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ESL One Katowice 2015
ESL One Katowice 2015 was a 16-team Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major. Fnatic defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas in the final.
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Updated October 23, 2026Competition snapshot
Host and dates
Spodek Arena, Katowice, Poland · Mar 12–15, 2015[1][2]
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ESL FACEIT GroupCommercial note
ESL tournament organizer · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[1]
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Valve CorporationCommercial note
Valve funded the offline qualifier and participant travel for the Major · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[2]
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IntelCommercial note
Event sponsor · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[1]
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ASUSCommercial note
Event sponsor · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[1]
PTG Database Analysis
ESL One Katowice ran March 12–15, 2015 at Spodek Arena as a 16-team Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major with a USD 250,000 prize pool. The field combined eight Legends from DreamHack Winter 2014 with eight teams that qualified through the Katowice LAN qualifier.[1][2][3]
Fnatic defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas 2–1 in the final. HLTV records Virtus.pro and Team EnVyUs in the third–fourth place group. Liquipedia lists Intel and ASUS as event sponsors; Valve funded the LAN qualifier and participant travel.[1][2][4][5]
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- [1]ESL One: Katowice 2015 — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki — Liquipedia
- [2]ESL One Katowice 2015 — Valve
- [3]These are the 16 teams for ESL One Katowice 2015! — ESL
- [4]ESL One Katowice 2015 overview — HLTV
- [5]fnatic beat NiP to win Katowice major — HLTV
- [6]ESL One Katowice 2015 image reuse audit — ESL, Valve, Wikimedia Commons and Unsplash
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