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GosuRankings is the most extensive player and team database in the existence of CS:GO. Fuelled by the GosuGamers tournament database, which currently spans over 300 tournaments, the CS:GO rankings tracks teams’ career-long performances in all tournaments and qualifiers, additionally it shows matches they take part in and appoints them a certain score depending on their success. The rankings also take into account tournament importance, meaning a victory at a Major tournament accounts for more points than coming out on top of a weekly open cup.
Below we take a look at the larger events that took place during the month of December.
* This is not a comprehensive list of all events being played in December. We simply highlighted some of the largest ones.
World's Top 3
*All rankings are as of January 1st, 2016. It is possible that they have changed since publication.
The Swedish collossi continue their domination of the CS:GO scene. This is the second month in a row that they are first place with a very large rating cushion, proving once more that they are indeed the current leaders of CS:GO.
Over the course of December, Fnatic played a total of ten matches (nine best-of-ones and one best-of-five) and concluded the month with an 80% win rate (8/0/2).
The two aforementioned losses were against the Ninjas in Pyjamas during Fragbite Masters Season 5 and Team EnVyUs during the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2: Finals. The first loss against NiP saw a 2:1 map score, where Fnatic gave up de_cache - 6:16 and de_cobblestone - 12:16 to their long time nemesis. It was a rather unusual loss as Fnatic are widely regarded as one of the strongest teams on both maps, however NiP managed to push them over in a three map grind. The three map series against Team EnVyUs was a very lop-sided loss, as the Frenchmen won with a 2:0 map score taking de_cobblestone - 11:16 and de_inferno - 6:16.
In terms of their success over December, the Swedish roster managed to land first place in both of the larger events of December, namely, Fragbite Masters Season 5 and the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2: Finals.
After parting ways with North American organisation Team SoloMid, the roster continued their journey through CS:GO under the TQM tag. The Danes did fairly well during December, landing them second place in the rankings.
In December Team Questionmark played seven matches (all best-of-threes) and sported a 57.1% win rate (4/0/3).
The most disappointing loss for TQM during December must have been their match against fellow Danes, SK Gaming, during Fragbite Masters Season 5, where they lost with a 1:2 map score. The map draft was de_cache - 2:16, de_train - 16:9 and de_mirage - 13:16.
As far as their success goes, TQM managed to win against some serious opponents. The first memorable win was against Natus Vincere at the ESL ESEA Pro League Seasons 2: Finals, where they managed to close out the series with a two map lead, de_train - 16:12 and de_ inferno - 16:13. Next they managed to overpower the 'boys in blue' - Team EnVyuS - during StarLadder StarSeries Season 14 in the same 2:0 fashion. First was de_inferno - 16:10, second was de_train - 16:13. Both these wins demonstrate that the Danes are capable of maintaining their position on the ranks despite the lack of organisation backing.
Natus Vincere showed a solid performance over December, securing second place at the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2: Finals. The CIS mix have been showing up recently and hopefully they will further develop throughout 2016.
Na'Vi played nine matches over December (nine best-of-threes and one best-of-five) and ended up with a 55.5% win rate (5/0/4).
Out of the four losses that the team amassed over December, two stood out particularly. The first was against Team Dignitas at the CS:GO Champions League Season 2, where they lost in a three map series against the Danes, de_cobblestone - 21:19, de_train - 9:16 and de_mirage - 10:16. Five days after this loss, Na'Vi faced E-frag at the StarLadder StarSeries Seasons 14 event, where they subsequently lost in another best-of-three series: de_dust2 - 11:16, de_overpass - 16:13 and de_cobblestone 6:16. In this particular matchup Na'Vi was without a doubt the favoured team.
On the bright side, however, Na'Vi managed to land second place at the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2: Finals, scoring a sizeable $60,000, as well as a few wins against other high rankings teams such as Team EnVyUs and Luminosity Gaming.
Live Rankings Top 10
As mentioned earlier December did not see a lot of events. Fnatic are still at the very top, but now they have a very soft rating cushion to land on, given their performance temporarily drops in January for any given reason.
Team Questionmark (ex-Team SoloMid) also maintained second place on the rankings as they pretty much broke even in terms of their monthly results. Hopefully they will soon sign with an organisation and mount an attempt at securing first place on the rankings.
Third place saw Na’Vi succeed Team EnVyUs. The CIS mix removed the Frenchmen from the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2: Finals during the playoffs and landed themselves 2nd place at the prestigious event. They also defeated Team EnVyUs during the StarLadder StarSeries Season 14 tournament, knocking the boys in blue two ranks down.
The rest of the list shifted quite a bit, irrespective of the fact that December was a slow month for CS:GO.
The Ninjas in Pyjamas jumped up two ranks to #4 after a successful run at the Fragbite Masters Season 5, where they managed to grab 2nd place and remind the community of their presence.
Team EnVyUs stooped from 3rd to 5th place after some disappointing results over December, where they lost matches despite being favourites.
G2 Esports jumped up two ranks, landing them #6, while the team didn’t achieve anything particularly amazing in December, they instead showed a consistent performance, where others went negative.
Luminosity Gaming fell down two ranks to #7 after a virtually inactive month, playing a mere three games, two of which they lost, over the entirety of December.
Team Dignitas showed good performance over December, winning seven out of nine matches they participated at, landing them #8 on the rankings. The Danes pushed over the likes of Na’Vi and G2 Esports, deservedly propelling themselves.
Next up is Virtus.Pro at #9. The Poles only played a single match over December, which they unfortunately lost, placing them two ranks lower than November.
Finalising the list are North America’s Cloud9, who dropped a single rank. As of late the team has been inactive due to their search for a player to finalise their roster. The team played two matches over December, one was a victory, the other a loss.
*As a final note to December’s monthly feature, this one in particular should be taken with a pinch of salt. As mentioned before, the month was incredibly slow for the scene and teams played an insignificant amount of matches. The shifts in rankings will not proportionally represent the team’s substantive standings as of January 1st.
