ESL One Cologne 2019
Team Liquid claims the Intel Grand Slam bonus with a victory over Team Vitality.
ESL One Cologne 2019 is a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament run by ESL. In July 2019, sixteen teams from around the globe competed in an offline (LAN) tournament that featured a group stage and playoffs with a US$300,000 prize pool. This event and Intel Extreme Masters Season XIV - Chicago were the last events before teams playing at StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019 took a month break before heading to the Major.
Quick Facts
- Sport
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Location
- Cologne, Germany
- Start date
- July 2, 2019
- End date
- July 7, 2019
- Administrator
- Electronic Sports League (ESL)
- Venue
- Lanxess Arena
- Teams
- 16 teams
- Purse
- 300,000
Facts from the source article.
Background
This tournament is the fifth tournament of the second season of the Intel Grand Slam, which a list of international premier tournaments run by ESL and DreamHack. Each team gets ten tournaments that it participates in to have a chance at winning four of them. The first team to win four titles earns an extra $1,000,000. With Team Liquid doing so and securing a 4th premier win, they received an extra $1,000,000 for their win against Team Vitality in the grand final.
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