Cologne Main Qualifier viewer's guide

7-6-2016 17:06

ESL One Cologne's Main Qualifier, taking place at ESL's studios in Katowice, starts in less than 48 hours. You'll find everything you need to know about the event right here in the viewer's guide.

The next major's offline qualifier is nearly upon us as it starts on Thursday, June 9th at 13:00 with the first round of matches.

As always, the tournament will have eight spots for ESL One Cologne on offer, however this time the system will be largely different - ESL will be using a Swiss system that has never been used in CS:GO before and is usually featured in chess tournaments.

EnVyUs will meet Immortals in round one

It is a non-elimination format where teams will play between three to five matches. The first round is based on four seeding pools, and in the following four rounds teams with the same amount of wins - who haven't played each other yet - will be randomly matched up.

The first round of matches is following:

G2	vs. TYLOO
FaZe	vs. Dignitas
Gambit	vs. OpTic
MOUZ	vs. FLuffy Gangsters
Envy	vs. Immortals
Cloud9	vs. Empire
FlipSid3	vs. Renegades
Splyce	vs. HellRaisers

Each of the first three days will see eight matches being played one after another, while up to nine matches are set to be played on the last day. You can see the schedule below:

Thursday, June 9
12:30	- Pre-show
13:00	- First round starts, eight matches one after another
22:00	- Estimated end of day
Friday, June 10
12:30	- Pre-show
13:00	- Second round starts, eight matches one after another
22:00	- Estimated end of day
Saturday, June 11
12:30	- Pre-show
13:00	- Third round starts, eight matches one after another
22:00	- Estimated end of day
Sunday, June 12
12:30	- Pre-show
13:00	- Six fourth round matches followed by three fifth round matches
23:15	- Estimated end of day

The eight-man talent lineup bringing you the action on the official English stream looks as follows:

Mitch "Uber" Leslie - Host / Interviewer

Vince "Metuz" Hill - Commentator

Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Commentator

John "BLU" Mullen - Commentator

Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen - Commentator

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host

Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl - Analyst

Alexander "Rushly" Rush - Observer

Only the latter two days will be open to the public, those interested in attending the qualifier can buy tickets on Eventbrite.

pansy <3

2016-06-07 17:06

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How do people enjoy watching her casts, just because she's the only female in the line-up doesn't make her good at all.

2016-06-08 08:00

ez for ence

ez4ence

2016-06-07 17:07

nope

asdas

nice

asdddas

Gonna be nice

NO WAI

wow

26th

ez ence lol

GL Tyloo

EZ 4 ENCE

Pansy <3

wtf this commentators

No Yanko omg

9 replies

he is at eleague he cant be here too :D

2016-06-07 17:08

8 replies

Is he?

2016-06-07 17:15

7 replies

he was at week 1 and 2

2016-06-07 17:19

6 replies

oh then i missed something big time

2016-06-07 17:21

2 replies

he's not there lol

2016-06-07 17:36

good lol

2016-06-07 17:38

you've been hallucinating, YNk is not at eleague nor has he been there

2016-06-07 17:37

pardon. i could have sworn i remembered seeing him on the analyst desk.. too many events going on and my brain is overloaded :D

2016-06-07 17:52

that's understandable tbh

2016-06-07 18:06

Uber lol fiflaren 2?

Uber he is the north american player but the katowice he is the australian stars.

2016-06-07 17:12

wtf :D

2016-06-07 17:41

Is it close to audience??

3 replies

it should be open for a audience but seats are limited (i think)

2016-06-07 17:59

they said few weeks earlier that it will be closed

2016-06-08 00:02

ty m8

2016-06-08 14:51

Go EnVy US and G2 ! :D

ez4tylooo

Tyloo plz qualify I want cool stickers

pretty bad talent lineup only metuz and blu are good machine is decent host

vendetta is good

2016-06-07 17:09

4 replies

you know you know you know you know Only an Australian? Who talks with an uplift? So that every statement sounds like a question? And sounds like a drunk Kardashian? Can tolerate a moron with as much of a lisp? As this you know you know you know clown? Ynk literally learned English in 9 months and you're saying an idiot that can't go 10 seconds without saying "you know" is good. Jesus christ

2016-06-07 17:24

wrong reply i think

2016-06-07 17:33

No? You know, Vendetta, you know, the, you know, "analyst", you know, is a, you know, lisping, you know, clown, you know, and is, you know, the worst CS, you know, caster of all time.

2016-06-07 17:40

ill just copy what i said in another comment could be worse could be launders

Uber is a fine host

2016-06-07 17:17

none of them are good lol machine is good at least but shit casters tbh.

2016-06-07 19:17

Let's go OpTic and TyLoo!!!

METUZ god

Machine best host Metuz best castererer

this talent line up :(

2016-06-07 17:10

could be worse could be launders

2016-06-07 17:11

Launders over natu any day

2016-06-07 17:42

thats ur opinion

i never said yours :>

2016-06-07 19:21

#IMTWIN

ez RUSSIA

metuz, i luled

2016-06-07 17:13

Nice with Metuz and vendetta, the rest is utter shit. Tier 584 casting

tyloo and fluffy so fucked up :(

GL TyLoo <3

Thank Mr. Striker

2016-06-07 17:18

Yeah love metuz for casting. Pansy is decent machine decent dont know bout rest

2016-06-07 17:20

where are anders & semmler? ddk and bddk?

Casting at Eleague

2016-06-09 07:49

Pansy, Natu and Blu?? instant mute when those morons cast.. Metuz is good.. Machine is ok desk host.

2016-06-07 17:22

Blu and natu are good probaly 2 of the top 5

2016-06-08 05:03

I bet your top 5 has also dab0o

2016-06-08 12:26

hope G2 stickers for sure

2016-06-07 17:23

No ddk no party

2016-06-07 17:25

no thorin or rl, no resident sleeper, bah another event to miss.

TyLoo FaZe Gambit mousesports Immortals Cloud9 FlipSid3 NoobRaisers

2016-06-07 17:26

no G2 and nV? you are insane dude

2016-06-07 17:29

i still think tyloo will win over g2 and i dont think nv has a chances agaisnt favelas

2016-06-07 18:58

uhhhhh so you picking who will win 1st matches,i thought who will be at major LUL

2016-06-07 22:28

nah, jsut 1st match ^^

2016-06-07 22:36

Gambit over optic???? Lol are you stupid gambit hasn't done anything since -way lander

2016-06-08 05:04

murica calls me stupid =D

2016-06-08 10:07

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Lets go BRAZIL! We can do it!!!! We smart, we loyal,cwe friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

Pansy To ruin the games again

Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Commentator Didn't read the rest

Gl all teams but ez ence

2016-06-07 17:31

could be a better talent lineup

PANSY PogChamp

Let's see if dignitas don't choke this time

Natu cast??? LOOOL I prefer Launders.. hes much better

nice matches

2016-06-07 17:45

G2 FaZe Dignitas Mouz EnVyUs Immortals Hellraisers Cloud9

2016-06-07 17:54

how 3 teams from a group qualify lol group a g2 faze dig tyloo g2 and faze only

2016-06-07 19:18

betting my virginity envy wont qualify

tier 4 casters lol

2016-06-07 17:55

pansy and vendetta at the same event. holy fucking shit, why? I'd take YNk and launders over these two any day of the week.

2016-06-07 18:01

This talent fits the tournament... Its a low qualifier so is the desk

LOL, it's the most stacked qualifier ever in csgo.

2016-06-08 05:47

what a terrible caster line up, except metuz, metuz is great

2016-06-07 18:00

2016-06-07 18:04

Go Hellraisers!

2016-06-07 18:05

Go f3

2016-06-07 18:10

with this caster its easy decision to not watch this qualifier :o unless they let metuz solo cast every game

2016-06-07 18:12

so shitty talent line up where is tasspot, joe miller, OJ Borg cmoonnnnn

2016-06-07 18:15

GO GO GO G2

2016-06-07 18:25

yes!!!! NO THOORIN

2016-06-07 18:38

placed in Poland but no polish team which are better then 70% of those who playing.. i mean AGG and Kinguin

2016-06-07 18:46

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better than empire and splyce. who more? lol

2016-06-07 18:56

maybe Kinguin would have some trouble with g2, dg, mouse or imm, but the rest no chance my friend

2016-06-07 19:06

they beat dg and mouse couple times didnt play vs imm tho

2016-06-07 19:28

I agree, I think Kinguin would lose to G2, Mouz and maybe FaZe, but they could probably beat the rest

2016-06-08 05:46

C9 vs kinguin would be close in my opinion id give it to kinguin but it would be a good match

2016-06-08 12:44

This may be one of the worst casting crews I have seen for a major qualifier. I know that Everyone is at eleague, but they could have at least gotten HenryG and Sadokist.

Fake Anders isn't a bad caster, blue is 50/50, rest= ResidentSleeper/mute

2016-06-07 19:03

I hate henrygay and sadofag they just flirt the fucking entire time it's really annoying natu and Blu are much better dame with metuz but pansy makes me want to kms

2016-06-08 05:07