apEX CS2 Settings - Four Majors, One Vitality Desk
Four Major trophies. Twenty-two Majors played. Still calling the rounds for Vitality. That is Dan “apEX” Madesclaire as of 01.10.2026 - France, IGL, STARTER on the HLTV sheet next to ZywOo, flameZ, mezii, and ropz.
Not Apex Legends. Not a battle-royale reticle guide. This page is the Counter-Strike player.
HLTV tags him 4× Major winner: Cluj-Napoca 2015 with Envy, then Paris 2023, Austin 2025, and Budapest 2025 with Vitality. The same card lists 22 Majors played and a quarter-final exit at IEM Cologne Major 2026. Desk math before the jersey chapter: 400 DPI × 1.91 sens = 764 eDPI - ProSettings last updated 22.09.2026.
Wider field: CS2 pro settings and CS2 crosshairs.
Quick Facts
764 eDPI - the Vitality captain sens that stuck
Settings clones paste a table and bounce. Here is the ProSettings pass last updated 22.09.2026, with the only public arithmetic that matters:
400 × 1.91 = 764 eDPI.
Crosshair (same scrape): Classic Static, colour Yellow, RGB 0 / 255 / 0, length 1.5, thickness 1, gap −3, outline off, no centre dot, follow recoil off, alpha 200. ProSettings did not list a pasteable CSGO-… share-code on that update - shape and colour only. We are not inventing one. Crosshair hub already linked in the intro - no second pass here.
Bob: Lower Amt 5 · Amt Lat 0.4 · Amt Vert 0.25 · Cycle 0.98 (bob off).
Radar: centres the player; rotating on; HUD size 1; map zoom 0.7.
specs.gg also shows 400 / 1.91 / 764 on an October 2026 stamp, but its mouse and RGB row disagree with this ProSettings pass. The dated product row we ship is the ProSettings block above.
EC2-EW, Falchion Ace HFX, XL2586X+
ProSettings gear block (22.09.2026):
PC block on the same page lists AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. Monitor OSD highlights (ProSettings): DyAc 2 Premium, Black eQualizer 12, Colour Vibrance 12, Low Blue Light 0, Picture Mode FPS 1, Brightness 100, Contrast 50, Sharpness 8, Gamma 3, AMA High. Advanced video: Boost Player Contrast on; V-Sync off; NVIDIA Reflex Enabled; G-Sync off; max FPS 400; 4× MSAA; global shadows High; model/texture High; filtering Anisotropic 2×; shader/particle High; ambient occlusion Medium; HDR Quality; FidelityFX off (highest quality).
Mouse line: ProSettings marks the EC2-EW as unreleased. Community comments on that page still float older EC2-DW / EC-DW photos from earlier events. The dated product row we ship is the EC2-EW. Chair distance in centimetres still isn’t numbered - missing stays missing.
Yellow static, gap −3, FOV 60
Same 22.09.2026 scrape as the settings table. Viewmodel is FOV 60, offsets 2 / 2 / −2, presetpos 1 - tighter than the FOV 68 stacks a lot of riflers run. Crosshair is the short yellow static (RGB 0 / 255 / 0) with gap −3, no outline, no centre dot, alpha 200.
No share-code on that ProSettings update. Other public pages sometimes paste a CSGO-… string with a different RGB. We keep the dated ProSettings geometry and refuse to invent a code to look complete. If you want a broader settings map among pros, start at best CS2 settings 2026.
Four Major lifts - still Vitality’s captain
Who is apEX in CS2? The short answer on 01.10.2026: Team Vitality’s in-game leader, a STARTER on HLTV’s live five, and a 4× Major champion with 22 Majors played.
The four wins (HLTV Major card, scrape 01.10.2026):
Paris was the last CS:GO Major, on home soil. Austin and Budapest made it back-to-back CS2 Majors in 2025. IEM Cologne Major 2026 ended in the quarter-finals (HLTV placement: 1/4 final) - not a fifth trophy. Same player page: HLTV Panel Award IGL of the Year in 2023 and again in 2025.
Vitality chapter: HLTV’s team timeline puts him on Vitality from Oct 2018 - present (2,915 days in the current team period as of this scrape). Live five as of 01.10.2026 (HLTV Vitality FAQ + players table): apEX, ZywOo, flameZ, mezii, ropz. All tagged STARTER. Coach Rémy “XTQZZZ” Quoniam. World ranking #2. Contract end on the player card: Dec 2028.
He took the IGL seat in 2020 after ALEX left (career write-ups; HLTV still frames him as the caller). The star-fragger adjacency is public: ZywOo has been on the same Vitality sheet since Oct 2018. For how another long-running IGL builds a system around stars, the peer read is karrigan.
Recent LAN slice on the same HLTV player page: 1st at StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 (Vitality 3-1 Aurora, 20.09.2026), plus a run of 2026 titles that includes IEM Kraków, PGL Cluj-Napoca, BLAST Open Rotterdam, IEM Rio, and BLAST Rivals Season 1. Trophy list lives on the player page - this profile stays on verified status + desk.
Utility 94, Firepower 24 - the IGL scorecard
Search files him as the caller who feeds space to star fraggers. HLTV’s past-three-months card (01.10.2026, 40 maps) leans that way hard: Utility 94/100, Firepower 24/100, Entrying 52/100, Trading 61/100, Opening 51/100, Clutching 50/100, Sniping 0/100. Rating 3.0 0.94. That is a published role slice, not a personality essay.
He is not the opening contact in the Vitality stack. The firepower lives with ZywOo and the rest of the five. apEX’s published numbers sit on utility, mid-round structure, and the IGL award stack (Panel IGL of the Year 2023 + 2025). Two-time HLTV Top 20 as a younger entry fragger (#15 in 2014, #18 in 2015) is the career floor people forget when they only search the captain years.
One named window from the same scrape: Vitality’s StarSeries Fall 2026 win and the upcoming ESL Pro League Season 24 opener vs 1win on 03.10.2026. Team trophies live on Vitality’s page. This profile stays on verified status + desk.
Quick answers
What is apEX’s real name?
Dan Madesclaire (HLTV / ProSettings / Wikipedia).
How old is apEX?
Born 22 February 1993 (ProSettings / Wikipedia) - 33 as of 01.10.2026 (HLTV age card).
What team is he on?
Team Vitality. Starter and IGL as of 01.10.2026 (HLTV Vitality players table + FAQ). Live five: apEX, ZywOo, flameZ, mezii, ropz.
Is this Apex Legends?
No. Apex Legends is a different game. This page is Counter-Strike 2’s Dan “apEX” Madesclaire.
How many Majors has apEX won?
Four (HLTV player achievements, scrape 01.10.2026): Cluj-Napoca 2015, Paris 2023, Austin 2025, Budapest 2025. 22 Majors played. IEM Cologne Major 2026 was a quarter-final exit, not a fifth win.
What eDPI does he use?
764 - 400 × 1.91, ProSettings 22.09.2026.
What mouse does he use?
ZOWIE EC2-EW (Unreleased) on the same ProSettings scrape. Older EC2-DW comments on that page are not the shipped row.
Is there a crosshair share code?
Not on the 22.09.2026 ProSettings scrape. Length/gap/RGB above; no invented code.
Settings source date?
ProSettings last updated 22.09.2026 (checked 01.10.2026).
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YEKINDAR CS2 Settings: Crosshair, Monitor & Config
If you want to try YEKINDAR's mouse settings, the starting point is 800 DPI and 1.2 sensitivity, or 960 eDPI, as listed on SPECS.GG. You don't need to replace your mouse to match those numbers. What matters is how the sensitivity feels with the space you have to move it.
The crosshair below comes from Total CS's entry for a match on 4 September 2026. Importing it is straightforward. Copying every video setting alongside it takes a little more thought, especially if your PC and monitor are different.
Sources checked on 6 September 2026. These are public listings, not a config supplied by YEKINDAR or a setup tested by CSGamble.
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