Valve unveils first edition of Regional Standings ranking

22-12-2022 11:23

Valve's teased ranking has been unveiled, featuring prizemoney won as a key factor.

Valve has released the first edition of its Regional Standings, a ranking that will be used to determine a portion of invitations to later qualification stages for the CS:GO Majors.

The developers have revealed that the ranking is based on three factors: A team's prize money earned, their beaten opponents' prize money earned and teams beaten, and head-to-head results; and said the exact formula will be public in the coming weeks.

Heroic lead the European Major Standings by just a few points heading into 2023

According to the release, the current formula will be used for the qualifiers leading up to the BLAST.tv Paris Major but is subject to change at a later point as Valve continues to experiment with the model, looking to find one that best predicts future match results.

The ranking is separated into three regions, Europe, Americas, and Asia, each of which will be used to determine half of the invites to the closed qualifiers for the corresponding Regional Major Ranking tournaments.

Over 300 teams in total are currently ranked across the three regions, and the latest full standings can be found here.

Europe

1. HEROIC - 1,949 points
2. G2 - 1,946
3. Outsiders - 1,935
4. FaZe - 1,930
5. Natus Vincere - 1,814
6. Vitality - 1,770
7. fnatic - 1,768
8. MOUZ - 1,761
9. Cloud9 - 1,715
10. Spirit - 1,711
11. OG - 1,690
12. ENCE - 1,681
13. Ninjas in Pyjamas - 1,674
14. Copenhagen Flames - 1,649
15. Astralis - 1,644
16. BIG - 1,634
17. SAW - 1,565
18. Sprout - 1,559
19. Bad News Eagles - 1,535
20. GamerLegion - 1,522
21... listed here

Americas

1. Liquid - 1,911 points
2. FURIA - 1,713
3. Complexity - 1,552
4. paiN - 1,534
5. Fluxo - 1,487
6. ATK - 1,441
7. EG Black - 1,438
8. MIBR - 1,435
9. Nouns - 1,381
10. 9z - 1,373
11. TeamOne - 1,366
12. Evil Geniuses - 1,359
13. 00NATION - 1,354
14. Imperial - 1,327
15. EG White - 1,295
16. Sharks - 1,291
17. ARCTIC - 1,291
18. Isurus - 1,223
19. Iron Blood - 1,190
20. Strife - 1,185
21... listed here

Asia

1. Lynn Vision - 1,281 points
2. IHC - 1,255
3. AVANGAR - 1,250
4. Grayhound - 1,223
5. TYLOO - 1,108
6. VERTEX - 1,084
7. Wings Up - 1,067
8. NKT - 1,061
9. Rooster - 1,023
10. Rare Atom - 1,010
11. Invictus International - 994
12. Encore - 966
13. ARAVT - 959
14. Nixuh - 957
15. Bravado - 896
16... listed here

nice

2022-12-22 11:23

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Yea

2022-12-23 03:43

Pog

4 replies

Complexity ahead of pain and fluxo kkkkkkkkkkk

2022-12-22 16:54

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makes perfect sense

2022-12-22 22:19

Yeah complexity have more wins in t1, not because they are better really but because they are partnered with more TOs and get more invites to t1 events. Pain rarely plays in t1 events and when they do they lose. Fluxo probably would be ranked higher if they played more.

2022-12-22 22:25

do fluxo even play matches ever?

2022-12-23 00:39

awesome!

wtf buff torzsi bias ofc volvo

2022-12-22 11:24

actually decent standings wow

14 replies

i take it back its shit

2022-12-22 11:25

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2022-12-22 11:28

Wtf happened during that minute

2022-12-22 11:38

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probably read americas completely bs rating. EG BLACK and Col way overrated. Col would be okay but EG Black over MIBR and IMPERIAL is an utter joke

2022-12-22 12:10

7 replies

EG black is higher than main roster is funny

2022-12-22 12:18

How come?

2022-12-22 12:54

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Because they play more events

2022-12-22 13:08

I’m not sure I understand. It states in the opening of the article what the formula is: “The developers have revealed that the ranking is based on three factors: A team's prize money earned, their beaten opponents' prize money earned and teams beaten, and head-to-head results; and said the exact formula will be public in the coming weeks.” Feel free to have your own ranking and argue at the water cooler who the “GOAT” is, but this is what the results of the formula they have used are.

2022-12-22 13:19

Well this is true, while eg black and atk are fhiting hard in these cash tourneys, other teams go down i ranking because they dont compete there so it is what it is

2022-12-22 14:48

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There is no up, there is no down. There is input, there is output.

2022-12-22 15:09

actual smooth brain lol

2022-12-22 15:43

Post nut clarity

2022-12-22 12:59

lmao

2022-12-22 11:41

Top of europe is so contested

2022-12-22 12:19

G2 2nd XDDDDDDDDDD

2022-12-22 11:26

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Hey chill there. Lost 1-2 to BIG Acadamy xDDDDDDD

They played with two german bots and 0.80 coach

2022-12-22 11:31

Isn’t that just more embarrassing for Sprout?

how?

2022-12-22 14:06

If BIG acadamy played with 2 bots and a 0.8 rating coach?

2022-12-22 18:47

It was sprout who played with 2 bots and GOD BERRY

2022-12-22 20:10

Oh. Sprout is 5 bots and some unknown coach

2022-12-22 20:52

Lost major spot to GL xDDDDDDDDDD

2022-12-22 16:44

GamerLegion isn’t a bad team, idk why people say they are, they’re still better than BIG acadamy

2022-12-22 18:49

That's what a shamed player fan would say

2022-12-22 20:03

2nd place prizemoney is gonna carry them

2022-12-22 17:45

actually so ez

2022-12-22 11:27

Partizan 84??? Shit rankings...

they are trash what do u mean

2022-12-22 14:52

Much better than some teams listed on the European side, much better, they're number 79 on HLTV, they deserve better on the EU list.

2022-12-22 18:36

cool

HooXi is just a GIGACHAD

2022-12-22 11:29

how many teams do you reckon will get an invite to the closed qualifier?

Asstralis prob

2022-12-22 12:20

Half of every region.. So 16 in EU, so every team up to 16 that is not invite to RMR

2022-12-22 13:01

damn, that's really interesting. this would include many teams that did not even make it out of the open qualifiers last time, like CPH and Apeks.

2022-12-22 14:27

yup yup, I think it's fair but i hope they will tweak the algoritm a bit, look a bit flawed (also i made typo and meant every team up to #30 is either invited to RMR (top 16 from Rio) or to closed qual)

2022-12-22 14:31

Depends on the region. For example in Asia all 8 spots in the RMR are still open (no Asian team in the Legends stage), so the closed qualifier will feature at least 16 teams. Out of those 16 teams 8 will be invited via the regional standings ranking. The other teams come from open qualifiers. For Europe 14 teams from the Rio legends stage are already qualified for the 2 RMRs, so 18 are still missing. That means the closed qualifier should consist of at least 36 teams. Of these 36 teams 18 teams are invited from the Europe ranking. Edit: Actually it seems like Valve removed the passage that at least twice the number of teams that can qualify need to attend the closed qualifier. So I assume they just do 2 x 16 Swiss Brackets and have 18 teams qualify (using the same rules as if 18 teams would qualify via the RMR).

2022-12-22 14:23

yes correct. 16 invited + 16 from open qual then top 8 from each swiss make it to the RMR and 2:3 teams will play for the 17 and 18 spot

2022-12-22 14:34

They can choose to split the qualifiers into different regions for ping reasons, so a 16 team Asian qualifier would probably only happen if they did the qualifier on LAN. A LAN qualifier would be awesome for the Asian scene, but more likely they'll do a bunch of different 8 team online qualifiers split between the regions.

2022-12-22 20:28

Acceptable. Reasonable. Considerable.

2022-12-22 11:30

Wtf

c9th

2022-12-22 11:32

What is Natus Botcere doing in the top 5....

G2 2nd xd

Well the reason they made the system is g2 and astralis missing majors, so they adjusted the ranking to benefit them and other big orgs so it wont happen again :)

2022-12-22 11:42

This system is just for RMR qualifier so it doesn’t really have anything to do with G2 as G2 were even invited to last RMR

2022-12-22 11:45

Yea im still waiting for valve to announce a wildcard spot which will be awarded to the biggest org that misses the major. In fact they just should make 50% of the major spots purchaseable while they are at ruining the major system for good.

2022-12-22 12:40

Its valve not ESL and BLAST

2022-12-22 13:02

No team will qualify to the major with these rankings, and almost all of the top teams will be auto invited to the RMR anyways. I don’t think you understand what’s happening here. All this does is allows teams that play high level tournaments all year to skip online qualifiers. That’s it

2022-12-22 14:14

avangar in asian rmr, interestink

2022-12-22 11:33

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Going for that permanent free major spot B)

bro really thought avangar is better than grayhound,lynn vision,rare atom and ihc

2022-12-22 11:52

they are

2022-12-22 12:09

I honestly have no clue. None of the 5 teams you mentioned are good.

2022-12-22 12:41

Didnt know Kazakhstan was an European country

2022-12-22 12:13

Almost like Kazakhstan is an asian country

EG Omegalul

yeah their secondary team is ranked higher xD

2022-12-22 16:13

How the F**K is g2 ranked higher than faze??????????????????????? :D:D actually how is that possible? :D

2022-12-22 11:34

Recency bias

2022-12-22 11:50

Do you think we should bring the points in for next major from 2 majors ago

2022-12-22 12:58

Ofc not, power ranking should be based on current form always

2022-12-22 13:00

G2 just beat faze?

2022-12-23 02:09

It's based on $ winnings and g2 got that fat 500k

2022-12-22 12:00

Because only post-major stuff counts obviously

2022-12-22 14:03

alright, makes sense :) thanks

2022-12-23 09:28

literally teams can buy their spot in closed qualifier and people are happy. Disgusting, for me i don't care about pro scene anymore.

2022-12-22 11:36

What a joke

Why is AVANGAR in the Asian RMR?

2022-12-22 11:39

Kazakhstan is in Asia so that's probably why.

2022-12-22 11:46

90% of kazakhstan territory is in asia

he probably thought of it as an east european org.

2022-12-22 12:11

ik that but they always played in Europe. This roster in particular even played the EU RMR earlier this year as Team Unique.

2022-12-22 12:45

How is EG black higher than EG's main team jesus even with them being partners with blast and ESL

2022-12-22 11:40

I think it's because they changed players mid year

2022-12-22 12:26

Valve is probably weighting winning bad tournaments like cash cups and NA ECL higher than bombing out of important tournaments.

2022-12-22 16:29

2022-12-23 10:07

EG Black more points than main squad lol

I think it's due to player changes.

2022-12-22 17:33

Valve can’t be competent at anything they do, fucking dogs Unless they only took into account the last 3 tournaments played 😹😹😹😹😹😹 Edit: nvm key factor is prizemoney 😂😂😂😂💀💀

2022-12-22 11:43

it seems it’s only taking into account since the major which is why heroic and g2 are 1 and 2 since they’ve won the 2 T1 tournaments since then. Not perfect but should be evened out a bit more by the RMR

2022-12-22 11:44

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Its a fucking joke of a ranking and has no relevance right now because it only took into account like 2/3 tournaments Edit: anyway who thought taking prize money as the main rule is a good idea?

Like I said it will be evened out more by the major. The funny thing is that I think past legends stage still get RMR spots, so the only top 10 team that’s actually relevant in this whole thing is G2. Like astralis should also benefit from this but they’re fucking15th lol

2022-12-22 11:49

No ranking that has prize money as the prime factor can be taken seriously, usually the most prestigious tournaments have the biggest prize money but it depends on the TO of that tournament, it could have 100k less prize money and have the same status of importance This shit is garbage, didnt expect any from Vavle and they still disappointed

2022-12-22 11:56

Well it’s not just prize money earned - it’s prize money in if who you’ve beaten as well I’d say in general prize money is at least correlated to how prestigious tournament is. You say a tournament can have a prize pool of 100k and be more prestigious but I can’t see any example of that this year. Overall do you not find the top 13 or so to be pretty much correct outside of a few specific slots, but the teams are relatively accurate, no? They said they will change the model based how everything unfolds. I don’t think this is the worst results given that they had to start at some arbitrary starting point

2022-12-22 12:03

EPL has a prize pool of 823k and its still an S tier event where the best teams participate Winning EPL should not be less valuable in the rankings than winning a BLAST event for example

2022-12-22 12:05

That’s more than all the blast events except world final which I don’t think is a stretch to say is more prestigious.

2022-12-22 12:08

I dont think you see the problem with this shit lmao So some arab pumps 1.5m prize pool into a tournament with the same teams as BLAST World Final that has 1m prize pool, you are telling me just because of that 500k difference its fair that its given more points when the teams are the same

I understand it COULD be a problem. But valve just unveiled it and said it was subject to change. Overall as it stands right now I think the correlation of prize money -> prestige for tournaments is pretty accurate for the most part. If someone made a super expensive tournament that was just for the sake of getting teams to the major, I’m sure that could be addressed. Valve said it’s a work in progress. I also look at the rankings and they seem pretty accurate outside a few outliers. G2 for example should probably be around 7th or so and maybe bump faze up a bit. Otherwise the teams in the top 13 are the ones who deserve to be there. Be honest, consider valves history and how open the CS scene is. Do you not find it pretty impressive they were able to pretty accurately get the correct roughly top 13? I’m absolutely shocked it’s as roughly accurate as it is

2022-12-22 12:16

It literally does not matter since this ranking only exists to sort out closed qualifier invites.

2022-12-22 12:24

Isnt it for rmr qualifiers so they will count the last major as the first event and not the whole year at least I think that. Its for major so it will go around major and restart after Paris major

2022-12-22 13:12

free ride for blast partners again xd

5 of top 10 aren’t blast partners

5 out of 10 is a lot

2022-12-22 11:47

Not really when you consider most of the elite teams are blast partners anyways. 6 of top 10 on HLTV are blast partners

some of them will get invited because they makr legend in the old system anyways

2022-12-23 02:58

g2 top 2XXDDDDDD

2022-12-22 11:48

'asia' 'nixuh' 'bravado'

NA geography education

2022-12-22 13:55

EG black > EG

EG Black higher than Evil Geniuses lol

ESTOWNIA numba 76 yeah baby

2022-12-22 11:53

How is this fair 90% of the asian tournaments does not even get featured in hltv? How will the asian teams earn point?

Don't ask, just smile and wave, valve does no wrong

Maybe HTLV will wake up and feature more Asian tournaments

2022-12-22 12:25

Hltv racist towards asians. They're not even covering the NKT lan match happening right now while they cover some danish or swedish college lans

2022-12-22 14:02

+1 also according to valve ranking furia's female team rank higher than rare atom what a dog shit system.

2022-12-22 14:21

furia fe has OLGA goat, who does rare atom have?

2022-12-22 16:38

If I speak I am in BIG trouble.

2022-12-22 17:20

Asia top1 = Europe 57th xDDDDD

2022-12-22 11:57

Navi Junior>riders xdddd

2022-12-22 12:01

ok what now

Can we cross the points of the regions to get a global ranking or are they complete separate rankings? 🙄

2022-12-22 12:04

Regional major ranking...

oh i finally know what df rmr means thanks valve

2022-12-23 02:59

2022-12-22 12:06

Lynn vision top 1 asia? Lmao they'll disappear on lan

Lynn Vision Top1 asia?? lol they are known lan dodgers , such frauds

2022-12-22 12:17

actually they took 1 map from G2 on lan

2022-12-23 05:03

Liquid America team LUL EliGE - Poland oSee - Korea nitr0 - America NAF - Canada YEKINDAR - Latvia

Wtf ? Faze are not first place? This is joke.

2022-12-22 12:21

Faze haven't done something in half a year

2022-12-22 12:31

Oky but G2, Heroic and Outsiders did more then them in whole year? No. So why would they put Faze in 4th place.

2022-12-22 13:10

Recently yeah, this is not a "RECAP OF THE YEAR LIST" , its a ranking. Heroic played really good on their 5 last tournaments Outsiders won a tier 2 thophy and a fucking major G2 for me doesn't make sense in First place but they were not bad in Pro League and ok in blast fall finals and they won the last tournament of the year

2022-12-22 13:14

Ásia and Oceania are dogshit and stil get 4 spots at EPL

Cry about it

WOOOOOOOO FALMES 14 :)

2022-12-22 12:29

kinda roobed but ok :v

deserved for 17 win streak team gosugamers.net/counterstrike/rankings

2022-12-22 16:34

how is G2 2nd in a Valve ranking when they didn't even go to the last major

2022-12-22 12:30

because they just win 500k?

2022-12-23 03:00

ok, Valve decided that Blast and ESL partner teams should just get free points too

2022-12-23 15:36

nice saw are good on the ranking

fnatic -krimz + peppzor check valve

Bruh peppzor is now playing for eyeballers🤩

2022-12-22 12:49

i know, valves ranking says so when you follow the link

2022-12-22 12:50

Oh I see

Riders Tier 6, imo right know it's reallistic

2022-12-22 12:34

they can't even win tournments locally so it was kind of expected :(

2022-12-22 12:38

Avangar asia? ez major spot for Kazakhs

2022-12-22 12:37

Might as well put Russian teams in Asia too

Legend SIXER participates in the ranking in two different teams

Eh black ranked higher than EG? Lol

2022-12-22 12:51

Ofc they use prizepool money as a metric.. Partner teams being benefited from this closed circuits while the rest needs to grind the shit out of open tournaments to surpass them. This and the last change they made to the RMR is just a way to ensure big dogs get their spot in the major.. might as well just go and invite who they want

2022-12-22 13:07

Naaah What are these rankings 😂 160: Sweden, f0rest, GeT_RiGhT, karrigan, olofmeister, Friberg. They really got points for losing 16-2 in a showmatch???

2022-12-22 13:11

Wtf is this shit rankings

Vulve pliz make public official comp ranking system too

2022-12-22 13:16

Whaaaaaaaat

2022-12-22 13:27

Not nice, what i liked about the major was that everyone had a opportunity.

2022-12-22 13:32

valve made something that looks close to realistic, and people shit their pants because EG Black actually earned more from cash cups than EG from doing jack shit and being dead last in every possible tournament

It’s honestly shocking how accurate it is for a first iteration. Obviously not perfect as for example G2 is too high. But it’s quite good for a first test IMO

2022-12-22 14:22

prizemoney is never an indicator of skill.

2022-12-22 15:40

Of course it isn't, however it's still better than VALVe to have their own judgement which tournaments are worth points and which arent - in this situation all tournaments are relevant.

2022-12-22 16:20

time to play WESG if its determined by price money

2022-12-22 13:38

So some teams get a boost in the rankings because they're directly invited to tournaments because their org is partnered with the tournament organiser. Yeah I cannot see this being an issue to competitive integrity in the future.

2022-12-22 13:40

This is literally just to skip online qualifier. I see no issue with if a team has consistently beaten great teams all year they get to skip an online qualifier where a single cheating team could ruin your whole tournament

2022-12-22 14:19

yeah, also look at Evil Geniuses.. they are partner team both with ESL and BLAST but because they play like a shit they will have to play open qual anyway

2022-12-22 14:37

ez for Iron Blood

2022-12-22 13:41

recent prize winnings doesnt mean achievements throughout the season, but it is first iteration, hope they revise it better

2022-12-22 13:42

ez 4 FURIA AND FLUXO

2022-12-22 13:53

Imagine HLTV rankings being so shit, Valve of all companies makes their own

2022-12-22 13:56

Doesnt work well for Asia, AU teams are disadvantaged due to less prize money in the region compared to China etc.

2022-12-22 14:20

interesting :/

2022-12-22 14:39

EG BLACK > EG

2022-12-22 15:25

This is only better for big orgs

2022-12-22 15:26

Mythic below FURIA fe ....

2022-12-22 15:29

Sorry but this calculation system is very very bad. Expected more by a company that makes money with programming and algorithms.

2022-12-22 15:38

WTF XD

2022-12-22 15:41

in sAw we trust <3

2022-12-22 15:47

cool, now remove all bo1s and we might be getting somewhere

2022-12-22 15:53

hey at least this is better than the CSPPA ranking

2022-12-22 16:08

This is quite good way to do this. I have nothing to complain until we see it in action. 1) its publicly available information and easy enough to understand 2) it punishes top heavy prizepools (of partner teams) because that way only the winner will get anything towards Valve ranking. This means that most tournaments it will be much more beneficial to spread the prizepool more evenly to get attention of more teams for "easy points". This will lead to more healthy cs:go system overall. 3) It punishes partner team tournaments for spreading money in other ways than prizepools. Meaning that if the patner shares get more added to prizepools, some other teams than partners only have a chance to benefit from those increased prizepools. 4) In theory any TO, especially just before rmr teams are locked, have good chance to do a massive tournament with massive prizepool that everyone close to the qualification line will have to participate or risk not getting the invite.

2022-12-22 16:24

Finally someone managed to make a ranking worst than Hltv's and ESL's, good job Valve

2022-12-22 16:26

Why are the russian teams listed as Europe? They are Asian teams.

2022-12-22 16:30

unveil operation instead

2022-12-22 16:51

G2 didn't go to the major and only one a single event in the entire year, what shit rank, it seems the only tournament they looked at was the next one

2022-12-22 17:18

kkkkkkkkkkkk liquid over furia is a bad joke. Mother0ckers

2022-12-22 17:28

I wish one day they had the balls of calling the continent "America" because America = SA+NA , America is NOT U.S , U.S is just a country in America.

2022-12-22 18:22

holy shit the NA dick riding is crazy never thought i would say this but hltv ranking is better than this lol

2022-12-22 18:33

Prize money should be weighted to be last in the algorithm vut it's a great start

2022-12-22 18:58

1 event sends G2 up to 2nd ... riiiight

2022-12-22 19:16

fluxo, atk, eg, mibr, nouns better than 9z? kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2022-12-22 19:32

ATK so fucking high

2022-12-22 20:39

This is a bad joke If i have a esports team, lets say i am G2 I hire 7 more "csgo teams" from some poor country and pay them minimum wage i change all the player contracts that i keep tournament winnings i then organize a 1 million dollar torunament every day, winner gets 300k 2-8 100k each after 1 week g2 has made 2.1mil in winnings against opponents who all made 700k..... its an over exaggeration but TOs with partnered teams will likely change their format to help their partnered teams to farm extra money in return for higher entry fees.....

2022-12-22 23:03

Bravado and Nixuh in Asia rankings? xd

2022-12-23 00:13

Huge joke

2022-12-23 02:07

twitter.com/dust2us/status/1605794966327..

2022-12-23 03:36

Very bad take, major that was always free from franchising and is supposed to be equal chance for everybody now will count performance in blast events which spots are highly dependent on whether the org is paying Blast for a partnership

2022-12-23 12:22