IEM Cologne full team list announced

7-6-2022 18:11

All 24 teams invited to the million-dollar tournament in Germany have been revealed.

ESL have announced the complete set of invited teams to IEM Cologne, which will be held from July 7-17th, spanning just a little over a week. The majority of the invitees were determined using their respective ESL Pro Tour points, and among those that will be competing are the two currently highest-ranked teams in the world, FaZe and ENCE.

Rounding out the list of direct group stage participants are big names such as Natus Vincere, FURIA, Cloud9, G2, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and Liquid; with all but Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella's side being included in the top 10 of the HLTV ranking.

Can Cloud9 replicate their success from IEM Dallas?

Along with the eight teams who secured qualification to the main group stage of the competition, the 16 other teams that made the play-in stage were announced, with HEROIC and Vitality being the biggest headliners of the bunch. Competing alongside them are the likes of MIBR, Complexity, GODSENT, and Outsiders, with Sprout, TYLOO, and ORDER being the biggest outliers among the participating teams.

In addition to those who earned their spots through their ESL Pro Tour points, seven teams also made the cut for the play-in thanks to their world ranking. The list comprises of Astralis, Movistar Riders, BIG, MOUZ, Spirit, Imperial, and paiN.

A notable omission from the list are fan-favorites Encore (formerly Looking For Org), who just missed out on gaining enough points to receive an invite to IEM Cologne, allowing ORDER to claim the top spot of the Oceania region.

The 16 teams that will compete in the IEM Cologne play-in are as follows:

With the play-in teams set, the list for the main event comprises of:

Play-in

Play-in

2022-06-07 18:11

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Liquid??? Lmao

2022-06-07 18:29

firstly its ok

nice

POG

looks decent

2022-06-07 18:12

where is eternal fire 0/8

4 replies

Esl ranking and they are not realy in a good Form Dunno why u think they should be there

2022-06-07 19:32

3 replies

naah it was a random comment

2022-06-07 22:24

why Sprout ? instead of any other top 30 team ? Sprout is top 30, why didn't they pick up one team in the top 30 that we've never seen in this tournament

2022-06-08 08:44

Win a quallifier

2022-06-09 15:28

How did liquid make it to main but vitality didn’t

na region points vs eu region points, liquid qualified high enough in na to reach main and vitality werent able to do that in eu

2022-06-07 18:15

vitality had no lan playoffs this year, heroic would be better than vitality

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Ig, but why not heroic lol, only thing liquid did this year was make quarters of epl

2022-06-07 18:19

liquid qualifies through NA region, no? guess that's much easier

2022-06-07 18:35

NO Eternal Fire, SED

#LetsGoLiquid

Here we go Liquid here we go!!!!!! Nitro > Glaive So they have a chance to win entire event

2022-06-07 19:04

2022-06-07 18:13

OG????

ESL ranking....they were close to qualifying, as were Fnatic, Entropiq and Forze

2022-06-07 18:54

#GOBIG Lets get that home crowd!

Why Liquid?

2nd NA

But It isn't fair to better teams.

2022-06-07 20:12

yes

2022-06-08 10:43

Better teams want easy opener,

2022-06-08 14:48

noice

5/24 It´s the Brazillian Storm

2022-06-07 18:17

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1/4 of the Play-in is BR

2022-06-07 18:55

babysteps my friend, babysteps the more interesting story might be pain since they will have a shot here and at the blast premier (if they win a match against vitality or g2 at blast is probably good enough them)

2022-06-07 19:11

probably -godsent +new 00nation, right?? source: roque marques

2022-06-07 19:12

I think it

2022-06-07 19:26

Nice man, didn't know that there was a dust2.br project!

2022-06-07 21:31

Ezz for navi and goat s1mple

2022-06-07 18:18

+1 and ez for sdy

2022-06-07 18:20

I dont lie, I'm ansious to SDY's participation

2022-06-07 19:01

Ez for SDY

Movistar riders kekw

Cry

Obviously the best team

2022-06-07 19:37

Fnatic?

kekw

2022-06-07 19:39

Muh Muh

2022-06-07 19:51

EDIT: I read the post wrong, gl to everyone

2022-06-07 18:23

Braziliam Storm is coming!!!

2022-06-07 18:22

why tyloo and order always getting invite. This teams tier 30

Asian and Oceanian rankings, but I think it's good for international CS

2022-06-07 18:57

WHY NO OG??

ESL Ranking, they were near to qualifier

2022-06-07 18:58

Pog

2022-06-07 18:25

BRAZILIAN STORM 5 TEAMS <3

2022-06-07 18:26

we need return of snax for cologne.

2022-06-07 18:27

MOUZ snax again??

Mouz snax is dogshit lol. He was treated like garbage there and then it happened to ropz, its just a never escaping hell Vitality Snax and Jks would be perfect fit both free lol for apex misutaaa

2022-06-07 19:03

Is JKS free from COL?

2022-06-07 19:08

he will be soon im pretty sure

2022-06-07 19:10

yeah!

2022-06-08 09:33

FaZe dub again

Lanxess teams

2022-06-07 18:28

no eternal fire :/

2022-06-07 18:31

5 BR teams. Brazilian Storm!!!

2022-06-07 18:33

2022-06-07 18:34

No Fnatic, sadge

counting 5 brazil-teams...wow.

SPIRIT MADE IT LETS GOO!!!

2022-06-07 18:37

Fantic 🙁

2022-06-07 18:39

We'll come for katowice and EPL 16 😠😠😠

EZ 4 Spirit and VP

EZ FOR HEROIC

2022-06-07 18:40

liquid complexity pain order tyloo godsent sprout imperial.. all of them are literally wasted spots go fix ur system ffs..

2022-06-07 18:42

esl is a joke as always

more than esic.?

2022-06-07 18:46

both money worshippers

2022-06-07 18:47

So you want CS to be EU only sport? Then maybe your trash companies can finance your game instead of US Airforce n Intel n AMD

2022-06-08 07:10

Where is fnatic?

Sadly no fnatic :/

2022-06-07 18:50

Did not reach the required Ranking Points

2022-06-07 19:05

North america and south america lobby tournament.... :( :( :(

2022-06-07 18:53

BR full power 💪🏻

2022-06-07 19:00

Faze and c9 🙂

2022-06-07 19:02

No EF, no joy

where is ef

Liquid KEKW

2022-06-07 19:06

Why Sprout instead of EF or BNE? Shit org

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German Qualifier

2022-06-07 19:09

Can you explain why German qualifier only invited to IEM Cologne Play-In? Why not a team achieved from an EU tournament? Because German org kekW

2022-06-07 19:13

Cose Cologne is in Germany

2022-06-07 19:14

I know I mentioned that in my comment.

U have changed your comment

2022-06-07 19:16

Yeah that's true. Sprout has 2 germans and it does not consist of all German players. interesting choice.

2022-06-07 19:18

esl ranking is a joke man

w/e

2022-06-07 19:17

No IHC, no good asian team

2022-06-07 19:21

Why there isn't a single spot for open qualifier?

2022-06-07 19:24

All the main invites make sense, except for fucking Liquid lol why they there? That's such a huge middle finger to Spirit who are actually ranked for that spot

2022-06-07 19:28

Pog we're being spoiled with these tournaments, one after another :D

More representation needed for Asia

2022-06-07 19:45

liquid really? not deserved sorry

2022-06-07 19:46

"and Liquid; with all but Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella's side being included in the top 10 of the HLTV ranking." Undeserved.... NA will stay dead forever, stop trying to resurrect

2022-06-07 20:09

Let's go g2

2022-06-07 20:16

Interesting list 🌟 GL to all teams 🙂

2022-06-07 20:27

Time for the monthly comments of people malding their favourite tier 2-3 eu team didn't make It while we got some extra spots for Americas teams

2022-06-07 20:45

lets go brazil

2022-06-07 20:52

no YEKINDAR no fun

2022-06-07 20:59

The Brazilian Storm is here, guys, leeeets goooo!!!

2022-06-07 21:44

Why no forZe?

2022-06-07 22:26

ez for C9

2022-06-07 23:01

no bNE on play in?

2022-06-07 23:20

No Entropiq = shit tournament

2022-06-08 00:09

dude fuck Sprout fr im fucking done with them always a wasted spot

2022-06-08 01:01

EZ4BRAZIL

2022-06-08 01:04

pog

2022-06-08 01:52

gl hf

2022-06-08 01:55

Yeah boy, c9 was moved from play-in into main stage. Good luck Outsiders

2022-06-08 02:06

BNE, forZe, Entropiq, Eternal Fire? More Brazillian teams than Russian? OG, fnatic?

2022-06-08 02:18

Eternal Fire are quite bad at the moment ESL’s ranking is also quite bad but it might be difficult for Russian teams to get to Cologne

2022-06-08 02:10

They have Spirit and Virtus Pro. No problem getting to Cologne. Entropiq is even based in Czechia. Don’t want it become another IEM Dallas clown tournament.

2022-06-08 02:24