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

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

15. Natus Vincere

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

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

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

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

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

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.