The Natus Vincere team, which some time ago lost first place in the HLTV rating, has regained its leadership again. It managed to push G2 off the top of the list, and G2 has now dropped to third place. Now the top is occupied by NAVI, Vitality and G2, and the distance between them is less than a hundred points. Several other teams from the CIS also managed to improve their results: Virtus.Pro moved up three steps, and Nemiga Gaming — by six. However, both teams are still quite far from the top ten.
One of the NAVI participants achieved new success in the individual competition. Alexander "s1mple" Kostylev topped the HLTV rating, which takes into account a player’s performance as the difference in kills and deaths. Previously, the leader of the rating was the French player Kenny "kennyS" Schrub, however, s1mple beat him by more than twenty points. It’s interesting that Kostylev managed to reach this position with fewer maps: kennyS needed to play more than 1,700 maps to rise to the top, and s1mple — only 1200.
Alexander Kostylev is among the leaders in another indicator — the average ratio between the number of kills and deaths per match. In this rating, only two players surpass him — Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov and Mathieu "ZywOo" Erbo.
