August was the slowest month for Counter-Strike, as the top teams all went on vacation for the summer. At the end of the month, the Major marks the second season of the year with the New Challengers Stage and New Legends Stage. The tournament currently has only 8 teams to continue. The first part of the Major, New Challenger Stage, has been fully updated in this leaderboard.
The second major change in the rankings is the ongoing transfer market, even though the Major is still ongoing.
Scoring mechanism
Here are tTo summarize the factors that affect the scores of the teams on the leaderboard each month:
The leaderboard has a base score of teams based on their performance in the previous year (achievement points). Then there is the “Form” score, which is calculated based on the individual achievements of the Players in the team and the results of online tournaments in the last 2 months. Finally, the LANs point, this point is calculated based on the performance in offline tournaments within the last 3 months.
Also, if a team wants to keep their base score before the new month’s score is calculated, their lineup must hold at least 3 Players from the previous month. And as mentioned above, the results of the online competition only slightly affect the scores in the “Form” section and it is mainly counted for the purpose of ranking some new teams on the rankings (this is possible. Understandably, because LANs scores affect a lot, teams that don’t have a place to compete offline but want to go up the rankings have to work hard at online tournaments).
Charts
Here is the standings of the teams for the month August 2019the “+/-” signs represent the promotion and relegation of the teams, and the difference is when compared to the July 2019 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.
Liquid and Vitality continue to be at the top
Liquid and Vitality continue to hold the 1st and 2nd place in the world, despite an unstable Major start. Currently possessing an extremely impressive record in Counter-Strike history, Liquid will face ENCE in the quarterfinals – an opponent many points behind the North American team. Following them was one of last season’s most groundbreaking team, Vitality. The French team has held this position since June.
Liquid returned to the international scene after hitting the pinnacle of success: failing to warm up in the New Challengers Stage, the world No 1 team fell 1-2 before turning the tide. The win started against CR4ZY and then lost to NRG and AVANGAR. But then, Liquid won the series against North and mousesports for a playoff spot. Now, they will have to face the previous formidable force, Astralis, in the quarterfinals.
Vitality started with a loss to Syman at the New Challengers Stage, then won against INTZ and lost to another CIS team, the DreamEaters. Victory over HellRaisers and Grayhound brought the team into the New Legends Stage, when the members started to heat up. This time, Vitality crushed FaZe and North 2-0, only to lose to ENCE before advancing to the playoffs with a series win over mousesports.
ENCE surpassed Astralis before changing personnel
ENCE created a big buzz at the beginning of the Major with the announcement of the ownership of Miikka “suNny” Kemppi. Substituted player Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen raised concerns that it would affect the Finnish team’s performance on this journey, but that has yet to happen. ENCE won 3-0 to qualify for the Major playoffs, knocking out AVANGAR, MIBR, and Vitality. ENCE is still ahead of Astralis in the rankings thanks in part to its impressive performance in Berlin at the moment.
Astralis fell heavily, once considered one of the dominant forces in Coutner-Strike history in 2018. Last season, the team was completely inferior to its successful shadow. At this Major, Astralis gradually recovered, winning DreamEaters, G2 and CR4ZY, while losing only 1 series to the “prolific” NRG. Astralis is closely following ENCE with a distance of less than 20 points.
NiP, FaZe, and fnatic dropped dramatically
NiP had a disappointing Berlin tour using Maikil “Golden” Selim as a stand-in, losing to MIBR, CR4ZY and North. NiP also dropped in the rankings – losing points in part due to staffing changes, as well as the instability it brings – falling three places from 11th to 14th in August. NiP will need to get off to a good start. more this season with Plopski and try to bring CS Sweden back to the top 10.
The other Swedish team, fnatic, also dropped in rank, from 15 to 19. Fnatic lost points by dropping two members from the team after losing to the Europe Minor and missing out on this Major Berlin. Only the Jesper trio left “JW” Wecksell, Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson and Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin, Fnatic must find two new members to bring the team back to the top of the world.
Like many other Major teams, FaZe also had problems and is expected to change soon, especially when they leave early at the Berlin Major. FaZe’s drop to 8th shows that the team needs to address their problems now.
AVANGAR is back in the top 20
After adding Dauren “AdreN” Kystaubayev in June, AVANGAR was initially unable to deliver on the potential of this roster. In both online and LAN, AVANGAR is ‘dead’, but from what we saw in Berlin, it seems that ‘trees have borne fruit’. This past August, the team qualified for the CIS Play-in for BLAST Pro Series Moscow, finished top four at the CIS Esports Championships, and most importantly, claimed the Legends title at the ongoing StarLadder Major.
Beating the likes of Renegades, Liquid and G2 to make it into the top eight at the StarLadder Major is a positive sign of improvement, compared to the team’s poor results months ago. Whether AVANGAR can continue to rise again, only time will tell. But with what we have seen, the team will continue to advance in the promotion.
CR4ZY is gradually improving
One of the hottest stories in Berlin is the journey of CR4ZY. The team made it to the final round of the New Legend Stage before unfortunately losing to Natus Vincere, missing a step to make it to the top 8 Major. Despite not winning the Major title, the team still showed its potential. The community’s attention wasn’t the only thing the team received, CR4ZY went up two places to rank 14th.
CR4ZY’s individual structure and abilities over the past weeks show how far the team has come. From the closed qualifiers of the Europe Minor to the near 8 Legend, CR4ZY is well on its way to becoming the top team in Europe, as long as the team corrects its mistakes in this Berlin. If they are fixed, surely CR4ZY will creep into the top 10 to threaten the big names in the rankings.
According to HLTV
Source link: CSGO World Rankings for August 2019
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