Final Valve Ranking update issued ahead of Shanghai Major RMR & qualifier invites

6-8-2024 23:47

The tentative list of teams invited to the Shanghai Major RMRs and its qualifiers is now known.

Valve has released the final update to its Regional Standings ahead of the previously announced cut-off date of August 7, and as such the teams invited to the Perfect World Shanghai Major RMRs and its qualifiers can be determined.

The ranking doesn't factor in some results from August 6 and came a day earlier than expected, leaving uncertainty around whether the list was final or another update would follow. However, HLTV has confirmed with Valve that today's updated ranking will be the one used to determine invites for the Shanghai Major qualifying circuit.

Shanghai Major ranking cut-off set before IEM Cologne

Valve also confirmed to HLTV that organizations that have multiple teams qualified in different regions or for different stages (for example, Imperial at the Americas RMR and Imperial Valkyries at the Europe RMR closed qualifier) cannot compete with both teams.

Asia remains the only region to still offer an open qualifying circuit, with five teams from sub-regional qualifiers set to join The MongolZ, FlyQuest, and Lynn Vision at the Asia RMR. Teams from Europe and the Americas have no open qualifier avenue and will be invited directly to the RMR or closed qualifiers, with the latter region split into North and South America until the RMR proper.

Pending official confirmation, HLTV has put together a presumptive list of invites after removing any secondary or tertiary lineups by organizations, sorting teams into the RMR they are expected to compete in, and accounting for any duplicate rosters listed in Valve's ranking.

Europe RMR

Europe RMR closed qualifiers

*Valve's ranking lists the roster Cloud9 used for the Esports World Cup Europe qualifier, which includes Daniil "⁠alpha⁠" Demin, Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy, and Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov. It is unknown whether the team will receive an invite by listing Perfecto to retain their core and then substitute in a player from their current lineup. If they do not receive an invite, Metizport are next in line for a spot.

The following teams were removed by HLTV from the Europe standings:

- Liquid, Wildcard because they are expected to compete in Americas
- MOUZ NXT, Imperial fe, Aurora Young Blud because they have their main teams invited elsewhere
- BLEED, Monte because they were listed twice and already have their newer lineups invited

Americas RMR

South America closed qualifier**

North America closed qualifier**

ex-Limitless***

**South American teams living in and competing in North America can choose to play in either qualifier. As such, the exact list of teams for each region will not be known until the official confirmation.
***ex-Limitless disbanded; it is unknown whether the team will accept the invitation.

Asia RMR

The MongolZ

FlyQuest

Lynn Vision

Asia closed qualifiers (China, East Asia, Oceania, Middle East, Rest of Asia)****

****Invites for the sub-regional Asia closed qualifiers are incomplete as only Oceania has enough ranked teams to fill all invite spots in its qualifier.

exciting

2024-08-06 23:47

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how did fnatic sneak in directly to rmr?

2024-08-07 04:48

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luckily still ranked high and there being a ton or european slots

2024-08-07 05:20

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na is dog water

2024-08-07 13:49

Idk, but we promise to waste our spot wisely

2024-08-07 07:46

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exactly that xd

2024-08-07 09:16

-afro -bodyy will have to wait until after the RMR then…

2024-08-07 16:16

Tier 1 duh

2024-08-07 16:47

4 Polish teams lets gooo

2024-08-06 23:48

200% chances of qualifying ez

2024-08-07 00:29

Polish math

2024-08-07 02:25

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50%*4 = 200% Simple as that

2024-08-07 03:45

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Nope 0,5^4=0,0625=6,25% chance that not even 1 polish team qualifies 1-0,0625=0,9375=93,75% chance that at least 1 polish team qualifies Here you go

2024-08-07 08:22

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all your fancy mathematics just to be wrong, we all know 4 * 50% = 200% bruh on a serious note, probability doesn't even apply here as winners of play-in matchups are not randomly chosen

2024-08-07 08:28

Its always 50% You advance or no

2024-08-07 09:24

2024-08-07 15:52

g2 #1 deserved valve knows ball

2024-08-06 23:49

G2??? :D

2024-08-06 23:50

LETS GOO PORTUGALLL

2024-08-06 23:52

ef 2nd place deserved

lmfao

2024-08-07 01:56

Cloud9 probably paid Perfecto not to join a team so they could sub him and interz for RMR points

Well I doubt Perfecto would have wanted to do a hobbit and join some random t2 CIS squad either. Better off sitting there until after the major where teams will want to make changes and he will be out there.

2024-08-06 23:53

Pera shutdown the org before the RMRs lol. Impressive that BC.Game got enough points so quickly as well.

thanks to joel lul

2024-08-07 04:39

For Pera id assume the core will compete under a different name right?

crazy how metizport fumbled the susp - ztr lineup only for them not to make the RMR CQ cut-off 💀💀💀

they have been fumbling for last few months by not cutting their 0.94 rating awper, idk maybe he has some tapes

2024-08-07 00:01

Meanwhile both attending the rmr's in their respective teams. Swedish orgs once again proving they don't know how to run their teams.

2024-08-07 00:13

metizsports is a norwegian org but I get what you mean

2024-08-07 00:18

Deserved, I'm still mad about that move. Go gamerlegion and wildcard !

2024-08-07 10:05

erm what the sigma (also why is liquid playing in the americas rmr)

2024-08-06 23:59

2 eu players, 2 ame players. They get to choose (would be stupid not to choose Ame)

2024-08-07 00:22

Does the coach not count? Usually they do as they're the alternate. If that's the case, Liquid would be 3 Europe, 2 NA, 1 Asia.

2024-08-07 00:40

The coach doesn't count and never did, idk where you got that from.

2024-08-07 01:48

they want Liquid to play in EU so bad, so when Liquid fails to qualify they could say "at least we lost against Tier 1 teams" and not "we lost to Fluffy Aimers" lmfao

2024-08-07 14:15

no, the coach doesn't count. neither do subs. it's only about the "starting" five

2024-08-07 01:49

Ez navi

2024-08-06 23:56

crazy that Imperial fe could have competed in closed qualifiers

2024-08-06 23:57

wouldve been so funny to watch them get 3 rounds max on a map against W7M or some random team like that

2024-08-07 00:45

imperial fe is the best fe team what's crazy

2024-08-07 01:34

no female team played closed qualifier ever in cs history for majors

2024-08-07 01:44

imperial fe players must be sad like they had a chance to play in closed qualifiers , it doesnt matter to org as main imperial already in closed qual

2024-08-07 08:15

That's technically not true since HSG played in a closed qualifier: liquipedia.net/counterstrike/BLAST/Major..

2024-08-07 15:10

LETS FUCKING GO HOMYNO

2024-08-06 23:58

Poor Lekr0 man

The wrong phoenix team is listed in the na closed qualifiers list; when u click the team it sends you to an eu team that competed back in 2019

thanks :>

2024-08-07 00:38

HObbit so good he quallied twice

2024-08-07 00:00

Can someone explain to a retard like me how this works? Do the teams from closed qualifier compete for a RMR spot and then what? And how many teams will go through from RMR?

Yep. 16 teams from the EUCQ will qualify for the RMR. In NA and SA, 4 teams from each CQ will go to the RMR. Essentially the CQs are just qualifiers for the RMRs which is a qualifier for the major.

2024-08-07 00:05

8 teams from closed quali go to RMR A (in Europe) and other 8 teams go to RMR b

2024-08-07 00:06

32 teams from EU RMR closed qualifiers are split into two 16-team RMR CQ A 16-team RMR CQ B 8 teams from each qualify for the RMR proper, same thing repeats 16-team RMR A 16-team RMR B 14 EU teams qualify for the Major (eight to top-16, six to top-24/opening stage)

2024-08-07 00:08

what is eclot and unity doing here

Czech LANs do their work

Eclot won czech Grandslam (lots of money). Unity played small tournaments like United21 and won some money there plus czech LANs they were top3.

2024-08-07 05:11

historical moment for insilio

2024-08-07 00:02

they any good?

2024-08-07 03:17

INSILIO, GOAAAAAAAAL

Fuck you Akros (Akros fucked up maaryy's pc and because of that 9INE vs Permitta match was postponed)

INSILIO LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

2024-08-07 00:03

****Invites for the sub-regional Asia closed qualifiers are incomplete as only Oceania has enough ranked teams to fill all invite spots in its qualifier. This is what you get when you dont add ECL Asia to HLTV as an event. Asian teams literally have 0 matches/points on the rankings lmao.

2024-08-07 00:15

It's a weird HLTV policy not to add leagues that feature bo1 matches

2024-08-07 03:48

Nvm Asian ecl is the only league not to be featured here, that sucks

2024-08-07 04:01

Yeah, Valve's 10 win rule is a little tough for Asian teams, but HLTV are just making it worse.

2024-08-07 15:12

BetBooms scheme actually worked

lol , fnatic directly to RMR is insane

2024-08-07 00:10

Good showing at Yalla, Good showing at Fire League, won RES, 2nd at CCT tournament and blameF carried points from Astralis.

It's so weird because they are definitely better than most of the closed qualifier teams, but a lot worse than almost all the teams directly invited too.

2024-08-07 00:27

If the rumor about them holding Afro until RMR deadline is true, we'll see him leave in the next couple days (My prediction would be until Heroic gets eliminated from the RMR).

GuardiaN to Fnatic, it's finally happening

2024-08-07 08:07

yeah, your point makes sense, but their recent form has been pretty bad

2024-08-07 00:28

blameF didnt carry any points from Astralis though. Valves ranking doesnt work like that. When a team makes a roster change the points earned by the old lineup still counts 100%. So all Astralis games where blameF participated still counts 100% towards the current lineup of Astralis. Likewise fnatic has kept all the points earned by the lineup before blameF joined. This is true as long as a lineup doesnt change more than 2 players. If a lineup changes more than 2 players it starts from 0 points again.

2024-08-07 02:55

Lynn Vision to Asia RMR over TYLOO. Hilarious. TYLOO is 12-2 in Challenger league. They would have made it to the Asia RMR directly if the HLTV Asia/Australia admin did his job and added the goddamn event to HLTV.

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yeah its criminal, they know valve use their database for the matches, they need to at least be consistent in what they add and not ignore the responsibility. Why are OCE ECL on here but not asia? Thats just the main issue but there are many more discrepancies making it much harder for asian teams to gain points compared to OCE teams who are fighting for the same invites

2024-08-07 00:43

Leagues with bo1 /bo2 are not featured on HLTV for some reason

2024-08-07 03:49

There are literally NA ECL matches going on right now, and as I mentioned OCE group stage matches are also on hltv so thats not true

2024-08-07 04:06

You are right, but it was their policy at some point tho, sucks for Asia

2024-08-07 04:07

yeah its really dumb, I hope they will do something about it

2024-08-07 04:08

as they are now they shouldn't have no problem taking lynn visions ticket. 3 will get threw the Oceana rmr just hope they don't find their selves playing both mongolz and flyquest in the rmr and they don't get matched up against some sus team in closed qualifier

2024-08-07 00:46

The bigger issue is that only one of Rare Atom and TYLOO can qualifier for the RMR.

2024-08-07 15:13

They don't add it on purpose because at some point Chinese tournaments were used solely for the purpose of earning money with staged games and hltv didn't want to showcase them to their audience.

2024-08-07 00:51

Well ECL Asia isn't just some random Chinese tournament. Its literally hosted by ESL and it could be considered "the" tournament for Asian tier 2 cs. Also Tyloo wasn't even the only team that was robbed of points. IHC, BROMO, ATOX all of these teams currently sit at the top of the standings in ECL, but they get 0 points for it. Also Asia shouldn't be punished forever for something that happened along time ago.

2024-08-07 00:59

This is the excuse that has been used, but it's bunk at this point. There's no evidence that Asia is more likely to throw games than Oceania which has several players banned for doing exactly that.

2024-08-07 15:15

There was, a few years ago when it still was a thing even ru casters who were close to the scene knew about such matches. Plus since Chinese weren't really good at the game, these throws were obvious (not planting / not shooting/ etc). Also, hltv stopped showcasing Oceania tourneys as well (most of them, same as Chinese ones).

2024-08-07 15:26

Yes, I'm sure it was true before and several players in Oceania were actually banned for fixing, but now HLTV features all Oceania events without question now and still refuses to feature most Asian events. At this point I'm only advocating for ECL to be added, and not events like XSE Pro League or Asian Super League. Even though I'm sure those events would be added to HTLV if they were Oceania events,

2024-08-07 15:29

It's a shame that we've gotten to the point that HLTV are allowed to gatekeep an entire scene.

2024-08-07 15:14

anarkezinho lets go

Now let the release of rosters begin. Let's see how many teams in the next week decide to pull out their support lmao.

2024-08-07 00:30

HLTV Fucked Tyloo, they shouldve gotten the invite over Lynn but because they didnt include any online cup matches or ECL they didnt get enough points (despite being 12-2 and OCE getting all their shit counted :DDDD) Now only 1 of RA and Tyloo can make it and they both deserve it much more than lynn. Aside from that the new system is looking really good

2024-08-07 00:41

all they did was buy lynn visions top fraggers wym deserved XD

2024-08-07 00:50

??? Alright I guess if someone buys all of faze's players they dont deserve the invite meanwhile faze get it with their new team of random lvl 7's from faceit, great logic :DD Also if you could read which I understand is difficult maybe its the ECL and online matches they have played with like 90% winrate that would make them deserve it ?

2024-08-07 00:54

it's just not a cool underdog story to get excited about we want to see blood sweat and tears not "hey lets just buy out the competition" resulting in a weaker team than the original

2024-08-07 01:09

I dont understand your point, again going back to faze when they were winning everything, was that not exciting because they got their players from mouz? + its only 3 players, the core is still what tyloo and RA have had for years. I think its actually pretty exciting that CNCS has a roster with the highest potential since 2018

2024-08-07 02:30

years? you mean 10 months. and yes it's boring to watch stacked teams succeed how wouldn't it be.. who wants to watch a movie when the ending has been spoiled

2024-08-07 02:51

i hope c9 finds a way to make it to the rmr

3 CZECH TEAMS!!!!!!!!!!

2024-08-07 00:49

sinners vs eclot major final 🙏🙏

2024-08-07 00:55

oskar will finally get his major at 50 years old

2024-08-07 01:01

lol, I hope so

2024-08-07 03:21

tyloo getting that spot EZ

Let’s go: Unity Mongolz Dyanmo Eclot Fnatic Bleed 1win M80 And LAG GL

fnatic now is the time to make a change do it already

We are all waiting for it :)

2024-08-07 08:20

bc game shold be dq'd after recent situation :D

They probably will be if Joel is proven 100% guilty.

2024-08-07 01:16

no gun5 and rush b :<<<

2024-08-07 01:39

Rush B lost a game to Joel on fire and missed closed qualifier due to that

2024-08-07 03:00

but there is a team of cheaters BC.GAME

2024-08-07 09:08

Akimbo is an NA team why are they in the asian qualifiers?

2024-08-07 01:46

3 mongolian players (presumably living/studying in the us/canada), therefore the valve rankings automatically assumes they're an asian. they are eligible to pick either qualifier afaik (provided they have enough points to earn an invite to them, which afaik they do, for both the east asian qualifier or na qualifier)

2024-08-07 01:57

****Invites for the sub-regional Asia closed qualifiers are incomplete as only Oceania has enough ranked teams to fill all invite spots in its qualifier. HLTV please, for the love of god add ECL Asia

2024-08-07 01:54

That's probably daddy's, I mean, Valve's decision.

2024-08-07 03:22

No, it's HLTV's decision not to include ECL Asia (and VALVE only counts matches covered by HLTV)

2024-08-07 03:40

It's criminal at this point that HLTV are allowed to ignore an entire region's main event like this.

2024-08-07 15:17

Perfecto back to the main roster then? Or will they sub him immediately with interz?

2024-08-07 02:32

If they list him and sub by Interz, Perfecto won't be able to join another team. That's the problem I guess. So it's either Interz gets kicked, or C9 misses the major

2024-08-08 00:06

Perfecto won't join any other team until after 2025 anyway, so why not steal a check and potentially play at the Major in Shanghai?

2024-08-08 01:22

stacked cq in EU

2024-08-07 02:43

VAMOS 9Z!!!!

2024-08-07 03:23

Monte Rebels enterprise permitta prayge

2024-08-07 03:46

What does this mean for tallon?

2024-08-07 04:47

They will have to go through the open qualifiers.

RIP NCT...

2024-08-07 05:00

RIP Alter Ego

2024-08-07 05:01

If we consider these will truly be the lists, this new system actually worked pretty well, in terms of teams selection, but man, not having open qualifiers really sucks...

2024-08-07 05:03

Good to see Fl0m's Mythic in the Closed Qualifier directly this time.

EZ for Joel

2024-08-07 08:00

rip 9ine

2024-08-07 08:19

Good luck Zero Ten. hopefully Metizport will recieve an invite instead of clown9.

2024-08-07 08:25

Zero Tenacity on lan, this shit gonna be fun. Please AKROS Antycheat, ban them mfs

2024-08-07 09:07

they have already played on lan, in tournaments with acros and from bootcamps

2024-08-07 09:11

My crushes johny speeds, zero tenacity, arcred, permitta, good luck to best gamers in the world 👏👍

2024-08-07 09:22

Any link to the ranking or am I blind?

2024-08-07 09:27

github.com/ValveSoftware/counter-strike_..

Yeah I alraedy got it but thanks m8

2024-08-07 15:18

Tomiko stickers, soon

2024-08-07 12:51

Permitta haha

2024-08-07 12:56

There is one thing I still don't understand. Are teams that are directly invited to the RMR allowed to change their roster before the RMR? The Valve rules are strange and make it confusing to know. It seems like there's a 10 day cutoff for the final roster, but then the rules also say the invites go out to the core players, but then also say the core players is all 5 of a roster. Valve pls fix (But seriously, I do not understand the ruling here.)

2024-08-07 18:09