The ESL One Cologne of the year 2015
The ESL One Cologne 2015 is also the "Electronic Sports League One Cologne 2015. The organizer of this event is called" Electronic Sports League. "The venue is the Lanxess Arena in the city of Cologne The event kicked off on August 20th of 2015 and the final took place on August 23, 2015. The prizepool had $ 250,000 and there were 27 games sponsored by the Valve Corporation and Paysafecard, with their own website called: www.esl-one.com/csgo/cologne-2015/
The event was a "Counter-Strike and Global Offensive" tournament. The days of the event were 22nd and 23rd of August 2015. The venue of the event was the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. There was an incredible $ 250,000 in prize money in profit. June 3, 2015 was the entry day of Valve Corporation. The association acted as sponsor of the tournament. The Valve Corporation had already sponsored six major tournaments. The tournament event was the first time for doping tests. NADA, an anti-doping agency in Germany, joined this group. The participants had to undergo random tests. The Lanxess Arena has plenty of seating capacity. Therefore, there is great potential to make this tournament a huge event. The tournament event attracted over 10,000 visitors. Online, this event attracted about 1.3 million interested parties. A gigantic number! The winners of ELS One Cologne in 2015 were "fnatic". The team had the third victory, which they won at the major tournament. "Fnatic" was also the first team to defend their major title.
The qualification
At ESL One Cologne in 2015, eight competitors took part in offline qualification tournaments. These were tournaments also took place regionally limited. There were invitations from these participants, or they completed various pre-qualifications.
Asian room
On 18th and 19th of July 2015 there were some qualifications. These took place in a large shopping mall called "eCurve shopping mall". This is located in Malaysia, in the capital Kuala Lumpur. A total of eight teams wrestled to be in Cologne. Two slots were in prospect. The first of the respective groups were in the playoff game. There was played with the second of the groups that still participated. It was about two places for the qualification in Cologne.
The group A
Semifinals The game to win the group
The team Immunity completed the team Immunity (with 16)
(with 16) and the team Skyred (with 8)
The Team The Mongolz
(with 10)
The team myRevenge.kr
(with 9)
The team Skyred
(with 16)
The losing match The game for the second group place
Here played The Mongolz Here played Skyred (with 14)
(with 14) and myRevenge.kr and myRevenge.kr (with 16)
(with 16)
The group B
The semi-final The game to win the group
The competition took place Here played the Renegades (with
between: 16) and QeeYou (with 8)
The Renegades (with 16)
The NeckBREAK (with 0)
The team MVP.Karnal (with 11)
and QeeYou (with 16)
The losing match The game for the second group place
Here, NeckBREAK joked the game QeeYou
(with 7) and (with 5) and MVP.Karnal (with 16)
MVP.Karnal (with 16) against each other.
up to today.
The playoffs
The semi-final qualification for the main tournament
In the semifinals stood here: It qualified the team
The team Immunity (16/16) Immunity and the Renegades
The MVP.Karnal (13/7)
The team myRevenge.kr (16/2)
The Renegades (19/16)
Qualification in Europe
In Europe, the qualifying tournaments were held on the 25th and 26th of July 2015 respectively. The games took place in ESL studios in the city of Cologne. Altogether 16 teams took part and four qualified. Four lineups were able to establish themselves in the qualification.
The group A
There was a first round, the semi-final, the final and the consolation. Then there was a qualification for the main tournament.
Game 1 in the first round:
Here were playing:
The team Dignitas (16) and the team OverGaming (9) against each other. In Game 2 of the first round, Team Property (with 16) and Team PiTER (with 7) competed against each other. In the third game of the first round, Flipsid3 Tactics (14) and KILLERFISH eSport (16) competed for the win. In Game 4, Team Kinguin (16) and Team PENTA Sports (9) competed against each other. Also the team OverGaming (with 16) and the team PiTER (with 8) started here. The Flipsid3 Tactics (19) and the PENTA Sports team (17) played against each other in the fourth round of the first round.
In the semifinals the team played Dignitas (16) in Game 5 and Team Property (14) against each other. Game 6 in the semi-final was contested by KILLERFISH eSport (8) and Team Kinguin (16). In the semifinals, the team KILLERFISH eSport fought (with 16) against the team OverGaming (8) for the victory. The losing round in the semifinals contested the Team Property (with 3) and the team Flipsid3 Tactics (with 16).
In the final, the team denied the team Dignitas in Game 7 (with 8) and the team Kinguin (16) the competition. Also KILLERFISH eSport (with 14), as well as the team Flipsid3 Tactics (with 16), argued in the final against each other for the victory. At the Consolation final, Team Dignitas (16) and Flipsid3 Tactics (19) played for the win.
In Group A the teams qualified for the main tournament:
A. Team Kinguin
For example, the team Flipsid3 Tactics
The group B
Group B also played in a first round, the semi-final, the final and the Consolation.
For the main tournament have qualified here:
A. Team eBettle
Eg the Titan eSports
In the first round a total of four games took place. In the first game, the Hell Raisers (16) and the LGB eSports (17) fought each other. The second game was played by Team Epiphany Bolt (19) and Team eBettle (22). The game 3 took place between the team ROCCAT (with 9) and the k1ck.hu (with 16). In the fourth game three teams competed against each other. Here the Gamers2 (with 5) and the Titan eSports (with 16) competed against each other. Also the LGB eSports (with 16) competed against Epiphany Bolt (with 11). Team ROCCAT (5) played against Gamers2 (16) in the first round. In the semifinals the games 5 and 6 took place. In the fifth game, the HellRaisers (with 14) fought against the team eBettle (with 16). In the sixth game the k1ck.hu (with 8) started against the Titan eSports (with 16). The k1ck.hu (with 9) then played against the LGB eSports (with 16). In the losing round of the semi-final, the HellRaisers earned 16 points and defeated the Gamers2, who scored 9 points.
In the final, the seventh game was fought, where the team eBettle (with 25) won against Titan eSports (with 23). The team LBG eSports (16) defeated the HellRaisers in a game (with 7). In the Consolation final, the Titan eSports fought (with 16) against the team LGB eSports (with 2) and won huge.
In America
The qualifier for the Continent North America was held on 1 and 2 August 2015 respectively. There were a total of eight team teams playing in Burbank. In the local ESL Studio the competitions took place and two qualification slots were fought out.
The group A
The semi-final The game to win the group
The Cloud 9 (with 16)
Team Noble Esports (with 2) Team Cloud 9 (with 16)
the team Liquid (with 10)
The team Liquid (with 16)
The Tempo Storm (with 11)
The loser match game to the second group place
the team Liquid (with 16)
The team Noble Esports (with 10) the Tempo Storm (with 10)
The Tempo Storm (with 16)
The group B
The semi-final The game to win the group
The Counter Logic Gaming (with 16)
Team eLevate (at 11) met here Counter Logic
The Maximum Effort (with 13) Gaming (with 16)
Team Mythic (16) and Mythic (14)
The losing match The game for the second group place
It met each other here played Mythic (with 13)
eLevate (with 16) and Team eLevate (with 16)
and the maximum effort (with 3)
The playoffs
The semi-final qualification for the main tournament
In the semifinals came 4 teams
for use:
Cloud 9 (16/16) qualified here Cloud 9
Team eLevate (with 7/5) and Team "Counter Logic
The team Liquid (with 9/14) Gaming
and the Counter Logic Gaming
(with 16/16)
The participants of the tournament
Eight finalists from the quarter-finals were eligible to participate. These eight participants qualified at ESL One 2015 in Katowice, Poland. In addition, eight other teams were eligible to participate. These stood out in each case at various regional qualification. The qualifications of the regions took place once in Europe, in America, as well as in Asia. So the teams could secure their participation by profits.
These 16 were:
• The fnatic (they were the winners at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• The ninjas in pajamas (they were finalists at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• Team EnVyUs (they were the semi-finalist at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• Virtus.pro (emerged as semi-finalist at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• The Luminosity Gaming (were the quarterfinalist at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• The mousesports (the quarterfinalist at the ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• Team SoloMid (as quarterfinalist at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• The Natus Vincere (the quarterfinalist at ESL One 2015 in Katowice)
• The UnionTeam Kinguin (they were the European Qualifiers)
• UkraineFlipsid3 Tactics (European Qualifier from Ukraine)
• The team eBettle (European Qualifier from Poland)
• The Titan eSports (European Qualifier from France)
• The Cloud 9 (North America qualifiers from the United States)
• The Counter Logic Gaming (North America qualifiers from the United States)
• The AustraliaTeam Immunity (Asia Qualifier)
• The Australia Renegade (also Asia Qualifier)
1. The lineup of Keyd Stars participated in the "ESL One Katowice 2015" and changed the organization.
2. The majority of the PENTA Sports line-up attending ESL One 2015 in Katowice went to mousesports. This led to a pre-qualification of mouz and not PENTA.
The lineups of the team teams
These goods:
1. Team Cloud 9 (with Ryan fREAKAZOiD Abadir, Sean "seangares" Gares, Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert, Mike shroud Grzesiek, Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham)
2. the Counter Logic Gaming (with Tarik TaRiK Celik, James "hazed" Cobb, Steve "Celtic" Cutler, Josh "jdm64" Marzano, Pujan "FNS" Mehta)
3. Flipsid3 Tactics (Andrew B1ad3 Gorodensky, Yegor "markeloff" Markelov, Vladyslav "Bondik" Nechyporchuk, Vadim "DavCost" Vasilyey, Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin)
4. the fnatic (with Freddy "KRiMZ" Johansson, Olof "olofm" Kajbjer, Robin "flusha" Rönnquist, Markus "pronax" Wallsten, Jesper "JW" Wecksell)
5. the Luminosity Gaming (with Fernando "fer" Alvarenga, Marcelo "cold" David, Lucas "Steel" Lopes, Ricardo "boltz" Prass, Gabriel "FalleN" Toldedo)
6. Team "mousesports" (with Fatih "gob b" Dayik, Chris "chrisJ" de Jong, Denis "denis" Howell, Johannes "nex" Maget, Timo "Spiidi" Richter)
7th team Natus Vincere (with Denis "seized" Kostin, Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs, Ioann "Edward" Sukharev, Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko, Egor "Flamen" Vasilyev)
8. Team Ninjas in Pajamas (with Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, Adam "friberg" Friberg, Aleksi "allu" Jalli, Richard "Xizt" Landström, Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg)
9. Team Renegades (with Chad "Spunj" Burchill, Yaman "yam" Ergenekon, Luke "Havoc" Paton, Justin "jk" Savage, Aaron "AZR" Ward)
10. Team eBettle (with Piotr "peet" Cwiklinski, Damian "Furlan" Kislowski, Karol "ralle" Rodowicz, Dominik "GruBy" Swiderski, Bartosz "Hyper" Wolny)
11. Team EnVyUs (with Vincent "Happy" Schopenhauer, Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey, Dan "apEX" Madesclaire, Nathan "NBK" Schmitt, Kenny "KennyS" Schrub)
12. Team Immunity (with Ricky "Rickeh" Mulholland, Karlo "USTILO" Pivac, James "James" Quinn, Chris "Emagine" Rowlands, Iain "Snyper" Turner)
13. Team Kinguin (with Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom, Mikail "Maikelele" Bill, Dennis "dennis" Edman, Havard "rain" Nygaard, Ricardo "fox" Pacheco)
14. the team SoloMid (with Finn "Karrigan" Andersen, Rene "cajunb" Borg, Andreas "Xyp9x" Hojsleth, Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen, Nicolai "device" Reedtz)
15. The Titan eSports (with Kevin "Ex6TenZ" Droolans, Edouard "SmithZz" Duboureaux, Cedric "RpK" Guipouy, Richard "shox" Papillon, Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez)
16. Team Virtus.pro (with Pavel "byali" Bielinsky, Yaroslav "pasha" Jarzabkovsky, Filip "Neo" Kubsky, Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelsky, Victor "TaZ" Wojtas)
The draw
Electronic Sports League announced the group draw in August of 2015.
The set list group "A" group "B"
A. The Ninjas in Pajamas Team EnVyUs
For example, the team SoloMid the Luminosity G.
C. the Renegades the Kinguin
D. the Counter Logic Gaming the Flipsid3 Tactics
Group "C" Group "D"
A. fnatic the Virtus.pro
For example, the Natus Vincere Team mousesports
C. the Titan eSports Team Cloud 9
D. the team eBettle Team Immunity
The maps
The tournament has seven maps on the program, which you can play. During best-of-one mode, both teams can decide to delete two of the maps. There are three maps left, which are chosen at random. This map will be played finally. Both teams cancel one of the maps in best-of-one mode. Then everyone chooses a map that is in the first two games on the board. There are three maps left, whereby the choice also uses the random principle.
The following maps were available:
• Maps overview de_dust2
• Maps overview de_inferno
• Maps overview de_mirage
• Maps overview de_cache
• Maps overview de_cobblestone
• Maps overview de_overpass
• Maps overview de_train
The winner bracket
The group A
The team SoloMid drove the victory here. They played against the team Renegades from Australia and won with 16:11. Another game was fought against the team Ninjas in pajamas. Again, they towered over with 16: 3 and a brilliant victory. In the map de_dust2 NiP won against the team Counter Logic Gaming. The game ended 16:13 for NiP.
The semi-final
Here the team Ninja played in pajamas against the Counter Logic Gaming with 16:13. The Renegades were defeated here against Team SoloMid with 11:16.
The game to win the group
Here the team SoloMid beat the ninjas in pajamas with 16: 3.
The group B
In the first round of Group B, the team won EnVyUs. Team Luminosity Gaming also achieved victories. The two teams then fought for the win in an extra time. The team EnVyUs won the victory with 19 to 16 in the map de_cobblestone.
The semi-final
In the semifinals, the teams EnVyUs and Flipsid3 Tactics met, which went out for EnVyUs with 16: 3. The team Luminosity Gaming and the team Kinguin argued against each other with 16: 6.
The game to win the group
The game went for EnVyUs with 19:16 against Luminosity Gaming.
The group C
The team fnatic was defending champion and the team was well matched. Two rounds were played against the team Nantus Vincere and the team eBettle.
The semi-final
Team eBettle was defeated here fnatic 16: 2. The Nantus Vincere won with 19 points against Titan eSports, who had only 17.
The game to win the group
This match was won by fnatic against Team Natus Vincere with 16: 2.
The group D
The team mousesports from Germany were in this group the Team Cloud 9. Their announcer was Fatih "gob b" Dayik. It was played in the map de_overpass. The sporty mice had a lead of 7: 3, but they playful. The lead could not be sustained and they drove a defeat. The team Virtus.pro won against the Immunity team. In the map de_cobblestone the Poles shone and they won against the Cloud 9, 16: 8.
The semi-final
Here the Virtus.pro played with 16: 8 against the team Immunity. The team Cloud 9 won here with 16:10 against the mice.
The game to win the group
For the group victory Virtus.pro fought against Cloud 9 and won 16: 8.
The lower bracket
When the Winnerbracket was played, there were new groups of those teams that had not yet final qualifiers. The lowerbracket saw new group teams. This ensured that two teams did not play against each other again.
The team The group before The group afterwards
the counter logic G. the group A the group E
the team Kinguin the group B the group F
the Titan eSports the group C the group G
the mousesports the group D the group H
The group E
The Natus Vincere won against the team Counter Logic Gaming. 16:14 it was in the end for the Vincere in the map de_cobblestone. The team qualified for the quarter-finals.
The loser match
Here the Counter Logic Gaming won against the eBettle with 16:14.
The game to the second group place
Natus Vincere scored the win against Counter Logic Gaming at 16:14.
The group F
In this group, the team Kinguin won against the Immunity team. Also against the Cloud 9, they drove a 16-13 victory. It was played in the map de_dust2.
The loser match
Team Immunity lost to Team Kinguin with 16:13.
The game to the second group place
Here, Team Kinguin won against Cloud 9 with 16:13.
The group G
Team Ninjas in Pajamas played in the G Group against the Australian Renegades and it was a 16-5 victory. Here was fought in the map de_inferno.
The loser match
The Renegades won superior with 16: 9 against the Titan eSports.
The game to the second group place
Here the ninjas in pajamas won against the team Renegades with 16: 5.
The group H
The sporty, German mice lost the fight against the Flipsid3 Tactics. It was played in de_cobblestone and their score was 14:16. The Flipsid3 team then defeated the team Luminosity Gaming from Brazil. Thus, Luminosity Gaming was in the quarterfinals.
The loser match
The Flipsid3 Tactics won against the mousesports with 16:14.
The game to the second group place
Here, the Luminosity Gaming won against the Flipsid3 Tactics with 22:18.
The final round
In the quarter-finals, there were victories of Winnerbracket groups that were first in the group. In the final round, the winning teams were in the lower bracket groups. The team EnVyUs played in the de_cache-Map a 16:12 victory. In the de_dust2 map it came to 8:16 defeat. The final map called de_inferno won them 16: 9. The Virtus.pro team shone in the second semi-final with their skills. In the map de_mirage they managed a victory with a strong 16: 6. The fnatic team equaled 16:14 in de_inferno. The third de_cobblestone map won the Swedes and drove a 16: 7 victory. So the Swedes moved into the final.
In the final, the team EnVyUs played against the fnatic. Nathan "NBK" Schmitt managed a Knifekill in the de_dust2 map. The EnVyUs team played in the halftime with 10: 5 a game of extra class. In the end, the Swedes hit the top and it came to an extension. In the first map won the fnatic. De_cobblestone was the second map where the Swedes dominated. The French were leading at halftime, but in the end the British won the major tournament.
The quarterfinals The semi-final
EnVyUs with 16/16
the Natus Vincere with 13/10 EnVyUs 16/8/16
Team SoloMid with 16/16 SoloMid 12/16/9
Team Kinguin with 6/8
the Virtus.pro with 16/16
the ninja in pajamas with 14/5 the Virtus.pro 16/14/7
the fnatic with 16/16 team fnatic 6/16/16
Team Luminosity Gaming with 5/14
The final
Here the team EnVyUs (15/7) and the team fnatic (19/16) played against each other.
How is the prize money distribution composed?
(all prizes were paid in US dollars)
A. 1st place received prize money of $ 100,000 - team fnatic from Sweden won here
B. Second place was taken by Team EnVyUs from France - they won $ 50,000 in prize money
C. The 3rd and 4th place went to Team SoloMid from Denmark and the Virtus.pro team from Poland - they each received $ 22,000 in prize money
D. The 5th to 8th places each received $ 10,000 in prize money. The team LuminosityGaming from Brazil finished in 5th place. 6th was the team Natus Vincere from Ukraine. The ninjas finished in pajamas from Sweden. And finally, the UnionTeamKinguin also took 8th place with $ 10,000 in prize money.
E. The 9th to 16th places each received $ 2,000 in prize money. Here were the winning teams Cloud 9 from the US and CounterLogic Gaming, also from the USA. UkraineFlipsid3 Tactis from Ukraine also won 2000 dollars. Furthermore, the mousesports from Germany, the AustraliaRenegades, the Team eBettle from Poland, the AustraliaTeam Immunity and the Titan eSports from France received 2000 dollars.
Some numbers and facts
• Valve Corporation spent more than $ 4.2 million on the teams. It was revenue generated from in-game sticker sales.
• Twitch saw more than 27 million viewers (unique viewers). Approximately 1.3 million interested in watched Twitch and GOTV (GOTV acts inside the game).
• The player Robin "flusha" Rönnquist, who plays for the Swedish fnatic, had a 1.72 K / D-rate. This was the highest rate of the tournament.
• Fernando Alvarenga, also known as "fer," plays in Brazil's Luminosity Gaming team and Ladislav Kovacs, known as "GuardiaN," who plays for Natus Vincere, scored an Ace (Ace: a so-called Pentakill). Also Karlo Pivac, called "USTILO", who plays in the team Immunity, could achieve an Ace (Australia). Furthermore, an Ace went to Janusz Pogorelelski, called "Snax". This one plays with Virtus.pro from Poland. Gabriel Toledo, called "FalleN", plays at Luminosity Gaming. The team is from Brazil. Toledo also scored a Pentakill, an Ace.
• The ninjas in pajamas are a Swedish team. However, they did not make it to the final. This was the first time that they could not make it to the final. The entry into the final of this major tournament was denied them.
• Team Immunity won the pistol rounds of the tournament, all.