Valve introduces regional rating for CS:GO Major qualifiers

For the first time, Valve has published its own regional teams’ rating — the rating by which invitations to the CS:GO Majors qualification stages will be determined.

Valve has published the first version of its own rating and the methodology by which it is determined. The company will use the results of teams in other championships to simplify the qualification process. Going forward, this system will determine invitations to closed qualifiers for regional RMR tournaments.

Rating component

Valve stated that the rankings are based on three factors: the team’s prize money earned, their opponents’ prize money earned, and head-to-head results. According to the release, the current formula will be used for the pre-BLAST.tv Paris Major qualifiers, but may change at a later date as Valve continues to experiment with the model in an attempt to find one that best predicts the outcome of future matches.

The exact formula will be reportedly made public in the coming weeks.

Each region has its own rating

The ranking is divided into three regions – Europe, America and Asia, each of which will be used to determine half of the teams invited to the closed qualifiers for the respective RMR tournaments for the Major.

Valve will be continuously updating the table, until the start of open qualifiers. Currently, a total of more than 300 teams participate in the ranking. You can find the top teams in the rankings at the moment in a list below:

Europe

1. Heroic – 1,949 points
2. G2 Esports – 1,946 points
3. Outsiders – 1,935 points
4. FaZe Clan – 1,930 points
5. NAVI – 1,814 points
6. Vitality – 1,770 points
7. fnatic – 1,768 points
8. MOUZ – 1,761 points
9. Cloud9 – 1,715 points
10. Team Spirit – 1,711 points
11. OG — 1,690
    12. ENCE — 1,681
    13. Ninjas in Pyjamas — 1,674
    14. Copenhagen Flames — 1,649
    15. Astralis — 1,644
    16. BIG — 1,634
    17. SAW — 1,565
    18. Sprout — 1,559
    19. Bad News Eagles — 1,535
    20. GamerLegion — 1,522

America

1. Team Liquid – 1,911 points
2. FURIA – 1,713 points
3. Complexity Gaming — 1,552 очка
4. paiN Gaming – 1,534 points
5. Fluxo – 1,487 points
6. ATK — 1,441 points
7. EG Black – 1,438 points
8. MIBR – 1,435 points
9. Nouns – 1,381 points
10. 9z – 1,373 points

Asia

1. Lynn Vision – 1,281 points
2. IHC – 1,255 points
3. AVANGAR – 1,250 points
4. Grayhound Gaming – 1,223 points
5. TYLOO – 1,108 points
6. VERTEX – 1,084 points
7. Wings Up – 1,067 points
8. Team NKT – 1,061 points
9. Rooster — 1,023 points
10. Rare Atom – 1,010 points

CS:GO Major qualification system overhaul ahead of 2023

This marks the continuation of the changes that Valve has been recently making to the CS:GO Major qualification system. These changes include adding the closed qualifier for some of  the top-ranked teams that consistently perform well at Valve-hosted and third-party events but didn’t receive a direct invite to RMRs, as well as expanding RMR slots for the Asian region.

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