Fnatic vs Natus Vincere – ESL One Cologne 2015
Fnatic's historic back-to-back major victory at ESL One Cologne 2015.
Fnatic defeated Natus Vincere in the quarterfinals of ESL One Cologne 2015, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship held from August 14–18, 2015 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. The tournament was organized by Electronic Sports League and had a total prize pool of US$250,000.
Quick Facts
- Game
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Event
- ESL One Cologne 2015
- Location
- Cologne, Germany
Lore & Background
Fnatic was the winner of ESL One Cologne 2015, defeating Team EnVyUs 2–0 in the finals. This victory made Fnatic the first team to have consecutive major titles, a feat only later matched by SK Gaming (which was Luminosity Gaming at this tournament) when they won MLG Columbus 2016 and ESL One Cologne 2016. Flusha was named the most valuable player of the event.
Reader's Guide
In the playoffs, all matches were best-of-three, single elimination. Fnatic faced Luminosity Gaming in the quarterfinals and Virtus.pro in the semifinals before defeating Team EnVyUs in the finals. The map pool for the playoffs involved each team banning one map, then choosing one map; the third map, if needed, was randomly selected from the remaining three.
Did You Know?
- ESL One Cologne 2015 was the first ESL tournament to require drug tests for competitors; all tests came up negative.
- The online livestream had around 27 million viewers with a peak of 1.3 million concurrent viewers.
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