To celebrate the 60th episode of my Grilled interview series I handed over the reigns to MonteCristo (commentator for OGN), who put me in the Grilled hot seat.

With the last world championship level tournament (the IEM VI World Championship) long gone, and even the medium-sized tournaments having died out, now feels like the appropriate time to take stock of the great teams in CS history. In this series I will count down the best five man, four man, three man, two man teams and single players in CS history in terms of prize money won.

Patrik "cArn" Sättermon is the star of the 30th episode of my 'Grilled' interview series. He not only led some of the most successful lineups of all time, but is also the second highest earning player in CS history, in terms of prize money won.

In the 19th episode of my 'Grilled' in-depth video interview series I spoke to Erik "da bears" Stromberg, about his CS career playing for teams like 3D, TEC, u5 and JMC.

With the last world championship level tournament (the IEM VI World Championship) long gone, and even the medium-sized tournaments having died out, now feels like the appropriate time to take stock of the great teams in CS history. In this series I will count down the best five man, four man, three man, two man teams and single players in CS history in terms of prize money won.

Mickael " mSx " Cassisi is inarguably France's greatest ever Counter-Strike player, and one of the very best individual players in the history of the game. Yet this towering French titan, skilled with every weapon in CS, raneks all the way down at 121st all time in prize money won. That his skill in the server wasn't able to translate into success as far as dollars earned goes is a cloud over his career, and yet there was a 13 month time span in the Frenchman's career when he lifted his team to the level of being legitimate contenders for international tournaments.

With the last world championship level tournament (the IEM VI World Championship) long gone, and even the medium-sized tournaments having died out, now feels like the appropriate time to take stock of the great teams in CS history. In this series I will count down the best five man, four man, three man, two man teams and single players in CS history in terms of prize money won.

Ask followers of esports about Korean pro-gamers who had a chance to be world champion and they'll likely start listing off famous StarCraft2 of Brood War players. Even if they expand the scope of their answer they'll likely next go to Moon in WarCraft III. For the first half of the 2000s South Korea had not been a factor in CS, only making ground with a surprise bronze medal at the 2004 WCG and then with lunatic-hai and project_kr's results at CPL and WEG, respectively, in the latter part of 2005.

This is just a quick note to let people know I've published an article entitled "History of the World e-Sports Masters" over at Team Acer. The idea behind the article was to bring all the SC2/LoL fans up to speed on the history of WEM/WEG, since this is the first year their games have been featured in it.

Ask anyone who was around, or has done their research, who the best North American team was in 2003 and they'll promptly answer that it was Team3D. Ask them who the best North American team was in 2005 and they'll likely respond even quicker that it was compLexity. Ask them who the best North American team was in 2004, though, and you're going to get either a number of different answers back or a slightly confused look. Yet there was a team who, on the whole, stood out from the North American pack that year: Rival/GamerCo.