NAVI, Astralis, Liquid among teams to attend ESL One Cologne

30-6-2020 19:11

There are now just six spots left at the showpiece event, which will be decided next week.

ESL has revealed the names of the first 18 teams that will attend this year's ESL One Cologne event, which will run from August 21-30. The tournament organiser has also set a cut-off date of July 6 to determine the last six teams based on its ESL Pro Tour world ranking.

Current world No.1 Natus Vincere is among the eight teams already confirmed for the main tournament, in which they will be joined by the top eight sides coming from the Play-In stage. This will phase will act as a qualifier and will feature 14 teams determined by the ESL Pro Tour rankings plus the winners of the ESL European Championship and of ESL Meisterschaft Spring, Heretics and Sprout respectively.

ESL One Cologne will be held as a broadcast tournament without a live audience. HLTV.org reported two weeks ago that ESL remained hopeful that it would be able to host the tournament in its studio in Cologne, though a final decision will depend on the evolution of the global health crisis and on the travel restrictions that European Union authorities will impose in the coming weeks.

The German tournament, which will have $1 million on offer, was initially scheduled for July 6-12 with playoffs at the Lanxess-Arena. On May 5, it was officially postponed after German authorities had decided to suspend all large events in the country at least until the end of August in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Below you can find the current team distribution for the event:

Main event:

Play-In:

EU world ranking

NA world ranking

EU world ranking

NA world ranking

Very cool! Cologne always best event of the year.

2020-06-30 19:11

29 replies

+1 cologne very enjoyable spend of time

2020-06-30 19:12

6 replies

+1 Very interesting personalities

2020-06-30 19:17

3 replies

LANS are back with the best tournament ESL Cologne.

2020-06-30 19:55

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its still a hope

2020-06-30 20:04

+1 lmao

2020-06-30 20:08

why

2020-07-01 00:33

why what

2020-07-01 00:34

Hope liquid play good.

2020-06-30 19:13

15 replies

Lol that ain't happening

13 replies

india flag XAXAXAXAXAXAXA

2020-06-30 21:11

12 replies

Hope overrated 3covic3 gets out from his hiding :)

2020-06-30 21:32

Corona flag XAXAXAXAXA

2020-06-30 21:46

7 replies

lmao +1

2020-07-01 00:02

Hahaha

2020-07-01 04:15

lul thats a good one

2020-07-01 04:28

Even China irrelevant against USA because they are #1 at everything

2020-07-01 10:03

india XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA where’s your scene? nt word.exe

2020-07-01 18:11

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First world country XAXAXAXAXAXA where's your president's brain? Omg it doesn't exist XAXAXAXAXAXAXA

2020-07-01 18:23

Lmao USA xaxxaxaxax!!! Where's your president's brain?? Xaxxaxaxax!! Where's your wall?? Xaxxaxax

2020-07-06 07:51

Lol you got rekt #179

2020-07-01 13:26

he’s indian, i don’t think he can talk when his entire scene is made up of cheaters

Lol i know only one cheater from India and thats forsaken ,your country has match fixers and scammers like moe

2020-07-02 13:28

+1111111111

2020-06-30 19:21

haha ESL saw my thread about teams not being announced hltv.org/forums/threads/2330861/esl-colo.. they forgot xD

2020-06-30 19:30

2020-06-30 19:36

2020-06-30 19:58

Cologne bestest tournament like jerman cars are bestest

2020-06-30 20:10

2020-07-01 10:45

YES BOYS

10 replies

mous undeserved spot they dont deserve even a playin spot, should play closed qual

9 replies

+1 -mouz +vita should be fair

2020-06-30 19:47

-faze +vita would be fair

5 replies

actually no

2020-06-30 20:18

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Faze is fuckin dog shit online and on lan

2020-06-30 20:23

FaZe>mouz right now

2020-07-01 18:40

Online yes

2020-07-01 21:00

why do u hate faze? cuz ropz isn't playing for them???

2020-07-01 23:16

They got there because of esl rankings

2020-06-30 20:02

2020-07-01 04:16

ez for liquid, gg ez liquid second team to win cologne twice.

Liquid first team to win cologne then bomb out last next year

2020-06-30 19:19

lmao, imagine liquid thinking liquid gets 13th-16th

2020-06-30 23:23

+111111111111111 ez cologne win for liquid

2020-06-30 21:12

How can they even go since EU banned Americans?

2020-06-30 21:18

they will figure something out bro

2020-06-30 21:38

It's okay, they wont recognize elige as an American because hes actually really good, this will actually be ez win for LULquid because elige will play 1v5 instead his usual 1v9.

2020-07-01 18:43

They should make NA Polish last name team that could trick Cologne staff and play alongside other teams. Elige, rush+3

2020-07-02 16:44

didnt SK win cologne in 2016 and 2017

2020-06-30 23:22

"liquid second team to win cologne twice."

2020-06-30 23:29

my B didnt read it correctly

2020-06-30 23:30

Astralis invited directly why?????

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Cause they have the most ESL points or w/e it's called

Yeah esl ranking broken asf

It's not a ranking, they're ranked 8th there, they're the team with the most EPT points, it's not a matter of opinion

2020-06-30 19:16

I think he meant. Since astra are missing 2 core members there should have been some penalty. Just like they punished north

Becuse thy have gathered the most points

astralis are above liquid in the hltv ranking with only 4 players xdxdxd

2020-06-30 19:15

KEKW

2020-06-30 19:33

because theyll bring good lineup?

2020-06-30 19:18

astralis doing well at this tournament seems about as likely as ence winning it.

2020-06-30 19:45

Having their Captain back who is 50% of the teams backbone.

2020-06-30 20:14

yes but who is he replacing. this team with jugi playing will never break top 3.

2020-06-30 21:01

xyp9x?..hes on break just like gla1ve so i assume hes coming back in august like the captain as they left almost at the same time

2020-06-30 21:05

I think it's 95% likely that Astralis have their core lineup back in business in Cologne. Xyp9x would have to have a massive burnout if 3 months wouldn't be enough to recover. Besides, they desperately want to win that ESL One title they are still missing, so they want to have their best lineup playing.

2020-07-01 12:58

Use your brain u muppet

2020-06-30 19:25

Are you retarded?

2020-06-30 20:13

Astralis fans malded successfully

2020-07-01 02:03

No, not at all. Im just asking if you are retarded. And i just looked at your flag. So now its confirmed.

2020-07-20 12:08

nice, dont know why big isnt invited to the main event over mouz or 100t though especially considering its the biggest tournament in germany and their recent form

It's based on points not ranking

2020-06-30 19:14

ah makes sense

2020-06-30 19:22

well cologne will be one lan that' why even germany dont wanna bug clan

If a team should be at the main event but isn't it's clearly Vitality.

it's based on points, not current ranking

2020-06-30 23:26

#VamosRiders

100t invited but not Furia or EG?

#20

2020-06-30 19:34

I see

2020-06-30 19:50

16 teams in playin will play for 8 spots at main event ?

#NAVINATION #NAVIDAVI

2020-06-30 20:06

2020-07-01 10:44

Bring back the hype!

How will the Muricans get into the EU tho? They haven't even sorted their shit out yet. Hope it all works out.

"ESL remained hopeful that it would be able to host the tournament in its studio in Cologne, though a final decision will depend on the evolution of the global health crisis and on the travel restrictions that European Union authorities will adopt in the coming weeks."

2020-06-30 19:32

There could be a thing like only allowing athletes and important people. But yeah It's not gonna get better, the way people are handling it, no masks, no care, no distancing, protests, people at the beaches, bla bla bla.. second wave is coming soon.

2020-06-30 23:42

yeah :/ very unfortunate

2020-07-01 20:07

I still don't believe the event is gonna happen:((

MOUSESPORT NOW TIER2 AND TOP 20 OMEGALULU

NT, but Usa, Brazil and Russia banned to travel Europe so + 4 extra invites :)

furia is not in brazil

2020-06-30 21:07

Oh ye, well Na/brazil ban still stands

last 2 NA: Gen.G & MIBR you heard it first here

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Please not mibr, even triumph would be better than them.

2020-06-30 19:24

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MIBR nad GenG for sure... Look at the ESL NA rankings: esl-one.com/csgo/cologne/road-to-cologne.. Liquid and 100T: already qualified for main event FURIA, EG and Cloud9: qualified for play-in The 2 next teams are Gen.G (515 pts) and MIBR (327 pts). The next team after MIBR is Envy (100 pts) . There's no way Envy or any other NA team gets 230 pts in one week (final ranking is in 6th July). So: +MIBR +GenG ez

2020-06-30 19:27

why did c9 qualify for play in? They are ranked lower than Gen.G and MiBR.

2020-06-30 19:48

It's not about the HLTV rank it's about the ESL Points. And as you can see in the Link above C9 has 610 Points. Gen.G and MIBR have less (515 and 327)

2020-06-30 20:00

"ESL NA rankings". Look at the link he shared.

2020-06-30 20:42

so cologne has a separate ranking than esl's normal rankings? that's weird

2020-06-30 23:11

liquipedia.net/counterstrike/ESL/Pro_Tou.. here are the tournaments where teams earned points in the rankings

2020-06-30 23:31

Ok, so the global ranking is based off of all tournaments and the cologne ranking is based off of only esl and related tournaments

2020-07-01 00:05

yes

2020-07-01 00:13

yes because that is how rankings work lol ur not clever

2020-06-30 22:27

It's clever, stop being jealous

2020-07-01 03:43

PoggersChampion

I love Cologne. I predict 100 Thieves to surprise win here. Also finally some LAN tournament. Can't wait.

Hope it's lan

if they're not divided in na and eu groups, is it lan?

really? Thats so good))))))

2020-06-30 19:23

NAVI UNDESERVED 😡😡😡

+1 WASTED SPOT

b0t

0/8

2020-07-01 10:43

Hope it will happen on LAN as planned

LETS GO BIG

TYLUL instead of TIGER 😡

ESL world ranking sucks so hard!!!!

Liquid undeserved Go rot in burger grease

EZ ESL One Cologne for Na`Vi! #S1mple#CSGOD

+1 #NAVINATION #NAVIDAVI

2020-07-01 10:42

astralis lul

EZ4ENCE

why astralis?

2020-06-30 19:20

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because they're the team with most points

interesting how that happened when they literally didn't do anything better this year XD that moment when old points from last year carrying you whole year

Only 3 events from 2019 counts towards the ranking

2020-06-30 19:28

well they won last 3

dreamhack malmo(didn't win), iem beijing(did win), esl pro league s10(didn't win)

2020-06-30 23:28

blast finals and faceit touney

do not count, it's ESL pro tour, only ESL/Dreamhack/IEM events count towards points

then tell me how astralis 1st?

2020-06-30 23:32

liquipedia.net/counterstrike/ESL/Pro_Tou.. esl-one.com/csgo/cologne/road-to-cologne..

they got semis at dreamhack malmo/esl pro league s10 finals which were big, they got 3rd at esl pro league s11 europe, 1st at iem beijing 2019, 1st at esl road to rio europe, and semis at iem katowice 2020, they have failed to not make top 4 at a esl pro tour event other than dreamhack spring when they put in jugi

2020-06-30 23:34

hm make sense

2020-06-30 23:36

why not

cus they didnt show anythink in this year and now they dont even have a team??

"cus they didnt show anythink in this year" you what?

2020-06-30 20:27

translate.google.com/?safe=active

2020-06-30 20:33

"They didn't show anything this year" They won ESL EU Road to Rio you dofus...

2020-06-30 22:58

Last 6 are probly CoL Mad lions OG Team Spirit Gen.G Esports MIBR

POGGERS, hopefully it will be a LAN

Navi ez

Lol @ inviting world number 19 and 12 for the main event. Also are the americans even able to get to europe in August?

I think Glaive will return for this event I also think BIG, Vitality, NAVI and Furia will be interesting to watch, and will be semi finals contenders with Astralis.

Cathedral of counter strike PogU

why keep inviting tyloo XD

Those are not invites, try reading the article

let me put it this way then: why keep hosting a fucking asian qualifier or whatever when there's literally no scene there just get 1 more EU / NA team instead

2020-06-30 19:29

100t over vitality, eg in main event its very interesting

vitality is trash

S1mple fan?

2020-07-01 05:36

B1T fan

2020-07-01 06:14

Where is ence

Having fun.

2020-06-30 19:26

I'm à bit disappointed that there is no Open Qualifier, there are a few teams that deserve a chance to qualify.

wont happen either way cuz of corona omegalul, cases in germany going up again

Best event of the year! ToTheStars

Astralis LUL WASTED SPOT

2020-07-01 09:19

Wow TOP 1 teams expected wow such tier 1 pro gamers, unrealz, such good pros from those 3 wow such unreal progaming event now!

2020-06-30 19:31

astralis xaxaxaxax tier 10 event ok

GENG???

lets hope we get to have audience by then.

We won't

2020-06-30 19:38

no audience

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG

please make it happen on LAN

2020-06-30 19:37

Its on LAN in a studio

2020-07-01 09:18

Nice! They invited top1 team (Astralis) Hopefully they will win their first ESL One tournament (The only big one they lack)

Would be sad to win only this year. It's the best tournament of the year crowd-wise and I think every player dreams of lifting that huge trophy in front of that mad crowd

2020-06-30 19:44

2020-06-30 19:57

coL on LAN lets go

2020-06-30 19:39

Cologne_good_but _not_best_cologne_with_crowd_best

look at the amount of teams this thing has, dis gon b real fucking gud

hope complexity qualifies

2020-06-30 19:46

invite Team Spirit

no open qualifier? F for new teams

2020-06-30 19:49

So many wasted spots in the invited list

2020-06-30 19:51

mouz hahaha, wasted spot, so sad

2020-06-30 19:56

Where is ruski qualifier?? And why no top russian teams?? Heretics sprout renegades rly???????

No big in main event. No vita in main event. No complexity (yet) gj

no place for onliners

cant wait to see liquid win back to back colognes except elige wont be robbed by zywoo this time for mvp

2020-07-01 09:17

None event is big if the biggest team mibr is not present.

No Godsent in the play in?

2020-06-30 20:09

this is lan?

LAN in a studio, no fans

senx

2020-06-30 20:55

Great news mens!

Godsent and Team Spirit would be good for remaining spots... Also coL

good point

2020-06-30 20:45

Really nice

mouz wasted spot

2020-06-30 20:16

Ayyy lets go 100T

Nice. It be really good if BIG mad it in this tournament. Would be awesome to finally see them win a german event and prove themselves.

2020-06-30 20:20

Very hype, sad one of the best non major events of the year is online. Will still be awesome as fuck ofc.

2020-06-30 20:25

Is lan, thats why its posponed, read the fucking new

2020-06-30 23:37

Oh whoops, didn't see that. Still sad for no crowd. But yeah LAN is still nice.

2020-07-01 01:27

I know you gonna say LOL but i feel confident in G2 in Cologne :DD

2020-06-30 20:29

Trash onliners are complaining about the mouz main spot LULW Ezlan4mouz

BIG going win this event too?

2020-06-30 20:34

only in ur wet online dreams

2020-07-01 05:42

Mens waduhek, I asked the question and did not make a statement, now I cry

2020-07-01 09:12

So it actualy will be on lan?

2020-06-30 20:36

I hope so

so who's playing for astralis?

2020-06-30 20:41

Stewie or nitr0

2020-06-30 20:47

rip asstralis

glaive and xyp/es3tag

es3tag is joining today

2020-07-01 09:26

doesnt matter if xyp returns xyp will play thats why i said xyp/es3tag glaive returns for sure inshallah

2020-07-01 12:52

Not sure about xyp, he has more than $2 million and he spends money carefuly soo...

2020-07-01 16:47

Where is og ?

Europe 1 Astralis 3027,00 Points 2 fnatic 2850,00 Points 3 Natus Vincere 2785,00 Points 4 G2 Esports 2290,00 Points 5 mousesports 1910,00 Points 6 FaZe Clan 1542,00 Points Masters Championship Final 16 cutoff 7 Team Vitality 1240,00 Points 8 Ninjas in Pyjamas 878,00 Points 9 BIG 526,00 Points Masters Championship Play-In cutoff 10 Team Spirit 475,00 Points 11 MAD Lions 361,00 Points 12 Virtus.pro 315,00 Points 13 ENCE 267,50 Points North-America 1 Team Liquid 2032,50 Points 2 100 Thieves 1595,00 Points Masters Championship Final 16 cutoff 3 Evil Geniuses 1155,00 Points 4 FURIA Esports 995,00 Points 5 Cloud9 610,00 Points Masters Championship Play-In cutoff 6 Gen.G Esports 515,00 Points 7 MIBR 327,00 Points

2020-06-30 20:48

Gen.G will probably make it, hopefully Complexity and OG as well. Sprout got in?

BEST EVER PLACE AND EVENTS OF 2013-2020 ESL COLOGNE

2020-06-30 20:52

Mouz faze fnatic wasted spots smh

2020-06-30 21:00

mouz but not vitality KEKW KEKW KEKW

on LAN mouz > vitality, check their LAN results

2020-06-30 22:53

TyLoo in 2020 lulw

2020-06-30 21:31

Astralis needs this so much

2020-06-30 21:57

ez4NaVi

2020-06-30 22:17

2020-07-01 09:16

NA Gen.G and?

2020-06-30 22:50

probably col and gen g?

astralis? really?

2020-06-30 23:12

Undeserved af. Astralis has never won a ESL event yet they still get invited smh.

Are you stupid dude ? There is something called esl pro tour points and it counts the points of every team in esl events and majors after the 2019 cologne and astralis is nr 1 there lol pro.eslgaming.com/tour/csgo/cologne/ Cologne invites are seeded from these rankings as usual , i dont understand how s1mple fans like you are so stupid like their fav player 😂

2020-07-01 13:52

Take it easy. Thank you.

2020-07-01 13:53

Vitality in play in whereas Mouz, 100 Thieves, FaZe, LULVi, GClowns are in the main event

2020-06-30 23:16

EG, Furia, and Vitality got shafted

2020-07-01 00:00

Agree, FURIA has been the most consistent team in America lately (not in the last few days, but in the last few months), EG seems to be a bit back lately, as is Liquid but yeah none of the EU teams in this main event are consistent. So many facepalming games from NaVi, FaZe, G2, etc And i don't know why Mouz (i know it's LAN not online but b*tch please online CS is still CS and Mouz has been bad for months) and 100T are in a main event (fnatic is not amazing as well but so are the other EU teams). Yeah would have been nice getting BIG, Vitality, FURIA, EG maybe.

2020-07-01 00:03

vitality suck ass whole year dude also navi wasn't below 4th this year besides 1st rmr so nt nt...

2020-07-01 03:47

Lol yeah... Vitality probably better than faze imo, same as furia

2020-07-01 04:08

Invite sAw!! <3

EG and Furia robbed

2020-06-30 23:59

Will Liquid even be allowed to attend? EU's blocking entrance from the USA.

2020-07-01 00:47

EU World Ranking (4 Teams) - Complexity - OG - Godsent - Heroic NA World Ranking - MIBR - GenG

2020-07-01 01:51

No BIG? Ez zywbot no lan hahahahahah

2020-07-01 02:28

Let's go furia and 100T 😎

2020-07-01 04:04

Nice

2020-07-01 04:07

hope GenG and DiG can join this event

2020-07-01 04:36

When EU borders are opening today, there will still be a travel ban for countrys like US, Brazil and Russia. The organizers have set a cut off date to july 6th so i dont think its very likely, at least for teams from the american continent to able to attend. dw.com/en/eu-agrees-to-reopen-borders-to..

2020-07-01 06:40