Welcome to the first top 10 rankings for 2019.

Since the start of 2019 there hasn’t been an awfully large amount of tournaments going on in the OCE region so there hasn’t been any real reason to put one of these out every month. As a result i’ll only be putting out a new rankings every 3–4 months depending on how many tournaments run throughout the year.

The way the rankings work is similar to how it was last year however with one small addition. We now take into account how many points the teams earned in each respective tournament which accounts to how many points each team gets in the rankings. For example if you were to completely dominate a league last year you would only get a few extra points than the team that came in second, with the new system you get rewarded for finishing high above the team below you.

Also last year our way of giving teams points whilst they were overseas competing in international tournaments was to give them points based on their performance overseas. This didn’t really seem that fair as every competition taken into account in these rankings is from domestic tournaments so if a team is competing overseas (Incognito at the Faceit Global Summit) they will receive points from the tournament they missed based on their average placement in previous tournaments. For example if a team placed 1st, 5th and 3rd in previous tournaments they would receive the same amount of points that the team that placed 3rd in the tournament they missed.

The following tournaments will be taken into account for this months rankings: CyberGamer Challenger Season 7, OCE Pro Circuit Phase 1, CyberGamer Mini Royale.

1st: Athletico (Zoidm8, luke12, HappyNoVitez, Fludd) 1000 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 1st

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 2nd

CyberGamer Mini Royale: 2nd

The most dominant team from 2018 has reclaimed their throne once again after losing it at the end of the year to Team Immunity. Athletico started off this year strong as always with an absolutely dominating performance in the first CG season finishing just over 100 points clear of 2nd and 150 points clear of 3rd. With longstanding member Heffaa stepping down from the roster towards the end of the season Athletico turned to previous academy player Fludd to complete their lineup leading into the first phase of the pro circuit. All throughout pro circuit it was a back and forth battle between Athletico and Incognito as each night they would overtake each other in a 2 team race to see who would get the chance to represent the Oceanic region in London at the Faceit Global Summit. Unfortunately Athletico wasn’t able to close out the final game as Incognito only just surpassed them holding on to minuscule lead that would get them to London. However, with OCE being gifted 3 slots for the next PUBG Classic, Athletico is sitting right next to Incognito as one of the near-guaranteed teams assuming they manage to finally break the qualifier curse.

2nd: Incognito (Jouxy, Insight, Ykikamucow, Ronon47) 822 Points

Jouxy, Ronon, Insight, Ykikamucow

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 3rd

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 1st

CyberGamer Mini Royale: N/A (Equal points to 2nd place team)

Leading into the start of phase 1 of the pro circuit a lot of people had Incognito as their second place team behind Athletico. Everyone knows Incognito is a heavy fragging team and on any given day can come out and destroy everyone in their path, and they knew they had to do it to beat Athletico to make it to London. With an absolutely stellar night on night 3 where they won 4/5 games of the night Incognito showed that they weren’t going to go down without a fight. With an east island circle to finish off the season, Athletico had dropped on top of Incognito to try and wipe them out early however the circle gods favored Ronon and allowed him to get himself center circle and make sure his team was able to get the point necessary to keep themselves ahead of Athletico. (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/403397500?t=04h16m56s Timestamp to final game of phase 1)

Incognito also surpassed nearly everyone’s expectations and managed to secure themselves a top 10 placement at the Faceit Global Summit beating some of the great international teams such as Tempo Storm, C9, Envy etc. Their performance really goes to show that one bad day doesn’t mean you’re out of the competition as after day 1 of qualifiers they were sitting dead last, and to push against all odds and pull out a result like that is truly incredible.

3rd: Avant Gaming (Vasili, Ch4rle, Chung1E, Krushhh) 478 Points

Chung1E (Far left), Krushhh (3rd from left), Vasili (4th from left), Ch4rle (2nd from right)

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 5th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 6th

CyberGamer Mini Royale: 1st

Avant have been on an up and down roller coaster since the start of 2019. With the core lineup of Vasili, Chung1E and Ch4rle cycling through new 4ths in every tournament this year they’ve struggled to string together consistent top 5 placings. All throughout pro circuit Avant essentially had a different roster every other day with Chung1E missing the first week and Krushhh missing every Friday. As a result of this they only managed to secure a 6th place which left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth knowing they were better than this. Since pro circuit the boys have been able to finally practice with a consistent 4 man roster and finally showed what they’re capable of taking out the CG Mini Royale. Looking to be back in form and performing well, Avant is on everyone’s radar as a team to watch out for next phase as they aim to secure themselves a ticket to Sweden to represent OCE.

4th: Justice Esports (Karmzy, sSuspekt, SoloB, Suhhz) 383 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 7th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 5th

CyberGamer Mini Royale: 5th

A lot of questions were surrounding the Justice boys once their key player CreamPTC had to step down from the roster due to being under 18 and unable to compete in the pro circuit and whether or not they could keep up the top 5 placements they were achieving at the end of last year. Bringing SoloB back into the lineup and also bringing in one of the stronger players from Cigar after pro circuit Justice now has a solid lineup that’s still just achieving the top 5 placements and continuing to show they’re a team that is eager to make it to the international level. With the lineup still being fairly new only time can tell whether or not they will be able to step it up a notch and compete with the real top dogs in the OCE region.

5th: Team Immunity (Nick101, Cozyy, Textil3, Spaggy) 356 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 8th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 3rd

CyberGamer Mini Royale: 8th

I’m honestly not too sure where to begin with Immunity. From the start of the year they got off to a rough start only narrowly missing relegations in the CG season however pulled it back with a good performance in the pro circuit getting themselves a 3rd place in an extremely close middle pack. However since that result they parted ways with BiggyyJ and Sweetsoul and merged with half of the SYF roster bringing in Textil3 and Spaggy and on paper this looks like a roster that could really do some damage. But as we’ve seen in the past multiple times PUBG doesn’t care what teams look like on paper and that anything can happen and that shows with the new roster. With an underwhelming placement in the CG Mini Royale i’m eager to see if this Immunity roster can pull through the initial rough patch after a roster change and potentially get themselves back to back top 3 placements in pro circuit and get themselves a trip to Sweden.

6th: SYF Gaming (M3rric, HawksCanFly,???,???)

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 4th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 7th

CyberGamer Mini Royale: N/A

The past couple months have been rough for M3rric as he remains to be the only player under the org since my previous rankings. Since then everyone else has moved on either to seperate teams or moved on from the game altogether and after losing Spaggy and Textil3 to Immunity, M3rric is left with the tough task of trying to find himself two more players to join himself and Hawks. Should M3rric manage to get himself two more solid players to round up the roster it will be interesting to see if they can keep up the name SYF had made for themselves previously regularly placing in the top 5 of most competitions they played in.

7th: Ground Zero Gaming (Joombie, nyrB, Dambrooo, Bee2) 269 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 12th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 8th

CyberGamer Mini Royale: 3rd

The GZ lineup has always been a middle of the pack team only making slight jumps every now and then trying to break into the top 3/5 in tournaments. Finally however they managed to secure themselves a top 3 placement in the CG Mini Royale and gave them some much needed confidence. They’ve secured their spot in the next phase of pro circuit already by placing top 10 in phase 1 which means the boys can sit happy for a while and focus on refining their gameplay so that when next phase comes along they can start to make that push and start contesting the higher teams in the region.

8th: Extricity (Ass4ssn, Amoh, Nicoos, Uniq) 258 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 6th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: N/A

CyberGamer Mini Royale: 4th

Extricity is one of the teams filled with mostly under 18 players competing in the leagues outside of the pro circuit. Without a doubt they are the strongest team currently unable to compete in the pro circuit and if both Ass4ssn and Nicoos were 18 they would be competing for some of the top 5 spots for sure. With heavy fraggers such as Nicoos and Uniq on the team they’re a scary team to come up against in game if they’re on point and with Amoh bringing in much needed experience from playing at the NPL Preseason LAN they’re a very well rounded squad.

9th: Lo-Fi (Cigar)(Gafft, KeenX,???,???) 173 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: N/A

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 4th

CyberGamer Mini Royale: N/A

Lo-Fi (also known as Cigar) really came out of no where in phase 1 of the pro circuit. A mix matched team that had never made any notable achievements before coming out and placing 4th in pro circuit??? The team really turned some heads and starting making people look at them as a team to watch out for. However, since pro circuit they lost their two key players in Suhhz and Nomercy who went on to join other teams and since then haven’t been able to find two players to round out their roster yet. Depending on who they pick up they’ve got some big shoes to feel however personally I don’t feel as though they’ll be able to place as highly next phase without Suhhz and Nomercy to push them through.

10th: OTG Esports (RanyeWest, Asba, T3mpo, fic0) 158 Points

Results:

CyberGamer Challenger Season 7: 10th

Pro Circuit Phase 1: 9th

CyberGamer Mini Royale: Bottom 16

OTG is a team similar to Ground Zero where they’re always found sitting around the middle of the pack. The players within the team are strong individually however with the team lacking the experience that the top teams in the region have they find it hard to put themselves in the right positions to allow themselves to really thrive together. However in the uncommon times that they do manage to get into a good position as a team they manage to usually close out games and show people what they’re made of. Should they manage to improve their teamplay and get themselves into these positions more often I can see fic0 and his boys making the push into the higher placements in tournaments.