Team Ranking: February 2016

2/3/2016 - 00:15

We have updated our Global Team Ranking—powered by EGB.com—for February 2016 and the highest echelon continues to hold steady ahead of the busy month of March.

February 2016 was the month when the much discussed lineup shakeups and latent rivalries of Europe and North America finally had a chance to play out on a larger arena, especially for the latter region.

We ultimately saw seven events transpire in the shortest month of the year: the Game Show Global eSports Cup, Assembly Winter 2016, Acer Predator Masters Season 2 finals, ESL Expo Barcelona, Nordic Masters Season 2 finals, the Pantamera Challenge, and the MLG Columbus Main Qualifier.

The three most high profile of these, the GEC Cup, ESL Barcelona, and the MLG Main Qualifier, featured the highest density of teams that can be found among our top twenty and thus had the highest impact.

We should also mention that we have been busy coding and working on an entirely new ranking system, as Julien "topeiko" Hottias has stepped down from HLTV.org. The new system uses similar principles, but also will eventually include all teams listed on our site and also makes use of new math and coefficients for each subranking.

The victory in Barcelona continues to keep an untouchable nimbus around fnatic

The principles do remain the same however so rankings are based on teams' achievements over the past year (with severe decay in points throughout each month), recent form over the last 2 months, and performance at offline events in the last 3 months.

Each team is required to have a three-man core in order to retain their points and online results are included but have minimal effect (only affecting 'Form') at the top of the table and mainly serve to put new teams on the map.

We will always have a special page where you will be able to find the latest version of our ranking.

Here is the current top 30 table as of March 1st, 2016, which goes more in-depth into the way points are distributed. You can see the lineup for each team by hovering over their name in the table.

Please note that the +/- gain on this table differs from our weekly rankings page, and is in relation to the ranking update of January 2016.

Top 30 Team Ranking Powered by EGB.com

Rank	Team	Achievements	Form	LANs	Total points	+/-
1.	fnatic	500	200	300	1000	-
2.	Envy	442	135	154	731	+1
3.	Natus Vincere	384	101	234	719	-1
4.	Astralis	389	114	127	630	-
5.	Luminosity	193	112	124	429	-
6.	Dignitas	96	97	80	273	+3
7.	Virtus.pro	225	8	7	240	-1
8.	G2	96	67	46	209	+3
9.	MOUZ	79	76	39	194	+1
10.	FaZe	117	35	39	191	-2
11.	Ninjas in Pyjamas	129	38	14	181	-4
12.	Cloud9	77	50	22	149	-
13.	CLG	58	53	34	145	+3
14.	FlipSid3	34	43	21	98	-
15.	Liquid	50	38	9	97	-2
16.	Gambit	19	46	18	83	+7
17.	SK	17	45	14	76	-
18.	E-frag.net	19	29	21	69	-
19.	HellRaisers	12	43	11	66	+3
20.	Vexed	22	26	17	65	-
21.	OpTic	18	38	9	65	-6
22.	Renegades	22	36	7	65	-3
23.	Splyce	14	28	18	60	new
24.	Tempo Storm	4	44	5	53	new
25.	ALTERNATE aTTaX	7	28	9	44	+3
26.	Ancient	2	35	5	42	new
27.	TheMongolz	5	30	6	41	+3
28.	CSGL	4	26	7	37	-7
29.	ENCE	2	33	2	37	new
30.	Selfless	5	29	2	36	-6

*Hover over each team name for the full lineup.

As is custom, we will now discuss the recent performances of the top fifteen teams, with reference to tournament placings, statistics, and the odd humorous photo caption or two.

1. fnatic

Player	Age	Rating
Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer	24	1.14
Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman	25	1.08
Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell	21	1.06
Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson	21	1.06
Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist	22	1.05

All fnatic have done this month is hold a 7-1 record in ESL Pro League Season 3, demolish Astralis 3-0 in the Aftonbladet Fight Night #3, and win the ESL Expo in Barcelona, pocketing ~$34,800 in cash. Considering that is the sum of their match activity for the month, that is a pretty dominant record.

In Barcelona, fnatic was at times tested in close games against EnVyUs, gBots, and finally Astralis (the final two matches went 16-14 and 16-13), but time and time again the Swedish superteam have prevailed.

A memento mori for rival teams is elusively photographed

In some ways, the new era of fnatic's dominance is qualitatively more impressive than the NiP run of yore. Whereas back then saw most teams simply a league behind the Ninjas in terms of overall cohesion, firepower, and skill, today fnatic is grinding out event wins and victories via the battle-tested and serrated edges of their own battleaxes. Despite setbacks at nearly each event (i.e. close games or group stage defeats), they have seemingly never faltered to win in the end.

Part of this winning formula of course rests on the hindquarters of the CS:GO stallion that is olofmeister, but lately all five of the black-and-orange appareled team have been showing up to play good Counter-Strike.

IEM Katowice will kick off tomorrow and begin the rankings countdown for the month of March, but if all things hold their current course, expect the sails of fnatic to reach the offing first.

2. EnVyUs

Player	Age	Rating
Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub	20	1.12
Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer	24	1.07
Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt	21	1.00
Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire	23	0.99
Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey	21	0.92

EnVyUs benefit from their disastrous 7-8th place run at FACEIT S3 at DreamHack Winter 2015 disappearing after a three-month drain on their ranking and also from the fact that they did compete in February unlike Na`Vi and won the Game Show Global eSports Cup.

While we actually did not weigh the results of the Game Show Cup that heavily, nV were able to score best-of-three victories over CLG, Cloud9, dignitas (in the grand final), and most importantly, Astralis, to win the event.

EnVyUs take un petit saut to second place

However, viewers did see that the team lacked some of their former superiority as they lost to dignitas 0-2 in the group stages, dropped maps to CLG both times they faced off, and dropped a map to Astralis on the Frenchmen's way to winning the event.

The change in leadership seems to not have affected Happy, who can continue to enjoy the noncommittal life of "playing scrimmy" and then lurking around the map to pick up one Deags, although apEX has also been his usual mercurial self as of late.

nV do stand tall and proud in the ESL Pro League for now (at 4-2) and they also finished in fifth place at the ESL Barcelona Expo, however to be fair the team were a victim of the strange format as they played fnatic a total of three times (and took one of those maps).

Therefore, EnVyUs have edged up to take second place and now stand ready to challenge fnatic for first, which a win in Katowice would do well to help bolster.

3. Null element Natus Vincere

Player	Age	Rating
Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev	18	1.15
Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács	24	1.15
Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin	21	0.98
Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko	28	0.94
Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev	28	0.93

Natus Vincere actually did not play in offline competitions in February and seemingly laid back to relax after a victory at the DreamHack ZOWIE Open in Leipzig towards the end of January.

Perhaps such uninhibited leisure leads to unwise gambling and a slackening of skill as Na`Vi currently stand at 4-4 in the ESL Pro League, placing the currently third best team in the world below a number of other competitors.

Like a deer in headlights, Na`Vi froze in place in February

With a heavily stacked Group A awaiting them at IEM Katowice, Zeus and crew have a chance to take down their rivals and regain second or to slip up and possibly drop down to the usual 4-5th range they were inhabiting in late 2015.

4. Astralis

Player	Age	Rating
Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz	20	1.14
Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen	22	1.10
Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth	20	1.01
René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg	26	1.01
Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen	25	0.94

Astralis have to swallow bitter medicine and yet again contend with a fourth place ranking, as a team once billed as possibly being the best in the world has put up middling results since rebranding into their current partial player-owned organisation.

"The players on our team whose names start with d seem to love BDSM."

At the Game Show Cup, which once again was not counted too heavily in our rankings, Astralis were definite contenders to take gold but unfortunately matched up against EnVyUs in the semifinals as the French team were unable to top their own group. A close 2-1 series followed which went nV's way and the Danes had to contend with a third place finish over CLG.

A good portent from that event however was the return of duo device and dupreeh to strong form, as both players put up 1.20 and 1.18 ratings respectively.

The Danes have a strong 6-2 record in the ESL Pro League, but on the other hand were absolutely bodied by fnatic in the Aftonbladet Fight Night #3. This inability to match up against their erstwhile rivals is reflected in the finish of ESL Barcelona, where the two teams were the only two remaining but Astralis lost two close matches to settle for second place at the event.

Astralis are certainly not dropping off, but rather the team have entered a holding pattern around fourth place and for now are seeking answers that will move them ahead of their other competition.

5. Luminosity

Player	Age	Rating
Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David	21	1.27
Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo	24	1.17
Lincoln "⁠fnx⁠" Lau	26	1.10
Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga	24	1.10
Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo	21	0.89

Luminosity not only mirror Natus Vincere in always somehow being in the Eastern European team's group at big events but also in the fact that they did not attend offline events in February.

coldzera helps get that cheddar like whatever (just not in February)

The Brazilian team hold a healthy 4-0 record in the ESL Pro League and they have also been spotted bootcamping well in advance of IEM Katowice, so all signs point to yet another strong performance this weekend from FalleN & crew.

For now however, they rest easy in the fifth place berth: a Brazilian team who dared to dream big and who now sit over legendary European figureheads such as NiP and Virtus.pro.

6. dignitas

Player	Age	Rating
Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye	17	1.17
Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke	18	1.13
Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel	21	1.06
Jesper "⁠TENZKI⁠" Plougmann	21	0.95
Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen	21	0.92

dignitas are the hottest prospect of 2016 so far, at least for teams above the top five.

Following a strong performance in Leipzig, the Danish-Norwegian team entered February with a performance at the Game Show Cup that saw them finish second, entirely new ground for MSL and crew.

The failure to qualify for the Major ended the month with a bitter aftertaste for dig

The high tide of this achievement was defeating a floundering EnVyUs 2-0 in the group stage, as CLG proved to be easy fare in the semifinal, and dignitas then could not handle the French giants in the grand final.

In ESL Barcelona, dignitas finished a decent fourth place, however it cannot be stated enough that the flippant format of that event writes down the maturity of the results in Spain.

Finally, the MLG Main Qualifier brought tragedy as dignitas entered the event as the highest ranked team attending and yet fell flat against both Renegades and Cloud9 to exit the tournament early and thus hold no chance of attending the Major.

Without slots at IEM Katowice or MLG Columbus therefore, dignitas are in serious danger of losing this distinction as sixth best team in the world come the end of March.

7. Virtus.pro

Player	Age	Rating
Filip "⁠NEO⁠" Kubski	28	1.00
Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski	22	0.87
Jarosław "⁠pashaBiceps⁠" Jarząbkowski	27	0.86
Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas	29	0.84
Paweł "⁠byali⁠" Bieliński	21	0.81

dignitas moved up a slot over Virtus.pro, however this fact was more due to the Poles' horrendous form as of late as well as their last best result (a 3-4th finish at FACEIT Stage 3) falling out of the calculation.

Thought you'd never see this guy go 3-20 at an offline game? Think again.

Virtus.pro did not attend an offline event in February but the team's 1-11 record in the ESL Pro League is so beyond bad, it is egregiously awful. Such records normally summon to mind the likes of SKDC and PENTA in Pro League results, not a team who managed to win numerous events in 2015 and always challenged the top teams.

All eyes will be on Virtus.pro at IEM Katowice, to see whether the team have simply thrown in the towel on their Pro League qualification chances, or are disintegrating as a whole.

8. G2

Player	Age	Rating
Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom	21	1.06
Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon	23	1.05
Edouard "⁠SmithZz⁠" Dubourdeaux	27	1.00
Cédric "⁠RpK⁠" Guipouy	26	0.96
Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans	25	0.90

The G2 organisation aptly signed ex-Titan on February 1st and the French-Belgian team then travelled to Vilnius where they finished 5-6th place (defeating Cloud9 twice, losing to Astralis in a close series, and then losing to CLG in the quarter-finals).

Such results were hardly stellar but they were a step up in form compared to Ex6TenZ & co.'s ennui in January, where they were smashed at StarSeries XIV with a 7-8th place finish (admittedly in a tough group).

In Barcelona meanwhile, G2 finished third place partially thanks to an "Alliance" system that saw them throw fellow Frenchmen of nV under the bus with a further notable result being a best-of-one defeat of Astralis.

G2 qualified for the Major with two close best-of-one games

Part of the team's climb is of course attributable to the fall of fairly inactive lineups such as FaZe and NiP, however G2 solidified their upward growth in the final weekend of February at the MLG Main Qualifier with victories over Tempo Storm and FlipSid3, putting a rowdy young upstart in their place and dispatching a consistently top 15 team, in other words.

It is hard to say if G2 can keep up this trend of growth and they will not be playing at this weekend's IEM Katowice. However, the team are into the Major unlike dignitas (who sit two spots above them) and have a whole month to prepare and try and do damage.

9. mousesports

Player	Age	Rating
Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač	19	1.23
Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget	23	1.06
Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong	25	1.02
Denis "⁠denis⁠" Howell	21	1.00
Timo "⁠Spiidi⁠" Richter	20	0.94

A team mainly composed of Germans led by a nineteen-year-old Bosnian superstar who calls in English sounds like a recipe for disaster and yet it has somehow worked so far.

NiKo and his team had two event highlights in February: they won the Acer Predator Masters Season 2 finals which had mostly tier two teams in attendance aside from mouz and they managed to qualify for MLG Columbus in two best-of-ones by taking down YP and HellRaisers, with the latter game getting close.

The big German teddy bear was a huge factor at the MLG Qualifier

mousesports have not fared well in the ESL Pro League so far as they sit at 1-3 but the team are among the many in the top fifteen who will also be competing this weekend at IEM Katowice.

Good calls and performance by NiKo and strong efforts by the equally capable chrisJ and nex could continue to strengthen the team's hold on a top ten position.

10. FaZe

Player	Age	Rating
Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard	21	1.01
Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup	19	1.00
Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill	24	0.98
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad	22	0.94
Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco	29	0.89

All FaZe have done in February is win two online games against Virtus.pro, but then again who hasn't.

The pan-European team will debut in the relatively easier Group B this weekend at IEM Katowice and the world will get to inspect how the team have developed since they were last seen at DreamHack Leipzig finishing in 5-6th place.

For now, point decay has moved them down two spots.

11. NiP

Player	Age	Rating
Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund	25	1.26
Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg	27	1.13
Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström	25	0.98
Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg	24	0.96
Jacob "⁠pyth⁠" Mourujärvi	22	0.90

NiP have taken a nosedive due to an increasing period of inactivity, although their past achievements in the last 12 months continue to prop them up above the drowning point.

The Swedish team, with their newfound addition pyth, hold a pretty solid 5-1 record in the ESL Pro League, but their real test will come this weekend where they are drawn in a stacked Group A at IEM Katowice.

12. Cloud9

Player	Age	Rating
Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek	21	1.10
Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham	22	1.03
Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip	18	1.01
Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir	23	0.97
Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert	25	0.89

The world saw Cloud9 with Stewie2K debut at an offline event in early February via the Game Show Global eSports Cup, and the world was generally disappointed. The team finished in 5-6th place, losing to G2 twice and only defeating the paltry Russian team Method (who were using stand-ins).

Stewie2k looked more comfortable in his play by the month's end

What was more disconcerting however was the noticeable lack of T-side execution and strategy, something which n0thing has personally admitted to in a video released by the North American team.

The team were further shamed by failing to qualify for IEM Katowice or DreamHack Masters Malmö, both times losing to Tempo Storm of Brazil as well as losing a final decider for the latter event to rivals CLG.

Skadoodle and his team hold their 12th place form however, as they went into the MLG Main Qualifier and following an early loss to Gambit, managed to take down favourites dignitas in a best-of-one and then survive a best-of-three battle against Renegades.

13. CLG

Player	Age	Rating
Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik	20	1.08
Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano	25	1.07
Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler	27	1.01
James "⁠hazed⁠" Cobb	26	0.97
Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina	21	0.91

CLG rocket back into the top 15 after a strong showing at the Game Show Cup and a successful qualification bid for the Major alongside their fellow North American brethren.

The team have clearly benefitted from the leading of Faruk "⁠pita⁠" Pita as well as the growing form of both jdm64 and tarik, with the former playing well in Vilnius and the latter on point in Columbus.

reltuC has also been developing into that rarest of players in North America: a formidable support. A successful qualification bid for DreamHack Masters Malmö didn't hurt either and thus CLG have enjoyed a three spot growth.

14. FlipSid3

Player	Age	Rating
Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin	24	1.10
Vladyslav "⁠bondik⁠" Nechyporchuk	22	1.02
Yegor "⁠markeloff⁠" Markelov	28	1.00
Oleksandr "⁠Shara⁠" Hordieyev	23	0.95
Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy	29	0.88

FlipSid3 have had an off-and-on February. Not many remember them attending the Game Show Cup (they did) where they were dismantled and de_stroyed, having to contend with a 7-8th place finish.

The team reappeared in Krefeld, Germany for APM Season 2 and actually did quite well, finishing in second place after convincing victories over E-frag.net, HellRaisers, and CSGL. The fact that teammate markeloff had to leave before the grand final only further limits any damage caused from losing to mousesports in the end.

Shara stickers PogChamp

However, the Ukrainian team's greatest achievement in the month was perhaps qualifying for the next Major, as they survived a close loss to G2 in their group to play a decider match where they humiliated the rising threat of Tempo Storm. Newcomer Shara has also appeared to play strong Counter-Strike lately.

15. Liquid

Player	Age	Rating
Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev	18	1.21
Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen	19	1.18
Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin	25	1.09
Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella	20	1.03
Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski	18	0.97

Liquid hold onto their top fifteen spot despite nearly being supplanted by the rising fortunes of Mihail "⁠Dosia⁠" Stolyarov's Gambit squad.

Unlike CLG and Cloud9, Liquid were not in attendance at the GEC Cup and only appeared at the end of the month to narrowly qualify for the Major, in a tournament where newest addition s1mple strongly underperformed.

The team will be forced to continue using Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag for the time being (at the Major for example), however their fortunes should rise if they continue to play with all players not slacking (and especially when koosta begins to consistently play with the squad).

You can also see which teams round up the Top 20 over at our dedicated Team ranking page.

March 2016 begins with a massive event, the $250,000+ IEM Katowice, in which almost all of the teams in our top ten and a few beyond that will be taking part.

The month will go quiet afterwards, with only the Counter Pit Season 2 finals and Copenhagen Games taking place for second tier teams, and most teams will hibernate in anticipation of the MLG Columbus Major which will get under way on March 29.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

ez fnatic

2016-03-02 00:15

nice

fuck...

2016-03-02 00:16

Cool

rip vp

wop

Nice ALGERIA

Shara stickers PogChamp EleGiggle

2016-03-02 00:17

1 reply

#22 kappa :(

2016-03-02 01:00

whoa dignitas ! :O

4 replies

I know, I LOLed when I saw that. I guess not making the next major didn't count against them much :D

2016-03-02 02:18

3 replies

shut up medkit kid

2016-03-02 07:24

Not being at the major might though. I can't imagine there's a whole lot of points for the qualifier - As it technically was more or less a t2 event,since most t1 is already qualified.

2016-03-02 14:48

true. Next month's ranking they will probably drop out the top 10 for not making the major.

2016-03-02 15:48

vp 7th lel

TORILLE

+1 !!!

2016-03-02 08:29

expected

sweeet

NiP 11th lmao

2 replies

xD xD xD

2016-03-02 00:24

Expected

2016-03-02 06:06

astralose 4th lol good joke shud b FaZe

faze barely played the last couple of months, and the times they did it looked embarrassing.

2016-03-02 02:09

Idiot spotted

2016-03-02 12:06

NiP 11th?? HAHAHAHHAAHAAHAH

nip not top 10 top kek

If NiP 11th, why VP is 7th?

2016-03-02 00:18

you really should read up on how the ranking is done

2016-03-02 00:19

inc mad nip fanboys =D

lol cold rating 1.27 -_-

You know stich has gone full memelord when he uses Twitch emotes in his articles

2016-03-02 00:20

I added that picture last second because the bottom of the article looked bare without it :^

2016-03-02 00:21

de_stroyed will be in new map pool ? hltv confirmed ?

2016-03-02 00:33

Best ranking ever.

2016-03-02 00:22

dignitas fanboy detected huehue

2016-03-02 07:57

Don't call me boy, son.

2016-03-02 08:19

Sorry grandpa.

2016-03-02 08:43

Shara stickers PogChamp 4Head

2016-03-02 00:23

UKRAINE, BEST RAINE

praise our hltv mememaster, stich

gz ence

ayy lmao stich, those comments about the pictures always on point

how can selfless be at position 30 when they dont even have 5 players? koosta is gone... explain ! also: NiP at 11.. what a shame..

2016-03-02 00:26

7 replies

"Each team is required to have a three-man core in order to retain their points..."|

2016-03-02 02:13

6 replies

yeah, there you can see how fucking dumb that is anyway.. a counterstrike team consists of 5 players, not 6, not 4 and not 3. btw. the therm "core" still includes that they have 5 players overall.. if they cant put up a full lineup then they should not be in that ranking, welcome back in march if they get their shit together.

2016-03-02 02:48

5 replies

they are in a transition between 5ths, why should they be removed off the ranking? when fnatic changed pronax for dennis you think they shouldve been considered as an entirely new team? its still the same fnatic. they lost 20% of their points for losing 20% of their lineup, but they still remained the same team. or when c9 had no set 5th for a month - should they have been off the ranking until they got their new 5th? why? they were still playing tournaments, they just had no set 5th yet. i dont see your logic of removing teams completely for changing 1 player...

2016-03-02 02:54

its simply unfair for rank 31 because selfless is obv. only in this ranking because of ONE single lan where they used koosta who technically is a standin, so they should lose 20% of their points aswell, which would kick them out of this ranking

2016-03-02 03:22

they did lose 20% already, when koosta left. if they hadnt lost 20% already they wouldve had 45 points and wouldve been 25th. you can see that by looking at the january ranking where they had 47 points when they were known as Enemy. hltv.org/news/16983-team-ranking-january..

2016-03-02 03:26

ou. alright. my bad.

2016-03-02 10:59

They did

2016-03-02 09:56

loool nip out of top 10 rip

2016-03-02 00:25

please hltv answer me How is LDLC white not in the ranking when they won the lan assembly by stomping ENCE who ARE in the ranking ? complete non sense to me ahah

The ranking is very volatile that far down. LDLC White were above ENCE at the time they won Assembly, but almost a month has passed and they fell back down due to worse form. They're currently at #39 with 25 points.

2016-03-02 01:26

It it possible to view the full rankings somewhere (not only top30)?

2016-03-02 11:11

Not yet, but it will be in the future

2016-03-02 11:21

Why you put ENCE to 29 ? There are many better teams like Torpedo, Preparation, CG, LDLC-White and many more which have recently won ENCE Your list otherwise is pretty good, but ENCE place in 29 feel kind unfair for those teams that beat ENCE and did overall better than them

2016-03-02 12:48

That's how the calculation turned out and as you can see it's mainly because of form, they've had a positive record with all things considered in the last 2 months and even though those teams beat them they've been worse against others, so ENCE came out ahead this time.

2016-03-02 14:05

Dignitas, SK, HR and Efrag in top 20 despite not making it to the major. 4Head

lmfao, this ranking is even worse than csgonuts ranking

I like your writing style stich. always nice to see some small jokes here and there.

Wow these ratings are surprisingly spot-on

Cloud9 12......... Liquid 15... WHAT!!??!!?!?!? lol hltv, good 1

2016-03-02 03:30

Clg above liquid even tho TL 2-0 them 16-1 and 16-4 lol

2016-03-02 04:50

That has nothing to do with over-all rankings. The 20th best tennis player might lose to the 30th best tennis player in 7 out of 10 encounters, but still have a better track record against other players.

2016-03-02 10:21

Yeah I know But Liquid has done so much better vs better opponents recently??

2016-03-02 16:13

This. NA teams shouldn't be on the list.

2016-03-02 11:36

2016-03-02 00:27

Tacio "TACO" Filho rating 0.89 BOT taco

2016-03-02 00:30

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n0thing and fox with the same rating as taco

2016-03-02 01:04

n0thing, TACO and fox are shit

2016-03-02 01:11

are*

2016-03-02 01:10

valeu mano kkkk

de nada

TACO has more rating than any player VP .(Except NEO)

2016-03-02 02:01

mas VP também é um lixo, e outra, todos estão jogando mal, agora a LG todos estão bem e o incompetente ainda faz isso de rating

2016-03-02 02:02

incompetente... tu é que és incompetente

2016-03-02 03:15

sai daqui portuga burro, vai falar do seu time de cs, ops, vocês só tem o k1ck que é bem lixo kkkkkk

2016-03-02 10:55

OOOPS!! eu sou Ucraniano e sou de NaVi, é aquela team que esta sempre a ganhar os zucas, tas a ver?? hahahahaha davai dosvedania debil kon4enij lol

2016-03-02 11:12

navi vai tomar um pau da LG, e aquele rato gordo que voces chamam de guardian não vai nem clickar contra o fallen-god

2016-03-02 11:13

Vp going down..

2016-03-02 00:34

dat VP ratings 4Head

dignitas over vp,faze,nip,g2 rekt.

2016-03-02 00:39

+taco in vp plz

2016-03-02 00:40

VP form should really be -100

26. Ancient TOP FUCKING KEK, team that gets 16-0d by YP is top 26 after achieving absolutely nothing except winning tier 3 Pantamera

2016-03-02 00:43

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Sorry but YP are fucking garbage hacking/throwing onliner team this list is for teams who can win a map on LAN.

2016-03-02 00:49

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I never said that YP should be on this list I am just simply asking how does Ancient become top 26 after losing to trash teams and getting almost no accomplishments, it just blows my mind how teams can become this overrated.

2016-03-02 00:54

Ancient is a new team what you want from them? They change players all the time, it's just a random mix team of people in the same circle that like playing together. They are not over rated? You probably couldn't even name 25 teams without this list, please understand being ranked 26th actually means nothing. Everyone outside of the top 6 atm can't win any tier 1 tournament and even some in the top 6 haven't won anything yet, it's not all about winning shit and having accomplishments, it's about consistent top placings that get you these ranks. Pantamera 3 is enough to out rank some of the onliner teams that haven't done anything in their careers.

"Ancient is a new team" "just a random mix" see any similar teams with these features? Anyway as I told your mate below me ranking that is not top 10 or top 15 at best is pretty much pointless so I dont know why I am overreacting this much, my bad m8.

All good.

2016-03-02 01:17

ancient just won a 20k lan (pantamera), beating a bunch of t3 teams. and i'm not even a ancient fan, just reminding u that maybe it's better to do some research before being outraged. why the fuck are you up and arms about things you really know nothing about?

2016-03-02 01:53

i.gyazo.com/8cc0bf916dfbea6f9e45984826b6.. are you blind or yes ? And mr research since you are so bright you might remember the competition on Pantamera which are mostly onliners with exception of Preparation who even suck online which let me remind you 16-1d Ancient in first match

2016-03-02 01:59

yeah you seem to acknowledge that while still being completely oblivious what that kind of win means in these rankings. thats why i pointed out its a 20,000 prize pool LAN. they won naturally they are viewed as a team on the come-up.

2016-03-02 02:00

pretty sure that if Orgless or Torpedo would win that LAN they wouldnt be put in this list 20k prize pool is not that big of a deal honestly since even Dingit cups had similar prizepools but I get what you are saying this tournament having a good name and history of including teams like fnatic could have impact on rankings and like you said them being viewed as up and comers but I personally think that its just these players living of their old hype

2016-03-02 02:12

still won the tournament. Has OpTic, Tempo Storm and alternate attax done something more?

OpTic qualified for Eleague, Tempo Storm is raping NA scene online, ATTAX are just cheaters ( simple way to put it ) you are right they dont virtually nothing same as Ancient, but really they atleast played some matches to get there, Ancient didnt even play 20 maps and they deserve this spot ? Yeah but whatever any list beyond top 10 is essentially pointless I do not even know why I am stressing this much over it.

2016-03-02 01:06

you're right, so calm down :) VP should be there with them though haha. Bigest misplace on this list is ENCE, loosing to teams like Torpedo over and over again. Orgless, Torpedo, gBots and many more is better and has achieved as much or more.

2016-03-02 01:27

Orgless should be top 30 for sure they are almost even with teams like E-Frag or HR, and yeah ENCE should never be top 30 especially after Assembly but when we have teams like Splyce jumping to top 30 just because they won 2 BO 1 it is hard to take this list seriously.

2016-03-02 01:34

gj NiP

2016-03-02 00:41

How is NiP 11th LOL 5-1 in ESL does not count as anything i guess, why they go down a rank and dig go up EleGiggle Stupid fucking ranking system... VP 1-11 and 7th....

2016-03-02 00:44

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as in any other league, what matters is not how it starts but how it ends. So ESL league will have his value only after the lan finals.. Also NiP barely played any games besides the ESL league.. VP should be lower tho.

2016-03-02 00:55

If you inspect the big table you'll see that the online records you are referring to are reflected in the Form subranking (where VP are actually the worst). But we don't want this ranking to be about form or recent LANs only, we want longevity of results to be recognized and VP actually rank 5th in achievements (which takes into account all the big tournaments over the last year and applies a decaying factor to their points). That means they are in a good position to get back up there near the top with a few good LANs, which would indicate this was just temporary poor form. On the other hand, teams like dignitas and Luminosity need a longer string of good results to reach those higher places because they are new and unproven over a longer period.

2016-03-02 01:31

87-0?

2016-03-02 01:54

so and what about that "longevity of results" that you are talking about fits dignitas team, just feel like they won(or were finalist) in a tournament some months ago and they instantly got in top 10 and now without doing much and with a tiny "longevity of results" they get to top 6? while probably other teams that have been in this top 20 rank for much longer time, deserve that place.

2016-03-02 02:26

Who deserves it over dignitas? Virtus.pro's last good result was over 3 months ago, and they're still held in 7th place due to what happened before that. Everyone below has either the same problem or hasn't done as much as dignitas. Try to understand that we are in a time where only few teams have been doing really well (the top5) and look at the point difference, not just the ranking number. And if you want just longevity, look at the Achievements column and consider that your ranking. If you want just recent results, look at the LANs column. If you just want to see which teams are on form, look at the Form column. The combination of them is what we want to give the current ranking, with longevity accounting for 50%, form 20% and recent lans 30% of the final result.

2016-03-02 03:05

Dignitas fails over and over to even get to major, they been playing cobble, super overrated. majors should count a lot more,And not even making them should be a big factor in the ranking!! Cuz its the majors all are playing for and peaking their form to.

2016-03-02 07:12

It's really hard to take any of you "critics" seriously when you don't even have your information correct, not to mention how far from grasping the concept of rankings you are. First of all, dignitas itself was at the last major, but this lineup only has 2 players left from that time so all of this team's points are with the new lineup, it has nothing to do with the previous major. Secondly, majors are not everything in CS, there is 30+ tournaments in a year and only 3 are majors. Not to mention how the qualifier had a best of 1 random map draw and you instantly jump to crucify a team that didn't make it, a team that made top4 at 3 of the previous international tournaments. Lastly, I challenge you to name 1 team that should be above dignitas and tell me exactly which results and achievements would rank them there.

crusify? They was the favorite coming in to the qual that is the qual to the biggest cs event in history. Ur rankings says they are the 6th best team in the world and the qual Even had dobbel elemination so They Even had 2 chances to do go true. On top of that losing to teams that way lower down on ur ranking. The problem is the decline in points from previous events. and majors should be more awarded even if it's only 3 of the 30 events as you say. All the teams aim for the majors and not even qual should give them a big decline in rankings at least when the qual is at lan aswell. Something is wrong in ur system, But overall I like it and u have done a great job with it but some tweaks should be done imo. It gives to much cred to recent results or lack of previous.

2016-03-02 11:31

You still didn't provide a list of teams that should be above dignitas and why. You, like many people, rely on "feelings" instead of looking at things objectively, and that's no way to rank teams. Virtus.pro and Na`Vi have finished in last places of various tournaments, but that never meant they are automatically worse than all the teams that outplaced them. That's not how rankings work. You say our ranking gives "too much cred" to recent results, yet you want the ONLY bad recent result by dignitas to shove them down (below 10? 16?). The bottom line is you can't give me a list of who should be above dignitas because there is no one that did anything more than them. Should Splyce be above dignitas now that they qualified for the major and dignitas didn't? dignitas missing the major will be reflected when teams that actually go to the major achieve something there. Don't mistake the qualifier for the major. Passing the qualifier doesn't automatically mean those 16 teams should be ranked as top16 in the world. Majors are already far more "rewarded" as you say, plus the points from the last major decay twice as slow. Despite what you might "feel" we did think about all those things you are talking about, and still this to me seems like the realistic picture of today's state of the CS:GO scene. There's no team I could rank higher than dignitas (maybe VP if you want to retain more points from the past, but I don't see why you would since that past is over 3 months old and they have even beaten VP in a bo3 on LAN).

2016-03-02 12:12

Nip 11#==??

2016-03-02 00:45

cya nip

2016-03-02 00:46

cancer rankings

2016-03-02 00:51

VP lost one rank with the current 11-1 in ESL PRO LEAGUE, HELLO? And mouz +3 ranks just by winning the shitty acer predator master with T3 teams? GG ranking

2016-03-02 00:53

the ranking is not subjective, theres points behind everything. mouz won 11 out of their last 14 games, and are on a 10 map win streak on LAN. the teams they overtook are all inactive / in a slump, so it was both them going up and the teams above them going down. vp did lose a lot of points, but the problem is the two teams below them at the beginning of the month were faze and nip, who are also slumping, which resulted in vp losing 1 spot instead of 3 that they wouldve lost if faze and nip stayed where they were at the beginning of the month. vp were 155 points ahead of nip and 215 ahead of dignitas, now they are 33 BEHIND dignitas and 59 ahead of nip. its not all about how many spots you lose or gain, its about how many points you lose or gain compared to teams right next to you

2016-03-02 02:28

bullshit ranking a team who can't even qualify for a major is 6 lel

VP form 8 lmao sad

VP Top10 Kappa

2016-03-02 00:56

bullshit atleast this time

2016-03-02 00:57

Rip Nip

2016-03-02 00:59

Renegades Tier 3 ranking now. Not even in top 20.

2016-03-02 01:02

dignitas top6 what a joke lmao they lost to tier3 renegades recently and some other tier2 teams Facepalm dignitas vs Cloud9 13-16 dignitas vs Renegades 9-16 dignitas vs Astralis 12-16 dignitas vsAstralis 11-16 dignitas vs Vexed 16-5

2016-03-02 01:08

Yet they won a bo3 against EnVyUs and came 2nd at a tournament. which none of the teams below them have done in months. The bo1 random map tourney losses shouldn't and don't make that much of a difference. They will suffer for it by not playing in the major though.

2016-03-02 01:24

And 2 days later they got crushed by envyus 3-0 can't see the logic here hltv.org/match/2300638-envyus-dignitas-g.. their stats from february 9 wins 10 loses also failed to qualify to a major great rankings dudes

2016-03-02 01:45

Getting crushed by a team better than you makes no difference, it's expected. It's the big wins that get you places that matters, and a 2-0 over EnVyUs got them to a #2 finish at a $200,000 event. They also had a semi-final in Leipzig before that and a top4 at barcelona. Name a team below dignitas that achieved more recently and deserves to be above them because of it?

2016-03-02 01:44

That feeling when Gosugamers ranking seems to be better...

2016-03-02 01:15

really? astralis #2, nip #5, vp #15 seems better?

2016-03-02 02:39

"Better" doesn't mean that it is not still shit, mate.

2016-03-02 09:37

how is it any better though? its so clearly so much worse

2016-03-02 10:01

Jesus, man, whar's wrong with you? Never heard about sarcasm or irony before?

2016-03-02 20:27

its hard to tell between sarcasm and extremism on hltv m8

2016-03-02 20:30

Team that doesn't get to major is top 6. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2016-03-02 01:21

C9,CLG,F3>Liquid I arent think that

All the retards complaining about Dignitas.... This isn't a March only ranking. It takes into account the past year with decay.

lmao dignitas mouz g2 faze > nip i laugh

2016-03-02 01:33

i laugh along with you at how shit nip has become

Cold 1st

2016-03-02 01:39

yisus fox have 29!!!

2016-03-02 01:43

good ranking :) good job!

2016-03-02 01:48

All FaZe have done in February is win two online games against Virtus.pro, but then again who hasn't. T O P K E K

2016-03-02 01:49

dignitas no. 6 ? lmao what is this garbage dude. couldnt even beat c9 and renegades...

2016-03-02 01:50

Dignitas with 6th ranking dont qualify to major? It's a joke

2016-03-02 01:51

dignitas 6 AHAHAHahAHAhahAHAahAHahahahahah

2016-03-02 01:58

The amount of people in here who dont know how rankings work is too damn high. Its even fucking explained within the ranking. Jesus christ people, please remove those empty shells you call heads from those container ships you call asses and grow up.

2016-03-02 02:07

Dignitas hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahaahahahaha wtff????????

2016-03-02 02:10

for everyone giving a single shiaaaaaaat about this... gtfo of this game... xD what a joke list :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

2016-03-02 02:16

Nice Dignitas! show 'em you deserve it at the major.. oh wait.

10/10 memes stich

2016-03-02 02:33

sk and e-frag > rng xddddd

2016-03-02 02:36

So are you implying RNG is better than e-frag. Because I'm really confident e-frag would crap all over RNG if they were to meet on LAN.

2016-03-02 03:19

yes

2016-03-02 06:12

SPLYCE > TS LOOOOOOL REKT

2016-03-02 02:40

this is a joke

2016-03-02 02:41

awesome job stich :] sad to see topeiko go, but great to see the ranking will stay. i see some changes have already been made to the formula if im not mistaken, good to see the ranking constantly improve. well written, awesome to see you took the time for puns as always, seeing effort being put into this makes it so much more enjoyable to read. ignore all the idiots who think team x should be higher and team y dont deserve their spot, the ranking is great the way it is right now.

2016-03-02 02:51

Ez mou best rating 1.28 within top 20

2016-03-02 03:11

technically fnatic are on 10,000 points. But the cap is 1k. Cool story.

fox is 29? ROFL.

2016-03-02 03:32

Did topeiko take his spreadsheet with him? Why did there have to be a new ranking system?

2016-03-02 03:47

2016-03-02 04:05

how could envy over navi right now?

2016-03-02 04:25

how could dig be at 6th? they couldn't even qualify for the major

GO GAMBIT!

2016-03-02 04:54

lol hltv thinks fnatic and navi are better than nip

2016-03-02 04:58

so bad bait wtf is wrong with people these days on hltv...learn to bait better ffs

2016-03-02 05:00

in all honesty nip are still top 6

2016-03-02 05:05

PogChamp

2016-03-02 05:11

decent ranking unlike previous

2016-03-02 05:21

"The players on our team whose names start with d seem to love BDSM." whoo said that about astralis???

2016-03-02 06:15

Welcome back HR to the top 20 <3

2016-03-02 06:24

NA not even in top 10 anymore /sigh

2016-03-02 06:37

the system is wrong, dignitas is doubtly a s top 10 in my eyes, and i Im not suprised they didn't make the major, they never was that good, playing cobble made them most overrated team ever. They didnt Play last major and didn't qual now, they most def not belong in top6 I know how ur ranking works but it still fail. But good job Anyways

2016-03-02 06:54

this list ia a bigger joke than all dank hltv memes combined bruh

2016-03-02 06:57

where are all the favelas ? they said LG top1 for sure... now i`m confused my favelas friends :(

2016-03-02 07:02

I dont think that efrag should be higher then hr, considering the recent results between these two

2016-03-02 07:51

VP is so bad atm...

2016-03-02 07:56

NiP no longer top 10 [*] when they used to be top 1

2016-03-02 07:58

stich = Poorlack VP = Poorlacks Do you already know why is VP above NiP and why they are (VP) still TOP 6 / 7 ? nt stich, go cleaning toilets.

2016-03-02 08:14

Yeah that is the reason and not the system they use.....

2016-03-02 09:57

onlineitas top kek

2016-03-02 08:33

I love how everyone complains but noone could bring up a better ranking system that involves more or less every stat of the last years. Even when Tgwri1s explained the backround of how they make the ranking, they didn't even try to understand it. WTF have hltv become? Fucking crybabies.

2016-03-02 08:54

Great job Petar ! Keep this up guys ;-)

2016-03-02 09:01

the rise of asia

2016-03-02 09:14

>Virtus.Pro >Form: 8 oh wow

2016-03-02 09:19

Rip in pepperoni seizeds d-lore

2016-03-02 09:31

er... what? dignitas hat some good results but then fail to qualify for a major and they are 6th????? nooooooooo

nv 2nd? srsly? they are weak as fuck

2016-03-02 09:39

Nice to see n0thing, fox and b1ad3 sitting on the same rating. Well deserved.

2016-03-02 09:40

The big German teddy bear was a huge factor at the MLG Qualifier everybody going gay for nex

2016-03-02 10:05

Dignities better than NiP FaZe and G2? nah

2016-03-02 10:40

It's a ranking based on recent LANs/achievements/form.

2016-03-02 10:46

ENCE BOOM TOP 30 TIER TEAM UMBELIEVBLE

2016-03-02 10:50

Gambit +7 and still they have potentional

2016-03-02 10:51

End of this year..Ence TOP10!!!! HLTV CONFIRMED!

2016-03-02 10:53

Dignitas no go to major and #6 place. Hltv ranking XDDDDD

2016-03-02 11:03

and they will fall down after other teams get major points, what's the problem m8?

2016-03-02 12:05

"Thought you'd never see this guy go 3-20 at an offline game? Think again." lmao

2016-03-02 11:05

30... almost low enough to include UK teams. just kidding we like top 200 at best

2016-03-02 11:38

LOL at people bitching about points based ranking

2016-03-02 11:47

Dignitas above Virtus Pro is such a joke rofl. Dignitas have never won anything in their lives.

2016-03-02 11:53

So what? It`s 2016 ranking. VP is playing now like Penta Sport`s.

2016-03-02 12:09

I think before people go batshit crazy about how "unfair" the rankings are, please realise how insanely difficult it is to actually make a legit team ranking. The way they are doing it now is good enough. I do not agree with everything when i look at it, but most of it is well placed. The problem with Dignitas: I totally see why people are mad that a team not qualified for a major is #6th, i might not agree with it myself. But dignitas is the perfect example as to why ranking CS teams is hard as balls. dignitas played extremely well before the Qual. They beat many top teams and had good LAN performances. Although people will disagree, i find the Major qual to have a high random factor considering it's bo1's. Dignitas lost to Renegades and Cloud9 in bo1's, and boom. They are out. Pro players have often criticised the format, and in my opinion (notice; IMO) dignitas is a better team than both RNG and cloud9. I think they would have beaten those teams in bo3's. Just because dignitas loses _TWO MAPS_ at LAN doesn't mean they should be thrown out of the top 10 instantly. I mean ffs, look at fucking SPLYCE. They were literally handed a Major spot because of how random the groups and match format was. Not saying SPLYCE is a bad team, but they wouldn't reach the major in a different group. I mean they weren't even qualified for the qualifier, just got the place because MongolZ visa issues. That's how random the qualifier is. Instead of whining about the rankings, appreciate that we actually have one.

This ranking is spot on besides dig being do high. Sure they had some good placements but they couldn't even qualify for the major vs teams that are mid T2 at best... it is the biggest csgo event of all time, I think it matters lol.

2016-03-02 12:33

Where's orgless?

2016-03-02 14:45