It’s time for ESL ONE Cologne, one of the premier CS:GO tournaments! Here is all you need to know about it.
Due to COVID19 risk, the tournament was transitioned online and in order to facilitate play time, the teams were split by regions: Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania. Last year’s champion Team Liquid, will defend their title in the NA region, while the current best team in the world, BIG, has to fend off the onslaught of European top teams like G2 Esports, Natus Vincere, Team Vitality, Astralis and more.
ESL has reduced the prize pool from $1,000,000 to $500,000, but will be shifting the remainder towards next year’s IEM Katowice 2021 and ESL One Cologne 2021.
EU prize: $325,000
NA prize: $135,000.
If you have bought tickets for the ESL One Cologne 2020, they will remain valid for next year’s event. You can also still apply for refunds until the end of 2020.
MAIN STREAM – broadcast on TWITCH
https://www.twitch.tv/esl_csgo
You can also watch it on ESL Stream
TEAMS
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA
Schedule:
Group phase: 18.08. – 26.08.
Matchdays will start at 15:00 CEST for EU in NA games will begin at 22:00 CEST | 16:00 EDT
Playoffs 27.08 – 30.08
Playoffs in EU will start on 15:00 CEST, the NA matches will start at 16;00 EDT.
STANDINGS
As we are already two days into the tournament here are the updated standings
EUROPE
NORTH AMERICA
We are so excited to see who the winner team from each region will be. Stay tuned!
Photos courtesy to ESL ONE.