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Na’Vi breaks single-year CS:GO team earnings record to cap off near-perfect 2021 campaign

Easy winnings.

Natus Vincere’s 2021 CS:GO campaign wasn’t just the best in the organization’s history, it could be considered the greatest year of professional Counter-Strike from a single team. At the very least, it’s the highest grossing year from a single team in CS:GO history.

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In 2021, the Na’Vi CS:GO team earned $4,275,500 from 16 played tournaments during 2021, beating the previous single-year team record of $3,651,650 set by Astralis in 2018, according to Esports Earnings. Both teams had a couple of the same highlights those years; they both won a Major and the Intel Grand Slam.

That Intel Grand Slam victory earned each squad $1 million, but Na’Vi also earned $1 million from their Major title at PGL Stockholm, while Astralis only earned $500,000 from winning the FACEIT London Major. Astralis also had a slow start to their 2018 campaign, with no first-place finishes until late April, while Na’Vi won throughout 2021 and heated up especially towards the end.

Here’s a handful of the top grossing results from Na’Vi in 2021:

  • First at PGL Stockholm Major: $1 million
  • Intel Grand Slam Season Three winners: $1 million
  • First at BLAST Premier Global Final 2020: $600,000
  • First at BLAST Premier World Final: $500,000
  • First at IEM Cologne: $400,000

As a whole, the Natus Vincere CS:GO roster earned over $8.15 million over the past eight years of competition, meaning that over 52 percent of the team’s total lifetime earnings have come in just this past year alone.

With a relatively young roster and their superstar s1mple still in his prime, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Na’Vi surpass Astralis’ all-time CS:GO team earnings record of $9.218 million sometime in the near future.


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Scott Robertson
VALORANT lead staff writer, also covering CS:GO, FPS games, other titles, and the wider esports industry. Watching and writing esports since 2014. Previously wrote for Dexerto, Upcomer, Splyce, and somehow MySpace. Jack of all games, master of none.