From July 5-10, the German city of Cologne will host the second Counter-Strike Major of the year, where 16 teams from all over the world will battle it out for their share of a $1 Million prize purse.
The first three days of the event will be played behind closed doors, with the playoffs taking place at the LANXESS Arena, the same venue of last year's Cologne Major knockout stages.

LANXESS Arena will host the playoffs
Below you can find the provisional schedule released today by ESL:
Tuesday, July 5 |
10:30 | Show Starts |
11:00 | Opening Matches |
Wednesday, July 6 |
10:30 | Show Starts
|
11:00 | Elimination and Winners matches |
Thursday, July 7 |
10:30 | Show Start |
11:00 | Decider matches |
Friday, July 8 |
09:20 | Show starts |
10:00 | Quarter-final #1 |
13:30 | Quarter-final #2 |
17:30 | Quarter-final #3 |
20:30 | Quarter-final #4 |
Saturday, July 9 |
14:20 | Show starts |
15:00 | Semi-final #1 |
18:30 | Semi-final #2 |
Sunday, July 10 |
14:40 | Show starts |
15:00 | Showmatch |
17:00 | Grand final |
Meanwhile, ESL has released the group order, which looks as follows:
Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
Astralis | Natus Vincere | Liquid | Luminosity |
CLG | Ninjas in Pyjamas | Virtus.pro | fnatic |
Gambit | OpTic | MOUZ | FaZe |
Dignitas | FlipSid3 | Envy | G2 |


G2 #6


Richard 'shox' Papillon

Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy

Edouard 'SmithZz' Dubourdeaux

Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom

Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro


Ninjas in Pyjamas #3


Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund

Richard 'Xizt' Landström

Adam 'friberg' Friberg

Jacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi


Astralis #5


Finn 'karrigan' Andersen

Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth

Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen

Nicolai 'device' Reedtz

Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye


FaZe #13


Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco

Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey

Philip 'aizy' Aistrup

Håvard 'rain' Nygaard

Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad


Liquid #14


Spencer 'Hiko' Martin

Nick 'nitr0' Cannella

Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev

Josh 'jdm64' Marzano

Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski


Gambit #20


Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev

Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov

Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov

Rustem 'mou' Telepov

Ivan 'spaze' Obrezhan


MOUZ #12


Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong

Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač

Johannes 'nex' Maget

Timo 'Spiidi' Richter

Denis 'denis' Howell


Natus Vincere #2


Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev

Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko

Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács

Denis 'seized' Kostin

Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev


OpTic #15


William 'RUSH' Wierzba

Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas

Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz

Keith 'NAF' Markovic

Damian 'daps' Steele



Envy #9



Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub

Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt

Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire

Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer

Timothée 'DEVIL' Démolon Time is adjusted to your selected timezone


FlipSid3 #24


Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov

Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy

Oleksandr 'Shara' Hordieyev

Georgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin

Jan 'wayLander' Rahkonen


Dignitas #11


Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel

René 'cajunb' Borg

Jesper 'TENZKI' Plougmann

Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen

Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke


Luminosity #1


Lincoln 'fnx' Lau

Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo

Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga

Marcelo 'coldzera' David

Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo


fnatic #4


Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer

Dennis 'dennis' Edman

Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist

Jesper 'JW' Wecksell

Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson


Virtus.pro #8


Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas

Filip 'NEO' Kubski

Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski

Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Paweł 'byali' Bieliński


CLG #22


Faruk 'pita' Pita

Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler

James 'hazed' Cobb

Tarik 'tarik' Celik

Kenneth 'koosta' Suen