ESL One Cologne match-ups announced

27-6-2017 18:00

ESL has announced the match-ups for the first Swiss round of ESL One Cologne.

Running from July 4-9 at Lanxess-Arena, ESL One Cologne will see 16 teams battle it out for their share of a $250,000 prize fund.

The tournament will begin with a five-round Swiss stage, which will determine the eight teams advancing to the single-elimination playoffs. All knockout stage matches will be played in a best-of-three format with the exception of the grand final, which will be a best-of-five clash.

SK will face Space Soldiers in their first match in Cologne

ESL took its CS:GO world ranking into account to draft the pairings for the first Swiss round, which looks as follows:

SK	vs.	Space Soldiers
Natus Vincere	vs.	Liquid
North	vs.	OpTic
Ninjas in Pyjamas	vs.	Cloud9
FaZe	vs.	HEROIC
MOUZ	vs.	fnatic
Immortals	vs.	Virtus.pro
TYLOO	vs.	G2

ez faze

2017-06-27 18:04

12 replies

2 ez 4 navi s1mple carry Kappa

2017-06-27 18:05

1 reply

rip SS

2017-06-27 20:09

GO FaZE #15-6>15-19 #TOP2 #FaZeUP #WhoWillFaZeFace?

2017-06-27 18:06

6 replies

Sk :) G2 maybe too :)

2017-06-27 18:12

>"G2 Maybe" >G2 Has never beaten FaZe offline, last match was 2-0 gyazo.com/5e86de33df5073d933fd8359eb32c3..

2017-06-28 02:45

Well faze will face heroic

2017-06-27 18:13

2 replies

who?

2017-06-27 18:14

Budget Niko

2017-06-27 18:32

They will face Heroic my friend

2017-06-27 20:22

2017-06-27 18:45

2017-06-27 21:28

ez sk

2017-06-28 15:58

ez for SS

8 replies

dont think so

SoulKill vs SoSorry

2017-06-27 18:08

4 replies

SK (Space Killers) x SS (Space Soldiers).

2017-06-27 20:55

3 replies

SK (Space Killers) x SS (Space Sorrows)! Hahahahahahahaha =D

2017-06-28 01:47

Actually it's Schoret Kommando (or something like that) #themoreyouknow #ferGOD

2017-06-28 14:11

I know men...I know...I was joking my friend =D

2017-06-28 17:48

They are going to get but raped..

2017-06-27 18:09

Im feeling.... thank you

wow

LET'S GO VP

GoGo VP goGO <3

2017-06-27 18:28

2017-06-27 19:01

KnGOD, #IMTWIN

2017-06-27 21:52

SK 16 - 0 SS

10 replies

Not really, this is a match that i was eager to see, cold vs xantares :D

2017-06-27 18:07

9 replies

Xantares destroys no namers. Cold destroys gods.

2017-06-27 18:17

but not the god xantares

2017-06-27 18:22

Hopefully...

2017-06-27 18:27

but xantares is a god!

5 replies

So fallen himself once said.. we ll see soon

2017-06-27 18:34

I'm very curious to see coldzera and xantares, it's going to be epic.

2017-06-27 18:37

epic like 16:3

2017-06-27 20:57

Xantares 16, cold 3...

2017-06-27 22:05

xantares GOD but others? :(

2017-06-27 22:11

ez for SK

Ez 4 navi

rip nip

love nip

RIP SS 16-0

rip

I'm excited tho, want to see what SS can do against SK and see what thry can do in rest

Ez G2<3

Yes my french brother, hopefully ez g2

2017-06-27 22:28

#G2ARMY #G2-0 Let's go ez group stage!

2017-06-27 23:54

lol SK vs SS

hahaha SK 16-0 SS

Faze will win this for sure <3

if they end up in a BO5 with SK and don't win, then I'm gonna find some other team to root for. Probably root for NiP, so I can just end up committing suicide soon.

2017-06-27 18:55

Karrgian sad they are going to change their map pool because of bo5's :) I belive in faze <3 #FAZEUP

2017-06-27 19:04

They will change but this will not be necessarily good.

2017-06-28 16:45

2017-06-27 19:58

first time g2 didnt get the hardest team/group at the start :D

fucking finally yea, over a year now every single turnament always hardest group or hardest first matchup

Bntet ma boi will rape them so hard

2017-06-27 19:03

ESL took its CS:GO world ranking into account to draft the pairings for the first Swiss round. Because they suck:) Kappa kappa

2017-06-27 19:13

Yeah makes a nice change not facing SK in the first round round, not the baptism of fire I expected when I saw rankings taken into account

2017-06-27 19:15

ez for xantares

#GONINJAS

Ez sk Ss? Lul

Maybe ss can suprise for me :P

2017-06-27 20:07

on lan?

imba ss upset

Ez 4 virtus premier

April?

EZ G2

ez NiP ez god REZ

nip will lose again everything dead team

Eeeeez for #FaZeUP NiKoKo

IMMORTALS can't catch a break! 1st round vs G2 in the major qualifier and vs VP on Cologne.

atm immortals >> vp

WTF, they are cursed! always bad matchs! FeelsBadMan

2017-06-27 18:15

SK will win with SS I think Liquid Edge past Na'Vi North win with Optic C9 Edge past NIP Mousesports and FaZe will win with Their opponents G2 over TyLoo . But still Immortals vs Virtus.Pro? I don't know. Maybe Immortals cause VP is still in crisis

VP werent that bad in the bo3 against astralis

They were good in their only map nuke. Wich is a must ban against vp so...

2017-06-27 18:19

But look at the last map of Clash For Cash

2017-06-27 18:21

Last, and second to last. If you take out Nuke, they got fucking stomped. They lost something like 4-16 and 3-16. VP need to have some super fuckin' LAN magic behind them that they need to literally pull out of their assholes, because they are absolutely terrible right now.

2017-06-27 18:57

Yup but if fnx was still in Immortals it have been easy for Immortals but I think Immortals will get it and I bet TyLoo will smash VP cause Immortals are in better form Immortals will win against Virtus.Pro TyLoo as well

2017-06-27 21:55

its about the map and VP's morality I think.

No i don't see VP winning against Immortals but 60% Chance for Immortals and 40% for VP

2017-06-27 23:02

VP will perform well this tournament i think

2017-06-28 00:06

Liquid, aka the best team in the world, will 3-0 and win the whole event Don't worry though Euros, they won't make it out of groups at the major xD

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Why do I have the feeling that all na team are out in groups?

2017-06-27 18:16

13 replies

Because all euros hate NA, so they can never think of us as anything other than shit You'll all see

"all euros" don't "hate NA". We're just observing the simple fact of your CS: GO teams being trash.

2017-06-27 18:58

^proof that euros are NA haters

Their teams certainly arent trash, theyre just not the absolute best

2017-06-27 20:10

If liquid get 3-0 in groups i will literally eat my underwear

2017-06-27 22:35

Okay Rip NA hater

2017-06-27 23:21

Im not a hater im just a realist. I wasnt saying that theyre bad, liquid is decent atm. But getting 3-0 would require them to beat some top EU teams which i dont see happening.

2017-06-28 14:52

After yesterday, do you still believe?

2017-07-03 16:39

Yes they will discover someone from flipshit was cheating and they will give Liquid the spot

LUL I wish man. I wish

2017-07-03 23:22

I do not hate NA, but i might after i read ur reply.

2017-06-28 15:11

^proof

2017-06-28 15:14

Well you made me hate NA.

2017-06-28 15:16

0-3*

2017-06-28 14:04

RIP SS 16 0 EZ4GODFER

lan you are a turk. GIVE THEM SOME HOPE #gospaces #spaceforall #teamgöbek

2017-06-27 18:11

I hope it's an exciting match.

2017-06-27 18:30

SS 16-0

2017-06-27 18:10

Ss 16-0 ......

TyLoo babyy

16-0 spaceS vs SK

EZ4 Calyxtares and paZZers

Easy matchup for Fnatic cuz Mousesports hasn't been playing well lately

Mouz performed well in esl pro league and in online competitions, but offline they're not that good. I don't think fnc will 2 eZ, but they will

2017-06-28 08:58

Would have been cool if c9 would have picked up friberg (Don't think they need to, but still). Otherwise good luck to all the tier3 teams, especially my homeboys NiP!

Rd1 winners : Sk,Liquid,North,c9,Faze,fnatic,immortals, G2.

you forgot space soldiers

2017-06-27 18:25

Very easy for SK. Another trophy and the first team to win ESL One Cologne twice. Brazilian CS = best CS in the world

SK won't win this tournament mark my words.

2017-06-27 18:35

ok, good luck bro :)

2017-06-27 19:18

True, Faze will

2017-06-27 19:33

Just like IEM Sydney and ECS LUL

2017-06-30 05:09

Dumb site

2017-06-30 05:15

cold vs xantaressss

xantares ez pretty obvious

2017-06-27 18:49

NIP vs C9, match of that day :D :D

NICE MATCHUPS

SK Gaming > Space Soldiers Natus Vincere > Team Liquid North > OpTic Gaming Ninjas in Pyjamas < Cloud9 FaZe > Heroic mousesports < Fnatic Immortals < Virtus.pro TyLoo < G2 Esports

Liquid and C9 on form right now and I think tyloo can upset cause G2 usually starts the tournament with a loss.

2017-06-27 18:33

I think it's time to g2 exorcise these demon.

2017-06-27 18:38

imo Navi < liquid Mouz > fnatic Imm > VP

2017-06-27 19:23

RIP BRAZIL

2017-06-27 18:18

gl bro i hope see SK vs VP in the grand finals again :)

2017-06-27 19:21

imt will destroy vp, vp only plays nuke

2017-06-27 19:29

SK Liquid North C9 Faze Fnatic Imt G2

fer vs xantares i think ez xantares

That's 2ez4SS. What are these match-ups ?? pehh .....

2017-06-27 18:20

ez for sk

Ez Fnatic

ez for TyLoo kek

"ESL took its CS:GO world ranking into account to draft the pairings for the first Swiss round" 1st match:SKvs Space Soldiers MEGALUL

Literally what I thought xDD

2017-06-27 18:23

What is wrong?

2017-06-28 20:24

All the memes aside,taking the #1 team against a tier2-3 team is pretty ridiculous

2017-06-28 21:10

So you wanted better vs better and worse vs worse, so a better team lose and a worse team win?

2017-06-28 21:16

No,that's not what i'm trying to say,ofc i want good teams not tier 3 in Cologne.As they said,they took their ranking into consideration ,so i thought if two team plays their level won't be lightyears away,i assume they want more balanced match ups.

2017-06-29 00:01

BRAZILIANS CRY IS FREE EZ FOR SS LUL

2017-06-27 18:24

+1 i'm crying :')

niceone

Imagine hltv if SS beats SK, map will probably be Mirage so I think thats possible

yes, rlly possible

2017-06-27 19:24

Xantares vs Coldzera :o

RIP SS

2017-06-27 18:26

f0rest and REZ bout to put an end to Cloud9. #GONINJAS

Ez opponent for faze

The encounter I want to see for a long time GODTARES Vs GODZERA

adamim

Nice

2017-06-27 22:16

EZ FNATIC

i was waiting for this. That will be really really good match.

really good match witch gonna end like 16:5

2017-06-27 20:58

SK always lose so many rounds against underdogs.

2017-06-28 22:51

Brazil SK > Turkey Space Soldiers CIS Natus Vincere > United States Liquid Denmark North > United States OpTic Sweden NiP = United States Cloud9 Europe FaZe > Denmark Heroic Europe mousesports = Sweden fnatic Brazil Immortals < Poland Virtus.pro China TyLoo < France G2

nip=c9 imt<vp nt

And "CIS Natus Vincere > United States Liquid" nt for that too. Liquid s favorited to this match ofcourse.

2017-06-28 08:29

Ez Sk

ez4: SK,NaVi,North,C9,FaZe,Fnatic,IMT and G2

There are three EU teams with their name starts with N and all of them playing against NA teams. Coincidence? Don't think so...

Ez SK

bof5 finals hype :O

>ESL took its CS:GO world ranking into account to draft the pairings >SK (#1) vs Space Soldiers (#25) GOOD RANKING ESL, AS USUAL!

2017-06-27 18:36

SS can be the new kabum, bo1 is all possible. give some hope to kebabs.

2017-06-27 18:50

Oh boi <3

imt x vp? ha ha

BR vs PO again <3

2017-06-27 19:27

ez br

2017-06-27 19:30

Lol for ss :) new hope vs best team in the world. Hope it's not gonna be 16 0 lul

2017-06-27 18:39

Actually i wouldnt be surprised if SS wins, i mean its bo1 so..

2017-06-27 19:25

Ss always focused big matches i mean anything could happen but sk is so hungry about winning tho they are like undefeated they are so motivated on everynmatch no matter what. So if sk gives their best i dont think ss have a chance

2017-06-27 19:32

VP is taking this one

2017-06-27 18:41

you will see SK xd

kill them all xantares <3

2017-06-27 18:43

calyxtares to win SK :>>

I will try.

2017-06-27 18:56

LETS GOOOOO BABY #SPACESFORALL TIME 2 TAME MONKEYS

2017-06-27 18:44

SpaceS will play against a turkish team?!

2017-06-27 19:08

nip in a tournament hmm, haven't seen that in a while

The particular clash in the match between SK and SS, will be between ColdGod and Xantares. Looking forward to see this, and TOP2 TOP1 in rating.

2017-06-27 18:52

Turkish fans getting really salty over here... Anyways ez for G2.

2017-06-27 18:53

we're just trolling i don't see any ways to ss win the match

2017-06-28 00:58

ez nip =D

Esl plssss why you do this :(((

of course VP gets the hardest opponent. All rigged but im happy they will win

VP and NIP? xDDDDDDDD

sk 16 0 ss

Where are Astralis?

they're skipping this event to prepare for the major it was announced over a month ago

Ez for Astralis.

2017-06-27 18:59

SK 2 : 1 FaZe in grand finals. Why even bother with groups?

2017-06-27 19:00

The gf Is gonna be a bo5

2017-06-30 04:55

SK 3/4 easy

2017-06-27 19:02

RIP Space Soldiers and Tyloo xD

2017-06-27 19:05

finally easy for SK

i heard that spaceS won againts sk in scrim.

2017-06-27 19:06

source plx ?

2017-06-27 21:12

i can't say exact name here without permission but it's Calyx's friend.

2017-06-27 21:23

oh, k then thx anyways

2017-06-27 21:29

NiP vs C9 ok...

2017-06-27 19:10

xantares vs sk at lan PogChamp

sad ss and tylul gl both of them

2017-06-27 19:16

SK Navi Optic NIP Faze Mousports Virtus.Pro G2

wow! Nice matchups! Let's go MY TEAMS, we can do it! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

Cool

2017-06-27 19:22

SK Liquid North Cloud9 FaZe mousesports Immortals TyLoo

Stopped reading after Tyloo

Sk Liquid North C9 Faze Mouz VP G2

2017-06-27 19:28

sk navi north nip faze fnatic immortals g2

2017-06-27 19:31

Why are we so fucking unlucky. First match with SK. I can feel the pain of my ass already.

2017-06-27 19:39

It doesn't matter anyway they'll go without a single win hehehehehehehhhhehehhhe

2017-06-27 19:59

Lol

2017-06-30 04:51

SK always first match up with the worst team at the tournament :/ not fair

Tyloo?

2017-06-28 00:56

TyLoo have.more achievments at the intercontinental scene and we can see.them fighting with the best teams more often than SpaceS. Also i meant often not always for example at ECS Finals they get G2

2017-06-28 09:17

They played against g2 on their first game of ecs, retard

2017-06-30 04:48

Read my answer (#371) and then think, who really retard is to insult someone even if you didnt read what i have to say

2017-06-30 10:52

ez for tylol 16-0 g2

2017-06-27 19:45

Immortals Took a hard challenge in beginning.

2017-06-27 19:49

fuck

2017-06-27 19:55

In the major qualifier too! They play G2 at the 1st round.

Any VP patterns going on around? Are they still going to fluke on purpose to hide tactics or bad form?

2017-06-27 20:00

for past months they weren't hiding tactics, they decide to change every position and pattern to remove form jumps because they were well knowed as a team who can win with everyone and also lose to everyone. Hope now they find good result and combine with good aim they will show up well in here

2017-06-28 19:10

north vs sk in finals

No ast no faze, izi sk And Thats really sad, since these 3 teams gives us the best matches by far

2017-06-27 20:04

faze yes dude... g2, north and sk... 4 teams in top 5

2017-06-28 02:32

16-0 for SK

Ez for ss

2017-06-27 20:12

C9 - NiP ez 16-0

2017-06-27 20:14

Tyloo-G2 xD

2017-06-27 20:16

holy shit so many turkey flags on this thread

2017-06-27 20:17

Space Soldiers are finally at a lan with top teams... have to vs SK first lul

2017-06-27 20:20

cannot wait to see new NiP in action

2017-06-27 20:28

I hope NaVi will show their real skill this time

Real skill ?

NiP LUL

2017-06-27 20:30

So many one-sided games lmao

2017-06-27 20:33

FAZE wins tournament SK goes out in groups G2/FAZE finale

2017-06-27 20:37

C9 top 1

2017-06-27 20:43

Izzi IMT

2017-06-27 20:50

Looks like there are just a few teams that navi can beat confidently atm :(

BnTeT vs shox PogChamp

rip ss

2017-06-27 21:00

good matches but ez for north and g2

2017-06-27 21:15

Poor Immortals always getting hard openning matchs -_-

2017-06-27 21:17

EZ SK

2017-06-27 21:18

Winners on the left (except for VP, G2 and probably C9)

2017-06-27 21:21

We fucked up.

Interesting...I guess SK never played against Space Soldier.

2017-06-27 21:24

They did, but it was a prac match, not an official one

2017-06-28 02:10

Didn't know...how it was?

2017-06-29 00:24

I dont know the score, but i remember taco tweeted and said that "space soldiers are improving and they are on the right track, i saw it when we played against them on pracc" im not sure if this is exactly what he said, but it was something like that. I think they must have played when sk was in europe for bootcamp

2017-06-29 00:28

twitter.com/TACOCS/status/84244422576968.. thats the tweet

2017-06-29 00:35

Nice...I really enjoy to see some goods teams playing in big tournament like Heroic, SS, Outlaw...it's good to improve their gameplay and strats...sometimes it seems like the Top 10 teams are always playing against them, and is pretty boring to watch Sk-Faze like 30 times in a year.

2017-06-29 06:37

ez fpor immortals

2017-06-27 21:38

SK SAVING STRATS FOR MAJOR. NO SK THIS tIME

Yes you know much better than sk's igl hltv.org/news/18128/fallen-i-dont-believ..

come on wtf RIP space soldiers vs Best team of world :(

2017-06-27 21:39

loser will eliminated?

2017-06-27 21:42

B A L A N C E D ¯\_(-_-)_/¯

New era is heading to us

2017-06-27 21:45

SK will win first game then Liquid over Na'vi North over OpTic Cloud9 over NIP Heroic to upset over FaZe mousesports over Fnatic VP over Immortals G2 over TyLoo

2017-06-27 21:49

group stage games gonna be bo3 ? naaaaice

2017-06-27 22:02

EZ SK Gaming and NiP <333

2017-06-27 22:07

sad but nip gonna rekt by c9

2017-06-27 22:10

Virtus.Premier to make it out of groups?

bye SS

2017-06-27 22:13

AT FIRST BIG TOURNAMENT , FIRST MATCH VS SK GAMING SO SAD :d

2017-06-27 22:17

2017-06-27 22:18

I want to see the two of the best players going against each others: BnTeT vs. XANTARES.

2017-06-27 22:20

ez for NiP

2017-06-27 23:12

Very ez for Na'Vi Grand final: NaVi - SK 16-1 16-3 Guardian MVP with 3.5 K/D ratio Edward USP ace on pistol round cluch 1vs5 S1mple knived TACO 6times Seized best IGL of all time flamie best BMW driver all over the world

2017-06-27 23:28