Spirit rise to No. 1 for first time in history

17-6-2024 19:05

The team around chopper ride into the mid-year tournament break atop the team rankings table after lifting the Spring Final trophy.

Spirit lifted their second trophy of the season in London

Spirit have claimed the status of No. 1 in the world in HLTV's Team Rankings following their title-winning campaign at BLAST Premier Spring Final over Natus Vincere.

Spirit beat NAVI to win BLAST Premier Spring Final

The Russian team previously peaked at No. 2 for three weeks following their prodigious run to the IEM Katowice trophy in February, but couldn't convert upon their favored status at PGL Major Copenhagen and fell to FaZe in the quarter-finals.

Spirit's absence from ESL Pro League Season 19 and IEM Chengdu in the following months left them unable to climb the rankings further as MOUZ, FaZe, and Natus Vincere locked into a battle for No. 1.

Upon Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets and company's return to top-tier competition, they lost series to MOUZ and Vitality to end BetBoom Dacha Belgrade and IEM Dallas as runners-up and in 3-4th place, respectively.

MOUZ claim No. 1 for first time in history

However, they ended the first half of 2024 the way they began, securing a title by completing a resounding run through BLAST Premier Spring Final with victories over G2, Virtus.pro, Vitality, and Natus Vincere to max out their achievement and form points.

The race below Spirit remains close, with Vitality and MOUZ split by just 31 points and FaZe ahead of Natus Vincere by just 57.

Vitality remain in second after consistently making deep playoff runs since their failure at IEM Katowice, finishing 3-4th at the Copenhagen Major and Spring Final and as the runners-up at EPL S19 and IEM Dallas. However, Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire's side will still regret being left as the only team among the top six that failed to lift a trophy in the first six months of 2024 heading into the break.

Complexity gain a one-place boost after ending the American organization's 14-year LAN trophy drought at ESL Challenger Jönköping, while the rest of the top 15 remains largely the same with teams shuffling one or two places in either direction.

G2 also lost 20% of their points after the benching of Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković earlier in the day, but the reduction in points did not affect their final standings heading into the break.

G2 bench nexa

Counter-Strike World ranking on June 17th, 2024

RANK

TEAM

ACHV

FORM

LAN

TOTAL
POINTS

+/-

Spirit

500

200

297

997

Vitality

448

172

300

920

MOUZ

423

190

276

889

-2

FaZe

446

253

798

-1

Natus Vincere

371

290

741

266

105

201

572

-2

Virtus.pro

191

107

394

Astralis

156

111

114

381

-1

Complexity

151

333

10.

HEROIC

133

288

-2

11.

Liquid

264

12.

The MongolZ

110

263

-1

13.

104

254

14.

Eternal Fire

107

236

-1

15.

Falcons

116

227

16.

BIG

141

17.

Ninjas in Pyjamas

140

18.

BetBoom

134

19.

FURIA

130

-2

20.

FlyQuest

124

21.

MIBR

114

-2

22.

M80

107

23.

fnatic

100

24.

Aurora

25.

ENCE

26.

paiN

-3

27.

3DMAX

28.

Imperial

-4

29.

GamerLegion

-4

30.

SAW

-2

i luv u

2024-06-17 19:05

12 replies

undeserved

2024-06-17 19:26

10 replies

ef still top15 lul

2024-06-17 20:50

meanwhile mad kings at top 100

2024-06-17 22:23

BIG was #1 too... look what happened :D

2024-06-17 23:15

7 replies

spirit prob wont fall off like that but giving them rank 1 this soon has me kinda questioning hltv ranking fundamentally, like how do they go from #5 to #1 with one tourney win essentially that isnt even that big? doent make sense

2024-06-17 23:31

4 replies

everyone else is just too bad i guess.. the usual business

2024-06-18 00:16

Spirit finished 3-4th in dallas, finished 2nd at bb dacha won kato and spring final. And quarter finals at major. Lookijg at the competition mouz had debatable results before winning epl and bb dacha. Vitality two good recent results with epl and dallas but bad kato. Faze good start but slowing down nw and only won one event. Navi won major and bombed out in the other tournaments apart from spring final. Scene has just so much fluctionation that a team that wins two events is basically top 1.

2024-06-18 00:38

2 replies

feel like wouldve made more sense for vitality to reach no 1 first and then spirit in like two weeks especially if navi only get +1

2024-06-18 10:04

1 reply

Vitality hasnt won anything so wins count alot i assume.

2024-06-18 12:23

bagusers? cheaters deserve. igl is still there

2024-06-18 00:09

BIG had 100% lan winrate

2024-06-18 01:53

i luv u too

2024-06-22 03:51

ez donk top1 this year probably

2024-06-17 19:06

Congrats Spirit, deserved!

Deserved

Nice!

9z <3

2024-06-17 19:07

G2 soon to be #1 with malbsMd

goated organization

They just had to wait for donk to appear.

Donk top 1

Navi having better Lan rating than Faze is surprising

2024-06-17 19:08

faze having worse Lan rating than navi is unsurprising tbh

2024-06-17 19:53

Congrats, well deserved after so much sacrifice. It's a very young team and current state in the world forced them to live in a different country for 9 months a year. It's a huge sacrifice to ask out of people who still must be very tied to their families, but these guys made the best out of it. Huge respect, Spirit story has been a pretty heartwarming one so far and it's only a beginning

5 replies

Thanks to your country for welcoming our guys. I heard only good things about Serbia from them

2024-06-17 20:31

Maximum respect for Serbia, very sovereign country. I admire your people.

2024-06-17 21:41

very anti-nato country, rightfully so.

2024-06-18 00:10

2024-06-18 01:05

Serbia is goated.

2024-06-18 12:11

liquid having more achievement points than mongolz XDDD who came up with these numbers lmao

2024-06-17 19:09

current ranking is quite P2W, you pay for Blast/ESL contracts - you get the points. The only reason BlameF's Astralis was still in top 50 was contracts. It makes Snappi's ENCE run that much more potent because he didn't have Blast contracts and yet he got to top 3 iirc. Or top 5, either way that means they were No1 pretty much but they couldn't play in closed tournaments which for some reason give ranking points to teams who don't do anything. Come 2025 we are looking at Valve's solution to that.

2024-06-17 19:11

but does blast from january or march really matter that much when they literally got only 7-8th and 9-16th??

2024-06-17 19:14

apparently it does for some terrible reason. And it's hard to blame HLTV because those are the tournaments and they have to rank it that way.

2024-06-17 19:16

Ence had ESL deal so it helped.

2024-06-18 01:38

it helped, but teams that were above ENCE just happened to have both ESL and Blast deals... Weird how that works

2024-06-18 10:06

Gj, enjoy while it lasts!

congrats

we're back boys

Mongolz deserve to be in top 10

Expected. 10 year domination inc

2024-06-17 19:13

nope nexa already kicked hooxi kick also incoming eazy shanghai major for my goat niko G2 top1 domination

2024-06-17 19:15

niko is talented, but he chokes wherever he is at or whoever he plays along with. Dont you know about the curse?

2024-06-17 19:17

not the igl version of niko, mayonessi malbs and jeekees will carry, him and hunter can just keep stealing them paychecks

2024-06-17 19:18

W Flair

2024-06-18 02:34

Yeeee

lets go fnatic

3 replies

bro who cars bout damn fnatic nowadays

2024-06-17 19:25

I do

2024-06-17 19:27

Understandable, great flair bro Regards

2024-06-17 19:28

Well deserved. Proud of you guys

2024-06-17 19:24

donk

2024-06-17 19:59

Deserved Sh1ro back being in a #1 team, is justified

2024-06-17 19:32

nice :3

yeah this rating system is busted, Liquid gaining points makes absolutely no sense lmao

It's not complicated - just means that other teams lost points faster than liquid

2024-06-18 01:34

Over Mongolz? Who've just won two LANs? Yeah no somethings not right

2024-06-18 11:02

HLTV likely ranks IEM Chengdu and IEM Dallas higher than Yalla Compass. Liquid also placed higher at EPL and second at CCT Finals.

2024-06-18 12:31

"The team around Chopper[...]" Yeah, sure lol

Expected

2024-06-17 19:34

Congratz Spirit!

2024-06-17 19:37

donk effect

2024-06-17 19:38

goatz

2024-06-17 19:40

NIP #17 vamos

2024-06-17 19:41

its not fair mouz didt play

whose fault is that

2024-06-17 20:00

8 replies

blast

so they gifted #1 to spirit, however, we never know if mouz would play like they did at ProLeage, play offs weren`t in the studio after all, soo

2024-06-17 20:57

6 replies

betboom dacha was 3-0 for mouz and it wasnt EPL studio as far as i know

2024-06-17 21:01

there was no crowd, not even that EPL "crowd"

2024-06-17 21:13

ok, im sure we will see them fight for titles for a long time and we will get this answered, eventually on biggest stages aswell.

2024-06-17 21:25

absolutely agree! also let me get this straight, im not a mouz hater, not cheering for anyone actually, just love good matches. and u saying like "its not fair cause there was no mouz" doesnt make sense, like they didnt qualify or get invited idk, actually. so why is it spirits fault? they won and very convincingly, so deserve that

2024-06-17 21:38

mouz still got head2head convincingly, thats why it should be them in a coinflip if both werent at the event the other team won, that makes sense

2024-06-18 16:53

yeah but the quality of the events they won werent so great - RMR, Dacha (again no crowd), also they got 2:0`d by spirit at Major Closed Qualifier

2024-06-18 18:02

Spirit also haven't played EPL.

2024-06-18 01:30

How XD

2024-06-17 19:45

EF tier 1 since they are below 20

this is the poggiest news in a while tbh also faze dropping 1 down is the 2nd poggiest news also also mouse missing 1 event and losing 2 spots: Aware

2024-06-17 19:58

The most wonderful day, and so deserved!

2024-06-17 19:55

poor w0nderful :(

2024-06-18 17:38

lets goooooooooooooooo

2024-06-17 20:13

how is falcons still #15 wtf

2024-06-17 20:19

997 points lol who is the hater on the voting panel?

There is no voting, just formula

2024-06-18 12:33

Rigged ranking who cares ? Not even TOs anymore

2024-06-17 20:27

Deserved. Best team of the 2024 so far

2024-06-17 20:30

LETS GOO DONK SHIRO DESERVE THIS TOO

2024-06-17 20:47

donk era

2024-06-17 20:48

2024-06-17 20:49

not sure about spirit overtaking #1 while mouz didnt even attent blast. doesnt seem worth it. and vitality above mouz aswell? this is a stretch

2024-06-17 20:51

i have no idea what happened here

2024-06-17 21:00

Did they not qualify?

2024-06-18 00:06

MOUZ overrated asf, Dont cry

2024-06-18 00:19

comment will age as well as saw v c9

2024-06-18 02:05

spirit didn't attend epl nor chengdu, this only makes their number one spot even more legit

2024-06-18 09:14

It makes it even more funny, because they skip events and are ranked #1 for no reason xd

2024-06-18 12:49

they got good results in every tournament they played, they deserve it. the ranking is always gonna have some sort of recency bias as points decay with time, the ranking is flawed, we all know that, but it does make sense that they are top1

2024-06-18 16:47

2024-06-18 16:54

nah, mouz two tournaments win: 1 Spirit 1 win: #1 Hltv is biased as hell

2024-06-17 21:10

mouz won 1 t2 esl pro league spirit t1 Katowice and Blast u delusional fan

2024-06-18 00:11

not a fan of mouz nor spirit. But looks biased for me af.

2024-06-18 00:35

pro league t2, lol, literally stacked af and no bo1 or single elimination flukes.

2024-06-18 16:55

yes pro league is t2 100% fact and mouz is overrated t2 bots

2024-06-18 17:43

copium

2024-06-18 17:53

sh1ro played in two teams (i not countin mixes from 2018) and make both of them #1

2024-06-17 21:16

G2 top 1 soon

2024-06-17 21:33

Very well deserved. Thanks to zont1x, donk washed

2024-06-17 21:44

2024-06-17 23:07

How the fuck do you become #1 but winning 2 tournaments and also skipping the majority of tournaments during the year? NOW i understand what Twistzz was talking about when he was talking about Points at the Hltv show in Dallas. Now i get it lol.

2024-06-17 23:45

They only missed two tournaments. They have also won the most out of all teams

2024-06-18 00:30

i mean im glad for spirit, but i get what you mean. imagine mouz waking up not just being 2nd but 3rd all of the sudden. fellas were sweating all season, then miss 1 event and get this

2024-06-18 01:33

SHIRO DESERVED THIS HE ALWAYS CARRİED GAMBİT ALONE

2024-06-18 00:05

Don't be so dirty to my boy Axile.

2024-06-18 12:22

Deserved. People who are saying undeserved or too soon. Then please do some research. They have played 9 event in 2024(Including spring groups, Major RMR and kato play in). They have won 2 trophies. Rest all they finished 2nd to 5th. Major 5th-8th. So that's good amount of achievement to be on the top. I don't think any other team was this consistent in 2024 1st half.

2024-06-18 00:27