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Check out how high your favorite CS2 team is in Valve’s ranking.
Valve introduced on August 12, 2025 the first-ever official global ranking for CS2 esports. Before that, all Valve had done was put together rankings for each region — Europe, Americas, and Asia.
While most of the Counter-Strike community has grown used to checking HLTV’s world rankings, Valve’s global rankings will gain unforeseen importance from 2025 onwards.
This is because tournament organizers had to discontinue their current partnership ecosystem and use Valve’s ranking todetermine invitations for all tournamentsor otherwise run open qualifiers.
Most notably, the initiative dubbed “A Level Playing Field” directly affected major tournament organizers such asBLAST and ESL, who ran franchised leagues.
Here are the top 30 teams in the world on Jul 18, 2025, according to Valve’s global ranking for CS2 esports.
CS2 World Valve Rankings: Jun 09, 2025
We’ve also included some of the more notable teams that aren’t quite into the top 30 yet, or have dropped significantly.
How is Valve’s global ranking for CS2 calculated?
The current formula for Valve’s global ranking includes the factors listed below:
To see how each team got their points, head to theofficial ranking page. Then, click on “details” for a full breakdown.
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