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Team ranking: August 2024
ENT2024-09-03

Team ranking: August 2024

August marked the return of the circuit to the cathedral of Counter-Strike at IEM Cologne, where  Vitality  lifted the trophy after a marathon final against  Natus Vincere , as well as BLAST Fall Groups and BetBoom Dacha Belgrade Season 2, with the latter won by  Spirit .

The month also SAW a plethora of online competitions, including the regional RMR closed qualifiers, three iterations of the CCT Europe circuit, and the BLAST Fall Showdown, where FaZe and  Falcons  booked their spots at the Fall Final.

For new readers or those in need of a refresher, here's a summary of how the HLTV World Ranking by 1xBet works:

Our team ranking is based on teams' achievements over the past year (with severe decay in points throughout each month), recent form over the last two months, and performance in recent events in the last 3 months.

Each team is required to have a three-man core in order to retain their points. Online matches and tournaments are included, but with a diminishing factor which means they cannot make a big difference among the top teams, and mainly serve to put new teams on the map.

Below is the current top 30 table as of Monday, September 2, which goes more in-depth into how the points are distributed — or you can check our special page, where you will be able to find the latest, weekly version of our ranking. You can see the lineup for each team by hovering over their name in the table.

Counter-Strike World ranking on September 3rd, 2024
RANK
TEAM
ACHV
FORM
LAN
TOTAL
POINTS
+/-
1.
Natus Vincere  Natus Vincere
500
200
280
980
-
2.
Vitality  Vitality
466
180
300
946
+2
3.
Spirit
394
174
226
794
-1
4.
MOUZ  Mouz
390
84
252
726
-1
5.
G2 G2
313
128
235
676
-
6.
FaZe FaZe
304
69
116
489
-
7.
Virtus.pro Virtus.pro
185
59
103
347
-
8.
Liquid Liquid
117
123
85
325
+1
9.
SAW  SAW
126
111
63
300
+20
10.
Astralis Astralis
123
58
87
268
-2
11.
Eternal Fire  Eternal Fire
118
91
48
257
+5
12.
paiN  pain
98
114
39
251
+13
13.
Complexity Complexity
107
70
64
241
-1
14.
Falcons  Falcons
104
79
51
234
-
15.
The MongolZ The MongolZ
94
55
58
207
-4
16.
FURIA  FURIA Esports
76
61
37
174
-1
17.
9z 9z
74
46
54
174
-4
18.
HEROIC  Heroic
76
32
45
153
-8
19.
3DMAX 3DMAX
26
50
17
93
-1
20.
BIG BIG
32
37
22
91
-
21.
Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas
29
31
23
83
-4
22.
fnatic fnatic
20
32
15
67
-1
23.
MIBR  MIBR
25
30
11
66
-1
24.
FlyQuest FlyQuest
23
23
17
63
-
25.
BetBoom BetBoom
24
19
16
59
-2
26.
Aurora Aurora
21
25
12
58
-7
27.
M80 M80
15
26
15
56
-
28.
ENCE ENCE
24
17
12
53
-2
29.
Sangal Sangal
11
32
7
50
+1
30.
B8  B8
8
35
5
48
+4

Spirit return to top 3 with BB Dacha title

A return to the top three by a team that was number one just over a month ago is usually not something to be celebrated, but  Spirit  dropped all the way down to No. 5 in the middle of August after their IEM Cologne nightmare.

The Russian squad finished the German event in last place after two 0-2 losses, the latter of which came against G2, where Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets and company could only muster up four rounds and suffer a humiliating end to the tournament. They bounced back well, though, breezing through the field at BetBoom Dacha to lift the title after losing just one map.

Spirit bounced back from IEM Cologne with a title

Wins against  Falcons ,  FURIA Esports ,  Mouz , and  Eternal Fire  have now propelled them back into the top three, with the event also giving donk his fourth MVP award of the year. With a busy September ahead of them, as they will attend ESL Pro League S20 and BLAST Fall Final, it remains to be seen if  Spirit  are back to their best.

SAW enter top 10

SAW  have been on a steady rise for a long time, with the core of the team breaking into the top 30 for the first time at the end of 2022. They would never drop out and continued to improve and peak at No. 16 earlier this year after their Copenhagen Major exploits, when they came agonizingly close to the Elimination stage.

They have now hit another purple patch of form and shocked the world by making the semi-final at IEM Cologne, where they got the better of FaZe in a quarter-final match in the LANXESS, and then kept up their form to go on a seven-game win streak and qualify for the Shanghai Major RMR and ESL Challenger Atlanta to reach the all-time peak of No.9.

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While their lack of an ESL Pro League S20 appearance may hurt them in the short term, the Portuguese squad, bolstered by the tactical nous of Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger, has once again made history for their country.

pain become Brazil's highest-ranked squad

Brazilian teams have not been at the very top of the game for quite a while, as their flagship team,  FURIA Esports , last appeared in the top 10 in January. Other teams like  MIBR  and  Imperial  have shown flashes, but it is Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt's youthful  pain  squad that is currently flying the flag for their country at No. 12.

The team shot up 13 places in the rankings after their 7-8th finish at IEM Cologne and a BetBoom Dacha campaign that included wins against the likes of  Falcons ,  Heroic , and Virtus.pro, which earned the team a third-place finish.

biguzera's pain had a breakout August

Their closest Brazilian rivals  FURIA Esports  are now almost 80 rankings points behind Kaue "⁠kauez⁠" Kaschuk and company. Still, the team's coach, Henrique "⁠rikz⁠" Waku, said to HLTV that the roster hasn't reached their full potential yet. "I think the best version is a top-five team in the world, because we have a lot of young players, and everybody came from academy or lower-tier teams."

Heroic tumble down the rankings

Heroic 's start to the fall season has been far from ideal, as their star AWPer Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov missed BLAST Fall Groups and the start of IEM Cologne, meaning they entered the server with Eetu "⁠ SAW ⁠" Saha and later Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk.

degster then returned for their Cologne Play-In campaign but couldn't help  Heroic  make it to the main event, with the rest of their results making for grim reading. A loss to  OG  eliminated them from the Showdown, while defeats to  pain  and  Eternal Fire  meant they exited BetBoom Dacha in last place to further compound their worries.

This means the Damjan "⁠kyxsan⁠" Stoilkovski-led squad now finds itself at the fringes of the top 20 despite entering the summer break in the top 10 after a 42.1% win rate over the last three months.

Other notable changes

Ukraine  B8  enter the top 30 for the first time in history.

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