Throwback: fnatic win ESL One Cologne 2015
On this day 6 years ago, fnatic beat Envy in the Grand final of ESL One Cologne 2015 to claim the title.
ESL One Cologne 2015 was the sixth CS:GO Major, and the first one without the Swedish Ninjas from NiP in the finals. The tournament offered the world’s best players and had 12.000 fans together in the sold out Lanxess Arena to cheer for whoever fnatic met.
fnatic were used to play against the crowd and couldn’t really have asked for better conditions. KRiMZ, flusha, JW, olof, and pronax had a mental fortitude of a champion who know he can’t lose. They believed so much in their own abilities, that even their opponents started believing it and feeling like there is nothing they can do.
When the Swedes got intro trouble every once in a while, all it took for them to come back in the match was a timeout. Nearly every time they took a timeout, they didn’t lose a single round for the remainder of the match. And that’s exactly what happened in the ESL One Cologne 2015 Grand final against Team EnvyUs, who was the only squad that was considered a threat to the dangerous Swedes.
The first map in the Grand final was Dust2. JW and company were down 7-14 and up to that point, the Frenchmen was in total control of the game. Then fnatic took one of their feared time-outs that changed everything. The rest is history. fnatic took the game into overtime, and won it 19-15. The Swedes carried over the momentum on Cbble, where they came out on top with a 16-7 scoreline to claim the title.
Re-watch fnatic’s comeback and get a feel for the insane atmosphere in the Grand final of the event:
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Map2:
