The ESL One Cologne 2014 CS:GO championship went down as the most-watched Counter-Strike event in history, with over 400,000 combined viewers watching live in-game or through the ESL stream over the weekend. There were plenty of memorable frags, clutches, and comebacks during the 16-team, four-day event, the best of which I've collected here.
Every ace (one player notching five kills) from the tournament
The final moments of the last in the three-match series between Cloud9 and NiP
LDLC's apEX notches a 3K on a terrific eco round
Dignitas' dupreeh walks through smoke and is rewarded… for a moment
A disgusting jump-USP headshot at the end of this clip
Semphis with an amazing stealth retake on de_dust2's bombsite B
One of our favorite matches of the tournament, an incredible double-OT comeback
The moment of victory for Swedish team Ninjas In Pajamas
Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
