September marks the return of a dense schedule for CSGO: Major and many other events that take place at the same time. Results from StarLadder Major Berlin, BLAST Pro Series Moscow, ESL One New York, and DreamHack Masters Malmö, as well as many other minor tournaments, all impacted the rankings. Along with the new events coming up, we should note that ESL One Cologne – the most important event aside from the Majors – is no longer in the LAN category. That limits NiP and Vitality’s ability to rank up, and Liquid loses a lot of points.
Many teams lost points because of roster changes, including four of the top 10: fnatic, Vitality, ENCE, and Natus Vincere. And FURIA, FaZe and G2 are the first to fall outside the top 10 after adding new members.
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 September 2019the signs “+/-” represent the promotion and relegation of the teams, and the difference is when compared with the August 2019 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.
fnatic is back at the top
After lifting the trophy at home, fnatic jumped from 28th to 4th in the rankings after the team changed members following the failed Minor campaign. With the return of flusha and Golden, fnatic got off to a slow start in Malmo, losing to ENCE before beating TYLOO 2-1. The Swedish team then took down a disorganized G2 before beating FURIA for a place in the playoffs.
In the match against his compatriots, fnatic did not play convincingly, but still won NiP 2-1. However, the victory over Astralis was the most shocking with a score of 2-0. Reaching the finals, experience helped fnatic beat Vitality 2-1.
At #4 on the charts, fnatic is back at the top for the first time in quite a while. The team had a brief time in the top 5 thanks to the runner-up position of StarSeries i-League Season 7 and IEM Sydney earlier this year. The last time the team finished in the top 5 for a long time was 2018, when fnatic won IEM Katowice 2018 and at the WESG 2017 Global Finals, using a nearly identical roster.
Now Golden and his team will have the opportunity to strengthen their rankings in the upcoming ESL Pro League and StarSeries i-League Season 8. The positive results at these two events will help them keep the distance from the opponents below Vitality and Natus Vincere, while closing the gap with the trio of Astralis, Liquid and Evil Geniuses.
Liquid dropped to 2nd place
After a summer of extreme form, Liquid is slowly cooling down. In September, the team attended the StarLadder Major, ESL One New York 2019 and DreamHack Masters Malmö – none of which the North American team came away with a gold medal. In addition, the team also attended the first online week of ECS Season 8, but lost to Sharks in the semifinals.
Liquid’s drop in form was unexpected, as the team previously won five consecutive tournaments in Dallas, Montpellier, Cologne, Los Angeles and Chicago. Difficulties began to show up at the StarLadder Major – the tournament where the team was expected to bring home their first Major. While retaining the Legend title, being only in the top 8 is in stark contrast to the previous results, causing concern among fans and experts.
The team traveled to New York to impress the home crowd, but the rematch against arch-rivals Astralis didn’t go as planned. Again, the North American team failed to claim the championship. Liquid’s September end was the last DreamHack Masters Malmo 2019 tournament, where the team only ranked 9-12, when they lost two surprise maps to Grayhound.
We don’t have to argue that Liquid is one of the strongest squads recently, despite the recent results not being very positive. Individual skill is always the brightest point of the team, plus the tactical thinking of nitr0 and adreN, Liquid is considered a very strong team. Rumors of a member swap have been quelled, suggesting that the team’s future is completely united: the members will work together, inside and out, to claim the No. 1 position once again.
AVANGAR has risen to the top
It’s only been a month since AVANGAR finished the fairy tale in Berlin, second behind Astralis at the Major, and yet it feels like a long time ago. Led by AWPer star Jame, and with qikert and buster-inspired shooters, AVANGAR took silver by beating Renegades, Liquid, Vitality and G2. And the boys didn’t stop there, after the Major, they had another success the following week. AVANGAR came back from a 0-2 start in BLAST Pro Series Moscow to reach the final and then beat forZe 2-0.
Second place in the Major and winning the $250,000 tournament make AVANGAR not only the second strongest team in the CIS region – a title they have competed against forZe for a while – but also surpassing Natus Vincere.
With Natus Vincere slowly recovering, everyone is a little concerned for AVANGAR. Keeping the rankings high will be difficult work as the team was not invited to the recent ESL One New York or DreamHack Masters Malmo events. That makes the upcoming StarSeries i-League Season 8 and ECS Season 8 Finals all the more important.
FaZe leaves top 15 after three years
One team that is at the edge of its current form is FaZe. The boys are outside the top 15 for the first time since karrigan in November 2016. For nearly three years, FaZe has always been in the top 10, once holding the number one spot.
This drop is due to poor performances at the tournaments before the Major, as well as in Berlin. At the same time, the two substituted members also cost FaZe a lot of points. In the first event since replacing GuardiaN and NEO with coldzera and broky, FaZe performed poorly, placing only 7-8 at ESL One New York, losing 2-0 to Evil Geniuses and OpTic.
Luckily for FaZe, they still have a few tournaments waiting for the boys to prove themselves. However, FaZe needs to do it at ESL Pro League and IEM Beijing, a tournament with a lot of heavyweights. If they continue to perform poorly, they will fall into an extremely difficult position, in the same ranking as the tier 2 teams.
ENCE drops to 8th place
The Finnish team joined the top at the beginning of 2019 after a magical journey with a runner-up finish at the IEM Katowice Major. The results put ENCE into the top 5 in the world, a position they successfully defended thanks to their high league standings and the BLAST Pro Series Madrid win in May. Although they knew Aleksib would leave the team after the StarLadder Major, they did. still playing well, reaching 5-8th place in the tournament. However, since suNny officially joined, things have not been going well.
The former mousesports member made his ENCE debut at the BLAST Pro Series Moscow, but only finished 5th out of the 6 participating teams, and then finished 5-6th at ESL One New York – an 8-team tournament. In the end, at DreamHack Masters Malmo, ENCE ranked 9-12 after losing to Vitality and FURIA. Overall, allu and teammates won two BO1s against fnatic and NiP, and one BO3 against eUnited. Although some of the defeats were close, we can’t deny that their performance is gradually getting worse since the elimination of IGL Aleksib.
These results leave ENCE outside of the top 5, and by not participating in the ESL Pro League or IEM Beijing, the team will still be relegated. In return, having more preparation time is probably what ENCE needs to get back to the way it was before the roster change.
According to HLTV
Source link: CSGO World Rankings September 2019: Astralis retakes world No. 1 position
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