
It is important to know, that first 4 placement matches should be taken seriously, since they are the most crucial and your future skill group will depend on their result. The highest skill group you can achieve on placement matches - Legendary Eagle Master (LEM), and the lowest one - Silver 1. Situation with Wingman is a bit different, you have the opportunity to pass placement matches even in one day without blocking or any limitations. After the second victory you will receive temporary blocking for 20 hours, when it’s over you can further proceed to calibration. During Placement Matches in Competitive, you can win max. Then you will get the opportunity to play Competitive and Wingman. Try to get the maximum number of kills, normally 3-4 matches is enough to achieve it. We recommend you a Deathmatch mode to get it. In order to get access to competitive mode, you should get private rank 2. Here are all the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Skill Groups, from the lowest to highest:

Once you receive it, private rank will be reset to first one, and by recurrent achieving Private 40 your service medal will improve, or to be more exact – it will change the color. Each year, game developers present new Service Medal. By achieving Private 40, you receive Service Medal.


There are also 40 Private Ranks, they have no impact on competitive ones, and can be described as experience scale.

They are further divided into 4 groups: Silver, Gold, Master and Elite. There are total 18 Competitive and Wingman Skill Groups in CS:GO. In this article we are going to tell you about the way you can get your first rank, the percentage of Global Elite players in the world, how the whole system works, and also the way you can raise your rating much faster. Practically all new players face a large number of issues with CS:GO Rank System: unclear profile ranks, placement matches, where and how is it possible to get rank after all? We know, you want to indulge yourself into the world of one of the most popular competitive online games ever!
