Cloud9 CS: GO, new roster, cost of transfers, and players’ salaries

American cybersport organization Cloud9 announced the new composition of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team.

On October 15, it became known that Cloud9 has signed a new CS: GO roster. The most interesting thing about this story is that the organization itself, probably for the first time in the history of esports, announced the price of transfers and talked about the players’ salaries. Amounts were announced for all new players to the team, except for Danish eSportsman Patrick “es3tag” Hansen, who will join the team on October 25 after DreamHack Open Fall 2020. But according to insiders’ estimates, the transfer price was $ 500,000.

Therefore, from this information, the Cloud9 organization paid more than $ 1,000,000, and the cost of salaries to the players per year will amount to over $ 1,600,000. All new players of the team signed a 3-year contract.

Let’s go to the numbers themselves:

• ALEX: $ 250,000 fee, $ 38,900 monthly.
• Mezii: $ 83,000 fee, $ 11,800 monthly.
• w0xic: $ 296,000 fee, $ 29,600 monthly.
• Floppy: $ 0 fee, $ 12,000 monthly.
• es3tag: $ 500,000 fee, $ 44,400 monthly.

For the full picture, it is still worth waiting for someone to reveal the sums of advertising contracts that players receive, which should recoup those investments, in addition to the winning prize money for the tournaments.