Renegades receive ESL One Cologne invite

30-4-2019 12:48

Renegades join the list of invited teams for ESL One Cologne 2019, the event's organisers have announced.

Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward and company will contend at the $300,000 prize pool event, taking place at the Lanxess Arena, in Cologne, Germany on July 2-7. Here, 16 participating teams will look to secure their share of the pot, in addition to a point in the Intel Grand Slam Season 2 ranking.

Renegades' invite leaves a total of seven tournament slots remaining, three reserved for invited teams and four to be filled via the European, North American and Asian regional qualifiers.

Renegades will look to surpass their 2018 Cologne result

Currently ranked seventh in the world, Renegades will look to improve on results sustained in 2018's edition of the event, where the squad saw an early exit from Group B following losses to MIBR and BIG in the opening and second round lower bracket matches, respectively.

Below are all known participants for ESL One Cologne 2019:

Invite slot

EU Qualifier #1

NA Qualifier

Invite slot

EU Qualifier #2

Asia Qualifier

deserved

2019-04-30 12:48

20 replies

I am in disagreeance.

4 replies

I like it

2019-04-30 12:51

1 reply

Of course you did filthy plastic fan

2019-05-01 22:35

Team checks out

2019-04-30 16:52

2019-05-01 22:03

People who reply to me are coolest

2019-04-30 12:49

6 replies

nomen)))

2019-04-30 12:50

Thx

2019-05-01 22:00

no people who reply r gay

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2019-05-01 22:04

2 replies

You super cool now

And your gay

2019-05-02 22:07

F12

dfg was original comment, pleb.

Here before Unluko

3 replies

Good job!

2019-04-30 12:52

Ty mens)))

2019-04-30 12:56

No problem, son!

2019-04-30 13:17

nice

Not the boys!

grrrr

FFS WHERE IS G2 AND VITA ?

8 replies

I guess they will invite the whole hltv top 10 so Vitality should get an invite at least but who knows

2019-04-30 12:53

G2 is worse than all invited teams so far, and Vita is borderline, so why should they have got one? I’m sure at least Vita will get one before it’s all finished.

2019-04-30 13:10

True, the only exception is BIG but it makes sense to have the best german team at a german event, even if they're struggling a bit at the moment.

2019-04-30 13:47

g2> Fnatic and BIg ( but I know they got the invite because it's at home for them)

2019-04-30 13:48

Yeah I didn’t count BIG, regarding fnatic I would say they are similar, but G2 squad is still to fresh and untested to determine the true level. While fnatic comes fresh of a 2nd place at star series, G2 couldn’t even make finals at some small t3 event in Belgium? But as I said, Vita should be invited still, and G2 might also get one.

2019-04-30 14:20

My guess would be Vitality invited directly to the event and G2 invited to the EU closed qualifier (there are 3 invites to be given there also according to Liquipedia).

2019-04-30 15:13

Well last year everyone said the same about BIG and look how far they got, made the whole event much better, the atmosphere inside the arena was soooo amazing just because of that team

2019-04-30 15:29

literally Berlin International Gaming... It's like having an event in AU/NZ and not inviting The Boys, or in Brazil and not inviting MIBR. I'm not underestimating BIG anymore

2019-04-30 17:12