ESL One Cologne 2014
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| Tournament information | |
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| Sport | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
| Location | Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Dates | August 14, 2014–August 17, 2014 |
| Administrator(s) | Electronic Sports League (ESL) |
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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
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| 1st runners-up |
Fnatic
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| 2nd runners-up |
 Team LDLC.com Team Dignitas
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Electronic Sports League One Cologne 2014, known as ESL One Cologne 2014 for short, was the third Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major 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 Corporation. The tournament had a total prize pool of $250,000 USD.
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.
Ninjas in Pyjamas was the winner of the event after beating Fnatic 2-1 in the finals. The tournament was livestreamed on the official ESL twitch.tv channel. 409,368 concurrent viewers watched the grand finals, while 2,950,600 total unique viewers watched the event across four days.
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. Ultimately he was allowed to compete.
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.
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