European Cologne qualifier unveiled

The Electronic Sports League has announced all the details about the European qualifier for ESL One Cologne.

On July 25-26, ESL's esports arena, in Cologne, will play host to the European offline qualifier for the upcoming major, which will be held in the same German city, from August 20-23, with the support of Valve.

Sixteen teams will be taking part in this qualifier with hopes of securing one of the four spots at ESL One Cologne that will be up for grabs. Five seeded teams will be joined by 11 sides coming from online pre-qualifiers at the main qualifier, whose format remains unknown.

dignitas invited to the ESL One Cologne qualifier 

The five invited teams, determined by past achievements, are the following:

dignitas	Titan	Null element HellRaisers
PENTA Sports	FlipSid3 Tactics

With the Asian region being allocated two qualification slots for ESL One Cologne, this means that the North American qualifier, scheduled for August 1-2, in Burbank, will have two major places on offer.

Below you can find the dates of the two preliminary European online qualifiers:

• Open pre-qualifier #1 - June 27-28 - Sign up
• Open pre-qualifier #2 - June 29-July 1 - Sign up