Update: Valve issues final ranking update before RMR invites cutoff

Tomorrow is the official August 7th cutoff date for all teams that will be invited directly to the 2024 Perfect World Shanghai Major Regional RMRs and the subregional Closed Qualifiers., with the ranking released today on August 6th being Valve's final update, that means we know who is invited to the RMRs and their respective qualifiers.

For the uninitiated, eight teams will be invited to the Americas RMR, while sixteen teams will be invited to the Closed Qualifier for North And South America. From these two qualifiers, four teams each will make their way into the RMR.

In the past, Majors had allowed anyone to participate through an open qualifier system. This caused havoc as organizers and teams scrambled to qualify in a field of randoms and potential cheaters.

The latest ranking incorporates events from over the weekend which include the BLAST Premier Fall Finals which saw Liquid take down the world's best team twice, while NRG were crowned champions in the NA Revival Series #2.

Both NRG and Liquid saw a boost in their ranking, with the latter now becoming the highest ranked team in the Americas. FURIA was pushed one place down while Complexity maintained their ranking at #3. Elsewhere, M80 continued to survive in the Top 8 and have earned their spot in Shanghai.

Of note, ESL Impact squads FlyQuest RED and TSM Shimmer will also be invited to the Closed Qualifier. The full list may be found here.

If the invites to the RMR and its Closed Qualifiers went out today, the team lists could look as follows:

RMR Invites:

1. Liquid

2. FURIA

3. Complexity

4. 9z

5. paiN

6. MIBR

7. M80

8. Imperial

Update: HLTV's Milan "Striker" Švejda has confirmed with Valve that this will be the final ranking update before the RMR. Additionally, he confirmed that "multiple teams under the same organization are not allowed to compete, even across different stages and regions", therefore FlyQuest RED and TSM Shimmer are ineligible to compete in the Perfect World Shanghai Major Americas RMR Closed Qualifier. The next two teams eligible to take spots would then be Take Flyte and ex-Limitless, although the latter squad has been disbanded for sometime, so it is unknown at the time of publication if they would accept an invite.