The Teams

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.

Legends

  • fnatic
    legend
  • Luminosity Gaming
    legend
  • mousesports
    legend
  • Natus Vincere
    legend
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
    legend
  • TEAM ENVYUS
    legend
  • Team SoloMid
    legend
  • Virtus Pro
    legend

Challengers

  • Cloud9 G2A
    nachallenger
  • Counter Logic Gaming
    nachallenger
  • FlipSid3 Tactics
    euchallenger
  • Renegades
    asiachallenger
  • Team eBettle
    euchallenger
  • Team Immunity
    asiachallenger
  • Team Kinguin
    euchallenger
  • Titan
    euchallenger

The Challengers will be decided by LAN qualifiers. More information on these LAN qualifiers can be found on the qualifier page.