Valve unveils first edition of Regional Standings ranking

Valve has released the first edition of its Regional Standings, a ranking that will be used to determine a portion of invitations to later qualification stages for the CS:GO Majors.

The developers have revealed that the ranking is based on three factors: A team’s prize money earned, their beaten opponents’ prize money earned and teams beaten, and head-to-head results; and said the exact formula will be public in the coming weeks.

According to the release, the current formula will be used for the qualifiers leading up to the BLAST.tv Paris Major but is subject to change at a later point as Valve continues to experiment with the model, looking to find one that best predicts future match results.

The ranking is separated into three regions, Europe, Americas, and Asia, each of which will be used to determine half of the invites to the closed qualifiers for the corresponding Regional Major Ranking tournaments.

Over 300 teams in total are currently ranked across the three regions, and the latest full standings can be found here.

Europe

1. Heroic – 1,949 points
2. G2 – 1,946
3. Outsiders – 1,935
4. FaZe – 1,930
5. Natus Vincere – 1,814
6. Vitality – 1,770
7. fnatic – 1,768
8. MOUZ – 1,761
9. Cloud9 – 1,715
10. Spirit – 1,711
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
21… listed here

Americas

1. Liquid – 1,911 points
2. FURIA – 1,713
3. Complexity – 1,552
4. paiN – 1,534
5. Fluxo – 1,487
6. ATK – 1,441
7. EG Black – 1,438
8. MIBR – 1,435
9. Nouns – 1,381
10. 9z – 1,373
11. TeamOne – 1,366
12. Evil Geniuses – 1,359
13. 00NATION – 1,354
14. Imperial – 1,327
15. EG White – 1,295
16. Sharks – 1,291
17. ARCTIC – 1,291
18. Isurus – 1,223
19. Iron Blood – 1,190
20. Strife – 1,185
21… listed here

Asia

1. Lynn Vision – 1,281 points
2. IHC – 1,255
3. AVANGAR – 1,250
4. Grayhound – 1,223
5. TYLOO – 1,108
6. VERTEX – 1,084
7. Wings Up – 1,067
8. NKT – 1,061
9. Rooster – 1,023
10. Rare Atom – 1,010
11. Invictus International – 994
12. Encore – 966
13. ARAVT – 959
14. Nixuh – 957
15. Bravado – 896
16… listed here