ESL One Katowice 2015

ESL One Katowice
2015
Tournament information
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Dates March 12, 2015–March 15, 2015
Administrator(s) Electronic Sports League (ESL)
Tournament
format(s)
 16 team round-robin group stage
Eight team single-elimination playoff
Venue Spodek Arena
Teams 16 teams
Purse $250,000 USD
Final positions
Champions Sweden Fnatic
1st runners-up Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas
2nd runners-up France Team EnVyUs
Poland Virtus.pro
Tournament statistics
MVP Sweden Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer
Kills Get_Right (Ninjas in Pyjamas) (211)
KD Ratio NEO (Virtus.pro) (1.42)

Electronic Sports League One Katowice 2015, known as ESL One Katowice 2015 for short, was the fifth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major tournament that was from March 12–15, 2015 at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was the first CS:GO Major of 2015. It was organized by Electronic Sports League with sponsorship from Valve Corporation. The tournament had a total prize pool of $250,000 USD.

A 16 team qualifier was held with the top 8 teams qualifying for ESL One Katowice.[1]

Fnatic was the winner of the event after beating Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-1 in the finals.[2]

The tournament was livestreamed on the official ESL twitch.tv channel and on the CS:GO in-game match viewing client. Over 1 million concurrent viewers watched the grand finals, breaking the record for a CS:GO event.[3]

Cloud9 was alleged to have been on Adderall during the duration of the tournament.[4]

The first, round-robin group stage consisted of 16 teams in four groups. For the next stage the top two teams in each group were then seeded into a single-elimination bracket.

Format

The top eight teams of the DreamHack Winter 2014 qualified as Legends. Eight teams from the offline Qualifier tournament also participated in the tournament

Teams will be split up into four groups. All group matches are best of 1. 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

The same map pool was kept at this major.

There were seven maps to choose from. 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

Main Qualifier

In both European qualifiers, 64 teams played in a single elimination, best of one tournament. Two teams from each qualifier moved on to the main qualifier. The North American qualifier featured 8 teams that played in a single elimination bracket and one team moved on to the main qualifier. In the CIS qualifier, eight teams played in a double elimination, best of one bracket. Lastly, in the Polish qualifier, two teams played in a best of three series.

The teams were separated into two groups of 8. The teams played in a double-elimination, best of one bracket. Four teams from each group, two from the winner's bracket and two from the loser's bracket, move on to the major.

Invited1
Regional Qualifiers

1Four of the five players from Team iBUYPOWER were banned by Valve for their parts in the North American match fixing scandal. In a game with NetCodeGuides.com, the players intentionally threw a game.[5] CSGO personality and journalist Richard Lewis exposed the scandal that in exchange of a NetCodeGuides.com win, iBUYPOWER players would receive skins. Duc "cud" Pham, Derek "dboorN" Boorn, and Casey "caseyfoster" Foster, authority figures of NetCodeGuides.com, were banned by Valve. In addition, Sam "DaZeD" Marine, Keven "AZK" Larivière, Joshua "steel" Nissan, and Braxton "swag" Pierce were banned from all Valve-sponsored events.[6] The remaining member of iBUYPOWER, Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham, was not banned since he was the only player who did not receive anything, thus making evidence against him inconclusive. The bans were officially made permanent on January 5, 2016.[7] Richard Lewis later wrote an open letter to Valve, claiming the bans were too harsh.[8] steel and DaZeD would later turn to full-time streaming; in addition, DaZeD was invited to commentate at ESL Pro League Seasons 4 and 5 and was an analyst at Intel Extreme Masters Season XI Oakland. AZK became a professional Overwatch player for Team Liquid,[9] and swag was hired by Cloud9 to become its CSGO analyst.[10]

2The Polish roster of ESC Gaming was picked up by Gamers2. ESC Gaming would go on ti pick up a Danish roster.[11][12]

Group A

Group B

Broadcast Talent

Hosts

Analysts

Commentators

Observers

Teams

Legends
Qualifiers

Prior to the major, changes took place.

Yegor "markeloff" Markelov and Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev depart from HellRaisers. s1mple was replaced by Dauren "AdreN" Kystaubayev. Later, HellRaisers announces the signing of Egor "flamie" Vasilyev to fill up the remaining spot on the roster.[13][14]

PENTA Sports adds Tobias "Troubley" Tabbert from mousesports and Johannes "nex" Maget from Planetkey Dynamics to its roster. Robin "r0bs3n" Stephan and Felix "fel1x" Zech were out of the roster.[15][16]

Team EnVyUs acquires the full roster of Team LDLC.com.[17]

Team Dignitas releases Henrik "FeTiSh" Christensen and signs Finn "karrigan" Andersen as the in game leader.[18] Roughly two months later, the roster is acquired by Team SoloMid.[19]

The players of NetCodeGuides.com disbands from its organization.[20] Counter Logic Gaming then signs four of the five players (Josh "jdm64" Marzano was the exception) and Peter "ptr" Gurney to its roster.[21]

Flipsid3 Tactics releases its Swedish and Bosnian roster and signs the roster of dAT Team. s1mple later left the team and the team signs Vadim "DavCost" Vasilyev.[22]

Group Stage

Group A
Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Sweden Fnatic 2 0 32 10 +22 6
2 Ukraine Natus Vincere 2 1 39 21 +18 6
3 Australia Vox Eminor 1 2 22 34 -12 3
4 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics 0 2 4 32 -28 0
Group A matches
Sweden Fnatic 16 3 Australia Vox Eminor
Ukraine Natus Vincere 16 2 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Sweden Fnatic 16 7 Ukraine Natus Vincere
Australia Vox Eminor 16 2 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Ukraine Natus Vincere 16 3 Australia Vox Eminor

Group B

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 France Team EnVyUs 2 0 32 22 +10 6
2 Germany PENTA Sports 2 1 35 32 +3 6
3 Norway LGB eSports 1 2 36 35 +1 3
4 France Titan 0 2 18 32 -14 0
Group B matches
France Team EnVyUs 16 14 France Titan
Germany PENTA Sports 3 16 Norway LGB eSports
France Team EnVyUs 16 8 Norway LGB eSports
Germany PENTA Sports 16 4 France Titan
Norway LGB eSports 12 16 Germany PENTA Sports
Group C
Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 2 0 32 16 +16 6
2 Brazil Keyd Stars 2 1 41 36 +5 6
3 United States Counter Logic Gaming 1 2 31 46 -15 3
4 Commonwealth of Independent States HellRaisers 0 2 26 32 -6 0
Group C matches
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 9 Brazil Keyd Stars
Commonwealth of Independent States HellRaisers 14 16 United States Counter Logic Gaming
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 7 United States Counter Logic Gaming
Commonwealth of Independent States HellRaisers 12 16 Brazil Keyd Stars
United States Counter Logic Gaming 8 16 Brazil Keyd Stars

Group D

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Poland Virtus.pro 2 0 32 16 +16 6
2 Denmark Team SoloMid 2 1 46 34 +12 6
3 United States Cloud9 1 2 35 46 -11 3
4 Finland 3DMAX 0 2 15 32 -17 0
Group D matches
Poland Virtus.pro 16 5 Finland 3DMAX
Denmark Team SoloMid 14 16 United States Cloud9
Poland Virtus.pro 16 11 United States Cloud9
Denmark Team SoloMid 16 10 Finland 3DMAX
United States Cloud9 8 16 Denmark Team SoloMid

Playoffs

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
               
Sweden Fnatic 16 16 –
Germany PENTA Sports 8 7 –
Sweden Fnatic 19 16 –
Poland Virtus.pro 17 8 –
Poland Virtus.pro 16 17 16
Brazil Keyd Stars 4 19 1
Sweden Fnatic 16 10 16
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 14 16 13
France Team EnVyUs 16 14 16
Ukraine Natus Vincere 12 16 3
France Team EnVyUs 9 10 –
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 16 –
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 4 16
Denmark Team SoloMid 6 16 12

Final Standings

Place Team Prize Money Seed Roster Coach
1st Sweden Fnatic US$100,000 ESL One Cologne 2015 Sweden JW, Sweden flusha, Sweden pronax, Sweden olofmeister, Sweden KRiMZ Sweden Devilwalk
2nd Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas US$50,000 Sweden f0rest, Sweden GeT_RiGhT, Sweden Xizt, Sweden friberg, Finland allu Bosnia and Herzegovina pita
3rd–4th France Team EnVyUs US$22,000 France kioShiMa, France Happy, France SmithZz, France NBK, France shox
Poland Virtus.pro | Poland TaZ, Poland NEO, Poland pashaBiceps, Poland byali, Poland Snax Poland kuben
5–8th Brazil Keyd Stars US$10,000 Brazil FalleN, Brazil fer, Brazil steel, Brazil zqk, Brazil boltz
Ukraine Natus Vincere Ukraine Edward, Ukraine Zeus, Ukraine starix, Russia seized, Slovakia GuardiaN
Denmark Team SoloMid Denmark karrigan, Denmark dev1ce, Denmark cajunb, Denmark dupreeh, Denmark Xyp9x Denmark 3k2
Germany PENTA Sports Germany nex, Germany Spidii, Germany denis, Germany kRYSTAL, Germany Troubley Germany alexRr
9–12th Australia Vox Eminor US$2,000 – Australia SPUNJ, Australia Havoc, Australia jks, Australia AZR, Australia topguN
Norway LGB eSports Norway RUBINO, Norway rain, Norway jkaem, Norway zEVES, Norway Polly
United States Cloud9 United States ShahZam, United States sgares, United States n0thing, Canada shroud, Canada Semphis
United States Counter Logic Gaming United States hazed, United States reltuC, United States tarik, United States ptr, Canada FNS
13–16th France Titan US$2,000 France kennyS, France Rpk, France apEX, Switzerland Maniac, Belgium Ex6TenZ
Ukraine FlipSid3 Tactics Ukraine B1ad3, Ukraine bondik, Ukraine markeloff, Russia WorldEdit, Russia DavCost
Commonwealth of Independent States HellRaisers Ukraine ANGE1, Ukraine kucher, Russia flamie, Russia Dosia, Kazakhstan AdreN
Finland 3DMAX Finland diSTURBED, Finland natu, Finland KHRN, Finland stonde, Finland xartE

References

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  4. ↑ "Semphis: Cloud9 was on Adderall at ESL Katowice". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Te, Zorine (January 26, 2015). "Valve Bans Pro Counter-Strike Teams For Match Fixing". GameSpot.
  6. ↑ Lewis, Richard (January 15, 2015). "New evidence points to match-fixing at highest level of American Counter-Strike". Dot eSports.
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  8. ↑ Lewis, Richard (August 31, 2015). "An open letter to Valve on the iBUYPOWER bans". Dot eSports.
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  10. ↑ Saranthus, Tres (April 29, 2015). "Cloud9 CS:GO Welcomes: Skadoodle, Freakazoid, & Swag!". Cloud9.gg.
  11. ↑ Mira, Luis (February 11, 2015). "Gamers2 sign ex-ESC". HLTV.org.
  12. ↑ Park, Paul (February 11, 2015). "ESC Gaming acquires new CS:GO team". Score eSports.
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  16. ↑ Kojadinovic, Vladimir (December 29, 2014). "Penta acquires strux1 and nex". GosuGamers.
  17. ↑ "TEAM ENVYUS ACQUIRE LDLC CS:GO ROSTER". GFinity. February 2, 2015. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
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  19. ↑ Walkowiak, Marek (January 25, 2015). "CS:GO squad move on". Team Dignitas.
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