A month has passed after two world tournaments, StarSeries i-League Season 4 and IEM Katowice, March also witnessed the WESG World Finals event. The tournament has a total prize pool of $1.5 million, but only a few of the top teams appear because of the rule that all teams must be from the same country.
After winning IEM Katowice, fnatic lifted the trophy at the China event after defeating Space Soldiers in the final. SK, Cloud9 and EnVyUs are the teams that have to leave early.
V4 Future Sports Festival in Budapest with a total prize pool of €500,000 for teams with at least one member from V4 countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland). Quite surprisingly, FaZe was forced to stop before Virtus.pro in the semi-final. In the end, mousesports was the team to lift the trophy – and the second title of the year – after beating VP in the BO3 series.
Two other international events also taking place in March are the StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Chongqing and the Copenhagen Games. TyLoo is the champion of the Chinese tournament after defeating Spirit in the final. Meanwhile, Imperial finished first at the Denmark event after a long journey from the BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) qualifier.
FaZe continues to hold the world number one position in the rankings but has lost a decent amount of points, followed by mousesports and fnatic. SK and Cloud9 dropped dramatically after poor performances and roster changes. Meanwhile, TeamOne and Imperial are outstanding “boggarts” in the table.
To summarize the factors that affect the scores of teams on the rankings each month are as follows:
– The leaderboard has a base score of teams based on their achievements in the previous year (achievement points). Then there is the “Form” score, which is roughly calculated based on the individual achievements of the Player in the team and the results of online tournaments in the last 2 months. Finally, the LANs point, this 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, 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 score in the “Form” section and it is mainly counted in for the purpose of ranking some new teams on the leaderboard (this can be understood as the “Form” section). Because LANs score affects a lot, teams that don’t have slots to play offline but want to rank up only have tryhard countries in online tournaments)
Below is the rankings of the teams in March 2018, the “+/-” signs represent the rise and fall of the teams, and the difference is compared with the rankings in February 2018. You don’t have to compare it with the weekly team rankings.
Here is the explanation of the top 15 teams in the March standings:
1. FaZe
FaZe didn’t participate in much of the tournament as they couldn’t make it to the WESG Finals so the team bet everything on the V4 Sports Festival, hoping for their first title of the year which has been largely forgotten since then. ECS Season 4 Finals championship last December.
The team that forgot karrigan had a near-perfect group stage in Budapest, losing only 1 map to HellRaisers. But when they reached the semi-finals, FaZe was completely surpassed by Virtus.pro in BO3, especially, the members looked almost lost when they lost 2-0.
Worse, FaZe was forced to change staff temporarily. Xizt will replace olofmeister in the near future due to his absence due to personal reasons. Obviously, NiP’s former IGL will reduce FaZe’s ability to shoot, but he may be able to revive the tactical part for FaZe.
Before DreamHack Masters Marseille takes place, they should prepare for IEM Sydney. Despite playing under form, FaZe still retains the No. 1 position in the world that the team has since mid-February. But everything can change in April.
2. mousesports
mousesports has become extremely hot in recent months. And now, the team is holding the 2nd position in the rankings after getting the 3rd international title with the current squad.
V4 Future Sports Festival seemed like a race between mousesports and FaZe, but unfortunately mousesports did not have a chance to avenge the defeat at ECS Season 4 Finals because the opponent left early in the semi-finals. Obviously, mouz was seen as a big contender when FaZe was eliminated, although the finals could have gone in a completely different direction on Train.
After struggling to get invited to events, mousesports won direct tickets to DreamHack Masters Marseille and IEM Sydney. Both of these tournaments will be the team’s focus for the month, but they need to get up to speed online if they want to make it to the Pro League and ECS finals.
3. fnatic
The Swedish team ended March as they claimed their first title in two years thanks to the IEM Katowice tournament. However, doubts were raised when it was reported that fnatic wanted to own Xizt.
No one expected anything from fnatic when the members went to Haikou for the WESG World Finals, but the Swedish team sent a strong message by beating the new Major champion Cloud9 so easily in the group stage. Despite the shake-up later, fnatic still topped their group, and then went on a convincing playoff run to a tight win over Space Soliders in the finals.
This is fnatic’s second title in a row, who have finally broken into the top three in the world for the first time since August 2016. The next few weeks will be a chance for the Swedes to claim their place. their own when they attended Marseille and Sydney.
4. Liquid
Without the LAN tournament, Liquid still rose in rank thanks to SK and Cloud9’s decline. The team’s results for the month in Pro League and ECS were nothing special. But more surprisingly, they lost both encounters with NRG in the closed qualifiers of IEM Sydney and the final of iBUYPOWER Invitational Spring.
Unlike the surrounding teams, Liquid only has one LAN in April, so Marseille will have more pressure than the other members. Liquid have been doing pretty well on LAN this year, and they need to ensure that form to avoid relegation.
5. Astralis
Like their rival, Astralis is up two places thanks to SK and Cloud9. However, they were better than the North American team in the online season, winning the IEM Sydney online qualifier without losing a single map.
The Danish team is virtually unstoppable online: they’re at the top of the ECS leaderboard, with a perfect 12-0 record. Meanwhile in the Pro League, Astralis is currently 3rd with 9 wins in a total of 14 matches. If they can replicate that form in Marseille and Sydney, the team will continue to rise in the rankings, possibly taking advantage of Liquid’s inability to attend the event in Australia.
6. Natus Vincere
Natus Vincere continues to climb the ranks this year and is very close to the top 5. They are currently ranked 6th after a month of nothing special. Na`Vi only played online matches in March, in the ESL Pro League and ECS Season 5 Challenger Cup.
Regarding the ESL, the July team out of a total of 8 maps played, losing one to Space Soldiers at the beginning of the month. However, in the Challenger Cup, the team missed out on ECS Season 5 after losing to Gambit and GODSENT in the final round of the tournament.
In the end, Zeus’ team went up one tier thanks to roster changes in SK and Cloud9. These two teams were previously on Na`Vi but due to losing a good number of points from the ‘blood change’.
7. SK
SK fell outside the top five for the first time in over two years since the roster joined the top teams in the world in early 2016. The Brazilian team began its disappointing run in February and fell completely. in March. Last month, SK left at WESG World Finals right from the group stage when they lost to BIG and Russia.
Also, SK lost two games in the ESL Pro League last month and lost two more, against NRG and Rogue. With that result, the team is at the bottom of the table in this tournament with only 3 wins in 10 matches.
As a result, SK lost Epictacio “TACO” de Melo, who had just left the team. But instead, Stewie2K from Cloud9 will join to bring a breath of fresh air to the Brazilian boys.
8. Cloud9
| Player | Age | Rating |
 Tarik “tarik” Celik |
22 | 1.25 |
| Timothy “automatic” I |
21 | 1.20 |
| Will “RUSH” Wierzba |
23 | 1.07 |
 Pujan “FNS” Mehta |
26 | – |
Like SK, Cloud9 dropped out of the rankings with a shocking loss to TeamOne at the WESG World Finals, knocking them out in the quarterfinals.
While still in the group that could qualify for the ESL Pro League Finals, Cloud9 has been unable to find a foothold in the past month, dividing the maps equally among most of the teams they play against.
Losing Stewie2K and Skadoodle was the main reason why Cloud9 dropped in rank. With an incomplete roster, especially with the DreamHack Masters Marseille tournament just two weeks away, the team’s time was running out.
9. G2
While G2 did not move from their 9th rank in February, March did not produce anything commendable for them. Shox remained with G2 for the first two weeks before he recovered from illness and mixwell entered the team.
G2’s record in ESL Pro League is 4-6, or 19 points from 16 matches, and the boys failed to make it to IEM Sydney when they lost to Virtus.pro in the semi-final of the closed qualifier.
10. NiP
Like G2, the Swedish team kept their February ranking, after a series of online matches. NiP played 10 maps in ESL Pro League: won 7 and is currently tied with Astralis in 3rd place.
NiP is also participating in ECS, but not as successful as in the other battlefield, when only winning 3 out of 9 matches since the beginning of the 5th season in mid-March. In addition, NiP also did not win the right to participate in IEM Sydney. hi to a narrow loss to Virtus.pro in the quarterfinals.
11. Virtus.pro
Standing on the verge of leaving the top 20, the Polish team made an impressive comeback, rising 8 places from 19 to 11. In addition to the bad results, VP’s relegation was due to parting with TaZ. But with the service of MICHU, the successor of TaZ, Virtus.pro is slowly making a comeback as the new member has proven that he is the piece the team is looking for.
Virtus.pro’s best performance of the month was runner-up at the V4 Future Sports Festival in Hungary. Although this big event did not have many teams in attendance, Poland had a spectacular performance in the semi-finals when they defeated candidate FaZe by 2-0 in Cache and Nuke, and lost narrowly to mouesports in The final round in the finals decides. In addition, Virtus.pro missed the opportunity to attend IEM Sydney after defeating NiP and G2, but lost to Astralis in the final.
12. Renegades
Renegades tied for 11th place, a position the team held last month, so not much has changed over the years. Renegades had a not very prominent month, the team plowed online but did not attend any major offline events. Their biggest achievement was a ticket to DreamHack Masters Marseille after qualifying for a closed qualifier against Ghost, Luminosity, and OpTic. As for the online season, the Australian team is pretty average: winning 3 maps and losing 3 maps in both ECS and ESL Pro League.
13. Space Soldiers
The Turkish team promoted quite well, going from 17 to 13 thanks to an impressive runner-up position at the WESG 2017 World Finals. At that tournament, they lost to fnatic in the finals after beating Russia and GODSENT – both opponents in just two maps – in the playoffs.
In the online tournament, Space Soliders competed non-stop. They won the top 2 in the Marseille qualifier to win tickets to the event after defeating Bpro and North. In addition, the boys also have an ESL Pro League record of 8-1.
14. North
North was the first of two Danish teams to finish last in the top 15. MSL’s team dropped just one place, and lost to Space Soliders by just two points. North missed out on their chances in March, finishing 3-4 at the Copenhagen Games – their supposed tournament – after losing a semi-final to much weaker opponent Imperial.
North also lost to Space Soliders in the DreamHack Masters Marseille qualifier and has a 5-7 record in the ESL Pro League.
15. Heroic
At the bottom of the top 15, the Copenhagen Games runner-up couldn’t claim the title from Imperial despite winning the first map with relative ease. Again, they played without their best member, Jakob “JUGi” Hansen, who was benched in early March.
Heroic failed to qualify for ECS and DreamHack Masters Marseille. Also, they are having negative results in ESL Pro League. With an unstable roster and no LAN tournaments in sight, Heroic could quickly drop out of the top 15 with teams like Gambit and HellRaisers lurking from behind in the rankings.
Source: HLTV
Source link: CS:GO World Rankings for March 2018
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