The ESL One Cologne finally comes to an end with Heroic easily winning 3-0 in a best of 5 series against the current #2 in the world Vitality.
The veto began with Heroic removing Dust2 and Vitality banning Train. The first map was picked by Heroic and they picked Mirage and then Inferno was picked up by Vitality. The third pick was Nuke by Heroic and Vitality chose Overpass and the last map that was left to be played was Vertigo.
The first map was Mirage and Vitality started things on a good note with Richard ‘shox’ Papillon and Dan ‘apeX’ Madesclaire picking up two great kills from their USP-S and securing the pistol round. Although Heroic replied back by winning the buy round and things went completely different thereafter as they went on to win the first half 9-6 in their favor.
The second half was the same story as Nikolaj ‘niko’ Kristensen stepped up for his team and played some amazing rounds and then we saw Heroic just giving up a single round in the entire second half and securing the first map 16-7.
The second map to be played was Inferno and Heroic starting on the CT side of the map won the pistol round with a quick retake on the A site of the map. The following round saw Vitality doing a force buy for themselves but ‘niko’ picking up an ace and punishing them for their mistakes. Although Vitality did pull up some rounds in their favor and ended the half 7-8 in the favor of Heroic.
The second half saw some great plays coming from both the sides and neither one of the them were giving up so easily but we saw Martin ‘stavn’ Lund delivering a great performance for his team with a 27K-16D and winning the second map as well 16-13 and taking it to the third and final map.
The third map of the series was Nuke and everyone expected Vitality to come back or at least win a single map in the best of 5 series. The first pistol round began with ‘shox’ clutching an important 1v2 round and giving a lead to his team on the start of the map. However Vitality was starting on the CT side which was the favourable side in this map and they still ended up losing the first half 7-8.
The second half saw how badly Heroic wanted to win this series and the title and we saw some amazing plays coming from them and they just dominated Vitality in the second half and closed the map 16-9 and the series 3-0 and won the ESL One Cologne 2020.
