After winning the StarSeries i-League season eight champions, Evil Geniuses has surpassed Astralis and Team Liquid to become the top-ranked CS:GO team in the world today, according to HLTV’s world rankings.

Astralis dropped to second place with 876 points. Fnatic are now in the third place with 733 points, while Liquid fell two positions. They have 669 points after not winning a tournament since the player break.

Before that, EG won their first championship of the year in September at ESL One New York. They beat Astralis in a best-of-five grand final when they were playing their first tournament under EG’s banner. Although Liquid and Astralis didn’t participate in StarSeries i-League season eight, EG definitely deserve credit. They’ve been on the rise since the StarLadder Berlin Major in August when they lost in the semifinals to Astralis.

Liquid and Astralis will play at BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen this weekend and they’re the two favorites to win it. After the Copenhagen, the ranking maybe change, but EG can answer back at IEM Beijing on Nov. 7 against teams like Astralis, Vitality, and mousesports.

So, with the rise of EG, we are likely to see more high-level teams competing with each other in the future.