Heroic scored a crushing victory in the final of the ESL One Cologne European tournament with a 3 : 0 win over Vitality. Thus, the Danish team will be the winner of a prize money of $150,000. Heroic's growth has been truly meteoric: just last week it made it into the top ten of the global rankings, and now it's already the leader at one of Europe's biggest tournaments. Vitality had to settle for second place again, just like last year when they lost to Liquid.
Team leader Kasper «cadiaN» Möller had this to say: «In 2015, I could only dream of reaching the final. Now we've become champions. This is the path the team took, this is the path I took myself».
The course of the final match was somewhat unexpected for both teams. At first the French were close to winning the first card (Inferno), but then for some unknown reason they lost the initiative. Without giving their opponents a second thought, Heroic played the remaining two cards almost perfectly. Much of the credit for this result – goes to coach Nicol «HUNDEN» Petersen, who has been working with the team for the past four months. The highest scoring Heroic player was Martin «stavn» Lund with a rating of 1.44.
