ESL One Cologne viewer's guide

1-7-2018 18:28

With ESL One Cologne around the corner, we have put a viewer's guide together for the $300,000 event that will take place at the LANXESS Arena.

ESL One Cologne will run on July 3-8, at the LANXESS Arena, with sixteen teams fighting for their piece of the $300,000 prize pool and a win counting towards the Intel Grand Slam.

Everything is ready for another tournament in Cologne

The tournament will start with two groups playing a double-elimination bracket before moving on to the best-of-three single elimination playoff which will kick off with the second and third best teams from the group stage playing the quarter-finals before moving onto the semi-finals, where the group winners will be waiting.

Group A

Group B

ESL One Cologne will see Jorgen "⁠cromen⁠" Robertsen play one more event with FaZe—who could take home the Intel Grand Slam were they to win—, while Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk will be standing in for Cloud9 after being substituted by Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski in MOUZ.

The event in Germany will also mark William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin's debut with fnatic, while Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson will be playing his second event in the Ninjas in Pyjamas jersey.

The tournament is slated to start on July 3rd and will have three days of group stage play and three days of playoffs in the arena.

Tuesday, July 3rd
12:00 - Astralis vs. ENCE | BO1
12:00 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs. Cloud9 | BO1
13:10 - MOUZ vs. Gambit | BO1
13:10 - G2 vs. Natus Vincere | BO1
14:20 - FaZe vs. BOOT-d[S] | BO1
14:20 - Renegades vs. MIBR | BO1
15:30 - fnatic vs. North | BO1
15:30 - BIG vs. Liquid | BO1
16:40 - Group A Upper Bracket Semi #1| BO3
16:40 - Group A Lower Bracket Quarter #1| BO3
20:10 - Group A UB Semi #1| BO3
20:10 - Group A LB Quarter #2 | BO3

Wednesday, July 4th
12:00 - Group B LB Quarter #2 | BO3
12:00 - Group B LB Quarter #1 | BO3
15:30 - Group B UB Semi #1 | BO3
15:30 - Group A LB Semi #1 | BO3
19:00 - Group B UB Semi #2 | BO3
19:00 - Group A LB Ro4b #2 | BO3

Thursday, July 5th
12:00 - Group B LB Semi #1 | BO3
12:00 - Group B LB Semi #2 | BO3
15:30 - Group A LB Final | BO3
15:30 - Group A UB Final | BO3
19:00 - Group B LB Final | BO3
19:00 - Group B UB Final | BO3

Friday, July 6th
15:00 - Quarter-final #1 | BO3
18:30 - Quarter-final #2 | BO3

Saturday, July 7th
15:00 - Semi-final #1 | BO3
18:30 - Semi-final #2 | BO3

Sunday, July 8th
16:00 - Grand final | BO5

ESL One Cologne will also follow the scheduled starting times during the playoffs and will not start any of the matches early were the previous matches to end quickly.

Hosting the event on the desk will be Alex "Machine" Richardson, while O. J. Borg will do the same on stage. Interviewing on the sideline will be Tres "stunna" Saranthus.

On the desk with Machine will be Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill, Janko "YNk" Paunovic, and Duncan "Thorin" Shields, while the casting will be done by Henry "HenryG" Greer, Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett, Jason "moses" O'Toole, and Lauren "Pansy" Scott. Behind the scenes, observing, will be David "prius" Kuntz and Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo.

The full lineup is:

O. J. Borg - Stage host

Tres "stunna" Saranthus - Sideline reporter

Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host
Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill - Analyst
Janko "YNk" Paunovic - Analyst
Duncan "Thorin" Shields - Analyst

Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Commentator
Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Commentator

David "prius" Kuntz - Observer
Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo - Observer

The distribution of the $300,000 in prize money that will be given out after ESL One Cologne is the following:

1. - $125,000
2. - $50,000
3-4. - $22,000
5-6. - $11,000
7-8. - $7,500
9-12. - $6,000
13-16. - $5,000

nice im so hyped Faze will take this

2018-07-01 18:28

31 replies

astralis***

2018-07-01 18:29

7 replies

dream[s]cape***

2018-07-01 18:30

2 replies

expected

2018-07-02 14:51

Ence**********

2018-07-02 15:55

NiP***

2018-07-01 19:36

3 replies

U wish it was nip but sorry mate astralis faze navi mousesopets liquid are the wall for ya

2018-07-01 23:02

Tell NiP to beat 3dmax first

1 reply

Well they don't have to anymore as they already qualified while 3Dmax is out.

2018-07-02 20:14

ez4ence

EZ4ENCE

2018-07-01 20:33

Ez4Ence

2018-07-02 10:36

ENCE4EZ

2018-07-02 15:56

g2 take this

"Faze will take this"

mouz****

2018-07-01 18:35

4 replies

mouz with snax? lol i arent think that im not a huge styko fanboy and its his own fault that he got removed bcs clearly he whiffed too much and was one of the weak points of the team, but tell me whos gonna play support now?

2018-07-01 23:32

ropz

2018-07-01 23:35

ropz is a young gun, a rising star. please dont ruin him by forcing him to play a shit role which he has no idea how to do.

2018-07-01 23:36

afaik sunny chrisj and (ropz?) chrisj said on stream they'll share support role

2018-07-02 07:48

Ez for Astralis

2018-07-01 18:58

Calm down boys , don't forget about Na'Vi !!!

2018-07-01 19:16

Astralis are favoured, I think, but FaZe could do it I think Especially seeing that easy first match lmao who even are they

2018-07-01 19:27

8 replies

Some new polish streamteam

2018-07-01 19:37

6 replies

Dude, get your flags straight :D thats Indonesia buddy

2018-07-01 20:44

u havent been around much have u

2018-07-01 23:33

around a year I guess

2018-07-01 23:51

its a meme that you say indonesian teams are from poland

2018-07-02 13:29

Aight, thanks man

2018-07-02 18:10

Lmfao easy game

2018-07-01 20:56

some random dudes from singapore who somehow won tyloo

2018-07-03 11:26

c9*

2018-07-02 07:24

first

are you sure?

close enough

2018-07-01 18:32

2018-07-01 18:56

ty baby

2018-07-01 18:59

oh kl

ast win

Facebook, no thanks

2018-07-01 22:01

2018-07-03 03:18

and I won't be tehre.

tehre

2018-07-01 19:00

Refugees not allowed? What a racists..

2018-07-01 19:39

i made this :)

no i did :)

jáááááááááj

comments in other languages will be deleted :)

2018-07-01 23:07

Apearently they won't.

2018-07-01 23:08

Okay, eZaF.

2018-07-01 18:31

pansy ez

Ez4mibr

Thorin LUL

final liquid vs astralis faze vs astralis fnatic vs astralis one of them three

EZ ENCE

ez4g2

EZ ENCEEEEE

2018-07-01 18:34

see you in the arena! P O G G E R S

2018-07-01 18:50

I'll be waiting for you. Guess you'll be one of the dabbing 15y/o

2018-07-01 19:40

nah, im a old 28 one :(

2018-07-01 20:05

but still dabbing?

2018-07-01 21:55

#86 You said nothing about the dabbing. Don't tell me that you're 28 with 12y/o mentality.

2018-07-02 02:21

no pala no party

2018-07-01 18:51

Pala is utter shit. I understand he's funny to some 15 year old boys but that's about it. The way he nods his head and makes that fake interested smile when he interviews people is just fucking ridiculous. I'm so happy I don't have to watch that fuckface in this tournament.

2018-07-01 20:43

he isnt fake, pala is genuinely nice. sounds like you have a stick up your ass that he eats the hottest dudes and hangs with the chillest restaurants

2018-07-01 20:52

EZ for VP

2018-07-01 18:52

fckin pansy .. Vince is much more better caster

2018-07-01 18:53

Is it gonna be streamed on facebook?

I honestly think c9 Will Be in The final with astralis

Man I will be live there, gonna be exciting

2018-07-01 19:01

Pansy? Fucking yikes.

you guys think Ence will take this ? lol wake up guys. dont fool at yourself

Yes they will

2018-07-01 19:54

pathetic ence fans

2018-07-02 03:15

easy for the greatest team in csgo history #RUNASTRALIS #ToTheStars #GODV1CE #GLAIVEMASTERMIND #DUPREEHNTRY #MAGISKTOMATO #CLUTCHN9X

2018-07-01 19:05

😍😍😍 love them

2018-07-01 20:10

Is it just me or does Machine look like that one NRG player?

2018-07-01 19:07

pretty even brackets for once

2018-07-01 19:09

Are they streaming again on Facebook? 😥😥😥😥

2018-07-01 19:15

eazy for mousesports

2018-07-01 19:22

ez4mibr

2018-07-01 19:24

Tier 3 event but looking forward to it

ENCE $125,000

2018-07-01 20:01

e z 4 e n c e a s t r a l i s g o n n a g e t s m a s h e d

2018-07-01 20:02

nice to see ENCE playing a big event

2018-07-01 20:03

lmao facebook lul lul trash event

2018-07-01 20:08

2018-07-01 20:22

Nice

2018-07-01 20:23

" Duncan "Thorin" Shields - Analyst " Oh boy. Get ready for a whole bunch of salt, coming from all sides.

2018-07-01 20:25

Will Astralis be the first team to take out the ENCE superteam?

2018-07-01 20:27

Snaxxxx

2018-07-01 20:38

Fuck yes. Holidays, time to binge watch CSGO and see ENCE win yet again.

2018-07-01 20:39

I hope it will be on twitch not fb or youtube

Ez for Smitzzzz

2018-07-01 20:58

ez for G2

2018-07-01 21:01

my favorite turnament after starlader

2018-07-01 21:58

so ez for mibr

2018-07-01 22:00

EZ 4 BOOT

2018-07-01 22:24

wow group b is weak

2018-07-01 23:37

ez 4 c9 2018 major winners! #VIVALAC9 #RUNC9

2018-07-02 02:51

Fnatic got this

2018-07-02 03:27

Ree fuck pansy and sadokist Get ddk, bardolph, anders, or Vince instead of these clowns

2018-07-02 04:44

Biggest surprise, Ence wins Astralis 19:16

2018-07-02 07:27

im so hyped for this guys. big gonna win it

2018-07-02 07:36

Sneaky beaky Snax ;>

2018-07-02 14:55

Astralis Cloud9 mousesports Natus Vincere FaZe MIBR North Liquid The most intresting match from this 8 will be fnatic-North

2018-07-02 14:56

>Trade ban >300.000$

2018-07-03 10:13

why so much ence hype?

2018-07-03 11:32

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