FaZe claim top spot, Spirit breach top three in post-Katowice rankings

12-2-2024 20:34

Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's men have returned to the number one spot in the rankings after almost two months in second place.

The European side have reached five grand finals in a row

A slew of changes have been made in the HLTV ranking as the dust settles following Spirit's monumental run at IEM Katowice. Two of the most notable shifts included FaZe overtaking Vitality for the list's top position, while Spirit shot up eight spots in the ranking to plant themselves among the top three.

donk stars as Spirit sweep FaZe to win IEM Katowice

Spirit's victory at Katowice has thrust the squad to new heights in the world ranking, with their third-place position being the highest in the organization's history. The team's previous peak of fifth place was achieved over a year and a half ago, following the Russian side's semifinal finish at PGL Major Antwerp.

Making room for the new addition to the top three is Natus Vincere, who slip three places to sixth after narrowly missing out on playoffs at Katowice.

For new readers or those in need of a refresher, here's a summary of how the HLTV World Ranking works:

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. Online matches and tournaments are included, but with a diminishing factor which means they cannot make a big difference among the top teams, and mainly serve to put new teams on the map.

FaZe managed to wrest control of the number one spot after their stellar streak around the release of CS2, before Vitality claimed the throne at the turn of the year. But, Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire and company's dead-last finish at Katowice, paired with FaZe's runner-up placing ensured this was only a temporary change.

Katowice's results also see Falcons reassert their place in the top ten at the expense of Cloud9, who fall to eleventh place. Fellow newly-assembled lineups ENCE and HEROIC are also on the rise as a result of their performances in Poland.

Unfortunately, there cannot be victors in the ranking without losers. The aforementioned declines of Natus Vincere and Cloud9 on the list are prominent examples, but Virtus.pro's loss of four places is also notable, resulting from the team's early finish at the Katowice Play-in.

Squads who similarly suffered from their premature exits at Katowice include Astralis, BetBoom, Apeks, and FURIA.

Counter-Strike World ranking on February 12th, 2024

RANK

TEAM

ACHV

FORM

LAN

TOTAL
POINTS

+/-

FaZe

500

175

300

975

Vitality

388

165

206

759

-1

Spirit

303

200

131

634

MOUZ

293

134

506

255

109

445

Natus Vincere

213

128

431

-3

Falcons

215

109

399

Virtus.pro

160

117

352

-4

Complexity

135

267

-1

10.

Monte

134

263

-1

11.

Cloud9

125

263

-4

12.

Apeks

224

-2

13.

ENCE

101

220

+10

14.

FURIA

190

-2

15.

HEROIC

190

16.

Eternal Fire

189

-2

17.

GamerLegion

176

-1

18.

Astralis

156

-3

19.

BIG

116

20.

MIBR

109

-3

21.

BetBoom

108

-3

22.

HAVU

102

23.

The MongolZ

-2

24.

Liquid

25.

Rebels

26.

9 Pandas

-2

27.

Ninjas in Pyjamas

-1

28.

Preasy

29.

SAW

-1

30.

3DMAX

lul

2024-02-12 20:35

HAVU better than Lulquid, NIP, and Preasy

2024-02-12 20:36

3 replies

nip top 2000

2024-02-12 20:38

1 reply

niP2000

2024-02-12 21:48

EZ for Havu… deserved… NIP, lulquid and Preasy?? they deserve the plummet in the rankings for all the trash CS they've been playing

2024-02-12 20:45

deserved!

pog

2024-02-12 20:37

Faze got destroyed though put spirit no 1 Ropz #3 btw Donk no1 2024

2024-02-12 20:39

10 replies

...that isn't how the hltv points system works for the rankings bro like yeah they got destroyed but it isn't just a group of people saying "who should be #1 this week"

2024-02-12 20:42

7 replies

it works differently for everyone for example danish teams have always been overrated in this rating.

2024-02-12 21:40

6 replies

Do you think there's some group of ppl getting together every week and deciding how to rank all the teams or something? Or are you claiming that the algorythm somehow has a bias towards teams from a particular country? Not sure which option is dumber

2024-02-12 22:57

5 replies

read what I wrote "danish teams have always been overrated in this rating" its fact

2024-02-12 23:29

4 replies

It’s not fact, it’s fake news. These rankings are based on tournament results with the most recent tournament being the most relevant. It’s the same algorithm for every team so there is no way for danish teams to be overrated.

2024-02-13 00:46

delusional

2024-02-13 03:55

meds schizo

2024-02-13 12:12

2024-02-13 12:13

niko was number 2, oof.

2024-02-12 21:15

Max 500 points for achievements over the last 3 months. Wouldn’t be possible with how HLTV do rankings.

2024-02-12 22:28

G2 in the top 5 is a scam

hltv love Niko

why? they qualified for blast groups and they made it to playoffs in Katowice. Navi didn’t make it to playoffs and are only 1 rank below them

2024-02-12 21:26

I didnt see any of navi games so I am surprised that they were in top5 without winning any event?

2024-02-13 10:37

How is SAW still in top 30?

2024-02-12 20:41

Portuguese Powerhouse!! PORTUGAL CARALHO!!!!

2024-02-12 21:45

right...they should be top 5 ez

2024-02-12 21:50

RTP arena frauds

2024-02-13 15:00

Spirit is very good now, but teams will watch demos and counter them now so they’ll have to keep reinventing themselves that’s the challenge.

Everyone just completely ignored their group stage results and didn't prepare for them before play-offs matches, sure... FaZe even had full day-off before their match in group stage and haven't watched a single demo of Spirit, sure...

2024-02-12 21:24

Bruv I watched a few POVs of Donk on mirage as CT. He plays like clockwork, other people with skill will counter it.

2024-02-12 22:47

Nobody said it's impossible. I'd even say FaZe partially "countered" donk at first side of mirage so he couldn't make too many multikills like usually. But saying that "teams will watch demos and counter them now" as if nobody watched Spirit's demos at all and nobody tried to counter Spirit at Katowice -- is complete bullshit. They're pro teams, they have coaches and analysts, they for sure tried to prepare.

2024-02-12 22:58

This. It was well known that this kid was insane for month before Katowice happened, so even if teams just prepared 'recently' for Spirit, lets say after play-ins, there was still time to prepare for him. Just straight delusional to think they didn't try.

2024-02-13 01:13

2 replies

I’m not saying they didn’t try. There’s just far more data now.

2024-02-13 01:31

yeah ofc its gonna be harder for him in the next big event and he's gonna be countered some time. Same happened to YEKINDAR when he was in VP. Used to be the lighter version of Donk and look what happened to him after teams figured out how to humble him.

2024-02-13 01:34

tbf Spirit is an awful matchup for Faze, since Faze's style relies so much on them out-aiming people (especially on T side) - and good luck out-aiming donk...

still cant believe FURIA is still that high. losing to mongolz who's lower ranked and online games doesn't cost that much?

2024-02-12 20:51

they had also lost to mongolz (IHC at the time) last year on Kato, so it's not like they replaced a good showing with a poor one. and I don't think those online qualis count a whole lot for this ranking

2024-02-13 01:33

FURIA won Elisa Espoo 2023 two months ago. Tier A on LAN. The points from this victory will only decrease next month.

2024-02-13 03:13

The actual winner of the Navi team fell apart, and the game changer m4a1. Without that faze is never going to be a major winning team. They lost the championship to Big right after winning a major in bo5. And Karrigan is still the IGL who lost the 2018 Boston major. And rain is still the one that doesn't know how to spray. Without m4a1, those two are total clowns.

2024-02-12 20:53

Ok but what is the real top 10? Spirit FaZe Vitality MOUZ VP G2 NAVI Astralis C9 Complexity Something like that?

2024-02-12 20:52

Why in the hell would Astralis and Complexity be in TOP10?

2024-02-12 20:54

M8 Astralis are back....

2024-02-12 20:55

Yeah back at 21-24 place of IEM Katowice

2024-02-12 20:57

They just bought best 2 players of Heroic and still lost to them, are they back?

2024-02-12 20:59

They'll be back :D

2024-02-12 21:07

Yeah, back... to the back of the line 😅

2024-02-13 09:32

u made me laugh xD astralul? botlexity? c9?

2024-02-12 22:26

Navi won against g2 like 4 times in a row. How come they are above. Its crazy.

2024-02-12 21:49

My Top Ten would be 1Faze 2Vitality 3Spirit (need to schow more conistency) 4Mouz 5VP 6G2 7Falcons 8Navi 9Ence 10EF

2024-02-14 13:47

M8 it's a good list I can understand your selection

2024-02-14 14:06

Most useless ranking there is. Esl and volvo rankings mean something. This one is useless

ESL is worse than HLTV Ranking

2024-02-12 21:27

very nice

Seems pretty accurate in my opinion. Maybe except the #1 spot, which should ofc be spirit, if this was a current power ranking (it is not). Sadly, Astralis still going down, not up, hard to be happy for that, but honestly they played like crap when it mattered, so there it is.

2024-02-12 20:58

Usually I would say teams could have a lucky day and win so they don't deserve first spot based on one win but this time they really do.

2024-02-12 21:17

Since CS2, FaZe in all 6 cs2 pro events FaZe made grand final every time (6 grand finals) and won 3, three times 2nd, Spirit won one and no other achievements and you think Spirit should be top1 ranked? You kidding?

2024-02-12 21:57

if this was measuring who's the current best team, no doubt. Spirit gave up just a map during a championship run and even beat Faze 2 times with a 5-0 map difference. that's a level of dominance well beyond a lucky/fluke tournament. of course that's not what the ranking is about, so Faze and Vitality finish to last year still put both ahead for now.

2024-02-13 01:48

Has nip ever been this low? I know they were 27th last year too but that was because of roster changes that made them lose points.

Furia should be below top20

2024-02-12 21:01

How the fuck is havu at 22 with losing a player and not playing any games after it as well? :D

2024-02-12 21:02

Havu has only won Sampi & TSM in 2024. Clearly deserved spot

2024-02-12 21:05

Faze +1 after donked 0-5 NaVi -3 after donked 1-2

2024-02-12 21:06

faze +1 because vitality -1. Nothing more, nothing less. Second place in Kato is still worth a lot, Spirit has nothing else to show us. If they win next event they take number 1.

2024-02-12 21:18

Spirit is so good, so rankings calculation should be now based solely on the result of teams' matches against Spirit, I agree.

2024-02-12 21:29

faze 2nd navi 7-8th

2024-02-12 21:30

EF ROBBED AGAIN

2024-02-12 21:12

Least nationalist turk

2024-02-13 18:23

how does mouz have a lower form rating than cloud9 and apeks

2024-02-12 21:13

G2 +1?

they made playoffs kato unlike some other teams in top10

Poeple are confused the team get into finals and were top 2 went to top 1, while vitality (the top 1) go out throw the event by the fastest way, And Spirit won only 1 tournament take on mind they were like 10-15 team, so its not that easy by oné tournament get into no 1 spot

another ez win for carrygan

Say goodbye to this account as well

what?

2024-02-12 21:41

As the rest of your accounts, this one will be gone as well

as i stated in my bio im new here i really dont know what youre talking about sorry

You really think that avoiding a Fiji flag will help you?

2024-02-12 21:42

2024-02-12 23:23

Spirit robbed

2024-02-12 21:22

furia ranked #14 xd havu and bb team placements are also xd

2024-02-12 21:31

Metizport top 13 confirmed.

2024-02-12 22:21

if the spirit were Astralis, they would be top 1 we know all these danish things lol

2024-02-12 21:38

FaZe got hummiliated #55 Furia 14? for real? how? Asstralis still in top 30? something is wrong here. Maybe reality changed too fast. think thats it but asstralis was allways ass, no idea how they still linger in the top20 region

2024-02-12 21:39

In all 6 pro cs2 tournaments FaZe made 6 times Grand Final (3x 1st, 3x 2nd) and Spirit achieved only 1 tournament win and basically nothing else. Of course FaZe is top1, nobody come even close to their achievements in CS2. Chopper counter FaZe perfectly. They saw FaZe weakness and exploited it every round and pushed almost every time with 4-5 guys same time to site and karrigan couldn't counter that tactic, chopper was better IGL. If FaZe had better IGL, FaZe would surely won 2 first map, FaZe throw so hard so many rounds by solo pushing against full team of Spirit, while Spirit had perfect teamplay and discipline. Not even mentioning that karrigan picked FaZe's worst maps first and last two maps in bo5 were their best statistically by far (which they didn't even got to play)... Sure in this tournament Spirit did better, both on long run in CS2 FaZe is clearly the best teams when it comes to achievements.

2024-02-12 22:06

Make vita great again

2024-02-12 22:04

such a big gap after top 3

2024-02-12 22:17

vitality get rofl stomped by teams not yet near top 10 and they keep the form numbeR? loool

2024-02-12 22:18

Mongolz >> Liquid & Ninjas, kek

They played Katowice, those two didn't

2024-02-12 23:30

Expected

Mickey mouse ranking system , every team is incosistant and doesn't deserve their place. Falcons built their roster 2 months ago and somehow they are immidiately 7. place NAVI always play few good maps/games and after that they dissapear G2 is G2 , you can't expect anything from them , 1 tournament they reach finals and then next 5 tournaments they got eliminated after 2 games. Virtus Pro is playing tier 2/3 tournaments more than t1 , we rarely see them in t1 tournaments MOUZ won ESL pro league and somehow reached semifinals of katowice just to be destroyed by faze and they are somehow 4. place Only 2 rellevant teams who are consistantly good are FaZe and Vitality. They can have bad tournament but they reach playoffs in 90% cases and we almost always see them fighting for the trophy.

2024-02-12 23:39

Actually only consist team is FAZE: CS2 have 6 Pro Events so far, FaZe made every time to Grand Final, won 3 and 3 times 2nd. Nobody come close to such achievements. Do I need to remind you that Vitality already twice out in tournaments in last placements in CS2?

2024-02-13 00:21

Imagine claiming top spot in the world after getting donked .. twice

2024-02-13 01:03

#97

2024-02-13 01:32

what is nip doing in top 30

2024-02-13 01:47

by mid year or end at least, Spirit will be #1

2024-02-13 01:53

In our hearts Spirit is the number one. No matter what hltv rating says. It doesn’t always relate the best team in the world here and now.

2024-02-13 02:07

FURIA getting slapped around in tier2/3 and are still 14? Enough evidence to show this ranking system is heavily flawed. Teams should be properly punished for losing to tier2 teams

2024-02-13 02:13

Eternal Fire robbed.

2024-02-13 02:32

Vitality have played 4 CS2 tournaments (not including blast groups here) and they either bomb out last place or win the entire thing. really interesting team out there,

2024-02-13 02:42

And they got only minus one point only how does it make sense

2024-02-13 11:04

They are minus over 100 points. But yeah when you think about CS2 only it seems that they are too highly ranked. It's the other teams fault tho, apart from spirit most of the teams below them aint delivering a thing, so Vitality are somehow forgiven for forgetting how to play the game

2024-02-13 15:39

Would be nice to wipe CS:GO achievements faster now that we have a new game.

2024-02-13 04:59

How saw,nip and havu are still in top30 amazes me

2024-02-13 05:00

amazing how without donk they go back down to top30 DONK IS JESUS I SWER TO JESUS

2024-02-13 07:26

FaZe back to where they belong, but Spirit is a real threat. Navi should swap position with G2.

2024-02-13 07:54

Getdonked

2024-02-13 07:58

FaZe less goo

2024-02-13 09:03

oh great now fans who support this scam of the earth will think that they are great as if they didn't get steamrolled 3-0 just a few days ago. FaZe claimed top1 not because they did good, but because Vitality did terrible

2024-02-13 09:08

So vitality should stay top1 after making fast exit from kato? 🤣

2024-02-13 10:46

So I'm not the only one question this fkn joke

2024-02-13 11:03

no, you sillies, my point is summed by this: "FaZe claimed top1 not because they did good" this is the context, not the fact Vita flopped...

2024-02-13 11:35

You new dum dum, you give me gum gum.

2024-02-13 11:37

Faze were top2 and end up in the final while top1 got eliminated early. Spirit were top9 ofc they wont be top1 after one event. Then what team should be top1 by you logic 🤣

2024-02-13 13:31

Would you stop twisting my statement and missing the point? For you in particular, once again: FAZE SUCK, BUT THEY JUST SUCK LESS - that's all I'm unsuccessfully trying to telegraph here... Nothing else to add. No one is talking about what place Spirit deserves, no one is even talking about where should Vitality be. It's solely about FaZe being there because of the numbers and instead of the impact. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

2024-02-13 14:56

HAVUJA

2024-02-13 09:59

Mouz top 4 😭 for what 💀💀💀

2024-02-13 10:22

Vitality and cloud 9 left the competition first and they have minus 1 point wtf is this joke? Lmfao

2024-02-13 11:02

#FazeUp number one

2024-02-13 12:23

Ence +35 thanks to Katowice playin (+25) and playoff (+10) performance. Karma after they were roobed by stupid and unfair 3player transfer rule.

2024-02-13 12:28

Faze is a great team. Even if they lost to prime Spirit 3-0 (there's nothing to be ashamed of). I hope they will win major or at least will show us something cool.

2024-02-13 12:27

faze was destroyed this ranking is a joke

2024-02-13 13:16

spirit 5 - 0 faze

2024-02-13 13:19

So many people on this site have zero idea of how HLTV ranking works, sadge. It is like this every damn time some team wins a tournament, which is not ranked #1 or so already, everyone thinks they should be #1 in the world... sorry but stop being so stupid already and learn!

2024-02-13 14:04