ESL released their CS:GO rankings, you can see how they set that up here, but one veteran eSports journalist has some issues with it. Thorin has up on goldper10.com his own rankings, and this top 10 is no where near the same, well, at least they can agree on first. But outside of that, Thorin sets up his list in a manner he views is the best, saying:
CS:GO has always struggled for a consistently updated and coherent set of World Rankings, with so many teams attending different events and the difficulty of judging the context of which event’s results should count for more than another. Rather than construct some kind of elaborate point system and place my expertise into the task of allocating which would receive how many points, I’ve instead looked back over the recent form of each of the teams out there and determined, according to my own analysis and intuition, which team ranks where in my global top 10.
Offline results are the only ones I take into consideration. In general, I consider the results of a team across a range of around three months, with those at the beginning of that period being weighted a little less, in contrast to more recent tournament results. Finishes, consistency, current form and opponents faced are all factors to be weighed up and considered.
Since the last edition of the rankings, CEVO S7 Finals and Acer Predator Masters took place.
These are my CS:GO Top 10 World Rankings for the 4th of August, 2015.
So, compare the two, and see which one you agree with. ESL here or Thorin here! And if you want a deeper view into these rankings, head over to see Thorin’s Thoughts, his video series on all eSports matters.
