Cloud9 win iBP Spring 2017

3-4-2017 07:57

Cloud9 won iBUYPOWER Invitational Spring 2017 after defeating OpTic 2-0 in the grand final (16-8 on Cobblestone and 22-18 on Mirage).

The $16,000 online tournament kicked off with an eight-team single elimination bracket. OpTic, who used Jason "⁠jasonR⁠" Ruchelski as a stand-in, beat Misfits 2-0 in the quarter-finals while Cloud9 eased past Selfless with the same scoreline.

Although Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert & co. lost Nuke—the second map in the series—to Luminosity in the semi-finals, the North Americans won convincingly on Cobblestone and Overpass. OpTic, on the other hand, reached the grand final after beating Liquid 16-14 on two maps in the semi-finals.

Skadoodle was effective in the grand final

OpTic and Cloud9 kicked off the grand final on Cobblestone where the latter secured a 16-8 victory. Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham finished the game with a 30:11 score and a 1.99 rating.

Mirage went to overtime as both teams picked up six rounds on their T-sides. Once again Cloud9 came on top to win the map 22-18. Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip & co. won the grand final 2-0 and took home $10,000.

iBUYPOWER Invitational Spring 2017Best of 3

Cloud9

Matchpage

3rd April 2017

OpTic

Cobblestone

Mirage

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	57 - 33	+24	78.8	84.4%	1.39
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	51 - 38	+13	93.2	76.6%	1.34
Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek shroud	41 - 33	+8	76.5	84.4%	1.23
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	42 - 41	+1	75.2	70.3%	1.10
Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert n0thing	41 - 41	0	63.4	67.2%	1.01

OpTic	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	42 - 44	-2	68.1	60.9%	1.01
Oscar 'mixwell' Cañellas mixwell	42 - 41	+1	73.4	65.6%	0.99
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	40 - 50	-10	74.0	59.4%	0.81
Jason 'jasonR' Ruchelski jasonR	31 - 50	-19	64.4	57.8%	0.73
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	31 - 47	-16	50.8	56.2%	0.68

The full standings at iBUYPOWER Invitational Spring 2017:

1. Cloud9 - $10,000
2. OpTic – $4,000
3. Liquid - $1,000
4. Luminosity - $1,000
5-8. Complexity
5-8. NRG
5-8. Selfless
5-8. Misfits

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

2017-04-03 07:58

Well damn that's the closest I've ever been. C9 wins something??? Nice, I guess

2017-04-03 08:03

6 replies

na only tournament LUL

2017-04-03 08:00

5 replies

Lmao I totally forgot the teams that were playing until I looked up. Obviously expected Optic to do better though, and not all of them are NA, so my argument still stands xd

2017-04-03 08:02

4 replies

they were so close to disband after losing stanislaw to optic, how do you expect them to do better ?

2017-04-03 08:09

Just showing that C9 is the best NA team but it's not really relevant in the international top tier scene

2017-04-03 08:11

2 replies

Cloud9s summer incoming

2017-04-03 11:41

1 reply

+1 tank tops = win

2017-04-03 18:11

ayy

wow

Cloud9 summer

C9 wins IBP tournaments every year

2017-04-03 07:59

??? I thought optic beat sk last year

2017-04-03 15:41

no that was esl pro leauge season 4

2017-04-04 19:19

skadoodle did something PogChamp

8 replies

He always does something. If you'd open you eyes and start listening too you might see he's consistent a f

2017-04-03 08:57

7 replies

2017-04-03 12:50

Consistently shit yes

2017-04-03 13:54

why is your stuid comment rotting and turning yellow?

2017-04-03 17:10

3 replies

Because you can't handle that skadoodle is dogshit

2017-04-03 17:35

where is your scene?

2017-04-03 19:34

where is skadoodle? oh right hes in the trash

2017-04-03 20:02

go and find a game he did bad in, he has 1 bad game out of 10.

2017-04-04 00:10

Ez c9

2017-04-03 08:01

Ahahhahah CLOUD9 FOREVER

"JasonR most under-rated player NA."

2017-04-03 08:10

rofl most overrated pug star i have ever seen. even more than shrood

2017-04-03 08:40

dude give him chance omg, its not ez to fit as iGL in 4-5days. jeez chill out

2017-04-03 09:33

JasonR threw for skins

2017-04-03 08:12

OMG Skadoodle

congrats cloud9 :) glad to see you guys win an event

2017-04-03 08:53

stewie flag should be china and Autimatic flag should be vietnam lul

2017-04-03 08:58

Ta is used in both China and Vietnam, from my understanding.

Im pretty sure hes Vietnamese since Ta is rarely used as a surname in China.

2017-04-03 10:22

Shroud polish confirmed

Skadoodle wins iBP tournament with 1.4 rating :!

2017-04-03 09:03

it's obvious how much they miss stan and even more important in my opinion how much he boosted NAF's play style, he is simply not a same player anymore sadly

2017-04-03 09:07

only thing Clown9 can win

2017-04-03 09:19

41-43=8 exde

2017-04-03 09:31

tier 5k tournament lul ez c9

People want to shit on JasonR right now, but honestly Optic looked way better with him than with anyone else so far (obviously sans Stan).

2017-04-03 09:36

ska had cheats implanted in his last surgery

2017-04-03 09:53

JasonR. nice addition.

2017-04-03 10:25

Skadoodle performing good only on/at iBP Kappa

2017-04-03 11:08

expected

2017-04-03 12:38

Skadoodle MVP ! wp c9

2017-04-03 12:45

skadoodle payingoff his debts of past Kappa

2017-04-03 13:40

What did they do to Skadoodle in the surgery? Kappa

2017-04-03 13:43

Removed his 3rd testicle

2017-04-03 13:56

Thats why his hormones have gone down and he can focus on the game?

2017-04-03 13:57

I think so Weird thing is that shroud ate the removed testicle

2017-04-03 13:58

Well he has polish genes...

2017-04-03 14:00

another major win for c9

2017-04-03 14:50

Ok but this tournament literally means nothing. It was online, NA only, includes some of the worst teams in NA, many teams w/ stand-in's Cloud9 - shroud was using the aug OpTic - first weekend with a stand in who was also calling Liquid - using a stand in who played extremely poorly Luminosity - no stand in, no excuse just not that great compLexity - trialing a caller, trash team, bottom tier of NA NRG - ptr still making it onto invite teams reeeee Selfless - worst team in pro league by a country mile, dizzy can't even hang in premier, quickly begining to think Ryu has a brain the size of a peanut -Ryu Misfits - using a premier stand in who although understandably didn't contribute much at all

2017-04-03 14:51