ESL One Cologne is a CS:GO tournament held by ESL in sponsorship with Intel. The tournament took place in Cologne, Germany, in the legendary Lanxess Arena. The 2018 edition featured 16 top teams from all over the world, chasing the 300,000 USD prize pool. The dates of the tournament were 2018․07․03—2018․07․08. The map pool of the event was:

  • Cache;

  • Dust 2;

  • Inferno;

  • Mirage;

  • Nuke;

  • Overpass;

  • Train.

The format of the tournament was divided in 2 stages — group and playoff matches. All of the matches were in best-of-3 format, while the Grand Final alone was in best-of-5.

The winner of the event were Natus Vincere taking home 125,000 USD from the prize pool. Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev from NAVI took the MVP title of the tournament. The runner-ups were BIG, claiming 50,000 USD.