October was very busy, including three big events at DreamHack Masters Malmö, StarSeries i-League Season 8, and BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen. It also includes minor tournaments like DreamHack Open Rotterdam, as well as the first group stage of ESL Pro League Season 10.
Despite leaving early at DreamHack Masters Malmö, Evil Geniuses still climbed to No. 1 in the world after the StarSeries championship. This is an event that Astralis and Liquid don’t attend, making EG’s journey easier. Both of the above teams were present at BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen, but were unable to enter due to poor performance in the group stage.
Now, the top four teams are stable, with scores that are markedly different from each other. However, from the top 4 onwards, things are very unstable, especially from 6 to 12 – the teams are only separated by a few points and that is expected to change in the coming weeks.
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 October 2019the signs “+/-” represent the promotion and relegation of the teams, and the difference is when compared to the September 2019 rankings, not the weekly team rankings.
Evil Geniuses claim the throne
Evil Geniuses jumped to No. 1 in the world after winning the StarSeries i-League Season 8 championship, with an overwhelming victory over fnatic in the final. This is the second title the former NRG squad has won in three weeks.
This is also the first time that a team other than Astralis and Liquid has come out on top since April 2018. This shows that those two forces have dominated CSGO for the past year and a half. The Danish team had a chance to regain 1st place at BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen but only managed to finish 4th at the tournament. Instead of returning to No. 1, Astralis now lost to the opponent by 83 points.
Both Evil Geniuses and Astralis will participate in IEM Beijing, which kicks off on Thursday – it will be a battle of rankings between these two teams. This will be the first of the next five LAN tournaments that the North American team will attend until the end of the year.
Liquid broke out of the top 3
After Liquid won 6 major tournaments in a row and won the Intel Grand Slam Season 2 in 63 days, nothing seemed impossible for the North American team. However, the team soon returned to the ground after the break. In the season’s four events, the team has yet to make it past the semifinals of a LAN tournament and has dropped out twice in the group stage.
4th place is Liquid’s lowest ranking since August 2018 – when the team still had Epitacio “TACO” de Melo on the roster. Now losing 227 points to Evil Geniuses, while two months ago it was more than 700 points better than the opponent.
Deciding not to attend IEM Beijing, Liquid will have a four-week break for their next LAN event, the ECS Finals at the end of the month. This will be the first chance for Liquid to stabilize, and now the gap is too big to catch up.
ENCE plummeted without brakes
The past few months have not been easy for ENCE. The Finnish team in the first half of the year won BLAST Pro Series Madrid and advanced to the IEM Katowice Major with DreamHack Masters Dallas. However, after bringing back Miikka “suNny” Kemppi, things are slowly getting out of control.
After finishing 5th at BLAST Pro Series Moscow, ENCE was eliminated from ESL One New York and DreamHack Masters Malmö in the group stage. This defeat pushed them down to 14th place, leaving the top 10 for the first time in nine months.
The next two weeks will be a break for the team. IEM Beijing and CS:GO Asia Championships could be ENCE’s last events of the year, and unless the team improves at these tournaments, they are in danger of staying home for Christmas without making the top 20 – here will be a big shock for the team that is mostly in the top 5 in 2019.
Tension after the top 6
Seven teams with a difference of about 70 points is a signal that the rankings of the top teams are still unstable, and will certainly change a lot after one or two tournaments. Although the difference is quite small, some teams will definitely rise up, while others will fall down.
A good example is FaZe, the team that just won BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen and are in 9th place, up 12 places from last week (but only 8 from last month). Their success plus the upcoming tournaments – IEM Beijing, the ESL Pro League group stage and potentially the Finals, as well as the BLAST Pro Series Global Finals – will provide plenty of opportunities for the team to improve their rankings. All these tournaments will mean nothing if FaZe can’t prove their strength in Copenhagen; Nikola “Niko” Kovač and Marcelo “coldzera” David shined as FaZe beat Astralis and Natus Vincere, then lifted the trophy when he beat NiP.
Similar to FaZe, 100 Thieves (#8) is a team with the potential to be promoted, NiP (#7) has been climbing continuously. On the other hand, the two big names struggling are mousesports (#11) and Natus Vincere (#12).
The scores of both teams are slowly evaporating, and there are no upcoming tournaments that I can attend. With Natus Vincere, it may be because the squad is new, but with mousesports, they have played together for 7 months, so there is no reason to give up on themselves. mousesports lost to Virtus.pro, m1x, North and Heroic in the last 30 days. That defeat caused them to lose their seats to ECS S8 FInals and EPICENTER, and then leave early from StarSeries i-Leauge Season 8, surely the team would still be relegated.
North reaches its lowest ranking ever
For many years, North has always been the shadow of Astralis. They tried to catch up with their fellow countrymen but never made it. Sitting at the FC Copenhagen Parken office, North’s management is perhaps recalling the top days, while the team’s form is now at its lowest.
A lot of big names left North in the past year, including Kristian “k0nfig” Wienecke and Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen. Even so, during the worst of times, they’re still in the top 15, with their most recent peak being 4th, following the DreamHack Masters Stockholm championship. North brought René “cajunb” Borg and has a rather promising look under the leadership of Nicklas “Gade” Gade, competing against the top teams fnatic and Astralis, beat the top 10 mousesports, and won a map from Vitality.
Things took a turn for the worse, from October 21, North lost to MIBR and BIG, and most importantly, they lost to every Danish team they met in the BO3 series: Copenhagen Flames, Tricked, and Heroic. With that result, North dropped to 20th (previously, North’s lowest ranking was 16 after mertz replaced k0nfig in February 2018), making things worse. They are now the 4th Danish team, behind Astralis, Heroic and Tricked.
North’s next game on November 13 is the ESL Pro League group stage. During this time, the rebuild phase is what is expected to happen, to make sure they don’t go deeper into failure.
According to HLTV
Source link: October 2019 CSGO World Rankings
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