Team Vitality Wins ESL Pro League Season 24, Tops All-Time Prize Money Rankings

Team Vitality defeated MOUZ 3-0 in the ESL Pro League Season 24 grand final on October 12, 2026, moving above Natus Vincere in Counter-Strike’s all-time prize-money rankings.

The victory gave Vitality its fourth ESL Pro League title, making it the first organization to win the competition more than three times.

Vitality’s listed total prize money is now $13,886,593, a lead of $204,133 over NAVI’s $13,682,460, according to figures attributed to Liquipedia.

The organization entered the final with $13,591,593, approximately $91,000 behind NAVI, according to a report from Pley.gg.

Robin ‘ropz’ Kool claimed a record sixth ESL Pro League title with the win, having previously won with MOUZ, FaZe Clan and Vitality.

Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut was named the event MVP, his 34th career MVP award according to HLTV, and finished the final with a 1.65 rating.

Vitality took Cache 13-8 and Inferno 13-7 before closing the series with a 16-12 win on Dust2 after MOUZ pushed the map to overtime.

Vitality’s in-game leader Dan ‘apEX’ Madesclaire moved to five Pro League victories with the title, combining his stints with G2 and Vitality.

The trio of ZywOo, ropz, and Shahar ‘flameZ’ Shushan were the highest-rated players at the event.

Vitality has now won three of the last four ESL Pro League seasons, with NAVI taking Season 23 in March.

NAVI, MOUZ, Astralis and Fnatic have three ESL Pro League titles apiece.

MOUZ would have also broken the record for most titles with a victory, but they were no match for an imperious Vitality.

For MOUZ, the Grand Final itself must have been a terrible form of déjà vu, as the much-changed roster after the additions of Oldřich ‘PR’ Nový and Adrian ‘xelex’ Vincze fell to the same fate as the old roster had fallen to so many times.

Vitality knew exactly what MOUZ were doing, and exactly how to counter it as Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut demolished the roster again and again on his way to yet another MVP title.

After a faltering start to the season, and the absence of William ‘mezzi’ Merriman at BLAST Open Porto, Vitality have firmly established themselves as the team to beat at Pro League in a display that was so evocative of their dominance from 2025 to before the IEM Cologne 2026 Major.

The Frenchman apEX has been emblematic of Vitality’s ambition to win title after title, displaying a hunger that is still not abating despite collecting his 43rd trophy at ESL Pro League in Katowice.

The organization’s next scheduled event is PGL Bucharest, where it will compete without apEX as he welcomes his first child.

A predicted Valve Regional Standings update after the final placed Vitality first and MOUZ second, although Valve’s official rankings update monthly.

The all-time prize-money order may shift again as teams compete in upcoming events, but the current standings put Vitality at the top.

In a time when Spirit were threatening to ramp into an era of their own, Vitality showed that there is still a long way to go for Danil ‘donk’ Kryshkovets’ team to reach the Counter-Strike perfection that Vitality can still produce.