apEX
Dan "apEX" Madesclaire is a professional Counter-Strike 2 player from France, aged 33, playing for Vitality as an In-game leader. He holds an HLTV rating of 0.98 over 2,696 maps, with 75.9 ADR. 4 Majors won.
Profile
- Nationality: France
- Age: 33 (born 1993-02-22)
- Current team: Vitality
- Role: In-game leader
- Status: Active
Career statistics
- HLTV rating: 0.98
- K/D ratio: 0.98
- Kills per round: 0.68
- Deaths per round: 0.69
- ADR: 75.9
- KAST: 68.9%
- Headshot %: 51.1%
- Maps played: 2,696
Honours
- Majors won: 4
- Majors attended: 22
- Career prize money: $2,382,802
- HLTV top-20 player of the year: #18 in 2015, #15 in 2014
Trophy cabinet
Trophies (42)
StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 · BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 · BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 · BLAST Rivals 2026 Season 1 · Winner of ESL Grand Slam Season 6 · IEM Rio 2026 · BLAST Open Rotterdam 2026 · PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 · IEM Kraków 2026 · ESL Pro League Season 22 · IEM Dallas 2025 · BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 1 · Winner of ESL Grand Slam Season 5 · IEM Melbourne 2025 · BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 · ESL Pro League Season 21 · IEM Katowice 2025 · IEM Cologne 2024 · BLAST Premier World Final 2023 · BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023 · Gamers8 2023 · IEM Rio 2023 · ESL Pro League Season 16 · IEM Winter 2021 · BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals · IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 Europe · EPICENTER 2019 · ECS Season 7 Finals · cs_summit 4 · DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017 · ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals · DreamHack Open Tours 2017 · WESG 2016 World Finals · Game Show Global eSports Cup 2016 Finals · DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 · Gfinity 2015 Champion of Champions · DreamHack Open London 2015 · IEM Gamescom 2015 · DreamHack Stockholm CS:GO Invitational 2014 · DreamHack Valencia 2014 · ESWC 2013 · StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026
EVP (10)
BLAST Premier World Final 2023 · ECS Season 7 Finals · cs_summit 4 · StarSeries i-League Season 4 · DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017 · DreamHack Open Tours 2017 · WESG 2016 World Finals · Gfinity 2015 Champion of Champions · ESL One Cologne 2014 · DreamHack Valencia 2014
HLTV awards (1)
IGL of the Year (Panel Award)
Team history
eXtensive → LDLC → Clan-Mystik → LDLC → Titan → Envy → G2 → Vitality
Gear and settings
ZOWIE EC1-A
400DPI1.6Sens640eDPI1000Hz1Zoom
#FFFF00 CSGO-6uEmx-SOKez-JXsX7-UYhjQ-F99zP — Settings → Crosshair → Import.
- ZOWIE XL2546 · 240 Hz monitor
- 1024x768 · stretched resolution
- ZOWIE EC1-A mouse
- CORSAIR K70 keyboard
- CORSAIR HS60 PRO headset
- CORSAIR MM200 mousepad
Guess players like apEX
- Guess the Player — A daily Counter-Strike 2 wordle: name the mystery pro from clues that light up green as you get closer.
- Blur — A pixelated photo of a Counter-Strike 2 pro sharpens with every wrong guess. Name them before the picture gives it away.
- Higher or Lower — Two Counter-Strike 2 pros, one hidden stat. Call higher or lower and build the longest streak you can.
- Bingo — A grid of Counter-Strike categories — countries, teams, trophies, roles. Fill each cell with a real pro, and no player twice.
- Team Path — Follow a Counter-Strike pro’s career through the teams they played for, and work out who it is.
- Major Draft — Draft five Counter-Strike 2 pros by role, then coach them live through a full Major — Swiss stage, playoffs, round by round.
- Pro Career — Create a Counter-Strike 2 pro at 16, sign with a real club, and play out a full career of seasons, transfers and choices.
- CS2 Wordle — The Wordle you know, played on the Counter-Strike dictionary: guess the daily word letter by letter, six tries.
- Ace — A ranked list of Counter-Strike pros for each difficulty, every day. Name everyone on it and it’s an ace.
- Fan Favourites — Vote for the Counter-Strike 2 pros you actually like — no account, no sign-up. The ranking below is the crowd's, updated the moment you click.
- CS2 Transfers — Every roster move HLTV has published, dated to the day, back to March 2023.
- Pro Manager — Run a real Counter-Strike 2 club on the real circuit — sign pros and retired legends, call the veto and every round, and climb Valve's ranking season after season.
- Multiplayer rooms — Press Find a match for a 1v1 against another player, or create a private room, send the code, and race your friends through the same rounds of Guess, Blur, Team Path, Higher-Lower, Wordle, Bingo, Ace or Major Draft — or pick Mixed and get a different game every round.
- CS2 tier lists — Rank Counter-Strike players, coaches, clubs or maps the way you see them, send the board to whoever you want with one link, and compare it with where everyone else put them.
- Crossfire — A 3×3 grid of Counter-Strike categories every day. Name a pro who fits both the row and the column of each square, with nine guesses for the whole grid.
Vitality roster
Vitality — full roster and ranking
Other CS2 players from France
NBK- · Maka · Lucky · bodyy · shox · kennyS · hAdji · ZywOo · Djoko · RpK · kioShiMa · Happy
apEX on social media
X · Instagram · Twitch · YouTube · Facebook · FACEIT · Steam