowice in February 2025 added the second. ESL Pro League Season 21 in March 2025 made it three. Melbourne closed it. Four titles in nine months, against the best teams in the world, with a 21-match win streak running underneath them by the time the Melbourne final was played. Vitality became only the fifth team ever to win a Grand Slam, joining Astralis, Team Liquid, Natus Vincere and FaZe Clan.

The money matters, and so does what it signals. A $1 million team bonus is a serious cheque, but the Slam is worth more than the cheque: it is the prize sponsors price into deals and broadcasters mention in introductions. ZyWoo and captain Dan “apEX” Madesclaire also became the first French players ever to win one. The bonus landed in April 2025, and the estimates published after that date sit a full million higher than the ones from before it.

Stickers, Sponsors and the Money You Never See

Two of ZyWoo’s income streams leave no public paper trail at all, which is why honest estimates give them a paragraph of explanation instead of a made-up number. The first is stickers. At every Major, Valve sells in-game team and player sticker capsules, and a share of that revenue goes to the players and teams featured. A player with ZyWoo’s profile — three Majors, four Player of the Year awards, the biggest name in French Counter-Strike — sells more stickers than almost anyone in the game. How much more is not public. Valve has never published per-player sticker revenue, and no outlet has credibly reported a figure for ZyWoo, so this article does not invent one. What can be said is that three Major appearances mean three rounds of capsule sales, and the 2025 double — Austin in June and Budapest in December — put his sticker in front of buyers twice in a single year.

The second is sponsorships. Pro Gamer, in its highest-earners breakdown, names ASUS ROG and NVIDIA as ZyWoo’s personal sponsors. Those are hardware brands, and the pairing makes sense: a player famous for the AWP, the game’s one-shot sniper rifle, is a natural face for graphics cards and gaming gear. The value of those deals is private. Industry reporting on esports sponsorships consistently describes personal deals for players of this stature as worth tens of thousands of dollars a year each, but no figure has been reported for ZyWoo specifically, and this article will not dress up an industry average as his income. The sponsors belong in the estimate as a real, positive, unquantified stream — one more reason the published figure is a range.

Streaming and content, the income stream that built fortunes for players like shroud and Ninja, is a smaller piece for ZyWoo. He has never chased the creator economy the way full-time streamers do; his money comes from playing, not from broadcasting himself playing. The richest names in gaming are streamers first, and ZyWoo’s $4 million, built almost entirely on competition, is a different kind of fortune.

One more quiet stream deserves a mention because readers ask about it: appearance fees and exhibition events. Top players are paid to appear at showmatches, fan events and brand activations, and the Esports World Cup in 2026, where Vitality finished 5th–8th, carries appearance money alongside its prize pool. No figure for ZyWoo has been reported. The honest summary is that salary, prizes, stickers and sponsors are the four streams, the first two are quantified above, and the last two are real but unreported.

The Major Years: Paris, Austin and Budapest

Majors are the tournaments that define a Counter-Strike career. They are the only events sponsored by Valve, they carry the biggest prize pools, and winning one puts a player’s name on a list that starts in 2013 and has room for very few. ZyWoo has won three of them, and he was named MVP at all three — a detail that separates him from most multi-Major winners, who usually collect at least one title as a passenger.

Paris came first, in May 2023, and it is the one that still defines him in France. The BLAST.tv Paris Major was the last Major of CS:GO and the first ever held in France, played at the Accor Arena in front of a home crowd chanting his name. Vitality beat GamerLegion 2–0 in the final, ZyWoo took the MVP, and a 22-year-old from Lens lifted the trophy in Paris. The $1.25 million prize pool was the biggest stage he had won on, and the win turned him from the best player in the world into a national figure. French sports coverage that had ignored esports started writing his name.

Austin came second, in June 2025, and it was the harder win. The BLAST.tv Austin Major, played at the Moody Center in Texas with a $1.25 million pool and 32 teams, ended with Vitality beating The MongolZ 2–1 in the final. ZyWoo’s rating across the playoffs was 1.41, the best at the event by a wide margin, and he took his second Major MVP. The win also completed a season that was already historic: by the time Austin ended, Vitality had won nine trophies in the calendar year and ZyWoo had collected eight MVP medals, equalling the record for a single year.

Budapest came third, in December 2025, and it closed the argument about where he stands all-time. The StarLadder Budapest Major, another $1.25 million pool, ended with Vitality beating FaZe Clan 3–1 in the final. ZyWoo was MVP again — three Majors, three MVP medals. At the same event, 42 professional players voted on the greatest Counter-Strike player of all time. Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev won the poll, and ZyWoo received 12 votes. The vote itself tells the story: the players who share his servers put him second all-time at 25, with years of his prime still ahead of him. A month later, HLTV named him Player of the Year for a record fourth time.

From Lens to World Number One

Mathieu Herbaut was born on November 9, 2000, in Lens, a mining town in northern France, and he started playing Counter-Strike at seven years old with his brother. The date has become part of the legend: November 9, 2000 was the day the first version of Counter-Strike was released, which is how he earned the nickname “The Chosen One”. It is a neat story, and it happens to be true. He turned 26 on November 9, 2026 — the details of how old ZyWoo is and why his birthday matters to Counter-Strike fans are covered in full in our companion profile.

He joined Team Vitality in October 2018, at 17, and he has never played for another top-tier team. That loyalty is rare in modern esports, where stars change jerseys every contract cycle, and it is part of why the salary story reads the way it does: Vitality has paid more and more to keep him, because losing him was never really an option they wanted to test. In his first full year as a professional, 2019, he was named HLTV Player of the Year at 19, the second-youngest ever to win it and the first Frenchman. He repeated in 2020, when the pandemic moved competition online and his numbers barely moved.

The middle years tested him. Vitality fell to third in the HLTV rankings in 2021 and 2022, and ZyWoo finished those years ranked second in the world, behind s1mple and then behind the new generation. He did not leave. He did not demand a superteam. The Paris Major in 2023, his third Player of the Year award, was the payoff for staying, and the 2024 dip — a single title at IEM Cologne, a fall to third in the world behind donk and m0NESY — set up the 2025 season that made him the first four-time Player of the Year in history.

Teenage prodigies are not unique to Counter-Strike. Valorant’s TenZ followed a similar arc, becoming a star before he could legally drink in the United States, and how old TenZ is tells a parallel story about how young the top of esports has become. What sets ZyWoo apart is duration. Most prodigies peak early and fade; he has been a top-three player in the world every single year since 2019. Seven years at the top is what turns a hot streak into a fortune.

The 2025 Season That Doubled His Value

If one season explains why the net-worth estimates jumped, it is 2025. Vitality won nine trophies in the calendar year, including IEM Katowice, IEM Melbourne, IEM Dallas, the BLAST Open in Lisbon and ESL Pro League Season 21, plus the two Majors. ZyWoo won eight MVP medals in 2025 alone, equalling the record for a single year, with three of them at super-elite events — Katowice, Austin and Budapest. The team also put together a 30-match win streak, one of the longest in the game’s history, and finished the year as the undisputed best team in the world.

The season changed the salary conversation. Before 2025, the €100,000-a-month figure was a report about a contract signed after one Major. After 2025, it was the price of the best player on the best team in the world, coming off the greatest single season any Counter-Strike player has had. The August 2026 extension through 2028 was negotiated from that position of strength.

The individual honours stacked up alongside the team ones. At the Esports Awards in August 2025, ZyWoo was named Esports Breakthrough Player of the Decade — an odd title for a player already seven years into his career, and a sign of how the industry now frames him: not a young star, but a defining player of the era. Then came the fourth Player of the Year award, announced in January 2026, breaking the tie with s1mple that had stood since 2023. HLTV’s own write-up put it plainly: he had become the first player to be named Player of the Year four times.

2026: Kraków, Cluj-Napoca and the Contract Through 2028

The 2026 season has kept the run going, which matters for the estimate because a fortune built on a hot streak is worth less than one built on a career. Vitality opened the year by winning IEM Kraków in February 2026, with ZyWoo taking the MVP and an $80,000 recorded share. PGL Cluj-Napoca followed, then the BLAST Open Spring and IEM Rio, and in October 2026 the team closed out the ESL Pro League Season 24 title in Katowice — the tournament where ZyWoo collected his 34th career MVP medal, a record 13 clear of anyone else in the game’s history, according to Pley.gg.

Not every event in 2026 was a win, and the losses pay too. The Esports World Cup in August 2026 ended 5th–8th, worth $12,000 on the record. The BLAST Open Fall in September ended 3rd–4th, worth $23,000. PGL Masters Bucharest in late October ended fourth, worth $17,500. A player who earns five figures on his bad weeks is a player whose income does not depend on winning every tournament, and that stability is part of what the $4 million figure prices in.

The contract extension, announced in August 2026, runs through 2028. It is the longest commitment of his career, and it answers the question every net-worth reader should ask: what happens if the form dips? For ZyWoo, the answer is three more years of contracted six-figure monthly pay, with a team built around him.

How ZyWoo’s Fortune Compares: s1mple, shroud and the CS2 Rich List

Four million dollars is a lot of money for playing a video game. It is not the most money in gaming, and the comparison shows why. The richest names in the scene are not the best players — they are the biggest streamers. That gap is the most useful context in this article, because it explains both what ZyWoo has and what he has not chased. The same pattern repeats across our Celebrity Net Worth archive.

The closest comparison is s1mple’s net worth, estimated by Guide Net Worth at around $9 million. S1mple is the other half of the sport’s great rivalry: three-time HLTV Player of the Year, one Major title, the player the professionals voted the greatest of all time at Budapest. His fortune is bigger than ZyWoo’s for reasons that have little to do with trophies. He played longer at the top, he earned more in the years when salaries were rising fastest, and his fame in Eastern Europe and China turned into commercial deals ZyWoo has never pursued. The $5 million gap between them is a career-length and commercial gap, not a skill gap — and it is closing, because ZyWoo is 26 and still winning while s1mple’s competitive career has slowed.

The streaming names show the other economy entirely. Shroud’s net worth is estimated by Guide Net Worth at around $30 million, built on a $10 million Mixer payout and a decade of streaming to millions of viewers. Ninja’s net worth is estimated at around $50 million, built on a single month in 2018 that reportedly earned him $5 million and a brand empire that followed. Neither of them won three Majors. Neither was ever the best player in the world. They are richer than ZyWoo by an order of magnitude because streaming pays for audience, and competitive Counter-Strike pays for winning.

That is the honest framing for the $4 million figure. Among competitive players, ZyWoo sits near the top of the paid ranks. Among gaming celebrities as a whole, he sits well below the streamers, because he chose competition over content. The players earn like athletes, and the streamers earn like media companies.

What the One-Point-Five Million Figure Gets Wrong

Search “ZywOo net worth” and one result still says $1.5 million. It ranks well, it looks confident, and it is wrong — and the reason it is wrong is printed on the page itself. SurpriseSports, the outlet behind the figure, dates its own table to 2023. The article was updated in March 2026, but the number it publishes is a 2023 number, carried forward without revision.

Think about what happened between that table and today. In March 2024, ZyWoo signed the contract renewal that reportedly multiplied his salary to six figures a month. In 2025 he won two Majors, eight MVP medals and a $1 million Grand Slam bonus. In August 2026 he extended through 2028. A net-worth figure from 2023 captures none of that. It describes a 22-year-old with one Major and a pre-renewal salary, not a 26-year-old with three Majors, four Player of the Year awards and a contract through 2028.

The stale figure also gives away its own weakness in its details. The same SurpriseSports page says his annual earnings range from $300,000 to $600,000, and that his total prize money is “over $1 million” as of early 2024. Both of those are out of date on the public record: Esports Earnings lists $2.37 million in prizes, and the reported salary alone is about €1.2 million a year. When a page’s own supporting numbers contradict its headline number, the headline number is the part to discard. The $1.5 million figure survives because it ranks, not because it is right.

Spending, Lifestyle and What He Keeps

There is strikingly little reliable reporting on how ZyWoo spends his money, and this article will not fill that gap with guesses. No credible outlet has reported a house purchase, a car collection or a property portfolio for him. He keeps his private life out of the public eye, and the reporting reflects that: the coverage is about tournaments, contracts and trophies, not lifestyle. A net-worth article that invented a mansion and a sports car would be inventing the most clickable part of the story, and the most false.

What can be said is structural. The published estimates are pre-tax figures, and France taxes high earners heavily. Nobody outside his accountant knows his tax position, his investments or his savings rate, and the $3.5–4.5 million range should be read as an estimate of accumulated wealth, not a bank balance. FarmSkins frames its figure as after taxes and expenses — the only outlet in the consensus that says what its number is net of.

The visible spending is the professional kind. The setup, the travel, the bootcamps — Vitality covers the infrastructure of a top team, and the players’ job is to show up and win. ZyWoo’s public image is the opposite of the flashy esports star: quiet, focused, famously unbothered by the attention. That temperament shows up in the finances, too. A player who has stayed with one team for eight years, signed two extensions and never chased a bidding war is a player whose fortune compounds quietly, year after year, rather than arriving in a single headline deal.

The AWP, the Setup and the Craft

ZyWoo’s money is tied to a single weapon. He is the primary AWPer for Team Vitality, the player who carries the AWP — Counter-Strike’s one-shot sniper rifle, the most expensive gun in the game and the hardest to master. An AWPer who misses loses the round’s economy as well as the round. An AWPer who hits, the way ZyWoo does, decides maps. His 1.41 rating across the Austin Major playoffs in 2025 is the kind of number that makes the salary reporting believable: teams pay for that, and they pay more every year he keeps doing it.

The craft is not just aim. Watch a Vitality match and the second thing you notice, after the flick shots, is the positioning: ZyWoo is rarely where the other team expects him, and rarely caught out of position when a round breaks down. That game sense is what survived the move from CS:GO to Counter-Strike 2, when other stars of the old game faded. It is also what survived the 2024 dip, when Vitality won one title all year and ZyWoo still finished third in the world. Players who depend on reflexes alone do not last eight years at the top. Players who read the game do.

The MVP count is the cleanest measure of the craft. Thirty-four career MVP medals, the most in the game’s history, 13 clear of anyone else. Eight in 2025 alone. Three at Majors. MVPs are voted on performance across a whole tournament, not a single highlight, which makes them harder to fluke than a rating spike. They are also, quietly, a money metric: every MVP is another line in the next contract negotiation, another reason for a sponsor to sign, another sticker that sells.

What Could Move the Number Next

Three things will decide whether the next estimate is $5 million or $3 million. The first is the contract. He is signed through 2028, so the salary stream is secure for two more years at the reported level — but the next negotiation, when he is 28, will be the biggest of his career. A player who wins a fourth Major before then negotiates from strength. A player whose form dips negotiates from less.

The second is the Majors. There are two a year now, and each one is a $1.25 million pool, a sticker capsule and an MVP medal. A fourth Major title would put him alone in the conversation with dupreeh, the five-time winner, and apEX, his own captain, who has four. Each additional Major also lifts the commercial value that the salary and sponsor figures price in. The Budapest win in December 2025 showed he is still adding to the collection, not defending it.

The third is what comes after playing. At 26, retirement is not close, but esports careers end faster than anyone expects, and the players who stay rich after they stop are the ones who convert fame into something else — coaching, broadcasting, streaming, team ownership. ZyWoo has never shown much appetite for the content side, which is a risk to the long-term number. For now, the fortune is a playing fortune, and it will grow as long as he keeps winning.

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Sources & Reporting

This article was reported from public sources between November 12 and 13, 2026. Net-worth figures: Skin.Land, “Who Is ZywOo in CS2? Full CS2 Player Profile & Bio” (updated November 12, 2026); FarmSkins (September 2025); OrbDispatches (late 2025); Wikibious, “ZywOo Wikipedia, Biography, Age, Family, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts” (January 2026); Pro Gamer, “Highest-Earning Esports Players in History (2026 Breakdown)” (updated September 2026); SurpriseSports, “ZywOo Net Worth in 2026: Salary and Earnings” (table dated 2023). Prize money: Esports Earnings, Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut player record (accessed November 13, 2026); Skin.club, “Top Richest CS2 Players [2026]”. Salary reporting: L’Équipe via Last Hit and ESTNN (March 2024); KRL on stream (March 2024); Leniniw via ShaneTheGamer (March 2026); Mauisnake salary estimates via 4cola. Tournament history: HLTV, “Top 20 players of 2025: ZywOo (1)”; Pley.gg, “All Counter-Strike Major Winners in History”; Tips.gg, “HLTV Awards 2025”; GosuGamers, Esports Insider, Vitality.gg and Sheep Esports on the Intel Grand Slam Season 5 (April 2025); CryptoBriefing on the IEM Kraków 2026 MVP and the GOAT poll (June 2026). Player profile: Vitality.gg athlete page; Esports World Cup player profile (2026). All figures are reported or estimated as labelled in the text; where sources disagree, the article shows the range and says why. Corrections: if any figure in this article is shown to be wrong, contact us and we will correct it with a dated note, per our corrections policy.