When Duncan “Thorin“ Shields originally launched his CS:GO World Rankings concept in 2014, there were no other attempts at a global ranking, regularly updated, of the world’s top teams.
Rankings run typically over a three-month span, extending back three months prior to the date they are published, and encapsulating all offline results within that time span.
This allows for a sense of how good a team is to be established after they have had time to accomplish multiple placings, but without unduly letting