Cloud 9 CSGO stream highlights from ESL Pro League season 4 finals including insane frags, clutches and plays!
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Cloud9 (C9) is an American eSports organization, which fields teams in Rocket League, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Overwatch, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Vainglory.
Cloud9 formed when Jack Etienne bought the former Quantic Gaming League of Legends roster. Following the success of the Cloud9 LoL team in the North American League of Legends Championship Series, the team was able to expand to field rosters in other esports. In 2015, Cloud9’s Heroes of the Storm team won the first Heroes of the Storm World Championship, becoming the inaugural winner of the championship.
And one of its best and thrilling game to watch is seeing Cloud 9 Play CSGO (Counter Strike Global Offence)
Originally acquired from compLexity Gaming, Cloud9’s core Counter-Strike squad formerly consisted of most of the players originally of the compLexity team, which included shroud, Semphis, Hiko, n0thing, and sgares. Etienne, the General Manager of C9 stated that he caught glimpse of the CS:GO scene at EMS One: Katowice 2014 and knew he wanted to hold a CS:GO team after seeing that event and eventually took up the opportunity to sign the former compLexity players, who placed in the 5-8 slot at the major. Throughout the years many of the teammates that were from the original complexity lineup left leaving only, shroud and n0thingas the last two members of the original lineup. This was until the 15th of August 2017, when both shroud and n0thing were benched from the active roster, the two longest serving members of the squad. This leaves nobody from the original compLexity roster in the active lineup. Despite this, the team’s main influences can still be linked back to the play style of the original compLexity roster.
Summer of 2017
Following the win at ESL Pro League Season 4, the team struggled with leadership as both autimatic and Stewie2k would switch the IGL role constantly. Eventually, the role was given to Stewie2k to allow autimatic to focus more on his fragging in the game. During this time of IGL switching the team struggled to get past many group stages of tournaments, but once Stewie2k was permanently set as the IGL the team were able to break their curse by achieving a 3rd-4th finish at the ECS Season 3 Finals, winning over Fnatic 16-8 and getting an upset victory at 19-15 over Astralis to make the playoffs, before losing to FaZe Clan in the semi-finals. The week after, they finished with a 3-1 record at the PGL Krakow Major Qualifier, earning their first major spot since MLG Columbus 2016. Their second place finish at ESL One: Cologne 2017 has put Cloud9 in the spotlight, projecting them as one of the best teams going into the Major.
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