Cloud 9 (esports organization)

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Cloud 9
Cloud9 logo.svg
Abbreviation C9
Manager United StatesUnited States Jack Etienne
Headquarters United StatesUnited States United States
founding year 2013
Clan color sky blue
Homepage cloud9.gg
Teams

Cloud9 (abbreviated C9 ) is a US-based e-Sport - organization . Emerging from the League of Legends team Team NomNom in January 2013, the organization now has successful players under contract in a variety of disciplines .

League of Legends

The player Zach "Nien" Malhas, Jason "Wild Turtle" Tran , Hai "Hai" Lam , Daerek "Lemon Nation" Hart and Gabriel "Yazuki" Ng, who after parting with their previous organization Quantic Gaming first as a team NomNom competed, called their Team moved to Cloud 9 on January 8, 2013 . During this time, the team missed entry into the League Championship Series . There were bills of exchange several times. After the lineup was taken up again by Quantic Gaming in April and May 2013 and qualified for the LCS Summer 2013, Jack Etienne signed the lineup (since then consisting of Hai "Hai" Lam , Daerek "LemonNation" Hart , An "Balls" Van Le , William "Meteos" Hartman and Zachary "Sneaky" Scuderi ) for US $ 10,000 and founded the current organization under the name Cloud 9 . In a short time the team caught up with the world's best. Cloud 9 won the LCS Summer 2013 in North America and qualified for the League of Legends World Championships 2013, where the team was among the top eight. In 2014, Cloud 9 celebrated further successes. In addition to another round of 16 at the League of Legends World Championship and a third place at the ESL Intel Extreme Masters World Championships, the lineup celebrated a first and a second place in the League Championship Series. After the 2015 spring split, Hai "Hai" Lam resigned from the team, but not from the organization. He was replaced by the Dane Nicolaj "Incarnati0n" Jensen . After the Season 5 World Championship , LemonNation also withdrew from the active roster and occupied a management position in the team. Meteos also left the team at the end of 2016, which was replaced by Juan "Contractz" Arturo Garcia.
Cloud 9 founded the sister team Cloud 9 Challenger for the 2016 Summer Split , which played in the league below ( Challenger Series ) with the former LemonNation, Hai and Altec. After qualifying for the LCS, Cloud 9 Challenger had to be sold due to the regulations and entered the 2017 Spring Split as Team FlyQuest . The main team qualified for the League of Legends World Championship in the 2016 Summer Split, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the Samsung Galaxy esports team . In 2017, Cloud 9 only lost to Team SoloMid in the Spring Split and qualified in the Summer Split 2017 for the League of Legends Worlds Championship in China, where they were eliminated against the Chinese Team WE in the quarter-finals. After a disappointing Spring Split 2018, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals, Cloud 9 temporarily took last place in the Summer Split 2018 in the first half of the season, but was able to qualify in a strong second half of the season and playoffs, in the final of the NA LCS, where they however against the team Liquid lost 0: 3. The team also qualified for the League of Legends World Championship 2018, where they fought their way through to the semi-finals, but were defeated by the European team Fnatic .

Lineup in January 2020

Nat. Surname position
CanadaCanada Eric "Licorice" Ritchie Top
United StatesUnited States Robert "Blaber" Huang Jungle
BelgiumBelgium Yasin "Nisqy" Dinçer Mid
DenmarkDenmark Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen ADC
CanadaCanada Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme Support

Dota 2

The Dota 2 team in a game at The International 2014

In February 2014, Cloud 9 opened its Dota 2 division with the signing of the previous Speed ​​Gaming.int players . The team celebrated its first major successes with second place in the Dota 2 Champions League Season 2 and in the ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season 1. In The International 2014 tournament, which is worth over $ 10 million , Cloud 9 made it into the top six teams and secured itself a purse of $ 655,842. In the course of 2014 further podium places followed at the World Cyber ​​Arena 2014, at the Star Ladder Star Series Season 10, at the World E-sport Championships 2014 or at the second edition of The Summit . At the end of 2014, all of the players involved in Cloud 9 were able to collect prize money of around one million US dollars . In 2015, C9 first attracted attention at the Dota 2 Asia Championships 2015 with a top 6 result. The players won a total of $ 152,876 in prize money. At The International 2015, Cloud 9 landed in the back of the field. The organization and the team separated shortly afterwards. In the first half of the year, a Danish quintet led by Marcus “Ace” Hoelgaard played for Cloud 9. The greatest success was second place at the World Electronic Sports Games . In July 2017 Cloud 9 presented a lineup from which all five players had already played for the organization in previous years and were released after The International.

Lineup in July 2018

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

In Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft , Cloud 9 currently binds the following six players to itself. The biggest success for C9 in this discipline could Aleksandr "Kolento" Malsh with victories at Viagame House Cup in the CN vs EU Season 2 , when Kinguin Pro League 2015 Season 1 or the Dreamhack reach Winter, 2014. In July 2017, he reached the final of the Hearthstone Spring Championship organized by Blizzard Entertainment .

Player in July 2017

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

On August 1, 2014, Cloud 9 took over the players from compLexity . The team reached the round of 16 at ESL One Cologne 2014 and secured prize money of $ 10,000. In addition, the team came second at the ClutchCon 2015, the Caseking King of Kings tournament and the 5th season of the CEVO. After leaving the group phase at DreamHack Winter 2014 , the team successfully qualified for ESL One Katowice 2015 in February 2015 , where the team was eliminated early in the group phase.

After Cloud 9 replaced the players Kory "Semphis" Friesen and Shahzeb "ShahZaM" Khan with Ryan "fREAKAZOiD" Abadir and Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham , the new lineup was able to take second place in early July 2015 at the finals of the first season of ESL ESEA Secure Pro League and won $ 60,000 . In the following two weeks, Cloud 9 also achieved second place at the Electronic Sports World Cup 2015 in Montreal, Canada and at DreamHack Valencia 2015.

In 2016, Cloud9 signed up Jake “Stewie2k” Yip in January and Timothy “autimatic” Ta in October . With the new player in the team, the organization won the finals of the ESL Pro League Season 4 . In summer 2017 the semi-finals followed in the third season of the Esports Championship Series and reaching the final at ESL One Cologne 2017 . In August 2017, Cloud 9 signed the players Will “RUSH” Wierzba and Tarik “tarik” Celik . The team mostly reached the playoffs in the following tournaments in autumn 2017. The ESL One New York 2017 , the ELEAGUE CS: GO Premier 2017 and the Intel Extreme Masters Season XII - Oakland finished Cloud 9 in the top four.

In January 2018, Cloud 9 won the Boston Eleague Major , beating FaZe Clan in the final . This makes Cloud 9 the first North American team to win a major event. The first place prize in this tournament was $ 500,000.

In July 2019 Cloud 9 signed the players Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas, Kenneth "Koosta" Suen, Damian "daps" Steele and Tyson "TenZ" Ngo.

In January 2020, the organization signed the former team from the ATK clan. Shortly thereafter, the new team made it to the Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice 2020. At the IEM Katowice 2020, they were one of the first teams to drop out in the group stage.

Player in January 2020

  • South AfricaSouth Africa Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
  • South AfricaSouth Africa Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek
  • United StatesUnited States Ian 'motm' Hardy
  • United StatesUnited States Josh 'oSee' Ohm
  • United StatesUnited States Ricky 'floppy' Kemery

Rocket League

Lineup

role Current lineup

(July 2019)

player United StatesUnited States Kyle "Torment" Storer
player CanadaCanada Mariano "SquishyMuffinz" Arruda
player United StatesUnited States Jesus "Gimmick" Parra

successes

date space competition Prize money
November 2018 1. RLCS Season 6 - Finals $ 200,000
June 2019 1. DreamHack Pro Circuit: Dallas 2019 $ 50,000
June 2019 3rd / 4th RLCS Season 7 - Finals $ 40,000

Active and former involvement in other disciplines

In July 2017, Cloud 9 continues to have players in the shooters Overwatch and Call of Duty , as well as in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds , Vainglory , and the Super Smash Bros. series under contract. In the latter fighting game , North Americans Joseph “Mango” Marquez in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Elliot Bastien “Ally” Carroza-Oyarce in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U compete for Cloud 9.

In October 2014 the Heroes of the Storm section was created . In the following month, the department was split into the Cloud 9 Vortex team and the Cloud 9 Maelstrom team. Cloud 9 Vortex was released in late July 2015. In June 2016, C9 discontinued its involvement in this discipline. Furthermore, e-athletes played in the game series Halo and in Smite for the organization.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The history and formation of Cloud 9 - Part 1 of the Cloud 9 story. ongamers.com, April 28, 2014, accessed February 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Cloud9 Challenger - Leaguepedia - Competitive League of Legends eSports Wiki. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ FlyQuest eSports - Leaguepedia - Competitive League of Legends eSports Wiki. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 6, 2017 ; accessed on February 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lol.gamepedia.com
  4. ↑ Samsung Galaxy vs. Cloud 9/2016 World Championship - Quarter-Final / Post-Match Discussion • / r / leagueoflegends. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  5. ^ Cloud9 - Tournament results. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Cloud9. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  7. ^ Prize money distribution at The International 2014 on esportsearnings.com
  8. ^ Prize money distribution at the Dota 2 Asia Championships on esportsearnings.com
  9. ↑ Christian Mittweg: Dota 2: The return of the eternal second. Kicker eSport, July 21, 2017, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Official: Cloud9 sign coL. hltv.org, August 2, 2014, accessed February 16, 2015 .
  11. ↑ fnatic win ESL ESEA Season 1 Finals. hltv.org, July 5, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Na`Vi win ESWC 2015 over Cloud9. hltv.org, July 13, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2015 .
  13. ↑ TSM take down Cloud9, win FACEIT S2. hltv.org, July 18, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Milan Švejda: RUSH and tarik join Cloud9; n0thing and shroud benched. hltv.org, August 15, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  15. ^ Cloud9 beat FaZe to win ELEAGUE Major Boston . In: HLTV.org . ( hltv.org [accessed January 29, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Cloud9 signs EPL Finals participants. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Cloud9, FaZe and G2 secure their ticket to Katowice. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH freaks4u.com: Coverage: IEM Katowice 2020 «99Damage.de - CS: GO. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  19. ↑ https://twitter.com/Cloud9/status/891014305205731328
  20. ^ Cloud9 Heroes of the Storm: End of an Era. Danan Flander, cloud9.gg, June 9, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016 .
  21. ^ Cloud9 Boards The Halo Scene. cloud9.gg, November 26, 2014, accessed on February 16, 2015 .