The Catchup: Yesterday's news for those who missed it – Thursday 13th



Banner photo by: Kelly Kline, ESL

Today's issue of "The Catchup" is here! Grab some popcorn and read up on the most interesting things from yesterday's headlines.

The two most important news pieces yesterday were ESL announcing the casting line-up for Cologne and Copenhagen Games announcing their tournament’s return in 2016. The casting line-up for ESL One Cologne is probably the most impressive one to date and we will certainly enjoy the live action brought to us by this amazing crew. On the other hand, Copenhagen Games is back in 2016 with another tournament. Details about the prize pool and format are yet to be announced, but the organisation has mentioned it will be the largest one to date and that Copenhagen games will be making a comeback to the top tournament scene.

The main match of the day was a duel between Team SoloMid and Fnatic. The two giants took on each other in the grand finals of GameShow league. Although the Danish team had a 1-0 advantage, due to coming from the upper bracket, everyone was expecting to see a decent fight from both teams. Unfortunately for Swedish fans, Fnatic wasn’t in the right shape yesterday and they just got cleaned up by karrigan and co. with a rather easy 3-0.

In the spirit of Cologne preparations, Cloud9’s in-game leader Sean Gares has shared a photo from their bootcamp where we can see a shiny set up of the North American team. Cloud9 fans don’t have to worry, since their favourites are provided really good conditions to prepare for whatever comes at ESL One Cologne.

Another tweet which has caught our attention is that the North American casting team has reunited. Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat, Jason Kaplan and Jason "moses" O'Toole are looking stronger than ever and the European guys should be worried about the showmatch, since the Americans are coming to their soil full of confidence.

The A-team will be reunited in a week @JmosesOT @JKaplan get ready to spread those wings pic.twitter.com/Rf9wuk8td4 — Semmler (@OnFireSemmler) August 13, 2015

And to round up this post is an amazing play by Fnatic’s Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer at FACEIT Pro League. He was playing together with Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski and as always they were making jokes up until the point when olof did something absolutely outrageous, watch below:

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