ESL One Cologne 2014

ESL One Cologne 2014
2014
	The ESL One Cologne 2014 logo
Tournament information
Sport	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location	Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Dates	August 14, 2014–August 17, 2014
Administrator	Valve ; ESL
Tournament; format(s)	16 team round-robin group stage ; Eight team single-elimination playoff
Host(s)	Gamescom 2014
Venue	Cologne Exhibition Centre
Teams	16 teams
Purse	$250,000 USD
Final positions
Champions	Ninjas in Pyjamas
1st runners-up	Fnatic
2nd runners-up	Team LDLC.com; Team Dignitas
MVP	Adam "friberg" Friberg
	← Katowice 2014 Jönköping 2014 →

Electronic Sports League One Cologne 2014, known as ESL One Cologne 2014 for short, was the third Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship that was held during Gamescom 2014 from August 14–17, 2014 at the Cologne Exhibition Centre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was the second CS:GO Major of 2014. It was organized by Electronic Sports League with sponsorship from Valve. The tournament had a total prize pool of US$250,000.^[1]

The Train map was removed for the tournament, while Cache and Overpass, as well as the Cbble remix Cobblestone were added. Overpass was released by Valve only a month before the tournament, and the decision to add a new map with such short notice and at Major event caused some controversy.^[2]

Ninjas in Pyjamas was the winner of the event after beating Fnatic 2-1 in the finals.^[3] The tournament was livestreamed on the official ESL Twitch channel. 409,368 concurrent viewers watched the grand finals, while 2,950,600 total unique viewers watched the event across four days.^[4]

dAT Team player Egor "flamie" Vasilyev was alleged to have cheated in a qualifier by using an account that may not have his due it having an unusually low number of playing hours.^[5] Ultimately he was allowed to compete.

Format

The top seven teams of the EMS One Katowice 2014 qualified as Legends. Six teams from Europe, one team from North America, one team from the Oceanic region, and one team from India played online qualifiers in order to play in the tournament

Teams will be split up into four groups. All group matches are best of a. The highest seed will play the lowest seed in each group and the second and third seeds will play against each other. The winner of those two matches will play to determine which team moves on to the Playoffs; the loser of that match will play another match against the winner of the two losing teams. The loser of the lower match is eliminated from the tournament. The last two teams will play each other and the winner of that match moves on to the playoffs.

The playoffs bracket consists of eight teams, two from each group. All of these matches are a best of three, single elimination format. Teams advance in the bracket until a winner is decided.

Map Pool

There were seven maps to choose from, two more than the previous major. Cache, Overpass, and Cobblestone were added to the map pool and Train was taken out. In the group stage, both teams can delete two maps. From the remaining three maps, the map is randomly selected, which is played in the end. In the playoffs, each team will first remove one map. Then, each side chooses a map, which will be played in the first two matches. If the series were to go to a third map, that map is randomly selected among the three remaining maps.

Maps

Cache
Cobblestone
Dust II
Inferno
Mirage
Nuke
Overpass

Qualifiers

European Qualifier

There were 16 teams in the main European qualifier. 4 teams from each regional qualifier – Open, North, Southeast, and Southwest – were in the tournament. The tournament was a best of three, double-elimination bracket. The unshown teams in the Loser's bracket were USSR Team, ESC Gaming, mTw, and tomtebloss.

Winner's Bracket

Round 1

Round 2

Qualified

Cologne 2014

Natus Vincere

2

USSR Team

0

Natus Vincere

1

London Conspiracy

2

London Conspiracy

2

k1ck eSports Club

1

London Conspiracy

Q

dAT Team

Q

mousesports

0

dAT Team

2

dAT Team

2

ESG!

1

ESC Gaming

1

ESG!

2

Cologne 2014

→

Cologne 2014

→

Epsilon eSports

2

mTw

0

Epsilon eSports

2

Copenhagen Wolves

1

unu.Ain

0

Copenhagen Wolves

2

Epsilon eSports

Q

Titan

Q

ENCPOE

2

Planetkey Dynamics

0

ENCORE

0

Titan

2

tomtebloss

0

Titan

2

Loser's Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

ENCORE

2

k1ck eSports Club

0

ENCORE

0

Copenhagen Wolves

2

Copenhagen Wolves

2

mousesports

0

Copenhagen Wolves

Q

Natus Vincere

Q

ESG!

2

unu.Ain

1

ESG!

1

Natus Vincere

2

Natus Vincere

2

Planetkey Dynamics

0

North American Qualifier

This was a 16 team, single elimination bracket with just one team qualifying for the playoffs.

NA Qualifier Bracket

Round of 16			Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Cologne 2014

	Team iBUYPOWER	→

	BYE
				Team iBUYPOWER	2

				devastation	0
	Anonymous 5	0

	devastation	1
							Team iBUYPOWER	2

							tNt	0
	Team JustUs	0

	Defiant Ghosts	1
				Defiant Ghosts	0

				tNt	2
	xero error gaming	0

	tNt	1
										Team iBUYPOWER	2

										LunatiK eSports	0
	LunatiK eSports	1

	fujiboyz	0
				LunatiK eSports	2

				Exertus eSports	0
	Exertus eSports	1

	Mobility Gaming	0
							LunatiK eSports	2

							Flaming Rainbows	0
	Armata Gaming	0

	Adaptation	1
				Adaptation	0

				Flaming Rainbows	2
	BYE

	Flaming Rainbows	→

Oceanic Qualifier

This was an 8 team, single elimination bracket with just one team qualifying for the playoffs.

Oceania Qualifier Bracket

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

	Vox Eminor	2

	Athletico Esports	0
				Vox Eminor	2

				Fallen	0
	Fallen	2

	Qlimax Crew	0
							Vox Eminor	2

							Team Immunity	0
	Team Immunity	2

	Control e-Sports	1
				Team Immunity	2

				Avant Garde	1
	auRa eSports	0

	Avant Garde	2

Indian Qualifier

LGB eSports, which placed third at the previous major, disbanded, so only seven Legends remained. The tournament organizers decided to fill up the remaining spot with a team from India. This qualifier had 8 teams. The teams played in a robin round and the top four teams played in a double elimination bracket. Only the grand final score appears to be found.

Indian Qualifier Grand Final

Cologne 2014

	Team Wolf	2

	Virtual Impact	0

Broadcast Talent

Hosts

Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner
Scott "SirScoots" Smith

Analyst

Richard Lewis

Commentators

Anders Blume
Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat
Joshua "steel" Nissan
Stuart "TosspoT" Saw
Lauren "Pansy" Scott

Teams

Legends

Qualifiers

Copenhagen Wolves
dAt Team
Epsilon eSports
London Conspiracy
Natus Vincere
Team iBUYPOWER
Team Wolf
Titan
Vox Eminor

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
1	Epsilon eSports	2	0	32	7	+25	6
2	Ninjas in Pyjamas	2	1	38	34	+4	6
3	HellRaisers	1	2	26	33	-7	3
4	Team Wolf	0	2	11	32	-21	0

Group A Scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Dust II	7	Team Wolf
HellRaisers	1	Inferno	16	Epsilon eSports
HellRaisers	16	Mirage	4	Team Wolf
Ninjas in Pyjamas	6	Cobblestone	16	Epsilon eSports
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Overpass	11	HellRaisers

Group B

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
1	Team LDLC.com	2	0	32	14	+18	6
2	Natus Vincere	2	1	47	39	+8	6
3	Copenhagen Wolves	1	2	39	40	-1	3
4	London Conspiracy	0	2	7	32	-25	0

Group B Scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Team LDLC.com	16	Nuke	2	London Conspiracy
Natus Vincere	16	Inferno	4	Copenhagen Wolves
Copenhagen Wolves	16	Cache	5	London Conspiracy
Team LDLC.com	16	Inferno	12	Natus Vincere
Natus Vincere	19	Dust II	17	Copenhagen Wolves

Group C

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
1	Fnatic	2	0	35	23	+12	6
2	Virtus.pro	2	1	48	28	+20	6
3	Team iBUYPOWER	1	2	33	45	-12	3
4	dAT Team	0	2	15	32	-17	0

Group C Scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Virtus.pro	16	Overpass	7	dAT Team
Fnatic	16	Cobblestone	7	Team iBUYPOWER
Team iBUYPOWER	16	Cobblestone	6	dAT Team
Virtus.pro	16	Overpass	19	Fnatic
Virtus.pro	16	Cache	2	Team iBUYPOWER

Group D

Pos	Team	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Pts
1	Cloud9	2	0	38	32	+4	6
2	Team Dignitas	2	1	46	26	+20	6
3	Titan	1	2	35	39	-4	3
4	Vox Eminor	0	2	10	32	-22	0

Group D Scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Team Dignitas	16	Dust II	9	Vox Eminor
Cloud9	22	Dust II	18	Titan
Titan	16	Nuke	1	Vox Eminor
Team Dignitas	14	Mirage	16	Cloud9
Team Dignitas	16	Nuke	2	Titan

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

	Fnatic	2

	Natus Vincere	1
				Fnatic	2

				Team Dignitas	0
	Epsilon eSports	0

	Team Dignitas	2
							Fnatic	1

							Ninjas in Pyjamas	2
	Team LDLC.com	2

	Virtus.pro	0
				Team LDLC.com	1

				Ninjas in Pyjamas	2
	Cloud9	1

	Ninjas in Pyjamas	2

Quarterfinals Scores

Quarterfinals
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Fnatic	16	Inferno	11	Natus Vincere
Fnatic	7	Dust II	16	Natus Vincere
Fnatic	16	Nuke	14	Natus Vincere
Epsilon eSports	9	Dust II	16	Team Dignitas
Epsilon eSports	8	Inferno	16	Team Dignitas
Epsilon eSports	–	Overpass	–	Team Dignitas
Team LDLC.com	16	Dust II	14	Virtus.pro
Team LDLC.com	16	Mirage	12	Virtus.pro
Team LDLC.com	–	Inferno	–	Virtus.pro
Cloud9	16	Nuke	8	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Cloud9	14	Dust II	16	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Cloud9	14	Cobblestone	16	Ninjas in Pyjamas

Semifinals Scores

Semifinals
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Fnatic	16	Dust II	11	Team Dignitas
Fnatic	16	Overpass	14	Team Dignitas
Fnatic	–	Inferno	–	Team Dignitas
Team LDLC.com	16	Inferno	10	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team LDLC.com	6	Nuke	16	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team LDLC.com	14	Cobblestone	16	Ninjas in Pyjamas

Finals Scores

Finals
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Fnatic	11	Cobblestone	16	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Fnatic	16	Cache	8	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Fnatic	13	Inferno	16	Ninjas in Pyjamas

Final standings

Place	Prize Money	Team	Seed	Roster	Coach
1st	US$100,000	Ninjas in Pyjamas	DreamHack Winter 2014	f0rest, GeT RiGhT, Xizt, friberg, Fifflaren	pita
2nd	US$50,000	Fnatic		JW, flusha, pronax, olofmeister, KRiMZ	Devilwalk
3rd–4th	US$22,000	Team Dignitas		FeTiSh, dev1ce, aizy, dupreeh, Xyp9x	3k2
3rd–4th	US$22,000	Team LDLC.com		Uzzziii, Happy, KQLY, apEX, Maniac	MoMan
5–8th	$10,000	Epsilon eSports		Sf, fxy0, kioShiMa, GMX, shox
		Natus Vincere		Edward, Zeus, starix, seized, GuardiaN
		Virtus.pro		TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, byali, Snax
		Cloud9		Hiko, sgares, n0thing, shroud, Semphis
9–12th	$2,000	HellRaisers	–	ANGE1, kucher, markeloff, AdreN Dosia
		Copenhagen Wolves		gla1ve, Pimp, cajunb, karrigan, Nico
		Titan		kennyS, SmithZz, NBK, ScreaM, Ex6TenZ
		Team iBUYPOWER		DaZeD, Skadoodle, swag, steel, AZK
13–16th	$2,000	Team Wolf		RiTz, RiX, aStarrr, Ace, MithilF	kassad
		London Conspiracy		RUBINO, rain, Skurk, prb, Polly
		dAT Team		WorldEdit, flamie, ub1que, bondik, Blad3
		Vox Eminor		AZR, Havoc, SPUNJ, jks, topguN