North confirmed at ESL One Cologne

21-4-2017 16:27

North are the latest team confirmed for ESL One Cologne, the event's organisers have announced.

The former dignitas lineup becomes the first Danish team confirmed for the prestigious event, with Astralis having declined their invitation due to a packed Summer schedule.

North were recently seen in action at the SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 event, where they were sent packing in the quarter-finals following a 1-2 defeat against HellRaisers.

North will attend ESL One Cologne

A total of $250,000 will be up for grabs at ESL One Cologne, which will culminate with the playoffs at LANXESS Arena from July 7-9. Eight of the 16 tournament spots are currently filled, with four invites still to be determined.

The final four spots will go to the top teams of qualifiers held in three regions. Europe and North America already have their qualifiers set, with a third regional qualifier due to be announced shortly.

Below you can find the current team list for ESL One Cologne:

SK	fnatic	Natus Vincere	Virtus.pro
FaZe	Ninjas in Pyjamas	G2	North
Invite	Invite	Invite	Invite
EU qual.	EU qual.	NA qual.	TBA

#HearTheRoar 🦁

Welcome to #ESLOne Cologne 2017, @TheNorthIsHere! 🇩🇰https://t.co/tCH22ho5GX pic.twitter.com/H6ClekmFax
— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) April 21, 2017

nice :)

2017-04-21 16:27

10 replies

2017 edits post xDD

2017-04-21 17:06

at least they are not scared of SK (despite losing to us all the time) like Astralis.. gj North

2017-04-21 17:55

7 replies

hahaha cute, Astralis in last 5 finals, sk in how many? yes 0

2017-04-21 19:06

6 replies

SK win two time the Major? Yes 2. And Astralis? Yes 1

2017-04-21 21:33

5 replies

NA 0 :D Kill me

2017-04-21 23:33

so you are saying that the team that won or at least was in final in last 5 tournaments, and won last major, should be afraid to compete against a team that won more than a year ago, and havent won anything after changing lineup? nice joke

2017-04-21 23:35

1 reply

wrong reply

2017-04-21 23:38

You sure its not the old mib lineup that Astralis fear? Heard Cogu is doing his comback and got a wildcard for Cologne, so Astralis dont dare to showw up ...

When out of arguments: SK TWO MAJORS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

2017-04-22 01:41

#2 lmao

2017-04-21 18:32

Good for them! Still ez for G2

2017-04-21 16:28

This will be better than the major (because NiP is here). Now we just wait for C9 Invite and it will be confirmed better than the major.

2017-04-21 18:12

good

cheater team at esl cologne, nice

nice

nice pick by esl

expected

Yeah boyyyy

Why not 8 invites and 8 from qualifiers ? That's retarded

2017-04-21 16:29

2017-04-21 16:53

Invite dosia next

2017-04-21 16:30

They will play anyway. Since all playoff teams from last year are invited

2017-04-21 17:26

Nice, good luck to FaZe

2017-04-21 16:33

HR pls!

2017-04-21 16:34

2017-04-21 17:08

invite EnvyUs PLS!!

2017-04-21 16:36

+ Mouz + Gambit + c9 + Immo + hell + Envy + Liuqid + Flip > Major

2017-04-21 16:37

No Astralis means its automatically going to be worse than the Major

2017-04-21 17:19

2017-04-21 16:38

"We are going to be scheduling better in 2017" - North Then plays tournament one week before major

A good warm up event before the major, since there is a break before the major iirc

2017-04-21 16:42

This tournament is in germany, major in poland, same time zone, short travel, good chance to practice. Whats ur logic.

2017-04-21 16:43

3 replies

That they play a tournament one week before possibly the most important event of the year?

2017-04-21 18:42

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If that would fak up their form or abilities then none of top teams would go there. Astralis is different story cos they are tryharding a bit too much, playing mental games etc. But you dont even need 1 week break to play another tournament.

2017-04-21 18:48

The reason they are going is obviously the money, not to stay in shape. Literally no pro had anything bad to say about having a months break prior to Atlanta, and said it was really great to have time to prepare, MSL being one of them.

2017-04-21 18:50

it is still a big event and because Astralis are not attending the chances for winning this event are higher for the other teams

2017-04-21 16:59

invite mouz want to see ropz on "first" LAN

2017-04-21 16:41

Only the danish chokers won't attend lul. And they think they'll win back to back major lul

2017-04-21 16:47

Device has a hiatus hernia and his doctor recommends he should not travel excessively. Them trying to defend their title is not the only reason they are skipping out on this event... Also, Danish chokers? Says the Brazilian whose best team went out in groups in the last two LAN events.

2017-04-21 19:16

Cologne is in Germany and the Major in Poland ... I don't think that the Traveling is that much of a deal.

2017-04-21 20:56

If they were to drive there, it would take 9 hours... That being said, they would most probably take the airplane if they were to do it. His doctors recommended that he should not travel too much. Flying from Denmark to Cologne, then flying back to Krakow, and then flying back to Denmark would mean 3 airplane flights in a few weeks.

2017-04-22 16:31

Probably Cologne will be soo good as the next major

2017-04-21 16:50

Team Liquid next

Wait there are 4 more invites ? Ok

2017-04-21 16:54

North is going to win this one easily

2017-04-21 16:55

i want to see Space Soldiers on this event :)

2017-04-21 17:05

not a t3 event

2017-04-21 17:16

sure Why PGL invite this team on PGL minor 2017 closed qual? is it tier 3 event?

2017-04-22 01:24

Minors consists of t2 and t3, events like Cologne should invite t1 and t2 only.

2017-04-22 02:27

Bad team, inv hellraisers instead

2017-04-21 17:07

noice

2017-04-21 17:17

Can't wait for their choke on quarterfinals.

2017-04-21 17:20

+HellRaisers, Heroic, Gambit, Liquid

2017-04-21 17:25

PogChamp

2017-04-21 17:38

Stacked tournament so far, looks really exciting. A lot of tier 1 teams.

2017-04-21 17:48

This looks like an awesomely competitive LAN already

2017-04-21 17:49

Gonna be ezzz since Astralis isn't attending.

2017-04-21 18:04

Great teams so far! :) Anyone know why Astralis is not attending? :) Gl to all teams.

+ Miami Flamingos

2017-04-21 18:25

+Heroic +Mouz +Immortals +Gambit

NORTH WILL WIN

2017-04-21 18:34

Invite IMT, pls

2017-04-21 19:02

Ez fnatic north final

2017-04-21 19:21

Astralis is looking like pussys not attendind cologne because major when all the other top teams will I understand the call but no other team follow their steps

2017-04-21 19:58