CS:GO World Ranking October 2017

October was a busy one thanks to the ELEAGUE Premier and EPICENTER prizes with a total prize pool of $1.5 million. In addition to these two big events, small tournaments also take place during the month. From DreamHack Open Denver and SL i-League Invitational Shanghai to 4 Minors: determine the final teams to qualify for the official ELEAGUE Major Boston.

FaZe surpassed SK in the rankings after winning the ELEAGUE Premier in Atlanta. Team Europe was then unexpectedly eliminated in the group stage of EPICENTER, where SK was crowned with its stand-in Ricardo “boltz” Prass.. The Brazilian giants are now trailing behind with a gap of now just 9 points – as SK’s old leagues are increasingly depreciating.

G2 down 1 place and North down 2 places because of their disappointing performance at LAN. Meanwhile Astralis returned to the top 4 after finishing ELEAGUE Premier as runner-up. Reaching 2 finals in a row, Virtus.pro climbed 5 places to 6th place, while the new King Major Gambit dropped dramatically and is now outside the top 10.

Here is a summary of HLTV’s ratings for readers:

Leaderboard based on BILLIONTeam performance in the last 12 months (with points being deducted monthly), Performance in the last 2 months, and Performance in the last 3 months offline tournaments (LANs). Each team requires three official members (unchanged) to keep points and results online. However that doesn’t have much effect (only affects performance) on the leaderboard and the main purpose is to identify new teams on the leaderboard.

The list of top 30 teams is calculated as of November 6, 2017.

Top 30 teams on the EGB world rankings

Class	Team	Achievements	Form	LANs	total score	+/-
first.	FaZe	377	200	299	876	+3
2.	SK	500	129	238	867	-first
3.	G2	351	91	300	742	-first
4.	Astralis	370	143	220	733	+1
5.	North	268	seventy three	225	566	-2
6.	Virtus.pro	258	107	142	507	+5
7.	Cloud9	202	144	134	483	+1
8.	Liquid	167	146	114	427	-first
9.	NiP	104	ninety four	118	316	–
ten.	Gambit	173	39	89	301	-4
11.	fnatic	90	108	78	276	+2
twelfth.	mousesports	99	ninety three	77	269	–
13.	EnVyUs	89	98	48	235	+2
14.	Heroic	84	68	59	211	-2
15.	Natus Vincere	eighty six	sixty one	72	199	-5
16.	ex-Immortals	ninety three	24	74	191	new
17.	Renegades	56	91	37	184	+3
18.	BIG	71	52	33	156	-4
19.	Space Soldiers	22	111	21	154	–
20.	CLG	38	55	24	117	-2
21.	LDLC	ten	85	twelfth	107	+3
22.	Misfits	20	66	20	106	+1
23.	HellRaisers	9	70	22	101	-6
24.	OpTic	4	85	9	98	+5
25.	AGO	4	81	5	90	+21
26.	Luminosity	8	sixty four	11	83	-4
27.	Vega Squadron	17	42	13	twelfth	-first
28.	FlipSid3	19	30	11	60	-7
29.	NRG	3	49	3	55	-first
30.	Kinguin	ten	32	11	53	-3

Here is an in-depth analysis of the top 15 teams for October:

15. Natus Vincere

Player	Age	Rating
Alexander “s1mple” Kostyliev	20	1.29
Egor “flamie” Vasilyev	20	1.14
Ioann “Edward” Sukhariev	29	1.00
Danylo “Zeus” Teslenko	30	0.91

Finishing the top 15 this month is the Natus Vincere team. Ever since Zeus returned, they still haven’t shown the power they once possessed. In this month, Na`Vi still struggled and dropped 5 places compared to the previous month. They could not qualify for the ELEAGUE Premier group stage or qualify for EPICENTER or IEM Oakland.

The series of online losses also brought the Ukrainian team to the bottom of the ESL Pro League table. This ranking is still calculated according to the old squad. Now with electronic services, Natus Vincere will have hope to return to the surface.

14. Heroic

Player	Age	Rating
Jakob “JUGI” Hansen	20	1.19
Nikolaj “Niko” Kristensen	19	1.06
Marco “Snappy” Pfeiffer	27	1.04
Andreas “MODDII” Fridh	28	1.03
Patrick “es3tag” Hansen	21	0.98

After many months of playing, Heroic is back in the top 15. This month, the Danish team moved up the rankings thanks to the ELEAGUE Premier playoffs, despite having to stop in the quarterfinals. They also performed well at the StarLadder i-League Invitational Shanghai: 4th place after losing to Virtus.pro in the semi-finals and HellRaisers in the 3-4 match.

In addition to the good news above, Heroic also received some sad news for fans. They failed to qualify for the WESG qualifier for Denmark, having lost their semi-final to Fragsters and thrashing into the Europe Minor. Meanwhile, online, Heroic performed poorly against strong opponents in ESL Pro League and ECS.

13. EnVyUs

Player	Age	Rating
Vincent “Happy” Schopenhauer	25	1.12
Adil “ScreenM” Benrlitom	23	1.11
Cedric “RpK” Guipouy	28	1.10
Alexander “xms” Forté	20	1.02
Christophe “SIXER” Xia	26	0.95

EnVyUs is up a few spots from last month thanks to a win at WESG France in May, a playoff spot at ELEAGUE Premier, a Minor runner-up – and a ticket to next year’s Major Qualifer.

In Online, EnVyUs has a good record in this month’s ESL Pro League of 4-2, but they are still very far away from winning a playoff spot.

twelfth. mousesports

Player	Age	Rating
Tomáš “oskar” astný	26	1.18
Robin “ropz” Kool	17	1.11
Miikka “suNny” Kemppi	23	1.07
Chris “ChrisJ” de Jong	27	1.01
Martin “STYKO” Styk	21	0.99

Mousesports holds 12th place with unsatisfactory results. They failed to make it to the playoffs of ELEAGUE Premier. Mousesports then won the EMEA ROG Masters EMEA Qualifer against Gambit, reaching the semi-finals at DreamHack Denver before losing to Cloud9. The online record in ESL Pro League is 7-5 and still in the race for a playoff spot.

11. fnatic

Player	Age	Rating
Jonas “Lekr0” Olofsson	24	1.15
Jesper “JW” Wecksell	22	1.13
Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson	23	1.09
Robin “flusha” Rönnquist	24	1.06
Maikil “Golden” Selim	23	0.92

Fnatic moved up a few places this month, just one place away from the top 1 thanks to reaching the playoffs of ELEAGUE Premier. The Swedish team then qualified for WESG Barcelona after finishing second in the Swedish qualifiers, and is still in the top ESL Pro League and ECS.

ten. Gambit

Player	Age	Rating
Abay “Hobbits” Khasenov	23	1.12
Rustem “mou” Telepov	26	1.11
Dauren “AdreN” Kystaubayev	27	1.10
Bektiyar “fit” Bahytov	25	1.05
Mihail “Dosia” Stolyarov	29	1.01

Gambit is slowly sliding on the rankings, down 4 places compared to the previous month. GAMBIT made it past the EMEA qualifier for ROG Masters in second place behind mousesports. At EPICENTER, they finished last (ranked 7-8) when they lost to FaZe and Virtus.pro. Meanwhile online, Gambit is still struggling with Virtus.pro in the middle of the ESEA MDL.

This November, they will move to the US for IEM Oakland. With teams like FaZe, G2 and Liquid in the same group, the new Major king must give his all if he is to make it to the playoffs and move up a few places in the rankings.