ESL One Cologne 2018 - Full Upset On Day One !
On 4 July 2018, ESL One Cologne 2018 has entered its second day. With that, let's review what has happened on the first day of this grand event.
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ESL One Cologne 2018 is currently in the Group Stage stage, where the playoffs or the last eight will start on July 6, 2018. Playoffs will be held at Lanxess Arena, Cologne. The stadium is capable of loading approximately 18,000 Esports CS:GO fans to watch the team's best team this year.
In terms of grabbing prizes, ESL prepares a total prize of $ 300,000 or about 4.2 billion Rupiah. The winner of this event will bring home the money of $ 125,000.
In the opening match which started with 2 legendary teams, NiP and Cloud9, Cloud9 dominated the whole match. Will 'RUSH' Wierzba is perched on top with the most kill on the server and the 1.93 rating delivers Cloud9 dominating NiP with a score of 16-3.
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While in the second game at the same hour, Astralis also dominated the Finnish team, ENCE with a score of 16-5. The team led by former NiP and FaZe players, Aleksi 'allu' Jalli, was unable to turn things around in the de_nuke map.
On the other hand, Mousesports and G2 Esports each took victory over Gambit Esports and Natus Vincere. Mousesports can show satisfying results by defeating Gambit with a score of 16-8 in the de_dust2 map.
In the same hour, G2 itself managed to launch a comeback after collapsed with the score 0-9 to win the game with a score of 16-14. Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux also won his first game in 2018 with satisfactory results.
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Followed by Astralis counter against Cloud9, with Astralis winning 2-0 in Mirage 16-2 and Overpass 16-1. Followed by the victory of NaVi and G2 respectively over Gambit and mousesports.
The second day will start with the opening match of Renegades versus BOOT.dS, and at the same hour, Liquid North counter. The ESL Cologne 2018 match will then use the BO3 format starting from the second round. And for the grand final, ESL will use the new format, the Best Of 5.
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