CS:GO players celebrate as matchmaking tweak leads to bonus rankings
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has released a shake-up to its competitive ranking system, and lots of fans are very happy about it. The changes have seen some players lose ranks and others stay where they are, but it seems like an awful lot of us (myself included) have suddenly jumped about three or four ranks higher.
The official blog(opens in new tab) about the change is, as ever, short and sweet. Valve very rarely goes into detail about how Counter-Strike's systems work, for the simple reason that there's so many people out there who'd love to game them.
«Typically when we ship changes to CS:GO’s matchmaking system, the adjustments are small enough that we don’t include them in our release notes. However, today’s update affects all CS:GO players so it requires some explanation.
»When you launch CS:GO, you’ll notice that your Skill Group is not displayed: you’ll have to win one more match to reveal your Skill Group. Most of you will notice a change to your Skill Group, but some of you may find that you were already in the right place."
Of course, it also allowed the official account to get a few nice dunks in.
I was global before the rank resetAugust 1, 2022
I noticed this after suddenly hitting Master Guardian rank last night, which I put down to the nerve-steadying glass of red wine I'd had beforehand. Then I checked online and saw it was a fluke of the algorithm (I'll be back where I belong soon). A quick look around my usual Counter-Strike haunts showed lots of players had a similar experience: this silver went up to Master Guardian Elite(opens in new tab).
A forum poll(opens in new tab) of Counter-Strike players has 435 respondents at the time of writing: 193 said their rank had risen, 177 saw no change, and 65
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