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Three invitations to ESL One Cologne 2018 were given

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The organizers of ESL One Cologne 2018 have announced the first participants of their competition - SK Gaming, Cloud9 and G2 eSports will not have to qualify to the July championship. Totally, 16 teams will play in the tournament but it is unknown how many teams will get there directly.

See also: The full list of participants of SL i-League StarSeries S4.

The tournament will take place in Cologne, Germany on July 3-8. Lanxess-Arena has been chosen as a venue and the prize pool of the competition will amount $300,000. There is no information about the qualifiers, the distribution of the prize pool and the format at the moment.

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