ESL One Katowice 2015
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| Tournament information | |
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| Sport | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
| Location | Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Dates | March 12, 2015–March 15, 2015 |
| Administrator(s) | Electronic Sports League (ESL) |
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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 |
 Fnatic
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| 1st runners-up |
Ninjas in Pyjamas
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| 2nd runners-up |
 Team EnVyUs Virtus.pro
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Kills | Get_Right (Ninjas in Pyjamas) (211) |
| KD Ratio | NEO (Virtus.pro) (1.42) |
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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.
Fnatic was the winner of the event after beating Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-1 in the finals.
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.
Cloud9 was alleged to have been on Adderall during the duration of the tournament.
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.
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.
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