Valve updated the official CS2 team ranking - it will be used to issue invites for two summer LAN tournaments

Valve has released a new update to its official Counter-Strike 2 team ranking. This list will serve as the basis for invitations to the next two summer LAN tournaments - Digital Crusade DraculaN Season 7 and XSE Pro League 2026. HLTV reported this in its article covering the May VRS update.

The first tournament organizer to use the updated ranking will be Digital Crusade. DraculaN Season 7 will take place from June 23 to 28, 2026, in Bucharest, with a prize pool of $150,000. According to HLTV, the tournament will use 14 global slots for the main stage, while third-party announcements had previously mentioned different wording regarding the number of participants. Because of that, the invite distribution system through VRS currently looks like the most reliable reference point tied to the official ranking.

The updated ranking will then be used for XSE Pro League 2026, which will be held in China from June 29 to July 12. That tournament has been announced with a $1 million prize pool, and 16 teams will qualify for the main stage through global invites.

Falcons returned to HLTV’s top 5, while Aurora climbed to fourth place

Earlier, HLTV.org also released its own ranking update, in which Falcons returned to fifth place. As a result, at the start of May teams received two important reference points at once - HLTV’s traditional ranking and Valve’s official list, which directly affects invitations to upcoming tournaments.