Popular PUBG Esports Players

# Nickname Name Earned
# Nickname Name Earned
01
Корея
seoul DNW
Cho Gi-yeol
$ 193303
02
Дания
Gustav DEN
Gustav Blond
$ 182501
03
Великобритания
Fexx UK
Christopher Wheddon
$ 112357
04
Вьетнам
Himass VIE
La Phuong Tien Dat
$ 63809
05
Китай
CRAZY112 CHN
Dai Aoqi
$ 296895
06
Австралия
TGLTN AUS
James Giezen
$ 593047
07
Корея
Inonix DNW
Na Hee-joo
$ 457782
08
Тайланд
Nourinz THA
Thanaporn Udomphonampai
$ 121266
09
Китай
Aixleft CHN
Zuo Zixuan
$ 164829
10
Корея
Loki DNW
Park Jung-young
$ 1026369
11
США
Kickstart USA
Matt Smith
$ 388017
12
Китай
xwudd 17
Wu Bo
$ 172965
13
США
Snakers USA
Jake Winant
$ 155047
14
США
hwinn USA
Hunter Winn
$ 487702
15
Китай
HSmm 4AM
Wang Yanwen
$ 545464
16
США
Shrimzy USA
Tristan Nowicki
$ 616452
17
Китай
ZpYan1 4AM
Zhou Pinyan
$ 559822
18
Австралия
Fludd AUS
Lachlan Thompson
$ 145573
19
Вьетнам
HaiSaki VIE
Tran Trinh Dong Hai
$ 89892
20
Китай
Longz TL
-
$ 12250
21
Тайланд
PuuChiwz THA
Peerapat Kalumpan
$ 132166
22
Китай
Myl PeRo
Ma Yunlong
$ 155631
23
Luo Shengjun
$ 259201
24
Норвегия
jeemzz FaZe
Jim Gunnar Eliassen
$ 340919
25
Sarayut Ditkhammoh
$ 52195
26
Россия
BatulinS TWIS
Aleksandr Batulin
$ 344078
27
Корея
Cui71 PeRo
Choi Yun-hyuk
$ 66415
28
Вьетнам
DuCkHjeUz VIE
Duong Duc Hieu
$ 24308
29
Украина
spyrro TWIS
Yaroslav Kuvichko
$ 329153
30
Россия
Lu TWIS
Kirill Lukyanov
$ 308402
31
Украина
Perfect1ks TWIS
Dmytrii Dubenyuk
$ 291950
32
Тайвань
Savior TPE
Hu Wei-zhong
$ 73708
33
Корея
Salute DNW
Woo Je-hyeon
$ 151205
34
Корея
DG98 GEN
Dae Kwon Hwang
$ 104507
35
Китай
xxxLu 4AM
Wei Daying
$ 393123
36
Россия
ubah NAVI
Ivan Kapustin
$ 543037
37
Корея
Pio GEN
Cha Seung Hoon
$ 919626
38
Ha Huu Tai
$ 48042
39
Китай
Xbei 17
Tu Zhanya
$ 174903
40
Китай
LongSkr CHN
Deng Ruilong
$ 219160
41
Россия
xmpl NAVI
Artem Adarkin
$ 252776
42
Аргентина
draftSSJ ARG
Ignacio Falzone
$ 55289
43
Китай
SuJiu 17
Yu Lin
$ 215746
44
Тайвань
ZhenNan TPE
Liao Zhen-nan
$ 70066
45
Россия
ADOUZ1E QM
Roman Zinovyev
$ 194033
46
Россия
alyagg NAVI
Aleksandr Pirogov
$ 238845
47
Mansur Tsimpaev
$ 78583
48
Корея
taemin GEN
Kang Tae-min
$ 573262
49
Малайзия
Shen TL
-
$ 25651
50
Грузия
Mellman NAVI
Konstantin Levkin
$ 239895

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. What’s the Secret Behind the Popularity of PUBG Esports?

PUBG is a “Battle Royale” game. It was released relatively recently — an early version became available in 2017. Although the game had a lot of bugs at first, it began to gain popularity. Interest in the “Battle Royale” also grew. In fact, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds opened this genre to the general public. Millions of people went to play for survival.

What’s the Idea and How to Play PUBG?

It is very easy to understand the essence of the game. There are 100 players and a plane that throws them into a large open area. After landing, you need to acquire weapons, medicines and other equipment. You also need to survive in PABG. This can be done either by active actions, killing opponents, or secretly, hiding in houses, forests, bushes and other hard-to-reach places. Each player chooses a tactic to their liking.

You can play PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds either alone or as part of a squad — a group of four. In this case, you are playing against other teams that also work together. This adds entertainment and interest to the matches — it’s always more fun together.

Today, PUBG’s stats are poor. If at the very beginning the game was the best and most popular in the Battle Royale genre, now it has lost ground. So, in 2017-2018, the average online has exceeded the figure of one million players. Record online in PUBG — 3.2 million people at the same time. Now the figure averages 100-200 thousand players. But, nevertheless, PUBG is still played, the game lives on as a professional eSports discipline.

How has Professional PUBG Esports been Successful?

The first tournaments began to be held when the game was still in Early Access. Gamers who managed to train well in a couple of months got the opportunity to become the first esports players in a new, developing discipline. This promised them good money.

The first major tournament for this game was Gamescom PUBG Invitational 2017, which took place at the end of August 2017. The total prize fund was $350,000. This money was divided into four parts: for solo players, squads, first and third person duos. Most of all, 180 thousand dollars, was allocated for gamers who performed in fours. Since then, the game PUBG as an esports discipline began to develop and grow.

Already in 2018, the pro scene has grown noticeably. New players came up, including those from other eSports disciplines. Tournaments with a significant prize fund were organized for this business. As part of the PUBG Global Invitational 2018, $2 million was awarded to teams playing from the first and third person.
PUBG tournaments are a series of matches where all teams fight for survival at the same time. Those who stay alive longer will receive more points. Also, points are awarded for killing opponents — this motivates teams to play aggressively, which makes PUBG esports entertaining and interesting for the viewer.

The top-ranked PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tournament was held in the spring of 2021. The PUBG Global Invitational.S 2021 lasted for almost 2 months. The teams fought among themselves, played bright matches and fought for an impressive prize pool of $7 million. The winner received over $1 million. The team that took the last place did not leave empty-handed — even these four earned 50 thousand dollars. After this event, eSports PUBG delighted fans with a number of exciting tournaments, in which, although they played smaller amounts, there were many exciting games.