Valve release September ranking update

1-9-2025 21:19

Invites to PGL Bucharest will be sent out based on the newest monthly ranking.

The penultimate Valve ranking before the October 6 Budapest Major invite-deciding update has been released, with results from BLAST Bounty Season 2, Esports World Cup, and several local LANs and online events factoring into the new standings.

Spirit eclipsed Vitality atop the standings after back-to-back victories at IEM Cologne and BLAST Bounty Season 2, Aurora's finals run at Esports World Cup brought them back into the top 10 (11th to 6th), and 3DMAX earned a jump (13th to 8th) after their title victory at Perfect World Challenge Series 1.

FaZe (8th to 12th), FURIA (6th to 10th), and Passion UA (20th to 33rd) were among the biggest losers of the new ranking, with the latter out of the top 30 entirely after exiting DraculaN Season 1 without a win.

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The September ranking will be used to determine the 16 Global invites to PGL Bucharest Season 2, which is set to run from October 25 - November 2 with $1,250,000 on offer.

Below are the Global standings up to the 30th spot as of the Monday update:

Explainer: The table below showcases the teams' standing in each sub-factor of the VRS: Bounty collected (BCOL), Bounty offered (BOFF), Opponent network (NETW), LAN wins (LANW) and the final head-to-head adjustment (H2H). Values in bold represent the top five earners in each factor.

The VRS formula begins with 400 base points, which are spread among the first four categories in our table so that they add up to the total.

Global VRS on September 1st, 2025

RANK

TEAM

Region(s)

BCOL

BOFF

NETW

LANW

H2H

Points

Spirit

512

589

309

589

2019

Vitality

510

589

292

589

-5

1974

The MongolZ

513

589

303

589

-39

1955

MOUZ

489

589

291

585

-44

1910

Falcons

457

582

256

487

-12

1769

Aurora

435

589

274

499

-48

1749

Natus Vincere

426

480

289

505

1708

3DMAX

433

461

253

589

-43

1692

TYLOO

438

567

255

589

-184

1666

10.

Astralis

399

553

247

511

-48

1662

11.

FURIA

466

453

248

565

-71

1661

12.

FaZe

447

453

261

532

-49

1644

13.

Lynn Vision

396

406

213

524

-1

1539

14.

HEROIC

418

450

228

491

-50

1536

15.

397

442

218

392

1521

16.

GamerLegion

376

448

203

443

1487

17.

paiN

363

399

250

486

-28

1470

18.

Virtus.pro

397

398

240

408

1459

19.

BetBoom

356

461

290

352

-72

1387

20.

Legacy

370

340

211

395

1376

21.

fnatic

304

350

247

541

-99

1343

22.

356

348

210

393

1331

23.

Ninjas in Pyjamas

358

374

245

450

-110

1317

24.

FlyQuest

303

337

177

480

1312

25.

Gentle Mates

295

372

245

529

-142

1299

26.

PARIVISION

317

369

277

123

213

1299

27.

Liquid

349

410

183

298

1295

28.

SAW

358

406

243

358

-88

1277

29.

343

346

266

202

1248

30.

MIBR

355

368

165

315

1240

ENCE>Liquid

2025-09-01 21:20

7 replies

gentle mates > liquid

2025-09-01 21:40

4 replies

yes sir

2025-09-01 21:41

3 replies

OG should SO be making the major man

2025-09-01 22:04

2 replies

spooke will be cranking dat, in a sense

2025-09-01 22:17

1 reply

🥵 Actually Vitality is back on top1 on Valve VRS ranking, news are wrong 🥵 hltv.org/valve-ranking/teams/2025/septem..

2025-09-02 03:25

give siuhy another 2 -3 years to implement his system in liquid. once he does that watch out everybody else

2025-09-02 05:49

omg it'll be fabulous~

2025-09-02 06:10

why furia on 10 smh they're way better than tier3max

2025-09-01 21:21

5 replies

3dmax farmed the lan in china, tbf the biggest winners of that vrs update

2025-09-01 21:23

didn't even knew that lan existed until now

2025-09-01 21:24

Yep, only 5 teams have the max bonus for LAN matches won right now - the top 3 and 3DMAX and TYLOO

2025-09-01 21:32

furia also did not qualify for ewc

hltv.org/events/8648/perfect-world-cs-ch.. i guess

m80 not even t30 damn

26 replies

Blast open London is not rated as it is not finished. That's also why Furia is only at 10. M80 lost the points for the ff games as that event ended already.

2025-09-01 21:33

damn

also online games are not valuable in vrs

2025-09-01 22:13

ff?

2025-09-01 22:25

They forfeited games agains NRG and Bluejays last weekend.

2025-09-01 22:30

and yet still straight to stage 2 of the major vrs major invites are an absolute joke americas clearly have at least 2 spots too many if not more which should go asap to deserving up coming EU grinders...

2025-09-01 22:27

20 replies

but also you have to consider M80 has been grinding tourneys every week but there is a lack of vrs points in the region. All of the teams in EU have more vrs points so its easier to accumulate them.

2025-09-01 22:34

19 replies

im not saying they shouldnt be stage 2 especially after beating navi but yk.. bluejays and fluxo/passion ua deffo dont deserve it and especially not more than teams like og b8 nip pari or probably even liquid..

2025-09-01 22:36

18 replies

its a problem that will fix itself if EU performs at the major

2025-09-01 23:47

17 replies

it should have been long fixed already seeing as how especially NA teams performed in austin... this is gonna set back some EU teams for millions who might kinda desparately need it while NA is dead anyway.... and yes obv their peformances at the major will be absolutely dismal but thats just even more of a reason..... completely wasted spaces when the scene is so competetive and even stage 1 could be showing so so much more in that case, get way more viewers and be far more watchable but ofc no classic valve alas......

2025-09-01 23:56

16 replies

There are already more teams that make it to the major (24->32) Americas had two teams in playoffs (paiN, Furia) If an EU org doesn't exist after not making it to one major, then that's their fault?.... They know the circumstances of them qualifying, and if America's is so much "worse" then it'll fix itself. also,, i rather have said "org" disband if they cant qualify for a major then completely kill off a region

2025-09-02 00:12

15 replies

as i said NA is already dead regardless it wouldnt have to fix itself if valve were to just adhere to their own rules which would equal 2 stage 3 spots for americas, 3 stage 2 and 1 stage 1 as its always been based on performance... also that move to 32 has barely benefitted EU if at all especially when we look back to paris and before its ridiculous honestly again look at the respective performances.... btw all NA orgs are sadder than any EU one could be within top 40 vrs lmao, EU cutoff will be like #22 vrs while asia and americas will be #55 vrs or some shit like that doesnt make any sense at all man especially for americas asia could stay like this ig i dont really care remove 1 spot there max tbh (look at past performance)

2025-09-02 00:20

14 replies

furia my dead team yup VRS argument doesn't work because NA teams have lower VRS due to needing to fly out to europe and compete. not many orgs have the money to be a EU grinder. playing online EU tourneys doesn't make sense because the ping is too high you are blind..... its good you dont run an esports because it'd be worse off

2025-09-02 00:28

13 replies

furia NA for sure man just shows how braindead u are lmao most serious teams reside in EU anyways most of the time....

2025-09-02 00:42

12 replies

That is quite literally the problem that he JUST addressed. If most serious teams reside in the EU, how can minor regions grind in EU without funding? (Answer: they can't.)

2025-09-02 12:23

11 replies

this bs at the major wont fix it anyways tho as i said NA is absolutely fkn cooked regardless.... no pure NA team or americas team with NA in it is gonna even make the major and the fanbase is also easily bigger in EU, brazil, asia, better to focus on those either way

2025-09-02 12:48

10 replies

Your point is not very coherent, but as someone said before, the slots will get taken away as NA loses games early at the major, so I don't see what your problem is. Valve can't just make a system with clear rules and then also just take spots away from NA for no reason. M80 is an NA majority and clearly deserves to be at the major, it's a shame that the Blast rankings don't take effect until all of London is over, because I think M80 would be higher than Liquid despite the forced forfeits M80 had to take in NA. What do you want Valve to do, cut all NA spots? Because that just kills the NA scene faster, the major is one of the only guaranteed places where NA players get to play EU players.

2025-09-02 20:36

9 replies

i. want. valve. to. give. spots. based. on. past. performance how often you want me to say this?? austin major would equal to again two spots stage 3, 3 spots stage 2 and 1 in stage 1 that would be fair and still plenty of space for m80 whom i never said dont deserve attendance they would get one of the 3 or possibly even a stage 3 spot anyways lets see... also if shit is gonna happen anyways the same way as in austin then why not change it now already?? whats the point of this big jerkoff where NA teams and bad SA teams are just gifted shit for no reason while more deserving EU teams get robbed as well as the viewers are of more exciting matches, better competition etc etc there is plenty of reason to cut NA/americas spots as NA is soon dead anyways and again major to major performance from austin as well as every NA team that will make it has EU or asia players in it anyways

2025-09-02 21:02

8 replies

So you want things to continue as they're already going. Performance at the majors dictate how many spots are given, nothing more. It's done this way so that NA and SA teams can fight for their spots. Valve are not going to just kill a scene entirely like ESL did because people are pissy that they have to watch an extra few games, if they wanted to do that, they'd go back to 16 team majors. The Americas only got another slot back because of the expansion, which they will no doubt lose again. But there is no convincing you, you just want to kill off the NA scene instead of seeing the bigger picture that it could come back some day.

2025-09-02 22:16

im not neccessarily in favor of killing NA scene im saying why use a half measure, either just go full on in one direction or the other and be done with it already, if valve give NA/americas more major slots than they deserve based on performance they should at least incentivise more other tourneys in the region at the same time so it at least makes a little sense already... also wtf did ESL even do to kill NA?? did i fkn miss sth? lol more importantly my point exactly is that judging by last major (austin) to now spots seem to not be given anymore based on performance, move to 32 teams doesnt apply in this case bc both budapest and austin have exact same amount of total teams....

2025-09-03 00:37

They heavy hamstrung NA when they made the Louvre agreement, cutting several good NA teams from ESL Pro League and the greater ESL circuit. This is back just when Covid was starting, and it alienated really good youngster teams that were on the comeup like Lazarus and Chaos. This is why Food/Leaf/Xeppa/(insert any actually good rising NA talent) went to Valorant, because they had no ladder to climb anymore and there were no NA tournaments. This is also the deal that gave us the undying corpse of EG just getting invited to tournaments for no reason because they were a "partner team" when it could have been an actually good NA team at those tournaments.

2025-09-03 12:54

thats 5 years ago now tho or depending on how you wanna put it at least 2 and as you now said yourself and especially me many many times over now, NA is already long dead might as well be done with it except for like m80 and mb a few others which is what ive written before now like 5 times too..

2025-09-03 13:38

Yes it was 4 years ago, but it was a major setback that permanently hamstrung NA and hasn't been fixed ever since. It gatekept a lot of small teams from reaching tournaments meaning anything below Liquid or Complexity or EG at the time didn't get to participate in any kind of meaningful event overseas or even locally. Now that VRS is a thing, the lower teams are just getting fucked over by a different issue now, the lower stage of the major is a tier 2/3 NA team's only chance at even sniffing EU competition now.

2025-09-03 18:51

ill do it now for like the third and final time regional allocation as it should be: stage 3 - 5 EU 2 AM 1 AS (as it is, at least they got this right thank god) stage 2 - 4 EU 3 AM 1 AS (not quite the case) stage 1 - 10 EU 2 AM 4 AS (not the case whatsoever, AM got insanely many and way too much somehow for like no reason at all...) this is based on performance entirely, proportionally by what regions managed to advance further from each stage they were/started in just like how it is with playoffs and stage 3 spots...

2025-09-03 00:47

Brazilian teams are on the comeup again and Furia looks pretty good with this roster, not to mention M80 is hitting form and Pain have already been solid. Imperial is also starting to look really good, I think Legacy is the only one with a slightly inflated VRS from local tournaments. Since NA and SA are under a combined Americas banner now, I think it's perfectly fine for them to have retained their spots after the team expansion, because I don't see Valve adding more teams to the major next major, and no doubt the Americas will lose spots this major due to performance. (Mostly because I see Passion bombing out even though I like them)

2025-09-03 13:04

top americas teams being good or better than they have been in a long time doesnt mean the tier 3 ones deserve it more..

2025-09-03 13:34

-lulquid +parivision Better team Better igl

flair

flair checks out, not one single sane person would make this statement unless hes off the meds. Please sir take your meds and you will see that jame belongs in tier 20 if even that, hes so bad its insane they even let him in the server anymore lmao.

2025-09-02 11:32

Liquid 27

Liquid in decadence, nice

2025-09-01 21:27

I understand teams need time to get visas for the major, but Oct 6 invites for an event happening at the end of november that is now (finally) only VRS invite based? almost a 2 month head start feels a little excessive.

2025-09-01 21:29

The more you lower the lead time the more chance players cant make it due to Visa issues, so pick your poison pretty much.

2025-09-01 22:45

Surely all these players already have a shengen visa and can just enter the EU 🗿

2025-09-01 22:52

Tyloo dropping fast but they'll be safe

2025-09-01 21:42

navi #7 lol

makes no sense. With their performance all year they should be down around liquid.

2025-09-01 22:00

They aren't liquid bad - made it to major playoffs while liquid got 0-3'd, made it to cologne semis while liquid exited in 16th.

Arent they going to release october ranking at the beginning of the month that would be used for the major invites ??

2025-09-01 21:45

they release a ranking on every 1st monday of the month

2025-09-01 21:48

Ence over pari lmaoo

2025-09-01 21:46

Fnatic is so back

2025-09-01 21:49

thats why hltv ranking is trash :) vita out from top1 but not here

so many teams you didn't see for months... top 4 is fine all below is weird as f

2025-09-01 21:54

3DMAX #8? Tyloo #9 Weakest scene I have ever seen in entire life

2025-09-01 22:02

list just came out and already outdated

2025-09-01 22:07

lmao how is SAW #22 and how is lulquid worse?

2025-09-01 22:09

Liquid suck, that's how

2025-09-01 22:11

Keep dropping Liquid. You ain't done yet.

2025-09-01 22:10

bug clan out of top30 officially lulquid next

2025-09-01 22:24

Liquid WILL win Fissure Playground 2 and QUALIFY for the Major!

2025-09-01 22:43

LULQUID is so done for...

2025-09-01 22:44

vrs is so stupid... play and win games at tier 2-3 event on lan = move up 15 spots on vrs ranking... with that being said, liquid can u fucking play those events and grind ur way back to tier 1 events so u can make the major... like ur not that good to be thinking u deserve to be at the tier 1 events and be declining tier 2 events on lan

2025-09-01 23:59

matches on-going as they release this. couldn't they have waited ONE day?

2025-09-02 00:02

Not when it is set in stone already as per their own rules.

2025-09-02 09:55

Deserved for Liquid, unfortunately. Fire Jokasteve FFS!

2025-09-02 03:11

> Bucharest Major invite-deciding update has been released Bucharest Major? 🤔

2025-09-02 04:42

this list doesn't match the official list that valve published on their github

2025-09-02 06:08

Parivision will be better than VP by the next ranking update

2025-09-02 09:35

3DMAX!!!

2025-09-02 11:36

Mongolz should be top1

2025-09-02 16:15

Gentle Mates > Liquid OMEGALUL

2025-09-02 16:22

#1 Vitality #2 Mongolz #3 Spirit Vitality nor Mongolz gets eliminated first round by a tier-3 team. They always make the play-offs, also they don't skip half the f*cking events. Same thing for Falcons, why are they top 5?

2025-09-02 23:53