Sure, the organization boasts a lot of successful partnership activations (BMW and Puma come to mind), but great tweets don't help 17-year-olds acclimate to a team environment.įrom following TenZ's streams, tweets, and the coach's statement, it seems that there were the usual "personality conflicts" that forced C9 to move on from the young star. Why would such a young player be so off at a tournament that lacks a large stage, is spread across multiple days, and is located in their home region? Some of it may be that Cloud9, despite being a large organization, has seemingly been in a constant state of turmoil this year. To be fair to TenZ, Cloud9 has a whole did not have individually inspiring performances, but for a young fragger, this was an abysmal performance. Looking at TenZ, he finished the event near the bottom of the stats leaderboard with a 0.86 HLTV rating across eight maps with a -30 K/D differential.
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The new ESL Pro League format has teams separated into four man groups were the top team qualifies for finals, two and three are placed into stage two with a chance to make finals, and the bottom team goes into pre relegation.Ĭloud9 had a tough group to be fair, but the only American organization to ever win a major going out of their group without a single series win is a sad state of affairs.
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The team had some better results online in ECS Season 8, but their next and final LAN appearance was where the cracks started to show. C9 flew out to Finland to place fourth out of four at the Arctic Invitational where they lost 0-2 to FURIA. Unfortunately, that was the highlight of this short-lived five man roster. The team's first LAN was not horrible, taking a win over FaZe Clan, two ties (NRG, MIBR), and a loss to RNG to secure a semi-final 0-2 loss to event winner Team Liquid.
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While TenZ has only just started his career in professional CS:GO, there is a lot to be concerned about in the future.Ī lot of fans (hopefully) gave C9 some time to breathe as C9 went all in on the overhaul by only retaining 1/5 members on the team. In both esports and traditional sports, high tier prospects are either busts or hall of famers with little in between. Oftentimes, young talent that is heralded as the "future" does not work out. While they are bringing in veteran journeyman Yassine "subroza" Taoufik to replace TenZ as a "stand-in," what the team really needs is a focused direction for veteran IGL daps to mold C9 into a strong NA contender. The team then made Valens head of data science again and picked up James "JamezIRL" Macaulay as coach and added Chris "Elmapuddy" Tebbit as assistant coach.Ī few days ago Cloud9 decided to part ways with valens and now Cloud9 looks to fill the hole that TenZ will leave on the starting roster. The roster was not the only place where Cloud9 was fiddling with addition and subtraction: the team switched Soham "Valens" Chowdhury from Head of Data Science to Coach after they cut Ronald "Rambo" Kim as head coach. The London Spitfire have not found much success lately in Overwatch, the Rocket League team won one event but have looked awful since, the League team failed to either win a split or make it out of groups at Worlds, and now the CS:GO team is forced to make yet another change to their roster.Ĭ9 gutted their earlier roster after bombing out in the Americas Minor qualifier and retooled it to bring in Oscar "mixwell" Cañellas, Kenneth "koosta" Suen, Damian "daps" Steele, and TenZ to build around star player Timothy "autimatic" Ta. Cloud9 as an organization suffered quite a downturn in 2019.