CS: GO
What is it?
Five-on-five gunfighting action emphasising teamplay, speed, and accuracy.
How is it judged?
Each map is played in a best-of-30, with teams switching sides at the midway mark. In the event of a 15-15 tie, a best-of-6 decider is played to settle it.
What’s the format?
Qualifiers, group stages, and finally a single-elimination playoff bracket.
If you watch one game from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive championship at ESL One Cologne, make it the first game of the grand finals. Swedish team Fnatic faced off against the French Team EnVyUs on Dust 2, the latter’s favourite map.
It was close-fought from the start, but EnVyUs broke away by using smart aggression to clinch the first few rounds. Fnatic didn’t want to yield an…