Valve has published a methodology for determining the rating of teams for qualifying for RMR tournaments

Valve has published its own methodology for determining the rating of teams for qualifying for RMR tournaments. The developers will use match results from third-party championships to "reduce the burden on Major participants and simplify the qualification process." Going forward, this system will determine invitations to closed qualifiers for regional RMR tournaments.

As a result, the developers have identified a model that takes into account three factors:

1. Line-up
2. Beaten rivals
3. results

In the coming weeks, the repository maintained by Valve to create a unified set of rules will host the actual code used to create the standings, as well as a sample dataset.

The approach we take to evaluate the accuracy of our model is to measure the relationship between expected and observed odds to win matches. We look at the matches each week in our dataset and assign score values to teams using the previous week's regional location. Using the difference in point values, each match is then assigned an expected win percentage. We break down these win rates into 5% bins and then measure the actual win rates for the matches that fall into each bin.

The developers will periodically update the existing table, built on the basis of the proposed model, up to open qualifiers. The final standings will determine which teams will be invited to the closed qualifiers.

The current position of the teams in the Valve rankings

America:

1. Team Liquid - 1,911 points
2. FURIA - 1,713 points
3. Complexity Gaming - 1,552 points
4. paiN Gaming - 1,534 points
5. Fluxo - 1,487 points
6. ATK - 1,441 points
7. EG Black - 1,438 points
8. MIBR - 1,435 points
9. Nouns - 1,381 points
10. 9z - 1,373 points

Europe:

1. Heroic - 1,949 points
2. G2 Esports - 1,946 points
3. Outsiders - 1,935 points
4. FaZe Clan - 1,930 points
5. NAVI - 1,814 points
6. Vitality - 1,770 points
7. fnatic - 1,768 points
8. MOUZ - 1,761 points
9. Cloud9 - 1,715 points
10. Team Spirit - 1,711 points

Asia:

1. Lynn Vision - 1,281 points
2. IHC - 1,255 points
3. AVANGAR - 1,250 points
4. Grayhound Gaming - 1,223 points
5. TYLOO - 1,108 points
6. VERTEX - 1,084 points
7. Wings Up - 1,067 points
8. Team NKT - 1,061 points
9. Rooster - 1,023 points
10. Rare Atom - 1,010 points

This table will determine which teams will be able to bypass the open qualifiers and advance to the closed qualifiers for their region. However, some teams from Europe and America will go directly to the RMR tournament, which will also have to be taken into account by Valve when announcing invitations.

Regional distribution of participants at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023:

• Europe (14 places for getting into the TOP-16 at IEM Rio Major 2022 (7 trips to Legends) + 3 Contenders slots)
• America (2 places for getting into the TOP-16 at IEM Rio Major 2022 (1 ticket to Legends) + 3 Contenders slots)
• Asia (0 places for getting into the TOP-16 at IEM Rio Major 2022 + 2 Contenders slots)