CS:GO World Rankings in May 2019: Liquid toppled Astralis to win the throne

May saw three major tournaments take place – IEM Sydney 2019, BLAST Pro Series Madrid and DreamHack Masters Dallas. Among them, Liquid won 2 cups, as well as 2nd place in one of the minor tournaments of the month, cs_summit 4.

Speaking of minor tournaments, DreamHack Open Tours 2019 also took place over the past 30 days and also featured a Pro League group stage in Europe and North America – but they didn’t have a big impact on the rankings.

However, the rankings no longer take into account the IEM Katowice Major. That affects the ranking of the best teams in Katowice, Astralis and ENCE.

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 5/2019the “+/-” signs represent the promotion and relegation of the teams, and the difference is when compared with the April 2019 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.

Class	Team	Achievements	Form	LANs	total score	+/-
first.	Liquid	500	200	300	1000	+1
2.	Astralis	476	sixty seven	215	758	-first
3.	ENCE	348	98	199	645	+2
4.	Vitality	174	170	127	471	+7
5.	FaZe	206	90	120	416	-first
6.	Natus Vincere	182	42	99	323	-3
7.	fnatic	146	71	106	323	-first
8.	MIBR	150	111	59	320	-first
9.	NiP	170	62	85	317	–
ten.	NRG	138	76	215	301	-2
11.	FURIA	seventy three	97	83	253	+6
twelfth.	Renegades	112	49	54	215	-2
13.	G2	seventy three	78	53	204	–
14.	mousesports	forty six	90	62	198	-2
15.	North	69	seventy three	49	191	–
16.	AVANGAR	54	seventy three	34	161	-2
17.	Validity	35	50	thirty first	116	+3
18.	Grayhound	19	68	20	107	+1
19.	Windigo	36	33	36	105	-3
20.	Ghost	30	50	ten	90	+15
21.	OpTic	8	seventy three	6	eighty seven	+1
22.	BIG	thirty first	26	20	77	-4
23.	Heroic	6	59	5	70	-2
24.	HellRaisers	7	51	11	69	+7
25.	Cloud9	16	40	twelfth	68	+15
26.	AGO	13	15	34	62	+3
27.	Tricked	4	50	7	sixty one	+3
28.	MVP PK	13	33	twelfth	58	-2
29.	Sprout	11	33	twelfth	56	-2
30.	forZe	ten	thirty first	14	55

Here are the takeaways from the May rankings:

Liquid usurps Astralis

The ability of Liquid to take down Astralis during the time when the Danish team has not played much has been predicted for a long time. Astralis ends a one-year era at number one with just one tournament this May: BLAST Pro Series Madrid.

The event in Spain was not necessarily a disaster for Astralis, but losing to ENCE was something no one expected. Meanwhile, Liquid had a busy month, starting with breaking the curse in Sydney. Losing to Vitality at cs_summit 4 turned the Liquid boys into second place again. In return, the team won convincingly at DreamHack Master Dallas – the biggest tournament after the Major.

The IEM Katowice Major no longer counts in the LAN ranking. As a result, Liquid not only surpassed Astralis but also the team with the highest score in all three categories: performance, form, LAN – to achieve a perfect 1000 score. Liquid broke Astralis’ 13-month top 1 streak and were 242 points clear of the competition, becoming the first North American team to top the world rankings.

Vitality is in the top 10

The biggest promotion in the top 10, from #11 to #4, is Vitality. At cs_summit 4, the French team won, played a total of 15 maps and beat the heavyweight contenders. At that point, Liquid and ENCE (2nd and 3rd in the world) both lost to Vitality – showing that the ZywOo army should not be underestimated.

After that win, ALEX admitted cs_summit 4 was much more important to them than the other teams. From a national perspective, this ranking also marks the first time that a French team has ranked in the top 5 in the world since January 2018, when G2 was still ranked 4th.

Natus Vincere was kicked out of the top 5

Since DreamHack Masters Marseille in April 2018 and the ‘blood change’ to let electronic shine more, Natus Vincere has always been the top team, a candidate for championships. This is reflected in their ranking of being in the top 5 for more than a year. However, this legendary organization was kicked out of the top 5 after May.

Like Astralis, Natus Vincere also dropped out of some of May’s major tournaments, namely IEM Sydney and DreamHack Masters Dallas, while also not attending minor events like cs_summit 4 or DreamHack Open Tours. The only LAN tournament the team competed in was BLAST Pro Series Madrid, where the team finished 4th. In the 2nd round of ESL Pro League Europe, Na`Vi lost to both North and Heroic and were eliminated from the tournament.

Na`Vi could have kept 5th without the roster change. Natus Vincere is currently 6th with 323 points after replacing the elder Edward with the young talent Boombl4 of Winstrike. In the near future, the team will be further relegated as the StarSeries i-League Season 7 championship will no longer be counted and the team has not confirmed any tournament participation until ESL One Cologne in July.

FURIA is about to catch up with MIBR

FalleN’s army is trying to stay in the top 10 after returning to the Brazilian squad. However, with the Major’s door closed while FaZe and Vitality are dominating, MIBR needs to do better while their compatriots are catching up.

FURIA is an emerging Brazilian force since the Immortals 2017 lineup. Although both teams have similarities in aggressive play, FURIA also has more tactics and breakthrough creativity that Immortals does not have.

At DreamHack Masters Dallas, FURIA broke out, placing 3-4 after beating three top 10 teams – NRG, fnatic, and Vitality – and challenging ENCE and Liquid despite the loss. This young Brazilian team jumped to 11th place after the last week of competition, losing only 3 places to MIBR. Both teams will attend several tournaments in the coming weeks, that’s when we’ll see if FURIA can topple MIBR to become the strongest Brazilian team right now.

Renegades slips out of the top 10

Not a big surprise given Renegades’ continued visa problems since the Major, but the Australian team hasn’t made it into the top 10 for the first time since February. Renegades has emerged from the IEM Katowice Major, and now the tournament’s score. that is no more. Currently, Renegades is in 12th place.

StarSeries i-League Season 7, the Australian team’s last impressive tournament, will also not count towards the end of this month. That will be when Renegades continues to lose points. Similar to Natus Vincere, their next tournament will be ESL One Cologne (July). Surely the Kangaroo boys will be relegated in the next month.

Cloud9 returns to the top 30 for the first time since the Major

Rebuilding the squad after kioShima and flusha left the team was not an easy task. The North American organization ranked #142 after bringing in cajunb and vice, while being unable to capitalize on opportunities at BLAST Pro Series Miami or Madrid.

The team’s 25th place didn’t come from good results, but they still got some valuable points from beating Ghost and eUnited in the ESL Pro League group stage. However, with only 68 points, 14 more than Sprout at 30th place, Cloud9 needs more positive results in the Americas Minor and ESL Pro League Finals qualifiers to confirm its position.

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