Premier rating vs FACEIT level

Median Premier rating per FACEIT level, from 2,224 players in CS2 Premier Season 5: level 1: 11,640, level 2: 11,360, level 3: 13,130, level 4: 14,350, level 5: 15,780, level 6: 18,040, level 7: 19,490, level 8: 20,940, level 9: 22,350, level 10: 25,000.

Level 111,640

Level 211,360

Level 313,130

Level 414,350

Level 515,780

Level 618,040

Level 719,490

Level 820,940

Level 922,350

Level 1025,000

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• From level 3 to level 10, the median goes up by about 1,700 Premier rating per level.
• The spread inside one level is wide: the middle half of level 5 runs from 13,190 to 19,290. One Premier rating does not pin down a FACEIT level.
• Small groups have wide intervals: level 1 (33 players, 95% interval 7,210 to 15,410). Read those medians with care.

What FACEIT level goes with my Premier rating?

The other way round: players grouped by Premier rating, with the FACEIT level in the middle of each group. Because cswatch's level mix is not FACEIT's, this direction is reweighted to FACEIT's real level mix (see the bias check below); the raw median is shown next to it.

The bias check

These are players someone looked up on cswatch.gg, not a random sample of FACEIT. The table compares their level mix with all ranked FACEIT players.

• Reweighting. Each player gets a weight so the level mix matches FACEIT's. Everyone inside one level gets the same weight, so the per-level medians at the top do not change at all: raw and reweighted are the same numbers. What does change is everything that mixes levels: the overall median Premier rating is 18,360 raw and 18,380 reweighted, and the Premier-to-level table above.
• Level 4. In a first cut of this data (the newest pair for each of 17,778 players, no rules), level 4 was 23.7% of players against 13.4% on FACEIT. 1,542 of them sat at exactly 1,000 ELO: FACEIT starts new players at 1,000, so most of them had barely played. Without them (and impossible values under 100) level 4 drops to 18.5%. After all the rules below it is 15.3%.
• Stale ratings. With all 13,464 Season 5 pairs, including players whose last Premier game we could not date, the medians are lower at most levels (second column below). An undated rating can be weeks or months old, and that most likely pulls the numbers down, which is why the main table only uses dated ratings.

Method

1. Source. Lookups on cswatch.gg from April to October 2026: 45,334 players with at least one reading. Each lookup reads the FACEIT ELO from FACEIT and the Premier rating from Leetify at the same moment, so the two numbers in a pair are read together.
2. Season 5 only. Premier ratings reset with each season. Only readings from the start of Season 5 (9 July 2026, 00:50 CEST) count; 1,122 players had pairs from before it only.
3. Close together in time. A pair counts only when the Premier rating provably comes from a game at most 30 days before the FACEIT reading: the rating changed since an earlier lookup inside those 30 days, or Leetify's match list shows the game that set it. 11,240 players had no such proof and are left out of the main table.
4. One pair per player, the newest one, so nobody counts twice.
5. Left out: ELO of exactly 1,000 (1,446 players, see above), and impossible values such as an ELO under 100 or a Premier rating under 1,000 (1,746 players). Players who asked cswatch to remove their data are never included.
6. Level from the ELO with FACEIT's CS2 brackets (level 10 from 2,001 ELO).
7. Statistics. Percentiles by rank; the 95% interval of each median from order statistics, which needs no assumption about the shape of the data. Ratings are rounded to the nearest 10. A group with fewer than 30 players is not shown. Only totals are published: no names, no Steam IDs.

Limits

• Who gets looked up. People check players on cswatch.gg before or after a match, often when something felt off. That can tilt the data in ways reweighting by level does not fix.
• The FACEIT side can be old too. The ELO is read live, but a player who has not played FACEIT for months still shows their old ELO. Only 372 players also had their FACEIT ELO move in the same 30 days (last column above).
• FACEIT's own conversion. FACEIT gives some new players a starting ELO converted from their Premier rating. For players with few FACEIT matches, part of the link comes from FACEIT's formula. The column for players with 20 or more FACEIT matches checks this.
• Round numbers. Premier ratings bunch up at 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 and 25,000. That is in Leetify's match data too, so it is not rounding on our side, and it is why some percentiles land on a round number.
• Region. About 88% of ranked FACEIT players are in Europe; cswatch does not know the region of the players here.