Top 20 Highest Paid PUBG Pro Players October 11, 2019
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has organized many exciting events since the first release of the game, and many professional players are still vying for high prize pools. Let's take a look at the top 20 highest paid professional players.
PUBG burst onto the scene in March 2017 with the goal of taking its Battle Royale concept to the mainstream, and it's certainly done it, but now it's keeping up with Fortnite Battle Royale, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, and more in the ever-growing BR market. .
As more and more Twitch streamers and professional players have started playing the game, the interest in the game mode has increased and so to have prize pools. During the first two years of the competition, over $10 million in prize money was awarded to successful players.
The competition took a step up when FACEIT announced their official PUBG integration in September 2018.
The largest prize pool ever seen for a competitive PUBG event was announced at the 2018 Global Invitational where $1 million was up for grabs. The final winners were the Oh My God team, which consisted of four Chinese players: silentbet_, lionkk, xiaohaixxxx и xiaorong.
Since then, there have been many different events with various prize funds, which were divided among the winners.
Thanks to esportsEarnings, fans can see which of their favorite players pocketed the most money from their tournament performances.
Top 20 highest earning PUBG players
Place | Nick | Nation | Profit |
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#1 | lionkk | China | $205,477 |
#2 | Sambty | Finland | $199,283 |
#3 | Ibiza | Holland | $186,033 |
#4 | Jeemzz | Norway | $186,033 |
#5 | Loki | South Korea | $185,335 |
#6 | silentBT_ | China | $181,549 |
#7 | xiaohaixxxx | China | $179,906 |
#8 | xiaorong | China | $163,976 |
#9 | EscA | South Korea | $153,763 |
#10 | fuzz face | Sweden | $147,750 |
#11 | Meluke | Canada | $142,583 |
#12 | mxey | Finland | $140,550 |
#13 | Ubah | Russia | $128,958 |
#14 | Jemty | Finland | $128,327 |
#15 | scoom | Gibraltar | $126,204 |
#16 | Simsn | South Korea | $125,722 |
#17 | Chelator | South Korea | $125,350 |
#18 | Zanpah | United States | $123,833 |
#19 | Sharky | United States | $120,506 |
#20 | ESTH3R | South Korea | $103,794 |
While most of the top table has remained unchanged since August, there has essentially been a lot more money raised across the top 20 overall.
The leader at the time of writing is lionkk with an impressive $205,477 earned in a scene that, unfortunately for its community, simply doesn't offer the same level of prize pools as other competitive esports.