Team Ranking: February 2022

8/3/2022 - 08:52

FaZe and MOUZ make strides while ECSTATIC falls out of the top 20.

With the first big event of the year in the books, many high performing teams have climbed to stronger positions, while teams who changed lineups over the break have begun to recover and return to their rightful places.

Most notably, FaZe have reached rank #4 following their incredible run to victory at IEM Katowice. This core of players nearly reached their highest ever peak rank, but just missed out as a result of their multiple stand-ins over the course of the event in Poland.

The new-look Spirit has qualified for the Europe RMR

Here's a summary of the HLTV World Ranking by 1xBet for new readers:

Our team ranking is based on teams' achievements over the past year (with severe decay in points throughout each month), recent form over the last two months, and performance in recent events in the last 3 months.

Each team is required to have a three-man core in order to retain their points. Due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, online results, which previously had a minimal effect, now carry more weight as they are also included in the 'Achievements' and 'Recent Events' sub-categories.

Below is the current top 30 table as of Monday, March 7, which goes more in-depth into how the points are distributed — or you can check our special page, where you will be able to find the latest, weekly version of our ranking. You can see the lineup for each team by hovering over their name in the table.

CS:GO World ranking on March 7th, 2022

RANK

TEAM

ACHV

FORM

LAN

TOTAL
POINTS

+/-

Natus Vincere

500

200

300

1000

Gambit

302

198

244

744

224

158

175

557

FaZe

193

188

153

534

Vitality

178

151

419

-2

Virtus.pro

159

102

130

391

-1

Heroic

194

351

Ninjas in Pyjamas

134

100

324

-2

Astralis

204

-2

10.

176

11.

BIG

152

12.

Entropiq

143

-2

13.

MOUZ

137

+20

14.

FURIA

132

+13

15.

ENCE

131

16.

fnatic

126

-2

17.

Copenhagen Flames

115

18.

GODSENT

112

-5

19.

K23

-4

20.

FORZE

-1

21.

HEET

-3

22.

SKADE

23.

Sprout

-3

24.

25.

26.

27.

-11

28.

Endpoint

+13

29.

Spirit

+23

30.

Eternal Fire

-6

Please note that the +/- gain on this table differs from our weekly rankings page, and it is related to the ranking update of February 7.

MOUZ and FURIA among biggest Katowice risers

Aside from the aforementioned rise up FaZe into the top 5, other teams that participated in IEM Katowice also found themselves many spots higher. MOUZ, FURIA, and ENCE all had middling performances at Katowice, but had all made some form of roster change over the break. While the increase in points was very large for the likes of MOUZ who were already doing quite poor on top of their large roster shift, ENCE saw more of a recovery back from where they had dropped after the addition of Pavle "⁠Maden⁠" Bošković.

FURIA also participated in the ESL Challenger February event, where they secured a solid second place. Seeming reinvigorated since the addition of a new primary AWPer, the Brazilians are looking to quickly rise back to their level from 2020.

On the flipside, the biggest drop-off within the top 20 is GODSENT, who fell five spots following a Play-In exit in Katowice as well as an early elimination in Pinnacle Winter Series #2 after losing to GamerLegion. The team are still qualified for ESL Pro League Season 15 though, and will look to regain their form in Group C.

Are FaZe the ones to consistently challenge NAVI?

RMR qualifiers see Endpoint and Spirit return to top 30

Many effects from the recent open qualifiers for the Europe Regional Major Ranking tournament are already being seen, with big jumps up for teams who made it and some declines for those will miss out on the PGL Antwerp Major.

The biggest upward changes can clearly be seen with Endpoint and Spirit who made massive leaps to return to the top 30. The British-mixed squad ran into trouble in the final months of 2021, with many early exist at lower tier events. The break evidently did some good, as they fought through the second RMR open qualifier, beating Movistar Riders and K23 to earn a spot at the Major qualification event.

The Russian side went through massive roster turbulence following their exit from the PGL Stockholm Major, initially only keeping star Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov and Boris "⁠magixx⁠" Vorobiev. Eventually though, in-game leader Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov returned while academy players Robert "⁠Patsi⁠" Isyanov and Pavel "⁠s1ren⁠" Ogloblin got the call up. Having a stable lineup caused things to immediately improve, being able to claim their spot at the RMR quite easily.

chopper's return saw Spirit regain some lost ground

ECSTATIC fall to the outskirts

After impressing on the tier two scene and making it to a peak #16 ranking last month, ECSTATIC had to withstand tough losses in tournaments such as the Malta Vibes Knockout Series and Elisa Invitational Winter, as well as the RMR qualifiers. The team around Thomas "⁠birdfromsky⁠" Due-Frederiksen failed to make it far in all of the four open qualifiers for the Bucharest event which took place over the course of the last month, losing to teams such as Nexus, iNation, and MAD Lions in the process.

As a result, the Danish-majority squad suffered the largest fall out of the teams in the top 30, dropping to the outskirts by 11 spots as of the beginning of March.

Hmm. Gambit as a 2nd team is just a bad joke though

2022-03-08 08:55

10 replies

they only need experience in the arena, in online and studio lan they are super good. by the end of this year if they play more arenas they can be a super-strong arena team as well.

2022-03-08 08:58

6 replies

True I think once they overcome the lan fear, they will be up for the best team of 2022

2022-03-08 09:17

5 replies

Question is when that happens, they are not exactly a new team anymore, like how many years do they need?

2022-03-08 10:28

2 replies

depends how they perform and get experience in crowded lan events you saying "they are not exactly a new team" you thought they would gain crowded lan experience during covid era? Nice brain

2022-03-08 11:53

1 reply

Too many excuses, they've failed at all tier 1 LANs, they shouldn't be #2 until they can do better

2022-03-08 17:18

their games until faze in katowice shown that they already kinda overcame it (Axile being consistent, interz stepping up), but i liked how professeur,if i remember correctly said on hltv podcast, when gambit's fundamentals is becoming outplayed and destroyed they have a hard time on catching up the game. And that's what i think teams like Faze and karrigan feels good at

2022-03-08 13:30

True, Proffeseur +1

2022-03-08 18:42

Gambit won the first event of this year funspark ulti. Although it was a tier2 event.

2022-03-08 09:59

true they should be first

2022-03-08 17:43

As good as they are, Navi still has much more points from the previous events, which they beat Gambit. It is still interesting because in the matchup, it is pretty close with 20/4/19 in favor of Navi.

2022-03-08 20:57

cool

2022-03-08 08:53

nice

2022-03-08 08:54

Note that ECSTATIC had to forfeit some of their matches in tournaments because of DDOS attacks

Glad for Furia, but Entropiq is still too high

2022-03-08 08:56

Get out of there fast, Navi.

2022-03-08 08:57

stfu

2022-03-08 11:30

Lol not gonna happen anytime soon

2022-03-08 12:05

4 replies

Gambit, G2 and Faze are better than them atm.

2022-03-08 19:12

3 replies

1 tournament cannot prove it And whats going on in Ukraine is unsettling for them right now especially s1mple as his family is in kyiv

2022-03-09 03:19

Its not just 1 tournament lmao navi already proved to be shit in every single match this year.

2022-03-09 03:57

Your argument doesnt make any sense, they have been shit since the start of year, that there was no war

2022-03-09 03:58

ratio

Good to see Russia is still at the top.

Attention seeker

2022-03-08 13:57

rip godfromsky

Liquid not even top.30 Lol

2022-03-08 09:11

looks like they got what they were looking for. gettin nitro, shox, replacing fallen and stewie was a huge step back. Nitro never was a great player in his better days. now that he is washed. omegalul

2022-03-08 10:42

I agree

2022-03-09 05:10

They'd probably still be Top 10, if they'd kept a core, admittedly it would be an artificial ranking like Astralis' is at the moment but that is what it is.

2022-03-08 11:21

they won only 1 match in 2022 against eg in ot :)) all of liquid players except naf and nitr0megalul aren't playing in their best form i'm not a liquid fan but i really hope that they will improve next month

2022-03-08 12:20

I'm not saying they should be top 30.

2022-03-08 14:41

hard 4 radarfromsky

2022-03-08 09:13

Big somehow managed to hold their position

2022-03-08 09:15

bug

2022-03-08 10:23

Actually they got +1 even. Just doesn`t show right in the article. Not really deserved sadly.

2022-03-08 12:26

No, you don't understand the overview above. Its not the weekly ranking but rather the monthly ranking => So from the beginning of Februar (they were 11th) their position hasn't changed. Just compare this overview to the weekly one and you realize that no (-/+) figures are matching.

2022-03-08 22:47

Ah you are right, thanks for clearing that up.

2022-03-09 13:10

Endpoint in top 30 again W

2022-03-08 09:22

no NA team bruh

2022-03-08 09:32

that's sad.. : (

2022-03-09 05:09

NaVi still 1000 points? Must be a joke

2022-03-08 09:46

13 replies

Navi made through Blast Groups and was top4 in Iem Katowice. Who would take their place in your opinion?? Faze after winning just one event?? Gambit after winning tier2 event funspark ulti?? G2?? To make it into finals?? No other team has won consecutive events in a row to throw Navi off of their crown yet. If Navi does poorly in ESL pro league, I am sure Navi will drop off.

2022-03-08 10:02

11 replies

NA reading comprehension

2022-03-08 10:24

Wow u got me. So smart 1000 IQ

2022-03-08 14:19

There's a difference between losing the maximum number of points and losing first place

2022-03-08 14:49

and imagine crying about navi's placement after they'd faced such circumstances. Still top4

2022-03-08 10:29

He didn't mention placing only points. They have max points in all categories. You could make a good argument for max points on achievements, won major which is still just about relevant, won blast finals and then top 4 iem. Form on the other hand has been slipping as can be seen at blast spring and katowice. They were 200 when they were winning everything and are still 200 when they aren't. It's the issue with having a capped scale. Still better than ESLs system though.

2022-03-08 12:35

He didn't say anything about NaVi placement

2022-03-08 13:03

Still with #48, NaVi had 950 points, they got +points for semis and now it's 1000, wtf is his problem

2022-03-08 14:24

+1 people are always looking for excuses to hate on NAVI and s1mple.

NA reading comprehension.... Cmon man, it's your own language

2022-03-08 13:01

Yeah u got me.

Navi was 950 or something points a week or two earlier, after being eliminated in semis they have 1000 points, that's what he's talking about, not about their placement

2022-03-08 13:42

The 1000 point cap doesn't stop the team accumulating more points hidden in there. They still have more than enough results to guarantee hitting the cap for now. They won every LAN they attended in 2021 and all were in the last 6 months of the year.

2022-03-08 14:40

Gambit 2nd I arent think that

8 replies

gud gremmer #1 however,i think if ax1le and HObbit can play in the arena as good as in studio or online and sh1ro can keep playing like this,gambit will be unstoppable

2022-03-08 12:27

gambit was outplayed by faze, i don't think peak Hobbit or Axile would've helped them there, if they losing for example 1v4 on dust in such a poor way

2022-03-08 13:44

holy cope

2022-03-08 22:40

+1 they are first

1st in the online rankings

*and LAN rankings

2022-03-08 22:43

dude rewatch their vitality and nip games if you want convincing especially since it's a crowdless lan gambit are the favourites as long as they compete and there's no taking that away from me it treat it as an upset more than ever if they lose

2022-03-08 22:50

Nice

Will matches played by 'outsiders' change the virtus.pro ranking?

I think it will, at least in ESL ranking where points are directly connected to players

2022-03-08 10:30

Wisla 24th xd

2022-03-08 10:33

Fnatic at #16 is too high, really

2022-03-08 10:35

Astralis, BIG, Entropiq a bit too high up on that list based on last couple of games. If Brollan and dev1ce returns soon'ish then NIP might finally deserve a top-10 spot perhaps. Out these teams I hope GODSENT will improve their ranking. MOUZ has done a nice climb and has suprised positively for sure, although don't think they'll go much higher from here.

2022-03-08 10:45

Funny cause OG is too high as well Mr delusional fanboy :D Lost 2/2 games at IEM and their RMR qualifier was questionable to say the least (overtime vs dignitas, lost to heet etc).

I'd say 10th is about as high as I'd place them, but no more than that. During their first event they were in a honeymoon period for sure at which they looked like a Top-5 team but as of now I have them in the 10-15th range where they are 50/50 against teams like Furia, BIG, MOUZ, Astralis, Fnatic etc.

2022-03-08 12:34

Gambit LAN form "244" the 2nd highest KEKW

2022-03-08 11:27

Funspark "LAN"

2022-03-08 15:22

Gambit , FAZE IS COMING FOR THAT #2

2022-03-08 11:52

true gambit will go to #1 instead

Covid finish now no more free online points

2022-03-08 20:29

I would like to remind you this is a crowdless lan now I would like you to remind yourself how gambit played against nip and vitality

2022-03-08 21:33

hahahahahahha , nice recovery , 8/8 for the effort

2022-03-08 20:49

>:D although I do genuinely belvie they should have colognbe what I've seen from the on katowice was groundbreaking to say the least and cologne has 0 crowd if they don't participate though, then EZ4OUTSIDERS