Counter-Strike is a huge part of the history of gaming, the pioneer of the FPS scene all over the world. Almost all the best FPS players in the world start from being a Counter-Strike player. CS: GO, as the predecessor of Counter-Strike, continued to be the best FPS title until now. It has a huge impact on the gaming world, players can make thousands of dollars from different tournaments.
The list of the best CS: GO players will look at skill, longevity and achievements to try to determine who deserves to be crowned king of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Rather than simply listing players by MVP awards or pure aim, this list will seek to combine all these factors to respect historically strong players while giving credit to the relative newcomers with superior aim and talent.
Christopher ‘GeT_RiGhT’ Alesund
He is a veteran player in the CS: GO competitive scene. He started playing CS as a professional player since 2007. He has the longest win streak in the history of CS: GO with 87 games when he was playing for Ninja in Pajamas in 2013, making many people consider him as the best CSGO player in the world.
Kenny ‘kennyS’ Schrub
The French player has a storied history from ruthless hunter-carrier in 2014, to Major success at DreamHack Cluj-Napoca with EnVyUs in 2015 to his position in the French superteam roster under G2 Esports.
In that ‘superteam’, ‘kennyS’ still shone and won MVP medals at all three events they won in 2017 despite the roster having issues with consistency and interpersonal clashes.
Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev
‘s1mple’ started his career in 2013 with the Ukrainian team LAN DODGERS. His career started to step up as he joined team Liquid and won the ESL One: Cologne 2016. In the semifinals at ESL One Cologne 2016, ‘s1mple’ made a legendary no-scope AWP double kill against 2 Fnatic players, which Valve has turned into a graffiti in CS: GO. Later on, he moved to team Na’Vi and has been playing for the team ever since.
Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer
A superstar and a frequent poster boy for the game due to his popularity and legendary status, Olofmeister is as iconic to the game as Dust II itself. Olof was part of Fnatic for over three years and was part of the core defined as the greatest of all time, with modern Astralis being the only true challenge to that throne. Back-to-back Majors for three in total and 14 trophies with six in a row during their era were won by Fnatic to cement an era for the Swedish organisation.
Marcelo “Coldzera” David
Coldzera is a true legend in the CSGO community. He has been leading the CSGO leaderboards for years. His amazing skills have been recognized as the MVP or Player of the Year many times by multiple organisations. He was the eSports Player of the Year and PC Player of the Year in the 2016 Game Awards. His fragging ability helped his team to win many LAN tournaments. One of the most iconic moments of Coldzera was when he made a beautiful jumping AWP double kills no-scope against team Liquid at MLG CS: GO Major in 2016. Valve even has made a graffiti in CSGO to memorize this glorious moment of him.
These people are really dominant in the CS: GO scene-setting examples for others!
