Cloud9 win iBUYPOWER Masters 2017

13-11-2017 05:51

Cloud9 defeat Renegades in two maps (16-6 Mirage, 19-16 Train) to become the iBUYPOWER Masters 2017 champions.

The early game on Renegades' map pick, Mirage, was a back-and-forth affair, but Cloud9 was the team that slowly but surely started stabilized as rounds passed. Players such as Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta and William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba seemed on point, picking up frags left and right, allowing their team to go 6-2 up.

Renegades struck back with a well-coordinated pistol-armor buy that saw them execute out on A, but they couldn't find any back-to-back success until the end of the half when they won two consecutive rounds on B to finish the Terrorist side with 5 rounds.

After the pistol round was won by Jake "⁠Stewie2K⁠" Yip getting a double-knife kill, Cloud9 dropped the second round to Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage's CZ-75 play in the jungle area. However, the North Americans instantly bounced back and closed out the map convincingly from there, with the final score being 16-6.

Cloud9 closed out the grand final in two maps despite a tough match on Train

Cloud9 took the first three rounds on Train, starting with the Terrorist pistol, but Renegades were the ones in control of the first half. The Australian duo Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward - Karlo "⁠USTILO⁠" Pivac were successful in holding out the outer site, with the former locking down popdog completely, and their team got to 8-4 lead shortly. However, Renegades slipped against a couple of Cloud9 force-buys late on in the half, allowing the North Americans to get to six rounds before the switch.

Despite looking unconvincing in the first half, Cloud9 was able to kick into a higher gear after winning the CT pistol and take back the lead on the defensive side. Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis rolled out the AWP in round 24 and got the entry with it, but Stewie2K and Tyler "⁠Skadoodle⁠" Latham locked down the B site to increase their lead to 14-10.

Renegades kept it alive as USTILO picked up a double entry to win his team a round, and his team then went on a five-round streak, surviving some scary situations and clutches. As they reached map point, Cloud9 was able to stop their ivy push to go into overtime. In the added rounds, Stewie2K continued with his brilliant play, and with Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik's help, closed out the game 19-16 to earn Cloud9 the title at iBUYPOWER Masters 2017.

iBUYPOWER Masters 2017Best of 3

Renegades

Matchpage

13th November 2017

Cloud9

Mirage

Train

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	39 - 42	-3	85.4	61.4%	1.12
Aaron 'AZR' Ward AZR	32 - 48	-16	72.3	63.2%	0.84
Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac USTILO	36 - 46	-10	60.3	64.9%	0.82
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	27 - 45	-18	66.8	56.1%	0.71
Noah 'Nifty' Francis Nifty	29 - 44	-15	50.6	43.9%	0.65

Cloud9	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip Stewie2K	53 - 29	+24	98.2	78.9%	1.50
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	47 - 37	+10	91.5	75.4%	1.28
Tarik 'tarik' Celik tarik	44 - 30	+14	85.3	70.2%	1.27
Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham Skadoodle	42 - 31	+11	75.1	80.7%	1.21
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	39 - 36	+3	68.2	82.5%	1.09

Final standing:

1. Cloud9 - $50,000
2. Renegades - $25,000
3-4. Liquid - $8,750
3-4. OpTic - $8,750
5-6. NRG - $2,500
5-6. Misfits - $2,500
7-8. CLG - $1,250
7-8. Luminosity - $1,250

Fuck my entire life, can't even win this one

2017-11-13 05:52

35 replies

Of course C9 is still best team NA

2017-11-13 05:53

31 replies

says C9 fan

11 replies

nt superteam 3-0 in majors best team in world pogchamp

2017-11-13 08:59

10 replies

superteam>>C9+liquid any day

2017-11-13 11:18

1 reply

how mad?

2017-11-13 18:32

NA = 0 majors. LUL

2017-11-13 11:21

7 replies

FaZe= 0 majors also lul

2017-11-13 13:08

6 replies

I'm not a FaZe fan xD Olof has won 2 majors tho so he probably doesn't give a shit LUL

2017-11-13 14:12

4 replies

If olof didn't give a shit he would of stayed on fnatic LUL

2017-11-13 20:36

3 replies

No, because he wants money.

2017-11-13 20:40

This. +1

2017-11-14 01:23

Naive LUL

Yes, but that's FaZe alone. We're talking about regions, not teams.

2017-11-13 19:39

Best team in the world

2017-11-13 05:59

Cloud is not distinctly better than liquid nor is liquid distinctly better then C9. I think that there is little to no difference in these teams. It comes down to who can perform on the day.

2017-11-13 06:10

15 replies

C9 > Liquid I appreciate the well thought out comment tho

2017-11-13 06:33

12 replies

Well, Why c9 isn't on pro league playoffs then?

2017-11-13 06:37

Because online cs.

2017-11-13 06:38

c9 not used to online with this team. They had god online player as shroud, but they don't know how to play against pug teams in proleague that they destroy at lan.

2017-11-13 06:41

Are you dumb or something you realize the majority of c9 plays rank s and stream rank s and play pugs,

2017-11-13 07:23

Fan of steel

2017-11-13 08:27

You do realize they pug all the fucking time yes? Shitty excuses.

2017-11-13 11:22

they aren't onliners now, now they are better on lan, the consistency of nothing and shroud online is something they don't have anymore, now they have 5 really good lan players, who sometimes have huge drop offs online. Where a game might be close against luminosity, optic, or nrg, they shit on those people at the lan, see what I mean?

2017-11-13 15:46

2 replies

IMO they were never onliners, they just had performance inconsistency issues across the board - especially from Shroud and N0thing offline. They did go on a insane streak last EPL season, but imo that is mainly because the competition in that pro league season was a bit off in NA. So many teams that had to adjust to new coaches and new players (many shifts happened at that point). My point was that Stewie2k, Autimatic and Tarik all pug like hell, and should have less dropoffs online than Rush and Ska who seemlingly as far as I know play rank S pugs very very rarely.

2017-11-13 16:52

you just said what I did but with favortism. I said they were onliners because shroud and nothing are better online, you said they are worse on lan, same thing. Pugging is not the same as being good as a team on lan and online. They are just good at pugs because they play a lot of them, amanek was leading in rank S but as a player online and lan he is worse than the c9 bois. pugging has nothing to do with players being online or not.

2017-11-13 19:54

fnatic is on point online, but still so bad in lan

2017-11-13 12:02

What has fnatic to do here?

2017-11-13 14:02

an exemple.

2017-11-18 16:55

I agree, u could see how liquid was out-pacing c9 on t side inferno.. c9 had no chance holding a site. There is not a big diffrence even though i think c9 i slightly better.

2017-11-13 08:20

You can't really compare them because they have different play styles.

2017-11-14 13:52

Say trash c9 fan, never won anything of expression only tier 2 tournaments

2017-11-13 15:39

Except that one time on LAN in Brazil vs SK, right? Stop being a delusional fanboy plz.

2017-11-13 19:36

Renegades r so good good rn, NAf is best

2017-11-13 10:47

+1 my friend

2017-11-13 11:16

And nifty on awp with ustilo on clutches

2017-11-16 20:01

yikes

5 replies

Thanks C9, knew they'd take this tournament as soon as it was announced xD i.imgur.com/dYr71cx.jpg

2017-11-13 05:58

holy shit n1

2017-11-13 06:11

Damn, nice!

2017-11-13 07:22

Shit odds tbh. I mean I got 3.25 by betting them to win the game vs liquid after first map.

2017-11-13 08:42

Yeah they were bad, but low risk for 3.00 is good enough for me, Liquid was the only threat xd

2017-11-13 17:13

first

2017-11-13 05:51

YES C9!

Epic

shit tournament

yes, bc Gale Force not there XD

xd i don't give a shit

2017-11-13 05:56

noice

#1 team

Top 1 team vs. a bunch of teams barely in the top 10 what a surprise 4Head

no one but c9 is a top 10 team wdym

2017-11-13 05:54

Top7*

liquid is #8? and renegades & optic are decent too

2017-11-13 06:00

Liquid better

lost in semi lul

Map selections are retarded. SHould be ban, ban, pick, pick, ban, ban, and last map select

by that logic , everyone is not better than the winning team , well , no. because at this stage of the game , everyone should be good in tactics.

That was the exact system used

2017-11-13 06:43

Blame more 4Head

2017-11-13 09:02

c9 def has a better map pool if u go down the line c9 is def better on train, overpass and cobble. They are equal to liquid on mirage and cache. Liquid is def better on inferno. Both teams dont reallly play nuke.

2017-11-13 22:57

Renegades pulling a CLG, winning a few games to give fans false hope

I'm not disappointed with the result. I am still happy with the way they played this tournament (apart from mirage) and this doesn't ruin the last 2 tournaments they played.

"Winning a few games" -> Flawless run up until the finals.

2017-11-13 06:17

Not sure how it's false hope to lose against the best team in NA.

clown9

;( rip australia

nice tournament

TOP 1 WORLD WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Former iBuyPower member won an iBuyPower tournament... yeah not fishy at all

2017-11-13 05:55

C9 is sponsored by iBP... Coincidence? I thank not?

2017-11-13 05:57

nt flat earther

Americans are flat earthers eventhough they are fat kinda ironic

2017-11-13 07:15

Lets not get started with your country.

2017-11-13 07:26

Iraq is better - America ruined it like everything else

2017-11-13 08:57

Im with you bro.. iBP sponsor Cloud9. Shits rigged.

2017-11-13 06:02

daily reminder that C9 is not going to esl pro league and NRG, Luminosity and Misfits are.

feels bad when the best NA team can't go

ahahhahaha

yungstew strike!

Another MVP award for Yung Stew. These little mvps put together will end up having big effect on his rank by the end of the year

How is he getting MVPs. I thought they only gave those at T1 tournaments.

Not officially awarded. I meant it as he was the best throughout the entire tournament, as he also was in Dreamhack Denver.

2017-11-13 06:05

c9 already won last year now again what a drama

It was a major right? C9 top 1.

No, it was more of a regional championship. There was good competition in the form of Liquid and RNG (they played really well) but not even close to a major. Still a really good win for C9 and should be a good confidence booster for the upcoming IEM Oakland

2017-11-13 07:27

OOOOOOOOOOOO EZ

2017-11-13 06:01

lMFAO C9 only won cuz versing RNG

2017-11-13 06:03

Team Liquid?

2017-11-13 06:06

Merit to them for eliminating their strongest opponent on the semis, right?

Yeah no merit to that?

2017-11-13 06:12

its me or c9 are always winning na tournaments like this ?? always somehow they beat liquid and win it

2017-11-13 06:26

Stewie is insane

2017-11-13 06:29

Renegades fan. Great game and great tournament. Really enjoyed watching this one. Credit to c9, would’ve much preferred to vs liquid in the final. Couldn’t string together rounds on mirage. Train could’ve gone either way. Would have been great to see cbble

2017-11-13 06:31

+1 woulda liked the boys to pull through but have still been really impressed by them over the last few weeks. Just gotta keep this upward trend going

2017-11-13 06:49

+1 absolutely!

2017-11-13 07:42

Renegades whiffed it.. unlucky guys.. better luck next time boys!!

2017-11-13 06:54

What a surprise ResidentSleeper

2017-11-13 07:49

Gratz c9 and c9 fans

2017-11-13 08:16

Renegades is the most improved team this year. Also c9 win because of the experience. Gratz

2017-11-13 08:40

gj TUROK

2017-11-13 10:46

Rigged tourney for na nooob team

2017-11-13 11:39

stewie with dat lv belt

2017-11-13 11:50

Renegades look promising, I hope they keep improving, there is hope they make it to the major. I'm gonna cheer for them, really likeable team. Also NAF is insane, he is lowkey a top5 NA player that people somehow always overlook. Nifty can be solid af too, just needs to be a bit more consistent, but for an IGL AWPer, he is doing pretty damn good.

2017-11-13 14:13