TEAM RANKING: JANUARY 2020
We have updated our Global team ranking – powered by EGB.com – for January 2020, a quiet month with only one notable LAN event.
One month into 2020 and we’re still only getting the first taste of top-tier Counter-Strike of the year after a rather dull month of January, featuring just one international LAN, DreamHack Open Leipzig, where BIG ran out victorious to prove that German CS is finally back on the menu.
With the ICE Challenge only halfway through and BLAST Premier merely regarded as a qualifier, there aren’t many changes across the board, with the top five looking exactly the same as in last month’s ranking.
Despite a strong performance in London last week, FaZe still lost points and moved down one position after BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen disappeared from the list of recent events. Next week it will be IEM Beijing’s turn, which could affect teams like 100 Thieves and Astralis.
To counteract the effects of the player break, we are temporarily extending the “recent form” criterion beyond eight weeks. We will go back to the two-month window for this indicator after IEM Katowice, late this month.
Here’s a summary of our ranking for new readers:
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 nine weeks, and performance at offline events in the last 3 months.
Each team is required to have a three-man core in order to retain their points and online results are included but have minimal effect (only affecting ‘Form’) at the top of the table and mainly serve to put new teams on the map.
Below is the current top 30 table as of February 3, 2020, 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.
