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The first few days of ESL One Cologne 2016 majors has been very energetic in all the aspects, with fnatic coming all the way through the losers bracket to retain their Major status and Flipsid3 upsetting NiP in the most devastating way, the list has now been upgraded, ESL One Cologne 2016 – The Legends.

ESL One Cologne 2016 – The Legends

Retaining their status for the majors for ESL One Cologne are:

Fnatic

Coming back to the playoffs after being beaten by FaZe and finally able to comeback from the loosers brackets after sending G2 out of the majors. Fnatic is the only team to have retained their legendary status for 9 consecutive majors.

Fnatic is the only team to retain their legend status for 9 consecutive majors.

Virtus.Pro

Not very much with a great performance this year, Virtus.Pro did have a questionable run following their collapse in recent events, they have, however, followed their way all through the playoffs to retain their Legendary status for 8 consecutive times just behind fnatic!

Astralis

The Danes, who have had a change in their organization earlier this year, looked shaky after playing with a stand-in g1az3 and later with the loss of dupreeh in their roster due to unwelcomed medical complications, they had to continue to fight for their legendary with zonic (their coach) stepping in.

Team Liquid

With a strong and destructible duo Hiko and S1mple, as Anders says, this team has to most patient fans in the world! Famous for losing on important occasions, Liquid struggles to make a big play even though with a strong lineup, they did manage to beat mousesports to retain their legendary status coming back from MLG Columbus 2016.

Natus Vincere

The Ukrainian lineup with lots of talent and potential, they enter into the seventh major retaining their tag. And this time even with their fellow countrymen Flipsid3, they will be seen playing their quarters against Team Liquid.

SK Gaming

The roster though having won the previous major, by far the defending champions of the CS:GO Major. The best team in the world with Brazilian players and a German organization, previously have been played under Luminosity, and now to the SK. They face the newest addition to legends, Flipsid3.

Adding up to the list after showing their potential status transitioning from challengers to the legends

Flipsid3

The undergods to have beaten up and knocked out the favorites NiP out of the tournament. They are the reason NiP are not in a major breaking an 8-event long streak. With the likes of markeloff, they have set high hopes for their fans.

NiP’s streak broke; they are no longer legends after their magnificent long run for 8 consecutive majors.

Gambit

Facing fnatic in their quarter finals is team Gambit. Even though being labeled as an undergod alongside Flipsid3, Gambit has players like adreN who are considered one of the most experienced players in the history of CSGO. AdreN and co. are yet to be beaten in their run this time, they entered into the playoffs beating CLG and Astralis in the group stages.

The next match of the Day 2 of the ESL Cologne 2016 was between Virtus pro and Team Liquid. The map that was to be played was Cobblestone.

The match started with VP winning the first pistol round with the help of ‘byali’s three kills that led them to win two anti-eco rounds and made the score to 3-0. Liquid then came back into the game and made a strong impact by winning seven rounds and leading the second half with a scoreline of 9-6. In the second half pistol round the Polish team somehow managed to win the round and made a quick comeback by equalizing the score 9-9. When we came into the gun rounds ‘Snax’ and ‘TaZ’ lead VP to victory and won some important rounds for them and closed the map 16-12.

The next match of the evening was between Mousesports and Envyus. The map that was decided was Train.

The match started with mouz starting on the CT Side and ‘denis’ pulling a ninja diffuse through the a smoke with two Envyus players still alive. The Frenchmen pulled off the buy round and then leaded the game 7-5. Despite of all this ‘chriJ’ kept his team’s hopes alive by pulling off some amazing rounds and getting the first half in their favor

with a score of 8-7. In the second half pistol round we saw an amazing B site execute by mouz securing them the round win. Envyus didn’t stay behind for too long and tried to comeback in the game by winning four rounds but ‘chrisJ’ and ‘Spiidi’ didn’t let that happen and closed the map 16-12, eliminating the french team and sending them back home.

The next match of the Day 2 of the ESL Cologne 2016 was between Natus Vincere and Ninjas in Pyjamas. The map that was decided was Cobblestone.

NiP started on the T-side of the map and the double entry kill by ‘Get_Right’ helped them secure the first pistol round. Later on ‘flamie’s triple kill in the fourth round stopped the force buy of the Ninjas and Na’Vi made to 3-1. NiP then made a quick comeback in the game and won 6 straight rounds to leave Na’Vi behind 3-7 and then closed the half with a scoreline of 9-6. The second pistol round saw some amazing CT hold by Nip and they winning the first round gave them a lead of 10-6. However with the help of ‘seized’ Na’Vi came back into the game and tied the score at 12-12 but after that their T-side executions couldn’t be stopped by the Ninjas so the map was closed by Na’Vi at 16-12.

The next match of the evening was between Flipside and Optic Gaming and the map that was to be played was Train.

Flipside started on the CT- side of the map and ‘Blade’ and ‘Shara’ helped their team to secure the first round. OpTic didn’t stay behind for too long and ‘mixwell”s entry kill in the fourth round led them to round win. They soon led the first half with a scoreline of 9-6. In the second pistol round ‘daps’ won a 1v1 clutch over ‘markeloff’ to extend his team’s lead to 11-6. Flipside then made a comeback in the game and tied the score at 12-12. With the help of ‘WorldEdit’, Flipside won the match 16-13 and eliminated Optic Gaming.

The next match of the Day 2 of the ESL Cologne 2016 was between SK Gaming and Faze. The map that was to be played was yet again Cobblestone.

The Brazilians started on the CT Side and with the help of ‘TACO’s two final kills and the defuse,they picked up the first pistol round. They leaded the match 6-0 before the seventh round finally saw FaZe picking up a round with the help of ‘rain’. ‘Aizy’s triple kill also gave them the second round but ‘coldzera’ holding into the B site for SK didn’t let FaZe take over that site and SK closed down the first half with a scoreline of 12-3. In the second pistol round ‘fox’ helped his team to secure the round by picking up two Usp kills . But then the Brazilians didn’t stay behind for too long, with ‘coldzera’ picking up some important kills that helped them to close the map 16-6.

The last match of the Day 2 of the ESL Cologne 2016 was between #2 ranked team G2 and #3 ranked team fnatic. The map that was decided was Train.

Fnatic started on the T Side of the map and quickly picked up the first round with the help of ‘JW’s two kills for his team. Later in the first gun round two awp kills by ‘shox’ and ‘Smitzz’ each won them the round. With G2 leading the game 6-3, fnatic made a comeback in the game as ‘flusha’ clutched a 1v2 to give his team an important round. Fnatic leaded the first half with a scoreline of 8-7. In the second pistol round G2 tried for a A-site take but ‘Krimz”s cleaned up the round by taking three USP kills. Fnatic moved ahead to 11-7 but G2 managed to pull off the gun round with the help of ‘Scream’ and equalized

the score at 11-11. Later on ‘JW’ picked up some important kills and fnatic started to lead the map again at 14-11. G2 didn’t give up and still tried to comeback in the game by winning two more rounds and making the score to 15-13 but then fnatic closed the map 16-13, eliminating G2 early in the tournament.

The fifth match of the Day 1 of the ESL Cologne 2016 was between Liquid and Envyus. The map that was decided was Train.

Envyus started on the CT side and with the the help of ‘Happy’ managed to win the first pistol round. Envyus were holding strong on the map and at some point of time they were dominating Liquid but despite of that Liquid didn’t give up and with the help of ‘EliGe’ and ‘Hiko’ they came back

in the game and leaded the first half with a scoreline of 9-6. With the T Side execution in the first pistol round Liquid won the round by ‘Hiko’ picking up some important kills. Liquid then began to lead the match 13-7 and then ‘jdm64’ ended Envyus’s hopes and closed the map with a scoreline of 16-7.

The next match of the Day 1 was between Virtus pro and mouseports. The map that was decieded was also Train.

In the first round Mousesports started off on the T Side off the map and won the pistol round with a triple kill by ‘nik0’. Mousesports were leading the map 7-0 and had a full control over the map. However ‘TaZ’ helped his team to comeback in the game with a 1v1 clutch, which helped VP to get back in the game and closing the first half with a scoreline of 7-8 in the favor of mouz. In the second pistol round of the game ‘Pashabiceps’ picked up a triple kill and tied the game at 8-8. Then there was no stopping for the Polish team as they made it 14-10 and then closed out the map 16-10.

All the matches on Day 1 were pretty exciting and the viewers saw some great comebacks in the game. It will be very interesting to see which team will come out on the top on the Day 2 of the ESL One 2016. We will keep you updated for the rest of the matches, stay tuned.