Vitality Overtake NAVI in CS All-Time Prize Money Rankings
Team Vitality is now the richest organisation in Counter-Strike history. Not in the boardroom sense, but in the one that fans actually track: total prize money won.
The French side completed a 3-0 sweep of MOUZ in the ESL Pro League Season 24 grand final, and that result was enough to lift it past Natus Vincere at the top of the all-time earnings table. Vitality's listed total now sits at $13,886,593. NAVI's is $13,682,460. The gap is $204,133, which is small next to totals of that size but still a clear lead.
A Final That Flipped the Table
Vitality didn't arrive in the final as the leader. According to Pley.gg's report, the organisation went into the series with $13,591,593, about $91,000 short of NAVI. The figures, attributed to Liquipedia and dated October 12, 2026, show how much a single trophy can move things at the very top.
The scoreline makes it look easy. It wasn't, at least not all the way through. Vitality took Cache 13-8 and followed that with a 13-7 win on Inferno, but MOUZ dug in on Dust2. They reached match point and dragged the map into overtime before Vitality closed it out 16-12 and lifted the trophy.
MOUZ, for what it's worth, still sits in the top five all-time. Here's how the reported standings look now:
- Team Vitality - $13,886,593
- Natus Vincere - $13,682,460
- Astralis - $11,712,259
- FaZe Clan - $10,440,259
- MOUZ - $8,750,374
Astralis in third is a reminder of how dominant the Danish organisation once was, even as it now reshuffles its active roster. FaZe Clan and MOUZ round out a list that reads like a history of the game's competitive peaks.
Four Titles, and Counting
The prize money is only part of the story. This was Vitality's fourth ESL Pro League title, and no organisation had won the competition more than three times before. NAVI, MOUZ, Astralis and Fnatic all stand on three apiece.
Vitality has also won three of the last four seasons. The one it missed, Season 23 in March, went to NAVI, which makes the rivalry at the top of the earnings table feel all the more pointed. This season's playoff field was not short of upsets either, with 1win knocking out Spirit on the way, but Vitality handled the business end without dropping a map in the final.
ropz and ZywOo Add to Their Resumes
Two Vitality players walked away with personal milestones.
Robin 'ropz' Kool now holds a record six ESL Pro League titles. What makes that tally unusual is how he got there: he has won the competition with three different organisations, MOUZ, FaZe Clan and Vitality. Few players carry that kind of portable success.
Then there's Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut. He was named MVP of the event, which HLTV counts as the 34th MVP award of his career, and he finished the final with a 1.65 rating. Against a side as organised as MOUZ, that is a remarkable number.
What's Next for Vitality
Vitality's next scheduled stop is PGL Bucharest. A predicted update to Valve's VRS rankings following the final put Vitality first and MOUZ second, though Valve only publishes its official rankings once a month, so that projection still needs confirming.
The all-time money table isn't fixed either. With a lead of roughly $200,000, NAVI is one deep run away from taking the top spot back, and upcoming events could shuffle the order again. For now, though, Vitality is on top.
The Bigger Picture
On paper, a prize-money ranking is just a running total. But this one says something about where Counter-Strike's power sits right now. Three ESL Pro League titles in four seasons, a record fourth trophy overall and the top spot on the earnings list all point to Vitality being the defining organisation of this stretch, much as Astralis was in its own era.
It is worth remembering that the lead is thin. NAVI took Season 23 and is clearly still capable of winning big events, so this suggests a two-team tug of war rather than a settled order. The ropz record also highlights a trend worth noting: star players increasingly carry trophies across organisations, which makes team legacies harder to separate from the individuals who build them.
It comes at an interesting time for the scene, too, with reports that CS2's player count has fallen for seven straight months. Elite competition looks healthy at the top. Whether that translates into broader interest is less clear. PGL Bucharest and Valve's next official VRS update are the obvious things to watch.