You can boast an insane 30 kill game, if your team lost, you won’t rank up. Deaths, MVPs, assists, damage given, and bomb plants all play into a hidden number that determines your place within your rank. This part is very important! It means you need should always play for the round win, not for kills. This algorithm evaluates a player’s skill pool based on their round influence and whether their team wins the round. Depending on how you did personally and how long it took you to get these ten wins, you will be allocated one of the 18 ranks within CS:GO.Īccording to Valve, the CS:GO ranking system follows a modified Glicko-2 system. How Does the Rank System Work In CS:GO?īefore your CS:GO profile is assigned a rank, you’ll have to accumulate ten competitive victories. The second part will focus mostly on the e-sports rankings of CS:GO. We'll cover how the system works, how many wins you need to rank up, how to effectively rank up and what the average CS:GO rank is.
This is the first of two articles in which we talk about the rank system in CS:GO.
The CS:GO ranking system is more complicated than the game itself (Credit: Valve)
