Cloud9 confirmed at BLAST Pro Series; Liquid replace them at ESL One NY

23-5-2018 17:56

Cloud9 pulled out of ESL One New York in order to attend BLAST Pro Series Istanbul on the newly announced dates. To replace them in New York, ESL invited another top North American team - Liquid.

Cloud9 had originally been announced for BLAST Pro Series Istanbul back in March, but the recent date change, that saw the tournament moved to September to a date overlapping with ESL One New York, put their attendance in question.

Despite already being announced for ESL One New York, Cloud9 decided to pull out of the tournament in order to attend BLAST Pro Series Istanbul. That decision will cost them a portion of their prize money at the next ESL One event they play, ESL stated in their official announcement:

"Cloud9 were directly invited to compete at ESL One New York on March 27th. The team has accepted our invitation on April 1st and was announced to the fans as one of the attending teams. Since then, Cloud9 have decided to withdraw from the tournament to pursue other challenges, travelling to Istanbul instead."

"Due to their cancellation after accepting the invite, Cloud9 will be penalized with a prize money deduction during their next ESL One event. As per our rules, prize money deductions due to penalty points will be redistributed to all other attending teams based on their final ranking."

tarik and co. will be attending the tournament in Turkey after all

Replacing Cloud9 at ESL One New York will be Liquid, who are seemingly trending upward with Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo, finishing second to Astralis at the recent ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals.

With this, five of the six attending teams are known for BLAST Pro Series Istanbul:

Astralis	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Space Soldiers	Virtus.pro
Cloud9	Invite

On the other hand, only two of eight teams that will attend ESL One New York 2018 have been announced so far, FaZe and Liquid.

FaZe	Liquid
TBD	TBD
TBD	TBD
TBD	TBD

So.. Tarik wants to play im front his 1/2 half nations people over the other 1/2 half nations

2018-05-23 17:58

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i mean its a very rare opportunity, im sure he doesnt want to miss it

2018-05-23 17:59

he has many fans in turkey btw

2018-05-23 19:43

1/2 already means half if you also say half it kinda means quarter

2018-05-25 00:41

wow

2018-05-23 17:57

NTC

Vp wasted spot

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+1 tier 4 team

2018-05-25 02:10

wasted spot.

Cool

nice

I think tarık force them :)

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2018-05-23 18:00

That’s good hopefully they dismantle Astralis.

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Yes i dont like them but their teamplay so unique bro

2018-05-23 23:38

Ez event for Astralis

Ok ok

idea: dont put 2 huge lans on the same date

Finally tournaments with no astralis faze match up

So Astralis win BLAST Pro Series and FaZe win ESL One NY Ez

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ESL NY >>>>>>> Delay Noob Series

2018-05-23 18:19

no astralis>liquid>s1mple>faze

2018-05-23 18:21

Astralis > FaZe > s1mple Vincere > Liquid NT smooya

2018-05-23 18:52

NT IT support

2018-05-23 21:06

ty xd

2018-05-24 07:47

Hahaha +1

2018-05-24 08:36

Atm id say LIQUID are definitely capable of beating Faze in a series. Also These events are all the way in September. The top teams might be a bit different by then.

2018-05-23 20:59

YES tarik is back istanbul will be lit

wasted

Fnatic to blast pro

Why the fuck would Cloud9 pull out from their home crowd to play in Istanbul?

2018-05-23 18:02

because they'll just dissapoint again like in dallas, whereas liquid made the grand final and put up a good fight and took the only map astralis lost in the entire tournament smart decision, they know liquid can be relied on to do something, so instead of trying to do something themselves they drop to a lower tier tournament to get more experience with FNS

2018-05-23 18:05

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To be honest liquid was probably getting an Invite anyway. ESL probably wants to NA teams but the only two worth invites are C9 and Liquid. Shame they dropped out after many fans bought tickets to see them play again

2018-05-23 18:10

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now this opens up for NRG to get an invite, since they are the third best NA team, and they get more experience on lan

2018-05-23 18:13

I hope nrg gets an invite. Really fun team to watch play. Hope they juat keep gettinf better

2018-05-23 18:29

Yea I hope they do to but I'm not sure if NRG has enough pull or pedigree to earn an invite.

2018-05-23 19:07

invite or not they'll still demolish in the na qualifier now that Liquid won't play in it

2018-05-23 19:08

Oh good point

2018-05-23 19:09

C9 scared of the inevitable group exit

2018-05-23 18:03

2018-05-23 18:41

gl to them

Damnit!!! I bought my tickets to see the bois play again.... God Damn Ergodan fucking everything up again

2018-05-23 18:09

Tarik* not erdogan, I am 200% sure tarik forced the boys to go to the goatfn capital of the world

2018-05-23 18:17

what is goatfn?

I'm not saying it, jonathan will ban me

2018-05-23 20:27

The change of dates due to a snap election he called is what created this issue in the first place

That means we get to watch Cloud9 on Twitch instead of Facebook. I'm OK with it.

+1 can agree

ESL One won't be on facebook tho, will be on twitch just like IEM

2018-05-23 18:18

All ESL One events are on Facebook until 2020 (Cologne, Belo Horizonte, New York, etc.). It sucks, I know.

2018-05-23 18:23

Nooooo.... Seeriously?

2018-05-23 18:57

SK should be there

2018-05-23 18:12

Should be where? Sk is already withdraw from blast for esl ny

2018-05-23 18:30

Oh shit that is true

2018-05-23 19:06

last invite navi pls

Invite fnatic !!

"pro series" ss, c9, vp OMEGALUL

LIQUID SHOULD BE AT NEW YORK ANYWAYS, THEY WERE IN THE FINALS LAST YEAR

3:0 btw

2018-05-23 18:53

And? They were still in the finals

2018-05-25 17:47

idk xd

2018-05-25 17:48

At ESL Cologne last year Cloud9 was 3-0'd in the finals by SK but they were both still invited.

2018-05-25 18:38

Nice

2018-05-23 18:20

You already clown9 goes to blast just for a better chance of winning.

Invite HR pls :(

2018-05-23 18:27

Guess they prefer their chances in a smaller event with less T1 teams than at a prestigious event with a Grand Slam chance. ;)

2018-05-23 18:31

Why the fuck would they invite such a bad team as VP? Blast Pro series lost my respect.

2018-05-23 18:32

money from all those 10yr old pasha fans > an actual good team

Fucking Tarik.

2018-05-23 18:35

BLAST legit dont have a single good team attenting now aside of astralis ofc, what a joke of an event and they dare to say its the best event of this month lol

well if i were tarik i'd go with the space soldiers just for this tournament instead of forcing my team out of another tournament...i'm sure space soldiers would sacriface a member of their team just for some games to add tarik