E-sports has grown considerably over the past five years, seeing an annual growth rate of 7.1%<\/p>\n
A report<\/a><\/strong> by Statista Market Insights found that the e-sports industry is projected to reach a revenue of $4.3 billion (R79 billion) by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n The market is much smaller in South Africa, projected to reach $26.4 million (R484 million) by the end of the year.<\/p>\n South African players have earned the most playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, bringing in R17.3 million for local professional gamers.<\/p>\n Rocket League and FIFA 18 have also generated large winnings, totalling R8 million and R2 million, respectively.<\/p>\n The data of the top South African e-sports earners was compi<\/a>led by <\/a><\/strong>TheOutlier.co.za, along with the infographic below.<\/p>\n Ioannis Theodosiou, also known as “JT”, is the highest-earning South African e-sports player with a total winnings of R3.7 million.<\/p>\n These winnings were accumulated across 107 different tournaments.<\/p>\n Theodosiou plays Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) and Counter-Strike 2, although most of their earnings came from playing CS:GO.<\/p>\n Currently playing Complexity, Theodosiou is ranked 1530th globally in tournament winnings.<\/p>\n JT’s largest prize winning was $10,000 (R184,546) for placing second in the Funspark ULTI 2020\u2014Europe Final.<\/p>\n Ioannis “JT” Theodosiou. ESL Gaming\/Adam Lakomy<\/p><\/div>\n The second-highest earner is also a Counter-Strike player named Aran Groesbeek, who has accumulated a total winnings of R2.3 million across 76 tournaments.<\/p>\n Groesbeek, also known as “Sonic”, is currently ranked second in the country and 2,565th globally.<\/p>\n Most of Sonic’s winnings came from playing for Extra Salt and Bravado Gaming.<\/p>\n Aran “Sonic’ Groesbeek. ESL Gaming\/Viola Schuldner<\/p><\/div>\n Julio “Beast” Bianchi is the country’s third-highest-earning esports player, earning R1.35 million from eight tournaments.<\/p>\n Although only ranked third, Bianchi has the highest earnings per tournament, averaging R168,444 per competition.<\/p>\n Bianchi plays EA Sports FC, formerly FIFA, for Goliath Gaming and the South African National Team.<\/p>\n Kaylan Moodley<\/p><\/div>\n Gareth Spiers, also known as Snowyy, is a Rocket League player currently South Africa’s fourth highest-paid e-sports gamer with a total winning of R1.08 million rand.<\/p>\n Snowyy has participated in 34 tournaments, earning an average of\u00a0 R31,802 per competition.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old plays for Limitless, where he has won most of his earnings.<\/p>\n ESL FACEIT GROUP\/Michael Konkol<\/p><\/div>\n Kaylan Moodley has earned R1.07 million playing FIFA, making them the fifth-highest-earning e-sports player in the country.<\/p>\n Moodley plays for Exceed and the South African National Team; however, he earned most of his winnings by playing independently and for Goliath Gaming.<\/p>\n Below is a list of South Africa’s top ten earning e-sports players according to Esports Earnings.<\/p>\n Kalylan Moodley<\/p><\/div>\n South Africa’s top three highest earning e-sports players have earned a combined total of over R5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341175,"featured_media":536245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94533,44776,94525,25083,94529,35,94535,94531,94527,44236],"class_list":["post-536213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-aran-groesbeek","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive-csgo","tag-e-sports","tag-fifa","tag-gareth-spiers","tag-headline","tag-ioannis-theodosiou","tag-julio-bianchi","tag-kaylan-moodley","tag-rocket-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536693,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536213\/revisions\/536693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ioannis “JT” Theodosiou<\/h2>\n
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Aran “Sonic” Groesbeek<\/h2>\n
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Julio “Beast” Bianchi<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Gareth “Snowyy” Spiers<\/h2>\n
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Kaylan Moodley<\/h2>\n
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\n \nPlayer<\/th>\n Total earnings<\/th>\n Game<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Ioannis “JT” Theodosiou<\/td>\n R3.7 million<\/td>\n CS:GO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Aran “Sonic” Groesbeek<\/td>\n R2.3 million<\/td>\n CS:GO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Julio “Beast” Bianchi<\/td>\n R1.35 million<\/td>\n FIFA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Gareth “Snowyy” Spiers<\/td>\n R1.08 million<\/td>\n Rocket League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kalyan Moodley<\/td>\n R1.07 million<\/td>\n FIFA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Rhys “Fadey” Armstrong<\/td>\n R1.03 million<\/td>\n CS:GO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Ethan “Darth” Deysel<\/td>\n R944,709<\/td>\n Rocket League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n David “2Die4” Morgenrood<\/td>\n R893,184<\/td>\n Rocket League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dimitri “Detrony” Hadjipaschali<\/td>\n R817,022<\/td>\n CS:GO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Ruan “Elusive” van Wyk<\/td>\n R730,027<\/td>\n CS:GO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Outlier-gamer.jpg\")
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