Valve Regional Standings, October 2026: Legacy climb to No. 2

Spirit stay No. 1 in the Oct. 5, 2026 update of the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), Valve’s ranking of Counter-Strike 2 rosters. They have 2046 points (+15 since the Sept. 7 update). Legacy rise four places, from No. 6 to No. 2, with 1931 points (+148).

No. 1

Spirit

2,046 points, +15

Biggest climb in the top 50

+328

Sangal, 368th to 40th

Top 30 changes

6 in, 6 out

since Sept. 7, 2026

Teams ranked

380

in the global list

Further down, Sangal made the largest jump in the global list, from No. 368 to No. 40. Six teams left the top 30, among them Natus Vincere, PARIVISION and The MongolZ. The global list now holds 380 teams.

The top 10

1. 1Spirit2,046+15
2. 2Legacy1,931+148
3. 3Vitality1,911+70
4. 4MOUZ1,863-39
5. 5G21,847+124
6. 6Falcons1,843-38
7. 7FURIA1,829+75
8. 8FUT1,799-47
9. 9Aurora1,716+164
10. 10Astralis1,674+228

Spirit’s roster is donk, magixx, sh1ro, tN1R and zont1x. Legacy (arT, dumau, latto, n1ssim, try) now sit ahead of Vitality at No. 3 and MOUZ at No. 4.

MOUZ, Falcons and FUT each lost points and places. FUT fell four spots, from No. 4 to No. 8, and Falcons dropped three, from No. 3 to No. 6. G2 and Aurora each gained three places. Astralis made the biggest move inside the top 10, climbing 10 places with +228 points.

FURIA kept No. 7 and added +75 points.

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Oct. 5, 2026: Spirit 2,046 · Legacy 1,931 · Vitality 1,911 · MOUZ 1,863 · G2 1,847

Biggest climbers and fallers

1. Sangal+328368th to 40th
2. Nemiga+3549th to 14th
3. Eternal Fire+3467th to 33rd
4. Luminosity+2844th to 16th
5. M80+1941st to 22nd
6. FaZe-1610th to 26th
7. TYLOO-1826th to 44th
8. PRVPARIVISION-1818th to 36th
9. Natus Vincere-2311th to 34th
10. The MongolZ-3019th to 49th

Valve’s files show these five largest climbs among the top 50:

• SangalNo. 368 to No. 40 (+328 places, +884 points)
• NemigaNo. 49 to No. 14 (+35 places, +382 points)
• Eternal FireNo. 67 to No. 33 (+34 places, +347 points)
• LuminosityNo. 44 to No. 16 (+28 places, +319 points)
• M80No. 41 to No. 22 (+19 places, +222 points)

And the five largest falls among teams still in the top 50:

• The MongolZNo. 19 to No. 49 (-30 places, -142 points)
• Natus VincereNo. 11 to No. 34 (-23 places, -152 points)
• PARIVISIONNo. 18 to No. 36 (-18 places, -50 points)
• TYLOONo. 26 to No. 44 (-18 places, -24 points)
• FaZeNo. 10 to No. 26 (-16 places, -117 points)

Inside the top 30, other notable gains include MIBR (+9 places to No. 12, +177 points), HEROIC (+9 places to No. 15, +171 points) and Ninjas in Pyjamas (+11 places to No. 18, +196 points). Liquid, Inner Circle, Alliance and BIG all slipped in place while still adding points, so their drops come from others passing them.

New in and out of the top 30

Six teams left the top 30:

• Natus Vincerewas No. 11, now No. 34
• PARIVISIONwas No. 18, now No. 36
• The MongolZwas No. 19, now No. 49
• HOTUwas No. 25, now No. 31
• TYLOOwas No. 26, now No. 44
• Betclicwas No. 30, now No. 45

Six teams took those places:

• NemigaNo. 14 (was 49)
• LuminosityNo. 16 (was 44)
• 3DMAXNo. 21 (was 35)
• M80No. 22 (was 41)
• NemesisNo. 29 (was 45)
• JiJieHaoNo. 30 (was 32)

Regional lists

Valve publishes three regional lists, for Europe, the Americas and Asia. Each table shows the top 10 as of Oct. 5, 2026.

Europe

Americas

Legacy and FURIA hold the top two spots in the Americas, as before. Imperial gained +212 points to reach No. 9.

Asia

TYLOO take No. 1 even though they lost 24 points, because The MongolZ lost 142. BC.Game (asap, Magisk, mzinho, s1mple, Senzu) enter the list at No. 3 with 1318 points, the same total as The MongolZ.

Chinggis Warriors made the largest jump in the Asian top 10, 15 places with +402 points. 5star added +243 points and climbed three places.

What the standings mean for Major invitations

Valve’s Major Supplemental Rulebook says the Major features 32 teams. Sixteen are invited to Stage 1, eight to Stage 2 and eight to Stage 3, all from the VRS.

Invitations come from the three regional lists. According to the rulebook, the global version is used only for pre-event seeding of the stages, after invitations have been accepted.

A roster’s region is the one represented by the majority of its players. In a tie, the rulebook picks the region with greater representation in the Major: Europe, then the Americas, then Asia.

Each region’s number of slots depends on the previous Major. A region gets one Stage 2 invitation for every team that reached Stage 3, and one Stage 3 invitation for every team that reached the playoffs. In the rulebook’s table for Winter 2025, Europe has six, five and five invitations to Stages 1, 2 and 3. The Americas get six, two and two, while Asia gets four, one and one. That table is labeled for Winter 2025, so it says nothing about which teams from the October 2026 lists would be invited.

Only intact rosters receive invitations. Invitations go out for Stage 3 first, then for Stage 2 and finally for Stage 1. If a roster declines or is no longer intact, the next-highest ranked roster receives the invitation. When no rosters remain, a last-chance regional qualifier decides the remaining slots.

How the standings work

Valve publishes a details page for every roster in each release. The page for Spirit, No. 1 in the Oct. 5, 2026 release, shows how a roster’s points are built:

• The Starting Rank Value comes from the average of four factors: Bounty Offered, Bounty Collected, Opponent Network and LAN Wins.
• That average is placed on a scale from 400 to 2,000 between the lowest and the highest average of all rosters.
• Head-to-head adjustments are added to it. For Spirit, 2,000.0 plus 46.2 gives a final value of 2,046.2.
• For Bounty Collected, Opponent Network and LAN Wins, only the ten best results of the past six months count. They are multiplied by an age weight, and the bounty and opponent network values also by an event weight.