ESL One Cologne 2015 CS:GO Championship will feature the world's best teams and players.
The Legends have proven themself already due to their final placement within the Top8 teams at the last major CS:GO tournament, ESL One Katowice 2015. Therefore those teams got a direct invite to the upcoming next major tournament taking place at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany with a $250,000 prize pool.
All Challengers have to qualify and ESL will host open qualifiers in several regions to give all interested teams a chance to try their best to grab one of the open slots and challenge the Legends in Cologne.
The Challengers will be decided by LAN qualifiers. More information on these LAN qualifiers can be found on the qualifier page.