Valve Publishes September VRS Ranking After Delay

Valve has released the September version of the Valve Regional Standings a day late than it usually does. This will make the work of organizers who base their invitational/ seeding criteria on the ranking even harder.

VRS is normally released on the first Monday of the month. But since September falls around Labor Day in America, the release date was shifted back one day. Therefore, tournament organizers who planned to invite seed on September 7 would have had to refer to the older ranking released in early August.

But in order to solve this problem, Valve retrospectively put the date of the release of the new VRS as September 7. Yet the calculation process made things even more complicated, as it seems that the calculations were done using information up until September 8.

It is also necessary to note that despite the fact that the ESL Challenger Season 52 Europe Cup 6 results were taken into consideration, the tournament itself did not finish by September 7.

The first place in the ranking goes to Team Spirit who have been on the top of the table for three months in a row with 2,031 points. MOUZ took the second place with 1,902 points, and Falcons took the third place with 1,881 points.

Top 10 of the official September VRS:

• Spirit — 2031

• MOUZ — 1902

• Falcons — 1881

• FUT — 1847

• Vitality — 1841

• Legacy — 1783

• FURIA — 1754

• G2 — 1723

• 9z — 1604

• FaZe — 1598

NAVI ranked 11th, The MongolZ were 19th, Astralis 20th, MIBR 21st, and Alliance 22nd.

The issue surrounding the ranking date remains unresolved. Valve labeled the standings as being from September 7, but according to HLTV, results from ESL Challenger Season 52 Europe Cup 6, which finished on September 8, may have been included in the calculation. Because of this, the final table differs from what it could have looked like if the data had been limited strictly to the stated date.

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HLTV contacted Valve for clarification regarding a possible correction to the ranking. At the time of publication, there had been no official information about any further changes to the September VRS.