CS:GO World Rankings November 2018

November has been quite a busy month, with lots of big events, like the IEM Chicago and ECS Season 6 Finals taking place in Texas and a few small LAN tournaments: DreamHack Opens in Atlanta and Jönköping, SuperNova CS:GO Malta and Toyota Master Bangkok. Along with that is the end of the online season ESL Pro League Season 8 and ECS Season 6.

Astralis continued to cement their position with championships in Chicago and Arlington: beating Liquid 3-0 in Chicago after winning over fnatic and mousesports, and lifting the trophy in the Overpass map against the reborn MIBR at Arlongton. Nicolai “device” Reedtz earned himself MVP titles at both events, bringing his total MVP count in 2018 to 6 (equivalent to s1mple), and his career to 11.

Liquid ended November with the SuperNova CS:GO Malta championship after failings in the previous finals, ending a five-time losing streak in the finals.

ENCE also claimed the DreamHack Open Winter title, beating the likes of OpTic and G2, as well as quickly ending the big surprise team – Bravado – in the final. As for the remaining mid-range tournaments in November, Vitality got their first LAN win with DreamHack Open Atlanta, while Team Heroic won Toyota Master Bangkok in a breathtaking BO5 series with TYLOO.

Scoring mechanism

Here are tTo 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 performance in the previous year (achievement points). Then there is the “Form” score, which is 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 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 score in the “Form” section and it is mainly counted for the purpose of ranking some new teams on the leaderboard (this is possible. Understandably, 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).

Charts

Below is the standings of the teams for the month 11/2018the “+/-” signs represent the rise and fall of the teams, and the difference is when compared with the October 2018 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.

With many big and small events as well as the end of the online season, this ranking has a lot of changes in the top 30. Here are a few important highlights in November:

NRG is close to the top 5

Despite losing to fellow country rival Liquid in the finals of Malta, NRG still rose 2 places to rank 6th in November’s rankings. NRG started November with an early exit in the group stage of IEM Chicago, losing to North. and, more surprisingly, LDLC. Notably, NRG won MIBR 2-1 impressively, while CerQ alone scored a rating of 1.37, showing how good the team’s individual skills are.

Before attending ECS ​​Season 6 Finals, NRG got themselves a few more points in the rankings thanks to ESL Pro League Season 8 online: 2 2-0 victories over Renegades and Cloud9. At Arlington, RNG lost to North and was forced to leave early, but like Chicago, the team showed its potential with a 2-0 victory over Liquid. Once again, CeRq scored an impressive 1.52 rating.

Going to SuperNova CS:GO Malta, NRG lost 2 times to Liquid: 1-2 in the group stage and 0-2 in the final. Liquid seems to be the ace of the team.

In addition, DreamHack Masters Stockholm (in September) no longer counts LAN points in the rankings – which greatly affects the rankings of mousesports, North and NiP. That, coupled with some good results for the month, puts NRG up to this all-time high: 6. Breaking into the top 5 will certainly be tough, given that NRG’s last event of the year is the EPL Finals in Odense – the tournament brings together all the teams ranked higher than them, except for FaZe.

French teams up and down erratically

November saw two French teams swap places with a new representative in the top 30. Specifically, G2 made a big change when bringing in Lucky and JaCkz to replace SmithZz and IGL Ex6TenZ. In addition to shox continuing to lead the team, G2 fell from 17th to 28th: ​​partly due to online losses to NiP, LDLC, HellRaisers and then underperformance at DreamHack Open Winter. The team lost BO1 to Bravado and BO3 to the defending champions ENCE.

Meanwhile, LDLC impressed everyone by reaching the quarterfinals of IEM Chicago: beating stronger teams like Renegades, North, and NRG before winning a map against Liquid in the quarterfinals. LDLC continued its promising month with a place in the European Minor closed qualifiers. Unfortunately, the team was unable to replicate that performance at DreamHack Open Winter – the tournament where LDLC failed to win a map. Despite the failure in Sweden, LDLC still climbed a lot to be in the top 15.

Entering the top 30 for the first time is NBK-‘s Vitality, whose three members won the Major with young superstar ZywOo. After struggling in the open qualifiers for weeks, the team found success at DreamHack Open Atlanta by beating big-name teams: Fragsters, Rogue and Luminosity. Young superstar ZywOo has a huge rating of 1.49 in 10 maps. After a week of upgrading in Georgia, Vitality finally qualified for the closed qualifiers of the European Minor in its 4th attempt and entered the top 30 of the standings.

fnatic rise again after ‘blood change’

With IEM Chicago being the biggest event of the month, Fnatic’s impressive run here has helped the team rise up a lot. More specifically, the Swedish team did not participate in any LAN events in October, and did not make it to the playoffs at the FACEIT Major and ESL New York.

Chicago was the first event fnatic used a new roster after replacing draken and flusha with twist and young superstar Brollan. Xizt Army started the IEM campaign with victories over BIG, eUnited and Liquid in the group stage. Unfortunately, the team had to stop before the champion Astralis with a score of 1-2 in the semi-finals. In the decisive Inferno map, this is considered one of the most close and exciting matches of the year, with the score 19-17 in favor of the Danish team.

From 26th place in October, the Swedish team revived and surged, now coming in 11th place for the month. Absent from ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals in Odense and BLAST Pro Series Lisbon, the last two big events of the year, fnatic is looking to end 2018 with a PLG Grand Slam title in Abu Dhabi – where the team is considered a contender. members on other participating teams such as HellRaisers, AVANGAR and G2.

Na`Vi’s No. 2 position is being shaken

Absent from the ECS Season 6 Finals in Dallas (the team did not participate in the online season) and Super CS:GO Malta, Natus Vincere missed the opportunity to earn more points for himself. And the only event the team attended, IEM Chicago, didn’t go as expected.

The CIS team finished last at the event when they unexpectedly lost to eUnited in the inaugural BO1 match and then lost two tight maps to BIG. The team’s remaining two official matches lost to BIG in the final round of ESL Pro League. Combined with the disappointing performance in Chicago, the gap between Natus Vincere and Liquid grew closer and closer, especially after Liquid progressed to the Chicago finals and won SuperNova CS:GO Malta.

With opponents close behind, Na`Vi needs to do well at the EPL Finals in Odense – the tournament where they are in the same group with three other top 10 teams, NRG, mousesports and MIBR. After that, Zeus’ army needs to try in Lisbon if they want to protect their world No. 2 position.

According to HLTV