Best photos from ESL One Cologne

Dust - well, in this case confetti - barely settled in Cologne after fnatic came out victorious, and records have been broken, both in viewership and money given out to teams.

We have taken thousands of photos during the four-day major, a little over 1,300 of which made it to the galleries. ESL One Cologne brought countless unique moments for both viewers and players, the best of which we tried to capture in some of the best photos chosen below:

"Sir, yes sir!" - Machine is called by duty

Maikelele's reaction to one of the decisive rounds against Cloud9

freakazoid upon realizing Cloud9 was rounds away from going home

Kinguin celebrating after qualifying for playoffs

Skadoodle couldn't break his major curse

Renegades after sending Titan packing

Around 11,000 fans gathered in the Lanxess arena

apEX after defeating Natus Vincere

O. J. Borg's time to shine

NBK celebrating a round win in the playoffs

karrigan after advancing to semi-finals

NiP's allu in the team's presentation

Snax during Virtus.pro's team presentation

olofmeister during one of his stage interviews

TaZ moments before winning map one against NiP

TaZ after winning map one against NiP

karrigan hypes up the crowd after defeating Kinguin

A panorama of the crowd

Virtus.pro's team presentation

fnatic's team presentation 

One of VP's flags fell down after their devastating loss

EnVy's team presentation 

This is what the teams had in front of them the whole time...

... but only one of them could lift the trophy