The organizers announced the team, which will participate in the ESL One Cologne in July and it was the Swedes from fnatic. In addition to fnatic, by this time four invited teams for ESL One Cologne (two of them as champions of the previous ESL One and the last two received invitations), which are SK, Virtus.pro, FaZe and Astralis, were opened, but the Danes left the tournament, Since they participate in Major in Krakow, which will take place a week after the tournament, and Astralis decided to prepare well.
To date, only the dates of the playoffs (July 7-9) in the LANXESS Arena have been announced without such details as format, group stage dates and prize distribution. List of teams participating in ESL One Cologne: Virtus.Pro, SK, FaZe and fnatic.