ESL One New York 2017 North America Closed Qualifier

swag steps in for Cloud9 in ESL One NY qualifier

15-8-2017 02:07

Braxton "swag" Pierce will play for Cloud9 in the North American closed qualifier for ESL One New York, the organisation has revealed.

The 20-year-old hot-shot will fill in for Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta, who, according to a Twitter post from Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip, will be "out of town" during the qualifier.

Widely regarded as one of the most talented players in North America, Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce was indefinitely banned by Valve in January of 2015 after being implicated in a betting scandal alongside three of his then iBUYPOWER teammates.

Several tournament organisers decided to uphold Valve's bans, but last month ESL announced that all match-fixing penalties preceding February of 2015 would be lifted, opening the door for the former iBUYPOWER members to compete in its tournaments.

swag to play for Cloud9 in the ESL One NY qualifier

swag, who recently won Fragadelphia 11 with ownage, played for Cloud9 as a stand-in at cs_summit, back in April. He helped the team to finish in fourth place and averaged a 1.17 Rating, the second highest of his squad.

Eight teams will compete in the closed qualifier for ESL One New York, which will take place over the weekend, for the chance to win a spot at the $250,000 event. Seven teams have already been determined by invites, with the last spot being filled by the winner of an open qualifier.

Cloud9 will compete in the ESL One New York qualifier with:

Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert
Mike "⁠shroud⁠" Grzesiek
Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip
Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham
Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce

.@C9swag will be standing in on #C9CSGO at the #ESLOne New York Closed Qualifier! pic.twitter.com/85xaVYQDmY
— Cloud9 (@Cloud9) August 14, 2017

gl c9

2017-08-15 02:07

6 replies

so they cloned n0thing and -autimatic -stewie2k +swag +n0thing[cl0ne]

2017-08-15 02:10

3 replies

makes no sense

2017-08-15 18:20

2 replies

you moron they edited it but the lineup listed n0thing twice.

2017-08-20 03:15

1 reply

good thing u say it after 5 days idgaf

2017-08-20 15:29

Good shit

2017-08-15 02:09

PogChamp

2017-08-15 13:34

Oh yes

2017-08-15 02:08

WOW

Nice

two n0thing? *thinking face*

Swag <3

11 replies

Last all respect for C9 because supporting match fixers

2017-08-15 02:25

8 replies

Skadoodle played with swag when they fixed the match. Plus swag was under c9 for the entire ban

2017-08-15 04:33

5 replies

Baited

2017-08-15 04:45

So you are saying that C9 is supporting match fixing. Scum organization!

2017-08-15 09:07

C9 never supported match fixing never wanting to do it, but swag streamed and supported c9 since he was banned. They stand him in just because he deserves some respect and some play for streaming and sticking with c9. As well as that he had a great performance at cs summit plus fragadelphia. So standing him in for c9 at esl one new york is pretty good for him, so idk what your talking about c9 supporting match fixing, because all of the players banned probably learned their lesson and decide to not match fix anymore, mainly the ibp players such as dazed, azk, swag, and steel.

2017-08-15 19:22

Skadoodle should be also banned, because he helped to scam people. Shoul have said something before match

2017-08-15 20:28

Yes he's a little shit that got lucky. Feels bad for the others who got banned while ska kept on playing

2017-08-16 10:30

Fool

2017-08-15 15:27

no one cares u racist fuck

2017-08-16 01:22

+1 cant wait to see him in action again! It's a pretty big deal that autimatic isn't there though.

2017-08-15 16:46

Yeah I hope they will do good without Autimatic.

2017-08-16 02:48

Will be fun to see him play some real matches again!

Agreed, very good news

wut

mah boy

CLOUD 9 TOP KEK EZ WIN

nah? autamatic was better

2017-08-15 12:22

#Freeibp

Dark day for csgo pro scene

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2017-08-15 04:32

2017-08-15 09:36

-3

2017-08-15 12:14

+20

2017-08-15 13:14

-21

2017-08-15 19:52

+22

2017-08-15 19:53

4 replies

-56558

2017-08-16 14:12

+9999999999999999999999999999999999

2017-08-16 14:14

-9999999999999999999999999999999999

2017-08-16 19:54

+999999999999999999999999899999999999988898898999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999989999999999999999999999999999

2017-08-16 20:17

2 nothings rip C9

ez 4 free brax

ouf

No wonder Dazed and AZK didnt register a team then.

2017-08-15 11:41

wooo

Lineup N0thing Shroud N0thing...

I guess you can say the lineup is nothing but n0thing.

2017-08-15 06:08

oh lets go braaaaaaaaxton

nicee

Unexpected

HOW THE FUCK IS SHROUD STILL ON TEAM HE SHOULD BE ON STREAMTEAM

Mythic Shroud xD

2017-08-15 04:40

Double or n0thing?

C9 top1 again, NOPE

the team who have 2 n0things will always be nice lul

Its happeniiinggg Braaaaxxxtoooon

He should be able to fill in well enough for tim

gl brax

lol 2 nothings in cloud9s roster, thats rough, brax will need superpowers to carry this team

+1 actually laughed

2017-08-15 06:09

Swag is overrated

2 x n0thing is still nothing

2017-08-15 02:11

The other time he played a lan with c9, they didn't do so well, barely beating GA: hltv.org/matches/2299363/cloud9-vs-games.. Stewie instead of freakazoid makes a big difference tho

cs_summit?

2017-08-15 02:12

Totally forgot about that.

2017-08-15 02:15

it's right in the article tho

2017-08-15 14:14

fuck swag

nice, gl braxxx

it should have been shroud not autimatic :/

nope its nothing

2017-08-15 02:13

agree man ;v but shroud luck is > autimatic

2017-08-15 02:14

well autimatic is going to OpTic...

2017-08-15 02:16

lol'd

2017-08-15 08:50

well I was half right, instead OpTic went to autimatic

2017-08-15 22:02

it should have been n0thing not autimatic :/

2017-08-15 02:29

nt shroud

2017-08-15 02:49

Nt n0thing

autimatic is on vacation

2017-08-15 04:14

2017-08-15 04:15

Autimatic?

why dafuq -auti and not -garbage2k? are you serious in my eyes?

autimatic is on a vacation, it wasn't the org's choice, he chose this date by himself, check his twitter

2017-08-16 14:54

I was don't know this details

2017-08-16 16:44

#freeswag

Brrraaaxxxtoooonn

does he have aspergers or something? he never looks at the camera?

kick shroud, let him be happy with playerunknown

He should replace n0thing and not autimatic.

2017-08-15 02:17

i'll rather see him replace Shroud then n0thing.

2017-08-15 02:20

But shroud is significantly better than n0thing

n0thing has more consistency than S(tream)hroud

2017-08-15 11:55

Consistently worse, sure Consistently more detrimental to the team, sure

2017-08-15 17:36

hard for shroud without an 8x

2017-08-15 02:18

first skadoodle and now autimatic,REPLACE STUPID SHROUD AFDSFSDFDSFDSF

Braaaaaxton swag pieeeeerce

2017-08-15 02:19

Good news, just wish shroud couldn't attend instead of autimatic

2017-08-15 02:22

what professional are you if you are gone like whatever you want... i mean wtf

meanwhile, shroud doesn't even care about CS clips.twitch.tv/NurturingObservantZucchi.. and he is right, pubg is the way to go. already more played than cs go

Doubtful, PUBG is just new. By next year CS:Go will still be around and PUBG will be out of the top ten viewed on Twitch daily. Is CS:Go dying, no just becoming stagnant. I think people are kind of waiting to see if CS:Go gets ported over to the new engine.

2017-08-15 05:29

140 hours of pubg in the last two weeks, and 30 minutes of CS lol. I know he's on vacations but still. Every time C9 are eliminated this guy is streaming the other day if the tournament is in the US

2017-08-15 06:54

PZ EZ 4 C9

hahahah why is shroud there? he has not play cs on like 2mounths

2017-08-15 02:24

Good luck swag, but not against my teams! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-08-15 02:26

be "out of town" during the qualifier. HAHA SURE...........

2017-08-15 02:28

"Out of town because the team manager suggested to"

2017-08-15 02:37

Do you really think they would replace autimatic with swag? ... lol

2017-08-15 04:39

This is obviously a good move, but I still feel it should've been shroud instead of Tim, if they want the best result possible, but as a c9 can I still think they will qualify with or without swag

2017-08-15 02:31

rip c9 autismatic is much better

2017-08-15 02:34

*some time later* C9 wins ESL One New York

2017-08-15 02:35

1rd

Now we can't get the ibp roster to make it too New York cuz swag won't be with them, feelsbadman, they can still make Oakland tho

2017-08-15 02:38

good for brax but autimatic and ska are the only solid consistant players on c9 wont expect much from them unless shroud goes huge like cologne

shroud 0.5h in last 2 weeks LUL

2017-08-15 02:40

i thought you trolling lul

2017-08-15 02:44

steamcommunity.com/id/C9shroud/games/?ta.. LOL HE ISN'T LMAOOOOOOO

2017-08-15 02:52

I hope for the rest of the team that he will start playing csgo now instead of players shit battlegrounds

2017-08-15 15:42

he got kicked anyway LUL

2017-08-15 20:33

Indeed, looks like hes retiring

2017-08-15 20:34

xD nice Rip autimatic

2017-08-15 02:41

-shroud +swag

Can't wait to see this :D

2017-08-15 02:48

nice

LOL people are not idiot to still believe that reason " Out of town? ". Sure next month or after the qualifier he's on the bench and few weeks free agent or bought by other teams lmao. it should be Shroud not autimatic.

It's vacation season. I'm surprised C9 is even playing.

No way auti is their best or 2nd best player so

2017-08-15 08:02

2nd yeah . it should be shroud to take a vacation instead lol

2017-08-15 16:54

next thing you know skadoodle is replaced by dazed stewie becomes the main awper EZ C9 WIN

-shroud -n0thing +swag +DaZeD FOR fuck sake

2017-08-15 02:57

This is currently dreeeeeam teeeeam

2017-08-15 03:00

autimatic > swag

2017-08-15 03:12

Rip. Autimatic was the 2nd guy with brain in that lineup

2017-08-15 03:18

whos the other brain? xd

2017-08-15 05:13

swag <3

2017-08-15 03:24

kurwa nice

2017-08-15 03:29

Let's go braxxxxxx

2017-08-15 03:43

Ez for Braxton

2017-08-15 03:47

Replacing autimatic instead of shroud? lmfao. Cloud9 is a business after-all though I guess.

2017-08-15 03:52

are u dumb? its not a replacement, he's a standin because automatic is out of town

2017-08-15 03:56

"out of town" It's a money-grab.

2017-08-15 04:05

Dazed woul be so fucked and unmotivated if swag went to Cloud9. AZK would probably back off from CS again and he would be alone, lol.

2017-08-15 03:55

that sucks, he will just help them qualify and then he won't be play with them at the tournament. He is unbanned, he could've made his own team and actually play at the tournament

brax i love you!!!

U go brax

2017-08-15 04:02

2017-08-15 04:12

interesting

2017-08-15 04:17

2017-08-15 04:23

Gl swag

2017-08-15 04:25

Good. We need some more disgusting matchfixers in the pro scene.

2017-08-15 04:30

WHY COULDN"T IT BE F'ING SHROUD SO I CAN DREAM ABOUT NA DREAM TEAM

behold... throw is coming..

"out of town"

2017-08-15 04:48

If only he replaced N0thing and Shroud instead team would be better

2017-08-15 04:49

LUL they won't qualify

LETS GO

2017-08-15 05:22

And there's only one slot into ESL One. Fuck money here comes brotherhood <3

2017-08-15 05:30

Why couldn't shroud, skadoodle or nothing have been the one out of town

2017-08-15 05:34

cloud 9 major 2018 ez prediction

2017-08-15 06:23

0/88888888888888888888888888888888888888888

2017-08-15 06:43

- Shroud + Swag C9 will be sooooo good.

2017-08-15 06:31

The most overrated player shroud still in c9 X===========D

2017-08-15 07:18

too bad imt is gunna be there and win it but who knows miracles can always happen

2017-08-15 07:22

Swag whats ur name

2017-08-15 07:23

No Cloud9 on Majors yeey

2017-08-15 07:31

Autimatic is (was?) C9's best player, so this doesn't really help C9, obviously. smh

2017-08-15 07:40

Get rid of shroud and you have a top tier team

easy top 1 with swag

2017-08-15 08:10

Big downgrade

2017-08-15 08:14

WHOAW

2017-08-15 08:16

keeping bot nothing & no autimatic the best player rly nice choice

2017-08-15 08:18

sad only standin lol

2017-08-15 08:20

It is a downgrade even tho swag is the best possible standin.

2017-08-15 08:55

ez out of town

2017-08-15 08:59

C9 Supporting Scammers / Matchfixers What a Joke they are. Hope they lose to fair Playing Teams

2017-08-15 09:16

automatic better than nothing and shroud +automatic -nothing

2017-08-15 09:21

He's out of town....................................

2017-08-15 23:17

Hmm.. That's pretty good!

2017-08-15 09:29

no one cares /close

2017-08-15 09:35

when?

2017-08-15 09:49

ez tournament ez life

2017-08-15 09:58

i hope he will sell the matches today and will get some more years :))))

2017-08-15 10:04

cant wait :D swag!

2017-08-15 10:45

Hype Swaggggggg

2017-08-15 10:46

so fucking lit !

2017-08-15 11:18

Fuck him!

2017-08-15 11:27

Ok then , Welcome to New York C9

2017-08-15 11:49

2017-08-15 11:53

The "S" remove n0thing and add Seangares/semphis xd

2017-08-15 12:03

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHIIIEEETTT IZ FUCKING HAPPENING SOON WE WILL GET OUR 6MAN "C9" LINEUP PogChamp TO BAD THEY DIDNT - shroud + SWAG this event BUT IZ FUCKING FINE LEEEZ GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2017-08-15 13:04

WTF WHY THE FUCK STAND IN FOR AUTIMATIC???? c9 needs asian duo to win something KICK N0THING OR SHROUD PLS or kick both and get 2x better players AND ADD SWAG +Shroud +Autimatic +Stewie2k +Skadoodle +Swag

2017-08-15 13:13

That wont work tho

2017-08-15 13:18

Can you read?? Stewie said auti will be OUT OF TOWN

2017-08-15 13:30

Most people just read the head line and maybe a bit of the text and jump to conclusions. The majority of the make stupid posts...

2017-08-15 23:15

lmfao the GOD prediction

2017-08-15 20:03

nice way to fill a role typical na pug team

2017-08-15 13:40

R.I.P

2017-08-15 13:59

Swaggggg ;D

2017-08-15 14:04

-shroud +swag in the main stage plz

2017-08-15 14:32

auti is their best player if it was -shroud +swag it would be good.

2017-08-15 14:36

whos care? swag not worth a fig whitout dazed & azk

2017-08-15 14:58

2017-08-15 15:11

can you kick shrud plz and over this?

2017-08-15 15:13

who?

2017-08-15 15:44

-shroud +swag and ez top1

C9 #1 hltv confirmed

2017-08-15 16:21

Good major easy win c9 my favorite team since 1998

2017-08-15 16:27

"Out of town" lul ez for brax

2017-08-15 17:29

The problem of C9 is not the players, not who play in it. They do not have philosophy, so their game will not always make sense.

2017-08-15 17:38

lul lasted 17 hours...

2017-08-15 20:01

We need IBP stickers kappa. Btw he deserved it.

2017-08-15 21:07

ibp Brax hype

2017-08-15 23:13

fix that lineup

2017-08-16 00:48

Cloud9, in order to start winning tournaments, needed some way to put some swagger back into their lineup. With this change, even though it's temporary, C9 should have an automatic path to the LAN.

2017-08-16 02:55

2017-08-16 04:22

GL Hf swag, for expected :D

2017-08-16 11:59

As German I feel ashamed by esl to give anyone cheater and matchfixer a second chance. But that is German justice don't punishment them because They are all victims and don't care for the real victims. Get anyone the money and skins back from swag? Nope but it is important that he deserve a second chance. Esl since start full of retards admins.

2017-08-16 12:17