CSGO World Rankings for July 2019: Liquid continues to dominate

We have a busy July with three big events: ESL One Cologne, BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles and IEM Chicago. All three saw Liquid win convincingly, widening the gap between the North American team and the entire opponent.

In addition, there will be 4 Minor qualifiers for the upcoming StarLadder Major Berlin in July to select the teams for the first round of the $1,000,000 tournament.

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 July 2019the “+/-” signs represent the promotion and relegation of the teams, and the difference is when compared with the June 2019 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.

Liquid continues to dominate

Liquid remains undefeated on the world rankings. The North American team finished three LAN tournaments in July with championships in all three. Two of them (Cologne and Chicago) had BO5 finals and Liquid defeated world No. 2 and No. 4, Vitality and ENCE. In the ENCE match, the Finnish team had almost no chance against Liquid, winning only a total of 5 rounds in the first two maps.

Liquid has shown unprecedented overwhelming power. Five consecutive championships at the major tournaments have shown Liquid as one of the most impressive teams, and it looks like their winning streak will continue.

Cloud9 is slowly recovering

On July 3, Cloud9 announced roster rework, adding Damian “daps” Steele, Oscar “mixwell” Cañellas, Kenneth “koosta” Suen and Tyson “TenZ” Ngo to restructure. The team only kept Timothy “autimatic” Ta from the old roster. In the past month, the team showed promising performance, taking the 20th place even though it wasn’t even listed in the rankings before after “changing blood”. Cloud9’s rise came from a performance at the BLAST Pro Series Los Angeles, when the boys reached the semifinals, but fell to the reigning world No. 1, Liquid. During that journey, this roster drew with NRG and MIBR and won against FaZe, but lost to Renegades.

With a new Cloud9, the team has enough time to improve since the boys won’t be attending this Major. Meanwhile, at the next LAN event Arctic Invitational taking place on September 14, Cloud9 will definitely want to remind the competitors that they are capable of competing with the strongest teams – something the old lineup did not do. Okay.

Natus Vincere is back in the top 10

After Ioann “Edward” Sukhariev left the team, Natus Vincere did not attend any LAN tournaments so they could focus on training with rookie Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov. The new lineup debuted at ESL One Cologne 2019 and played impressively; only lost to champion Liquid in two BO3s.

While it’s still too early to praise the new version of Navi, we can see Boombl4 bring the required shooting skills and new breath to this squad. Navi’s upcoming event will be the StarLadder Major – this will be a better measure to know the exact form and potential of this rookie.

AVANGAR: the big man fell

AVANGAR is considered one of the biggest faces in the CIS region. However, recently, the team has been constantly struggling. At the end of June, AVANGAR added veteran player Dauren “AdreN” Kystaubayev, who is seen as bringing shooting skills and experience to the young squad. The team qualified for the ESEA MDL Season 32 Europe, but lost to FURIA at the EMF CS:GO World Invitational.

It could be because AVANGAR needs more time to get on the reels and adjust to AdreN. More than a month has passed since he joined, and the Kazakh squad may need more time for AdreN to adapt to the old system or completely restructure. Then AVANGAR can invest time to achieve stability, as well as reap results.

FURIA goes down

FURIA created a big buzz in the CSGO community when it rose to the number 1 position in Brazil instead of MIBR. Not long after, the team gradually exhausted, being surpassed in the rankings by G2 and mousesports. Just last month, the Brazilian team participated in three LAN tournaments: ESL One Cologne, Americas Minor and EMF CS:GO World Invitational. FURIA came out of the group stage in Cologne, qualified for the Major through the losing bracket at the Americas Minor, and defeated AVANGAR in a BO5 series at EMF. During this time, the team also participated in online MDL and ESEA Global Challenge, losing only 1 match to Sprout.

FURIA, despite falling three places, is still considered the number one Brazilian team today. The boys proved themselves to be still a force to be reckoned with and inspired many up-and-coming CSGO teams. With more time and experience, FURIA will want to assert its place in the top of the strongest teams.

Cloud9 Wins EPC Shooting Stars Award

Cloud9 was the team that improved the most in July, from unranked position due to a complete roster change, to #20 in the world rankings. This international squad will enjoy 7 days of free bootcamps for 6 at Kinguin Esports Performance Center (EPC), the professional esports bootcamp center in Warsaw.

In the event that Cloud9 declines or doesn’t claim the EPC Shooting Stars award, forZe was the second most improved team in July, jumping from #29 to #21. The Russian team recently had an impressive performance at the CIS Minor, qualifying for the New Challengers at the Berlin Major.

According to HLTV