Veteran eSports journalist Thorin is at it again, this time ranking top CS:Go teams over on gfinity.net, and first up we have #20-11. There is a lot to cover, so Thorin gets us started by diving into his selection process:
With Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eight weeks or so from three years of meaningful competitive play, there have been many teams who have secured top placings and played phenomenal matches, making the selection of the 20 best line-ups a challenge requiring a nuanced and approach.
Firstly, I narrowed my quest by making it line-ups and not teams, to limit each entry to a specific five players who spent a set duration of time playing together, not teams with rotating doors at certain positions.
Secondly, I’ve weighed each team’s success along with their style of play and relative excellence. This is not merely a list of winners and their first places compared and contrasted. I’ve sought to determine the excellence of a team in their approach and level of play, as well as, yes, the number of shiny trophies and medals they acquired along the way. This is, of course, a highly subjective list, as it should be, so I’ve gone to great lengths to make each entry as much as about my own understanding each team’s greatness as it is about the team’s factual accomplishments.
Lots of great line ups in the bottom 20. Even Cloud9’s current roster grabs a spot. That is pretty impressive, see where they stand up against the rest of the best, check out the full article here.
