The final day of the qualifier, featuring eight teams in a double-elimination bracket, began with the consolidation final, pitting FURIA against Lazarus in a rematch of the high-quality round one encounter. Jordan "Zellsis" Montemurro's side had run out 2-1 victors then, but this time around they were no match for the fearsome Brazilians, who picked up a 2-0 victory without letting their opponents hit double digits on either map.
Having come from the upper bracket, Ghost enjoyed an automatic one-map advantage, but that lead was quickly turned around as FURIA took Inferno and Nuke off the back of great individual performances from their star players, Yuri "yuurih" Santos and Kaike "KSCERATO" Cerato.
FURIA qualify for ESL One Cologne Ghost were not willing to let things get out of hand and restored parity in the series with a hard-fought win on Overpass, the most contested map of this match-up, with Kenneth "koosta" Suen putting in a 1.50 rating to help his team to overturn a 5-10 deficit. In the end, it amounted to nothing, as the North Americans were neutralised by a superb all-round performance from FURIA on Cache.
ESL One Cologne 2019 North America Closed QualifierBest of 5
Ghost
Matchpage 2 3 12th May 2019 
FURIA 1Default 0 9Inferno 16 11Nuke 16 16Overpass 14 8Cache 16 Kenneth 'koosta' Suenkoosta | 71 - 75 | -4 | 82.3 | 1.04 |
Matthew 'WARDELL' YuWARDELL | 68 - 73 | -5 | 66.0 | 0.97 |
Joshua 'steel' Nissansteel | 53 - 82 | -29 | 62.6 | 0.81 |
Jason 'neptune' Tranneptune | 57 - 79 | -22 | 61.3 | 0.78 |
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadirfreakazoid | 61 - 83 | -22 | 60.8 | 0.78 |
Kaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoKSCERATO | 93 - 63 | +30 | 91.5 | 1.38 |
Yuri 'yuurih' Santosyuurih | 81 - 58 | +23 | 82.8 | 1.34 |
Vinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoVINI | 81 - 65 | +16 | 76.4 | 1.20 |
Andrei 'arT' PiovezanarT | 74 - 64 | +10 | 82.3 | 1.15 |
Rinaldo 'ableJ' Moda JuniorableJ | 62 - 61 | +1 | 64.5 | 1.03 |
ESL One Cologne is the third Big Event on the calendar for FURIA, who have also qualified for DreamHack Masters Dallas and the ECS Season 7 Finals. The Brazilian team, who are currently ranked 17th in the world, are also expected to compete in the North American closed qualifiers for the Americas Minor, scheduled for June 12-14.
There are now just two spots up for grabs at ESL One Cologne, which will be held from July 2-7. One of them will be filled through an invite, while the other will go to the winner of the European qualifier match between HEROIC and AVANGAR, which was postponed on Saturday as Martin "stavn" Lund had to be rushed to the hospital.
The team list for ESL One Cologne now look as follows:
Astralis
ENCE
fnatic
Natus Vincere
Renegades
NRG
Vitality
Invite slot
BIG
FaZe
MIBR
Ninjas in Pyjamas
MOUZ
MVP PK
FURIA
EU Qualifier #2 
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen
Age: 22 Team: Ghost Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 751 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.66 
MIBR #7 
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga
Marcelo 'coldzera' David
Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo
João 'felps' Vasconcellos 
Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro
Age: 21 Team: Lazarus Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 439 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.68 
Lazarus #84 
Braxton 'swag' Pierce
Yassine 'Subroza' Taoufik
Michael 'dapr' Gulino
Jordan 'Zellsis' Montemurro
Gage 'Infinite' Green 
AVANGAR #14 
Bektiyar 'fitch' Bahytov
Sanjar 'SANJI' Kuliev
Timur 'buster' Tulepov
Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev
Dzhami 'Jame' Ali 
Astralis #1 
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Emil 'Magisk' Reif 

HEROIC #21 

Adam 'friberg' Friberg
Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen
Niels Christian 'NaToSaphiX' Sillassen
Martin 'stavn' Lund
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer 
MOUZ #12 
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Robin 'ropz' Kool 
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Age: 19 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 417 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.64 

BIG #18 

Fatih 'gob b' Dayik
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz
Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch
Johannes 'nex' Maget
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş 
Renegades #10 
Justin 'jks' Savage
Aaron 'AZR' Ward
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad
Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas 

NRG #8 

Damian 'daps' Steele
Tarik 'tarik' Celik
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte
Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 
Natus Vincere #3 
Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev
Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov 
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Age: 19 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 325 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.56 

Martin 'stavn' Lund
Age: 17 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 480 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.71 
Ghost #35 
Joshua 'steel' Nissan
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir
Kenneth 'koosta' Suen
Matthew 'WARDELL' Yu
Jason 'neptune' Tran 
MVP PK #26 
Min-Seok 'zeff' Park
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee
Hae-Sung 'HSK' Kim
Seon-Ho 'xeta' Son
Gu-Taek 'stax' Kim 
FURIA #17 
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan
Yuri 'yuurih' Santos
Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo
Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato
Rinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #9 
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund
Dennis 'dennis' Edman
Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner 
fnatic #6 
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell
Simon 'twist' Eliasson
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin 
FaZe #4 
Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard 
Vitality #11 
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Alex 'ALEX' McMeekin
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut 
ENCE #5 
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Jere 'sergej' Salo