After finally putting several international events behind us, we are ready to bring back our Team ranking feature, now for CS:GO. It's no surprise that NiP are on top and that VeryGames are in 2nd place, but how far ahead are they from the rest? Which other teams make up our Top 20 and in what order? Check out all that and more below.

It's been a while since we worked on our Team ranking, so for those of you who haven't seen yet what it is all about, you can read the introduction in our first post about it, back in August 2011.

The goal is to as objectively as possible rank the teams based on their achievements and results in international and continental competitions. With focus now of the professional scene moved to CS:GO and with DreamHack Winter and ESWC behind us, we now have enough information to put together our Top 20 for the last few months.

Without further ado, here is our Top 20:



TOP 20 2012-11-30

Rank Teams Points 1. Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas 387.65 2. VeryGames VeryGames 243.60 3. Area 51 Area 51 51.60 4. mousesports mousesports 45.35 5. Lemondogs Lemondogs 41.60 6. CPH Wolves CPH Wolves 30.23 7. n!faculty n!faculty 23.35 8. proGaming.TD proGaming.TD 23.02 9. ESC Gaming ESC Gaming 20.71 10. Anexis Anexis 20.13 11. mousesports mousesports 20.03 12. Dynamic Dynamic 19.30 13. Absolute Legends 17.17 14. dAT dAT 14.86 15. k1ck k1ck 13.90 16. JaS JaS 13.87 17. Hawks Hawks 12.98 18. Alternate Alternate 12.81 19. Virtus.pro Virtus.pro 10.83 20. zNation 8.55

TOP 5

1. Ninjas in Pyjamas

Achievements 1st DreamHack Winter 2012 1st ESWC 2012 1st DreamHack Valencia Total prize money : 27,602€

The Swedish squad made a clean sweep at international events without a single map lost. They faced and won over VeryGames 3 times in row in finals. And each time, it seems to widen the gap with the French team according to the scores. With 17 wins in a row at lan and 3 titles from 3 tournaments brought back home, Ninjas in Pyjamas has became the reference and legitimately the current best team in the world.



Top matches VeryGames vsVeryGames 16 - 09 16 - 01 VeryGames vsVeryGames 16 - 03 16 - 14 VeryGames vsVeryGames 16 - 10 16 - 12 Area 51 vsArea 51 16 - 10 mousesports.uk vsmousesports.uk 16 - 05 16 - 14 mousesports.uk vsmousesports.uk 16 - 14 ProGaming.TD vsProGaming.TD 16 - 05 16 - 10 ProGaming.TD vsProGaming.TD 16 - 13 n!faculty vsn!faculty 16 - 07 16 - 05 ESC Gaming vsESC Gaming 16 - 10

Statistics W T L RW RL RD DreamHack Winter 2012 5 0 0 112 45 +67 ESWC 2012 6 0 0 128 68 +60 DreamHack Valencia 6 0 0 144 74 +70 TOTAL 17 0 0 384 187 +197



2. VeryGames

Achievements 2nd DreamHack Winter 2012 2nd ESWC 2012 2nd DreamHack Valencia Total prize money : 15,110€

The French CS:Source stars made a great transition to CS:GO without any lineup changes. Finishing in the second place 3 times in row, each time behind NiP, they are indisputably the second best team in the world at this moment. They also have some impressive results with 12 wins after 17 LAN matches, but despite these statistics, the French giant seems to be in danger from other potential top teams because of their map lost against Area 51 in ESWC semi-final, but also because of their draws in group stage respectively against ASES at DreamHack Valencia and Anexis at ESWC.

Top matches Area 51 vsArea 51 16 - 19 16 - 05 16 - 11 Lemondogs vsLemondogs 16 - 09 16 - 05 n!faculty vsn!faculty 16 - 04 ESC Gaming vsESC Gaming 16 - 02 Anexis vsAnexis 15 - 15

Statistics W T L RW RL RD DreamHack Winter 2012 3 1 1 101 46 +55 ESWC 2012 4 1 1 112 88 +24 DreamHack Valencia 5 0 1 122 89 +33 TOTAL 12 2 3 335 223 +112



3. Area 51

Achievements 1st ESEA invite season 12 3rd ESWC 2012 Total prize money : 10,780€

With their single excursion at ESWC, the American team has made a very good impression by finishing third. They have also been the first team that has taken a map against VeryGames besides NiP. After their recent win at the ESEA Invite season 12, they take hold as the current best team of the North American continent. We can expect other great performances from them for their next participations at international events.

Top matches n!faculty vsn!faculty 16 - 01 11 - 16 16 - 09 ProGaming.TD vsProGaming.TD 16 - 00 mousesports vsmousesports 15 - 15

Statistics W T L RW RL RD ESWC 2012 3 1 2 135 117 +18 TOTAL 3 1 2 135 117 +18



4. mousesports

Achievements 3-4th DreamHack Winter 2012 Total prize money : 4,081€

Well-known at the CS:S scene, the British team has proven their reputation after finishing second of their group at DreamHack Winter, just behind the NiP giants against which they have given a tight fight for the first place with a 14-16 defeat. Finishing at the 3-4th place of the event, mousesports has thrown a strong signal to the current top 2, that they will be a dangerous challenger in the future.



Top matches CPH Wolves vsCPH Wolves 16 - 11 16 - 03 ESC Gaming vsESC Gaming 16 - 06

Statistics W T L RW RL RD DreamHack Winter 2012 3 0 2 97 82 +15 TOTAL 3 0 2 97 82 +15



5. Lemondogs

Achievements 3-4th DreamHack Winter 2012 Total prize money : 4,081€

The Swedish team managed a 3-4th place at DreamHack Winter after getting out of the BYOC qualification. After a groupstage without a single loss, they reached the semi-final by beating Absolute Legends in the quarter. They have showed that the Swedish scene is not restricted to NiP and we must count on them for the next events in which they will participate.

Top matches n!faculty vsn!faculty 15 - 15 Anexis vsAnexis 15 - 15

Statistics W T L RW RL RD DreamHack Winter 2012 2 2 1 92 86 +8 TOTAL 2 2 1 92 86 +8

Main Stats

NiP & VG Domination



The graph below shows that so far there have only been two big teams on the scene. Their total amount of points earned is equivalent to 57% while all the other 53 teams registred in the ranking got only 43%.

points amount of a team / total points amount of all the teams (%)





Ranking per points



Here are ESWC & DreamHack Winter rankings in accordance with the points earned:

ESWC 2012 DreamHack Winter 2012 1st Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas 1st Ninjas in Pyjamas Ninjas in Pyjamas 2nd VeryGames VeryGames 2nd VeryGames VeryGames 3rd Area 51 Area 51 3rd mousesports mousesports 4th n!faculty n!faculty 4th Lemondogs Lemondogs 5th mousesports mousesports 5th Cph Wolves Cph Wolves 6th ESC Gaming ESC Gaming 6th Absolute Legends Absolute Legends 7th Anexis Anexis 7th ProGaming.TD ProGaming.TD 8th ProGaming.TD ProGaming.TD 8th Dynamic Dynamic





Events

If you are wondering which events were included in the making of this ranking, here is a list in 3 levels (although there are in fact 9, but we merged them for displaying purposes).

High : DreamHack Winter 2012, ESWC 2012 Medium : DreamHack Valencia Low : ESEA Invite season 12, DreamHack Winter international qualifer, SLTV groupstage, EMS groupstage

If you have any questions about the ranking, feel free to ask in the comments below and of course stay tuned to HLTV.org for the December 2012 update.

