NA Cologne qualifier teams revealed

29-6-2015 20:02

All eight teams are now known for the North American qualifier for ESL One Cologne.

The North American qualifier for ESL One Cologne, now a major due to Valve's support, will take place inside of ESL's American studio in Burbank, California on August 1-2.

The first four sides to automatically qualify for the North American qualifier were the four teams who placed top four in season one of the ESL ESEA Pro League.

Since Keyd Stars, who already possess a direct invite to ESL One Cologne, finished in the top four of the North American division, the final invite automatically went to the fifth-placed team: Liquid.

RUSH helped Tempo Storm to be the first team to win the open qualifier

The final four teams proceeded through an open online perliminary qualifier, which ran in a single elimination, best-of-three format from June 27-28. With the brackets completed and all play finished, all eight teams are now known.

Invites	Open Qualifier
Cloud9	Tempo Storm
Luminosity	Nihilum
CLG	eLevate
Liquid	Noble eSports

The top two teams from this offline qualifier in Burbank, California will qualify for ESL One Cologne 2015, which takes place August 20-23 and which is the second major of this year.

CLG? Facepalm

2015-06-29 20:02

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4th place in ESL ESEA PL -> automatically invated

2015-06-29 20:09

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invated

2015-06-29 22:55

4 replies

invented

2015-06-29 22:59

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invaded? Sry poland :'(

2015-06-29 23:00

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ayy lmao

2015-06-29 23:02

houhouhou

2015-06-29 23:24

clg is reasonable but noble wtf?

2015-06-29 23:16

they qualified through the online qualifiers.

2015-06-30 00:43

Did a pro league team get beat by Noble?

2015-06-30 01:22

affinty and method lost 2-0 to noble

2015-06-30 01:28

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Hopefully we'll see them in ESEA Pro League next season.

2015-06-30 10:07

Dude, don't count them out :D Inb4 Noble wins ESL Cologne

2015-06-30 03:46

where is keyd stars?

2015-06-30 12:24

Already got a place in Cologne. They were top 8 in Katowice

2015-06-30 13:29

Theres no more Keyd Stars, they are awaitining for a new org, to pick them up.

2015-07-21 15:19

9.9

2015-06-29 20:03

ez or noble

all in noble ez skins

2015-06-29 21:24

cant believe they're wasting 4 esl spots to NA -.- ruined event

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"The top two teams from this offline qualifier in Burbank, California will qualify for ESL One Cologne 2015"

2015-06-29 20:04

lol

2015-06-29 20:05

Can't believe they're wasting a esl spot for tier 5 vp Kappa

2015-06-29 20:10

Rekt

2015-06-29 21:38

theres only 2.. 4 for eu 2 for na 2 for oceanasia

You honestly think that NA is going to get 4 of the 8 spots? Please, be an idiot elsewhere.

Can you read? Top 2 from the offline qualifier lmao

Beating a dead horse but.... did you even read?

2015-06-30 01:08

who is in noble esports?

EZ for noble (well it's NA so you never know ;P)

ez for Nooble sports

noble = summit's team?

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nope noble is, 4sh0t, roa, planks, lopez and rob-wiz ESEA-P team

2015-06-29 20:08

ah ok thanks!

I thought summit played for Area51? Did he leave? (Been away for some time)

2015-06-30 19:38

I would cry of laughter if Summits strat roulette team made it But no, it's just s Premier team that beat Method and affNity using fl0m as a stand in

2015-06-29 20:14

fl0m was a ringer for the affinity game and even if roa was playing they would have still won

2015-06-29 20:16

We'll never know, but fl0m carried pretty hard on some maps On Cobble him and rob wiz had like 30 frags each, and idk about the dust 2 game cause the scoreboard reset like 30 times

2015-06-29 20:20

+1 he did ma$$ive w0rk

2015-06-30 01:41

Wait so 2 NA teams will be at Cologne?

yes

Not werth imo

2015-06-29 20:35

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Even though cloud9 took a map off of envyus... other na teams can beat EU teams, they just don't play enough against each other to prove it.

2015-06-29 20:57

Like I said below, I'd have liked to see a Katowice 2015 qualifier system.

one performance where they did well on one map. By that logic, Acer deserve in because they lost to fnatic in a bo3 2-1, 16-14 on the last map once.

2015-06-30 01:15

Yes, one performance because that's basically all the had, envyus and vp. And they scored well against vp also. So saying by one performance, yes, by one performance because that's all the chance they had. They also scored very well on the cache game, just couldn't pull out the win

2015-06-30 01:47

Ya volvo gib rattlesnake a chance, you fascists!!!!

2015-06-29 22:05

Didn't mention Britain at all. IMO, the way forward is the last qualifier for majors. NA still had 2 teams, but it felt like those two teams deserved their place after fighting it out vs the best of the rest.

2015-06-29 22:54

So NA will get their own LAN qualifier for the spot(s) in the major? Thats pretty shitty

to be fair it would be pretty pricy for esl to fly 16 teams of 5 people to europe (8 na, 8 aussie) or wherever you want to hold the even. I see your point however.

Why not, they tried making it so there was 1 open qualifier for everyone, eu thought this way there would only be 1 or 0 NA teams qualifying for the major, ended up with 2 teams still qualifying still, makes sense to go back to the old format

2015-06-29 20:11

The NA scene still generates a hell of a lot of money through steam sponsorship etc, so it makes sense to have some NA teams there for the fans even though they're not tier 1. Personally I like seeing the NA teams compete. The sponsors want as many viewers as possible and NA is a huge market.

2015-06-29 20:47

How is Cloud9 not Tier 1? Or, are you talking about the rest?

2015-07-21 15:05

So basically C9 and Liquid/LG

liquid could eliminate c9 if they meet them early on.

2015-06-29 22:48

Liquid #1 na

2015-06-30 02:59

ez for rob-wiz

2015-06-29 20:06

Noble = 4sh0t, lopez, planks, rob-wiz, roa. they're currently 8-6 in ESEA premier. they beat affnity in this qualifier 2-0 =D

Go Luminosity gl pyth <3

2015-06-29 20:07

c9 and liquid probably

ez 4 Luminosity

what team did I get put on this year?

2015-06-29 20:12

Luminosity PLZ

2015-06-29 20:13

Considering its lan i highly doubt liquid would make it.

to ezz to tempo storm

2015-06-29 20:18

No keyd??

2015-06-29 20:23

esl-one.com/csgo/cologne-2015/teams/

2015-06-29 20:25

it helps if you read the article

2015-06-29 21:02

Read the fucking article.

2015-06-29 23:34

go noble! may the mustard be with you

2015-06-29 20:27

+ mustard

2015-06-29 23:09

ezzzzzzz 4 tempo ryx, roca and rush the unbeatable "r" trio

I'm sure gonna enjoy watching this quali-zzZZZzzzZ

2015-06-29 20:49

Nice Norwegian qualifier.

2015-06-30 00:24

Elevate don't even have a 5-man line-up...

2015-06-29 20:50

GL Shahzam

2015-06-29 21:08

c9+liquid ez

2015-06-29 21:27

They all gonna get knocked out sooner or later :< nice try NA

NA SCENE is medium/bad in 2013 - 2014 and they got 1 spot for majors.IN 2015, the NA scene really SUKS and they get 2 spots. #justmoneythings

2015-06-29 21:37

Ya bur late 2012, NA teams were pretty competitive then eu got better, and NA stayed at same level.

2015-06-29 22:07

medium/bad in 2013-2014 lol

2015-06-29 23:29

yeah,we know that for americans ibuypower and cloud9/complexity were the better teams in the world.The reality is that cloud9 was top 6-8 and ibuypower didnt get a single playoffs in 4 majors.And no talk about more teams becouse didnt exist.

2015-06-30 00:36

Liquid and LG hopefully, C9 fangays can fuck off. inb4 UK CSGO scene hue hue

fucking British, check out your own sce.... oh wait

2015-06-29 21:49

What scene? Kappa

2015-06-29 21:57

I'm for any NA team. Right now, Cloud9 seems the strongest, so the largest portion of my hope lies with them. The rest haven't proven they're capable yet playing against the top 8 teams with any consistency.

2015-07-21 15:08

So many salty Europeans lol

2015-06-29 21:50

C9 and Nihlum -- None of these other teams will get it done on lan like hiko and semphis

2015-06-29 21:55

omg go rob-wiz !

2015-06-29 22:09

gl pyth

2015-06-29 22:15

0 maps won inc

2015-06-29 22:37

why?

2015-06-29 23:03

i'd bet on c9 and LG making it out

Ez tempo storm

2015-06-29 23:48

Cloud9 and CLG!

2015-06-30 00:26

Liquid stickers would be nice in my icarus fell

2015-06-30 02:21

Once again, why does 'murica have 2 slots despite both 'murican teams getting rekt and going out in groups for past 2 majors?

2015-06-30 04:17

because NA is a big market and a lot of people in NA support the game. NA makes up about 35-45 pct of the playerbase and a signifigant amount of them are invested in the pro scene and want to see their favorite teams in the biggest events of the year.

2015-06-30 04:33

If no NA teams were invited into the majors, the game would die. Valve sponsors the majors, Valve is an American company. Some of the biggest sponsor money at any larger CS:GO event comes from American companies. Another way to consider this: Why does EU get 14 slots in the COD world championships when NONE of them get to the playoffs? It would be better to put more US teams in for stronger competition. However, neither game does that because global appeal is important for future earnings; drivin by casual gamers, not pro's. Another way to look at this: If I'm the marketing director of a company I'm probably going to want some representation from my home country if they expect me to shell out money to sponsor an event. Keeping it all European just because that's what the Europeans want isn't going to convince me to sponsor anything.

2015-06-30 05:12

Esl is the one who is hosting the tournament

2015-06-30 10:13

Because even when there was just 1 big lan qualifier 2 NA teams still made it through? (C9 and CLG) since every major there have been 2 NA teams, for the past 2 years Why change it now..

2015-06-30 08:51

Haha lol, are you stupid?? Last time they didn't get any slots, they just bet EU teams in LAN qualifier, so why the fuck they don't deserve now 2 slots?...

2015-06-30 13:38