ESL One Cologne 2015 EU pre-qualifier #2

ESL One Cologne pre-qual. #2 over

2-7-2015 00:01

The second and last European online pre-qualifier for ESL One Cologne has ended, with Kinguin, Rock, KILLERFISH, Epiphany, Gamers2, LGB eSports, and p@p@d@as all earning spots at the offline qualifier.

The second European online pre-qualifier gathered 545 teams who fought over seven final slots to the 16-team offline qualifier on July 25-26, from where four European teams advance to the major itself, taking place in Cologne on August 20-23.

The first online pre-qualifier featured over 300 teams and gave four teams slots to the offline qualifier, yet the second pre-qualifier marshalled far more due to the extra amount of slots. A round of 1024, best-of-one single elimination bracket switched to double-elimination mode once the round of 32 was reached.

Kinguin were quick to qualify in the second pre-qualifier

The first four teams to qualify via the upper bracket were Kinguin, KILLERFISH, Rock and Epiphany (the ex-tryPANTS team).

The next day saw three more spots up for grabs with many known teams still in contention such as LGB, LDLC Blue, Epsilon, nEophyte, Gamers2, Reason, and many more.

The first two teams to qualify from the lower bracket were Gamers2 and LGB, who both defeated majority Spanish teams in order to advance to the offline qualifier.

The final game pitted these Spanish teams against each other and in the end it was p@p@d@s, a mix including Spanish players such as Xavi "⁠Aguila⁠" Casals Sabi along with former k1ck Portugese players such as Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes, who defeated the all-Spanish Epsilon 16-13 on de_inferno.

Therefore, today's qualified teams join the four teams who qualified via the first pre-qualifier as well as five seeded teams, meaning the final list for the offline qualifier appears as follows:

Invited	Pre-qualifier #1	Pre-qualifier#2
dignitas	INSHOCK	Kinguin
Titan	PiTER	KILLERFISH
Null element HellRaisers	ENCORE	Rock
PENTA Sports	1337	Epiphany
FlipSid3 Tactics		Gamers2
		LGB eSports
		p@p@d@s

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nice gl

2015-07-02 00:01

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Titan vs Kinguin the ScreaM revenge cannot wait

2015-07-02 08:49

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that'd be awesome dude

2015-07-02 10:25

hell yea ;)

2015-07-02 10:39

nicerino

k den

kinguin #1

2015-07-02 00:02

gl mUtt and fox

go p@p@d@s and kinguin road to cologne

2015-07-02 00:03

p@p@d@s will take this :)

sure they will ,after geetting raped by g2

2015-07-02 01:14

How long they've been together as a team?

2015-07-02 08:50

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I would say they're really really recent. MUTT and RMN just got released from alientech a couple of weeks ago so i guess they only been together since that.

2015-07-02 09:28

nice 2 finnish teams qualified

13 replies

hahaha finnish cs is so horrible pathetic

2015-07-02 00:25

12 replies

how much?

2015-07-02 00:31

encore top1 now aslak joined

2015-07-02 00:33

What's Encore's lineup?

2015-07-02 01:49

aslak, sunny, KHRN, xarte, reflex

2015-07-02 02:17

suNny xartE REFLEX KHRN aslak

2015-07-02 02:21

Why so salty? Did someone hurt you feelings?

2015-07-02 00:34

6 replies

Have you never seen that guy post before? He hates everything that isn't sweden. Just ignore him

2015-07-02 00:51

Then he must hate his own country, taken over by muslims :)

2015-07-02 02:52

He's retarded... prntscr.com/7nr5ts

lmao he definetly has some problems

2015-07-02 03:46

Some swedes man...

2015-07-02 10:35

every country has bad and good guys :)

2015-07-02 10:48

#1Dignitas #2Titan #3Kinguin #4Gamers2

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depends on groups tho

2015-07-02 00:05

1. dig 2. titan 3. f3 4. hr/g2

2015-07-02 00:07

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F3 without s1mple I aren't think that :/

2015-07-02 00:09

flipside no s1mple

2015-07-02 00:17

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oh shit forgot kinguin have change then :)

2015-07-02 00:35

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kinguin beat f3 easily even with s1mple, as well as g2

2015-07-02 00:41

shhh don't tell him, ez skins

2015-07-02 02:02

i dont bet lol

2015-07-02 03:03

:^(

2015-07-02 03:43

titan is anus 1 dig 2 HR 3 Kinguin 4 G2

2015-07-02 02:43

m8 , 1337 instead of g2 , i think its a better team overall and their sticker will look amazing

2015-07-02 10:45

gl p@p@das!

kinguin <3

2015-07-02 00:04

Ez for ENCORE and Epiphany

eazy money for dignitas

no navi no hunny or wut :)

spain at a major! Kreygasm

No Spaniards are in the Majors lol. They are in the LAN qualifiers with the other teams mentioned in the article.

ez epiphany & encore

KINGWIN

2015-07-02 00:06

1) Dignitas 2) Kinguin 3) Titan 4) HR IMO.

HR or F3

2015-07-02 00:08

F3 without s1mple? Are you fuck you?

2015-07-02 00:11

Well...I forgot about about his ban. I guess HR then.

2015-07-02 00:19

Yeah F3 has no chance. I suppose G2, LGB, or 1337 could upset but not holding my breath

2015-07-02 00:53

The way HR are playing right now they don't have much chance either.

2015-07-02 00:54

They haven't had dosia for the past 5 games. The mouz one was their first game in like a week.

2015-07-02 02:44

It's so nice to see hungarian flag there.

So how many teams qualify for LAN? 1-4?

" ..from where four European teams advance to the major itself, taking place in Cologne on August 20-23."

2015-07-02 00:10

Hopefully it will be: Dignitas, Titan, HellRaisers and Kinguin

Teams who have a chance: All the invited ones Kinguin 1337 G2

Not G2 & not PENTA.

2015-07-02 00:12

Penta almost 2-0d Titan, why not? They are also the 2nd best team in Germany. G2 got a bit better since they added MICHU and they already went to a major.

2015-07-02 00:15

yea they almost but titan are shit online , and they are on a slump , the qualifier is in a month and its lanerino

2015-07-02 01:16

1337 can't play with their full lineup cuz rules want to use majority of players who won the online qualifier

yeah, the lineup that is actually better. They will use the same lineup here as in pre quals.

2015-07-02 01:27

Are they going to hurry up and ban Killerfish already?

what about gplay ?

Let's hope Titan don't qualify so they can finally disband ^-^ huehuehue

2015-07-02 00:14

ahahah Killerfish again. pls volvo kick him

too much good teams wow

Dignitas Titan Kinguin Gamers2 I dont see hellraisers, or penta or lgb's current lineups making it. And flipside without simple is no way making it past teams with better rosters.

2015-07-02 00:21

They made it through at Katowice, why wouldn't they make it this time around? Edit: Was talking about Flipside.

2015-07-02 00:43

Ok they might upset gamers2, but thats about it, remember they came in last in the european pro league.

2015-07-02 08:17

Killerfish -> kicked

Epiphany <3

2015-07-02 00:23

so that 16 teams at offline event gonna have challenger stickers?;D

2015-07-02 00:39

nope

p@p@d@s dark horse Keepo

2015-07-02 00:40

joelz threw it :c

2015-07-02 00:44

Still no sub-top french team reaching a major qualifier :/

2015-07-02 00:45

kinguin dignitas f3 titan

2015-07-02 00:52

1.Dignitas 2.titan 3.HR 4.kinguin 5.G2 6.F3 7.LGB 8.PENTA 9.1337 10.killerfish/inshock

((((((((((((((((((((((

gogo p@p@d@s!!

Epiphany will piss on everyone kappa

2015-07-02 00:57

did mous get penta's spot at the event since it's basically the team that earned it?

2015-07-02 01:00

Yepp

no ldlc white =(

were they in the qualifier? as far as i know they were qualifying for eswc

Inshock2low4thistournament

2015-07-02 01:19

I bet SK is really satisfied with their new team right about now :D

2015-07-02 01:25

gl rock

2015-07-02 01:35

1)Dig 2)Kinguin 3)Piter 4)HR

2015-07-02 01:39

come on lads we want to see some new stickers

2015-07-02 02:31

2015-07-02 03:04

Hoping Encore or epiphany would reach majors. Might not happen but GL!

2015-07-02 03:05

Kinguin stickers dream still alive

2015-07-02 03:14

Interesting.

2015-07-02 03:17

Nice

2015-07-02 03:18

lol are titan even going to qualify for this major

2015-07-02 03:28

THIS

2015-07-02 06:05

papados mix > world

I'm going o say there will be 7 16-0s in the qualifiers.

2015-07-02 03:39

How many teams can get qualified to the tournament from this ? Kinguin all day every day. Scream and Maikelele ftw.

2015-07-02 03:56

Literally the first line in the article : The second European online pre-qualifier gathered 545 teams who fought over seven final slots to the 16-team offline qualifier on July 25-26, from where four European teams advance to the major itself, taking place in Cologne on August 20-23.

2015-07-02 04:51

how many teams qualify after this?

2015-07-02 06:26

all of them because everyone is a winner

2015-07-02 08:26

don't know if trolling, but I'm asking how many spots are left for esl cologne?

2015-07-02 08:46

8 I guess, 8 Legends 8 Challengers

2015-07-02 08:47

thank you.

4 teams from this qualifier, 2 from oceania/asian qualifier and 2 from Na

2015-07-02 10:41

ty +1

2015-07-02 20:02

np :D

2015-07-03 10:33

i want kinguin stickers

2015-07-02 08:53

1:Dignitas 2: Titan 3:Kinguin 4: F3, even with simple ban

2015-07-02 09:36

gl encore & epiphany

2015-07-02 10:14

no mousesports :(

2015-07-02 10:19

Penta is invited because they are "legends" lol, mouz are much better rn

2015-07-02 10:22

@metal_cs are you dumb or you are just dumb?

2015-07-02 10:26

When someone gets the legends spot its for at least qualifying to quarter finals in previous major... So penta was in quarter finals in katowice and he is in legends... And since mousesports changed they roster for 3 Penta players they instantly replaced penta at legends cause 3+ players in new team replaces other... Goddamit u guys...

2015-07-02 10:30

@metal-cs @nsejy So we get a conclusion that mousesports are directly on esl cologne go check on esl cologne site at teams u will see mousesports in legends...

2015-07-02 10:32