Name: Richard “shox” Papillon

Date of Birth: May 27, 1992

Country: France

Game: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Tournament Winnings:$500,791.89 From 171 Tournaments

 

 

 

Richard “shox” Papillon is one of the most iconic French Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players and is the leader of G2 eSports. Probably it is hard to find a true eSports fan who hasn’t watched his inspirational speech before the group final match against Ninjas in Pyjamas. If you somehow missed it, we will add it below. Do not miss it again. It is worth it!

eSports Discipline

Richard is formerly a Counter-Strike Source player.  He transferred into the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game almost immediately and because of that, he already has great experience with it. Moreover, shox is famous for his mad pistol skills, great rifle accuracy, and even decent AWP reflexes.  Looking at the statistics, it is clear that shox’s favorite weapon is the AK-47, since he has more than 8,000 kills with it. Next on the list with the almost same amount of kills are the M4A1 and AWP.

His percentage of headshots is near 50%, which is quite good.  Besides that, Richard is holding a 0.77 Kill/Round ratio, which means that he is killing an enemy player in 77 of 100 rounds.

All of this plus his charismatic character and leadership qualities make him one of the best players in the world.

Results and Earnings

With $379,786.80 from 132 Tournaments, shox is holding #5 in the country ranking and #161 in the world if we are speaking about money earned by tournament prize funds.

2016 is surely the most successful year to date, with $127,109.11 in the shox account. However, 2017 has the potential to surpass it, since so far the player has earned a massive $110,500.00.

2017 Best Winnings

1st	ESL Pro League S5 – Finals	$45,000.00
1st	DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017	$20,000.00
1st	DreamHack Tours 2017	$10,000.00

 

2016 Best Winnings

1st	Esports Championship Series Season 1 – Finals	$50,000.00
1st	ESL Pro League S3 Finals	$18,000.00
1st	SL i-League StarSeries Season 2	$10,000.00

2015 Total Winnings

$61,583.38 from 27 Tournaments

2014 Total Winnings

$44,454.14 from 19 Tournaments

eSports Career of Richard “shox” Papillon

Shox started playing Counter-Strike back in the days of 1.5, and then slowly moved on to each subsequent version of the game, ending up in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

His eSports history dates back to 2008, when he played for a team called Creative. In March 2009, shox joined VeryGames for the first time. Even though he was already established as a player, the organization by itself had some problems and decided to release the talented player after just several months.

After a short period in Counter-Strike 1.6 in 2010, Richard went back to Source, forming Team 3DMAX with another famous player, Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom. Having such a talented player didn’t matter much and shox left the organization to join VeryGames for the second time.

The following period was pretty successful for the player since he was on the top of the world for six months. In the end of November, shox was removed from the squad due to internal problems.

He would go back to team up with ScreaM in Tt Dragons at the beginning of 2012, and they would together switch to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive when the new game came out.

Since the transfer, Richard became one of the most successful players in the world. His leadership is the basis of the success for the French super team, G2 eSports.