In a sport where careers often burn bright and fade fast, Dan “apEX” Madesclaire has done something unusual: he stuck around long enough to become the most decorated player in Counter-Strike Major history. Four Major titles. Over 37 significant trophies. Approximately 2,800 kills across 21+ Major tournaments.
And in an industry where crypto sponsorships once rained down like confetti at a championship celebration, apEX and Team Vitality have exactly zero blockchain partnerships to show for it.
The record that keeps growing
apEX’s Major championship journey started back in 2015 at Cluj-Napoca, where he hoisted the trophy playing under the Envy banner. He reinvented himself as an in-game leader for Vitality starting in 2020 and turned the French-international roster into a consistent contender. The payoff arrived at the Paris Major in 2023, a home-crowd victory that felt almost cinematic.
Two more Major titles followed in quick succession: Austin 2025 and Budapest 2025. Three Majors in roughly two years, all as the shot-caller, across two different versions of the game, CS:GO and its successor CS2.
