ESL One Cologne 2015

ESL One Cologne
2015
Tournament information
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Dates August 14, 2015–August 18, 2015
Administrator(s) Electronic Sports League (ESL)
Tournament format(s) 32 team round-robin group stage
Eight team single-elimination playoff
Teams 16 teams
Purse $250,000 USD
Final positions
Champions Fnatic
1st Runners-up EnVyUs
2nd Runners-up Virtus.pro, Team SoloMid
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ESL One Cologne 2015 was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major that was held from August 14-18, 2015 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne.[1] It was organized by Electronic Sports League. The Cologne event was the first ESL tournament that required competitors to take drug tests, which all came up negative.[2][3][4] The tournament had a total prize pool of $250,000 USD. The online livestream was viewed by around 27 million viewers with a peak of 1.3 million concurrent viewers.[5]

There were qualifiers for the event.[6]

Fnatic was the winner of the event after beating EnVyUs 16-7 in the finals on Cobblestone (de_cbble).[7] Fnatic's Freddy "KRiMZ" Johansson scored a quad-kill in the finals against EnVyUs to help win the tournament.[8]

Playoff bracket

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                                       
   France  Team EnVyUs 16 16  
 Ukraine  Natus Vincere 13 10  
   France  Team EnVyUs 16 8 16  
   Denmark  Team SoloMid 12 16 9  
 Denmark  Team SoloMid 16 16
   European Union  Team Kinguin 6 8  
     France  Team EnVyUs 15 7
   Sweden  fnatic 19 16
   Poland  Virtus.pro 16 16  
 Sweden  Ninjas in Pyjamas 14 5  
   Poland  Virtus.pro 16 14 7
   Sweden  fnatic 6 16 16  
 Sweden  fnatic 16 16
   Brazil  Luminosity Gaming 5 14  

Final standings

Place Team Prize money
1st Fnatic $100,000
2nd Team EnVyUs $50,000
3rd–4th Team SoloMid $22,000
Virtus.pro
5–8th Natus Vincere $10,000
Team Kinguin
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Luminosity Gaming
9–12th Counter Logic Gaming $2,000
Cloud9
Los Angeles Renegades
FlipSid3 Tactics
13–16th Team eBettle $2,000
Team Immunity
Titan
mousesports

References

  1. ↑ Rittfeldt, Joachim (August 8, 2015). "ESL One Cologne – About". Aftonbladet. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ Chalk, Andy (August 25, 2015). "ESL One Cologne drug tests come up empty". PC Gamer. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Neuman, Scott (August 13, 2015). "Video Game League Announces Random Drug Tests For Competitors". NPR. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Chalk, Andy (July 23, 2015). "ESL to begin randomized drug testing at ESL One Cologne". PC Gamer. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Wynne, Jared (August 26, 2015). "ESL One Cologne pulls in $4.2 million in revenue for teams, sets viewer records". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.ongamers.com/articles/all-16-teams-for-esl-one-cologne-have-been-determi/1100-2004/
  7. ↑ Rad, Chloi (August 25, 2015). "27 Million People Watched the Biggest Counter-Strike Tournament Ever". IGN. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  8. ↑ Lahti, Evan (August 24, 2015). "This amazing quad-kill was the turning point of the CS:GO championship". PC Gamer. Retrieved November 16, 2015.

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