NAVI claim No. 1 in world rankings after EWC win

22-7-2024 19:45

The Ukrainian organization returns to the top of the pile for the first time since August 2022.

NAVI's victory in Riyadh put them at the top of the rankings

Natus Vincere have risen to number one in the HLTV World Rankings following their title-winning campaign at the Esports World Cup.

NAVI fire past G2 to win Esports World Cup

The team led by Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen previously peaked at No. 2 after their surprising Major victory in Copenhagen before dropping down the rankings, as they couldn't keep up their form and suffered early exits at ESL Pro League S19 and IEM Dallas.

They returned to form at the BLAST Premier Spring Final, where they reached the final, but the late resurgence couldn't prevent their drop to fifth in the rankings ahead of the summer break.

Upon Natus Vincere's return to competition at the Esports World Cup, however, Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy's troops found form once again. They won the tournament by defeating FaZe, MOUZ, and G2 to lift the title and propel themselves to the top spot in HLTV's and ESL's world rankings.

NAVI's rise also marks the first time that an Aleksib-led team reached the No. 1 spot in the world rankings. The Finnish tactician previously came closest with ENCE (No. 2) and G2 (No. 3).

Natus Vincere replace Spirit as the highest-ranked team in the world after Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets and company reached the milestone for the first time in the organization's history just over a month ago.

Spirit rise to No. 1 for first time in history

Spirit also got leapfrogged by MOUZ, while G2's grand final appearance returns them to the top five at the expense of FaZe, who drop out for the first time since the conclusion of IEM Sydney in October.

The entire top 30 ranking looks as follows:

Counter-Strike World ranking on July 22nd, 2024

RANK

TEAM

ACHV

FORM

LAN

TOTAL
POINTS

+/-

Natus Vincere

500

150

300

950

MOUZ

412

200

230

842

Spirit

422

197

214

833

-2

Vitality

369

135

216

720

-2

308

138

217

663

FaZe

359

186

622

-2

Virtus.pro

241

114

451

Astralis

123

273

Complexity

116

261

10.

HEROIC

105

234

11.

214

12.

The MongolZ

209

13.

Falcons

183

14.

Eternal Fire

170

-1

15.

FURIA

163

16.

Liquid

159

-1

17.

Ninjas in Pyjamas

122

-1

18.

FlyQuest

106

19.

BIG

20.

BetBoom

-3

21.

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

M80

27.

Sashi

28.

GamerLegion

29.

3DMAX

-2

30.

SAW

-1

deserved

2024-07-22 19:45

107

deserved tbh, no one can say that this is a fluke rank now

136

19 replies

Sarcasm?

2024-07-22 20:18

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no bro, why would i be sarcastic? i've never been a navi hater, they really deserve to be where they are... In fact I don't know why all this hate on them, Aleksib works quietly, IM is criticized and works quietly, JL is a monster, W0nderful without words and b1t simply headshot machine, b1ad3 only praise too, WHILE EVERYONE CRITICIZES AND CALLS IT FLUKE, THEY WORK AND WIN ANOTHER TIER-S CHAMPIONSHIP...

2024-07-22 20:22

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Dont care who won this irrelevant tournament. Its not about hating navi. - 1 win straight into playoffs - Played 2 teams (out of 4 games) who literally just changed rosters - player break just ended But lets see if they win an elite or s tier tournament the next 5 months

2024-07-22 20:43

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The problem with your words is that if they win another S-tier tournament in the next five months, you’ll find three new reasons why... They won. That’s the point. The rest is the problem of other teams.

2024-07-22 21:09

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Exactly, and I'm not even a Navi fan, in fact I don't even know why I'm “defending” them, but why is it so hard to accept that they're good at the moment? I don't understand that...

2024-07-22 21:38

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Because Aleksi is on navi

2024-07-22 22:06

i like navi? You dont have to be a navi hater to see how irrelevant this tournament is in the grand scheme

2024-07-23 00:51

Lmao, irreevant tournament with 7 top 10 teams. There has to always be one delusional dude. So why didnt VP or Spirit defeat G2 when they just changed roster lmao

2024-07-22 21:15

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I was considering making a serious reponse to this comment, but i dont think ur 2022 acc hive mind will be able to comprehend. I will make it very simple in bullet points for u, so u can challenge yourself and think of how prestigious a win this was: - 1 win = playoff - bo1 elimination match - player break - roster changes - VP isn't really a top5 contender so idk why u bringing them up as if g2 beating VP is crazy. Vp literally haven't won against g2 in forever - donk falling asleep on the job lmao

2024-07-23 01:04

- Everyone had the same chance. Lol - Exactly no LB so you better play your Best or youre out - that makes it more competitive. - player break? Not an excuse - roster change? Not a excuse You implied G2 is weak because of roster changed and they played against G2, dunno what you dont get. Anyway calling 1 mil prize pool tourney with 7 top 10 teams irrelevant is Just delusional. By your logic they should wait 6 months before any major tourney is played, but by then you would come up with new excuses

2024-07-23 17:34

Do you consider a tournament with 1 million dollars in prize money, in which all the best teams participated, to be irrelevant? G2, one of the teams that changed rosters and reached the final, also beat Spirit (which was ranked number 1 in the world) quite easily (they barely lost a map against Spirit) and also beat Virtus Pro easily.

2024-07-22 21:48

"G2, one of the teams that changed rosters and reached the final" Not sure if you realise, but u are adding to my point. You can make no conclusions from this irrelevant tournament. Also, it speaks volumes to your intelligence when you use prize pool as the metric in which you decide the relevance. When im saying irrelevant tournament, im talking about the fact that this tournament wasn't indicative of who is going to be the #1 and #2 teams going forward. It was literally a toss up. 2024 acc btw

2024-07-23 00:55

"irrelevant tournament" Literally had the #1-#7 seeds from the July 15th ranking "Played two teams who just had roster changes" G2 beat spirit held as #1 seed at that time. G2 have the skills to beat navi but they didn't show up Either way navi had to win multiple top 10 teams to win

2024-07-22 22:00

Lets look at all of these top 10 teams they won against. - Furia is just not an impressive team to beat with or without roster changes. - Faze is in the worst form they've been in since cs2 was implemented - Mouz are notorious chokers on the big stage, yet it was definitely the most impressive win. Fair play - New G2 with how many weeks of practice? What a run they had. Truly only no. 1 team could take those scalps

2024-07-23 01:15

New g2 beat TS(#1) and VP(#2) with only s few weeks of practice so i still dont get your point they showed they can win even taz said he feels like they don't have a weakness. mouz are notorious chokers but still they get placed so high on the rankings again and again While faze might be in its worst form we've seen they can beat navi and are still a top team so i don't get the point here And on furia i agree no way should navi lose to that

2024-07-23 04:02

From that, the only "valid" point is going directly to playoffs after round 1. G2 might've just changed rosters but they also beat Spirit and VP. If G2 gets merit for those wins, NAVI gets merit for beating G2. Besides, NAVI hasn't lost to G2 since February 2023. Player break just ended but they placed top2 at Blast. So they clearly carried over their form.

2024-07-22 23:16

Since you really want to bring it up I'll touch on the 2nd place at blast aswell. 2nd place sounds like they were in great form. 8 teams attended and lets cut out the irrelevant teams who werent gonna do anything there. Saw, Astralis, Virtus Pro and g2 with taz standing in for monesy. Now we are down to 4 teams who could realistically win the tournament. Navi managed to land (again) in the easy playoff bracket where they ultimately had to win against the winner of astralis/virtus pro in order to get their 2nd place. Another crazy run from the boys. I do see why u bring up these impressive results. This is kind of like the NAVI ERA we are currently in

2024-07-23 01:24

bruh..... they beat furia - ok meh then beat faze, mouz and g2 on a honeymoon that looked great and beat spirit and vp and they literally just won the latest major against faze. what else do you need?

2024-07-23 10:06

Wut? The distance in the last tournament is same for every team. They beat 3 teams in top 5 ranking to win the championship. They also reached the finals in the previous tournament and won the major this year. Saying they "don't deserve #1" while being the best performing team this year is pure delusion Your argument about their match against Faze in poor form: they've won against faze 3 times in the last 4 matches they've played against them so it's just bs. And they beat G2 who destroyed Spirit.

2024-07-23 11:51

they havent beaten spirit

2024-07-22 19:46

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That's spirit's problem for not being able to beat g2 and facing them this tournament. This ranking update was deserved

2024-07-22 19:48

115

niko life game vs donka

2024-07-22 19:50

Name does not check out

2024-07-23 09:41

But they can confidently beat g2 who beat spirit. And they handle faze better than spirit. Navi struggle with spirit but spirit struggle with teams navi beat.

2024-07-22 22:44

s1mple was the problem

Problem was S1mple

2024-07-22 22:09

was s1mple the problem

2024-07-23 10:07

he probably would argue that competition isnt nearly as strong as it was in csgo

2024-07-23 10:39

Expected

2024-07-22 19:47

No 1 in the name (b1t and s1mple) , number one in the game (NaV1) , well done .

raaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Vitality 4th undeserved

Also col at 9 .

2024-07-22 19:55

Click on details: hltv.org/ranking/teams/2024/july/22/deta.. They have consistently been in top 5 in the last...5 tournaments: hltv.org/ranking/teams/2024/july/22/deta.. And these are top tier tournaments.

2024-07-22 20:41

Except Vitality has LITERALLY won nothing this year. Faze has. G2 has. Yet they're above those two for some reason. There is no universe where they actually are a top 5 team. Top 6 at best.

2024-07-22 21:57

Faze won Chengdu and has bombed out in quarters in every event since meanwhile Vitality had 2 finals in recent events. G2 lost points with the roster change.

2024-07-22 22:23

nice

2024-07-22 19:49

very nice

2024-07-22 22:36

It feels weird being at the top since we haven’t beaten spirit yet, but it also feels somewhat correct. I’d rank them top2, tied with Spirit for 1st place. Unless spirit randomly dies somehow.

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by that logic, spirit should have never been able to get to no1 since mouz rekt them several times.

2024-07-22 19:58

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Idk it’s a weird period, no obvious top1. Just good tournaments and bad tournaments for different teams.

2024-07-22 20:11

They are about 5 teams switching positions at the top depending on how they perform in the last tournament(s): Na'Vi, Spirit, G2, Vitality, Mouz, Faze. Well...these are 6, not 5. I'd say it is better like this than having a team dominating like NIP did at the start of CS GO (2013-14), then fnatic in 2017-18 and then Astralis (2018-19). Maybe you can add Na'Vi in 2020-21 as well. edit: better as in more exciting to watch.

2024-07-22 20:46

Vitality and G2 are dreaming of #1 XD It has been between Faze and spirit and now NaVi

2024-07-22 20:59

They had their time at the top. I hope I remember well: Vitality after winning the Paris Major and G2 after having a great start of the year in...2023. edit: one "big" tournament win and Vitality / G2 would climb back to the top.

2024-07-22 21:04

hltv.org/matches/2372004/spirit-vs-mouz-.. 2 matches won, 2 matches lost hltv.org/matches/2372746/spirit-vs-natus.. 0 wins for NaVi kkkkkk

2024-07-22 21:22

The current spirit donk megafandom has kind of blown out of portion and clouded the realistic judgement of teams. Hype and media appeal of the teams should not bias the rankings.

2024-07-22 20:25

By this rankings, MOUZ have 200 form points, Spirit - 197 and NAVI have only 150. So you are partially right

2024-07-22 20:34

least fraudulent #1

spirit loses 114 points after getting dumped on by g2. thats rough

2024-07-22 19:51

faze #6 wtf fall from grace

2024-07-22 19:53

They were unlucky to get drawn against eventual winners Na'Vi in the quarters. And I was unlucky as I had picked two Na'Vi players and two Faze players in Fantasy :) hltv.org/fantasy/465/league/174363/team/..

2024-07-22 20:48

my chill team xD hltv.org/fantasy/465/league/174363/team/.. only b1t and monesy stronk :(

2024-07-23 01:25

This was a fun one hltv.org/fantasy/465/league/174363/team/..

2024-07-23 04:21

makes sense

2024-07-23 13:22

MOUZ +1????????????

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It's because they got to semifinal while teams they passed by lost in quarters (Vitality, Spirit)

2024-07-22 19:56

Spirit lost to the other finalist and before this won the last event against the winner of this one. MOUZ has done nothing for months and when they did it was mickeymouse LAN in Malta studio .

2024-07-22 19:57

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epl = mickey mouse event in copium999

month long studio lan in Malta wont ever be important to me

2024-07-22 19:59

month long at least cant be some fluke

2024-07-22 20:04

Don't be mad at math. It's unproductive and math will always win in the end.

Ok but 'form' points are bias. NAVI who are 1st and 2nd of the last 2 events have worse 'form' than MOUZ? Yes nice maths.

2024-07-22 20:01

hltv.org/forums/threads/2452435/hltv-tea.. That Bet Boom tournament made most of the difference there. It won't count in a week or two and Spirit will be 2nd and MOUZ maybe even 4th

2024-07-22 20:10

Interesting thread. Thanks

2024-07-22 20:15

Falcons?

Deserved. NaVI is playing really good team CS.

col being at 9# almost same points as astralis,while being so ass is unfair

2024-07-22 20:00

flook

GJ , deserved. Lets go aleksib <3

Hltv clown for this

2024-07-22 20:12

Better than spirit OMEGALUL

2024-07-22 20:17

Spirit is pretty much t2 team if donk loses confidence and plays badly (Like on ancient vs g2)

2024-07-22 20:42

weird how the top 1 team gets farmed by a t2 team constantly innit

2024-07-22 21:25

"if donk loses cofidence and plays badly" he never did against navi, if he would play same way he did vs g2, navi would stomp spirit

2024-07-22 21:45

deserved #1

2024-07-22 20:19

lets efin go!!!!

2024-07-22 20:24

Falcons +1? I don’t get it …

2024-07-22 20:36

It is pretty close from Astralis in #8 downwards. I would guess Falcons leapfrogged Eternal Fire because the points that the Turkish team gained for some tournament decayed this week. It might have been their Major performance when they went all the way to the playoffs.

2024-07-22 21:01

b1t 1 World Cup Ronaldo 0

2024-07-22 20:49

Ronaldo has 2, mate. 1994 and 2002.

POGGERS well deserved! Aleksib major winner and in HLTV top-1 team, what a time to be alive

2024-07-22 20:53

aleksiGOD

2024-07-22 21:00

deserved for best igl in cs2 history

its been a while

2024-07-22 21:24

finally, deserved!

2024-07-22 21:41

neat, hopefully a strong performance coming at cologne

2024-07-22 21:44

Almost 2 years

2024-07-22 23:05

Love these spirit 15 y.o. fanboys and donk f*p*rs + navi haters. Every time they have reasons to do their job :D Navi just win while Apex with Taz are shouting theirs teams are just better :)

2024-07-22 23:17