Cloud9 defeat BIG to win DreamHack Denver

23-10-2017 03:15

Cloud9 have won DreamHack Open Denver after defeating BIG 2-0 in the final.

Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik opened up the action on Cache with a trio of kills during a B retake, with Cloud9 following that up by taking the next anti-eco. A successful third-round buy sparked a great run from BIG, who won four of the next five rounds, but then the North Americans tightened up their defense to retake the lead.

Down 4-6, BIG clinged on to life with an A execution thanks to Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik winning a 1v1 against Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip, who was left fuming. The North American player would redeem himself just two rounds later as he single-handedly won a round with everyone else on his team on eco, setting Cloud9 up for a 9-6 half.

The second half began with a near-flawless B execution from Cloud9, putting them on double digits. BIG hit back on eco, however, after Kevin "⁠keev⁠" Bartholomäus had found three kills early on, and they kept their defense very tight, never letting their opponents run away with the lead.

Cloud9 win their first title since the last Americas Minor

With the score 13-12, Cloud9 pushed A on eco hoping for a bomb plant, but they got much more than that as they won a very messy round. Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz still kept the deficit to a minimum with three quick kills, but then the North Americans picked up two rounds in a row to lock down the map, 16-13.

Next up was Train, where Cloud9 got off to a flying start, winnning eight of the first nine rounds to put BIG in danger of getting blown out. gob b then rescued his team with a 1v3 clutch on the outer site, but BIG's inability to string rounds together made it impossible for them to build up an economy, with the half ending in a 12-3 scoreline in favour of the North Americans.

Cloud9 piled more misery on their opponents by taking the opening three rounds of the half to hit match point. With their backs against the wall, BIG finally adjusted their offense and took a round, wreaking havoc in the North Americans' economy. Cloud9 took some time to recover, but once they did it was all over for BIG, with Stewie2K hammering the final nail into the Europeans' coffin with a 1v2 clutch after William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba had picked up three key kills.

DreamHack Open Denver 2017Best of 3

BIG

Matchpage

23rd October 2017

Cloud9

Cache

Train

BIG	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Johannes 'nex' Maget nex	36 - 43	-7	86.9	70.6%	1.05
Fatih 'gob b' Dayik gob b	31 - 34	-3	62.7	56.9%	0.98
Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz tabseN	32 - 43	-11	84.5	60.8%	0.95
Kevin 'keev' Bartholomäus keev	26 - 36	-10	40.9	56.9%	0.70
Nikola 'LEGIJA' Ninić LEGIJA	20 - 41	-21	45.5	52.9%	0.52

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	40 - 36	+4	95.7	76.5%	1.40
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	44 - 23	+21	76.3	84.3%	1.37
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	38 - 26	+12	79.0	78.4%	1.29
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	38 - 29	+9	84.8	78.4%	1.27
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	37 - 32	+5	73.7	74.5%	1.16

DreamHack Open Denver final standings:

1. Cloud9 - $50,000
2. BIG - $20,000
3-4. Renegades - $10,000
3-4. MOUZ - $10,000
5-6. CLG - $3,000
5-6. LDLC - $3,000
7-8. Tempo Storm - $2,000
7-8. NRG - $2,000

expected

2017-10-23 03:17

10 replies

Congrats to them, stewie +21 not bad

2017-10-23 03:18

2 replies

mvp

2017-10-23 03:20

1 reply

THIS RESULT EXPECTED

2017-10-23 06:04

damnit you beat me by a pube hair of a second

This made me laugh tbh

2017-10-23 16:06

no BUG no BIG

2017-10-23 03:22

3 replies

No food, no african cs

2017-10-23 07:17

Cs > food

2017-10-23 11:58

Cs>food>money

2017-10-23 13:30

-1 tier 2 tourny

good

I was close

2017-10-23 03:19

not expected

congratulations C9

na>eu

Yeah you almost lost to tier 2 teams gg

2017-10-23 04:50

9 replies

2017-10-23 04:56

Um, yeah. Anything you wanted to say about the DH Malmo winners or....

2017-10-23 04:57

They won only and only because a lot a team change their player and they were not prepare f9r the event, if faze was playing like now they will fuck g2 up lol. Ur fan of a no strat team who think they can win only with their aim, every time they go to a lan they are hoping that kenny and apex are on fire because it the only way for them to win lol, if i was u i will not be proud of being fan of gay2 retard (im not a fan of c9)

2017-10-23 08:18

C9 2-0 G2

2017-10-23 05:10

5 replies

Out in semis

2017-10-23 05:12

4 replies

Lol

2017-10-23 05:18

I have never wo(N A) major

2017-10-23 05:19

This will cause high blood pressure be careful.

2017-10-23 05:45

Lmao

2017-10-23 05:48

delete it

Awesome to see Cloud9 doing well

13 replies

Against tier 2 teams OMG doing well af OMG almost losing OMG dong well af!

2017-10-23 04:51

12 replies

Wtf is wrong with you? Hes just happy to see the team win, no need to be toxic.

2017-10-23 05:04

Why do have so much NaCl for NA CS? Good grief

2017-10-23 05:11

8 replies

Sorry I'll let your celebrate your victory over BIG. Have fun at the next major btw

2017-10-23 05:17

7 replies

Does a tennisplayer have to have won the grand slam in order to be a good tennisplayer? No offense but it just seems like CS:GO is the only game where you have to win the the World Championship in order to be good

2017-10-23 06:01

You dont have to wtf, but there was no good team in this tournament. It was just like a tier 2 tournament

2017-10-23 06:48

Krakow lol

2017-10-23 09:35

Yeah Big 3-0 in major and G2-3

2017-10-23 11:26

Again, have fun next major

2017-10-23 20:30

I will, I don't support G2

2017-10-23 21:28

I love it how u think g2 is godlike team when they won dreamhack masters lmao...faze would rape g2 plebs easily

2017-10-23 12:58

I didn't say they were a godlike team, but alright man G2 not plebs btw man, neither are FaZe. Both great teams

2017-10-23 20:31

C9 won something? Cool!

USA!

hltv.org/matches/2314763/faze-vs-cloud9-..

2017-10-23 13:28

Is this real life?

Beating tier 2 EU teams congrats OT isn't "EZ" btw

2017-10-23 05:05

6 replies

You've been in this thread saying "Almost lost to tier 2 teams" The American flag next to your name inclines me to say you're an American no? Why not support a team from your country, or are you just following trophies?

2017-10-23 06:41

This guy is retarded lol, he's a fan of g2 after all

2017-10-23 08:04

For some reason he has beef with NA teams. It's like Ska doodled his mom or something.

2017-10-23 11:23

They beat g2 and almost beat ast. Are they t2??????????

2017-10-24 01:32

"Consistency" is a nice word

2017-10-24 18:40

so by ur logic g2 is also t2 then. C9 have been pretty consistent with this new lineup and have still been on the rise.

2017-10-24 18:55

youtube.com/watch?v=gpoEGqoAGZI&t=1s I'll do all his kills, maybe skadoodle too?

nice win c9 team is playing well together

ez for ian

NA DID SOMETHING :D Congrats c9

GG!

EU LUL

okay

Mousesports died for this?

YES C9!!!!

2017-10-23 13:29

Idgaf, you FaZe fans can go fuck off. Trying to prove you are better at everything when you all just hopped on the bandwagon.

2017-10-23 14:18

gg BIG, let's go C9!Congrats!

c9 with the BIG win LUL Expected tournament for c9, mouz were the only ones capable of beating them and they failed to do so in the semis.

CONGRATS ON THE TIER 2 WIN

GG WP

C9 beating t2 t and t3 teams will make them look good to their fans. Dont forget, they are saving strats as well. LUL. They cant even beat liquid consistently, nvm faze or astralis

gz c9! they played really well this tourny. yung stew was dropping bombs!

2017-10-23 03:21

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to support Cloud 9. The tactics are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the CT setups will seem overly complex or even stupid. There's also Stewie's genius play making which is deftly woven into his play style - his personal decision making draws heavily from Shox and Get_Right demos, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these strats, to realize that they're not just genuis- they say something deep about the game itself. As a consequence people who dislike c9 truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the genius is Tarik's decision of playing pop, despite rush being the best pop player in NA . I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Tarik and Stewie's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Cloud 9 tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 2 ranks of my own (gold nova 1)

2017-10-23 03:52

Tier 4 LANs ResidentSleeper

2017-10-23 03:23

bo3 finals, zzz

2017-10-23 03:24

deserved, congrats god9

2017-10-23 03:25

Congrats Cloud9. If they can build on this win into the next major they could be a threat.

2017-10-23 03:34

Congrats C9, they look much improved and are fun to watch. On the other hand.. will Legija ever get kicked? hes bottom fragging every game, even worse than gob b fragging wise. THey should really kick that bot if they wanna go somewhere

2017-10-23 03:38

I think the idea behind BIG is not to replace a player you like to play with because you know hi for such a long time now. So I don't think He will get kicked in the next 5 or 6 months

2017-10-23 08:26

No legija = no gob b. It's a bit like the TACO and cold issue

2017-10-23 09:37

congrats RUSH and Tarik <3

2017-10-23 03:51

WP C9, roasted BiG real hard on the second map.

gratz

2017-10-23 04:12

Rating 2.0 is very curious.

2017-10-23 04:13

this is how cloud 9 farms points for hltv ranking LUL

2017-10-23 04:17

Meanwhile fox can't even get to these tier 20 tournaments LUL

2017-10-23 09:39

meanwhile not a fox fanboy here, what up muslim?

2017-10-23 10:36

embarrassing showing and performance... you can do better

2017-10-23 04:38

cringe

2017-10-23 05:20

Nice! Congrats C9!

2017-10-23 05:31

2017-10-23 06:14

hltv should rank them as 2. after this tournament LUL (50khehexd)

Only overdog wins what a boring tournament lul

2017-10-23 06:57

2017-10-23 07:04

Yet another horrible double choke from mouz put c9 in the position to win this event. How can you be happy as c9 fans. I would be downright disappointed by the way they play. If they almost get 2-0’d by a team like mouz...

2017-10-23 09:10

The Mouz/C9 semis determined the winner of this event. Both teams would've defeated BIG in BO3. Sad that Mouz didn't win.

2017-10-23 09:31

I don’t think it’s sad. They deserved to lose. But people going apeshit over c9 winning this are delusional. It was their TASK to win this event looking at the opposition. The only possible threat was mouz. And they should have lost 2-0 against mouz. So c9 fans should be concerned imo. On the mouz question. Imo this lineup is just contaminated or something. I’d say strip everyone off the roster and contract hen1 lucas1 fnx etc. You get a major spot and have a real chance to get legend status.

2017-10-23 10:03

Dont forget u won vs big an mouz in your own country, in your adapting timezone. When you play this tournement its 3-4am in the morning in EU. They adapt to sleep in this time. American pussys only can ein with CIA tricks...

2017-10-23 11:33

muh jetlag

Hahaha sure thing guy. C9 >>>> Your country.

2017-10-23 14:29

Expected. Ez for C9

2017-10-23 11:57

Meh. Good for them but come on. C9 were the highest ranked team in that tournament. If they didn't win it, it would've been a shame.

2017-10-23 13:21

This rating2.0 sucks, stewie2k +21= 1.37 rating Rush +4 = 1:40 rating Logic?

2017-10-23 13:54

Logic is about adr's

2017-10-23 16:07

looking at adr is just stupid, if you are in the ct side and the other team doesnt attack your bombsite and they all die attacking the other one, you just lose ratting cause you saw no one, that is really stupid, having a good kdr is way better to identify the better player, it means you won more aimduels or outsmarted the enemy.

2017-10-24 03:34