| 2019 | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
| Location | Cologne, Germany |
| Dates | July 2, 2019–July 7, 2019 |
| Administrator | Electronic Sports League (ESL) |
Tournament format(s) | Double elimination group stage Six team single-elimination playoff |
| Venue | Lanxess Arena |
| Teams | 16 teams |
| Purse | US$300,000 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Team Liquid |
| 1st runners-up | Team Vitality |
| 2nd runners-up | Astralis
|
| Tournament statistics | |
| Attendance | 15,000 |
| MVP | Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut |
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.
This tournament is the fifth tournament of the second season of the Intel Grand Slam,[1] 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.