Liquid invited to ESL One Cologne

Liquid have been invited to ESL One Cologne 2018, ESL have announced on their website. This makes them the 8th invited team after Astralis, BIG, Cloud9, FaZe, Fnatic, G2, and SK.

There are four invites left for the event and four spots open for qualifiers from Europe, North America, and Asia. The open qualifier for North America has already completed, with eUnited and compLexity securing spots in the closed qualifier, set to begin May 24th.

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At last year's event, Liquid advanced to the playoffs 3-0 in the Swiss group, taking down Natus Vincere, Immortals, and OpTic. They however fell in the quarterfinals to FaZe.

Liquid will next make a LAN appearance at the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals on May 15th, where they will look to prove their worth with Epitacio "TACO" de Melo.

Here is the teamlist for the event so far:

Astralis	BIG	Cloud9	FaZe
Fnatic	G2	SK	Liquid
Invite	Invite	Invite	Invite
Qualifier	Qualifier	Qualifier	Qualifier

Also read: compLexity and eUnited to ESL One Cologne NA closed qualifier