ESL One Cologne 2016

ESL One Cologne
2016
Tournament information
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Dates July 5, 2016–July 10, 2016
Administrator(s) Electronic Sports League (ESL)
Tournament format(s) 16 team double-elimination group stage
Eight team single-elimination playoff
Teams 16 teams
Purse $1,000,000 USD
Final positions
Champions Brazil SK Gaming
1st runners-up United States Team Liquid
2nd runners-up Sweden Fnatic
Poland Virtus.pro
MVP Brazil Marcelo "coldzera" David
← 2016 MLG Columbus ELeague Major 2017 →
The LANXESS Arena in Cologne, Germany will host the tournament for the second year in a row.

ESL One Cologne 2016 was an Electronic Sports League Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. It was the ninth Valve-sponsored tournament in CS:GO history.[1] It was held at the Lanxess Arena In Cologne, Germany from July 8–10. It featured 16 teams from throughout the world competing. Cologne 2016 had the second consecutive major with a prize pool of $1,000,000.[2]

Format

The top eight teams from the MLG Columbus major are automatically invited to ESL One Cologne 2016. The top four teams – SK Gaming (formerly Luminosity Gaming), Natus Vincere, Astralis, Team Liquid – are given the first seeds of each of the four groups. The teams that placed fifth through eighth – Fnatic, Virtus.pro, Counter Logic Gaming, Ninjas in Pyjamas – are given the second seeds in each group.

The last eight teams must qualify through the offline qualifier. Sixteen teams played in the qualifier. Eight of the teams – Gambit Gaming, FaZe Clan, G2 Esports, mousesports, Splyce, Team EnVyUs, Flipsid3 Tactics, Cloud9 – were the bottom eight teams from the MLG Columbus major. The other eight teams were from the qualifying events. Two teams from each qualifying event go to the main qualifier. OpTic Gaming from Canada and Immortals (formerly Tempo Storm) from Brazil came from the Americas qualifier; Tyloo from China and Renegades from Australia came from the Asia qualifier; FLuffy Gangsters and Team Empire, both from Russia, qualified through the Commonwealth of Independent States qualifier; and Team Dignitas of Denmark and HellRaisers from Ukraine qualified through the Europe qualifier. The teams played through a 16-team swiss tournament. The first two teams to move on were FaZe Clan and mousesports. The next three teams to move on were Team EnVyUs, OpTic Gaming, and Gambit Gaming. The final three teams to move on were Team Dignitas, G2 Esports, and Flipsid3 Tactics.

The groups were decided by a random number generator. First the bottom four teams of the qualifier – G2 Esports, Team EnVyUs, Team Dignitas, Flipsid3 Tactics – were randomly selected to each go into one group as the fourth seeds. The top four teams of the qualifier – Gambit Gaming, OpTic Gaming, mousesports, FaZe Clan – were then randomly selected to be the third seeds. The fifth through eighth sports at the Columbus major were selected to be the second seeds. Finally, the top four teams at the major were selected to be the first seed.[3]

The way that ESL seeded the groups drew some criticism. Group A and Group B individually had three teams in HLTV's top 20 rankings. Group D had SK Gaming (#1), G2 Esports (#2), Fnatic (#3), and FaZe (#17).[4] CS:GO analyst Duncan "Thorin" Shields called for a more effective seeding method.[5]

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.

Broadcast Talent

Stage Hosts

Analysts

Commentators

Teams

Prior to the tournament, changes took place.[6]

Counter Logic Gaming and Jacob "FugLy" Medina mutually part ways with each other. FugLy was replaced with CLG's coach, Faruk "pita" Pita.

Astralis and Team Dignitas trade René "cajunb" Borg and Markus "Kjaerbye" Kjærbye. While cajunb was allowed to play with his new team at the major, Kjaerbye could not since he played with Team Dignitas at the qualifying event. Astralis used Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander as a substitute.

Team Liquid and Counter Logic Gaming trade Kenneth "koosta" Suen and Joshua "jdm64" Marzano, respectively.

Midway through the major, Peter "dupreeh" Rothmann of Astralis had to drop out of the tournament due to an appendix infection. Astralis's coach Danny "zonic" Sørensen took his spot for the rest of the tournament.

A few months before the major, SK Gaming and Luminosity Gaming were in a contract dispute, in which the Luminosity owner accused SK Gaming of attempting to poach his players, but SK Gaming said the Luminosity players, coach, and manager all signed a contract with SK Gaming before they joined Luminosity Gaming. After weeks of conflict, both sides agreed to the contract. Thus, the roster of Luminosity was acquired by SK Gaming prior to the major.[7][8]

Legends
Qualifiers

Group stage

The four groups were announced on ESL's social media accounts on June 12, 2016.[9]

Group A
Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Russia Gambit Gaming 2 0 32 19 +13 2
2 Denmark Astralis 2 1 70 71 -1 2
3 Denmark Team Dignitas 1 2 71 65 +8 1
4 United States Counter Logic Gaming 0 2 14 32 -18 0
Group A matches
Denmark Astralis 16 12 Denmark Team Dignitas
United States Counter Logic Gaming 13 16 Russia Gambit Gaming
Denmark Astralis 6 16 Russia Gambit Gaming
United States Counter Logic Gaming 1 16 Denmark Team Dignitas
Denmark Astralis 2 1 Denmark Team Dignitas

Group B

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere 2 0 32 19 +13 2
2 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics 2 1 69 58 +11 2
3 Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 1 2 57 66 -9 1
4 Canada OpTic Gaming 0 2 17 32 -15 0
Group B matches
Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere 16 7 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 4 Canada OpTic Gaming
Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere 16 12 Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas
Canada OpTic Gaming 13 16 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 1 2 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Group C
Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Poland Virtus.pro 2 0 32 22 +10 2
2 United States Team Liquid 2 1 60 40 +20 2
3 Germany mousesports 1 2 43 60 -17 1
4 France Team EnVyUs 0 2 19 32 -13 0
Group C matches
United States Team Liquid 16 7 France Team EnVyUs
Poland Virtus.pro 16 10 Germany mousesports
United States Team Liquid 12 16 Poland Virtus.pro
Germany mousesports 16 12 France Team EnVyUs
United States Team Liquid 2 0 Germany mousesports

Group D

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Brazil SK Gaming 2 0 32 17 +15 2
2 Sweden Fnatic 2 1 62 45 +17 2
3 European Union FaZe Clan 1 2 38 62 -24 1
4 France G2 Esports 0 2 24 32 -8 0
Group D matches
Brazil SK Gaming 16 11 France G2 Esports
Sweden Fnatic 14 16 European Union FaZe Clan
Brazil SK Gaming 16 6 European Union FaZe Clan
Sweden Fnatic 16 13 France G2 Esports
European Union FaZe Clan 0 2 Sweden Fnatic

Playoffs bracket

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                                       
  Poland  Virtus.pro 19 19 –  
Denmark  Astralis 17 15 –  
  Poland  Virtus.pro 19 5 12  
  Brazil  SK Gaming 17 16 16  
Brazil  SK Gaming 16 19 –
  Ukraine  Flipsid3 Tactics 7 17 –  
    Brazil  SK Gaming 16 16 –
  United States  Team Liquid 7 6 –
  Commonwealth of Independent States  Natus Vincere 16 12 6  
United States  Team Liquid 11 16 16  
  United States  Team Liquid 16 16 –
  Sweden  Fnatic 13 13 –  
Russia  Gambit Gaming 5 3 –
  Sweden  Fnatic 16 16 –  

Final Standings

Final Standings
Place Prize Money Team Seed Roster
1st US$500,000 Brazil SK Gaming Legends Brazil FalleN, Brazil coldzera, Brazil fnx, Brazil TACO, Brazil fer
2nd US$150,000 United States Team Liquid United States Hiko, United States EliGE, United States jdm64, United States nitr0, Ukraine s1mple
3rd – 4th US$70,000 Poland Virtus.pro Poland TaZ, Poland NEO, Poland pashaBiceps, Poland Snax, Poland byali
Sweden fnatic Sweden flusha, Sweden olofmeister, Sweden JW, Sweden dennis, Sweden KRiMZ
5th – 8th US$35,000 Denmark Astralis Denmark karrigan, Denmark dev1ce, Denmark dupreeh, Denmark Xyp9x, Denmark gla1ve, Denmark zonic
Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics Ukraine Blad3, Ukraine markeloff, Ukraine Shara, Russia WorldEdit, Finland waylander
Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere Ukraine Zeus, Ukraine Edward, Russia flamie, Russia seized, Slovakia GuardiaN
Russia Gambit Gaming Russia hooch, Russia Dosia, Russia spaze, Kazakhstan mou, Kazakhstan AdreN
9th – 12th US$8,750 Denmark Team Dignitas Qualifying tournament Denmark cajunb, Denmark MSL, Denmark k0nfig, Denmark tenzki, Norway RUBINO
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas Sweden GeT RiGhT, Sweden f0rest, Sweden Xizt, Sweden friberg, Sweden pyth
Germany mousesports Germany nex, Germany denis, Germany Spiidi, Netherlands chrisJ, Bosnia and Herzegovina NiKo
European Union FaZe Clan Portugal fox, Norway rain, Norway jkaem, Denmark aizy, France kioShiMa
13th – 16th US$8,750 United States Counter Logic Gaming United States reltuC, United States hazed, United States tarik, United States koosta, Bosnia and Herzegovina pita
Canada OpTic Gaming Canada daps, Canada NAF, Canada stanislaw, United States RUSH, Spain mixwell
France Team EnVyUs France NBK-, France Happy, France kennyS, France apEX, France DEVIL
France G2 Esports France shox, France RPK, France bodyy, France SmithZz, Belgium ScreaM

Showmatch

The showmatch was played before the final set between Team Liquid and SK Gaming. Teams each consisted of one player from the tournament, one pro female player, two casters, and a spectator from the audience.


BOT Bardolph 16–4 Team Juliano
Spiidi Germany
missharvey Canada
moses United States
HenryG United Kingdom
KrowNii Germany		 Cache France kennyS
Sweden juliano
Canada sadokist
United Kingdom JZFBEAST
Germany aNtrex

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hltv.org/news/17500-major-confirmed-at-esl-one-cologne
  2. ↑ http://www.esl-one.com/csgo/cologne-2016/
  3. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "ESL One Cologne groups drawn". HLTV.org. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "ESL One Cologne Group D preview". HLTV.org. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13UZVZX258E
  6. ↑ http://wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/ESL/One/2016/Cologne
  7. ↑ http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/15774305/sk-gaming-luminosity-locked-contract-disputes-sk-attempted-poach-luminosity-players
  8. ↑ http://luminosity.gg/articles/news/gaming/40/lg-sk-agree-to-settle-csgo-dispute
  9. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "ESL One Cologne groups drawn". HLTV.org. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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