FURIA holds high spot in January CS2 Valve Regional Standings

Brazilian esports organisation FURIA is first within the world Valve Regional Standings (VRS) for January 2026, maintaining maintain of the highest spot it secured in November 2025.

The January VRS holds vital worth, figuring out the invites for 4 Tier 1 CS2 occasions going down over the subsequent 4 months.

Unveiled on January fifth, the most recent version of the worldwide standings follows the conclusion of Fragadelphia’s Frag Miami 2 occasion, which was gained by NRG.

On account of securing victory and GamerLegion taking third place, the 2 groups have grabbed invitations to compete within the first stage of IEM Kraków, going down from January twenty eighth to February eighth.

Along with figuring out invitations for IEM Kraków, January’s VRS additionally decides which groups will attend PGL Cluj-Napoca, ESL Professional League Season 23, and IEM Rio. ESL and PGL have but to disclose the groups which have accepted invitations to those occasions.

After profitable the StarLadder Budapest Main, Group Vitality has climbed to second place within the world standings, pushing Group Falcons down to 3rd.

Elsewhere, FaZe Clan has damaged into the highest ten after reaching the Grand Closing on the Hungarian capital. The worldwide roster climbs ten locations from its December rating of seventeenth. One other notable mover is Ninjas in Pyjamas. Following a top-20 end in Budapest, the Swedish organisation climbs into the highest 20 for the primary time since October.

Under is an inventory of the highest 20 CS2 groups from the primary VRS of 2026, together with the entire strikes up and down the standings from December: