Valve Regional Standings, September 2026: Betclic rise to 30th

Spirit remain No. 1 in the global Valve Regional Standings (VRS) of Sept. 7, 2026, with 2031 points, up 20 from Aug. 3. VRS is Valve’s ranking of Counter-Strike teams, built from results in third-party events. The biggest move in the top 50 belongs to Betclic, who rose from 150th to 30th and added 474 points: Valve listed the core of their new lineup, Demho, Prism and Qlocuu, at 150th in August.

No. 1

Spirit

2,031 points, +20

Biggest climb in the top 50

+120

Betclic, 150th to 30th

Top 30 changes

4 in, 4 out

since Aug. 3, 2026

Teams ranked

401

in the global list

Four teams entered the top 30 and four left it. The global list covers 401 teams.

The top 10

1. 1Spirit2,031+20
2. 2MOUZ1,902+29
3. 3Falcons1,881-69
4. 4FUT1,846+183
5. 5Vitality1,841+5
6. 6Legacy1,783+10
7. 7FURIA1,754-17
8. 8G21,723+35
9. 99z1,606-241
10. 10FaZe1,599-78

MOUZ and Falcons swapped places. With 29 more points, MOUZ took second, while Falcons lost 69 and fell to third.

FUT made the largest jump inside the top 10. They went from 14th to fourth with a gain of 183 points and now sit ahead of Vitality, who added five points and stayed fifth.

9z dropped from fourth to ninth after losing 241 points. FaZe moved up three places to 10th even though they lost 78 points.

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Sept. 7, 2026: Spirit 2,031 · MOUZ 1,902 · Falcons 1,881 · FUT 1,846 · Vitality 1,841

Biggest climbers and fallers

1. BCABetclic+120150th to 30th
2. BC.Game+4381st to 38th
3. fnatic+2861st to 33rd
4. JiJieHao+2658th to 32nd
5. 1WIN1win+1748th to 31st
6. TYLOO-818th to 26th
7. Lynn Vision-1029th to 39th
8. Nemesis-1134th to 45th
9. paiN-1626th to 42nd
10. Luminosity-2024th to 44th

Among the top 50, these teams climbed the most:

• Betclic: 150th to 30th (+120 places, +474 points)
• BC.Game: 81st to 38th (+43 places, +225 points)
• fnatic: 61st to 33rd (+28 places, +169 points)
• JiJieHao: 58th to 32nd (+26 places, +154 points)
• 1win: 48th to 31st (+17 places, +86 points)

These teams fell the most among those still in the top 50:

• Luminosity: 24th to 44th (-20 places, -240 points)
• paiN: 26th to 42nd (-16 places, -178 points)
• Nemesis: 34th to 45th (-11 places, -146 points)
• Lynn Vision: 29th to 39th (-10 places, -157 points)
• TYLOO: 18th to 26th (-8 places, -201 points)

Inside the top 30, BETBOOM lost the most points with -243 and dropped six places to 15th. 9z (-241), PARIVISION (-224) and Natus Vincere (-223) followed. Natus Vincere fell five places to 11th, and PARIVISION fell six to 18th.

New in and out of the top 30

Four teams entered the top 30:

• Liquid17th, up from 32nd (+68 points)
• HOTU25th, up from 35th (+6 points)
• 100 Thieves27th, up from 40th (+37 points)
• Betclic30th, up from 150th (+474 points)

Four teams left it:

• Luminosity: was 24th, now 44th
• paiN: was 26th, now 42nd
• DENDELE: was 28th, now 34th
• Lynn Vision: was 29th, now 39th

Inner Circle were already inside the top 30 but climbed 11 places, from 25th to 14th, with a gain of 38 points.

The regional lists

Valve publishes separate lists for Europe, the Americas and Asia. The ranks below are regional, so they differ from the global list.

Europe

A gain of 183 points lifted FUT seven places in Europe, past Vitality, who slipped from fourth to fifth on the regional list.

Americas

Legacy took the top spot from 9z, who lost 241 points and fell from first to third. Liquid rose from seventh to fourth with 68 more points.

Asia

The first four places did not change, but all four teams lost points: The MongolZ -177, TYLOO -201, Lynn Vision -157 and FlyQuest -145. DEPO, with +30, are the only team in the Asia top 10 that gained points.

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.

The three regional lists decide the invitations. A global version is used only for pre-event seeding of the stages, after invitations have been accepted.

How many invitations each region gets depends on the previous Major. A region earns one Stage 2 invitation for every team that reached Stage 3, and one Stage 3 invitation for every team that reached the Playoffs. The rulebook lists the split only for Winter 2025: Europe 6, 5 and 5 for Stages 1, 2 and 3; America 6, 2 and 2; Asia 4, 1 and 1. It gives no later split, so the allocation for the next Major cannot be read from it.

A roster’s region is the one represented by the majority of its players. If there is a tie, the region with greater representation in the Major wins, in the order Europe, Americas, Asia.

Invitations go to intact rosters, first for Stage 3, then Stage 2, then 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 fills the slots.

How the standings work

Valve publishes a details page for every roster in each release. The page for Spirit, No. 1 in the Sept. 7, 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 31.2 gives a final value of 2,031.2.
• 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.