2020 has been a month and we just got the first taste of CSGO tier 1 of the year after a sad January. Last January there was only one international LAN tournament, DreamHack Open Leipzig with BIG as the champion.
Meanwhile, ICE Challenge has only lasted half of the way and BLAST Premier is just a qualifying round, so we don’t have much change on the rankings. The positions of the top 5 remain the same compared to the previous rankings.
Despite performing well in London last week, FaZe still lost points and dropped one place after the BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen disappeared from the list of recent events. Next week will be IEM Beijing’s turn, which could affect teams like 100 Thieves and Astralis.
To avoid the impact of the players’ holiday, this month will temporarily extend “recent performance” beyond 8 weeks. The post will revert back to the old rating scale after this month’s IEM Katowice.
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 calculating the new month’s score, their lineup must keep 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 do not have a place to compete offline but want to go up the rankings must try their best in online tournaments).
Charts
Here is the standings of the teams for the month 01/2020the signs “+/-” represent the promotion and relegation of the teams, and the difference is when compared with the December 2019 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.
Here are four key takeaways from the January rankings
BIG revolts after Lepzig . performance
It’s been a long time since BIG fans have witnessed the overwhelming performance of their players. After a year without a title and leaving the group stage of ESL One Cologne – the tournament that has always been seen as its goal – BIG was in a difficult position for many months. That forced the organization to bring back Florian “syrsoN” Rische and Nils “k1to” Gruhne from the hands of rival Sprout.
And the early signals could not be more positive. BIG easily won DreamHack Open Leipzig: beating Virtus.pro, Heroic and Renegades (twice) – all three ranked higher than themselves – to take home their first trophy since May 2018 and move move up 24 places on the leaderboard.
Team Germany ended the month with a closed qualifier spot for the Europe Minor, following a win over Complexity. However, BIG isn’t all good news: they’re one of the teams that lost their ESL Pro League spot following recent changes to the league. It is not yet clear whether the team will participate in the ESEA MDL – the tournament is considered unworthy of the team to attend.
Top 5 has no change
Astralis, mousesports, Liquid, Fnatic, and Evil Geniuses still have their rankings unchanged from last month, but karrigan’s team is the only side with extra points in this update.
All five teams will participate in IEM Kaotwice, the first big test of the year. Mousesports, are currently in the semi-finals of the ICE Challenge, and are the only team that can be promoted before the Polish tournament begins. Astralis and Evil Geniuses also competed in BLAST Premier, but it was only considered a qualifying round.
Quite surprisingly, IEM Katowice will be fnatic’s first year tournament. At the time of this tournament, the last match of the Swedish team was 79 days earlier. Hopefully this is an opportunity for fnatic to rise again.
FURIA is about to leave the top 20
Another team that is also not participating this year is FURIA – they are about to leave the top 20 in the rankings, for the first time since March 2019.
The Brazilian team ended the season quite disappointed. They were forced to use Lucas “LUCAS1” Teles as a stand-in for the IEM Katowice North American qualifier due to Herique “HEN1” Teles having visa problems, and left the tournament after only two games.
FURIA will now focus on DreamHack Open Anheim, a tournament with many heavyweights with prize money of $50,000 and a spot to DreamHack Masters Jönköping. A stellar performance in California is vital to boosting the team’s confidence ahead of the Americas Minor qualifiers.
The success story of MAD Lions continues
Tricked’s old roster rose 5 places, from 21 to 16 (his highest ranking), after an impressive performance at the beginning of the year, both online and LAN. This will be one of the exciting new teams of the year.
The MAD Lions started 2020 by qualifying for IEM Katowice, the first major tournament in the team’s history, after coming from the open qualifiers, defeating teams North, Heroic, and ENCE in the process. The team also attended DreamHack Open Leipzig and finished in the top 4.
The team’s recent success has been noticed: the boys were invited to the closed qualifiers of the Europe minor, meaning the team avoided the perilous open qualifiers.
Source link: CSGO World Rankings January 2020
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