G2, Spirit in the running for final IEM Cologne group stage invite

6-5-2021 17:24

G2's upcoming DreamHack Masters Spring playoffs match against Astralis will determine the last invite to the IEM Cologne group stage.

The ESL Pro Tour standings, which award eight spots in the IEM Cologne group stage and eight in the Play-in stage, are near completion, with the only thing left to be decided being which one of G2 and Spirit will go directly to the group stage and which will fight through the Play-in.

G2 are currently below Spirit in the ESL Pro Tour standings, but the French-Balkan side have their fate in their hands, as a victory against Astralis in the DreamHack Masters Spring quarter-finals will push them above the CIS side and ensure their qualification for the IEM Cologne group stage.

G2 require a win over Astralis at DHM to qualify for IEM Cologne groups

Should Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković's team lose to the Danes in the quarter-finals, Spirit will remain in sixth place in the European Pro Tour standings and secure the spot at IEM Cologne, while G2 will go to the Play-in.

The remaining 14 teams coming from the ESL Pro Tour — seven from the European standings, four from North America, and one from each of Asia, South America, and Oceania — have already been locked in.

Eight more spots in the IEM Cologne Play-in stage are still up for grabs. Six will be determined via the ESL World Ranking as of May 31, and two will go to the winners of ESL Meisterschaft Spring, whose playoffs will run from May 14-15, and the ESL National Championships Global Playoffs, taking place from May 25-30.

The team list for IEM Cologne, which the organizers plan to hold on LAN from July 6-18, currently looks as follows:

IEM Cologne group stage

G2/

IEM Cologne Play-in

G2/

ESL World Ranking

ESL Meisterschaft

ESL World Ranking

ESL NC Global Playoff

very nice

2021-05-06 17:24

28 replies

how do so many germans get first comment

2021-05-06 17:35

13 replies

german engineering

2021-05-06 17:43

11 replies

maybe 1st time in my life i will be cheering asTRASHlis

2021-05-06 18:15

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if this is based off world ranking, does bnb actually get an invite? LMAO would be sick if they do

2021-05-06 18:20

7 replies

ViCi already got this tournament in the bag, cant wait to see BOT s1mple raging after being bodied by racing champion VG.CyberZen ZHOK1NG

2021-05-06 18:22

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😅🤷🏻lul

2021-05-08 05:29

bro ESL world ranking is broken, they give so many points to teams grinding in ESEA Premier, wouldn't be surprised if BnB somehow got invited, but I'd be cheering for them for sure

2021-05-06 18:23

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i would love to see them in a tournament like that and would route for them as well, just not sure how that ranking works

2021-05-06 18:24

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Nah, they can't get invited because the NA invites have already been locked in, although imo BnB >>>> team one

2021-05-06 18:28

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2021-05-06 18:39

Esl world ranking is not the same thing as the esl pro tour, at the moment bnb would be invited

2021-05-06 23:23

why not cheering your country seemslike optic india.

2021-05-06 19:50

XD +1

2021-05-07 09:14

by being facking nolifers? or script ofc

2021-05-06 18:09

what the fuck is Team One doing in the Play In

2021-05-06 17:44

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Wtf is vici doing in that case?

2021-05-06 18:06

enjoying their life now that they consistently destroy tyloo almost every time

2021-05-06 18:17

CSGO is in such a weird spot rn, I'll miss the days of having Tyloo give competitive games to European teams, sometimes beat them, or when we had greyhound and RNG come from AU and C9 and Liquid from NA with the likes of SK from Brazil... It was so much fun yet we didn't appreciate it and now it's gone, we have to watch our favorite teams get destroyed by these nobodies called Gambit (except hobbit)

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It's kind of like how in football you don't see Cristiano dominating everyone anymore, Arsenal not even in top 10 premier league. The game evolves.

2021-05-06 18:27

Arsenal will come back but Penaldo is finished

2021-05-06 19:51

Lmao how many times have u cried cuz Ronaldo dominated your favorite teams to be so butthurt to call him penaldo on fkn HLTV of all places 🤣

2021-05-06 21:26

You have a point, but there is one thing wrong with it, the way football"evolves" as you call it, is not the same as what has happened to csgo, we all know prime messi and ronaldo would own mbappe and Halland, but rn (kind of) prime s1mple and zywoo are getting owned by... Who was it again... Yeah SHIRO

2021-05-06 21:29

Well - if you think about it now we have Haaland and Mbappe rising to make an impact. But in csgo the evolution is quicker. Revolves, if you will

2021-05-07 03:50

And that's what has made it boring to me personally, I'm a s1mple fan, but it's not like don't enjoy watching other teams win, my issue isn't the fact that NaVi are losing to Gambit, it's the fact that I've been watching Cs since 2012 and I have never witnessed a shift like this, Gambit youngsters came outta nowhere and are now dominating EVERYONE, and I mean dominating, not just winning a tournament here and there, they are owning the gods of the game I love and I don't see any joy in watching that

2021-05-07 15:25

Well, what brings excitement to different people are different.

2021-05-07 16:39

Yeah, tbh I sometime just trick my mind into thinking that Gambit don't exist to watch like thee Astralis G2 game, without caring which team wins the tournament, just wanna be watching good old CS

2021-05-07 19:05

ViCi enters as the best asian team or something probably, but that doesnt explain Team One in the Play In

2021-05-06 20:07

G2 BAD

2021-05-07 02:36

cool

Noice

2021-05-06 17:25

ez4ASTRALIS and GOAT AWPER XYP9X JI TU no chance

ESL ONE COLOGNE SHUT TF UP

2021-05-06 17:26

lets go

Would be so amazing to see a LAN with brazilian, chinese and aussie teams again

luuuuuul

ez4g2

2021-05-06 17:27

Let's go Astralis, but lose to gambit

Will they invite OG for play in?

2021-05-06 18:55

no idea

2021-05-06 19:11

for the first time ever im rooting for astralis

2021-05-06 17:28

Meh. Hope Spirit will go through.

2021-05-06 17:30

OG should get invited through the ESL ranking if i am not wrong

2021-05-06 17:32

Look at the teams already in, probably the best tewm not already in one of the two parts of the tournament

2021-05-06 17:37

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Vitality and BIG r better than OG

2021-05-06 18:13

vitality probably but BIG????

2021-05-06 18:18

I think so personally, OG has a new lineup rn and BIG have been playing decent recently

2021-05-06 23:01

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They have been playing decent... in premier...

2021-05-06 23:16

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big is inconsistent but can win a tournament, og not really

2021-05-06 23:21

what is everyone taking about??? Big has been bad?!?! OG has been improving!

2021-05-06 23:26

They both have been bad, I only give the edge to BIG because they won funspark

2021-05-06 23:51

OG has not been bad wtf? They made a lot of roster changes and are fresh now

2021-05-06 23:52

Their roster changes were good, but I dont think theyre quite with BIG yet, even though BIG has been awful in top tier events recently

2021-05-06 23:58

BIG is top 6 in the world. It's unbelievable, why they don't get an invite. WTF !!! Its a german tournament. My boyz has to be there !

2021-05-07 11:47

Astralis is in? Let’s go))))

2021-05-06 17:36

Pls Astralis i never liked you but pls win g2 this time pls

2021-05-06 17:39

-1

2021-05-07 01:00

new rivalry

2021-05-06 17:42

why is this so close, G2 is much better than Spirit

0/8

2021-05-06 19:45

Spirit were in semis at katowice

2021-05-06 19:52

LET'S GO, Astralis!

NAV1 GL HF

2021-05-06 17:46

According esl ranking these teams are atm getting in : big, vitality, bad news bears, faze, og, mousesport

2021-05-06 17:47

This is subjected to change after the RMR and IEM

2021-05-06 17:52

Probably not, at least much. Only realistic chanced could be Fnatic, Extra salt and Spourt. Those only happen if they play well those events. Extra salt could bypass Mouse since ES plays in RMR and iem and Mouse only in RMR

2021-05-06 17:59

Vici in EU PogU

2021-05-06 17:48

That should be TS, despite their recent form. They can quickly recover at one given opportunity. 4 out of 8 teams in the groups are from CIS.

G2 has more potential

2021-05-07 00:20

How you can tell it? Two months ago it was TS that looked times better, now it's this way but nothing is certain. Only time will tell but TS is a capable team, they proved it and they deserve to advance.

2021-05-07 01:48

I'm more looking towards individual stats

2021-05-07 16:34

But in a team based game, not the best way.

2021-05-07 16:50

It is how theoretical potential of a team is usually calculated

2021-05-07 16:54

congratz to g2 after an easy g2-0

2021-05-06 18:08

Good for them

Spirit will be a joke on LAN tho

There is no such a big difference between online and lan

2021-05-06 18:36

Out of all the CIS teams other than NaVi, Spirit players have the most experience on LAN. I doubt it

2021-05-06 18:41

imo cologne as one of the most prestigious cs events should have had at least 1 open+closed qual instead of inviting only teams competing in esl competitions sad esl went full closed circuit on this

2021-05-06 18:44