Cloud9 grab last major spot

29-2-2016 00:16

Cloud9 have made it to another major after narrowly defeating Renegades 2-0 (de_mirage 16-14, de_cache 19-16).

The first two rounds of de_mirage were split between Renegades and Cloud9, with the latter starting as Counter-Terrorists and responding to a pistol loss with a strong message in the forcebuy.

That allowed them to take an early 4-1 lead before Yaman "⁠yam⁠" Ergenekon's double opening kill set Renegades up for 4-4 as Cloud9 tried to go on the agressive. Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek then picked up an important double on the B bombsite for two rounds in the bag, but three kills from Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage pulled it back to a one-round difference.

Another forcebuy victory, this time with much better equipment, shut down Renegades early as they conceded all remaining rounds, in the last of which shroud delivered a quick quad-kill in B halls.

shroud delivered another great performance on de_mirage

Three kills by Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir in their Terrorist-side pistol round put Cloud9 up on 13-5, but they couldn't close it out in the early stages. The Australians won eight of the following nine rounds easily, apart from a 1-on-1 clutch by jks, but a split A and an A smoke-off strategy versus a double-AWP setup won Cloud9 two of the last three rounds for 16-14.

Switching over to de_cache, Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham's quad-kill heroics were not enough to grab the initial pistol round, while Renegades secured two rounds as CT before dropping three in a row following the first gunround.

yam, Karlo "⁠USTILO⁠" Pivac and jks all delivered important plays in three out of four gunrounds afterwards, with the youngest winning a 1-on-3 in one of them. At 7-4 their agressive play backfired horribly as they met shroud in door, and freakazoid's triple in another round pushed the game to 7-7.

USTILO's lonesome triple on the A bombsite helped them get a one-round lead towards the end, which they immediately lost as the same player couldn't turn a close situation around in the pistol round.

USTILO has proven to be a good addition, but Renegades came up short in the end

Close battles ended up with the game sitting at a tie yet again, this time 10-10, as Australians pushed on for more, and got it, for 13-11. Agressive play in A main allowed freakazoid to open up the round, and combined with a great retake on the B bombsite Cloud9 clawed back to make it even once more.

What happened afterwards could only be described as craziness, as three gunrounds in a row it ended up with a player winning a crucial 1-on-2. jks, shroud and freakazoid all shined as the game went into overtime after a shoddy buy by Renegades. There it was mostly all Cloud9 however, who put their foot down and won four out of five rounds to become the fourth North American team to advance to the MLG major.

MLG Columbus 2016 Main QualifierBest of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

28th February 2016

Renegades

Mirage

Cache

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	52 - 43	+9	92.1	80.0%	1.26
Ryan 'freakazoid' Abadir freakazoid	48 - 51	-3	81.6	73.8%	1.16
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	46 - 39	+7	71.4	75.4%	1.13
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	49 - 41	+8	75.2	69.2%	1.07
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	40 - 37	+3	64.2	72.3%	0.96

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	41 - 41	0	69.6	70.8%	1.04
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	46 - 47	-1	79.4	70.8%	1.02
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	42 - 45	-3	74.9	67.7%	1.01
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekon yam	45 - 46	-1	67.2	63.1%	0.95
Chad 'SPUNJ' Burchill SPUNJ	36 - 56	-20	77.8	66.2%	0.82

As Cloud9 snatched the last MLG Columbus 2016 spot, the full team list for the major is following:

fnatic	Envy	Virtus.pro	Luminosity
Natus Vincere	FaZe	Ninjas in Pyjamas	Astralis
MOUZ	G2	Splyce	Gambit
Liquid	FlipSid3	CLG	Cloud9

EASY FOR CLOUD9

2016-02-29 00:16

34 replies

how

2016-02-29 00:17

28 replies

they won innit

23 replies

C9 stickers Kreygasm

2016-02-29 00:18

3 replies

Gambit stickers kreygasm noKappa yesKappa

2016-02-29 01:23

2 replies

will buy all of them

2016-02-29 08:49

1 reply

sex god dosia stickers

2016-02-29 11:39

you are an embarrassment to the Great Country Nepal.. FAKE FLAGGER

2016-02-29 00:19

18 replies

North American counter strike is truly a sight to behold, never in my life have i seen a continent so commited, talented and skilled as the North American region. Winning back to back major titles every year and having 9 teams in the top 10, the only EU team in the top 10 being Fnatic from Sweden, NA having extremely talented and enthusiastic players such as Ryan 'FREAKAZOiD' Abadir' and Jake 'Stewie2k' Yip are just some of the greatest players ever to grace the game, nothing can stop the force that is NA CS:GO...

2016-02-29 00:20

17 replies

2016-02-29 00:24

But it truly is nothing compared to UK CS, who have not lost a map since 2002, and have yet to even allow a bomb plant since 2008.

2016-02-29 00:34

Wish I'd have seen this earlier. +5000

2016-03-01 19:59

Lol at freakazoid He doesnt even use his brain to play

2016-02-29 00:41

11 replies

says the chinq

2016-02-29 00:44

10 replies

Im not a chinq btw Hong Kong is a city, and former British colony, in southeastern China. Vibrant and densely populated, it’s a major port and global financial center famed for its tower-studded skyline. It’s also known for its lively food scene – from Cantonese dim sum to extravagant high tea – and its shopping, with options spanning chaotic Temple Street Night Market to the city’s innumerable bespoke tailors. Im hong konger

2016-02-29 01:05

9 replies

Plus all the hookers and poverty

2016-02-29 04:41

Lmao u r definetely one of them

2016-02-29 06:03

Shut up you dumb Chinky fag, go and make me some noodles and say something against your leadership, oh wait. You cant because, COMMUNISM

2016-02-29 06:59

6 replies

XDD i loled hard

2016-02-29 07:15

Stfu go watch ur fking news and realize that hong kong isnt communist But it will be, which is fking sad

2016-02-29 11:13

4 replies

:,(

2016-02-29 12:41

Lol <3

2016-03-02 20:45

Bro we used to own you. Speak kindly to your elders/leaders :)

2016-03-02 20:47

I know 1. U r not my owner i own my life 2. I respect the fact that my city was under your control but that period has ended but british government was better 3. Thats your elder's work. You did nothing so stop speaking like you are one of them 4. I believe that i should speak polite to anyone unless they dont 5. I believe that we are here to talk about cs idk y ppl started to talk about politics on hltv

2016-03-02 23:54

Ur statement: major second place = major 5-8th

2016-02-29 00:42

Ye n0thing can stop the force :-)

2016-02-29 07:04

>4 NA Teams at Major >None get out of groups >mfw

tbh only liquid/clg have a chance, and even their chances are like 25% (if they get a good group) Liquid had an insaaaaaane group last time :( They almost beat VP though, and this was decent VP not t3trash vp

2016-02-29 02:55

clg chance? xD

2016-02-29 10:20

Better than c9 or splyce

2016-03-01 20:55

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO C9 STICKERS

Dumbest qualifier ever

get mad renegades fanboy LOL

not really ez

well leo won an Oscar c9 might win this ;D EDDIT: KAPPA

2016-02-29 09:43

nice one

no way , HOW I AM NOT FIRST HOOW ? OMFG XD

too slow

we wrote in same second :D also wtf is this flag where are you from ?

2016-02-29 10:29

that is nepal flag, the shape isn't actually rectangle it's 2 triangles (which makes it look weird)

2016-02-29 15:20

first fangays of favela

Good job Cloud9! - Stewie stickers =DD

wpwp

yay

Noice!

n13

GG WP

ah ah wel pleyd

2016-02-29 00:39

rip

gr8

NA > EU

nigf

heheheh

nice

yes

najs, great series

yung stew

PogChamp

RIP AU CS

wooo

nA CS

SA CS

2016-03-01 02:29

FRIST

BOOOOO

u fast

will they get out of groups? I don't think so

Please. Let us have our moment. :'(

2016-02-29 06:11

Dude, I'm not saying anything trashy but SPLYCE don't deserve a spot at a major

2016-02-29 07:02

Indeed, I would rather see Renegades, Hellraisers, SK or Dignitas instead of SPLYCE who were lucky to get into this qualifier

2016-02-29 09:34

I think it is fair to say that any time who made it to the majors deserves to be there. As to what theyre going to do when they arrive? Im going to say LG, Fnatic, or NAVI, ftw. If we make it out of groups at all I will be personally be very stoked.

2016-02-29 21:31

Congrats to c9, happy to see stewie performing well on LAN

hej

god yung stew

So bad

4 NA teams in first NA major! I hope there's sick attendance to the games! gl hf!

4 NA TEAMS IN A MAJOR TALENT SO SPREAD OUT FUCK. SHIT. DAMNIT. USA USA USA USA

19 replies

4 teams out in groups....probably ;_;

lmao bipolar much?

I'm just excited that 4 teams in a major shows people that NA has the talent to make a top team, it's just that the talent is so spread out...which means each team isn't really good enough imo to make it out of groups. Maybe Liquid if they peak, but c9 too inconsistent, clg not strong enough, and splyce for obvious reasons.

2016-02-29 00:22

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well at least you are realistic hope for some of them to get out of groups so guess Liquid has a real chance if adren keeps playing like he did and s1mple picks his game back up

2016-02-29 00:25

exactly. Lol. It's exciting 4 NA teams are in the major. But I can't get too excited to a point where I think fucking splyce vs clg in the final lol

2016-02-29 00:29

USA and talent i arent think that even mouz is better than any American team )))) axaxa muricano pls stahp

As I remember, c9 put mouz out in groups last major? damn...FeelsGermanMan

8 replies

Shhh let them dream

canadino you cum to suport your stoopid frend? let me tel yu sumthink mouzsports and clown9 arent been in same grups at cluj. As DJ Khaled would say YOU'RE DUMB, YOU'RE VERY DUMB!

2016-02-29 00:37

americano stahp yu kling me axaxa mouz not lose to cloud9 at cluj napoca, do yu try to be funy or you just stoopid? ))))

2016-02-29 00:35

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I meant Cologne: hltv.org/match/2297439-cloud9-mousesport.. Also, c9 knocked mouz out of qualifiers for major in order to make major at Katowice. With fucking Shahzam. lol. hltv.org/match/2294227-cloud9-mousesport.. And mouz didnt make it out of groups at Cologne or Cluj. So let's review. Katowice: c9 qualifies for major over mouz. Mouz doesnt qualify. Cologne, c9 knocks mouz out of groups, mouz nor c9 make it out of groups Cluj: Neither c9 nor mouz make it out of groups. I thought German CS was better?? ROFL GERMNAN CS And that, sir, is what you call: rekt.

2016-02-29 00:40

I am talking as of now you dumb fuck and as far as i remember, you were wrong with your statement and are just trying to restore sth. but mate you played yourself ))))

2016-02-29 00:46

"even mouz is better than any american team" ROFL..... nt fam. mouz aint done shit better than any american team.

2016-02-29 00:45

Mouz won EPS Germany and no american team is ever gonna win that tournament. #rekt btw just as a comparison Germany has 80 million inhabitants and i think the us+ friendly us have about 350 million, should be about correct

2016-02-29 00:50

should be ez for Germany then if Australia which has 23 million people can have two teams make a major but Germany only makes major with one team... and congrats. Mouz won a lan with only 4 teams in it. ROFL.

2016-02-29 00:55

I are think you're retarded

2016-02-29 02:51

i arent think that )))) TheMongolz will win a major before C9 does

2016-02-29 07:31

I think all 4 pass group stages. Liquid because s1mple and adreN carry. CLG be ause they always get lucky and will have a easy group. C9 because yung stew lan god carry. Splyce for obvious reasons.

2016-02-29 02:54

thank god that was a troll. I thought you were serious about adreN carrying lmao

2016-02-29 04:00

letzz go bois

4 NA Teams? Niiiiice.

4NA TEAMS LEL

4 amerifags........

mad m8?

2016-02-29 22:07

Well, moving to NA , got really good condedition's to play in, you didnt qualify for Katowiche? You didnt qualify for Malmo , and now you dont qualify MLG Colombus? Time to wake up... They had better results when they were living in Australia and travelig over seas...

Did they even play in the Katowice qualifier, I don't know

2016-02-29 01:20

Well , they did :) They lonst to Mongolz in Taipei! The team that won there, got a spot in Katowiche :)

2016-02-29 02:19

Ah right, cheers I was only thinking about the NA qualifiers just because they did the same for malmo xD

2016-02-29 02:45

Because they didnt you know, change a player just over 2 weeks ago or anything

2016-02-29 08:58

expected

[*] swag

meh, out of groups anyway

4 NA teams of which no one but Liquid will even pass the group stage or hopefully won't even show up at the whole event.

Inb4 all 4 go through LOL.

-splyce -clg +hellraisers +dignitas and we would have real top 16, so quite nice being so close!

really surprised at how bad dig was at this qualifier

k0nfig couldn't hack it up

2016-02-29 04:39

except dignitas and hellraisers lost. logic, it's a foreign word I know.

2016-02-29 04:56

HR would've won against anyone from splyce's group...

2016-02-29 07:42

I meant that HR could have won SPLYCE, and dignitas fucked up badly. Naturally they deserved to lose then, but SPLYCE in major is still a joke :D

-splyce + dig at least HR & CLG are quite equal.

2016-02-29 10:19

good luck at maj0r nice for once NA gets to play in normal time zone :D

> 4 NA teams qualified for the major > gonna get raped in group stage anyway :)

clg ,cloud9 and liquid will demolish mouz in the major junge.

2016-02-29 00:28

nt moses

shit stickers eww

CIS SCENE > NA s1mple F3 NAVI and Gambit 2 stronk for NA!

4 NA teams Polish team out man what a shitty day :/

2016-02-29 00:21

4 Teams from USA :D

So sad :(

2016-02-29 00:23

Stickers wooooo

USA>BR

yam played bad

Group A Fnatic Na'Vi Group B EnVyUs FaZe Group C NiP VP/CLG/Splyce (Depends on matchup) Group D Luminosity Astralis/Gambit Semis Fnatic vs FaZe NiP vs Luminosity Final Fnatic vs Luminosity (Fnatic Win)

2016-02-29 00:27

those are not the groups kek

Oh, well shit.

as expected from nip fan dumb

2016-02-29 00:31

C9 faith repaid

To many NA teams

2016-02-29 00:32

4 NA teams, and wont even make it out of groups :d RIP NA CS

I am surprised how 4 NA teams managed to qualify. Didnt expect any of them to be honest, except CLG for being in the easiest group to qualify.

2016-02-29 00:38

Spunj is a horrible player

i must have lost over $500 this event. Bet against every NA team except for enemy vs ts.

that was damn close

teams that will go out in groups i.gyazo.com/315302130e5682bbb8ea10daca57..

yeah nv bomb out in groups, confirmed by 40glocc

2016-02-29 01:21

Yea :D Flipsid3 will definetly be out.

2016-02-29 02:04

I guess gratz that 4 got in the first NA major but at the same time quite a lot has to change for these teams if they want to get past groups

About Renegades it's hard to tell like they said in the analyst desk. Ustilo change was good but they still lack firepower I feel. You can't really replace SpunJ cause even if he's not fragging that good no one in australia is good enough for the IGL role. I feel like going into a team house has damaged them more than helped them but not sure. I think with fresh motivation they can beat these teams cause c9 wasn't particularly great at all

2016-02-29 00:51

Even HLTV had their doubts of C9 making it through the qualifiers.

2016-02-29 01:08

Same old legends will be the legends again...

2016-02-29 01:40

Really happy for C9, hopefully they can pull out something nuts at the major

2016-02-29 02:10

they will have to be better than luminosity to make a chance. dont expect them to beat astralis

2016-02-29 05:58

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Imo luminosity is a better team than astralis atm. But well see @ the major.

2016-02-29 09:20

There are no groups yet.

2016-02-29 09:23

I know, but was just pointing out the things he was saying ;)

2016-02-29 09:25

nice try to rescue yourself

2016-02-29 09:26

because? Where did I even mention groups? Im only talking about the skill of a certain team. If this is your try to b8 someone, youre very bad in doing so x')

because? Where did I even mention groups? Im only talking about the skill of a certain team. If this is your try to b8 someone, youre very bad in doing so x') quite baiting AND triggering you

2016-02-29 09:27

x'DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

More Cloud9 stickers, and yet there's still only 1 renegade sticker.

2016-02-29 02:13

mongolz > Cloud9

2016-02-29 03:11

Jokes on you, they wouldn't have been in the same group.

2016-02-29 04:46

Cloud9 < mongolz

2016-03-01 02:21

White>Yellow

2016-03-01 06:39

Liquid>Clown9

2016-02-29 05:53

WORK ON YOUR FUCKING T-SIDES PLS I WANT TO SEE SKA IN THE PLAYOFFS

2016-02-29 06:17

Bl renegades. Close game but just got popped in the end. Could have gone either way really. Pity it wasn't more of a round robin as I think all of group d probably deserved to get through.

2016-02-29 06:30

ez shroud9

2016-02-29 07:46

No Indian or Australian team. Indian CS scene = Au CS scene jk, Indian scene much better 8D Some kappa : |

2016-02-29 08:28

happy for n0thing

2016-02-29 08:30

even with easy win freak still have neg K/D lmao

LET'S GO C9

Really shitty how quite literally everyone in group D could beat everyone in group C without a challenge

2016-02-29 08:59

To be honest if you can't beat Cloud9 in a BO3 (who are at one of their lowest levels of performance right now) then you don't deserve to be in the Major. Coming from a Renegades fan. GG WP Missing 2 majors in a row = RIP Aus CS

2016-02-29 09:04

They're not at their lowest tbh. They just have a different style now. They can beat t2 teams but barely have a chance that is any better than that. It was the same before.

2016-02-29 09:22

5 NA teams including LG 3 CIS teams 8 European teams

2016-02-29 09:21

No asian

Well done SPUNJ Keep in game leading them to continuous failing of majors and tournaments.

2016-02-29 10:03

I go for Gambit, Liquid and F3, let's go boys

2016-02-29 11:12

not a major tho, hltv why do you lie? it cant be a major when it practically ban half the world like MLG festival/reality show

2016-02-29 13:35

Good work C9. Surprisingly enough, I think C9 can make it out of groups. Their CT sides are great. If they can get an IGL/coach to improve their T side execututes and teamwork, they could be dangerous all around. They have the entry power of Stewie and Freak, and two of the best CT players in the world with shroud and Ska. Also Stewie's secondary AWPing was pretty good, but I'm not sure if he will continue to take that role. With VP, NiP, FaZe, and Astralis slumping, Dignitas not in attendance, etc. they could pull off an upset in bracket and makes it out of groups. There are a lot of things that need to go right; a good coach, stewie/shroud/Ska showing up, and a good group draw, but it's not completely out of the picture for them to make it to the playoffs. A lot can happen in a month.

2016-02-29 15:40