ESports world records come in all shapes and sizes, and can be quite adept at making your head spin with how amazing or ridiculous they can get. Professional gaming has been around long enough for such records to exist, and here are the best ones.
"Penguin" from "Fierce" eSports takes part in a match at the epicLAN esport tournament at the Kettering Conference Centre, on October 12, 2019 in Kettering, England. EpicLAN events see between 32 and 700 networked players compete against each other for cash prizes and trophies.
Highest-Earning ESports Team
According to Guinness World Records, the highest-earning ESports team in history is Team Liquid. As of February 11th, 2022, the team has won a total of $38,476,764 USD by virtue of participating in and winning multiple world-level tournaments.
Among their most notable victories include the 2017 DOTA 2 The International, as well as a total of three "League of Legends" Championship Series victories. All in all, teams competing under the Team Liquid name have competed in 2,148 tournaments since the entire franchise was founded back in 2000-originally as a "Starcraft" team.
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - OCTOBER 8: Team Liquid poses at the League of Legends World Championship Groups Stage Features Day on October 8, 2021 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Team Liquid also boasts several players who are among the top-paid pros in their field by total career earnings, according to ESportsEarnings. This includes "DOTA 2" players Ivan "MinD_ContRoL" Ivanov ($4.45 million US in total career earnings), Kuro "KuroKy" Takhasomi ($4.45 million), and Maroun "GH" Merhej ($4.08 million US), to name a few.
Highest-Earning ESports Player In The World (By Career Tournament Winnings)
This record goes to "DOTA 2" veteran Johan "N0tail" Sundstein, who has earned $7.2 million US for his entire career, according to DotESports. He was one of the best "DOTA 2" players in the world as a member of OG and Fnatic, punctuated by two straight TI wins at TI8 and TI9.
28 January 2020, Berlin: Johan "n0tail" Sundstein, captain of Team OG at the premiere of the documentary film "True Sight" in the Babylon Kino Berlin with the reigning Dota 2 world champions OG and the runners-up who are now playing under the name Nigma.
With this much money that you can potentially earn as a professional gaming legend, it's no wonder why so many folks are aiming to quit their 9-to-5s and just start playing games all day.
Highest Headshot Percentage In 'CS:GO' History
Headshots are by far among the most amazing feats to pull off in ESports, and this guy has them in spades (at least in "CS:GO"). Out of every single kill, Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom has ever made in Valve's competitive shooter, 68.1% of them have been headshots, according to theScore Esports.
The guy is just so insanely good at clicking heads that he has earned monikers like "The Human Headshot Machine" and "One Tap God." Even now that he's retired from professional play, he still wows fans with his skill at regularly popping heads-sometimes three, four times in a row in a single game.
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Longest Losing Streak For A Team In ESports History
This infamous record goes to "Overwatch" League team Shanghai Dragons. The team has lost a total of 40-that's right, 40-straight games during the first season of the league. And this is even perhaps the longest losing streak in any professional sport in history, traditional sports or otherwise.
No other team in Major League Baseball, the NBA, the NFL, and even the National Hockey League (aka the "Big Four" pro sports leagues) come close to the Shanghai Dragons' absolutely terrible record, according to theScore ESports. But by the second season of the "Overwatch" League, the Dragons would finally win their first match during their third game against the Boston Uprising back in 2019.
Longest YouTube Livestream And Most Viewers For A Charity Donation On YouTube
Arab gaming content creator AboFlah, a member of the ESports organization Galaxy Racer, holds not one but two Guinness World Records: the longest livestream ever on YouTube, and the most viewers for a charity stream on the platform.
EuropeanGaming reports that AboFlah's livestream lasted a total of 268 hours, 14 minutes, and 20 seconds. That's over 11 days straight of live streaming. Not to mention, he also gained 698,000 peak concurrent viewers during the stream, which was done to raise more than $11 million US for charity.
Longest Uninterrupted ESports Match Ever
It took around 200 minutes (almost three and a half hours) for Cloud9 and SFZ to finish their "DOTA 2" match back in 2015, reports theScore ESports. SFZ came out victorious after a grueling game that saw both teams just trade kills left and right, with even the casters saying there might be no end for the game in sight as it went on and on.
The game beat the previous record-holder (125 minutes) and was also able to set even more records than meets the eye. As per the YouTube channel NoobFromUA, the Cloud9-SFZ slugfest featured the last hits on a Sniper, Puck, Zeus, and Bristle, to name a few. It also had the highest net worths on the same heroes, among others.
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Written by RJ Pierce
