Electronic Sports League Major Series One Katowice 2014, also known as EMS One Katowice 2014, was the second Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. The tournament was held from March 13–16, 2014 at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was organized by Electronic Sports League and sponsored by the game's developers Valve. The tournament had a total prize pool of . The Polish roster of Virtus.pro won the event by beating Ninjas in Pyjamas in the finals. EMS One Katowice 2014 was streamed on Twitch and had a peak of over 250,000 concurrent viewers.
Format The top eight teams from Dreamhack Winter 2013 qualified as Legends. Two teams were directly invited to participate in the tournament, while the remaining six teams qualified through an online qualifier that consisted of sixteen teams.
Teams were split up into four groups, and all group matches were best-of-ones. The highest seed would play the lowest seed in each group and the second and third seeds would play against each other. The winner of those two matches would play each other to determine which team moved on to the playoff stage, while the losers of the first round of matches also played. The loser of the lower match was then eliminated from the tournament. With one team advanced and one eliminated, the two remaining teams would play an elimination match for the second playoff spot. This format is known as the GSL format, named for the Global StarCraft II League.
The playoffs bracket consisted of eight teams, two from each group. All of these matches were best-of-three, single elimination. Teams advanced in the bracket until a winner was decided.
Map Pool There were five maps to choose from: Dust II, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, and Train. In the group stage, each team banned two maps and the match was played on the remaining map. In the playoffs, each team banned one map and chose one map; the remaining map would be the decider map of the best-of-three series, if needed.
Main Qualifier Only teams from Europe competed in the main qualifier tournament. One team from the Nordic region, one team from France, one from the United Kingdom, one from Germany, two from the CIS region, and two from Poland played in their respective regional qualifiers to qualify for the main qualifier. In addition, four teams each advanced from two general European qualifiers to the main qualifier.
The main qualifier was a 16 team, best of three, double elimination bracket. A total of six teams advanced to the Major. Team iBUYPOWER from the United States and Vox Eminor from Australia did not have to play in any qualifier and were invited to play in the Major.
Teams Competing Regional Qualifiers
3DMAX (Nordic) Clan-Mystic (France) hudzGs TEAM (UK) mousesports (Germany) Natus Vincere (CIS) USSR Team (CIS) Meet Your Makers (Poland) Virtus.pro (Poland) Europe Qualifiers
oFF Balance Gaming (Europe 1) To Be Announced (Europe 1) Team Alternate (Europe 1) Reason Gaming (Europe 1) GreyFaceNoSpace (Europe 2) H2k Gaming (Europe 2) partyastronauts (Europe 2) Wizards e-Sports Club (Europe 2)
Bracket
Broadcast Talent Host Sean Charles
Analysts Scott "SirScoots" Smith Duncan "Thorin" Shields
Commentators Lauren "Pansy" Scott Stuart "TosspoT" Saw Jason Kaplan
Observer Joshua "steel" Nissan
Teams Legends
compLexity Gaming Fnatic HellRaisers LGB eSports Ninjas in Pyjamas Team Dignitas Team LDLC.com TitanChallengers
Team iBUYPOWER Vox Eminor 3DMAX Clan-Mystik mousesports Natus Vincere Reason Gaming Virtus.pro
Group stage Group A PosTeamWLRFRARDPts 1Virtus.pro 2 0 35 23 +12 6 2HellRaisers 2 1 48 32 +6 6 3Titan 1 2 37 37 =0 3 4mousesports 0 2 14 32 −18 0
Group A matches Team Score Map Score Team Titan 16 Dust II 5 mousesports HellRaisers 16 Mirage 19 Virtus.pro Titan 7 Mirage 16 Virtus.pro HellRaisers 16 Dust II 9 mousesports Titan 14 Inferno 16 HellRaisers
Group B PosTeamWLRFRARDPts 1Ninjas in Pyjamas 2 0 32 12 +20 6 2Team LDLC.com 2 1 39 42 −3 6 33DMAX 1 2 34 39 −5 3 4Vox Eminor 0 2 20 32 −12 0
Group B matches Team Score Map Score Team Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 Dust II 5 3DMAX Team LDLC.com 16 Inferno 13 Vox Eminor Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 Inferno 7 Team LDLC.com Vox Eminor 7 Inferno 16 3DMAX Team LDLC.com 16 Inferno 13 3DMAX
Group C PosTeamWLRFRARDPts 1Team Dignitas 2 0 32 16 +16 6 2Fnatic 2 1 44 35 +13 6 3Reason Gaming 1 2 30 44 −14 3 4Team iBUYPOWER 0 2 21 32 −11 0
Group C matches Team Score Map Score Team Fnatic 12 Inferno 16 Reason Gaming Team Dignitas 16 Nuke 8 Team iBUYPOWER Team Dignitas 16 Inferno 8 Reason Gaming Fnatic 16 Inferno 13 Team iBUYPOWER Reason Gaming 6 Inferno 16 Fnatic
Group D PosTeamWLRFRARDPts 1LGB eSports 2 0 32 19 +13 6 2compLexity Gaming 2 1 43 38 +5 6 3Clan-Mystik 1 2 34 44 −10 3 4Natus Vincere 0 2 21 32 −11 0
Group D matches Team Score Map Score Team compLexity Gaming 16 Inferno 6 Clan-Mystik LGB eSports 16 Inferno 8 Natus Vincere compLexity Gaming 11 Dust II 16 LGB eSports Clan-Mystik 16 Dust II 13 Natus Vincere compLexity Gaming 16 Nuke 12 Clan-Mystik
Playoffs Bracket
Quarterfinals Ninjas in Pyjamas vs compLexity Gaming Team Score Map Score Team Ninjas in Pyjamas 12 Dust II 16 compLexity Gaming Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 Nuke 2 compLexity Gaming Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 Train 11 compLexity Gaming
Team Dignitas vs HellRaisers Team Score Map Score Team Team Dignitas 16 Dust II 7 HellRaisers Team Dignitas 16 Mirage 11 HellRaisers Team Dignitas Inferno HellRaisers
Virtus.pro vs Team LDLC.com Team Score Map Score Team Virtus.pro 16 Mirage 3 Team LDLC.com Virtus.pro 16 Inferno 8 Team LDLC.com Virtus.pro Train Team LDLC.com
Fnatic vs LGB eSports Team Score Map Score Team Fnatic 16 Inferno 11 LGB eSports Fnatic 12 Mirage 16 LGB eSports Fnatic 14 Train 16 LGB eSports
Semifinals Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Team Dignitas Team Score Map Score Team Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 Inferno 6 Team Dignitas Ninjas in Pyjamas 16 Nuke 5 Team Dignitas Ninjas in Pyjamas – Team Dignitas
Virtus.pro vs LGB eSports Team Score Map Score Team Virtus.pro 16 Inferno 8 LGB eSports Virtus.pro 14 Mirage 16 LGB eSports Virtus.pro 16 Train 7 LGB eSports
Finals Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Virtus.pro Team Score Map Score Team Ninjas in Pyjamas 9 Mirage 16 Virtus.pro Ninjas in Pyjamas 10 Inferno 16 Virtus.pro Ninjas in Pyjamas Dust II Virtus.pro
Final standings Place Team Prize Money Seed for ESL One Cologne 2014 Roster Coach 1st Virtus.pro 100,000 Legends status TaZ, NEO, , , Snax– 2nd Ninjas in Pyjamas 50,000 f0rest, GeT RiGhT, Xizt, friberg, Fifflaren– 3rd–4th Team Dignitas 22,000 FeTiSh, , , dupreeh, Xyp9x 3k2 LGB eSports , olofmeister, KRiMZ, twist, cype– 5–8th compLexity Gaming 10,000 Hiko, n0thing, , sgares, Semphis – HellRaisers ANGE1, , , Dosia, AdreN – Team LDLC.com Uzzziii, Happy, KQLY, , Maniac MoMan Fnatic Devilwalk, JW, flusha, , 9–12th Titan 2,000 , SmithZz, NBK, ScreaM, Ex6TenZ– 3DMAX , , Pimp, , MSL – Reason Gaming EXR, LOMME, Friis, karrigan, – Clan-Mystik kioShiMa, kennyS, HaRts, GMX, Sf – 13–16th mousesports 2,000 , , , , LEGIJA – Vox Eminor SPUNJ, AZR, Havoc, SnypeR, – Team iBUYPOWER Skadoodle, , DaZeD, , AZK – Natus Vincere Edward, Zeus, , , GuardiaN –
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