ESL One Cologne's Main Qualifier, taking place at ESL's studios in Katowice, starts in less than 48 hours. You'll find everything you need to know about the event right here in the viewer's guide.

The next major's offline qualifier is nearly upon us as it starts on Thursday, June 9th at 13:00 with the first round of matches.

As always, the tournament will have eight spots for ESL One Cologne on offer, however this time the system will be largely different - ESL will be using a Swiss system that has never been used in CS:GO before and is usually featured in chess tournaments.



EnVyUs will meet Immortals in round one

It is a non-elimination format where teams will play between three to five matches. The first round is based on four seeding pools, and in the following four rounds teams with the same amount of wins - who haven't played each other yet - will be randomly matched up.

The first round of matches is following:

Each of the first three days will see eight matches being played one after another, while up to nine matches are set to be played on the last day. You can see the schedule below:

Thursday, June 9 12:30 - Pre-show 13:00 - First round starts, eight matches one after another 22:00 - Estimated end of day Friday, June 10 12:30 - Pre-show 13:00 - Second round starts, eight matches one after another 22:00 - Estimated end of day Saturday, June 11 12:30 - Pre-show 13:00 - Third round starts, eight matches one after another 22:00 - Estimated end of day Sunday, June 12 12:30 - Pre-show 13:00 - Six fourth round matches followed by three fifth round matches 23:15 - Estimated end of day

The eight-man talent lineup bringing you the action on the official English stream looks as follows:

Mitch "Uber" Leslie - Host / Interviewer Mitch "" Leslie - Host / Interviewer Vince "Metuz" Hill - Commentator Vince "" Hill - Commentator Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Commentator Lauren "" Scott - Commentator John "BLU" Mullen - Commentator John "" Mullen - Commentator Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen - Commentator Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host Alex "" Richardson - Desk host Halvor "⁠vENdetta⁠" Gulestøl - Analyst Alexander "Rushly" Rush - Observer Alexander "" Rush - Observer

Only the latter two days will be open to the public, those interested in attending the qualifier can buy tickets on Eventbrite.