Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has experienced significant growth in 2015. The amount of tournaments has risen, viewership numbers have exploded and arenas like the LANXESS Arena in Cologne or the Spodek Arena in Katowice were filled with thousands of fans. As a result of this development many players gained a lot of fame and some of them became so-called “superstars”. But who is the most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player?

As a part of our series of articles ‘Testimonials and influencers in eSports’, today, we have taken a look at the most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players by checking their popularity on facebook (likes), twitter (followers) and twitch.tv (followers and total channel views).

You can find the results below.

Note: The following data only takes professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players into account who participated at the premier tournaments of 2015 (such as ESL One Cologne, ESL ESEA Pro League, Fragbite Masters, Intel Extreme Masters and more). By looking at the data, please be aware of the fact that services like facebook, twitter or twitch.tv are not used by all professional players.

The most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players on facebook (ordered by likes)

Player Country Club/Team

Likes 1. Jarowslaw Jarząbkowski (pasha) Poland Virtus.pro 671,000 2. Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 384,000 3. Wiktor Wojtas (TaZ) Poland Virtus.pro 171,000 4. Kenny Schrub (kennyS) France Team EnVyUs 163,000 5. Filip Kubski (Neo) Poland Virtus.pro 160,000 6. Olof Kajbjer (olofmeister) Sweden fnatic 138,700 7. Gabriel Toledo (FalleN) Brazil Luminosity Gaming 137,000 8. Janusz Pogorzelski (snax) Poland Virtus.pro 128,000 9. Yegor Markelov (markeloff) Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics 121,000 10. Adil Benrlitom (ScreaM) Belgium ex-Titan 120,000 11. Paweł Bieliński (byali) Poland Virtus.pro 120,000 12. Patrick Lindberg (f0rest) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 114,000 13. Jordan Gilbert (n0thing) United States Cloud9 88,000 14. Adam Friberg (Friberg) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 84,000 15. Richard Papillon (shox) France ex-Titan 61,000 16. Richard Landström (Xizt) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 60,000 17. Jesper Wecksell (JW) Sweden fnatic 58,500 18. Nathan Schmitt (NBK-) France Team EnVyUs 53,000 19. Mikail Bill (Maikelele) Sweden G2 eSports 47,000 20. Bruno Lima (bit) Brazil Keyd Stars 46,000

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players on twitter (ordered by followers)

Player Country Club/Team

Followers 1. Kenny Schrub (kennyS) France Team EnVyUs 177,000 2. Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 169,000 3. Adam Friberg (Friberg) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 143,000 4. Patrick Lindberg (f0rest) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 135,000 5. Jordan Gilbert (n0thing) United States Cloud9 134,000 6. Jarowslaw Jarząbkowski (pasha) Poland Virtus.pro 133,000 7. Adil Benrlitom (ScreaM) Belgium ex-Titan 132,000 8. Olof Kajbjer (olofmeister) Sweden fnatic 127,000 9. Nathan Schmitt (NBK-) France Team EnVyUs 126,000 10. Jesper Wecksell (JW) Sweden fnatic 118,000 11. Mike Grzesiek (shroud) Canada Cloud9 118,000 12. Richard Landström (Xizt) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 106,000 13. Spencer Martin (Hiko) United States Team Liquid 97,800 14. Tyler Latham (Skadoodle) United States Cloud9 96,200 15. Richard Papillon (shox) France ex-Titan 93,400 16. Vincent Cervoni Schopenhauer (Happy) France Team EnVyUs 88,100 17. Mikail Bill (Maikelele) Sweden G2 eSports 83,800 18. Edouard Dubourdeaux (SmithZz) France ex-Titan 79,500 19. Robin Rönnquist (flusha) Sweden fnatic 76,700 20. Dan Madesclaire (apEX) France Team EnVyUs 76,100

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players on twitch.tv (ordered by followers)

Player Country Club/Team

Followers 1. Jarowslaw Jarząbkowski (pasha) Poland Virtus.pro 725,000 2. Mike Grzesiek (shroud) Canada Cloud9 553,000 3. Olof Kajbjer (olofmeister) Sweden fnatic 404,000 4. Adil Benrlitom (ScreaM) Belgium ex-Titan 305,000 5. Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 289,000 6. Spencer Martin (Hiko) United States Team Liquid 286,000 7. Tarik Celik (tarik) United States / Turkey Counter Logic Gaming 255,000 8. Jordan Gilbert (n0thing) United States Cloud9 239,000 9. Adam Friberg (Friberg) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 194,000 10. Ryan Abadir (fREAKAZ0iD) United States Cloud9 189,000 11. Wiktor Wojtas (TaZ) Poland Virtus.pro 182,000 12. Patrick Lindberg (f0rest) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 163,000 13. Nathan Schmitt (NBK-) France Team EnVyUs 147,000 14. Kenny Schrub (kennyS) France Team EnVyUs 140,000 15. Danylo Teslenko (Zeus) Ukraine Natus Vincere 133,000 16. Robin Rönnquist (flusha) Sweden fnatic 129,000 17. Aleksandr Kostylev (s1mple) Ukraine Team Liquid 127,000 18. Mikail Bill (Maikelele) Sweden G2 eSports 126,000 19. Eric Hoag (adreN) United States Team Liquid 123,000 20. Jesper Wecksell (JW) Sweden fnatic 110,000

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players on twitch.tv (ordered by total channel views)

Player Country Club/Team

Total channel views 1. Mike Grzesiek (shroud) Canada Cloud9 20,559,000 2. Jarowslaw Jarząbkowski (pasha) Poland Virtus.pro 14,251,000 3. Spencer Martin (Hiko) United States Team Liquid 9,176,000 4. Tarik Celik (tarik) United States CLG 7,387,000 5. Adil Benrlitom (ScreaM) Belgium ex-Titan 7,060,000 6. Gabriel Toledo (FalleN) Brazil Luminosity Gaming 5,812,000 7. Olof Kajbjer (olofmeister) Sweden fnatic 5,377,000 8. Jordan Gilbert (n0thing) United States Cloud9 5,177,000 9. Eric Hoag (adreN) United States Team Liquid 4,593,000 10. Danylo Teslenko (Zeus) Ukraine Natus Vincere 3,660,000 11. Christopher Alesund (GeT_RiGhT) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 3,557,000 12. Adam Friberg (Friberg) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 3,519,000 13. Aleksandr Kostylev (s1mple) Ukraine Team Liquid 3,273,000 14. Nathan Schmitt (NBK-) France Team EnVyUs 2,848,000 15. Jesper Wecksell (JW) Sweden fnatic 2,412,000 16. Bruno Lima (bit) Brazil Keyd Stars 2,142,000 17. Patrick Lindberg (f0rest) Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 2,095,000 18. Shahzeb Khan (ShahZam) Pakistan OpTic Gaming 2,082,000 19. Yegor Markelov (markeloff) Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics 1,804,000 20. Robin Rönnquist (flusha) Sweden fnatic 1,719,000

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players (EMB rating)

Player

Likes

Followers

Followers

Total channel views EMB Rating* 1. Mike Grzesiek (shroud) 22,000 118,000 553,000 20,559,000 2.125 2. Jarowslaw Jarząbkowski (pasha) 671,000 133,000 725,000 14,251,000 1.578 3. Spencer Martin (Hiko) 41,000 97,800 286,000 9,176,000 0.960 4. Tarik Celik (tarik) 14,500 47,700 255,000 7,387,000 0.770 5. Adil Benrlitom (ScreaM) 120,000 132,000 305,000 7,060,000 0.762 6. Gabriel Toledo (FalleN) 137,000 47,100 84,000 5,812,000 0.608 7. Olof Kajbjer (olofmeister) 138,700 127,000 404,000 5,377,000 0.605 8. Jordan Gilbert (n0thing) 88,000 134,000 239,000 5,177,000 0.564 9. Eric Hoag (adreN) 14,600 31,000 123,000 4,593,000 0.476 10. Christopher A. (GeT_RiGhT) 384,000 169,000 289,000 3,557,000 0.440 11. Adam Friberg (Friberg) 84,000 143,000 194,000 3,519,000 0.394 12. Danylo Teslenko (Zeus) 3,000 26,000 133,000 3,660,000 0.382 13. Aleksandr Kostylev (s1mple) 12,000 18,900 127,000 3,273,000 0.343 14. Nathan Schmitt (NBK-) 53,000 126,000 147,000 2,848,000 0.317 15. Jesper Wecksell (JW) 58,500 118,000 110,000 2,412,000 0.270 16. Patrick Lindberg (f0rest) 114,000 135,000 163,000 2,095,000 0.250 17. Bruno Lima (bit) 46,000 28,000 40,000 2,142,000 0.226 18. Shahzeb Khan (ShahZam) 4,500 42,200 56,000 2,082,000 0.218 19. Yegor Markelov (markeloff) 121,000 48,200 68,000 1,804,000 0.204 20. Wiktor Wojtas (TaZ) 171,000 50,400 182,000 1,630,000 0.203

not give information about engagement, activity or other related data, it can be considered as a reference point regarding the popularity of a player. The rating only takes professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players into account who participated at the * The eSports Marketing Blog rating (EMB rating) is a value which is calculated by adding the cumulative amount of facebook-likes, twitter-and twitch.tv-channel-followers as well as the total amount of channel views of a certain player. The sum of this addition is divided by ten million. Although the figure doesgive information about engagement, activity or other related data, it can be considered as a reference point regarding the popularity of a player. The rating only takes professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro players into account who participated at the premier tournaments of 2015 (such as ESL One Cologne, ESL ESEA Pro League, Fragbite Masters, Intel Extreme Masters and more). By looking at the stats, please be aware of the fact that services like facebook, twitter or twitch.tv are used by most of the professional players, but some dont use all of them. Especially players from Asia use asia-based services.

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

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